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This Paper Consists of Two Sections - SECTION ONE. CIRCULATION. Over 600,000 Sunday. Over 350,000 Daily. The Chicago Daily Tribune. THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER FINAL EDITION __________________ VOLUME LXXV.-NO. 278. C [COPYWRIGHT: 1916: BY THE TRIBUNE COMPANY.] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916.-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. *** PRICE ONE CENT. IN CHICAGO AND SUBURBS. ELSEWHERE TWO CENTS. ______________________ GIRL FLIER DOES 783 MILES ______________________ MONASTIR CAPTURED BY ALLIES ______________________ [[8 columns]] [[column 1]] RAIL INQUIRY TODAY OPENS BIG PROBLEMS -- Brotherhoods Form Alliance for an Extension of Eight Hour Day. -- BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. Washington, D. C., Nov. 19-[Special.]---With the opening of the investigation of railroad conditions by the Newlands congressional joint committee tomorrow and the conference between President Wilson and Representative Adamson on the enactment of the pending legislation, complementing the Adamson act, the greatest economic problems of recent years will be brought to the fore. Despite the assertion of the president yesterday that he is trying to eradicate class division, class consciousness and feeling, evidence is not wanting that the class conflict stirred by the surrender of the administration and congress to the brotherhoods is destined to burn furiously when Mr. Wilson presses his correlative measures. UNIONS READY TO FIGHT. The railway brotherhoods are preparing to employ every ounce of their political influence in congress to defeat particularly the bill providing for compulsory investigation of wage disputes modeled on the Canadian act. They do not want to be hampered by anything akin to compulsory arbitration in gaining their ends as they did last September. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has proclaimed that the Adamson law will go into effect, "injunction or no injunction." In some quarters this is interpreted as a threat to coerce the Supreme court. UNITE FOR EIGHT HOUR DAY. Sharing equal interest with the opening of the investigation tomorrow was the action taken here today looking toward the formation of a working alliance between the four railroad brotherhoods and the organizations of railroad workers affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The purpose of the alliance is to secure an extension of the eight hour day to all classes of railroad workers. This action followed immediatel-- the arrival in this city of the four brotherhood chiefs, W. G. Lee of the trainmen, W. S. Cater of the firemen, Warren [[incomplete due to page rip]] of the engineers, and L. E. [[incomplete due to page rip]] of the conductors, who last [[incomplete due to page rip]] brought about the passage of [[incomplete due to page rip]] Adamson law. [[incomplete due to page rip]] organizations independent of the [[incomplete due to page rip]] brotherhoods have a membership [[incomplete due to page rip]]ut 300,000. They form a large [[incomplete due to page rip]]on of those who recently signed [[incomplete due to page rip]] called Fraser petition protesting [[incomplete due to page rip]] the Adamson law. The four [[incomplete due to page rip]]rhoods have never affiliated with [[incomplete due to page rip]]merican Federation of Labor. [[incomplete due to page rip]]RSES OPEN TO CONGRESS. [[incomplete due to page rip]] the investigation by the New- [[incomplete due to page rip]]committee is concluded it will [[incomplete due to page rip]] congress to pass judment on [[incomplete due to page rip]] labor proposals: Government [[incomplete due to page rip]] of all railroads, federal incorporation of interstate carriers extension of government supervision to the exclusion of sate control, extension of federal supervision to include all phases of operation, and the regulation of wages as well as rates and the issuance of railroad securities. The hearings before the joint committee are to be open to everybody with anything to say on the subjects under consideration. The railroads, shippers, traveling public, and railway employes have been invited to send representatives to testify. CONGRESS WON'T WAIT. Representative Adamson, author of the eight hour law, said today that congress