Omaha daily bee., 1918-12-07
EDUCATORS and
EDITORS NAMED
ASPR0-CERMAN
List from Dr.. Fuehr's Diary
Produced at Inquiry; Hearst
Correspondent Was on,
Dernburg's Payroll.

Washington. Dec. On telling
lis story OF German propaganda il
America, A. Bruce Biela ski, chief o
the bureau OF inves. cation OF thu
Department of Justice, today lai(
before the senate committee investi
eating brewery and German propa
ganda cablegrams exchanged il
1916 by Count Won Bernstorff then
ambassador here, and the Berlin
foreign Office.
One of Berustorf's messages
urged that special favor be shown
William Bayard Hale, an American
about to visit Berlin as a newspa-
per correspondent, because he was
employed by the Hearst organs
which, the message said. had { t.
spokenly placed themselves on the
German side.
Bielas1i told the committee that
Hale was on the Hearst payroll for
$500 a week, and also was employed
at $4,000 a year by publicity or
ganzation formed in this country
by DR.. Bernard Dernburg, the Ger
man propaganda.
Hearst" the ambassador mes
sage SAID, lis not aware that hale
is our agent, but knows him only as
a Germanophile journalist who has
contributed leading articles to pa
pcrs."
List of Pro Germans.
Fran the diary of DR. kar, A
Fuehr. a German agent brought to
America by yon Bernstorlf, was pro-
duced a paper labelled important
list OF names" which, NJ. Bielaski
said, contains practically all who
were actively pro-German prior to
our entrance in the war and a Jew
who were active after war"
The list follows:
Prof William r. Sheppard, Column
bia university; Prof. Hugo Muens-
terburg, Harvard university; Prof,
William NJ. Sloane, Columbia uni
versity; Dr. Edmund won Mach,
Cambridge, Mass; DR.. Auth Won
Bresen, New York; Prof. John w.
Burgess, Newport, X. l.; Prof.. Eu-
gene Smith, Columbia university;
Prof II. c. Sanborn. Vanderbilt uni
versity; Prof. ]. G, Mcdonald, Uni
versity of Indiana; Prof. Ferdinand
Schevill, Uni. of Chicago; I. {.
Richardson, Princeton university;
Prof. Kuno Francke, Harvard uni
versity: Prof. George B. McClel-
Ian. Princeton university; Prof. A.
B. Faust, Cornell university: Prot.
Morris Jastrow, jr., University OF
Wisconsin; DR.. Walter 5. McNsill,
Richmond; DR.. David Starr Jordan,
Berkeley, Cal; Peter 5. Grosscup,
United States federal judge, High
land Park, H.; Richard Bartholdt,
St. Louis; Prof. Albert Bushnell
Hart. Harvard university; DIR. e., }.
JHexamer. Philadelphia; Charles
Nagel. St. Louis; Oswald Garrison
Willard, New York Evening Post;
William Randolph Hearst, New
York American; Bernard Ridder,
New York Stats Zeitung; Edward
A. Rumely, New York Evening
Mail: Frederick A. Schrader, 1897
Broadway, New York; Frank Har-
ris, New York City; Rob /. Ford,
Freeman's Journal, New York; Rev
Father Thirney, American Catholic
Weekly New York; Max A. Helm,
New York: George S. Niereck, New
York; Prof William Trent, New
York
Newspaper Plans Aired.
Mr.. Bielaski told the committee
under date OF October II, 1914,
Count Won Bernstorff sent this
message from Washington to DIR,
Bernard Dernberg and Heinnerlch
F. Albert. German propaganda
agents in New York
The Washington Post was offer
ed me to buy today for $2,Ooo,0oo
with the understanding to buy 1t
back again after the war for a mil
lion and half A second offer was
to put the paper entirely at our dis
rosal for two months for Sl0O,0OO.
The paper is of Importance as the
only large newspaper Of the capital.
Under date of October Il, 1910
ne IeTllldll dHlDdSSduOl, III d my
sage to the Berlin foreign office III
,ipher, after expressing regret at
he death of John R. Mclean, said:
The Washington Post, has since
then been fairly neutral, but may be
entirely lost to us il it cannot, as is
very much desired, be put into the
hands of Mr.. Hearst"
Another communication produced
by Mr.. Bielaski and alleged to
have been written by Samuel Inter
myer, of New York to Albert in
February 1916, dealt with the pur-
chase of New York paper for
100000. The name of this paper
was not mentioned in the commune
cation, but Mr.. Bielaski said there
were indications that it was the New
York Sun.
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