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AIR RECORD BROKEN NOON EXTRA The Erie Evening Herald. FIRST EDITION Weather - Partly overcast tonight and Tuesday, Colder. THE HOME NEWSPAPER OF ERIE CITY AND ERIE COUNTY The Evening Herald is a newspaper of clean news and clean advertisements. WHOLE NUMBER 11,836 LEASE WIRE OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. ERIE, PA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916 ONE CENT. ESTABLISHED Less Than 9 Hours, Chicago to New York, Feat of the Daring Young Aviatrix, Ruth Law BILLINGSLEY IS SENTENCED James Billingsley, the youthful despesado who with another companion held up and attempted to steal the automobile of Sharles Bens, taxicab driver, and who later stole another machine and escaped to a small town near Pittsburgh where the machine was wrecked and the fugitives apprehended, was arraigned in Court of Quarter Sessions this morning for sentence. Judge Whittelsey, before whom Billingsley had entered a plea of guilty, sentenced the prisoner to serve an indeterminate term of imprisonment in the Western Penitentiary of not more than five years and six months nor more than ten years. A fine of $100 for the use of the Erie county law library also went with the sentence. 2 KILLED IN TUG BOOT EXPLOSION Special to the Herald. NEW YORK, Nov. 20 - Two men were killed and four were seriously injured in a tug boat explosion off Green Point, Brooklyn, early this morning. The four injured men were taken to the Green Point Hospital. ALLIES PROTEST POLISH EMPIRE Special to the Herald. PARIS, Nov. 20 - As a result of the conference here between representatives of England, Italy, and France, the allies have determined to protest at length to all neutral nations against Germany's institution of an empire in Poland. The protest will be based on the ground of violation of civilized statutes and the allies propose to announce to the world their reservation of the right to oppose the Austro-German Polish scheme by all means within their power. THE INDUSTRIAL BATTLE STARTED IN COMMITTEE BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. - The curtain lifted here on one of the most dramatic battles of industrial units in the nation's history today. The joint committee on interstate commerce started its investigation of conditions relating to interstate and foreign commerce and the necessity for further regulation along the lines of the Adamson 8-hour law and to nearly all interstate public utilities. 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 during the hearings. The railroads' fight will be directed by the railway executives' advisory committee, of which Frank Trumbul, chairman of the Chesapeake and Ohio, is the head. The brotherhoods will have their four chiefs - Stone, of the engineers; Carter, of the firemen; Lee, of the trainmen, and Shepard, of the conductors, all of whom are now in the city ready to work. Each side is armed with statistics to support contentions that have been made for years. "The public is the interest most to be considered in this controversy," Judge Adamson, vice chairman of the joint congressional commission and parent of the eight hour law, said today. "Both the railroads and the brotherhoods seem for the moment to forget that they are our servants in this matter." During the day, Judge Adamson will confer with President Wilson on the question of putting Congress the legislation the President had proposed for settlement and prevention of industrial disputes. The American Federation of Labor has already sent out its challenge on such legislation - voicing a determination to oppose any legislation which will limit the strike right of labor. AERIAL JOURNEY CARRIED HER SOUTH OF THIS CITY Special to the Herald. NEW YORK, Nov. 20 - Ruth Law, a smiling little American, took her place as the premier woman aviator of the world today when she equaled the American record for cross-country flying. She landed at Governor's Island at 9:38 a.m., having flown 840 miles from Chicago in an old style exhibition aeroplane. She made but two stops, the first at Hornell, N.Y., and the second at Binghamton, where she spent the night. She was forced to alight because she had run out of gasoline. Fully exposed to the wind and cold, owing to the fact that the type of machine she drove forced her to sit out in front of her motor without any shield for protection, the plucky young woman outstripped Victor Carlstrom's record for continuous cross-country flight, made November 2 in the very latest type of machine, and then continued her journey and flew further than has any woman before in history. Miss Law left Chicago at 7:25 (Central time) Sunday. She reached Hornell at 3:24 - continued 120 miles further to Binghamton, reaching there at 4:20 and resumed her flight at 7:20 this morning. Numb with cold, Miss Law was helped from her aeroplane at Governor's Island by Major General Wood, Henry Woodhouse and Augustus Post, the latter two governors of the Aero Club