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SPORTING FINAL☆☆☆☆☆    The Evening Sun.   SPORTING FINAL☆☆☆☆☆ 

TEMPERATURE.
Min., 39.  Max.,53.

Local Forecast - Fair to-night and to-morrow; colder to-morrow.
(Detailed weather report on page 2.)

VOL. XXX. - NO. 213.  NEW YORK, MONDAY, 
NOVEMBER 20, 1916 — Copyright 1916, by the Sun Printing and Publishing Association.  PRICE ONE

ALLIES PRESS ON INTO SERBIA; WIN TOWNS BEYOND MONASTI[[cut off]]

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8-HOUR INQUIRY WILL EMBRACE ALL UTILITIES 
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Congress Committee Takes Up Federal Regulation or Government Ownership.
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LABOR AND CAPITAL LINE UP FOR BIG FIGHT 
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President Wilson Confers With Chiefs of “Big Four” Brotherhoods. 
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  WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.——The curtain was lifted here to-day on one of the most dramatic battles of industrial units in the nation’s history when the joint committee on Interstate Commerce started its investigation of conditions relating to interstate and foreign commerce and almost all interstate public utilities and the necessity for further regulation along the lines of the Adamson eight hour law. 

  In a formal statement before the committee convened Senator Newlands, chairman of the committee, explained the object of the hearings.

  "Upon the initiative of President Wilson a Congressional joint committee composed of five Senators and five Representatives was authorized to investigate all problems relating to transportation and to make a new survey not only of the defects of the existing system, if there are any, but of improvements that may be made in that system," he said.

  "We want represented every class, organization, and interest connected with the subject of transportation." 

  "The inquiry will relate to every phase of transportation, rail carriers, river carriers and ocean carriers, and it will also be applied to telegraph and telephone lines, express companies and other public utilities.

Government Control.

  "It will embrace not only the subject of Government control and regulation of these utilities, but also the wisdom and the feasibility of Government ownership and the comparative worth and efficiency of Government regulation and control as compared with Government ownership and operation."

  Senator Newlands said the hearing would investigate whether the Interstate Commerce Commission is now overloaded, and if so how this should be remedied. In this connection the hearing will consider whether enlargement and subdivision will meet the situation or whether it is better to strip the body of some of its function.

  Still another vital problem to be considered to be considered will be control of railway and other public utilities and their securities, particularly with respect of elimination of varied State regulations.

  Represented in the fight are commercial organizations of all kinds and from all over the country, great manufacturing corporations and industries. Every influence of capital and labor will clash in the hearings. The railroads' fight will be directed by the Railway Executives Advisory Committee, of which Frank Trumbull, chairman of the Chesapeake & Ohio, is the head.

  The committee spent its morning session classifying those who desire to be heard. This afternoon an executive session was held.

Labor Chiefs at Capital.

  Some astonishment was manifested when railway labor leaders failed to ask representation. The four brotherhood chiefs are in Washington, and it is believed they may later make application to be heard.

  On the other hand, capital, represented by a mighty list of railroad presidents and heads of commercial organizations, served notice that it wants a full hearing. They will oppose Government ownershop [[ownership]] of public utilities and support proposals to eliminate varied State control of railroads and their securities.

  Representatives of State railroad commissions announced they will fight any attempt to wrest from them the control they now have.

  Requests for hearing came from business organizations in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Memphis and elsewhere, from telephone, telegraph and express companies, from traffic bodies and live stock [[livestock]] growers' organizations.

  Each side is provided with with statistics to support contentions each has been making for years. In the meantime, the Government will keep a watchful eye on the interests of the public.

Public First, Says Adamson
 
  "The public is the interest most to be considered in this controversy." Reppresentative [[Representative]] Adamson, vice-chairman of the joint Congressional committee and parent of the eight hour
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Ruth Law, in Record Breaking Flight From Chicago, Lands at Governors Island

[[image - Ruth Law shaking hands with Gen. Wood.]]
[[caption]]Snapshot by an Evening Sun Photographer.
Miss Ruth Law on her arrival at Governor's Island greeted by Gen. Wood.[[/caption]]

Though Hampered by Lack of Gasolene [[Gasoline]], She Establishes New Continuous Flight Figures--Finish Made in Fog.

