Sevenly-One Men Are Entombed Jar Ear/ft HARRISBURG f&Smßs TELEGRAPH LXXXV— Xo. 45 TERRIFIC ARTILLERY FIRE IS BELIEVED TO PRECEDE NEW AGGRESSIVE ON FORTRESS Intense Bombardment Being Directed to North of Ver dun May Mean Renewal of Attack With Decisive Re salts; Germans Drive East Along Twelve Mile Front; Reach Base of Heights Along the Meuse SWEEP ALL BEFORE THEM IN WOEVRE 750,000 Teutons Are Now Engaged in Furious Strug gle; Heavy Reinforcements Have Been Thrown Into Struggle; Turks Evacuate T rebizond as Russians Close in; Italy Will Soon Declere War The lierman drive is now be ing exerted in greatest force from the east where the attacking armies have advanced on the plain of the Woevre and reached the base of Lbe heights east of the Meuse at several points, Merlin to-day reported new ad vances in this region along a front appro\iimtely twelve miles in length, s retching from Dieppe, -even mies northeast of Verdun nul time miles due east of Douaumcnt. to Champion, thir teen mil© southeast of Verdun. What nay mean a renewal of the Gaman drive on Verdun in the teitifx: force which marked the initial attack is contained in the announcement from Paris to day that the bombardment to the north <f the fortress is assuming greater in tensity. \UH On Iliglmmd I'roml>ieppe the line runs to Abau . ourt. sine ti\o miles southwest, and thence iVei tly south to Uianxee, about two andji half miles distant. It con tinues sdithward to Manheuiles, three and a hqf miles farther on. the taking of whicf was announced by the Ger mans, ajl thence to Champion, three miles to|he southeast, another town cappptind in the German advance. l!etweenllaniieulle and Champion lies the city if Fresnes, which is held by the Freeh, who last night reported tlir repule of two attacks on their po sitions »ere. Abaucort is on the liighroadfrom Verdun to Metz. Paris limit; the German capture of Manli<(lles, but declares a counter attack brtight the French back to the western nundary of the village, which they holdjinder their lire. fighting i.- Furious North < Verdun the lighting, while furious, lii not resulted in any impor tant charjes in positions by opposing forces, 'lie only German claim to an advance | that northwest of Douau mont villte, where a small a.rmored work wastormed. The French have l.een liea\ly counterattacking in this region, to Merlin. In Lorane Berlin claims an ad vance at. fhiaville, where a French salient pdtion was taken, together with a Itge number of prisoners. Paris rectus the Lorraine operations ns a Gerrrin attack in which several small of advanced trenches rCfltinued on Pace JO] HVK VOU PAID? Persons hibject to an income tax must pay b by to-tnorrow night or ■uffer a p^alty. THEWEATHER For Ilarrburg nnd vlclnltyi Part ly cloud tonlffht uml Wedneailayt not in in change In trm|irrolarr; InnMl wntulit ahout SO drßrcen. For MHI.HI I'ennaylvnnla; Partly ovfrcnm to-night nnd VVrdnm day, no much chaiiKc In teni perntnri light to moderate vari able H i|>. Hirer The mnlurlver will rise xllßhtly nnd Its ri»<-lpnl triliuturlr* will full utoty. No muteral chunicea will iK-ir In lee eondltlona. A Ntaae oinliout 5.3 feet la indl ■■nted fn Harrlshur); \\ cdneaduy morning t;«ernl t »uditlon» The dlntutani-p that wiw central over Jin Mexico, Monday morn- Inn, huxnoved rapidly ranlnaril to the (rollna eoant. cnualnic rain Kcnrally In the tiulf Statca nnd nlon the South Atlantic ■ oast nnwnow In the MINNIKNIPPI nnd l.ow Ohio valleya nnd In 'lVniirnkr nml the Interior of North < ilillnn. Ktneral t« of 2 to If) decrees In temperatre fan* occurred In the Mlddlr ud South Atlantic nnd Kaat Gu Statea and the l.nke ItcKtoD, ad it la 2 to 2M degree* warmer ver the plateau and Middle Hrky Mountain rearlona. I'i'niperatiii: 8 ». m.. 20. Hun: Rlael <t:3» a. nt.i aeta, 5:57 p. m. Moon: \ei moon, Februarr 3, 10:58 p. ii . Hlver stnt: 3.1 feet above low water nidi. 1 e.e-da v'a Weather lllsheat I.oweat triMcratnre, 16. Mean feitifimlurr, 22. .Normal teiNcralire, 32, BY C*RBIKTI O TEXTS A WEEK. SIXC.I.H COPIES 3 CENTS. I BRITISH LINER ON WHICH 151 LIVES WERE LOST " 1 V J M 1111!■!111 INNN— !