THE WEATHER FATE TO-UIOHT AND TO-MORROW o«t*iM >»fwt Fiat • STrfflS" VOL. 77—NO. 35. DRIVER DIES IN CRASH OF HERSHEYCAR | Ira Kohr Killed When Chocolate King's; Auto Turns Com pletely Over on Hill E. M. HERSHEY IS HURLED OUT laavyer Stiffen From Bruises and Shock —Driver, Who Dies in Ten Minutes, Is Conscious Most of Time and Says He Is "All Right" (Special to the s»ti»r-nvt**>endcnO i HummeJstown, Pa., Feb. 6.—lra i Jvohr. 32 years old. private chauffeur to Milton S. Hershey. the Hershev Chocolate King, was almost instantly j killed, and E. M. Hershey, of Hershey and Harrisburg. a lawyer practicing at the Dauphin county bar, barely escaped with his life at 1 o clock this morning, •when a big touring car in which they were riding skidded on the ice-covered Beaver Hiil of the Hummelstown pike, upset aud landed upside down in the road. Kohr was pinned beneath the heavy car. The back of tie seat which he had been occupying rested on his head. He died in ten minutes, during six of which he was conscious and directed, in so far as he could, the work of those who tried to extricate him. He spoke very little, however. Once he said: "Now, just lift it up a little more, if you can, and I will be all righu'' Kohr expired before the ear was lifted off af him. Dr. W. M. Shuil, who had been hurriedly summoned, but who arrived too iau ti administer med-! ical aid, ea : d the chauffeur died from compression of the brain. The lawyer was thrown free of the car when the big machine was over turned. H« was bruised and suffered from shock. The accident occurred at a poipt on the Humiuelstown juke about midway between the Beaver school house aud the intersection of the pike with the Chambers Hill road, about a miie and a half from Hummelstown. On Way to Get Stalled Auto In a different 3tito the attorney with b - wife aud son. Edwin, had gone from Hershey to Oberlin on a business trip early iast evening and his chauffeur, ilarry Boyer. was driving this car. Wiien returning oome at 11 o'clock the cac iine slipped on the ice on the Beaver ir.li and efforts to aecend the iccj'me were ;n vain. Evenruailv the lawyer and his family waiked into Hum meistown and there boarded a trolley ear and went to tiieir home in Hershey. Boyer, the chauffeur, remained with the stalled car. and Hershey planned to get one of ti.e chocolate king's ma chines. a more powerful auto, to tow his car home. Kohr volunteered to make the trip witn the lawyer in this second car, ami it was while they were descending the Beaver hiil that the fa tal accident occurred. ( "Kohr was Ir-vmsr the car about ten or tweive mi'.ess an hour,"' Hershey said, •'and when I ca-ied to his attention the proximity of my car. which was at the foot of the htlL he applied the brakes. The big car swerved u» the side of the roa.l, skidded, struck a breaker and toppled over. More tian that I do not know. I can *t say how I got oat of the car. although I was lying in the road just alongside the machine after it bad made the final turn.'' Dies Before Car Is Lifted Boyer. the lawyer's chauffeur, was standing beside the stalled car, and al though he and Hershey made a dee j«rate effort to free Kohr. they found it impossible to do so. Harvey Weo ner and other farmers living nearby were hurriedly summoned, but by the t:me they got the car off Kohr the chauffeur was dead. Coroner Jacob Eckinger arrived at the scene less than two hours later, but after hearing the story of the accident as told by the witnesses. Hershey and Boyer, he decided a formal inquest waa not necessary. However the Coroner will take additional testimony at a hearing to be held in Harrisburg on Monday morning at 11 o'clock. At noon to-day neither of the Hor shev cars had been removed from tie ;4ace of the accident. Toe body of the chauffeur was removed to the under taking establishment of William Kar many, in Hummelstown, at 4 o'cock this morning. The lawyer, who suffered greatly from the shock and also was slightly bruised, did not get to his Hershey home fwllaw i «a Twelfth Z\)t Star'iHishrSttbepetikiitl 14 FIRMS BID ON AUTO FIRE MACHINES FOR CITY Kmb Competition Among Manufactur ers To-day to Obtain Contracts for Two Motor Chemical Wagons and Throe Tractors for Department Fourteen Pennsylvania, Nc\v York or Now Jeraev firms rhat manufacture lire fighting apparatus. competed to-day for the cou tract*. whWi the city erf Har risburg propoaee to award, for two new I nuvHir combination chemical and h?»o i wagons and three motor tractors. T:x< b?