The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20

l S- w. r SlSttlSpdIy WlIn whom lSrlSpane dealt in securing his loan. identified as brewers men who had indorsed notes for S50,000 each on which a Philadelphia bank loaned Allen and Sheehan s10o0O alleged to have been used in purchasing the Advertiser.
 SCHMIDT HANDLED LOAN Feigenspan said that Edward A. Schmidt, Philadelphia brewer, handled the s10o.oo0 underwriting for the Adver- tiser and that either the brewers coun- sel in Washington or Mir. Brisbane had arranged the loan for the purchase of the Washington Times. His recollection was that Brisbane had solicited the loan.
 The note to Sheehan, together with the amount each agreed to stand security for. was:
 Edward Langsberg. Chicago, s5ooO; Gus tave Pabst, Milwaukee, s57oo; Henry Vahlkamp, St. Louis, $2S5O; August A. Busch. St. Louis, s14,250 Eugene M. Keely, Chicago. s475O: John Moerlin. Cin- cinnati, s475o; the F. w. Cook Brewing company, A75o, and Peter s. Theurer, Chicago, $475o.
 The note to Allen was signed by the following;
 Edward A Schmidt, Philadelphia, s475o; Louis B. Schran, Brooklyn, N. r., s4750; J. Liebman, Brooklyn, s4750; R. J. Schaef- CT and Jacob Ruppert, New York, s4750 each, and George Ehret, New York, $500; c. w. Feigenspan, $4750, and N. J. and M. L. Griel, addresses not given, s4750 each.
 MT. Feigenspan said that Edward A. Schmidt, brewer of Philadelphia, asked him to sign the security for the pur- chase of the Montgomery Advertiser, but that he himself had more to do with tlc loan to Mir Brisbane.
 Feigenspan also testified that he had arranged financial assistance for the Newark (New Jersey) Ledger to the ex- tent of s15O,ooo which represented loans at different times. The brewers organi- zations contributed no part of this fund, the witness said.
 ( .aOTHER ACTIVITIES AIRED
 Other activities of the brewers also were inquired into by the committee. Hugh F. Fox, secretary of the United States Brewers association, admitted that brewers propaganda had been pub lished in the International Monthly, edi- ted by George Sylvester Vierick, once edi-
 
 cation. Fox said he did not know at the time the matter was published that the Viereick publication was inclined to- ward pro-Germanism, but that he has had some suspicion of it since then"
 Questioned further by Maj. k. Lowry Humes of the army judge advocate gem erals department, and counsel for the Senate committee. Fox said that 1t was the business of the publication company brau ofoti to tisa the product of brewers and that in doing so it employed writers to write up certain subjects relating to the brewers trade.
 Writers named in this connection were John Koren of New York. who wrote matter published in the Atlantic Month ly and whose salary was believed by Fox to be $50O0 year; Dr. Edward II. Williams, author of articles published in medical and other journals. and J. G. Rice.
 DESTROY CHECK STUBS
 When Secretary Fox was called to the stand he produced on subpoena from the committee bulky package of letters, and other documents of the brewerss association. but had no bank checks or stubs. He said it had been a. long standing practice of the organi- zation to destroy them.
 The witness disclaimed any personal knowledge of activity by the association In political fields in behalf of state or legislative candidates favorab ble to legislation promoting the use of beer and light wines.
 Fox stated that when the brewers real {. ized that something was brewing be- I sides beer" referring to the prohibition | the endeavored to meet 1t by advocating the use of beer and light wines. It was sought to reach leaders of pub lie thought and also the masses of the l people Tn both efforts, the witness said, l mistakes had been made and. finally, | the popular propaganda was abandoned l and attention centralized on the leaders 1 of opinion.
 UNION MEN ONLY Major Humes read to the committee i etters from the files of the brewers or | ,ahization in an effort to show that the | brewers organization employed only un- | on labor and that its officers believed | hat by working through the American | of Labor and other labor or it could exercise politicai influence.
 Other correspondence was produced by | Major Humes for the purpose of show ng that the brewers started boycott |