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New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
ST 5-a-Week Clerk Tried
ToGet $4,000, ,000Loan
Broadway Marquis di Castillo, Who Posed as Personal
Friend of King Alfonso, Under Many Indictments
Arrest Came When Morgan Saw Lansing

one hand, displayed in the other meg
accepting the kind invitation to come
to New York.
81 am ruined." shrieked Rousselot.
the story runs. "My friend 'Jusserand'
is coming tomorrow, and l have not a
cent to entertain him with What shall
| do?"
Stokes thinking of the prestige to
his hosiery resulting from the visit
OF the diplomat, solved the problem.
ACCORDING to the testimony, by advanc-
ing Rousselot $500 on the spot. Imme-
diately afterward "Jusserand" changed
his plans.
While the hotel owner was wonder-
ing about the fate of his loan. Rous
Seiot came to him with letter signed:
'Familiarly, Alph"
the marquis to negotiate loan for
S5O,00O,000 with j. P. Morgan g. Co..
and the alleged cable message also
limited that Madrid would soon be hand
in glove with the Allies.
On Rousselots representations Mr..
Stokes volunteered to take the request
for loan to the bankers. lie ey-
planned the affair enthusiasticall to
Mr.. Hamilton. who is a brother-in law
Of J. ?. Morgan and father-in-law Of
Arthur Woods, former Police Commits
sioner
"Make this loan and Spain will come
in on our side" was the tenor Of ,e the
message he delivered for Senior or
Marquis Rousselot. Mr. Hamilton
thereupon got in touch with Washing
ton.
Secretary of State Lansing was COM
municated with, but he could not see
his way clear to end the war in this
way. He opposed the lending of such
a large amount through an Individual
and suggested that the deal be carried
on through government channels. In
this way there would be guarantees
that Spain would not use the $50
100000 against this country.
. So. Stokes returned with the news to
Rousselot. A few minutes later the
latter displayed another letter from
"Aph," which he said he had just re-
ceived, in which the King explained
that the loan was to be private one
to him, not to the government of Spain,
and that he-Alfonso-would be per
sonally responsible for it's repayment.
Department of Justice agents stepped
in at this point in the scenario and
arrested Rousselot.
Liberal use Of important looking
sears ana ttIleS alQeO KOuSSelOt largely
in carrying out his frauds. When his
credentials" as a Spanish diplomat,
were examined by United States At
torney Axman. it was found that a
cheap paper seal and the seal of a
Westchester County notary public had
been slapped on.
Rousselot was able to stop at the
Waldorf and own a high-powered car,
in sipte of his SIS salary. In this con-
nection may be considered the charge
that he defrauded Miss Josephine
Mayher of $4,000, as has been told. 1t
is now alleged that he obtained that
sum by selling her worthless oil stock,
which nc guaranteed by declaring that
if the venture failed she would have a
claim on the ancestral estates of the
di Castillo family"
Rousselot is nowin the Tombs under
$4,000 bail
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
8 British Chasers
Sunk by Germans
In Dover Straits
Trawlers and Drifters Are
Trapped by Flotilla
of Destroyers

hoNDON, Feb. Is. Eight British
submarine chasers were sunk in Dover
Straits early to-day by a flotilla oI
German destroyers, the Admiralty an
nounced this afternoon.
The British craft. consisting of travl-
ers ers and drifters. were hunting for a
O-boat sighted by one of their num-
per when the enemy raiders swooped
down from the north and assailed
them without warning. Having dis
posed or the patrol, the German de-
stroyers turned tail and made swiftly
Tor their base before they could be
intercepted
The raid which was made at 1 o'clocl,
this morning, was the first Of any sue
cess since the enemy forces cut out
convoy in the North Sea in the mid
die OF December, and was the first en-
gagement in the Dover Straits in sew
eral months.
The Admiralty statement reads:
"a swift raid was made by a fiotilla
OF large enemy torpedo boat destroyers
at l a. m. to-day on our patrol forces
in Dover Straits.
"The following craft, which were oc-
cupied in hunting submarine which
had been sighted by the patrol. were
sunk:
"rrawler James Pond, Drifters Jamie
Murray. Glover Bank. w. Elliott, Co.'S
mos, Silver Queen. Veracity and Chris
tian Craig.
after having sunk these vessels the
enemy destroycrs returned rapidly to
the north before any of our forces
could engage them"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Americans Hold
Firm Three Hours
I'm Rain of Gas
Our Gunners Make German
Filters Rush to
Cover
by The Associated Pressl