■ 111111 NRF'I F I » P * irJrtCji PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL LINER MALOJA It is now thought that total of lives lost on the Peninsular and Oriental liner Maloja, which struck a mine Sunday and sank within hall" an hour, two miles off Dover, will reach 151. Of the total complement of 411 pas sengers and crew on the vessel, only 260 are known to have been saved. The Maloja sank two miles off Dover, in plain view of people on shore. The vessel went down in half an hour. Half an hour after the .Maloja foundered the tanker Empress of Fort William hit a mine half a mile away and went down, her crew being saved. There have been many reports that mines were being put in the channel by specially constructed German sub marines. Some of them have be<'n laid in the Straits of Dover and some at the mouth of the Thames, a Dutch steamer recently having been damaged off North Foreland, and the Mecklenburg, a Dutch steamer, being sunk but with no loss of life. NEW TEUTONIC U-BOAT POLICY BEFORE CABINET Reaches No Conclusion on In tention to Treat Ships as Cruisers After Midnight TRY TO JUSTIFY ACT German Note Asserts Rritain Urged Merchantmen to Use j Their Armament Lj Associated Press Washington. I*>b. 29.—Germany's) latest communication on submarine! warfare was discussed in detail at to day's cabinet meeting and at a sepa- j rate conference between President Wilson and Secretary Lansing: but no j conclusion was reached. It was de- I rided to await data on the way from Berlin, regarding instructions alleged to have been issued by the British Ad miralty to merchant captains for at tacks on submarines. Cabinet members carefully avoided questions on whether Germany's posi tion as outlined by <""ount Von Berns torff in a note to Secretary Lansing f Continued on I'age "1 Henry James, Author Who Renounced Allegiance to U. S. Dies in London London. Feb. 2!).—Henry James, novelist, critic and playwright, who was born April 15. 1842. in New York, but took the oath of allegiance to the British Crown in July. 1915, thereby becoming a British subject, died last night He had been ill several weeks. Mr. James is said to have originated the international novel. His scenes for stories were laid in Europe and America, and, as the titles show, they covered a wide range of life. Wells, G. A. R. Officer, Dies in Norristown By Associated Press Norristown. Pa.. Feb. 29.—William J. Wells, past commander of the De partment of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic, died to-day, aged 74. He was principal of a pub- ' lie school here for many years and later served four years us Recorder of i Deeds. In his capacity as inspector of the Department of Pennsylvania, G. A. R., William J. Wells came to this city frequently. He was kidely known in every city of the State having a Grand Army Post. Mr. Wells was commander of Zook Post, No. 11, at Norristown. Rotarians to Award Prizes to Theft Essay Winners Miss Nora Lippi. of 528 Peffer street, was awarded first prize and Russel Lowry. of HO9 South River street, second prize In the Rotary Club essay contest, which was held recently. The subject of the essay contest was "Thrift": it was open to students of both High Schools. The prizes, SIO and )5. will be awarded to the win ners this evening at the meeting of the llotar.v Club at the Masonic Tem ple by the Rev. James F. Bullitt. Miss Lippi is a student at Central, and Lowry at Technical High School, I HARRISBURG, PA., TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, 1916. NEWPORT URGES WILLIAM PENN ROUTE CHANGE Will Send Committee to High way Conference to Present Arguments TO SHORTEN DISTANCE Will Give Tourists Glimpses of Wonderful Juniata Valley Scenery Newport, Pa., Feb. 2G. —If any town in Pennsylvania is more enthusiastic 1 lover the proposed William Penn High- j way than Newport then enthusiasm must be more than unbounded, if such is possible. Every businessman and private eitizen in tlie borough is a , booster for the proposition and also j ! for the proposed change to put New- ! iport on the route. The change which | Newport citizens favors will materially) | shorten the distance to Harrisburg i and given users of the planned road I a glimpse of scenery unsurpassed in any pnrt of the country. Even the | Susquehanna river, with its pictur- i lesque shore lines cannot surpass in j beauty the wonderful scenery through! the Juniata valley. Newport Off Original Route The original route for the Willfl3.nl I • Penn Highway through Perry eoun-' ty from Harrisburg is by way of I fContinued on Page 2] DEMOCRATS ARE FACING PARTY ROW Royal and Jones to Be Opposed by Mehan and Meyers, It Is Said i A split/is rapidly developing In the i ranks of the Democratic machine in, Dauphin