The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • 1

'WBIIWI I niiijijiiiwiuiwi un mu hi ww jjjiim i niiM1niiUJ ihiii ij i The Indianapolis Sunday Star VOL 12 NO 338 SUNDAY MORNING MAY 9 1915 PR I I VE CENTS Jap China War Cloud Passes World Awaits Move by Wilson LUSITANIA DEATH TOLL IXED AT 1198 LATEST IGURES SHOW 1 20 AMERICANS LOST 703 SURVIVORS LAND ew in irst Cabin Escape and Rescued Say Many Were Killed by Three Tor pedoes Believed to Have Struck Vessel Several Passengers Scorned to Use Life Belts Thinking Ship Would Make Shore DEAD ILL MORGUES AT QUEENSTOWN GENEVA May 8 (via Paris May 9 12:45 a m) A dispatch from Munich Bavaria received at Basel says that the German sub marine 39 sank the Lusitania There were great rejoicings during today in southern Germany according to the advices Towns were beflagged especially along the Rhine and the children had a half holiday in honor of the event QUEENSTOWN England Slay 8 The latest estimate of Jives lost as a result of the torpedoing of the Cunard liner Lusitania by a German submarine off the Irish coast yesterday is 1198 It is be lieved that almost all if not al the survivors have been brought ashore and there is little hope of recovering any other passengers alive Of the dead many are women most of them still unidentified The Queenstown doeks are the temporary resting places also of the bodies of several children One dead mother still is clasping in her rigid arms the body of her 3 months old baby HAD 1901 PERSONS ABOARD When the Lusitania left New York May 1 it had on board 1901 souls 1251 passengers and G50 crew The passengers were made up of 291 in the first cabin 599 in the second and 361 in the steer age The list of survivors shows so far that about 90 first class and 175 second class passengers were saved The first cabin passengers were at lunch when the unheralded German attack sent the liner to the bottom It is noticeable that comparatively few first class pas sengers were saved Among the well known Americans whose todies Jlllvo not been recovered and who consequently are believed to have perished arc Alfred Gwynne Vander bilt Charles Klein the pluyright Justin orman and Elbert Hubbard and his wife Body Recovered Tlie body of Charles roliman ot New York the theatrical producer already has been recovered and brought ashore here The hospitals are idled with the injured among the survivors and tlie morgues with the dead recovered from the sea Judging iroin the recitals ot survivors there was comparative! little panic mi board the Lnsitumo when it went down Nor is there anything to show that the rule ot the sea favoring women and chil dren in the wr ot rescue was violated Many ol the liners lifeboats were rend ered useless bv the tact that it listed so sharply that they could not bo used Scorned Lire Preservers Many of the passengers did not believe the Lusitania would sink as quickly as it i)d Consequently they did not join in Lae rush for the life boats but evi dently preferred to trust in their belief that the watertight compartments of the vessel would keep it afloat until such time as help came out ironi the Irish' shore less than ten miles away It is related that seine of the passengers even disdained to put on life belts when these were handed to them It is estimated that there were about 190 Americans on board the Cunard liner So far as could be ascertained at this time fewer than seventy Americans were saved Consequently the death list of Americans is about 120 Either two or three torpedoes struck the Lusitania One report says the lirst pro jectile was followed by two others strik ing in quick succession Another report has it that two submarines took part in the onslaught one attacking from the port and the other from lie starboard side Apparently' every precaution had been taken against a surprise attack by a sub marine Lookouts were on the alert constantly as the giant steamship sped toward the frish coast lufiiculty was experienced in launching the boats be cause of the heavy list of the Lusitania almost immediately after it was tor pedoed Several of the frail craft evi dently capsized as they were launched oi' soon afterward Many of the passengers owed their rescue to lifebelts which kept them alloat until they were picked up by boats Among this number was Lady Maekworth daughter ot' Trivid A Thonii8 Welsh and Julien DcAyala Cuban consul general at a vcipooh