The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 25, 1918, Page 1

“ea anieffici THE WEATHER Probably showers tonight. THE BI K TRIBUNE LAST EDITION THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. ‘No. 135. _ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, PRICE FIVE CENTS. _SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1918. TROOP SI K; 53 MISSING DRAFT MEN UP T0 55 YEARS PROPOSED T0 CLASS ALL OVER FORTY AMONG NONCOMBATANTS BILL IS NOW BEFORE CONGRESS For Every Million Sent to France, 400,000 Serve! Along Lines of Communication, in Hospitals, or at Various Headquarters—Would Release Younger Soldiers for Active Duty ARTIZANS OF EXPERIENCE ARE IN GREAT DEMAND AT FRONT Washington, D, C., May 25.—Anéther move toward full utili- zation of the country’s man-power was made’ today when Secre-| tary Baker sent to congress the draft of a bill proposing to raise the maximum age limit for voluntary enlistment in the army from 40 to 55 years. All men over 40 so enlisted will be assigned to non-combatant service. ; In a Jetter to Speaker Clark asking the bi}l be, pushed Secre- tary; Bake if yee - Every ‘above the age of 40 years who’ is enlisted in non-combatant branches of the ‘service will make available for! duty with the line troops a man within the prescribed age limit| for all troops. “Many men whose long experience as mechanics and artisans will make them particularly valuable to the various staff corps) and departments may be thus secured instead of younger men} without such experience and the efficiency of the staff corps and |, departments will be thus increased.” Many Want to Serve There probably are 5,700,000 men between the ages of 40 and 55, many thousands of whom have already attested their desire to-serve. A great majority of the’men in this class undoubtedly will be restrained from enlisting by’ family and business ties, but the number at liberty to join the colors is expected to be more than sufficient to.met the purpose. . ; : , ., Staff ’corps ‘positions include many, duties behind the front. Every headquarters unit includes a number of positions for which the: older men would be just aa well. suited as the present occupants who, under the new plan, Would be yeleased for line duty: |’ ‘Initial estimates are that ‘a aby Reh the Renting zone.” ee oent of Ha ta actual streng! IRRLAND'LAID | HUN PLANE IK “BAREBY PRESS) OWN SQUADRON Official Statement Tells How Aerial Pursuit Organization of | lite of communication, in hospitals or at the various headquarters k _ of the first: 1,000,000-men sent to France 400,000 serve along. the, “SAMMY CHASES ? STIRS SOUL on Trial >. GRACE LUBK'S » “MIND. BLANK School Teacher Admits She Asked Dr. Roberts ito Keep Their Affair Secret Tried\ Pistol ““Out Window” Before She Shot Doctor's Wife Woukesha, Wis., May 26.- Lusk, after testifying she could re- member nothing regarding the killing of Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts for ‘A COMMON vo ca WHO KILLED FG H \ CML RITE What Message Holds Humblest Blossom for. Mis ON SHOOTING eerste act German Intrigue Has Fomented Revolt SOUGHT SUBMARINE BASE Vi arate Emerald Fete Waé ‘to’ Furnish:a Nesting Place for ‘Vipers. sitof+the:-Sea Americans Now Has Spe- cial Insignia FINE RECORD BEING MADE | With the American Army in France, Friday, May 24.—(By the Associated Press.)—An American aerial pursuit squadron is,operating over the Ameri- can sector northwest of Toul, it is now permitted to ammounce. All the pilots whose air exploits have ‘been London, May 25.—Germany’s untif-| recorded up to this time belong to/ ing efforts to foment revolution jails sauadren oe é special oy Ireland with the ald.of the Sinn Fein NEw Sa: chasing machines, are laid bare in a statement from the, The first victory in which the Amer-| official ‘press’ bureau ‘teviewing this ican squadron brought down two Ger-| phase of the Irish political situation. | man machines were gained the day {which she is now on trial, was forced {to admit on cross examination today ‘lations with’ Dr. David Roberts secret for more than two years. Warned Veterinarian. She admitted she had warned the veterinarian to be careful in talking with her 6n the telephone, that she ‘had sent him letters in care of his; secretary ;that she had on one oc- casion, urged him to register under a fictitious name with her at a