Arizona republican., 1918-08-03
COST GERMANY WAY OVER
 MILLION DOLLARS

NEW YORK, Aug. -.-The German government sank" an aggregate of $1,431 700 in it's attempt to influence a section of American public opinion through purchase of the New York Evening Mail, Alfred T. Becker, deputy attorney general of New York, an nounced tonight.
 After the arraignment today of Dr. Edward T. Rumely. former publisher of the Mail and $. Walter Kaufman, a former 0irector of the Mail and Ex- press company, one time counsel of the German embassy in the United States. on federal indictments growing out of the Mail purchase, MT. Becker made additional disclosures regarding his in- vestigation.
 Paid by Won Bernstorff
 He said the money which went into the newspaper. coincident with and following Rumely's purchase in June, 1915, was paid by Count von Bernstorff and Dr. Heinrich Albert, commercial attache of the embassy. Payments were made, he said, through Walter Lyon of the Wall street firm of Lyon RenskOrf &; Co. Dr. Rumely, accord ing to MT Becker, gave the German governments representatives notes se- curing them with the entire capital stock of the Mail and Express com pany.
 MT Becker said Lyon admitted mak- ing the payments to Dr. Rumely for a commission Of s5,000, paid him by Kaufman's law firm.
 Lyon testified that he did not know the persons on whose order the banks issued the checks.
 To Contradict pr. Rumey
 Mir. Becker stated that evidence would be submitted to contradict the claim of Dr. Rumely ttat the funds with which he purchased the Mail were advanced by Herman Sielcken, a wealthy New York coffee merchant, who died in Germany in Octobe-, 1917, prior to the late of Rumely's state ,rent of ownership of the Mail to the alien property custodian
 MT. Becker asserted that it was pre- posterous to ask any one to believe that for this sum Sielcken cancelled an in- debtedness of almost s1.500,000 shown by documentary evidence in possession of the authorities to have been incurred by Rumely in his newspaper enter- prise.
 May Get Ten Years The deputy attorney general charged that Rumely and Kaufmann. both oi whom made statements to the alier property custodian regarding the own ership of the Mail, are liable, if con- victed to ten years imprisonment.
 "The charge that the Evening Mai was owned by the German government is absurd; it was mine-absolutely mine-and was subject to my sole edi- torial control" declared Dr. Rumely 1T a statement tonight.
 He referred to Deputy Attorney Gen. cral Beckers series of published state ments in the case as lying campaign in the newspapers such as this country has probably never before witnessed.
 Sympathes With Germany
 In 1914-19l5, Rumely said, his sym pathies. particularly as regards to tho commercial and food blockade of tn, central empires were with Germany ''as against England. Never. the form CT publisher declared. did he uphold those German policies and activities which we are now seeking to oppose and crush.'
 He challenged examination of tn, : news and editorial columns Of the Mai which he said have vigorously sup ported the national policies sine, Americas entrance into the war H, declared his absolute and aggressiv, ? loyalty to the land of my birth d HARD WORK FOR SALVAGE CREW . A CANADIAN PORT, Aug. D. n Heavy seas today were reported en