No Warning Given Investigation has failed to reveal that the steamer was given warning of thettao) bv tlm submarine which LvNioucu on SAGE 4 COLUMN 1 Latest Report on Lost and Rescued irst class passengers 29 1 Second class passengers 599 Steerage passengers 301 row 05(1 Total on vessel 1901 Number lost itm Americans lost J20 Total saved 703 Americans saved 70 SUMMARY THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SUNDAY May 9 LUSITANIA Wilson considers policv of UnitedMates in national crisis 1 Revised figures show persons lost on Lusitania 1 New York stunned bv ocean disaster 1 victress thought lost found to have canceled passage on Lusitania 2 Chc'ilos rohman among was one ot greatest theatrical producers in America 9 Dr Dernberg defends sinking of Lusi tania 11 Insurance on Lusitania amounted to $7aU0UUtl if WAR China bows to demands of Japan and avoids xvar 1 them shouts Von Bernstorff to reporters referring to American people 1 Gormans capture Libau Russian city on Baltic Sea 9 Liitisli destroyer sunk by mine crew and rescuers 12 DOMESTIC Expert declares Western railroads have no economic need of rate increase 8 Wilson uneasy about Indiana expected to make another visit soon 20 Gootlials arrives from Panama hurries to Washington for conference 9 Mrs lorence Conklin Carman is ac quitted of murder 9 STATE Cablegram from England says Mr and Mrs Blish Thompson are sufe 6 day carnations Tiring new pledges from Michigan City Prison inmates 6 LOCAL armer killed on Pendleton road when auto hits him and team of horses 1 Elbert Hubbard in letter to pHenderson hinted at possibility of disaster Indiana Retail Dry Goods Association to hold convention here Tuesday 13 More than 2000 Knights Templars will marc 1 1 in parade here 13 Republican subcommittee may take1 up primary latv restrictions Tues day Rain stops physical training exhibition by 5000 children at ederal Park13 Welcoming committee of 300 members named for jubilee 13 ear is felt for life of missing man who was despondent 13 rank Galvin Peugeot car driver hurt in Speedway accident 13 Traveler hen says tire on LaTnurriinn was due to defective wiring 19 fector uller write of Charles roh mau and Charles Klein 21 EATURES AND DEPARTMENTS Suburban social news Exposition trip contest 15 Editorial '16 Amusements 21 22 Music Motion picture news 22 Autos 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 inancial athl markets 40 News of coin Is Society 43 45 52 eluHs 43 45 50 51 lni I'itzlmg li Ayres's letter '47 New York letter 47 7 Opinion' Is A Symposium on the Sinking of the British Liner Lusitania Obtained by The Star rom Representative Indianapolis Citizens THE STAR TODAY Consists 9 PARTS 74 Pages Part 1 General News Part 2 Local editorial 3 Sports Part 4 Amusements Autos Part 5 Classified Part 6 Society Part 7 Magazine Part 8 Part Comic BEST AND LARGEST INDIANA PAPER polIcy CONSIDERED BYWILSON President Promises to Act Deliberately but irmly in Crisis STUDIES IN SOLITUDE Washington May The first formal comment from the White House on the sinking of the Lusitania was issued to night in the following state ment: a conference with the President at the White House this evening Secretary Tumulty said: course tlie President feels the distress and tlie grav ity of tlie situation to the ut most and is considering very earnestly but very calmly tlie right course of action to pursue He knows that the people of tlie country uisli and expect him to act with deliberation as well as with WASHINGTON May A cable to tlie State Department tonight from Consul rost at Queenstown places the total survivors of tlie Lusitania at (45 Probably 1200 bodies have not been recovered 'The pci'sons not listed to the De partment lie reports are most to a certainty WASHINGTON May Presi dent Wilson upon wlioin the eyes of the world are focused at the present inouient studied in quiet seclusion today the aspects of law and fact in connection with the sinking by a German torpedo of the British liner Lusitania with a consequent loss of many Amer ican lives The great human tragedy coupled with the responsibilities' of the hour caused tlie President Io deny himself to all callers even to members of his official family while he turned over in his mind the course to lx: pursued by Ifie United States government in one CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 COLUMN 3 fARMER KILLED i AUTO ISTIS HELD