St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 10, 1915

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; 4 * Poe i a is Y 3 te, eestor, + Beit 7 - . , bok. - ‘ie. Saeed ? - a Siete as o ol 3 fig Se 3 = e ab s 4 | i 7913 | ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH NIGHT) BIG SUNDAY POST-DISPATOE Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With Associated Press News Service. EDITION J geet 7 FINANCIAL MARKETS CENT Six TIMBS as many as the Republic —_——- - : - ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1915—18 PAGES. PRICE ONE SPORTS meee BERNSTORFF VOICES. REGRET: AT LOSS OF - UNDENTIFIED DEAD ~ OF LUSITANIA BURIED ‘ IN TRREE HUGE GRAVES tary Bryan, but Doesn’t Mention Lusitania — President, in Seclu- sion, Considers Situation—Expect- ed to Tell Country His Views Soon. Sunday Wants Yesterday ———- a TT a ——— a VOL. 67. NO. 263. LUSTANA HA WARNING, ADVICE FROM ADMIRALTY Churchill Announces Capt. Tur- ner Acknowledged Receipt of Directions. Scenes on the Lusitania as She Sailed From the Pier at New York on Her Last Voyage yy = = = = i, i i Declares General Rule Is That Merchant Ships Must Look Out for Themselves. Town Virtually Suspends Business for the Funerals—Crowds Uncover as Americans’ Bodies Are Moved to the Water Front, and Draped With . Stars and Stripes. By Associated Press. LONDON, May 10.—The First Lord of the Admiralty. Winston Spencer Church- ill, stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that Capt. Turner of the Lusi- tania had acknowledged receipt of mes- sages from the Admiralty giving him warning and directions for the course he was to take. @‘The Admiralty had general knowledge of the German warning issued in Ameri- ca,’’ Churchill declared, ‘‘and from that knowledge and other information con- cerning submarine movements it sent By Associated Press. as = QUEENSTOWN, May 10.—Seventy-six identified and 64 uni- dentified persons who lost their lives when the Cunard liner Lus}- tania was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Irish oast Friday, were buried in three huge graves here today. The identified dead were buried this morning, and the unidentified this EXCHANGE OF NOTES WILL PRECEDE ANY U.S. ACTION warnings to the Lusitania and directiors | # ~. L think, however, i:| & Ba. ey ’ | , “i! Se. | as to her course. is not right to go into that matter in detail, as it is going to be a subject of inguiry and it might appear that I was endeavoring to throw blame on the cap- tain of the Lusitania in a matter which will be a subject of full investigation.”’ = Quick Inguiry Promised. Continuing, Churchill said this inves- tigation would be conducted by Lord Mersey, assisted by skilled assessors, and that it would be opened without avoidable delay. Churchill’s remarks were drawn by. questions from Lord Charles Beresford and others asking for details as to what speed the Lusitania was making when she was torpedoed: whether there was a patrol boat in that locality; whether all points where ves- sels arrive and depart are now ade- quately patroled; what provisions were made in the case of the Lusitania’ tn view of the warning issued in America: whether Churchill was aware that pre- vious to last Friday German subma- rines had for some time been actively t work on the south coast of Ireland. whether he was aware that the Admi- ralty had provided torpedo boat de- stroyers and other naval vessels. to meet on the south coast of Ireland steamers carrying horses from the United States on Government account Chairman Stone of Foreign Relations Committee Doubts If Extra Session of Congress Will Be Required —Messages Pour in at the White House, Some of Them Urging Dras- tic Measures, Others Counseling Peace. afternoon. All shops in Queenstown were closed and had their blinds drawn when at 10 o’clock this morning Bishop Brown celebrated a high requiem mass in St. Coleman's Cathedral in tie presence of Gen. Hill and Admiral Sir Charles Cook and the members of their staffs. The public mourning was general], nothing but the most necessary business being conducted. The Coroner’s jury, which has been investigating the deaths upon the loss of the Lusitania, returned the following verdict today: “The jury find that this appailing crime was contrary to inter- national law and the conventions of all civilized nations and we therefore charge the officers of the submarine, and the German Em- peror and all the Government of Germany, under whose orders they acted, with the crime of willful and wholesale murder.” Americans Not Buried. nearly all bruised, the survivors left As soon as the light permitted today, / their hotel in silent sroups’ throughout officials of the Cunard company sent}Sunday afternoon. There were some photographers to take photographs of} Aimericans, many Canadians and En- the unidentified dead in the morgue.