Chicago; jhotel, and that they had a mutual) agreement that their letters should be} unsigned, and should be destroyed as soon ag they were read. Miss Lusk also admitted that she had “lied” -in several statements made in unmailed letters to Mrs. Roberts regarding her | intimacy. with Dr. Roberts. Although she could-remember noth-| ing regarding the actual shooting of Mrs. Roberts and declared she “never, | jthat she had*sought to keep her re~) Plans were made for a revolt in| after théy took 7up fixing fon this) 1917, but this miscarried because of America’s entry into the war. An uprising was planned for this year, af- ter the German offensive in the west had been successful and when Great Britain presumably would be stripped of troops. Every plan called for the establish- ment of submarine bases in Ireland. In the present circumstances “no oth- er course was opent for the govern- ment if useless bloodshed was to be avoided and its duties to the allies ful- filled but to intern the authors and abbatoirs of this criminal intrigue.” —-s NATIONALISTS AGHAST. ‘Dublin, Friday,.May 25.—The gov- ernment’s revelations regarding the plots in Ireland were discussed most eagerly. The leaders agreed that the charges revealed a danger, from which a majority of Irishmen would shrink.} Sinn-Feinners continue to deny the existence of any plot. — “These charges are terrible,” said @ prominent Nationalist to the Asso- ciated Press. U. &. HAS MORE EVIDENCE. Washington, D. C., May 25.—More evidence than that disclosed in the| British official statement of the close connection ‘between the Irish Sinn- Feinn and German influénce is in the hands of the government: here ‘to- day. Looking for O’Leary. A number of prominent Irish-Amer- icans are under surveilance. It was said arrests would be made on tech- nical charges of seditious utterances. Department of Justice officials point- ed to the disappearance of Jeremiah O'Leary; ‘hn Irish-American, organizer of tne Rintrican Pedve society, as = strong indication that he” and others are informed of charges which might be brought against them. sector. The occupants of the German machines were made prisoners. The ‘fact that an American squadron was 'there could not be made previously, (because it was not desired the Ger- mans shofild know the fact. There are signs behind the German lines of slight movements. buc noth- ing to indicate the enemy is prepar- | ing to launch an attack here. 'SLOPE PEOPLE WILL READ THE CAMP DODGER Subscriptions Being Received Here to Hun Huskers’ Official Organ Thomas H. Jenkins, accredited rep- resentative of the Camp Dodger, the Hun Huskers’ official newspaper at Camp Dodge, is in the city soliciting subscriptions. A majority of all the Slope’s select service. men have been sent to Camp Dodge, and Mr. Jenkins’ North Dakota subscription list is growing rapidly. The Camp Dodger is a nifty, eight- column, twelve-page daily newspaper, published ‘by and for the Hun Husk- ers at Camp Dodge. It has a circula- tion of 30,000, and is making money, and the boys get the money. A re- cent copy carries a fac simile of a di- vidend check for $3,500 which had just been turned over to the boys. The paper in addition to the usual tel- egraph news and articles from special correspondents in Washington and at the front, has a great abundance of live camp news, an interesting editor- fal page, and a well-written sports de- partment. Its advertising patronage is ltberal, at from every respect the Camp Dodger is an unusual success and a credit to the boys of the north- west. never, never” intended to do it; she, admitted she had a clear recollection of events immediately before and after ithe tragedy. She declared Mrs. Rob- erts has threatened to have her driven out of town and had likened her to a} jdog and woman of the streets. Tried Pistol Out. After the tragedy, Miss Lusk told of | jgoing to’ her room and firing her jpistol out the window to see whether it had “jammed” with the intention o fusing it later to take her own life. She had no recollection of firing the first sot int oher body but fired the second because she no longer cared to live after being told that Mrs. Roberts was dead. Miss Lusk testified on cross examination that the first time she had urged that Mrs. Roberts be told the trath was on May 18, 1917, a little more than. a month before the tragedy. She