of America. The plucky little woman was immediately hustled into an automobile and driven to an army officer's house to "thaw out." The last leg of the flight - 270 miles - was made through a dense fog, Miss Law said the fog was so heavy that she was forced to fly very low, barely topping the hills along the Hudson, in order to be able to see the ground and keep her bearings. The fog was so dense in fact that her flight was followed with difficulty after she left Binghamton. One report was received of her passing Port Jervis, but at many points the aeroplane was invisible because of the mist. "followed the Delaware and Susquehanna Railroad for a time after leaving Binghamton," Miss Law said. "Then I cut cross-country. It was pretty cold but naturally it wasn't as bad as yesterday when I was in the air much longer. I finished the trip without taking on any gasoline in addition to that with which the tanks were replenished at Hornell. "I barely had enough to finish on. As I neared Governor's Island the engine was using the last. I volplaned to the earth and landed with the tank practically empty." Miss Law was given a rousing reception when she landed on Governor's Island. A band at the head of a detachment of soldiers on morning parade was playing as she was sighted, and immediately their music was turned into a blare of greeting. Immediately Miss Law was lifted from her machine it was wheeled away to stand besidt another aeroplane. This machine, strangely enough, was the giant tractor in which Victor Carlstrom made his flight from Chicago to New York, and whose record of 452 miles for continuous flight, Miss Law surpassed. Carlstrom is still in New York and warmly commended the woman aviator. He characterized her flight as the greatest aviation feat of the year. Post and Woodhouse, the Aero Club officials, declared the flight of Carlstrom and that of Miss Law had demonstrated beyond any doubt that and air line between Chicago and New York might soon be expected. Miss Law declared that only a shortage of gasoline prevented her from making the flight without a stop. Her machine developed no trouble whatever. A loose bolt forced Carlstrom to alight when he landed at Erie, Pa. All authorities were enthusiastic today over the great strides shown in this country in aviation within the last three weeks. On the heels of Carlstrom's flight a fleet of 12 aeroplanes flew from Hampstead, L.I., to Princeton to witness the Yale1Princeton football game Saturday. Then came the flight of Miss Law and almost simultaneously announcement of a new palatial flying boat built by the American Trans-Oceanic Company of which Rodman Wanamaker is the head. This flying yacht is built to carry five persons. The interior of the yacht is fitted up as luxuriously as a similar craft for use on the water. It is upholstered in pigskin and the interior work is of mahogany. HER RECORD BETTER THAN CARLSTROM BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Nov. 20 - Miss Ruth Law, woman aviator, left Binghamton at 7:20 a.m. on the last leg of her Chicago-New York flight. She will land about :30 on Governor's Island. Before leaving for New York Miss Law said she expected to make another flight over the same course within a few weeks. She hopes at that time to go through with a stop. She arose to a height of about 1,000 feet as she ascended here this morning and was quickly out of sight. Miss Law did much better in her "one-hoss shay" of the air than Victor Carlstrom did in his carefully groomed and up-to-the-minte model flier. Both aimed for New York city. Miss Law came nearer to it than did Carlstrom, flying 595 miles. Gas shortage brought her down. With an hour and a half more in the air and a little more gas she would have accomplished the feat of linking Chicago and New York between sunrise and sunset. "I'm not a bit tired and the machine's all right," was Miss Law's message when she stepped out of her machine. She left Chicago at 7:25 Central time, Sunday, skirted Lake Michigan, darted over the Ohio and Indiana flat lands, edged along Lake Erie and then shot into New York. BODY OF HEIRESS TAKEN FROM RIVER; PARENTS AND SISTER WHO CONCEALED DISAPPEARANCE QUIZZED BY HONOR FANNING [[Image]] PONTIAS, IN., Nov. 20. - Is Christine Diemer, heiress, whose body was dragged from Vermilion river, a suicide, or the victim of a fiendish murder? If murder, was she assailed by a brutal lunatic still at large, or did her own kinsmen make way with her? A jury must decide; but her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Diemer, and her younger sister, Magdaline, are held for trial and are out on $10,000 bail. What puzzles the state's attorney is the entire absence of a motive on the part of her parents and sister. The girl had property in her own name, and her will was made out to Magdaline. But the family is wealthy - worth probably a quarter million - and none wants for money. When the dead body was washed up by the quiet Vermilion, the girl, who had been in a home