Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-20
HEARST'S EDITOR
IS UNCOVERED IN
NEWSPAPER PLOT
Hun American Brewers Financed
The Washington Times for
Brisbane to Fight Pro-
hibition.
PROPAGANDISTS EXPOSED

New York. Sept 2O-A. Mitchell
Palmer. custodian of enemy alien prop
erty. made public yesterday documentary
evidence that Arthur Brisbane. editor of
William r Hearst's New York Evening
.Journal bought the Washington Times
with &s75, 900 contributed by brewers,
alnost all of German blood. Fifteen of
the countrv's biggest brewers gave
amounts ranging from $4,000 to $4,000
apiece. The United States Brewers
Association paid $780, 900 and S25, 900 into
a pool which went to Mr.. Brisbane.
c. w. Fiegenspan, Newark brewer,
was trustee Of the fund. He deposited it
with the Federal Trust Company of
Newark, of which he is president.
The trust company delivered treas
urer's checks to MIR Fiegenspan. He
handed these to MIR Brisbane who turned
them over to the Growing Circulation
Corporation of New York. This company
transmitted the money TO Mrs. Alice
Brisbane Thursby. Mr. Brisbane's sister,
Finally the money was paid by Brisbane
to Frank A. Munscy for purchase OF the
Times
HEARST LAWYERS IN COMPANY.
The Growing Circulation Corporation
has three directors. William A. De Ford,
a e
Entcgart, and an office at No. l40 Nassau
street Mr. De Ford is one of William r.
Hearst's attorneys. So is MIR Sturdevant
The company, the corporation directory
saws. was organized TO do a trucking
business with a capital of $4,000,
The data In MIR palmers possession
was given out simultaneously in New
York and Washington after the Senate
had passed resolution introduced by
Senator Jones of New Mexico This asked
the custodian TO produce proofs before
the judiciary committee of his public
utterance at Harrisburg last Saturday that
German brewers had furnished several
hundred thousand dollars to buy great
newspaper IN Washington and that its
publisher without disclosing whose
money had bought the organ of public
opinion, in the shadow Of the capitol IT.
self, has been fighting the battle of the
liquor traffic.
KONrA HAD NEWSPAPER rIAN.
As bearing upon the purchase of the
" ashington Times bv the brewers. Mr.
Palmer produced y copy of q letter written
on March 81, 1915, to DIR. Bernhard Dern-
burg. then head of German propagands
in America, by Alexander konts. banker.
a leader among Americans Of Hungarian
origin In this letter MIR Konta report
cd to DR. Dernburg regarding "the pur-
chase and publication Of daily news
paper in this country IN the interests of
Germany and the German government
Mr. Konta who had previously discussed
the proposal at a dinner at the German
Club, where he occupied q scat beside
Dernburv, discussed in the letter the
status II every New York newspaper and
indicated which ones could and could not
he aconScd The most important part Of
the letter read:
In ordinary circumstances a loss OF
from $3.50. 600 to $500. 600 per wear would
have TO be provided for. but | believe
thst, owing To my connection with
certain interests IN this country, this
could be greatly reduced, If not wiped
out altogether from the very first. by
plan which has for a long time turned my
attention to newspaper management
POWERFUL SUPPORT SURE.
Prohibition Is seriously occupying
the minds of the brewers and distillers Of
this country II Is not q question OF
temperance which they advocate, but Of