  Ruth Bancroft Law completed her record making Chicago-New York aeroplane flight to-day by landing at Governors Island at 9:41 o'clock.
 
  In her effort of yesterday she broke the American crosscountry record for non-stop aviation by making Hornell from Chicago, a distance of 590 miles, in 5 hours 45 min. She proceeded to Binghamton, 90 miles away, making the trip in 56min.

  The last leg of the trip was started at Binghamton at 7:23 o'clock this morning. She was reported over Port Jervis at 8:35, and landed at Governors Island at 9:37 o'clock.

  According to the Aero Club's figures she made the entire trip from Chicago in eight hours and fifteen minutes actual flying time. The distance covered is given as 852 miles.

  Her flight to Hornell yesterday broke Victor Carlstrom's record of Nov. 2 by 138 miles. On her flight from Binghamton, Miss Law encountered a fog so dense that times speed was reduced to sixty miles an hour. She traveled at 1,000 feet most of the time and never ventured above 2,000. At times the haze became so intense as to force her to within 150 feet of the ground.

Is Second Best Record.

  The non-stop record for the world was made by Sub-Lieut. A. Marchal on June 20-21, 1916. He flew 812 1/2 miles from Nancy, France, to Chlom, Poland. M. Deroye on July 17, 1913, made 487 miles in a single flight. Carlstrom did 452 from Chicago to Erie, Pa., on Nov. 2 last. He was forced to descend because of mechanical trouble, whereas Miss Law quit only because gasolene was exhausted.

  Fears of a mishap gripped the eager watchers at Governors Island this morning when long minutes passed without any whirr of motors. But, finally, there pierced through the haze of the Hudson two slender parallel lines. "There she is!" went up the shout. The whistle of steamships then was heard.

  In a moment the aeroplane was gliding gracefully and swiftly toward the Statue of Liberty in the teeth of a twelve mile breeze. Then the canvas stretches swooped away from Bedloe's, skirted the edge of Governors Island and bounded over the aviation field.
 
  Her aeroplane seemed a puny plaything as it swept triumphantly past the far more powerful machine of Victor Carlstrom, still out on the field. Miss Law came to a stop within several yards of squad of soldiers at drill.

First Request for Face Powder.

  She had attained the zenith of achievement in American aviation and had made a new American record. All around were admirers. She had bested the country's best. Yet, her first query when she entered Major Hartmann's house was, "Is there some face powder here?"

  In the laugh that followed she recalled that she had strapped to the aeroplane a skirt, brought all the way from Chicago so she could don it when she went from Governors Island to meet her mother in Brooklyn. Miss Law was garbed in four suits besides.

  When everybody marvelled that she should have flown in a machine which
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U.S. STEEL REACHES 129; COPPER TRADING HEAVY

Active Trading Features Strong Market.

  Public buying on an enormous scale sent stock prices to new high records to-day. Sales in the first hour of nearly 700,000 shares exceeded any similar hour for weeks back.

  United States Steel advanced to 129 at 2 o'clock, a new high record, on sales of 336,000 shares during a four hour session in which the total sales were 1,728,000 shares.

  Under the leadership of Steel many of the independent steel stocks advanced sharply. Republic Steel made a new high record of 93.

  The early buying was largely of copper stocks, especially Kennecott, Utah and Chile. After advancing sharply the copper stocks reacted from 2 to 3 points.
Steel held close to its high and rails advanced in the late afternoon. Moderate strength was maintained throughout most of the list at the close.

Sales were 2,059,200 shares.

DEUTSCHLAND MAY MAKE ANOTHER DASH TO-NIGHT

Bonds Filed in Libel Suits--Everything Ready for Start.

  NEW LONDON, Nov. 20.-The German submarine freighter Deutschland may make a second dash to the sea to-night. Workmen have finished their work repairing the damage to her hull caused by the collision on Friday with the Tug T.A. Scott, Jr., in which five men of the tug's crew were drowned. Indications at the pier this afternoon pointed strongly to the conclusion that the huge undersea freighter might leave after nightfall.

  The libel sued out by the T.A. Scott Company, owners of the tug, has been lifted upon the filing of a bond by the Eastern Forwarding Company covering any possible indemnity. The attachments on behalf of the relatives of the members of the tug's crew who were drowned, also is expected to be lifted through the bond.