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Feb. 15.-The Germans op-
posed to the Americans early to-day
made an unsuccessful bombardment
with gas shells.
Gas shells in considerable numDer
from the German guns fell within the
American sector early this mOrniNg,
making necessary the wearing of masks
in all parts of the trenches for more
than three hours. One American was
injured by an exploding she'll, bu. SO
excellent has been the anti-gas train
ing of the men that not a single case
Of gas poisoning was reported. The
duration of the Shelling was two hours
but traces of the poisonous fumes -e-
manned for another hour after the bonn
bardment had ceased.
Visibility was good to-day in the
clear, cold atmosphere and as result
there was much aerial activity on botlf
sides. German arplanes in large num-
bers repeatedly attempted to cross the
American lines, but were driven off
either by ant-aircraft batteries or by
the air squadrons
are attaining high degree of efficiency.
To-day they continually fired shells
that exploded so close to the enemy
airplanes that the aviators were COM
PEELED to dodge and duck and scurried
back to the safer area, pursued across
the sky by a trail of shrapnel putfs.
During yesterday the visibility was
extremely poor. From the sounds
being heard from the German side It
was evident the enemy was taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity to strength
On his position, building new dugouts
and probably new trenches and mortar
emplacements. The American troops
also were hard at work today improv-
ine their trenches and dugouts.
American patrols last night heard
the clanking of steel and much ham
mering in the German lines. BIT were
prevented from investigating further
by a German dog which. as on
former occasions, barked and put the
Germans on the alert.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16

The story of a $i5-a-week clerk who
went to j. ?. Morgan e. Co. for loan
OF $5o,O0O,OOO was revealed yesterday
with the indictment Of Edmond Rousse-
lot. Rousselot was the clerk, although
at the time he was living at the best
hotels and was accepted by Broadway
a. the marquis di Castillo" a grandee
OF Spain.
Negotiations for the loan, it must be
recorded, were ended rather abruptlv
by the arrest of Rousselot a month
ago, but poetic justice seems to have
Hamilton, the Morgan partner who
handled the proposition, was foreman
OF the Federal grand jury which filed
the three indictments yesterday with
Judge Edwin S. Thomas
The indictments charge Rousselot
with posing as member of the French
commission and as an accredited Span
lsh diplomat; with having defraude d
W. Il. d. Stokes, owner Of the Hotel
Ansonla, of $500; with having forged
a license to enter docks, ferries and
warships, and with The theft of fifty
sheets of official stationery Of the Unit
ed States Treasury Department.
Up to yesterday only one side of
ANONSoS1OIS , Cd4etT III LH1S Guy naQ DeC0
disclosed. After his arrest it was alleged d
that he had gained entree in the
best social circles, had been introduced
to the Lambs and other theatrical clubs,
and had made many acquaintances
among popular actresses. one of them a
star now helping to illuminate Broad
way.
The encounter with the Morgan firm
was the climax Of his endeavors in high
finance. Rousselot at the time was
spending a great deal of his time at
the Waldorf, although he lived in
modest apartments on side street.
Through one of the men he impressed
With his dazzling personality, the
"Marquis," as he styled himself. made
the acquaintance Of Mr. Stokes. of the
Ansonia. and shortly afterward moved
to that hotel.
Casually, Rousselot let it be known
that ne was member of the French
commission, and, incidentally. good
friend of King Alfonso of Spain. Hotel
clerks and Mr.. Stokes were visiblv I'M
pressed when Rousselot received tele
grams signed "Jusserand"
There was no suspicion, therefore. in
the mind of Mr.. Stokes, when Rous-
selot rushed up to him in wild excite
ment one day (as recited before the
grand jury). and, tearing his hair with
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Teuton Rulers in Confer
ence Decide to Crush
Bolsheviki and Aid
the Ukrainians
amaA
~MEzss Ass:2NtN
Austrian To- ~os
Enter City Of Bfody
Action Fastened by Re-
port Military Force
Is Menacing the
New Republic