had previously testified that when she asked the doctor to do this he had refused and she had struck him in the face. Then she said that she prepared to take her own life, but after a meeting with the veterinarian in a Milwaukee hotel on June 1, he told her that he cared more for her than he did for his wife and she then made him swear on a bible with a pis- tol directed at his head to tell all. Depart on Trip. Dr. Roberts and his wife early in June departed for a trip through the east, returning to Waukesha the night of June 20. Miss Lusk went to their home she said, and the doctor ac- companied her back through the park. She said that he told her that he cared for her, that he had not yet told his wife but would that night. The next day Mrs. Roberts made an appoint- ment with her but failed to keep it and instead came to Miss Lusk’s home that afternoon. The shooting fol- lowed. On: the cross examination a letter addressed to Mrs. Roberts which had never been mailed. was read after (Contigued on Page Eight.) OF WOMAB ; for Life? By \WINONA WILCOX, Coming to court*gné morning this week, Grace) Lusk,.on’ trial at Wauke sha, Wis., On the charge of murder- ing her lover's wife, picked a common yellow. dandelion and cherishay it halt a day. . 4 Dna , taxrapbel snail wher 4easiial: it being his busitiess to get as His plate reveals what no carefully posed studio’ photograph could have ibettered—an ideal illustration for the familiar lines: ‘To me the meanest flower that “blows can give Thoughts that do often livs too deep for tears.” Who can help wondering: what are thevdepths of’ the thoughts which the humblest® of » blossoms aroused in Grace Lusk’s mind? Miss Lusk seems not intimately con- cerned with the usual pitiless critt- isms of society. When first accused of a liaison with Dr. David Roberts she is said to have declared, in sub- stance, that her personal emotions were not a public concern, She has sometimes seemed to assume an atti- tude of superiority to the ordinary humiliations which an average wom- an, similarly placed, would weep over. Neglecting, then, regret and resent- ment and’ other meditations of an ob- vious nature, there remain two which cannot fail to harrass a woman of ideals thus suddenly dishonored, The first is a feeling of complete surprise, of perpetual astonishment. Each morning,‘as Grace Lusk opens her eyes to the light of a new day, she must ask herself how it comes that. she, a girl well born, well edu- cated, finds herself a defendant in a murder case? Surely no one in the world can be more mystified over her tragic position than she is herself. ‘And beside this ceaseless amaze- ment at her present state, must there not lie deep in this woman's mind— too deep for tears—a great confusion concerning her conduct? Whether or not she is guilty of the crime charged she must find many of the steps which brought her to trial now aqpite unex- plainable even to herself. Was theer never a place to trun back, never a-slipped step to re- cover? Does she see Love as a Nemesis working inevitably, inex- orably to her lusionment and dishonor? Society denied her love a right to exist. Does she now see society as an unescapable avenger of its broken conventions, whom no woman can ever successfully defy? Perhaps the little dandelion which (race Lusk holds upright in her tight fingers tells her ‘that love itself is oddly like the gay and commonplace ‘blossom, today a thing of golden glad- ness—never too particular about where it lives so long a8-it can laugh while it lives—and tomorrow a globe of gossamer, the wraith of a flower, destined to be shattered and tossed to the vagrant wind. Whatever its message, the thoughts that lie too deep for Grace Lusk’s tears would make a:convincing preach- ment for any girl who is ever tempt- ed to balance al her world against an irregular love. WITH CUBA: MAY MEAN NEW WAR Southern Neighbor Severs Dip- lomatic Relations with Island Republic ‘IS SLAP AT UNCLE SAM Restriction of Sugar Exports Brings About Act in Re- taliatory Spirit Mexico City, May 25.