county. The reorganizes, i backed by former Mayor Vance C. Mr- 1 Cormick, are to be opposed at the primaries by a full set,of candidates' set up by those who follow the Old Guard leadership in this city and ; county. The battle for control of the party machinery promises to be one i of the bitterest since, the days of the old Meyora-Frltchey ructions. The reorganizers picked Howard W. Jones, chairman of the Democratic j city committee, and ex-Mayor John K. ' Koyal as their candidates for State : committeemen. Koyal Is now a State committeeman. Hoth are from the city I and tliis aroused the Ire of many Dem ocrats In the county, who are also sore over the discrimination shown in the j passing out of post office appointments, j As a result Jones and Royal will be opposed, it is understood, by ex-Countv Commissioner Patrick If. .Mehan, of Williamstoivn, and AV. K. Meyers, of Harrisburg. Mehan Is a fighter and will doubtless carry the whole upper end by sweeping majorities, due to the dis satisfaction with post office appoint ments there. Commissioner Oorgas, 1 who Is the reorganlzer choice for na tional delegate is also to have oppo ' sition. HEADING WII.TJ NOT STOP SAI i: OF PEA COAL Pottsvllle, Pa.. Feb. 29.---Denial of] the story that, the Heading would abolish the sale of pea coal after the first of April aad that pea and chest nut would he mixed and sold as the average fuel of the private consumer, was made at the offices of the Phila- j . delphia and Reading Company to- < I day. STEEL SMASHES ALL RECORDS AND STILL BOOMING Orders For 4,000,000 Tons Valued at .$240,000,000 Placed Since Jan. 1 CREST NOT YET REACHED Entire Mill Capacity Under Contract For Nine Months; Kindred Lines Prosperous By Associated Press New York. Feb. 29.—Orders aggre i gating 4.000.000 tons, valued at $240.- 000,000 have been placed in the steel market since January 1 and the crest of the boom has not yet been reached .according to statements made here , to-day by leaders in the industry. The orders placed in the last two ! months indicate profits to the mills of 1 $80,000,000, half of which is expected to flow into the coffers of the United States Steel Corporation. Even this tremendous tide' of prosperity, it is ! declared, will be surpassed before the close of the year. It is pointed out that prices have advanced $5 and $lO since New Year's day and further ad | vances are looked for in the near fu ture, which will eclipse the record of 1899 and 1900. To Increase Capacity I Reports from different parts of the [Continued on Page 5.] LATE TRAIN TO RUN TO READING P. R. Superintendent Pro ! cures Mucli Needed Accom modation For Public i Commencing Thursday, March 2, the Philadelphia and Reading Ratl -1 way Company will run a late train ! between this city and Reading, leaving Harrisburg at 10 o'clock at night and j arriving at Reading at 11:50. A new morning train will also go on, leaving , Reading at 5 o'clock in the morning and arriving at Harrisburg at 6:55. The night train accommodation | came through the efforts of R. J. i Stackhouse, superintendent of the i Harrisburg division, who has been making every effort possible to have | the passenger department officials ! give better service between this citv and Reading. The train will make all stops be tween Harrisburg and Heading and will be u big accommodation to people who come to Harrisburg over other lines and heretofore had to remain in the city over night. The last train out of Harrisburg over the Reading now leaves at 6:30 in the evening The morning train will do away with the necessity for carrying pas sengers on the milk train. Last Tributes Are Paid to David T. Watson Speiijl io the Telegraph Pittsburgh. Pa.. Feb. 29. Funeral services for David T. Watson, who died in Atlantic City last Thursday night I were held yesterday at his home. Many ioen were pjrpMnf I PLEASANTVIEW WANTS TO COME INTOHARRISBURG Pretty Suburban District East of City Eager For Annexa tion COUNCIL TO CONSIDER IT Informal Conference on Sub ject Next Week; "Tlard scrabble" Problems Pleasantview, the over-growing lit tle suburb just north and east and ad jacent to the city, wants to become a part of Ilarrisburg. ' Residents of that section are eager to have City Council consider them as possible citizens of Harrisburg in the very near future. City Commissioner Harry F. Bowman, said to-day after a brief session of the commissioners. The advisability of admitting Pleas antview. Mr. iiowman added, will likely be one of the problems that will be threshed out by the commissioners at an informal conference to be held sometime prior to the next meeting of Council probably Monday morning. The admlsison of Pleasantview is!' still very much In the embryonic stage', according to Mr. Bowman, although the data relative to the taxation, |' water rates, etc., is being collected ' for consideration of the city commis- ' sioners. The people of the nearby ! suburbs want to be satisfied that the ' i [Continued oil Page 5.] Great French Auxiliary Cruiser Sunk in Middle of Mediterranean; 870 Saved By Associated Press Paris, Feb. 29.