  Papers in the libels, totalling [[totaling]] $150,000, were filed against the Deutschland to-day by administrators for, the estates of Capt. John Guerney, Clarence Davidson and William Capon, who lost their lives when the submarine rammed the tug T.A. Scott.

  A fourth suit, for $25,000, is to be filed by the administrator of the estate of Edward O. Jackson fireman on the tug.

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WM. THAW BACK; HAS NO COUNTRY

Aviator Loses U.S. Citizenship by Allegiance to France.

  Lieut. William Thaw of the American Aviation Corps with the French army arrived here on the French liner Touraine to-day for a three weeks' vacation.  Mr. Thaw, besides a first lieutenancy, brings with him the cross of the Legion of Honor, which he won at Verdun after fighting three German aeroplanes with the handicaps of a disabled motor and a broken left arm.

  He managed to volplane back aver the French trenches and made a landing between the first and second lines.  Seeking for a stirring vacation after these experiences Mr. Thaw came to America primarily to see the Princeton-Yale football game, but the vessel was compelled to put in at Fayal in the Azores and he arrived too late.  He will make it a point, however, to witness the Yale-Harvard game.

Man Without Country.

  In the course of his year at the front Lieut. Thaw was shot down once and narrowly escaped being killed many times in engagements with German fliers.  Just before coming away he brought down two German aviators, but of these he declined to speak.
  
  "Just now I am a man without a country,"  said Mr. Thaw.  "For I have sworn allegiance to France for the length of the war and Americans regard me as a Frenchman while the French look upon me as an American."

  Of particular interest to the friends of the late Norman Prince, the American aviator who died recently at Verdun, Mr. Thaw gives a new account of the immediate cause of his death.  A clot on the brain resulting from the circulation through the blood of a fine particle of bone, is believed by army surgeons to have been responsible, rather than the direct consequences of his fall.

Scared Off by Submarine?

  The voyage from Bordeaux took fifteen days, heavy weather and a three-day stop at Fayal in the Azores for coal delaying the Touraine.  Passengers told on their arrival here of a British cargo steamship without a propeller that was sighted the day after the French liner left port.  They said an attempt was made to take a line to the helpless steamship in a lifeboat, but the enterprise was suddenly abandoned because the wireless brought warning of the presence of a submarine in the vicinity.

  Capt. Caussin denied the submarine report and said heavy seas prevented his vessel from taking the British craft in tow.  Because of a fuel shortage at Bordeaux it was necessary to coal for the trip across the ocean at Azores, he added.  The Touraine was delayed there three days.


  Yale-Harvard Game - Take early morning trains to New Have.  See adv. page 12 - Adv.

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LABOR VOTES TO DEFY COURTS

A. F. OF L. Won't Obey Future Strike Injunctions.

IMPEACHMENT THREAT

Convention in Uproar as Resolution Is Passed.

  BALTIMORE, Md., NOV. 20. - The American Federation of Labor this afternoon unanimously adopted a resolution declaring that organized labor should disobey any injunction "founded on the dictum that labor is property" and asserting that any judge issuing such an injunction should be impeached.

  The resolution that labor flaunt defiance in the face of the courts of the United States came as a bombshell during the report of the committee on the report of the executive council, of which Andrew Furuseth is chairman.

  The recommendation was that when an injunction is issued against a strike that labor go ahead with the strike regardless of the court's mandate.  The report caused some consternation and brought forth lively debate.  Furuseth is the president of the International Seamen's Union, and long known as a hard hitter, but this work of his committee was considered his most drastic recommendation.

  The report read in part:

  "Your committee would further recommend that it be the sense of this convention * * * that any injunction dealing with the relations of employer and employees based upon the dictum that labor is property be wholly and absolutely treated as usurpation and disregarded."

  Another paragraph of the report said:  "In cases of this kind justice must be disobeyed, and the judges issuing such orders should be impeached."

CONGRESSMAN OFF FOR CAPITAL IN AEROPLANE

Bleakley Intends to Travel Thus During Session.

  PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 20. - Sergeant William C. Ocker, United States Army aviator, left here shortly befor 2 o-clock this afternoon for Washington with Congressman-elect O. D. Bleakley of Franklin, Pa., as his passenger - the first member of Congress to travel to the capital by air.

