The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-09-20
Ct ERMAN.Y
AND BREWERS
ENTRENCHED IN
.WASK|N { 7 On
SENSATION CAUSED BY
CUSTODIAN PALMER
Efforts Of Brewers to Control
Newspapers in Pro-Ger-
man Interest.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19-Tne 1ed-
oral custodian Of alien property, A.
Mitchell Palmer, made public today tho
namea OF tho fifteen prewors who with
tho United States Brewers Association
raised fund Of Slo7,5oo. from which
s57s 900 WAS loaned TO Arthur Brisbane
TO buy the Washington Times.
Mr. Palmer acted Immediately "1tef
tho senate had passed q resolution In
troduced by Senator Jones, Of Washing
ton, calling upon tho property custodian
to show tho proofs on which he mado
his speech In Harrisburg, Pa, last Sat-
urday describing the efforts Of brewors
to control newspaper In pro-German
interests, to exert their influence upon
Congress, and finally on which he
charged that tho brewing interests had
advanced the money for the purchase
Of n newspaper to flight the battle OF
tho Liquor traffic under the shadow OF
tho capitol"
Mr. Brisbane In published statements
in the Times already has stated that no
, bought tho paper with money loaned BY
c. W. Feigenspan, brewer, and preai-
dent OF tho Federal Trust Company, OF
Newark, n. ]. MIR. Brisbane also has
u 4elbC2 1AOA1 - CAD oAAeks~H~~f
defining an arrangement by which tho
loan was syudicnted to Fifteen brewers.
Mr.. Palmer includes In his disclosure
this letter and also documents to sup
port his assertion that tho loan was
made in q way to conceal its course and
purpose.
Included in Mr.. I'almcr's papers are
copies OF letters written BY Alexander
konta, evidently Il German agent. 10
Captain Hans TausChcr nutoriouSly as
sociatcd with German propaganda in
the United STATES and To DIR. pcrand
DcrnburS GcrInany's chief propaganda
agent, upon the prospects of buying
some great American newspaper. Mr..
Palmer connects these with his declaru-
ton that the influence which the brew
crs attempted I" exert was thoroughly
in the interests Of Germany.
Mr. Palmer tonight declined 10 say
where his office obtained the docu-
mcnts. He added they spoke for them
selves
| How It Was Divied. ...
T. F'irEt among the documents iS a let
tier from Fciennsrnn 10 Robert Grain.
! whose ufficc is in the building which
| houses Mr.. Rrislr.nG's Times. detailing
the distribution Of the $inT.5U loan. II
| was divided this WY:
George Ehrct, SAD 900: c. Fcig:nspan.
| 5000: julius Lehman. $25.aGO; j.. c.
G.. 1lurfcl. $500: Jacob NuPpcrtS. $50
900: Joseph f.. Ehlain. S5U,ntG; Edward
| l,ansberg. Sl5.0n0; Reuter- & Co.. $l5,-
| 900: \. ]. Huughtnn Company. 10000;
! William Hamm. $4,000: &. PubSt. $50.
| 900: Fred Miller brewing Company.
, $1,000 this sum was allotted among
/, nvc individuals ut $1,000 carn): &.
/ Schmidt & Sons. sI.o1u: +. \. l'"th x
! Sons Sl5.DHH: Brrgn,T II Eng"l. $40 600;
! $4,000, Il total nf S*nG.IG0. OF the
| sum Frigcnspan's letter STATED $$I500D
, WAS advanced to the growing circuia'
ton curpuratinr. (Mr. Hrishanc's pub
lishcd statements pl"rr III. sum ne bor'
rowcd through Mr.. FriEunspan 1t this
amount.l
. Mr.. Palmcr'S documents quot" IN" cor
: puTation dir -Ct"ry for 1917 as IcScrlb'
, ing the Grow inE Circulation Corpora
iiun n:s beng capitalized at $4,000, har.
ing offices ut In Nassau street. New
York city, and having am"nH its dircc'
tors William ~ DrfOrd, one of William
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