(s were opened at uoon by City t\mi missioner M. Harvey Taylor. | Several of the proposals are blanker bids. Others a-e a trifle complicated, i The lowest bidders will not be deter I mined until all the sppeeiti.-ations and proposals have boon carefully examined and compiled. That. Mr. Taylor said, will take several days. so that he n"iil not be able to make an intoiiijjent rev ommeik.fctrion to the City Commission er* before their meeting on Kebruarv 16. Two orf the three tractors are to be' placed on steam fire engines while the third wilt he placed on the Mt. Veraon Hook and Ladder Truck. Sjiuo con tractors offer to make reductions in • their prices for one piece of apparatus in case two of the kind are purchase.! : from rhem, and some vary their bids lon certain pieces of apparatus accord ing to whether or not the machines are to have certa-.n extra appliance*-. Figures on Chemical Wagons The bids on the combination chem- I ical wagons are as follows: Martin Car nage Works. York. $3.9T5 each; Inter national Motor Company, Xew York j City, $4.59,>: Bentr Lcindis Auto Com- Ipany, Harrisburg. J4,730; Ahrens-Pox Fire Engine Company. $5,250; Har : wood -Barley Manufacturing Company. $4.500: Morton Truck i Tractor Com pany, Har'isburg. $3,000; American l«Franee Fire Bngne Company, $4.- , >00; Brock way-Motor Car ' Company, Cortland, X. Y.. $4,495; James Bovd A. Brother, Inc.. Philadelphia. $5,300. , The Municipal Equipment Company. r«atlnrh E. Rayeroft. physical di rector at Princeton, tells of a large proportion of entering students who are unable to swim more than a short distance. He says: "Of every entering class 50 or 60 students are unable to swim at all and about 100 can swim poorly. Thus about a third of each entering class must be instructed in the essentials 'of swimming. In addition to the above • number, 15 per cent, more of the class require a certain amount of further I practice before they become able to pass the test." TRADE TRIP TO COST $lO Special Train Will Be Provided and Fourteen Stops Made The Trade Excursion Committee of the Harrisburg Chamber af Commerce : n a letter of announcement sent to each member to-day gives a detailed de . scription of the excursion to be taken by the Chamber February 17 and 18. The cost of the trip will be but $lO per person taking part, although a spe cial train will be provided, fourteen • cities will be visted en route to Sun bury, Wilkes-Barre and Beading. Three buivired milee will be covered. Lunch eon and dinner on the 17 and breakfast, lun<-heon and dinner on the 18 are cov ered by the charge, which also provides for a room at die Hotel Sterling in Wilkes-Barre on the night of the 17. $150,000 Fire in Pittsburgh By Juoculcd Press. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 6.—An over heated stove in the South Side Market House to-day caused a fire which de stroyed the building with a loss of $150,000. It was a two-story brie* structure and covered an entire block. HARRXSBUBO, PA., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1915—12 PAGES. lH SUICIDE cash I AI vin Binner's Lifeless Body Found in a Field at Schaefferstov/n This Morning REVOLVER AT HIS SIDE TELLS STORY Bank Official Was in SchaefTerstown' Last Evening and Took Part in Orange Association Meeting—Ac counts Said to Be All Right i (Special to the Star-Independent.) Lebanon, P.v. Feb. 6. Alvin Binner. ■ a married man, .%:'<>! 