  Bleakley is 70 years old.

  The aeroplane is the property of Congressman-elect Bleakley.  He expects to travel to and from in his home while Congress is in session via the air route.  Ocker is on leave of absence and brought the machine down from Mineola, L. I.  The start was made from here because of the rugged nature of the country around Franklin.

  Ocker, who is instructing Bleakley, expected to reach Washington in 90 minutes, averaging approximately a mile and half a minute.  He was reported over Wilmington at 2:03 o'clock.

AUSTRIAN EMPEROR WORSE.

Despatches from Switzerland Point to Serious Condition.

  ROME, NOV. 20 - Despatches from Zurich assert that the Austrian Emperor's condition is worse and that he has asked for the Papal benediction.

  Arrival of German specialists is eagerly awaited.

BOWIE RESULTS

  First Race - Two-year-olds; selling: five and a half furlongs:  Ed Garrison, 101 (Koppleman), $23, $12.30 and $8.10, won;  Merchant, 108 (McAtee), $5.90 and $3.70, second;  Otsego, 106 (Robinson), $6.40, third.  time, 1:07 4-5.  Hail Columbia, Grand Jury, Moonlighter, Palisade, Lady Clinton, Al Hudson, Bendlet, Meelogene and Chelsea also ran.

  Second Race - Two-year-olds; purse: six furlongs:  Alvord, 113 (Ambrose), $3.60, $2.80 and $2.20, won;  Lucius, 106 (Petroff), $3.30 and $2.50, second;  Kentucky Boy 113 (Fairbrother), $2.50, third.  Time, 1:14.  Seagull, Kllts and Joanna II. also ran.

  Third Race - All ages; selling: six furlongs:  Plaudito, 108 (Robinson), $6, $4, and $3.60, won;  Colors, 106, field, (Ward), $4.50 and $4.80, second;  Talebearer, 109 (Williams), $4.80, third.  Time, 1:14 1-5.  King Stalwart, Cuddle Up, Tarves, Meelicka, Dash, Garnet, Spectre, Golden List, Shrapnel, Ancon and Short Ballot also ran.

  Fourth Race - Purse; for three-year-olds and up:  one mile:  Venetia, 106 (Schuttinger), $11.20, $5, and $3.40, won;  Indian Chant, 100 (R. McDermott), $5.80 and $4.50, second;  Polroma, 103 (Robinson), $5.10, third.  Time, 1:42 2-5.  Sir William Johnson, Oratorium, Lady Little, Etruscan, The Decision, and Favour also ran.

  Fifth Race - For three-year olds and up; selling: one mile and a sixteenth:  Sand Bar, 106 (Butwell), $5.30, $3.60 and $3.10, won;  Hiker, 103 (R. McDermott(, $21.60 and $10.60, second;  Penniless, 103 (McAtee) $6.60, third.  Time, 1:50.  Scorpii, Sam Click, Prime Mover, Peaceful Star, Billy Oliver, and Fonctionnaire also ran.

  Sixth Race - Three-year-olds and upward; selling:  one mile and a sixteenth:  Lynn, 98 (Crump), $14.40, $5.30 and $3.10, won;  Buzz Around, 103 (Brown), $3.70 and $2.70, second; Blackford 109, (Putwell) $2.60, third.  Time, 1:51.  Audon, Good Counsel, Rosewater and Billie Hibbs also ran.

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MRS. BOISSEVAIN MAKES GAIN.

Condition Still Critical and Physicians Have Little Hope
  Los Angeles, Nov. 20.–Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain of New York, critically ill at the Good Samaritan Hospital here, was reported to be "much improved to-day."
  Her condition, however, is still critical and physicians have almost de-spaired of saving her life. 

CAULIFLOWER $100 A TON.

Shortage of Vegetables for Pickles Puts Up Price. 
  RIVERHEAD, N. Y., Nov. 20.–There is such a shortage of all vegetables used for pickles this year that agents of pickle manufacturers paid as high as $100 a ton for cauliflower at the local railroad station to-day. 
  Early in the season many growers in this section sold their crop to the pickle men at the rate of $20 a ton and were glad to get that price. 

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