Arizona republican., 1918-09-21
ADMITS BREWERS HAD LOBBY IN WASHINGTON
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vation of our business, even to the eX- tent of supplying finances for the ini- tial payment on the purchase Of the Washington Times"
 He said the attempt through in nuendo" to associate the Times trans action with certain notorious pro- German activities terminating in the control of the New York Evening Mail is q gratuitous insult, dastardly and outrageous libel and unworthy of any representative of this American re- public"
 Cnequivocally denying, both on his own behalf and that of the brewing in dustry, any charge against his loyalty, Mir. Feigenspan said he wished to fling the charges back in the face of those who made them" and offered to match his record with that of 'any man, of high or low degree, in this nation"
 Challenges His Aocusers.
 He challenged anyone to show bet ter record, mot only of loyalty of lip, often made easy by prosperity. but of losses: loalty in the hour of destruc- tion of my very subsistence"
 William A. De Ford. general counsel of the Star company, publishers of the William R. Hearst's newspapers. the New York American and the New York Evening Journal, issued a statement tonight explaining his connection with the Growing Circulation corporation, the concern through which Arthur Brisbane received the funds from brewers which enabled him to purchase the Washington Times. as disclosed yesterday by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodians
 Mir De Ford. who was named as one of the directors of the corporation, said he had resigned from the corporation on March II, 1916. which was more than year prior to the date of the loan of s375000 made through the con- cern to Brisbane by C. W. Feigenspan, as trustee for number of brewers.
 Brsbane's Relative Elected. John T. Sturdevant and Thomas Me Entegart, also named as directors of the corporation, likewise resigned, and there was elected as president MT. Brisbanes father in law, Seward Carey. with two of the editors secre- taries as other officers and directors. The corporation, said Mir. De Ford. was organized on January 13, 1916, at MT. Brisbane'S request as an instru- mentality for the delivery of Hearst newspapers. and Brisbane asked him, together with Sturdevant, his asso- ciate, and McEntegart, a clerk in his office, to act temporarily as incor- porators and directors. The Star com- pany afterward declined to contract with the corporation for the dstribu- tion of it's papers, and the Growing Circulation corporation" thereafter remained mere shell. Later Brisbane advised him that he desired to take over the nominal as well as the actual ownership" and to elect directors of his own choice. This was done at the meeting held March II, 1916, the first and only meeting of this company which either Mir Sturdevant. Mir. Me- Entegart or myself attended"
 Dc Ford and Others Resign.
 After authoriing an issue of s10,O0C capital stock to Mrs Alice Brisbane Thursby, Brisbane's sister. for $10,00C in cash. De Ford and his associates re- signed and the other officers and di- rectors were elected.
 The corporation transacted no busi. ness. said MT. De Ford, while I, or any member of my staff, was connect ed with its directorate. or while its records were in my possession, and therefore, I never knew, until the pub. lication of MT. Palmer's statement that the corporation possessed any funds or had transacted any business