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THE PITTSBURGH SUN [[symbol of star with a central circle in which is written "CLOSING STOCKS"]] CLOSING STOCKS FINAL
I., NO. 93.  THE CLEAN NEWSPAPER. PITTSBURGH, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1917. FAIR AND WARMER. TWO CENTS. 
[[M]]YSTERY SHROUDS NORTHSIDE MURDER
[[FU]]GITIVE IS INDICTED AS SLAYER OF RUTH CRUGER
[[?L]]S SEEK N OF MAN N EUROPE
Into Murder of [[?Stu]]dent Under Way k.
WIFE IS HELD.
[[?State]]ments by Wom[[an?]] ator May Lead 
[[?s]]hakeup.
[[?BUL]]LETIN.
June 18.--The afternoon returned 
charging Alfredo murder of Ruth [[Cruger?]] -old high school eared four months [[?]] body was found [[?]] Cocchi's bicycle [[?]] Saturday.
ed Press.
[[Monday]], June 18--The [[?]]w re[[article#2: Women As Aviators And What Flying Means To Me An Authorized Interview With Ruth Law, Foremost Woman Avia-tor of the World
An aviation field is always a busy place. In the air there is a steady, throbbing hum of engines; over the blue waters of Hampton Roads in-numerable strang[[e]] shapes were wing-ing in circles, until they went so high and far that one could not tell them from the gray gulls higher up. On the long field itself were more strange shapes; sea-aeroplanes, with long, beetling noses, and other aero-planes that only fly over the land, with curved graceful wings. A crowd had gathered around the water's edge to watch an adventurous "lady-pas-senger" land after her first trip. But the woman's editor turned away from the crowd, and went to a pavil-ion built over the water where a slender young woman in a green coat and black hat, her hair showing gold beneath the transparent brim, was standing alone, waiting for her. Ruth Law, the world's foremost woman aviator, the woman who broke the world's record by flying from Chicago to Hornell, New York, in five hours and forty minutes, is on her way South. She had stopped over in Newport News for a few days, and now Miss Law was going to tell the woman's editor what she thought were the possibilities for women in a field where she had herself attained eminence--an eminence all the more marked because of the cool, [[sp]]ectacular daring that have marked her flights--and a field which thus far few woman have entered. DESCRIPTION OF RUTH LAW. She is a tall young woman, is Ruth Law, whose real name is Mrs. Charles Oliver, and in her slender, graceful figure there is no sugges-tion of unusual physical power. Her profile is delicate. Her mass of soft yellow hair is parted plainly, and her straightforward eyes are blue. Even [[?cuts off rest of paragraph]][[image-- January 13, 1917. Ruth Law]] course. I had nothing with me, and couldn't have eaten if I had. I went very fast, and [[i]]t was very exciting at first, to see the cities go flying past. Mountains looked like mole-hills and I dived through the clouds. I was very glad after I started that I had used the old machine, for it was one I had mastered very thoroughly. But after I had been an hour on the way, I forgot the excitement. I had to keep my mind on the course I was following. That was difficult, too. My map was tied to my lap, and my compass was [[f]]astened to the flor, just between my feet. I had to watch both constantly; and that took up my mind so that I forgot how hun-gry I was. If I had only had gas, I could have gone straight on without stopping to New York City. "Which kind of aeroplane do I use, the 'land only' or 'the land-and-water.' the descriptive terms were not hers, and she repeated them with amusement. I never liked the idea, if anything went wrong, of being obli-ged to land in the sea. It's much pleasanter to face the idea of having to walk home than to swim home, if anything goes wrong." Asked as to what she thought of the future of the aeroplane, Miss Law's face was illuminated with sudden glowing enthusiasm. "The aeroplane could be used as a means of trans-portation right now." she aserted. "if there were only arranged some effective system of landing places. I think that in time all mail will be carried by aeroplanes. And as to carrying freight, why even now the larger machines can carry weight up to 2,000 pounds. When you think that it takes the 20th Century Lim-ited, one of the fastest trains in the world, 15 hours to go from New York[[?cuts off rest of paragraph]]]] [[?]], he[[article#2]] [[?]]redo [[article#2]] [[?]]an [[article#2]] [[?]]urde[[article#2]] [[?]]g-mi[[article#2]] [[?]]sla[[article#2]] [[?]] cr[[article#2]][[?]]the[[article#2]][[?inv]]estiga[[tion article#2]] [[?]]e dis[[article#2]] [[?]]the[[article#2]] [[?]]of o[[article#2]] [[?]]at ha[[article#2]] [[?]]WIFE[[article#2]] [[?]]frien[[d article#2]] [[?]]d in[[article#2]] [[?]]ounde[[article#2]] [[?]]ry pr[[article#2]] [[?]]ent[[article#2]] [[?]]hold[[article#2]] [[?Bo]]ston,[[article#2]] [[?]]ess le[[article#2]] [[?]]ody,[[article#2]] [[?]]e of[[article#2]] [[?P]]age 2[[article#2]]