Driver Arrested on Manslauqhter Charge After Car Crashed Into Man and Team on Pendleton Road HORSES ALSO MEET DEATH Edmond Jacobs a farmer 4 2 years old Thirty first street and Pen dleton pike was killed near his home early last night when an auto mobile A driven by John Nagloy another farmer living near Oaklan don crashed into Jacobs and a team of horses he was holding at tlie side of the road Jacobs died before medical aid could be summoned one horse was killed and the other in jured so severely that it had to be shot Nagley was held by the po lice charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor and with manslaughter Nagley it is said wus ciuleuvurhig to pass another automobile when he struck Jacobs and the team Both machines were going northeast nn the Pendleton pike In the other automobile were Arthur Stevenson of zklexandrla Ind and inery Lee and Ills brother Anderson Lev Otho Jenny and John Edwards al! of Alex andria Edwards formerly was mayor of Alexandria for a number of years Sergts letcher Anderson and Streit witli Lr Richard A Poole eoroner made a careful investigation and they cmild not lind that Stevenson xvits in any way re sponsible for the rident and all of the blame was placed on Nagley Wife Dreamed of Mishap Jarobs was killed within forty feet of his home and his wife heard tlie crash as Die machine struck him and the horses Mrs Jacobs had told a neighbor woman that the night before she dreamed she was following a black casket and she feared all day that somelhlng would hap pen to her husband When she heard the crash she said she knew that her husband had been injured Jacobs was the father of six children the oldest 20 years old and the youngest 7 Jacobs had been working in a fold across the road from his home lie had unhitched the team and started home leading the horses AVIum he saw tluj two automobiles headed toward him ho stopped and waited at the side of the road He was several feot from the wagon tracks Stevenson was in the lead and it is said Nagley came up behind and tried to pass Tn the automobile witii Nagley was his 9 year oId son Wayne The Nagley boy CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COLUMN 5 GEORGE I urn shocked by Duwu of such a tragedy and cmiHlder that it is nothing short of an outrage that the German government should 11 rcct that such a iliing be done It Is evident thill the i li'rmitii government de liberately caused tin blowing up this ship loaded down with men women and children ail noncomba tn nls ami many of liein Americans have no licsibiilim in expressing my sincere disapproval of tin whole tiling I speak only for my self but I feel sure that lhe Aiiicrmnn people generally will condemn ami dis approve of such an outrage I can see no reason why people should refrain expressing tljeir opinion of the lim ror of the whole tiling though of course wo all are willing to look to the govern ment at Washington to work out a solution of the important problem pre sented 'Pho public mind Is so excited at this time that I think it well for all of us to be careful with mir Words I have confidence that the administration at AVashlngton will do exactly tlie right thing that it will see tn it that the honor of our country is preserved 1 believe that we should withhold Imlgmoul that wo should withhold an expression of our opinion in siicli a rritieai time RABBI MORRIS AVc all should uphold the President in Ids attempt to calm the popular inflammation which may follow THEODORE STEIN SR 1 sympathize with the poor British passengers of the Lusitania last trip for tlu were niislod Into the belief that British supremacy of 1he sea was invulnerable Tim British government encourages its subjects to travel not only the high seas but also the declared and acknowledged war zone about tin British Tsles not wit list a nd i ng the fact that the sot immediately sur rounding Lieut ITiliin was and is 1n fnsled by German submnrines fo such an extent that even the British navy is very icluctant in venturing into the npcin I take it that the English government Is responsible for the loss of Its subjects who went under with I he Lusi tanla In llk'c manner the American government is responsible for the death of the American passengers on the ill fated ship for (Jm reasmi that our hud formal ofiirlal notice of a state of war on land and sea in Europe and it wlh our gov holy duty to proclaim to Amer ican