Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1917-09-29

representatives. This society IL still sx-
| tant and jeremiah A. O'Leary It's NOV
ing spirit, is now the editor OF Bull. re-
| Gently shut out of the mails for publish
1 ing seditious matter.
Enter Viereck: George Sylvester.
Many inventors, some of them obvious
/ ly cranks, are represented either by cor
| rescondence or notation having plans
| involving the use OF sundry devices of
/ destruction. One entry of the sort mer-
its special attention because of the no
/ toriety of III. individual involved Here
it is, translated from the German record
| of correspondence:
June 10. 1915 Sender G. S. viereck.
/ Contents inquiry as to bombs:2 supply
offer. Told TO send further details"
Possibly the further details are ind.-
| Gated in another entry OF four months
| later
Sender, viereck. Contents. offer of
picric acid"
| Picric acid is a constituent of many
! high explosives. Mr.. Viereck is some
thing of a high explosive himself. having
| been editor Of the viruiently pro-GermaD
| weekly Fatherland of New York. now
changed in title (but not in purpose) to
''Vierecks Weekly"
| Just what interest Dr. L. A. Dessar of
% Broad street New York city, had In
| German aerial warfare is a matter for
| speculation
In the Won Igel archives appears a
letter from r. L. Scovine of Sewickley.
| Pa. and New York city urging the mer-
its of the SempIe aerogrenade Doctor
Dessar evidently forwarded the letter
where he thought it would do the most
good viz. to Won Igel
The following curious entry appears In
Won Igers records:
Journalists, lertssyeTs. and publishers
were literally employed ~ Won Igel and
his associates for the purposes OF Ger
man propaganda, Among those thus
tainted with the stigma of dishonorable
professional conduct are two magazine
writer's and war correspondents. James
F. J. Archibald. now in Washington and
Edwin Emerson. said to be in Africa
"Pure War Expenses
Edward Emerson ........................s10 90,
Fair Play (Mr. Braun ................ 700
| Fair Play CMr. Braun ................. 1900
Marcus Braun ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. loco
}. Archibald .----...-.....-.............. 5000
Concerning the identity OF the last
entry there might be room for doub. but
for a signed receipt from ]. F. j. Arch
bald acknowledging the sum of 5000
from the German embassy for propa-
ganda work. What return Archibald
ever made in service is not clear. except
that certain war correspondence for
which he contracted with New York
newspapers was so obviously prejudiced
on the side of the central powers that
they declined to accept it,
That Emerson also overdid the cause
to which he sold his pen and his profes-
sional honor (the record indicates that
he was paid 81. 600 for travelling sx-
penses'D is suggested by the fact that
he was expelled. or alleged to have been
expelled, from Berlin for a violent at
tack Amba GgQdnr Cpra ri
has had a picturesque career in many
parts of the world, and once cabled to
New York newspaper a picturesque but
imaginative account of his own death in
the far East under painful and inter
esting conditions. He was born in Ores
den. of American parents, and is now
travelling under American passport OBJ
tanned by false representations
Fair Play Well Paid.
Fair Play" that misnamed organ of
Teutonic inspiration appears to have
been subsidized quite disproportionately
to It's value, since it received IN all 81
800 in the course of a few months in
1915 Marcus Braun. who appears as
its editor, is known a political leader
among the Hungarians of lower Second
avenue in New York, and has been
| variously connected with the fringes OF
| the publication world. He is supposed
! himself to be a Hungarian. His asso-
CldiC III r AIT RAY was one ). +. Bryan.
Even with such liberal support Fair
| Play did not fll the bill, for in Janu-
! sry. 1915. a letter was written by F.
Schroeder. a German newspaper corre-
! spOndent in TOXIC, to the German diplo-
| matte representatives lamenting the
| lack OF a genuinely influential weekly
/ in New York devoted to Teutonic inter
| ests. and suggesting that one Borsodi
| might be the right man to conduct such
a publicat ton.
Viereck and Others.
Frequent hints of George Sylvester
| Vierecks journalistic activities appear.
| and there are a few notations OF Pear
/ son: Subject Press" which may refer
| to Parsons Magazine, OF which the
/ editor. Frank Harris. is strongly pro-
| German or may indicate secret agent
! named Pearson. who is the subJet OF
| other entries.
The lecture platform is represented
/ by Ray Beveridge. the California artist.
| and sister of Kuehne Beverage. the
| prominent sculptor. In one entry Prtvy
| Councillor Albert acknowledges receipt
/ of $4,000 from the embassy to finance
Miss BeyNridge's lecture tour. German
! war pictures were also to be furnished.
| though the alleg ed scope OF the lectures
! was to be comprised in topics allied to
| Red Cross work
other figures OF more vague import
/ drift into light here and there IN the
/ Won IEel papers or the bureau of in
| vestigation reports. Col f g. Wood
/ ford. an old BRUSH hater, appears to
/ have received sundr- sums OF money
( for service unspecifed. The following
| letters found in the Won Igel apers re-
! fer to Colonel Woodford:
Holland q Way Station
II has long been an open secret that
| Holland Is merely way station for
| shipments of contraband into Germany
/ Here is official confirmation from the
/ Won Izel records which would seem to
/ indicate a suspicious and confidential
! relation between the Holland commits
/ sion" and the German diplomatic off,
/ cials accredited TO this country, or pos
/ siblv a belief by the Germans that they
] 80 Mt a1lncessfllllN get the nnnni-