will not wait on a report from the joint committee, but will proceed at once, when it convenes, to frame bills for passage before next March. "I do not think," he said, "that any member of congress will wait for the report of the joint committee; we will probably go ahead anyhow. "The purpose of that committee is, first to hear and not to talk; it will be glad to hear from anybody who knows anything about the subject. What the members of the committee want is for people who know something about the matter to come before us, and if a man is credible he need not give all of his antecedents or his official connections." [[/column 1]] [[column 2]] EXTRA -- -- Dorn Apartments Blown Up; Many Periled by Fire -- Boiler Explodes at 6238-46 Dorchester Avenue: Tenants Flee. -- The four story Dorn apartment buildings at 6238-46 Dorchester avenue was the scene of an explosion early this morning, followed by a wave of flame that threatened the destruction of the structure. A dozen families occupied the structure, which consisted of twelve separate apartments. The explosion shook all of Woodlawn. Pedestrians who were passing at the time said that the explosion "went through the roof." HOPE ALL ESCAPED. An interval elapsed between the explosion and a rush of flame which gave the startled occupants of the structure time to make a rush for safety. Everybody is believed to have escaped, due tot he sudden notice served on them by the explosion. The police, after questioning witnesses, said they believed the boiler had exploded in the basement under the airshaft. It went up the airshaft the full three stories, according to their theory, landing on the roof of the structure which it set afire. The building is the property of Dr. Gay Dorn, 6238 Dorchester avenue. Theodore D. Smith, 6210 Dorchester avenue, secretary to the president of the Kankakee Interurban line, was passing the building at the time of the explosion. KNOCKED HIM DOWN. "It knocked me down," he told a reporter. "I was dazed for a minute. Somebody picked me up, and the next thing I know fire was coming through a hole in the roof of the building. It seemed hard to estimate how the people in the place could have gotten out alive, but of course I was dazed. I was helped to a near by restaurant, and as I got there I saw about a dozen policemen dashing by. The building seemed sure to go." A 4-11 alram, followed by calls for special engines, was turned in by the fire department. The time of the explosion was about 3 o'clock. _________________ NO BABIES TO BE FOUND IN LARGE AREAS IN POLAND -- Reports to American Relief Committee Shows That Many Die from Lack of Nourishment. -- Boston, Mass., Nov. 19-Not a child under the age of 5 years can be found in large areas of Poland, according to a report presented to the people's relief committee for Jewish war sufferers, which opened its national convention here today. The report, read by Morris Rothenberg of New York, in behalf of the joint distribution commission, said that in certain sections of Poland all babies had died from lack of nourishment. _____________ THE WEATHER. -- MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. -- Sunrise, 6:46; sunset, 4:25. Moonrise, 1:34 a. m. Chicago and vicinity - Fair and colder Monday and probably Tuesday; moderate to fresh north to northeast winds. Illinois - Fair Monday and probably Tuesday; colder Tuesday in north and central portions Monday. Missouri - Fair Monday; cooler in north and west portions; Tuesday probably unsettled and colder. TRIBUNE BAROMETER [[image]] TEMPERATURE IN CHICAGO. [Last 24 hours.] Maximum, 3 p. m.....57 Minimum, 7 a. m.....36 3 a. m.....39 4 a. m.....38 5 a. m.....38 6 a. m.....37 7 a. m.....36 8 a. m.....38 9 a. m.....41 10 a. m....44 11 a. m....47 Noon.......51 1 p. m.....54 2 p. m.....55 3 p. m.....57 4 p. m.....57 5 p. m.....55 6 p. m.....52 7 p. m.....50 8 p. m.....49 9 p. m.....49 10 p. m....49 11 p. m....47 Midnight...45 1 a. m.....45 2 a. m.....45 Mean temperature, 46.5; normal for the day, 38. Excess since Jan. 1, 683. Precipitation for 24 hours to 7 p. m., 0. Deficiency since Jan. 1, .06 inch. For complete weather report see page 17. -- YESTERDAY ELSEWHERE Temp. [[5 column weather]] [[headers]] | 7 p. m. | High. | Low. | [[/headers]] New York | 44 | 50 | 30 | Clear Boston | 44 | 50 | 34 | Clear St. Paul | 44 | 50 | 30 | Clear San Francisco | 60 | 62 | 48 | Clear [[/5 column weather]] _____________ [[/column 2]] [[column 3]] TEUTONS LOSE SERBIAN CITY; FLEE TO HILLS -- Austro-German Army Dives Way to Plains of Roumania. -- EUROPEAN WAR SUMMARY -- Allied armies recapture Monastir, in Serbia. Germans and Austrians force way through mountains to Wallachian plains of Roumania. German official report says British "big push" on Saturday failed with terrific losses. -- (By Cable to The Chicago Tribune.) PARIS, Nov, 19.