37 years, an 1 for' many years cashier of the Schaeffers town Xational Bank, committed suicide! this morning between 3 and 4 o'clock,! in a field, near his home, just outside of tho town, by shooting himself I through the head with a revolver. His, body was found in the field among the ice and snow, with a revolver at his ■ side. His neighbor. Abraham Hart- j man, who lives near the Binner home, j made the discovery. The body was later removed to his! home where it is being prepared for burial, lie is survived by a wife and four children. As late as hast evening' Binner was in Schaefferstown, where he attended and took an active part in j the anuual meeting of tt*> Lebanon ■ County Association. He was .held in hisjh esteem by everybody who' know him atvi his death has cast a great gloom among his many friends! I throughout this city and county. Binner was for some time a director in the Kurai Telephone Company, Het-j j deiberg Water Company, and numerous jother concerns of the southeastern part lof the county. He is said to have been i • in the best of health and spirits when 'last seen alive last evening before he left Schaefferstown for his country; home. He owned considerable real es j tate and was regarded as a substantia! : citizen at his home community. So cause is given for the rash act. A bank ,ing inspector had recently visited !h?. bank to look over Binner's accounts,l and it is said, found them all right. The Associated Press saii to-day; . "It is alleged that the dead cashier, was obliged to make good a note for! | over SIO,OOO on which he wont secur ity and that worry over th; 8 laj him to take his life."' REPORT ON JOB HOLDERS 1 Heads of Departments at Capitol Are Using Printed Forms to Provide Information Desired by Governor To meet the request of Governor Brumbaugh that the names of all at j laches of the various departments un- J der his administration be sent to him, | together with the salary of each aud the political backing that lauded the job holders tiieir positions, the depart ment heads have prepared- a biank foiui giving the came, residence, salary an*! political backing of an attache. These have been sen: to each division or bureau head with the request that they be filled out at once. It is expected that all of this in formation will be in the Governor's hand by the beginning of next week, but as yet just what he intends to do with it can only be conjectured. Applications for places in the de partments coming directly under the Brumbaugh administration have been made by the hundreds, aud all such I applications have been placed on file. Even the department heads have been flooded with applications. One applicant wrote to a depart ment head and asked that he be ap pointed to the Board of Moving Pic ture Censors, not that he cares for the salary, he wrote, but he desires to up lift the pictures and make them highly moral in every sense, combining this ' with educational features. FLOOD STAGE AT CINCINNATI Ohio River 3.4 Feet Above Danger Mark and Still Rising By Associated Pros. Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 6. —The Ohio river this morning was' 5.4 feet above flood stage and continued to rise at the rate of two-tenths of a foot an hour. The greater part of the ground in the river section of the city is under water though little actual suffering has taken place. This was made possible by the ample notice that was given to all those | in the flooded district. The river registered 54.7 feet at 9 ' o'clock an.! an announcement was is : sued shortly thereafter by the Central I Union Bailroad depot officiate that the • station would be vacated early in the afternoon. All of the railroads have made preparations to move to other sta tions on higher ground not far from the Central Union. The Weather Forecaster stated that the river would reach a maximum here of 56 feet some time Sunday morning and begin to fall on Monday. The an nouncement said that the crest of the 1 flood has been reached at Portsmouth, . Ohio, at 55.5 and waa falling at ail I points above Portsmouth. AUTO TRUCKS SHIPPED FROM AMERICA TO THE ALLIES i mim,— ! CRA-HN6 AUTOMOBILES rod. "THE ALLIES OTM BOARD THE ARA&IC ,\N NEW YO^K Automobile trucks to be used by the allied armies of France. England and Belgium, to the value of nearly one-half million dollars, were shipped recently"from New York when the steamship Arabic left that port a few days ago with a i large consiiiumeiit of these trucks. The above photograph shows some of the trucks being crated for shipment. The \iorton Truck and Tractor Company, of this city, recently sent an armored truck and armored tractor to London i for the inspection of the British War Department. Members of the local Arm say they have received assurances that a j big contract will be received by the Harrisburg plant. KJVOffll MPLETjIECK Asama, Which Struck An Uncharted Rock, Now Certain to Be a Total Loss 2 U. S. CRUISERS NEAR THE SCENE Battleship Struck Submerged Bock Last Sunday Afternoon and a Gale Which Followed Is Said to Have Completed Vessel's Destruction By .