for the mentally weak was thought to have drowned herself. Doubt was raised when it was discovered the girl's neck was broken and it was learned the veil wrapped around her face was not hers. Now the family is under official suspicion; this is the reason: Her disappearance from home on October 27 had not been made public by her family. They told the neighbors she had gone to Florida; they did not ask the police to search for her, and as far as authorities in Pontiac know no search ever was made. There was no man in this strange case to divert suspicion, for though she was winsome and pretty and only 33, Christine Diemer had no lover and few intimate friends. Her tragic death was not the first shadow Christine had cast over her family. Prettiest of the Diemers' four daughters, she had been popular in Pontias; and at the state normal school in Bloomington where she took the teacher's training course she was a favorite. And then - well, about five years ago, she had worked hard in school, people noticed she was "queer,"; some folks even said she was insane and should be in an asylum. She left her school, and at times lived with her married brothers and sometimes with her parents in the old ashioned white cottage in Pontiac. The Diemers never admitted that Christine was "queer"; they were wealthy - even though they lived so simply, and they cared for their stricken one at home. Last summer, however, an alienist, Dr. George Mitchel, of Peoria, pronounced Christine to be "the most dangerous type of insane person." He warned her parents she might do violence to them or to herself. They finally agreed to send her to a sanitarium; she had returned early in October - better, but not cured. Pontiac is the seat of a state reformatory for boys; many hardened characters go in and out of the town to the school. It is Jacob Diemer's theory that some escaped prisoner may have killed his daughter for the money she carried in her purse, $32, which is missing. Magdalena, the daughter now held, is a student at the University of Chicago. This little town in central Illinois is aghast at the thought that "Neighbor Diemer" could commit a crime so atrocious. "He was elder in the church for years," they say in the hotel lobbies, at the depot and wherever people congregate. Diemer, the father, came to this country in 1864, when Schleswig, his native province in Denmark, was ceded to Prussia. JACOB DIEMER'S STORY OF DISAPPEARANCE OF HIS DAUGHTER CHRISTINE "Christine was very sensitive; she couldn't bear to have people talk about her. She had been talking of going to Florida; she spent last winter there. "On the night of Oct. 27 she and I were alone in the house; 'Mother' and Magdalene were at a picture show. She seemed more tender than usual; she kissed me good night at 9 o'clock and went to bed. The next morning she was not in her room. "We didn't know what to do. But she had money of her own and we thought that she might have gone to Florida, as she had been planning to do. "Rather than offend her by starting a public search, we kept quiet - and now they say we killed our poor Crissy!" DARING YOUNG WOMAN PASSED OVER M'KEAN, 12 MILES SOUTH Shattering American records for a cross-country flight, Miss Ruth Law, flying a Curtiss byplane, of the military scout type, passed over McKean, about 12 miles south of Erie about noon yesterday Miss Law was attempting a non stop flight from Chicago to New York city. She exceeded by more than 100 miles the the record established by Victor Carlstrom on November 2, when he landed in this city, having been forced to descend here because of engine trouble. Miss Law is known to Erie residents having wintered with the Erie colony at Daytona, Fla. Forced to descend at Hornell, N.Y., at 2:07 o'clock yesterday afternoon to fill her gasoline tank, the aviatrix continued her journey to Binghamton, where darkness again forced her to make a landing. The distance between Chicago and Hornell, N.Y. is 622 miles, a new American record for a cross country flight. Miss Law left Binghamton early this morning on the last leg of her journey to New York city. She expressed great confidence that she would reach that city. Expressing contentment at having broken the American record, Miss Law contended that on her next attempt she would set a world's record in an interview given soon after her landing at Binghamton last night. She stated that she had not known how this flight was coming out, as she had learned to fly and had done most of her aviation work as an exhibition flyer. Previous to this time her longest flight was only 25 miles. The loss of time at the start at Chicago, shortage of gasoline at Hornell, and the approach of darkness at Binghamton, are attributed by Miss Law for her failure to make New York without a stop. She stated that she would have been in New York last night but for the fact that she lost more than an hour and a half at the start in Chicago, when the representative of the company, whose curburetor is being used, decided