LONDON, Feb. Is. - Germany has
resolved to renew military activities
against Northern Russia This dcci-
sion is said TO have been reached at
conference at imperial headquarters,
special dispatches from Holland say.
The conference was attended bv EN-
peror William, Chancellor Won Hert-
ing, Field Marshal Won Hindenburg,
General Won Ludendorff, Foreign Secrc.
tary Won kuehlmann and others.
The no war, but no peace" plan OF
Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik Foreign
Minister, was rejected at the confer
ence. according to the Amsterdam cor
respondent of "The Daily Express" and
as Trotzky does not want peace, he will
get war.
Invasion of Great Russia, it is added,
will continue, at any rate, until Petro-
grad is occupied by German troops.
dispatch to "The Daily News" from
Rotterdam says that the Germans take
the view that Trotzky's declaration,
though 1t did not end the war, auto
WoStSdi'J SlLueU lle drmlStlCc. lhe
armstce expired February 14.) The
Germans now consider that they have
free hand and mean to use the op-
portunity.
This, according to the correspondent,
does not mean necessarily that the
Germans will Immediately try to reach
Petrograd, but more probably that they
wll support the Ukraine by force OF
arms. The Germans, he says, are car
Irylng on an active propaganda in the
INralne for the purpose of suggesting
10 the Rada that the new state is en-
dargered by the Bolsheviki
1t is declared that this is all part of
Germany's scheme Cor breaking up the
former Russian Empire, with a view to
extending her own power and influence
over the new states, of which she is
posing as q protector.
1t is certain that the Bolsheviki ara
nov moving troops against the Ukraine.
a Berlin dispatch 10 the "Kolnische
vokszeitung" says. and the Central
fowers do not intend to allow them
selves thus to be robbed of the fruits
OF their lately concluded peace. The
newspaper adds that it "probably" has
been decided at the conference at i'm
perlal headquarters to resume opera
tlons on the Northern Russian front
ior the protection Of the Ukraine.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
[St0f Correspondence1


WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Alarmed by
the growing talk Of conscripting labor,
President Samuel Gompcrs Of the
American Federation of Labor to-day
issued a statement of organized labor's
attitude on the subject, in which he
says that certain employers, "grasping
after their vanished autocracy. would
conscript free labor" The statement
has rather bclligerent sound, and is
taken in some quarters as having been
precipitated by intimations that the
Shipping Board, cxasperated by the
endless recurrence of what it considers
unjustifabe strikes, is at last turning
to conscription as the only way out
Mf. dompers's statement was as fol-
lows:
"rhc old order is changing. War has
speeded up the change, so that into
few months have been crowded mile
stones that ordinarily it would have
required decades to reach. Employers
have understood the change. They
know that their power over the lives
OF men is dwindling. They know that
under the new order opportunities and
property are being used for the COM
mon welfare of all.
The change has been brought about
by the power OF tools in the hands
of workers who know the indispensa-
BILE character OF the work Tools are
forging link by link cables of safety,
reaching out from American freedom
to all ports of the world where free
men may seek their interests.
Certain employers are grasping after
vanishing autocracy. They seek to de-
stroy labor by placing upon it the
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Shipworkers Defy Hurley,
Ignore Appeal to P Patriotism;
Strike Threatens to Spread
Plan to Draft Workers
Is Opposed by Gompefs

responsibility for any failure in the
war programme. They would make the
tools of labor fashion chains to shackle
the workers TO joos. They would con-
script free labor
"The rank and file of Americas work
ers know the value Of freedom. They
know that our Republic is engaged in
war against an autocracy that has
reared its head to menace world free
dom. Some worlsers may make mis-
takes-who is infallible, the employer
But the remedy for those mistakes is
intelligent effort to point out the bet
ter way and 20 instil into the minds
and consciences of the rank and file Of
labor that our government owes JUS
tice to all. Then let every representa-
tive of the government - Legislative,
judicial and enthusiastically up to
that standard.
Labor has given its young men to
the service of the Republic. 1t will not
endanger the lives of soldiers and sail
or; nor the principles of freedom.
Labor KNOWS tnat the 1nLeTnatOHal
principles for which we are fighting
have counterpart in the normal re-
lations between man and man. All of
labor's cumulative power will be used
to maintain those principles in every
relation of life.
Gas I know the power and the con-
science of labor, from the depths OF
my heart hope nothing will be done
t. hamper the constructive work of the
organized effort Of free workers who
have been rendering indispens Bile
service and who will stand faithful
until victory comes"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Many U-Boats Lost,
Says Swiss Engineer

GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 15.-A
Swiss engineer employed for the last
ten months III the electrical works at
Kiel and who has recently returned,
informs the Associated Press that the
Germans are making every effort to
conceal their submarine losses, espc-
cially from the navy, because of in
creased difficulty in mastering crews.
He estimated the Germans lost 80 per
at kiel.
up in the Canal undergoing repairs"
he said. "Thoy had been hit by depth
bombs, which the Germans seem to fear
greatly" q
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Still at War With
Russia, Declares
Won Kuehly7,on1,

. AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15.-That Ger
many and Austria were still at war
WITH Russia was the belief expressed
oy Or. Richard Won Kuehlmann. the
GERMAN Foreign Secretary, at the clos
ins session of the peace conference at
hrcst-LAtovsk, after Trotzky, Bolshe-
vik Foreign Minister had made his
nnal statement that Russia was ont of
me war and her armies would be de-
ihoplllzed, but that she would desist
''o1, ,ra signing formal peace treaty.
ne acts OF war, DR.. Won Kuehlmann
saio, ended when Russia and the Teu
.Uh'c aiiles signed the armistice, but
Nneh the armlstlce ended the warfare
must be revived. He added that he
cause one or two of the contracting
parties had demobilized their armies
.nis tact would in no wise alter the
situation 0
pr. Won kuehlmann proposed a new
text for the second article of the
peace treaty. to the effect that certain
IIloh'ler territories, which were not
.etehned, SHOULD no longer be subject to
sne .errltoriai sovereignty of Russia,
and that in the future the lot Of thes"
territories should "be decided in aureeo
ment with their respective neonles oc-
eordlng to agreements which GERMANY
or ustrla-Hungary shall make with
them" WIZ"
The point was, DR.. Won Kuehlmann
added, that the evacuation of certain
territories by the Central Powers was
promised on condition that the Rus
SLAMS evacuated Turkish territory 81.
multaneously. subcommittee hav-
ing falied to reach an agreement on
the new frontier proposed by the Gem
fral Powers, another plenaryy meeting
was held Sunday, when Nj. Trotzkv
made his statement regarding the end
tg OF the war and the rehabilitation
o1 the Russian army
:, Ur. Won kuehlmann then asked
!rot1ky to state where the frontiers
" kussia ran and whether Russia was
Wiling to resume commercial and le-
sal relations with the Central Powers.
arotzky replied that his delegation had
oAnauSted all It's powers and consid-
cred 1T necessary to return to Pctro-
S."u. +. 'ommunlcat'on, he added, might
w resumed by wireless or through the
representatives. of the Central Powers
'"en IN Petrograd
noan1r' nv"eVcr' he pictures Germany as a
p'ayyc-ioVlng, aggressive nation.
~, need only refer NJ Trotzky (the
no'Sheylk Foreign ,.inistcr) to the
ra.l.ulanent basis of the German policy.
p"aoSn' up TO the time when war with
n,a ,aSSia was forced on the German peo-
rona ,., consisted in the preservation Of
fssa fsot ana friendly relations toward our
dss,ah ds,terh neighbors," DR.. Won Kuehlmann
w,,ared. wsna "Germany's policy will al |
rc.n continue as soon as the war has
strrea tr.nea satisfactory conclusion to
llnsnS' Tor the friendliest relations with
Stsrs ts organized Russia by avoiding all
n9.'erehce n. in its internal affairs"
a. Won kuehlmann said the German
yo,a,'n al Craving the frontier lines for
''""u' Courland and Lithuania was
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Victory Pies Now on Hoover Menu

WASHINGTON, Feb. To- All
hotels, restaurants. dining cars,
steamships, boarding houses and
other public eating places, including
clubs, which use three barrels of flour
a month, must hereafter serve Vic
tory pies. pastry, cookies, griddle
cakes. waffles, etc, as we'll as Victory
bread, under ruling announced to-
night by the iood administration 20
become effective at once.
All pies, pastry, cakes, etc, served
by such places must contain a third
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16

of wheat substitutes at all times, and
batter cakes, griddle cakts and waffies
must contain three-quarters of wheat
substitutes.
"The new regulation said a food
administration announcement, "has
been put into operation for the pro-
lection Of those public eating places
which desire to cooperate to the
fullest extent with the food admins
tration in wheat saving, but were
subjected to unfair competition on
the part OF Sawe Of their competi-
tors
New-York tribune., 1918-02-16
Vernon Castle
Killed Trying to
Avert Air Crash
Dancer Falls With plane
in Texas, Saving Amer
lean Student