-Monastir, chief city in southern Serbia and one of the strongholds of the Balkans, today was occupied by allied troops, the Bulgarian and German troops having been driven out by the steady advance of the allied armies. The recapture of the city came on the anniversary of its seizure by the Serbians in the Balkan War of 1913. It has been in the hands of the forces of the central empires ever since the overrunning of Serbia. FORCES CAN BE JOINED. The temporary capital of Serbia will be established at Monastir. Considerable forces of Serbians are with the entente allied troops who have occupied the town. News of the occupation of the town was received in Paris as one of the most important of the late developments in the war. The Temps points out that the success is not only of immense moral value but is likely to have a great influence on subsequent developments in the Balkan campaign, as the place commands all the practical routes between the Ægean sea and the Adriatic sea. TEUTONS WIN PASSES. The joy of the allies over the Monastir victory is overcast, however, by the news, announced in Berlin, that the German and Austro-Hungarian troops have forced their way through the narrow passes of the Transylvania front to the plains of Wallachia, in Roumania. This advance, it is admitted here, gives a new menace to Bucharest. It has been predicted by German military critics that, once through these passes, the armies of the central powers will have little trouble in conquering Roumaina. The Germans say they have captured 19,000 men in the operations on the Wallachian front. LONDON ADMITS PERIL. LONDON, Nov. 20, 2:31 a. m.-The military experts in the morning newspapers today call attention to the seriousness of the situation in Roumania, where the Germans and Austrians report they have reached the railway which runs from the Danube to Craiova, at a point which threatens to flank the Roumanian army south of Vulcan pass. The Daily Mail says: "The enemy claims to have attained his first objective-namely, an advance to the Roumanian plain. His new position endangers the Roumanian flank and may cause a rapid retirement. This news is grave, as the presence of the enemy on the railway would compel the retreat of a large part of the Roumanian line." "The Germans' success, if true, is very serious," the Daily Chronicle says. "It means that the German attempt to cut off the southwest projection of Roumania has gone far toward accomplishment. The position of the Roumanian army at Orsova is precarious, and it will be lucky if it extricates itself without a catastrophe. The new advance does not directly threaten Bucharest, but gives the Germans an excellent base from which to do so." BERLIN REPORTS GAINS. BERLIN, by Wireless to Sayville,Nov. 19.-German and Austro-Hungarian troops yesterday forced their way through to the Wallachian plain. The official statement issued by the German headquarters staff today said: East of the Putna valley in the _________________ (Continued on page 4, column 1.) [[/column 3]] [[column 4]] Bryan Exhorts 10,000 Overflow in Michigan Ave. -- Voice of New Spokesman of Prohibition Husky from Campaign. -- Ten thousand persons clogged Michigan boulevard for two blocks last evening in a vain endeavor to get into Orchestra hall to hear William Jennings Bryan lecture on "The First Commandment." Orchestra hall happened to be filled two hours before the time set for Mr. Bryan to appear as the speaker for the Sunday Evening club. Squads of policemen were sent in response to calls for help by the officials of the club. It resembled more a great political outpouring to hear a president or a candidate for president that a mere semi-religious service, at which the new "dry" spokesman of the United States was to deliver one of his best sermons on selfishness. Bryan Goes to People. Mr. Bryan was tired. The effects of the recent campaigning for