Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-20
SAYS BEER MONEY BOUGHT A PAPER
 CITY WASHINGTON Says $375,000 Raised in Fund By Brewers and
 Loaned to- Times.
MITCHELL PALMER
 GIVES 15 NAMES
After Being Requested By Senate to Produce Proofs
 Of "Slush Money.'

WdouiLS lOu, ocpI. l5.---l nc IeuefdI custodian of alien property, A. Nit chell Palmer, made public today the names of the fifteen breweres, who with the United States Brewers asso- citation, raised a fund of $407 300 from which $375,000 was loaned to Arthur Brisbane to buy the Wash ington Times.
 Mr. Palmer acted immediately after the senate had passed resolution, introduced by Senator Jones of Wash ington, calling upon the property custodian to show the proofs on which he made his speech in aHrrisburg, Pa, last Saturday describing the ef- forts of brewers to control a news paper in pro-German interest to ex- ert their influence upon congress, and finally in which he charged the brew ing interests had advanced the mon ey for the purchase of a newspaper to fight the battle of the liquor traf- fic under the shadow of the dome of the capitol"
 Admits Borrowing.
 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 Trenton, N. J. MT. Brisbane also has published a letter from Feigenspan defining an arrangement by which the loan was apportioned to fifteen brewers. Mir. Palmer includes in his disclosure this Actter and also documents to support his assertion that the loan was made in way to conceal it's course and purpose.
 Copies of Letters.
 Included in MT. Palmers papers are copies of letters written by Alex ander KOnta. evidently German agent, to Captain Hans Tauscher, mo- toriously associated with German propaganda in the United States and to Dr. Bernard Dernburg, Germans chief propaganda agent, upon the prospects of buying some great prospects, dr buying soma great American newspaper.
 MT. Palmer connects these with his declaration that the influence which the brewers attempted to exert was thoroughly in the interes of Germany.
 MT. Palmer tonight declined to say where his office obtained the docu- ments.
 Silent Testimony.
 He added that they spoke for them selves.
 Among the documents is a letter from Feigenspan to Robert Grain, whose office is in the building which houses MT. Brisbane's Times, detail- ing the distribution of the $4O7, ,5O0 loan.
 Divided This Way.
 It was divided this way:
 George Ehret, $5O,OOO; c. Feigen- span, $25,O0O; Julius Leibmann, $25,- 900; J. c. G. Hupfel, $7,5OO; Jacob Ruppert, $5O,000; Jos. D. Ulhlein, $5C,OOO; Edward Landsberg, $-5,O0O; Reuter- and Company, $15,OOO; A. J. Houghton Company, $10,0O0; William Hamm, $10,000; G. Pabst, 5O,OOO; Fred Miller Brewing Company, $15,- 900; (this sum was allotted among five individuals at $3,O0O each); C.. Schmidt & Sons, 5000; F. A. Poth & Sons, $15.OOO; Bergher & Engel, s1O.- 900; United States Brewers Associa- tion, $30,0OO; United States Brewers Association Adv, $26,O0O. A total of $4O7 ,50O.
 Of this sum Feigenspan in his let ter $375,O00 was advanced to The, Growing Circulation Corporation sMr Brisbane's published statements place the sum he borrowed through MT. Feigenspan at this amount.)
 MT. Palmer's documents quote the Corporation directory for 1917 as de- Scribing the Growing Circulation Cor poration as being capitalized at $1,- 900, having offices at 40 Nassau street, New York City, and having among it's directors William A. De- ford, one of William R. Hearst's law yers John T. Sturdevant and Thom- as McEntegart.