(jxmatnl PrtMt. San Diego, Cal., Feb. 6.—The Jap-' anrse cruiser Asama, whicn struck an uncharted rock off the western coast of Lowci' California, is a complete i wreck, according to information reach- ' iug here to-day. Two United States > cruisers are reported to be standing! by the vessel and two Japanese speed- | ing to it to assist the crew. The cruiser, it is said, went down i last Sunday afternoon at the entrance 1 to Turtle bay. She was making ten knots when she struck the submerged rock, ripping open the hull about fif teen feet abaft the bow. The battle ship settled quickly and the gale which btgan to blow that night is said to have completed its destruction. The United States cruisers Raleigh and San Diego reached the Asama last i night and the Japanese cruisers Id- j zuino and His-.'n were reported early to- | day to be steaming at full speed for | the scene of the wreck. The Asama's officers and ciew, it is said, will not be ! brought into an American port, but' will embark either aboard the Uisen or the Idzuuio. An interesting question in admiralty procedure has arisen over the wreck. Under a strict interpretation of the neu trality laws, Mexico, it is pointed out, has a right to interne the officers and men of the Asama who landed on Mex- ; ican soil until the end of the European j war. At the same time the United i States warships or ships of other neu tral nations may assist in the saviug of life from the wrecked Japanese cruiser, it is said, but they can render j no assistance towards salvaging the ship or her crew without violating the j I neutrality laws. The San Diego and Ra'eigh prob ably will stand by the Asama until the ; arrival of the Japanese warships. Washington, Feb. 6.—The Navy De partment has received advices from! Rear Admiral Howard on the circum-j stances of the wreck of the Japanese cruiseT Asama but because of the deli cate questions involved in the succor of a belligerent ship by neutral Amer- I ican vessels they are being kept secret. AT BUTUAL OF HIS FRIEND Dr. Kremer Preaches Sermon at Funeral of Colonel Dilllnger The Rev. Hlis X. Kremer, pastor of , Salem Reformed church, preached the sermon at the funeral on Thursday of ' Colonel Jacob S. Dillinger at Allen town. a former resident of this city. Before his death Colonel Dillinger had requested that Dr. Kremer officiate at his funeral, since he and the min i ister bad formed a firm friendship some i years ago while he was attending Salem ' "church. Colonel Dillinger was a niem ' ber of the Lehigh county bar and a j prominent Mason. "'Stonewall" Jackson's Widow HI By Attociated PTMI. Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 6. —Mrs. Mary Jackson, widow of the Confederate gen eral, "Stonewall" Jackson, is critically iU at her home here. 168 MINERS MIE ENTOMBED' Explosion In West Virginia Traps Many Men, But All Escape With Exception of Ten By Associated Prrs it. Fayetteville, W. Va., 6. —One i hundred aud sixty-eight men were en tombed in the mine of the New River Coal Company at Carlisle, near here, by an explosion to-day. All but ten succeeded in making their way to the surface. They reported that six of the men in the section where the explosion occurred had been killed, but they knew nothing of the other four. Rescue parties were at once or ganized to search the workings. Vhe explosion 'occurred i«T ft remote part of the mine when an open lamp, carried by one of the miners, came in contact with a pocket of gas. The hoist ing apparatus was not damaged, an..