President Wilson were still apparent. His voice was still a bit rough. But he did not resist the importunities of a volunteer committee representing the outsiders. They went to the University club, where he was resting, and pleaded with him to show himself to the great throng outside. So he got up and was escorted through the immense concourse to the steps of the Art Institute, where he took a position just behind the marble effigy of the "Outcast" and beside the bronze replica of "The Sower." Mr. Bryan bared his head and lifted his hand beside "The Sower" as the multitude applauded. Autos Held Up. A hundred fine automobiles puffed and chugged and honk honked impatiently, but the great crowd neither saw nor heeded them. The voice was too husky to carry in the night air, and so he spoke but a few moments charging them to return to their homes and read their Bibles and learn the commandments by heart, particularly the first commandment. And the second great commandment, too, he said they should know well- love thy neighbor as thyself. To put God first and then to love the neighbors unselfishly would revolutionize the world. Plans Fight in Party. Before going to Orchestra hall the Commoner stopped long enough to serve notice on the two great political parties that they must write into their national platform next time a strong anti-booze plank or see the party that does do it sweep the country. He said that he firmly believed the dry wave would cover every state in the union within a few years and that it might achieve the full triumph before 1920. But if it didn't then, he said, the great parties must prepare to meet this as the foremost issue of 1920. Those who heard Mr. Bryan express these sentiments, coupled with his Indianapolis declaration, gathered the impression that Mr. Bryan himself, as he was at Baltimore, will be the storm center of the next Democratic national convention, and the fight will be over a straight out prohibition plank. He is expected also to seek the Democratic nomination. Attacks Nine False Gods. Mr. Bryan in his speech told first of the true God, the one God, and then of the nine false gads he had arranged on three shelfs. These nine false gods were the gods of gold, fashion, fame, ease, intellect, travel, gambling, passion, and drink. And of all the false gods, he said, the last was the worst. His only reference to the war was that if the people would surrender to the true God and banish selfishness, which is the mask for all false gods, the swords of the world would be beaten into plowshares, the war drums would cease, and the battle flags furled in the parliament of man and the federation of the world. Mr. Bryan speaks this morning to the ministers at the First Methodist church and before the Dry federation officials at the Hotel Sherman at noon. _________________ BROKER DROPS DEAD IN PARK -- J. P. McKenzie Suddenly Stricken While Walking in Jackson. -- J. P. McKenzie, 6500 Kenwood avenue, a broker of A. V. Booth & Co., 80 Board of Trade building, died suddenly yesterday while waking in Jackson park. ___________________ [[/column 4]] [[political cartoon]] THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES IS NOT SPIRTUOUS [[/political cartoon]] [[column 5]] Magazine Man Missing; Was a Suicide Fan -- John Calvin Burnell, a Chicago advertising man, who fired three bullets into his skull fifteen months ago and recovered shortly afterward apparently little the worse, has been missing since Oct. 1. His friends fear he ahs made a new and successful attempt to end his life. First information concerning the disappearance of Burnell, who was known as a recluse, appeared in the want ad columns of THE TRIBUNE yesterday, as follows: PERSONAL-INFORMATION REGARDING the whereabouts of Mr. John C. Burnell will be appreciated by the American Brewers' Review Co., 327 S. La Salle-st., Chicago. Phone Wabash 4534. Typist Tells of Disappearance. The advertisement was inserted by Miss Bertha Wiederanders, a stenographer employed by the Brewers' Review, for which Burnell for many years was advertising manager. At her home, 5488 Greenwood avenue, she mad this statement last night: "After Mr. Burnell left Lake View hospital, where the three bullets were removed from his head, he resumed his position with the paper. "For a time he seemed to have suffered no ill effects from the operation except that he complained occasionally of 'rumbling noises' in his head. But last March he became despondent as the result of the death of Mrs. Effie New, who had been his stenographer for thirty years, and whom he regarded as one of his closet friends. Gives Her a Package. "On Sept. 11 he came to me with a package containing some personal effects and asked me to send it to Al Korfman, in Milwaukee, a friend of his. "'It won't be possible to follow me on the trip I'm going to make,' he remarked. 