at the last moment that the hot water jacket should be removed. It was taken off and the engine tried out, but was replaced again, The weatherman at Chicago had promised a 56-mile and hour wind and Miss Law figured that with the aid of that wind she would have plenty of gasoline to last her until she reached Binghamton or perhaps further. "From Chicago to Cleveland I took the air line, following no railroad but steering by my compass," said Miss Law. "My compass, you know, was the one which Lieut. Cyril Porte brought to this country two years ago for the trans-Atlantic biplane America, but which was never used. "My compass bearings were written on a sheet of paper which was sewed to the gauntlet of my glove. I passed directly over Cleveland and, maintaining an altitude which varied between 5,000 and 5,500 feet, headed for Erie, Pa, I didn't go over that city, but steered to the south for Hornell." It was at this point, she stated, that she noticed she was receiving no help from the wind and her gasoline supply was running low. Two miles from Hornell her gas gave out completely and she glided down to a landing in that place. One hour and three minutes were consumed in refilling the gasoline, which holds 53 gallons, and at 3:10 she again took the air for the second leg of her journey, landing in Binghamton because of darkness. Miss Law flew from Chicago to Binghamton, a distance of rail of 785 miles, in six hours and fifty-one minutes, time being deducted for the descent at Hornell. Her machine has a wing spread of 28 feet and is equipped with an eight-cylindered motor which will develop 110 horse power. She expects to make a big new machine in a month and will attempt to make the Chicago-New York flight without a stop. REPULSE OF THE ALLIES IN BALKANS Special to the Herald. SOFIA, Nov. 20 - "Sanquinary repulse" of renewed allied attacks in the Cerna bend region near Monastir was asserted in today's official statement from the Bulgarian war office. EASTERN FRONT LEADS IN WAR NEWS FOR TODAY. LONDON, Nov. 20. - With rain and sleet interfering with full resumption of operations along the Somme, it was the Balkans that furnished most of the battle news today. Additional advices served to increase the brilliance of General Serrail's French-Russian?Serbian victory in the taking of Monastir. It is now doubted here that the German-Bulgarian forces can make complete escape from the encircling vise of the allied flanking movement. Desperate fighting is proceeding as the allies strive to close in still further on the retreating Tentons. Roads churned into a sea of mud from snow and rain will, it is believed, make it impossible for the Teutonic forces to proceed with sufficient haste in their retreat to accomplish a complete withdrawal of forces and equipment. Moreover, it appears that far from being content with mere occupation of the city, the allied forces are still thrusting forward in their drive. Prilep, to which city the enemy is withdrawing, is about 24 miles to the north. The way is for the most part across level ground, with very few natural defensive features. The allied occupancy of positions along the Cerna River bend gives them a fulcrum for their lever to force clearance of the plain. Military critics here today agreed that capture of Monastir is of the greatest importance. Diplomatically most of the credit is given the Serbians for the victory. It was their splendid fighting along the Cerna bend which compelled the enemy to abandon their southern defenses, enabling advance due north of the French and Russian troops. Ejected from their own country a year ago by Field Marshal Von Mackensen's tremendous drive, forced to flee in disorder, their regiments scattered, their equipment - what little there was - for the most abandoned - the Serbians have been transformed in a brief 12 months into a formidable army with new arms and equipment and the splendid tutorship of French troops operating with them as brothers in arms. It is expected here that the Monastir victory will have important effect in relieving the German pressure against Rumania - a pressure that has been regarded gravely of late. The London press does not hesitate to call the situation of the Rumanians "precarious." AMBASSADORS TOLD THAT THEY MUST LEAVE Special to the Herald. LONDON, Nov. 20.- An Athens special agency dispatch today asserts German, Austrian, Bulgarian and Turkish ambassadors in the Greek capital have been told by the allies that they must leave the country by Wednesday. STOCK MARKET OPENING Special to the Herlad. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.- United States Steel comon sold at 126⅞, another new high record price, at the opening of the stock exchange today. Irregular and generally narrow price changes were shown elsewhere in the list. NEW YORK- Yelling "fire" when she meant to scream "mice" Rosie Rothman started a panic in an apartment that resulted in the injury of four persons and the hasty appearance of the blaze fighters.