} when the mem reached the foot of the shaft, aifter struggling through the darkness, they were quickly hoisted to safety. Two state mine inspectors arrived! before noon, and prepared to make a thorough search for the dead and the; missing miners. Great crowds collect- i t ed but were kept from the shaft house iby mine guards and police hurriedly • brought from nearby towns. SQUARE FIRE LOSS $110,984 Adjusters Find Damage to Kaufman Property Alone Was $02,158 The figures on the losses of all-per sons who suffered damage in the fire which attacked tine Kaufman Under selling Stores, 4, 6 and S South Market : Squaa-e, and adjoining properties, on tho | night of January IS, last, as submitted | to Fire i hi of Kindler to-day by the ! I insurance adjusters, total $110,954. ! I This figure may be changed slightly as minor readjustments are made. It j includes the losses suffered by all per j sous in the block along Market street, between the Square and River street, with the exception of Andrew S. Mc-1 Creath A: Son. Valuaole electrical ma-! cthLnery belonging to that firm was damaged by water and will l>e placed in its former condition by the insurance ■companies under an agreement with : the firm. A report on the cash amount of the loss has not, therefore, been made. I>avid Kaufman, proprietor of the Kaufman stores, is the heaviest indi vidual loser, his loss on contents be j ;ng $75,000 and on the building, 6 South Market Square, which was prac ticaulv destroyed, is put at $17,- 158.99. January fire losses in this city were the largest for a single month of any in •recent years. Although total official figures are nort yet available, the loss during January alone was greater than that in the wliole of the year of 1914. Until imlividual owners of automo biles destroyed in the Ford garage, 145 South Cameron street, last Thursday afternoon, make claims on the insur ance companies, tihe names of all will not be known. The actual loss in this fire will not be officially compiled until late next week. Patrick DriscoU, man ager for the Ford 'Motor Sales Com pany, is planning for the early erec tion of a new building. LAMBERTON PRIZE CONTEST High School Senior Boys to Write and Speak on Franklin The La ruber ton oratorical contest for boys of the Senior class of the Central (High school will be held in the school auditorium February 19. This contest was started many years ago Ly the late Robert A. Laroberton and has been con tinued by his son, James M. Lamberton. Senior boys write essays on a his torical subject. The four -best are pick ed and the winners must deliver them. Prizes of $5 are awarded the four win ners and an additional $5 is given for the bejt delivery. The subject for this year's contest is "Franklin's Career Glim SEIZE 0. SHIPS Does Not Intend to Mo lest American Ves sels in Blockade of British Isles EMBASSY ISSUES ' THE STATEMENT 1 Expresses Hope "That England Will; Not Make Necessary a Keconsider ation of This Attitude by Seising U. S. Vessels Like Wilhelmlna" By Associated Press. Washington, Feb. 6.—The Oerman embassy declared in a statement issued ! to-day in regard to the decree placing j the waters around the Britisih Islee in j the war zone, that "Germany '' does not i intend to molest or seize American ves sels laden with food stuffs for the civil ian population of enemy countries." The statement expresses the hope "that England will not make necessary a reconsideration of this attitude by seizing American ships like the W'il helmina." The statement in full fol-j lows: Statement of the Embassy "The German Ambassador has not received instructions regarding the de cision of the German admiralty, but ac cording to the text of the decision, the following seems clear. '' There is nothing new in the com-; | munieation made on February 4 by the i German Admiralty with respect to the ! attitude of the German ini[>erial navy ! toward ships of the enemy or toward i neutral commerce. It is absurd to de -1 scribe this as the proclamation of the • paper blockade of t-he British Isles. I The communication is simply a state -1 ment of what has been since the begin-1 ! ning of the war, the attitude of the | navies of all of the belligerent powers | toward ships of the enemy. "A few months ago the English ad : miraltv proclaimed tie ciosing of the | North Sea, the waters of which are es-l sentially neutral. Germany does not pro- Continued on Twelfth Page. LATE WURNEWS SUMMARY Germany's declaration that the wa ters around England, Scotland and