—Mexico has severed diplomatic relations with Cu- ba. Thts was learned officially late today after a. report that the Mexi- can ¢harge d'affaires at Havana and the; Cyban miniaer here \ been recalled’ {rom their res posts Rad beer confirmed ‘at j foreign office. Te yecail of thd M@xichif ‘tepre- sentative to Cuba spending for ‘an’ indefinite ARN sending of a new rerresentative is explained officially as due to the fact that be- cause of the war in which Cuba is involved that government has been ob- Nged to dictate measures that affect the’ ‘Interest of the* Mextcaa-gover! ment in many instances. For this reaSon, it is declared the making of representations that the Mexican representatives would be forced to make to the Cuban govern- ment would be useless. and would restrict the liberty)/ofitheaction of a ‘friendly nation “which is now in an afflicted stuation” ''81ty News Reaches Washington. ‘Washington, Dp iC., Mayr s25.7;The: state department has received {nfor- mation from its own sources that the Mexican diplomatic representatives at Havana have been withdrawn by Mexico, but no explanation was giv- en in the dispatches. ‘The Mexican ambassador here said he had heard nothing of the reported break. He could not explain the meas- ures Cuba was said to have taken against the Mexican government, but recalled that Cuba recently held up sugar the Mexican government had purchased. The Mexican statement givjng the reason for the recall of the charge d’affaires refers to the withholding of the shipments of su- gar to Mexico. Mexico Has No Recourse. As Mexico cannot expect to make any successful protest to the allies or the United States against these restrictions, officials believe she has had recourse to the.plan of bringing pressure to bear directly on Cuba, and it was believed that this first step would be followed by retalia- tory mesures of an economis nature. It is believed an effore will be made to stop the export of petroleum from Mexico to the Cuban Islands. It is a naval necessity that this source of fuel supply be maintained. Officials are unwilling to discuss the effect of relations between Mexico and United States on Mexico's break with Cuba. DAYLIGHT SAVING HEARING HERE TO CONSIDER ZONES Representatives from North and South Dakota Come to Bismarck June 1 A daylight saving zone hearing for North and South Dakota will be held in Bismarck at 10 a. m. June 1 to determine the attitude of this section of the central mountain zone on a day- light savings bill now in congress providing for the moving of clocks ahead one hour the last Sunday in March and retarding them one hour the last Sunday in October. At this hearing there will also be taken up the question of changing the boundar- ies of the central mountain zone, which ends at the Missouri river. Ee EO inn nninnninmnrnnnntins AMERICAN FORCES IN FRANCE WILL BE DOUBLED BY MID-SUMMER, BAKER Paris, Friday, May 24.—The American forces in France will mand we got-off THREE NORTH DAKOTANS — AMONG 53 U. 5. SOLDIERS LOST ON TORPEDOED BOAT MEXICO BREAKS Fargo, Fort Totten and Tolley Boys Listed Among Missing—All Victims Were Members of Co. B, 58th U. S. Inf., Fourth Division—Steamer Was Carrying 480 American Soldiers—All the Survivors Safely Landed ; “|IRESCUE MADE IN! QUARTER OF HOUR |Last Trooper Had Gone Over Side Into Life o | AMERICAN INFANTRY OFFICER DESCRIBES SINKING MOLDAVIA ' London, May 25.—Captain Johnson, an American infan- try officer, who was on board the Moldavia, gave the Daily il this descripti ‘ | nea eseription of the |! Boats 15 Minutes Aft- “The engine was struck on the port side. All officers er Shock were sleeping. ere was a ‘é loud explosion, and then the || Washington, D. C., ship’s whistle was blown, which was a signal for all on board to come on deck. Boat drills had been held ev- ery day. The men assembled ni perfect order. “The Moldavia listed to port, but righted herself, and ran on for about 15 minutes to avoid: being hit again. Then she began to sink stead- ily. Orders were given to lower, the boats and rafts May 25.—The war de- partment today gave out. the names of . 53 members of Co. B, 58th U. S. infantry, 4th divi- sion, missing from the torpedoed steamer Mol. davia. Shira: ' The Moldavia carried } hace cp etn fread tthe 58th: infantry... :; and'as soon as‘the Moldavia ||those reported lost be- | was struck they dropped sev- |long to Co. B. : | eral depth charges.’ 4], Included in the list hes Lede are: ae WILL MOBILIZE Joseph Sherman of Ft. Totten, N. D. HERE TONIGHT North and South Sogo Contin- gents Will Be Entertained During Stay ‘in City Edward N. Weber. of Tolley, N. D. No Officers. Missing London, May 25.