|8slish. The presence of so many chil- All the known American dead have dren on the Lusitania was due to the been embalmed. The. bodies of these fact that Canadian women were going i Americans and a number: of British to England to join relatives while their first cabin passengers were. not included husbands wére at the front. —Copyright, 1915, American Press Assn. GENE RODEM AND MISS PAUK ~ WED AT CLAYTON Parents’Once Had Sent Daugh- ter Away to Prevent Marriage By Associated Press. | WASHINGTON, May 10.—Count Kernstorff, the German Aiu- ‘bassador, today, expressed in person to Secretary Bryan his dewy regret that the events of the war led to the loss of so many Amet'- ean lives.”’ The phrases used were those of the Ambassador in a written statement given out after his call. It follows: /* . “Phe German Ambassador called at the State Departmen’ and expressed his deep regret that the events of the war had I ‘ee to the loss of so many American lives.”’ 7 | 3 Whether the expression was made on instructions from his _ in today’s funerals. Sixteen members Not a single bods was brought in of the crew of the Lusitania were buried in a common grave with the un- known dead. Frantic search still is being made among the dead by survivors who are seeking relatives. Arthur Courland Luck of Worcester, Mass., arrived at Queenstown yesterday, too dazed to re- ‘member how or where he had been res- cued. He was unable to move about pesterday, but today he searched among the dead for the bodies of his wife and ¢wo children. Oo. H. Hammond of Bernardsville, N. * who says he was lunching with Her- ert S. Stone and Linden Bates Jr. of New York when the ship was struck, Was taken to a hospital here on ar- rival. He made inquiries for his wife and was told there was a Mrs. Ham- mond in the building. This woman, ' however, proved to be a steerage pas- penger who had lost her husband. Ham- mond gave her money to buy clothing and reach her home. The dody of Mme. Marie de Page, wife of Dr. Antoine de Page, medical Girector of the Belgian Red Cross, is among the identified dead. She was bringing back to Europe $100,000 contri- uted in the United States to the Bel- gian Red Cross fund, but this money was in the liner’s safe and went down with the ship. The police have taken ssession of $50,000 in cash, many drafts a considerable amount of jewelry found on the dead. Flags Cover Americans. Beginning at noon Sunday at Consul Frost's orders the bodies of the identi- ied Americans, covered with the stars and stripes, were removed from scat- Sunday from the spot where the Lusi- tania disappeared, but some bodies may yet bo found if a storm does not scatter them. There will not de so great a num- ber picked up, however, as was the case in the North Atlantic a’ter the Titanic disaster, for that vessel remained afloa* so long all on deck had ample time te carefully adjust life belts. Sunday a Day of the Dead. Sunday was a day of the dead in Queenstown. the Lusitania departed for their homes. list and the only figures augmented were those of, the identifiei jead. No additional deaths were repor*:1 at the ospitals. Wh.Je soldiers tolec 11 the graveyard of the church digging zraves, grours of relatives and friends of thw» passeng- ers went from morgue to inorgue—scme finding what they sought, others turn- ipg away to continue their search, with ebbing hope. ; Though too laie to be uf material as- sistance to their stranded countrymen, Capts. William A. Cascle and Alexander Miller, the American military attaches, arrived here to confer with the A:neri- can Consul, Wesley Frost. They depart- od in an automobile for Kinsale Head to continue their :nvesctisit:or in behalf of the Government. Concul Frost has been indefatigable in assisting the Americans, visiting and attending to their wants. He has sup- plied many of them with money to reach their destination. All the identified American dead have been claimed by the Consul even in cases where no requests from relatives have been received. The Most of, the survivors of No survivors were added (9 the meager to convey them to Liverpool and final- ly, what arrangements, if any, were made to convoy and protect the Lusi- tania. Churchill, replying to further tions, spoke ats follows: “The shocking exception of the Lusi- tania should not divert the attention of the House of Commons and the coun- try from the fact that Great Britain’s entire seaport trade has been carried on without appreciative loss. The gen- eral principle regarding the providiny of an escort is that merchant traffic must look after itself, subject to the general arrangements of the Admiralty, and there is no reason to suppose that this principle is not entirely success- ful.”’ Andrew Benard Law, leader of the opposition in the House, asked if any answer had been received from the Cap- tain of the Lusitania showing that the Admiralty instruction to the line had come to his hand. Churchill replied that both messages had been acknowledged. The second acknowledgement came a very short time before the attack was made. Lord Charles Beresford then inquired if Premier Asquith had received his let- ques- ter of April 15, warning him of the peril that the Lusitania later met and wheth- er this warning had gone unheeded. Churchill answered that Premier As- quith had handed him Lord Beresford's , letter and that it had been carefully studied at the Admiralty. So far from being unheeded, a great many of the measures recommended already had been adopted on the largest possible scale, Asked if the German submarine which ee LEO. M. FRANK RESENTENCED 10 HANG, ON JUNE 22 WILD RUMOR SENT OUT THAT PRESIDENT WAS ASSASSINATED of the cir- Lusi- WASHINGTON, May 10—One many wild and baseless renorts culated in connection with the tania disaster was a rumé@r that. Presi- dent Wilson had been assassinated. Press bureaus which have made inquiry all over the country have thus far failed to disclose where the rumor originated. It was sent out this morning over a to “Ragtime .Paderewski.”’ Geneé Rodeniich of 1734. Chouteau ave- nue, @ pianist, known as the ‘‘ragtime l'aderewski,”"’ and Miss Tlenrietta Pauk, 19 years old, of 22 Kingsbury place, were married in Clayton at noon today, thus triumphing over the young wom- an’s wealthy parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Pauk, who, three months ago, sent her to California in the hope of breaking her engagement to the musi- cian. He was previously divorced, and has a son five years old. The marriage was signalized by spec- tacular automobile evolutions around the Clayton courtuouse square, in which Mrs. Edna Reakirt «of 188 “ingsbury boulevard, $250,000 divorcee, and Lloyd I. Crouch, who a few minutes before nad been divorced, in the courthouse, oy Mrs. Mary Ione Crouch of 4254 Lin- dell boulevard, took part. Crouch, a’ member of a firm .of Kast Side mule dealers, sat in an office ad- Joining Judge McEthinnéy’s courtroom while his wife’s uncontested suit was being heard, The decree carried an award of $4700 gross alimony, to be paid within tive days. This is said to have heen mucn less than was asked by Mrs. Crouch, who stated in her netition that Crouch had $200,000. ar Goes Round Square. the decree was attnounced went out and got into his red automobile, and began driving around the courthouse square. He repeated this circuit two or three times, and the divorced wife, who saw him from the courthouse steps, was heard to remark that he was ‘“‘showing off.’’ € When Crouch Messages Pour in on President. Messages from all parts of the coun- try continued to pour into the White House counseling various courses. Some advocated war, but a majority of thein, counseled peace, although expressing horror over the great loss of life. Chairman Stone of the Senate Foreigr Relations Committee was at the White House today and saw Secretary Tu- multy. He did not. see the President. Explaining that he expressed his own views and not those of any officials, Senator Stone said he questioned whether there was any reason for call- ing an extra session of Congress at present. He said he did not know what the President was planning to do. Secretary Bryan would not comment on the disaster. The official German statément on the case, received in news reports, had not reached the depart- ment. Ambassador Gerara has beer asked to forward the results of his in- quiries at the Berlin Foreign Office, bu: so far the Secretary said the Ambassa- dor had not replied to a message ask- ing for a similar report on the torpedo- ing of the American steamer Gulflight. Late today the President will go to Government or on his own initiative was not stated by the Ami- bassador or explained by Secretary Bryan. It was the first state- ment of its kind since Amercan lives were lost on the British steamer Falaba and the American steamer Gulflght—which also were torpedoed. No specific mention was made of the Lusitania incident. The impression prevailed in official quarters that the Ambassador’s statement was the usual broad expression which diplomatic representatives are permitted to make when a disaster occurs to the citizens of a friendly country. British liner except what I have seen in the daily papers,” said Ambassador Bernstorff last night. “T have nothing official from my Ciovernment on the subject and natural- ly I cannot discuss it, for I am not permitted to talk officially on matters affecting the German Government, with: out instructions to do so from the Berlin office.” Count von Bernstorff is ef the opinion, it is understood, that the statement from Berlin that the German officials blame the Cunard company for the loss of the Lusitania, is authentic. “T read the statement from Berlin,” he said, “and there is nothing I shou'd add to that. I stand by my Govern- ment’s announcement. I did not know#in advance that plans had been made to torpedo the Lusitania, but if I had known, I could have gone no further than 1 did go—to give warning in ad: vertisements of the danger of travel in the war zone in the vessel of a beliig- efent."’ ' Pointing to the statement from Berlin printed in the Post-Dispatch, the Am- tassador said: “That covers the ground. There is nothing to add to it.” bodies are being embalmed as rapidlly as the work can be done. The stories of lifeboat inadequacy grow as the passengers are able to take a great many private market wires and sank the Lusitania was of a larger type tickers, than anything known prior to April 14, Churchill replied: “L have no knowledge of the size or number of this submarine.” Then there appeared another automi- tile, driven by a negro chauffeur, and containing a young woman in white, with white furs, and another yvung woman in green silk. The woman in white was Mrs. Redkirt. Crouch got out of his car, stood in the middle of the road like a trafiic policeman and signaied the Reakirt car to stop. Then he chrabed in, and the car weut around the square. Crouch then went into the Recorder’s office, where marriage licenses are is- sued. “‘There’s going to be a wedding, ’ he remarked to a Post-Dispatch report- er as he went out. ‘“‘No, not mine,” he said in answer to a question. ‘I’m just divorced."” An alr of mystery prevailed until Crouch returned with Rodemich and Miss Pauk; who had come in an- other car, and who had been until then, unnoticed. Short Ride Into Country. After the license was obtained, Rode- mich and his bride-elect got into the Reakirt car. Rodemich sitting on Crouch’s lap, and a shert ride over coun- try roads was taken. Returning to the courthouse square, the bridal pair re- entered their machine and were followe.] to the Rev. Walter M. Langtry’s home, a block away, by the Reakirt car, still containing Mrs. Reakirt, with the young woman in green, whose name was not learned, and Crouch. A crowd gathered outside the pastor’s home as the cere- mony was being performed. Mrs. Reakirt told the reporter that she had gone to Clayton on the Invitation of Rodemich and Miss Pauk, to act as witness at the marriage but that tered morgues and placed side by side fn the Cunard line offices on the water- front. As they were carried through the Streets by British sailors the crowds uncovered. Cheap brown coffins contained the bodies of Charles Frohman, Isaac F. Trumbull of Bridgeport, Conn.;: Mrs. Henty D. McDona of New York; Charles IJ. Stevens of Atlantic City; Dr. F. S. Pearson of New York, D. Walker of New York, Dr. Pearson's secretary; Mrs. MeBride, Hugh Compton, 17 years old;. (. T. Broderick of Boston, Herbert E!- lis of New York and Mrs. Spillman of Detroit. Frohman’s secretary has ar- rived to take charge of his employer's body. One of the survivors identified the body of Mrs. R. D. Shymer of New York, the American widow of an En- élish nobleman who subsequently mar- ried an American and had been living 1 New York. She was on her way to wondon and her name probably will be added to the list of American dead. Her bidy will be sent back to the United States as well as those of the others. Affidavits made by Miss Jessie Taft Binith of Braceville, O., Dr. Howard L. Cisher, Maj, Warren Pearl and Kubert mankin of New York, are the only per- manent records of the Lusitania dis- aster obtained by the United States Uon- sviate here. All are brief and none re- fiects seriously upon the behavior of the Lusitania’s crew except what some wit- nesses consider the lifeboat fiasco. The The Stale Department has received from Consul Frost at Queenstown two affidavits from American passengers ¢*- tablishing the fact that the Lusitants was not warned before the torpedo was driven Into her. Philadelphia to address a gathering of 4000 naturalized Americans, arranged for by the Bureau of Naturalization of the Department of Commerce several weeks ago, to launch a systematic course in the instruction of aliens in the rights and duties of American citizenship. President May Discuss Disaster. It is generally expected the Presiden: will refer to tne situation produced bj the sinking of the Lusitania, although not divulging definitely the. course th: United States Government intends to pursue. When the Cabinet meets tomorrow the President probably will present to his colleagues his ideas of what the Gov- ernment’s policy should be. It is now certain that the President does not intend to call Congress in ex- tra session. This disposes for the pres- ent of the suggestion that Germany's ac- tion will cause the United States to be drawn into the European conflict. As soon as Ambassador Gerard reports to the Washington Government the facts of the sinking of the Lusitania, it is ex- pected that a note will be sent demand- ing full reparation, under the warning of the United States that Germany would be held to a “strict accountibility for the loss of Ameri¢an vessels, or lives.” The case of the American steamer Gulflignt, torpedoed without warning, the attack by German airman on the American ship Cushing and the drown- ing of Leon C. Thresher, an American 10.—Leo M. to be May WAS resentenced ATLANTA, Frank today hanged for the murder of Mary Phagan, Liverpool Cotton Exchange Bars Naturalized Germans, Austrians. LIVERPOOL, May 10.—The Board of Directors of the Cotton Association passed a resolution today setting forth that no naturalized German or Ra igen ae re EP * Seta lg de ay Aig RR ohn. gpg