—Tlie auxiliary French cruiser. Province was sunk in the Mediterranean last Saturday it' was announced otlicially to-day. At Malta -!>(» survivors liavc been landed. Tlie ministry of marine estimated the number ol' survivors at Hill. Four hundred survivors were land-, «l at Milo. I.a Provence sank in the middle Mediterranean. I.a Provence was one of the largest j and finest of the French line vessels. At the time she was launched La Provence was the fastest trans-Atlan tic liner ever built in France. Former Minister, Now Booze Ad Writer, Appears Before Grand Jury Special to the Telegraph Pittsburgh, Feb. 29.—George Muller, j j now a writer of beer advertisements, j at one time pastor of the Zion Baptist I Church of Punxsutawney, and until i 1913 attached to the "Educational Bu ) reau" of the Pennsylvania Brewers' I Association, with headquarters at I Philadelphia, yesterday spent nearly two hours before the grand jury. Girl Tries to Leap to Death From River Wall The first attempt to commit sul i c'le by jumping from the River Wall | into the Susquehanna was prevented t late last night when Sergeants Drab enstadt and Page and Officer Hylan rescued Helen Knnis, aged 17, of 4 22! Market street, just as she was about to jump into the river from the wall ( at the foot of Market street. The girl told the officers that she had been quarreling with her sister. The police were notified late In the 1 evening that two girls were standing j on the wall, one trying to jump into j the water. The officers reached the place just as the Ennls girl had fought off her companion, Ruth Rahn, of 502 North street, and was about to leap into the river. Gives Assurance That Peace in Orient Will Be Maintained by Japan By Associated Press j Tokio. Feb. 29.—Count Okuma, the ' Japanese premier to-day told a dele- : I gatlon of Japanese who are avowedly hostile to Yuan Shi-Kal, the Chinese ! president, that, while he could not. | I disclose the government's policy with ! regard to China, they might rest as- ! I sured that Japan would take proper | measures to maintain peace in the Orient. Hogs Jump Ten Cents to Highest Price in Year By Associated Press Chicago, Feb. 29.—A jump of ten ' I cents in the price of hogs to-day sent, I the market to $8.90 a hundred pounds, ' i the highest in sixteen months. Vetcr- j ans at the stockyards say the whole country is going into hog raising and j more pork and bacon is being eaten j I then ever before. ! FOUND NEARLY DEAD FROM STARVATION IN BOX CAR , Locked in a box car for more than | forty-eight hours without any food, I Clarence Purviance. Baltimore, was found yesterday afternoon in the Harrisburg yards of the Philadelphia! and Reading Railway, almost uncon scious from lack of food and drink, j ; He was first taken to the Associated! | Aid societies, but later was sent to the 1 i Harrisburg hospital. After an exam ination the physicians ordered a good ( j dinner for Clarence. He was released. GOT NO CURRENCY I By Associated Press Washington. D. C., Feb. 29. —No currency whatever was in the mail bags stolen from a truck last Satur day in New York, postal authorities announced to-day. A brief report to the Post Office Department from agents I" York said that the character or the stolen mail had not yet been determined beyond estab lishing the fact that no currency was taken. It had been reported the i thieves got 1200,000, II 12 PAGES SIX DEAD; NINE MISSING IN BIG MINE EXPLOSION Fifty-two Are Rescued by First Aid Crews After Shaft Is Wrecked MANY ARE INJURED No Absent Miners Relieved to Have Perished; Dust Causes Rlast By Associated Press ICempton, W. Va., Feb. 29.