'I won't be heard from again, very probably.' "I became worried and had Mr. Korfman come to Chicago. He had a long talk with Mr. Burnell. For a day or two after this he seemed in high spirits. The last day I saw him was Sept. 19." Inquiry among former neighbors of Burnell brought the information that he had left his apartment at 4718 North Racine avenue Oct. 1. "He gave all his furniture to a wash-woman who tided up his apartment each week," the janitor said. Burnell was 66 years old when he attempted suicide. ________________ [[/column 5]] [[column 6]] GROCER BY DAY AND BURGLAR AT NIGHT, KILLED BY POLICE -- Angelo Gammato Slain When Attempting to Escape After Robbery of West Side Style Shop. -- A double life came to grief early yesterday when Angelo Gammato of 2216 Wentworth avenue was shot and killed while escaping from the scene of a robbery in the Forest Park Style Shop, 7337 West Madison street. Gammato was the proprietor of a small grocery and meat market. Policeman Herman Errgang of Forest Park heard a wagon in an alley. He investigated. Tow men standing inside Gammato's delivery wagon dropped bundles of merchandise and ran. Gammato reached for one of the three loaded revolvers found on the seat. The policman fired, and Gammato fell. There was $3,000 worth of merchandise in the wagon. Mrs. Gammato said she knew nothing of his Saturday night burgiaries. _________________ HUGE WAR RELIEF PLAN PROPOSED BY HERRICK. -- Former Ambassador Wants United States to Raise Billion for Europe Leading Men to Take Control. -- Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 19-The systematic organization of all the philanthropic forces of the United States to raise a fund of a billion dollars under governmental supervision for the relief of sufferer in 11 warring nations of Europe was advocated by Myron T. Herrick, former ambassador to France, in an address delivered here tonight at the home of E. T. Stotesbury. His audience included about 200 men and women, whose combined wealth is said to run in the hundreds of millions. Motion pictures showing the work of the ambulance field service and the American aviators in France were shown. ________________ BABY SWALLOWS PENNY; DIES -- Copper Coin Cause of Death of 18 Months Old Thomas Sekora of Blue Island. -- Swallowing a penny was fatal yesterday to Thomas Sekora, 18 months old, in Blue Island. ______________ [[/column 6]] [[column 7]] Mexican Parleys Must Be Finished, Wilson Decrees -- Washington, D. C., Nov. 19.-Armed with President Wilson's complete approval of his course, Secretary Lane will return to Atlantic City tomorrow determined to bring the sessions of the American-Mexican joint commission to an early conclusion. He is still hopeful that an agreement as to the border situation can be reached, but it was clearly indicated today in official circles that the joint conference is entering on its final phase, agreement or no agreement. If the commissioners find it impossible to formulate a plan, the view taken here will be that the prospect of settling border disputes through diplomacy will be remote. Has White House Backing. Secretary Lane is understood to have found President Wilson, Secretary Lansing, and Secretary Baker in full accord with him on every point when he laid before them last night in a three hour conference at the White House a review of the efforts the American commissioners had made to reach a settlement. Every step proposed by Mr. Lane in behalf of his colleagues was approved by the president, and the secretary returns to his task backed by the unwavering support of the administration in whatever course is planned. Villistas Kill American. El Paso, Tex., Nov. 19.