citizens that they must refrain frotri entering the war zone unless they chose to do at tludr peril Such warning would liave been in iifconl with real neutrality It is an ojen secret that the Lusitania us all British ransa I la nt ic liners carried cannon and ammunilion for use against (Im Germans It was criminal in tlie British government to have coiiraged such vessels 'The German gov ernment look great rum to warn tlie world months ago of the Impending dan ger to all simh British ships THE REV ALLAN PHiLPUTT I share in the general feeling of mitrage at I ho shucking character of the act I linlievo il is bad warfare AVhat the technical rights arc do not know brdic'Vc 1he nation which dors such things will suffer In the '(pinion of mankind ARTHUR do not think it is a subject of which we should talk too freely 1 am inclined to think the administration nt should be allowed to work out the questions In volved without too rnimh talk and inter fervnec DR ALBERT Il sm ms to m5 to be one of the greatest crimes in history It is something wr should think over littfoie forming definite opinions 1lo not believe the Japanese in all their wars with China or Russia cer trod umlrr foot civilized rules and usages as was done in this outrage against luimau i'y can not sets how the nimmf causing It hoped to gain anything it is proper to hold up and stop a ship order everybody off it and then destroy tho Vessel and cargo There can be no oh iectioii to the destruction of rwoT crty The pHsence of arms ami ammimlfion however does not justify the slaughter of innocent pc) sons GEORGE believe the action of the rmans was unwarranted do approve of it all RICHARD A KURTZ 1 regret rx ceedingly that Lin sinking of the Lusita nia involved the loss of lives especially American lives I understand though why people boarded that ship alter they had been warned in public print and by pHvale telegrams against risking passage across the Atlantic Some received private telegrams warning 1 thmn of their danger la cause the Lusi taida tvas carrying war materials tlihik that the Lusitania was in every scuse an auxiliary crnlser I believe with tlie ediloi of the New Sun that the mH safety for Amoricaus is to stay at We must have mom Informal Inn concerning tin vu I st roplm before we can pass sober judgment on tliq subject LUCIUS HAMILTON It slmws tlmt all hud belter slay at hmm Warning was gi(i) Germany gac fair warning lx for) the Shi) left Now York That ship Was loaded with Hmmnnjtimi and it wassunk 1 du not see as ymi can blame tlhini inncb LUCIUS Either tlm Ger man government means to fy tlm whole world or It has gom mad grid believes that tlm whole ivorld will acc pt piracy as logdtlmate war An enemy ship niiy bo raptured and taken Into port or sunk If an uminncd shlo is sunk the llv of those on hoard must be saved This Is world law mid the world will not bj shaken from Its belief that it Is just law It is no answer to say that tlm propio on this sldi hud their warning CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COLUMN 2 former Local Man believed Rescued from Sunken Ship Acl tf A Ay iiiBHM mir MiwrirniB rairr EDWIN RIEND Edwin j'rlciid formerly of In (Ila napojis is among the rescued from the Lusitania Is ImljeaLcd by a hdcgiam re reived yesterday by Miss Argyra riend is the olga lals bls sister Th'Y mes sage was from Mrs Edwin AV riend of armington It said that she had received a rahlegrani that ri' name was hi the list of survivors but it gave no other informat Ion im did not tell who sent the caljlegium rluiid was a grad uate of Shortridgc High School class l''')2 was a student at Harvard later studied at the of Berlin and th was an Inslj uetor at I ton In i event years he has devoted his attention tp psychk al problems and for some time has been secretary of the syehiral lie search Society of America wasmi his way to Great dn to confer witli Sir ilivor Lofigm tin authority on psych ical resemeh Hr was interested In the experiments to st ahi is comm indent Ion with In William Jmnes who died snjuc time agn ami William Stead an other st udeul of psychic T'lptioinf na who was among the victims of the Titanic in April German Official View of Disaster BERLIN (via wireless to London) May' The following ofTi cial communication was issued tonight: llie Cuiiard liner Lusitiuiia wns yesterduy torpedoed bv 3 German submarine and sank The Lusitania was naturally armed