Captain Vernon Castle (Croix de
Guerre) is on his way to fulfil the
promise he made when he took leave
of his adopted New York lust two
years ago. with half the town chuckling
behind him at the notion Of dancing
man turning fighting man. and the
wiser half whispering "Bunkum,"
i can't hold out of the scrap anv
longer" he said. But when it's over
sure as shooting, I'll be back"
For Castle cit" was over Yesterday
and last night the body of an indoor
hero who had gloriously wound I'D as
an outdoor hero, sacrificing his life as
gallantly as if the incident were one
Of the battlefield instead of the train
ing field, was moving out of Fort
Worth, Texas, on a train bound for
"home."
Had Flown in France
Castle-the dancing name had clung.
although he was commissioned in his
1ull family name of Vernon Castle
blythe-had seen the battlefield, too.
More than a hundred times he had
flown over the German lines. He had
got his Hun, or two or three (the
k. f. Z. isn't much for detail on such
scores) and had won the French War
cross; mad been sent back to- Canada
on recruiting and instruction service
and had wound up on the Benbrook
Field, eleven miles south of Fort
Worth, teaching young Americans and
Canadians how to fly.
Castle was in the air Yesterday
morning with student aviator identi-
he'd IN dispatches only as ar. Peters >"
RE had reversed the usual order of
things and occupied the front seat be-
tween the planes, where usually the
pupil is placed.
The machine was only about ffty
feet of the ground-which is either
TOO high or not high enough, as YOU
look at lt--when a collision threat
ened. Another plane, Immediately
ahead, began to sputter and take head
way preparatory to rising.
Died in Twenty Minutes
Like all machines used for instruc-
ton, Castles had dual control. In q
flash Castle took command of the Sit
uation Only by a hazardous mannuvre
known as the Zimmerman turn" was
there hope of averting d smash. Castle
tried it. ''''''e
Perhaps the plane was too close to
earth, anyway or Peters in panic NAV
have gripped the control and caused il
to "freeZe'-as many another cadet has
done IN an air crisis. The Zimmerman
turn became a complete somersault
The machine crashed to the ground
Castle was picked up unconscious and
died twenty minutes later in the field
hospital, without having opened his
eyes
Peters, thanks to the fact that his
instructor had broken an unwritten reg
ulation and given up to him the safe"
seat, was then nursing black eye. his
sole physical memento of the accident
The second machine. thanks again to
Castles desperate resort, had been
missed gether-m missed before it's
occupants had had time to consider
their danger.
In New York Mrs Castie-"I "Irene" of
the stage, thes dansants and the movies
was at her dressing table when the
telephone brought word Of her widow
hood. 1t came through a newspaper,
end then one paper after another veri-
iled the news Before the official
I rotfication arrived Mrs. Castle was in
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-11-28
THE GRADING RULES

As TO the proposed standardization
of grading rules for Northwestern ap-
pie growers, as outlined by the United
states Bureau OF Markets, there seems
t. be some confusion While the need
ot a general uBltcatlon Of the standard
grades Of all districts seems desirable.
there is fear that the proposed two
main grade standard Of the govern
mert Will tend to negative work that
man shipping organizations, in control
nt almost all the Northwest 5 tonnage
have been engaged 10. The shipping
concerns themselves nave gone far To.
ward general characterization. They
have won a wide reputation in the
markets for their grades If the gov
eminent new ruling, without a moo
hratlou. is accepted this reputation
viii ue lost The minimum quality. as
proposed by the government seems too
laN also
Furthermore. as it is pointed out,
and wisely, 10y shippers. the proposal
of aIloWiuCi all fruit below the new
fancy and above culls to enter a non
commercial grade will tend 10 send
many apples to market in boxes thai
properly belong TO by-products fac.ot-
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-11-28
OUR THANKSGIVING

There S a bond uniting the families
Of America To-Day that has never exist
ed at former Thanksgivings. Because
practically every family in the land is
praying and hoping for the speedy and
happy return OF some soldier member
the Thanksgiving Of 1918 is gong to
be celebrated as a great national event
with mere sincerity than ever ii any
recent Years. 1t will have the s)lem
NIFTY OF the occasion AS observed by The
New England Pilgrim fathers. There
Is great national gladness yelling up
throughout the nation; not the Kind of
q pladnes5 that produces hilarity or
hlvollty but one that causes US to
wish to express a deep gratitude for
the coming of peace, the return home
Of loved ones a1d the swinging back Of
the world into the path Of normal
human events. And our Thahksgiv-
ngs, formerly ours only, Will spread
to Europe and the people Of England,
France, Italy. Belgium and otter ma.
tious Will augment car thankful
prayers.
Hut le; Us not forget, as We mcdi-
tate or as We participate N Divine
worship. 70 honor the memory Of tn,
lro,.. J...I tI.,.. -, L',.,,,,.. ,,..... -. = .