RUTH LAW, AVIATIRX, HERE 'TWEEN TRAINS, ADMITS SHE'S LUCKY
-Photo by Sun Staff Photographer
RUTH LAW AND HER DOG POILU
Raps on Wood as She Comments on Recent Escape When Tank Explodes
"I'm lucky, that's all. My middle name is Luck."
Thus, with a smile, Ruth Law, famous aviatrix, who arrived in Pittsburgh early this afternoon, commented lightly upon her thrilling at Lexington, Ill., last Thursday, when her gasoline tank exploded while she was 2,000 feet in the air. 
As she concluded, Miss Law rapped thrice on the wood of the cab, in which she was about to start for the William Penn hotel, from the Baltimore & Ohio station. She leaves at 6:25 this evening, for Chicago, on her way to St. Paul, Minn.
Miss Law arrived, clad in a natty suit of khaki, cut military style. She wore [article cuts off]
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think. however, that it will be in this country, and not abroad," she said. 
ply to give her an opportunity for relaxation between trains, and for the rest after a succession of flights made recently in behalf of the Liberty loan.

Woman on Trial for Murder as Poisoner
By International News Service.
HARTFORD, Conn., June 18.- Mrs. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan, charged with poisoning to death of one of a number of inmates of her home for elderly persons who died mysteriously, went to trail today on an indictment charging first degree murder.
The indictment alleges that Mrs. Gilligan, who maintained the Archer Home in Windsor, caused the death of Franklin R. Andrews. Mrs. Gilligan was formally accused last September after Andrews' body was exhumed. An investigation at that time disclosed that a number of inmates of the Archer [article cut off]

100 Persons Hurt in Explosion Near Vienna
By International News Service.
VIENNA, June 18.- One hundred persons were injured in an explosion in the military munitions depots near Weiner-Neustadt, 31 miles from Vienna, it was officially announced today.
It was unofficially reported that at least six persons were killed and 300 wounded.

HAIG CONCEDES GAIN BY GERMAN ENEMY IN WEST
British Retire Before Fierce Drive Yielding Advance Posts to Von Hindenburg
FIGHTING AROUND ARRAS
Monchy Le Preux Is Scene of Terrific Battle for Strategic Position
By United Press.
LONDON, June 18.- A tremendous German attack on newly won British positions east of Monchy Le Preux forced the British to fall back from certain advanced posts, Field Marshal Haig reported today. 
"Early this morning the enemy strongly attacked our new positions east of Monchy Le Preux" he stated. 
ALLIES FALL BACK
"After severe fighting we were compelled to fall back from certain advanced posts in front of out main new posts. We still hold infantry Hill." Monchy Le Preuc, five miles southeast of Arras, is one of the turning points [...]
AMERICA PLANS AERIAL NAVY OF 30,000 PLANES
Congress Is Expected to Provide $600,000,000 Appropriation for Work on Fleet.
TRAINING SCHOOLS NEXT.
Secretary Baker Believes Big Fleet Will Turn Tide in Europe for Allies.
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, June 18.—All American air navy of 30,000 machines is the Government's aeroplane program for the first year of the war, it was officially learned today. 
Now to produce this number of aircraft when the eight small American aeroplane factories were unable to fill half the Government's orders last year has been worked out by the aircraft production board of the Council of National

THREE KINDS OF PLANES
The United States will make three main classes of war aeroplanes:
Training planes, bombing planes and observation aircraft.
The speedier allied battle planes will continue to be made almost entirely by France and Great Britain, where this type of machine has already been perfected.
American automobile plants in part will be utilized to make standardized engines for 30,000 aeroplanes the first year. 
Furniture factories, typewriter plants and other mills equipped for 
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Transcription Notes:
Left margin of paper was cut off, therefore many things may be in brackets is first letter can be assumed, or ? if the word in indistinguishable. Starting from 7th line, transcription is written per column not per line. Was not sure what to indicate for separate article that appears to be stuck on top of newspaper, so is referenced as article#2 with full transcription appearing first and all subsequent references simply as Article#2 Article titled "HAIG CONCEDES GAIN BY GERMAN ENEMY IN WEST" is cut off under "ALLIES FALL BACK" with an overlaying article titled "Know Your Plane, Keep Your Nerve, Secret of Flying, Says Ruth Law" [[Image shows profile of Ruth Law, facing left]]