Ire land are to be included In the war cone was interpreted In a statement issued to-day by the German embassy at Wash ington, contains no threat to American shipping. The statement says that no change in Germany's attitude toward neutral shipping is involved and that American vessels carrying foodstuffs to the civilian population of countries with which Germany is at war will not be seized. So far as neutral shipping is concerned, the German declaration will serve merely as a warning of the risks involved in navigation in those waters. The fighting in the west yesterday as described in the official communication from Paris, amounted merely to scatter ing artillery duels. In Poland the strug gle along tne Warsaw front is yet to reach a decision. The Austrian government announced to-day that the attacks of the Russians in the Carpathians had broken down and that they had suffered heavy losses. In certain sections of the front the Aus trian* are on the offensive, and the capture of 4,000 more Russians is re ported. A statement from Petrograd yester day contained the admission that the Russians had retreated In the region of one of the mountain passes. Particular significance is attached by military strategists to the outcome of the cam- Contiaaed an Twelfth Page. POSTSCRIPT PRICE, ONE PENT. BIG BATTLE AGAIN RAGES AT WARSAW Von Hindenburg Con tinues His Efforts to Break Through to the Polish Capital GREAT LOSS OF LIFE APPARENT ! Russian Attacks, R«nattle region the Russians are making ; progress, while in the eastern haJf they appear to have fallen back from the ' Lmpkew and B«»kid passes cm preipiired i positions, where they aro attempting ; to stem the rush of largo Au9tro-Ger man forces. The Rnseian counter blow on the massed assaults of General Von Hin denburg 's men ie, to British observers, tho most interesting development of the struggle in the east. It overshadows j for tho moment the operations of tbie Russians in East Prussia, and is taken I in some quarters to indicate that they ; have ceased playing the role of merely holding their lines to the west of War saw and determined on an effort to ex pel the invaders. No Change in Western War Zone The western war zono has seen virtually no change during the week, j but there are many reports of German \ preparations for renewed activity in | Belgium. The German threat of a sub marine blockade may be a factor in this situation, the theory being ad vanced that the Germans expect the al lies to attempt to force them back from the coast, with the idea of destroying their submarine base. Dispatches from Cairo indicate that the Turks who attacked the Suez canal were merely the advance contingent of three columns which are struggling across the desert. The main bodies of the invading army should soon bi , heaxd from. 4,000 Russians Captured Vienna, Via Berlin, and Wireless to 1 j London, Feb. 6, 9.50 A. M.—An of ficial statement issued here to-day says: "In Poland and Western Gailicia the situation i 9 unchanged. Russian at tacks have been renewed at certain places in the Carpathians but have broken down with heavy loss to tliß enemy. Our attacks continue in the ' forest region. The number of prison ' ers taken by us in the Carpathians hai i been increased by 4,000." MISS M'ADOO, NOW IN LONDON, 1 } WILL NURSE FRENCH WOUNDED ii London, Feb. 6, 1.13 P. M. —Colonel : E. M. House, of New York; Miss Mona » McAdoo, daughter of Secretary of the 1 Treasury McAdoo, and Miss Katheriue ' Britton, of Washington, arrived here L to-day from New York, having crossed l on the Lusitania. ■; Colonel House, accompanied by his ' wife, is going to travel in Europe. Miss 1 ■ M-cAdoo and Miss Britton are going to ' France to nurse French wounded. ' FRENCH WARSHIPS FACTOR IN t! DEFENSE OF THE SUEZ CANAL l i Paris, Feb. 5, 11.58 P. M.—Tho 1 ; ministry of marine to-night issued the I following statement: "The French warships Requin and D'Entrocasteux contributed effectively to the defense of the Suez canal against r the attacks by the Turkish army on February 3. The Requin silenced the | enemy's heavy artillery and the D'En trecasteux scattered large bodies of the attacking troops. There was no loss oa either ship.''