Norwich bulletin., 1918-09-20
German Brewers
 Backed Brisbane
Advanced $375,0o0 For the
 Purchase of the Washington Times-List Made Public.

cneH. Tanner, made public today the names of the fifteen brewers who, with the United States Brewers Associa- tion, raised a fund Of $407, ,500, from which $375,00O was loaned to Arthur Brisbane to buy tie Washington Times.
 Mr Palmer acted immediately after the senate had passed a resolution in- troduced by Senator Jones of Wash ington, calling upon the property cus todian to show the proofs on which he made his speech in Harrisburg, Pa, last Saturday describing the efforts Of brewers to control a newspaper in pro- German interest. to exert their influence upon congress, and, finally On which he charged that the brewing interests had advanced the money for the purchase of a newspaper to light the battle of the liquor traffic under che shadow of the dome Of the capi- tol.''
 MT. Brisbane, in published state ments in the Times. already has stated that he bought the paper with money loaned by C. w. Feigenspan, brewer and president of the Fed eral Trust Company of Newark N. J. MT. Brisbane also has published a let ter from Feigenspan defining an ar
 rangement by which the loan was | . Palmer includes in his disclosure this
 letter and also documents to support
 his assertion that the loan was made l in a way to conceal it's course and
 purpose.
 Included in MT. Palmer's papers are
 copies of letters written by Alexander
 honna, evidently German agent, to | Captain Hans Tauscher, notoriously associated with German propaganda in
 the United States, and to Dr. Ser
 nard Dernburg, Germany's chief prop
 fcanda agent. upon the prospects of buying some great American news paper. Mr Palmer connects these
 with his declara tion that the influence
 which the brewers attempts to exert was thoroughly in the interest of Ger
 many.
 MT. Palmer tonight declined to say
 where his office obtained the docu-
 ments. He added that they spoke fo1 themselves.
 First among the documents is 6
 letter from Feigenspan to Robert Grain, whose office is in the building
 which houses MT. Brisbane's Times
 detailing the distribution of the $407,.
 geo loan. It was divided this way
 George Ehret. $50,099; c. Feigenspan
 S25 900: Julius LiebInann 25,000; c. G. Hupfel. $7,5G0; Jacob Rupper
 $50 000; Joseph E. Ulhlein. DO; Ed
 ward Landsberg, 5,o0o: Reuter- anc Company S15,0oO; A. J. Houghton Co $10, 900; William Hamnt $f0,000; .Pabst, $50,000; Fred Millar Brewin;
 Company, $10,000 (this sum was al , lotted among five individuals at S3.Oo
 each); C. Schmidt and Sons. $5,O00
 F. A. Poth and Sons. .$15.Qu0;s Bergne and Engel. s1O,00O; United State , Brewers Association, $SO,GOO; Unite States Brewers Association, Adv $25 000; a total of $407,509.
 l Of this sum Feigenspan's lette ) stated $375000 was advanced to tn l Growing Circulation Corporation. (M1
 Brisbane's published statements plac ? the sum he borrowed through NJ l Teigenspan at this amount) Mir Palmers documents quote tn . Corporation Directory for 1917 as de scribing the Growing Circulation Cor l poration as being capitalized at S10 f 900, having offices at 140 Nassa : street, New York city. and havin - among it's directors William A. T ! Ford one of William R. Hearst e lawyers; John T. Sturdevant an r Thomas McEntegart.
 S The course of the loan as it appear
 to be shown by documents the, origin
 als of which Mir. Palmer states are
 his possession, shows first six check / from c. w. Feigenspan, trustee, draw between June 21. 1918, and January ? ! 1918. There also is a checks for $25 : 900 drawn by Feigenspan as truste Il for Crain Then follow five drafts [
 the Federal Trust Company payable : bearer aggregating $345, 900. They wei | endorsed to be paid to the order :. "A Thursby Growing Circulation Col t poration, per L. B. Krause, vice pres | ident. For deposit pay to Equitab Trust Company"
 A Thursby," says MT. Palner's ar , nouncement ''is evidently Alice Bri: n bane Thurshy, whose address accord Il Il ing to the record at the Equitab | Trust Company, is care of Arthl Brisbane, 23S Williams street. The documents then show no [, for $300,000 dated June 21, 1917, pa! n able five years later to Feigenspan Q trustee. and executed by the Growir
 Circulation Corporation This Is fo e lowed by a receipt to Feigenspan, ex r cuted by A. Brisbane, acknowledgi1 Il $260,00 'to be used in the purcha il of MT. Munsey's newspaper in Wasl e ington by me" The remaining $40 . 900 was to be paid later.
 .s A letter from Mir Brisbane to Fei
 enspan defining the terms of the los
 is next given. This previously h.
 been published by Mir. Brisbane. sets forth that a number of brewer L. incluS ng Feigenspan, were ready J. loan Brisbane $500,O00 for the pu j. chase and establishment of a newsp IS per and that at the end of five yea n so much was to be repaid as Brisba > determined as the business of the D = per warranted; that no interest W j. to be charged, but that the loan w d to be returned if the paper were SO IS MT. Brisbane mas stated that he d clined to accept the loan without i
 terest.
 Il, His only security, Feigenspan q r. clares in his statement to the ali l. property custodian is the $S00,000 SC l. of the Growing Circulation Corpor IS tion At the close of the stateme y George Ehret. Jr. declares that 1e believes it to lE true.
 of The alien property custodian mak l. no comment upon the documents b se passes to the two letters by Konta l. support his charge in his Harrisbu
 speech that "the organized hquor tra
 fic has been pro- German in it's sy1
 pathies" and that these great inte E ests actually have been willing to nance great newspapers for the pu sA pose of spreading German propaga ,e da and sentiments in this country ee Konta's letter to Tauscher infor1 ht that at Bernard Dernberg's request D. has canvassed the prospects of buyi Id a newspaper. He asks that if possil 1- the original of the letter be recover, on The letter to Dernberg written as March 31, 1915, goes into the subjt
 of "the purchase and publication of m daily newspaper in this country in m interests Of Germany and the G.