wit it gums as were recently most ot the English mercantile steam ers Moreover as is well Jinown here it bad large Quantities war material in its cargo om tiers therefore knew to what danger the passengers were exposml They alone bear all the responsibility for wltaU lias happened on its part left notliing undone to repeatedly and strongly warn them The imperial ambassador in Washington even went so far as to make a public warning so as to draw at tention to this danger' Tlm English press sneered then at tlie warning and relied on the protection of tlm Britisli licet to safe guard Atlantic CHINABOWS TO DEMAND OJKADO Agrees to Terms of Ul timatum and War Cloud in ar East Passes RUSHES REPLY TO JAPS Pekin Government Ac cepts Modified Re quirements in Order to Avoid Clash TOK IO May l''meign Oflice aiiiioum (lint it has received ollicilll not ifient ion (hat China has accepted (lie demands orntjiined in I he Japanese uiti nnil urn L'LKLV Mi5' f) Chinese government Ims tu ceded Io lie Japanese lemamls as finally modi fied foregoing CV( fl right 0 Im heard In order malte (lie Cliinese reply acceptable to Japan Lin government yesterday kept secretaries moving to and from the Japanese Legation so tlial the legation's wishes might Im ascer tained At thn beginning of the coiifcroiiecs Iasi Jnininry tin Japanese Legation vir HiaJlv spoHfipfl who should net ns Hie ijiitu so ploiilpotonilnrles iiciTptDiH'C of (hA (IcnkitidM in now heipg prepared under Japanese supcrvlfdon Objected to Explanations When tho CIiIugho p(voi unieiiL pio ho first draft of its reply the Japanese phui i pul ent ta ries objected Io the lengthy ex jila na Ion coiitaho'd in it 'hfiioso then offered a brief blanket a it a in bin the JapnncHL again oh Jt'i'ted requiring Instead a categorical aeecpt a iic(5 in' hnliiig a spocillr under taking for a fill tiro discussion of the lich'S of Giotip 5 'ills Is Hip group i ha I declin'd to eorisider nixi (ho I isc 1 1 hs i 1 1 of which wiih iltc exception of deniand bearing on ukien 1 Japan had suspended in its nil i 1 1 ta 1 1 in The JapniH'SO Uli irna I urn tnakos an rn port 1 1 1 point of Japan's inlctilinn to re store Klao 'lei lo Ellina 'The 1 1 1 1 1 na uni refers tn ihe sri tI II' oh tniidm liy Japan in the capture of Tsiug Ta but makes no mention of Great Brilaln's a I ic pa I oii in lids operation or nf its right to jiirllripnin in the I Jm I lea Ion Willi the exception of an unorganized boycott thme Iium bcm Ito against 1 1m Japatt se imslde nls In idpI there Is no report of any attack on tlm jHpuiicse rom riny ennn wm that 20000 Japanese refugees wit I heir belong ngs CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COLUMN 4 GERMAN AMBASSADOR REUSES STATEMENT Them Shouts Von Bernstorff When Asked by Re porters What About American View of Lusitania Disaster NEW 0 1 i IC IM ay 8 Affor remaining In seclusion nt his hotel hen: the entire day Count Von Bernsl orff tlm Grrinan ambassador Rfl for Washhigton at tiTOl tonight It was not however be fore he had run a gantl' of newnpaiicr men who had Ihx waiting at the en trance of his hot' and who pursued film to the 1 nnsyl vama station and into tils cur in their determination tu obtain an interview them Tip was quoted as saying whim asked vvbai lie thouglit the Amei'lcan prop would think er thn tr pedoing of ilm liiitHiilu Ills final stato immi al to answer a rapid lire nf questions was thnt he would say ii'iihiiig until proof was provided that the Lusitania had in fact horn torpedoed by a I niii ti su bnin ri At tlm tiih id statioti iho nmhnssiulor was subjected to a battery of Interroga tions including the referrmm to the American public opinion mm ho said them think 1 am my repre sentative I can not say i he shouted later to another query Statement Is Refused Tho newspaper mi ti persisted how ever one of them making reference to newspaper comment upon the embassy 7 aHlmi hi publishing its war zone adver tiMjment don't care what the papers the reply pressed again for a st a i cmont the ntn hnssfidor aslmd in a quiet lotto: wo know that the Lusitania was torpedoed He was referred to the btB pinditH of the British Admiralty proof has neon asked lie timb'issadoi1 again Hoes that mean that yon will make no statement until il is proved thnt thejusltania was torpedoed by a German submat said an interviewer it 'he replied have not sifilir ifml liuormulion mi which to make a yz 1.