Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-20

by the senate Judiciary Committee
 of the purchase of the Washington
 Times by Arthur Bris bane with mon-
 ey furnished by brewers and inquiry
 into other activities of brewers was
 begun today. Five officers of brew
 CTS organizations were summoned for the opening session. and the com
 mittee planned before completing the
 investigation to go into the activity
 in this country of German propagan- dists before and during the war.
 At the opening hearing today be-
 fore the committee, evidence was offered to prove that funds from the chase of the Montgomery. Ala, Ad- vertiser.
 (. w. Feignespan. 0 Newark N. l., who handled the money furnished MT. Brisbane, was one of the first wit nesses. He identified as brewers the underwriters of a loap said to have been arranged for acquisition of the Advertiser.
 Documents were put into the rec. ord to show that collateral security was used at a Philadelphia bank to the extent of $100,000 and that the purchase of the Advertiser was nego- tiated by Charles F.. Allen and Will liam Sheehan. G
 Mr Feigenspan said that Edward A. Schmidt. brewer of Philadelphia asked him to sign the security for the purchase of the Adver tiser, but that he himself had more to do with the loan than Mir. Brisbane.
 'I am inclined to think that it came through MT. Brisbane's solicita- tion" he said. adding that counsel for the United States Brewing As- sociatiOn. in Washington. might have suggested the loan.
 In addition to aiding In the finan- ing of the Washington Times and Advertiser, the witness said he had contributed personally $15,50O to the support of the New ark Ledger and two other concerns in which he Is interested, $59,5O0 and $75,00O respectively. The Brewers Association contributed nothing to the Ledger, he added.
 The purchase of the Montgomery Advertiser was said to have been negotiated in August. 1915. the par | es of $50.000 each. one representing the loan to Sheehan and the other to Allen. Signers of the note to Sheehan included Edward Langsberg, of Chicago, $5,OOO; Gustav Pabst, of $5,7O0; Henry Vahlkamp, of St. Louis, $2.S50; August A. Busch St. Louis, $14,250; Eugene M. Keely, Chicago, $4,750: John MOerlin, Cin- $4,750; The F. w. Cook Brewing Company. $4.750. and Peter S. Theurer, of Chicago. $4.750.
 The note to Allen was signed by the following:
 Edward A. Schmidt. Philadelphia. $4.75O; Louis B. Schran. Brooklyn, \. Y., $4,750; J. Liebman. Brooklyn. $4,75O; R. J. Schaefer and Jacob of New Pork, $4.75O each, and George Ehret, of New Tor, $9,50O: c. w. Feigenspan, of Newark. N. J.. $4,750, and x. J. and M. l.. Griel, ad dres not given. $4.75G each.
 IMr Feigenspan declared it was Mir. Schmidt. Philadelphia brewer. at whose solicitation he aided in un- the loan to Sheehan and Allen.
 Referring to the propaganda work of the brewers. MT. Feigenspan said 1t was the business of the publication committee of the United States Brew ers' Association to advertise the pro- luct of brewers, and that in doing 30 1t employed writers to write up certain subjects" relating to the brewers trade.
 In this connection. the witness said in answer to questions by Sena- or Nelson of Minnesota. that John xroan, a writer, had been employed ,y the association. and that certain lrticles appearing in the Atlantic had been written by hin, while in the employe of the organi- ,ation. MT. Feigenspan said he be- ieved Kroan's salary was $5.000 'ear and in sOnme instances, the writer received compensation from he organization and alo from the which printed his arti- les.