The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-02-26
German American Leaders
Fail to Explain Source of
Their $4,000 Income
MAKE PROTESTS
OF THEIR LOYALTY
Hoped to Fool Congress with List Of
Teutonic Names on Army Roll-Mr.
Ohlnger Makes His Charges Specific
to Senate Committee

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26.-Well
laid plans Of officials of the German
American Alliance to fool congress
again and prevent the suppression of
this agency of the Kaiser We're upset
by the sensational exposure of its real
purpose of Gustave Ohlinger of To
ledo.
Until Mr.. Ohlin2er Unexpectedly APP
reared before the senate subcommittee
on Saturday and charged specifically
that the organization was the Kaiser 5
weapon for undermining America s war
power, officials were confident that con
gress could be fooled into dropping Sen
ator Kings investigation by mere prot
estations of loyalty.
4 But Mr.. Ohlinger S recital of his in
designations OF the work of the alliance
and his specific charge that it was or
! -anizcd and is working now to further
4 SPY plots, foment disorder, spread Ger
man propaganda with money drawn
/ from a secret source, has so aroused the
\ senators that half hearted expressions
of loyalty to America will not prevent
the most thorough investigation
Adolph Timm, national secretary Of
the alliance, who has continued as real
| working head of the organization since
Dr. c. j. Hexamar found it healthier
to get under cover at the outbreak Of
war, was SO upset that he said he didn t
believe the senate had held any hear
mg.
A to Mr.. Ohlinger, who has made q
thorough study Of the activities of the
alliance since early in 1914, Timm pro-
tested again and again = He don t
: know what he talks about.
According to Timm, the alliance has
, ben working hard lately to prepare a
ease to convince congress that the or
ganization Is intensely loyal. This was
to be done by presenting to the inveSti-
l gators an imposing list of men with
II deriiidh nafhcS WHO are in the army or
navy
As to charges that the alliance has
been consistently working for the Ger
| man cause since il was organized in
1900, the officers planned to deny that
p any questionable activities had ever
2 been undertaken officially by the al
, lance and that the efforts OF DR.. Hex
5 amer. the former president, to stir III
D feeling against the allies and force
I America to do the viii of the Kaiser
were merely personal activities.
u Timm refused to make any answer Z
= Ohlinger S seven specific charge
y against tae alliance.
+ He don't know what he talk
! about, was his answer to the charg,
that Of the $4,000 annual income re
7 ceived by the alliance only $4,000
= from dues of members. Mr.. Ohlinge
charged that the rest of the income i
received from persons whose interest i
to work against the United States
When Gotlieb Hammer, the nationa
r. treasures. was asked about this, h
II pleaded that he didn't know anvthin
II about it.
lie eco to headquarters and they II tel
you. he said. Then he filed the al
with protestations Of his "a years o
loyalty to America.
Both Hammer and Timm have bee
leaders iii the German American A
lance organization for years and wer
close associates with IIexamer
Timm s refusal to believe that til
senate had held a hearing Saturda
was typically Teutonic. He said tell
grams had been sent Friday to him an
to the president, the Rev. Sigmund {
Won Boase of Wilmington, announcin
postnonement of the hearing
" There was no hearing" said Timr
lit ism t until next Saturday. Ohlinj
er may have given out that statemen
but he did not appear before the con
nittee, because they wired rs that Il
hearing was postponed How cou
senator King send US those TELEGRAM
if there was hearing'
eve are prepared to prove that Y
: are absolutely loyal, he went o