—Six men are known to be dead, nine are stilt missing and 52 have been brought safely from mine Xo. 42 of the Davis Coal and Coke Company near here, where an explosion occurred this morning soon after the miners liad gone to work. The missing men had penetrated far into the workings and reßcuers expressed their opinion that they hud perished. The mine, which is a shaft 427 feet deep, was not badly wrecked, accord ing to mine olticials. The explosion, it was stated, was probably caused by Just. w Scarcely bad the men reached their working places when the explosion occurred. Those not directly in runge of the blast hurried to the main en tries and started for t lie foot of the shaft in which the cages were still operating. There they were met by rescue parties from the surface anil quickly hoisted to daylight. Other rescuers made their way into the mine, and soon located six bodies. Later in the morning other miners who had been unable to reach the main lines of communication were found and brought out. Four of them were badly hurt. Windows 12 Miles Away Broken When War Order Plant Is Destroyed By Associated Press Woburn. Mass.. Feb. 29.—With a shock that broke windows twelve miles distant !i plant of the New England Manufacturing Company blew up early to-day. Only one man. Frank Cornett, an employe, was hurt. His injuries ! were said not to be serious. None of the other buildings were materially | damaged. VEN BURN IN FARM HOUSE ]l ns 11 day in the ruins of a faim house which liuraed J ( here. > i .pant 1 lis wife, three children and his two b. others. ED ITALIAN SHIPS CLEARLD :>n, Feb. 29. The Italian .. eppe f Guglielmo at New York, with mounted guns I to-day ordered cleared on assurances from 11 ]| the Italian government that their armament was for de- 1 ; fensive purposes only. I» ' ITALIANS REQUISITION GERMAN SHIP i • London, Feb. 29.—1t was announced in the House of J I; Commons to-day that the Italian government had requisi- I j J tioned thirty-four of the thirty-seven German steamers in- 1 j I terned in Italian ports. i • I T WARNED OF GERMAN RAIDER ON ATLANTIC | % New York, Feb. 29.—Wireless warnings that a German 1 f :; commerce raider possibly accompanied by consorts, was !, attacking shipping iiv the Atlantic were received by the I J 11 Standard Oil tanker Communipaw, which arrived here to- » I day from Algiers. A message was received about 8 o'clock ! 1 last evening, as follows: "German steamer is attacking ( » \ ' shipping in the Atlantic and may be assisted by captured ; > vessels which she armed. Description 6,000 tons, speed IS L I P knots, combination freight and passenger steamer. Carries ' \ < two guns and is posing as neutral." j. 1; i t NO DATE FOR LICENSE ARGUMENT • > Harrisburg. Licenses for any of the hotels against ' < which remonstrances have been filed will not be handed ■ > down by the Dauphin county court until after the cases ' (have been an No c' te for has been set. « » ' MARRIAGE Itunftri \\ nNliiuKton ( olllfr, Marjtftvllle, mill Annii I'.l i/nUtf li Smith. l>aiK*niiiion. I. eon aril Mount* ami XQIM*! S-llirrl StctinlitiuKfi. d(y, I [ CITY EDITION 18 BARS GO DRY AT 12 TONIGHT; TALES OF ALDINE STIR THE COURT College Student Relates How Woman Toyed With His Hand and Made Date For Party at Place of Question able Character in Gril! Room EXPECTED MEALS TO TAKE OFF THE LID Hitel Men Try to Prove In vestigator Drank Standarc Brand of Whisky; Kunke? Raps Practice of Sending Undesirables to Some Other Community Rloven bars in the city and sew in the county will "go dry" to-night a midnight. The eighteen saloons represent tli majority of the rum establishment-, against which remonstrances had be< •> tiled by the combined light of the eiiv churches and the Dauphin county lav and order anil no-license leagues, an which are still in course of hearin before the Dauphin county court. ' The 1915 license privilege expires i midnight and in those instances whei the pending application lias not bei decided, the serving of liquor riect. 'sarily must cease. These are the ba. that will go dry: St. Charles, Second and Wash ington streets: Harris) House. "0 North Third street; Savoy, 14S« 145 So ith Third street: Columbus 229-3" Walnut; Lynch. 325-27 Verbeke; Kutaman, 314 Verbeke; National. Fourth and State; Pax ton, 1108 Market: Aldlne, 435 Market; Victor. 24 Grace; Kort Hunter Hotel, Coxestown Hotel, Coxestown; GranWville Hotel, Grantville; Shell's Tavern. Shells ville; John Snyder, Middletown. | The Harris House and the Colun [Continuod on Page 10]
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