Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-09
Busch Family Have Given
Literally to War Demands

return. issued TO her by tho United
States department OF state. That
passport Is dated. believe. some
time in NQvember, 1917, indicating
that the state department had no
doubt as to her political status. For
time in Switzerland my mother
was Ill., Travelling funds were about
exhausted several other American
citizens, just out OF Germany and
without funds, attached themselves
to my mothers party for protection
and financial assistance in getting
home Complications incident TO
getting additional funds from here
caused further delay.
SaiIings Arc Cancelled.
Expecting to sail from France, she
ard her party went with Mr.. Hawes
to Paris and engaged steamship pas
sage home. The exigencies of the
war brought about a cancellation or
that sailing and Of several other
sailings, by which they had re-en-
gagged passage, and the party then
went to the Franco Spanish frontier
seeking to get to Spain, and there
sail from neutral port. The fran
co Spanish frontier was closed, but,
after wait of about ten days, was
opened, and they went to Madrid
Spain There my mother" was again
H., and while in Spain they hah
much the same experience as TO the
cancelling Of sailing dates OF ves-
sells on which they had engaged re-
turn passage, as they had In France.
Probably that was in part due to
demand which our press reported
had been made by Germany upon
Spain, that Spain abrogate her COM
mercial treaty with America. The
effect seemed to frighten all Spanish
shipping into inactivity. | have now
been advised that my mother and
party have sailed from Spain, and
am going to meet her and welcome
her home, and expect to find her
greatly wearied from her long at
tempt to return here, but none the
less glad to again be upon Amer.
lean soil.
v have been kept advised since
her arrival in Switzerland of her at
tempts to get passage back, and or
the condition OF her health, through
the Kindness of the United States
department Of state, through which
department many cablegrams be-
tween my mother and me have
passed, always with promptness and
courtesy at the hands of our Off
cials. who have also aided me in the
Transmission Of funds necessary for
my mothers use in getting back"
There was gossip. he says. about n
students radio outfit on the roof OF
the residence OF one of his sisters
in New Yorh. The federal authori-
ties found on investigation that the
rumors were false.
They were charged with carrying
the German emblem" on their
Budweiser label. The charge related
to the Russian double eagle, in one
corner OF the label. The Amer
lean eagle was in the other corner.
To allay gossip the Russian englc
was taken off and now only two
American eagles adorn the label, A
New York minister stated that An
heuser- Busch sent $4,000 annually
t. the kaiser. "The government
knows better" comments Mr.. Busch.
MY father" he says. always en-
ioyed visit to Germany. I think
ne had n cerSain pride on those
visits in showing his friends in Ger
many what he had accomplished as
an American. He was intensely
American. and the most prominent
thing in his beautiful office in st.
Louis, where I write this letter, Is
the great American eagle, in bronze,
in paintings, and in other forms.
He has been the dinner guest OF at
least one, perhaps two. American
presidents, and left n memory too
much cherished by his family to be
blemished by any unpatriotic word
or deed at such a time as this"