-An unidentified American was killed when a Villa band took Jimenez and four Americans were seen under a guard of bandits at Parral during Villa's occupation of that town, according to reports believed by federal agents to be authentic, brought to the boarder by regugees. Mexico Wreck Kills 159. Laredo, Tex., Nov. 19-One hundred and fifty-nine persons were killed and many more or less seriously injured in a railroad wreck on the Interoceanic line to Vera Cruz, between Dehesa and San Miguel, near Jalapa, on Nov. 12, according to reliable reports received here tonight. It is reported all but one of the five cars left the track and rolled over a cliff. _________________ [[/column 7]] [[column 8]] MISS RUTH LAW EXCELS FEAT OF CARLSTROM -- Breaks Nonstop Record with Old Plane in Flight East. -- Ruth Bancroft Law, a Chicago girl, yesterday took all laurels for American aviation. In a 5 year old scout plane she set a nonstop record of 666 miles in five hours and thirty-eight minutes. Her record for the day's flight was 783 miles, a new mark. She did this in a flying time of six hours and thirty-two minutes, and an elapsed time of seven hours and fifty-three minutes. Miss Law took all records away from Victor Carlstrom, who, in his Chicago to New York trip, made a nonstop record of 480 miles and a day's flight of 652 miles. GASOLINE TANK EMPTY. Miss Law made her first stop in Hornell, N. Y., and was compelled to descend to replenish the gasoline tank of her craft. She left Chicago with fifty-three gallons, and with a slightly larger supply she declared she would have landed on Governor's island, which, by arrangement, was lighted up for her arrival last night. After a short stop in Hornell Miss Law rose again and [[unreadable]]ton, N. Y., late in the afternoon. There she spent the night. She proposes to complete the journey to New York today. Based on a distance of 666 miles in five hours and thirty-eight minutes. Miss Law flew at the rate of 1.97 miles a minute, or 118.2 miles an hour. DELAYED AT START. The start was made in Grant park yesterday morning at 8:30. There was an hour and a half of delay due to the adjustment of a carburetor. James S. Stevens, vice president of the Aero Club of America, officially observed the flight to give it the sanction of the Aero club. "Had Miss Law started on schedule," said Mr. Stevens last night, "she would have gone through to New York with the greatest record of them all. "The wonder of Miss Law's flight is increased when it is considered that she used a plane more than four years old. It is of the Curtiss make of the war type. I called up Mr. Curtiss on the long distance phone, and he told me Miss Law's feat is the most wonderful in all aviation. He said he did not believe the type of plane used by her would make more than 100 miles in sustained flight." WENT INTO TRAINING. Miss Law went into training for the flight several weeks ago. Part of this consisted in sleeping in a tent on the roof of the twenty story Morrison hotel. Then she has been taking a rigorous course of exercises. At 3:30 o'clock yesterday she went to Grant park with her mechanicians and Mr. Stevens. She made few extra preparations for the long trip. There was a small aluminum shield for her feet, and in additional to her unusual costume of two suits of woolen underwear, one suit of silk and another of chamois under her leather flying habit, she wore wool lined mittens and wool lined shoes. Ordinarily Miss Law's aeroplane carries only twenty gallons of gasoline. With fifty-three gallons in the tanks the weight was so great that she was compelled to fly close to earth for the first part of her trip. Toward the landing at Hornell she was more than 4,000 feet in the air. NO FINANCIAL BACKING. "Miss Law's record breaking drive is more wonderful when it is considered that she had no financial backing," said Mr. Stevens. "She paid her own expenses and only asked the sanction of the Aero club, so her record would not be questioned." The fact that Miss Law had just installed a new engine is believed to have made her flight successful. With the old engine she had never made more than twenty-five miles at a flight. She declared upon landing at Binghampton that the motor plant of her plane behaved splendidly. A comparison of the machines used by Miss Law and Carlstrom, whose record she has beaten, illustrates the odds the Chicago girl fought. Carlstrom's plane is of the latest military tractor type, with double propellers driven by two Curtiss 100 horse power motors. The seat of the aviator is inclosed in a