—With the exception of 53 American sol- diers, all the soldiers on the Brit- ish troop ship Moldavia:. were saved, and have been landed at a southern British port. -.No of- ficers’ names are among: the ‘lst of miissing. It contains -the names of only two non-commis- HOME GUARD, BAND OUT Patriotic Citizens Will March to Station to Give Boys Cordial Welcome The Capital City this evening will open its arms and its heart to 200 sioned officers. Within Sight of Port The Moldavia was moving for- ward steadily, and was almost within sight of its destination when the torpedo crashed into it. The vessel listed sharply. Destroyers began rushing along- side, fore and aft, in an endeav- o rto find a trace of the sub- marine. Although they prevent- ed the U-boat from reappearing, it is not known whether a hit was mate by a depth charge, several of which were dropped. Washington, D. C., May 25.—A list of the men lost on the Moldivia reach- ed the navy department today. AS soon as it can be verified and pre- pared it will be made known by the navy department. TORPEDOED AND SUNK, London, May 25.—The British arm- ed merchant troop ship Moldavia with American troops, has been tor- pedoed and sunk, according to an official, bulletin issued by the admir- alty this evening. The text of the admiralty. statement follows: “The armed mercantile cruiser Mol- davia was torpedoed and sunk yes- terday morning. “There were no casualties among the crew, but of the American troops on board 56 up to the present have not been ‘accounted for. It ts fear- ed they were killed in one compart- ment by the explosion.” The Moldavia was torpedoed with- out warning. It was a moonlight night and although a good lookout was kept the attacking submarine was not sighted before.the torpedo struck. : select service men from ‘North and South Soo points who will mobilize here to await the coming of the special train which will speed them westward to their destination at Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash. The first contingent of 33 men from Sargent county, 38 from McIntosh, 29 from Logan and 25 South Dakotans, who were entraine dat Pollock, S. D. arrives on the South Soo at 4:10. They will be met at the station by the Bismarck Home Guard, headed by the new Elks’ band, and escorted to the state armory, where automobiles will be in waiting to convey the sol- diers to Fort Lincoln, the state peni tentiary, the Indian school and other points of interest for an hour's inspec- tion tour. The boys return to the city at 5 o'clock for dinner. At 6:40, the Home Guard, with the band, will again parade to the Soo station to meet the North Soo contingent of 48 men from McLean county, who will be escorted to the state armory. Program at McCabe. Following dinner, the boys will be escorted to the McCabe Methodist church, where a special showing of a new collection of stereopticon slides showing the work of the War Y. M. C. A, at home and abroad will be given in their honor. Dr. Hutcheson, the pastor, will accompany the views with an interesting lecture, telling what the war department, the Red Cross, the Y, M. C. A., thé Knights of Columbus, the Salvation Army and al-| lied organizations are doing for the comfort and protection of our soldiers, in training camps on this side of the Atlantic and in the trenches over there. To Leave on Special. be doubled in mid-summer the number Secretary of War Baker recently announced had been sent here and by late summer they will be three times larger, said Andrew Tardieu, French high com- missioner, in a statement issued to the French people on his arrival from the United States today: Secretary Baker announced on May 8 that more than 500,000 American soldiers had been sent to France. The entertainment at the church wil be over in plenty of time to give the boys an opportunity to parade through the streets to the Northern Pacific station, where at 10:30 they will board a special train, made up at St. Paul, which will carry them to American Lake. At Mandan. they. wilt be joined by 41_men from Dunn, 27 (Contined on Page Four.) Most of the men aboard were in their hammocks when the explosion occurred amidship. The sailors and soldiers alike showed no panic. Fell Calmly Into Line. They fell calmly into line and await- ing orders. When it was seen, that the_Moldavia_1 was settling, down, all- (Continued on Page All