The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-08-02
CASH OFFER.TO
BOSTON JOURNAL
German Agents Were Con-
cerned in an Effort to Get
Control of the Paper
LOAN PROFFERED TO
TIDE SHEET OVER
Refusal by the Management When Sus-
picions Were Aroused by the Unex-
planned Secrecy Surrounding the At
tempted Deal

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NEW YORK, August 2.-Charles Ell
liatt Ware, jr, ex-publisher of the Bos
ton journal, which paper was merged
with the Boston Herald in October of
last year came to New York at the re
quest of Attorney General Merton E. Lew
is, and in answer to questions asked by
Deputy Attorney General Alfred l.. Beck
er, told what he knew of "a reported effort
of the German government to gain control
of the Journal before the sale of the pa
per to the Herald company. DR.. Bern
hard Dernburg, the kaiser's chief propa-
gandist in the United States up to the time
he was expelled from the country, and the
late DIR. Hugo Sehweltzer of this city,
were mentioned by Mr.. Ware as among
the Germans who were interested in the
effort to get control OF the Boston pa
per- Although the journal was in straits
financially, Mr. Ware assured Mr. Baker
that the Germans never made any head
way in their efforts to get control of the
paper.
Mr.. Ware said that in the period be-
tween December, 1915, and the follow
ing October the journal, of which he
was then the publisher, was in great need
| of money and that 100000 was the min
iInum sum that was considered necessary
| TO tide the paper over the financial shoals
on which he had struck" as the situa
ton was described by the attorney general
| BY the hardest kind of work Mr. Ware
said he was able to raise S7S,000 of tn,
100000 needed
Continuing his narrative Mr. Ware tolt
| Mr. Becker he was having great troubl,
to raise the remaining 81, 900 when DIR
| Edmund Won Mach, formerly an instrnc
tor at Harvard, introduced him to DIR
X Huertz, the Boston representative o
the Baycr Chemical company, of which
concern DIR. Sehweitzer, who was nance
in the treason indictments returned b.
the federal grand jury several weeks ago
was the then New York representative
DR.. Huertz, Mr. Ware said, called DR.
Dernburg by telephone in his headquarter
at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. in this city
and went into great detail The upsho
of the talk was that Huertz received in
structions from Dernburg to come To Ney
York. Huertz did 50, and is supposed t
have placed a proposal to buy the Journa
before the propagandist.
On his return to Boston DR. Huert
sought Mr. Ware and informed him tina
there was "a good chance of getting tn
. money"
DR.. HHertz, Mr. Ware said, mentione
, the name of Dr. Sehweitzer, and whe
he asked DIR. Huertz if Sehweitzer wa
! in fact the person who was willing to at
vance the money he says that Huertz II
, piled that maybe Schweitzer represent
others besides himself"
Because of the rather secretive way i
which those with whom he conferre
handled the matter Mr.. Ware said
became suspicious and refused to accer
the loan of 800, 900 which was proffere
by the Germans Mr.. Ware admitte
that he accepted $1,000 from Friedric
Stallforth, a German banker Of PARA
Mexico, who is a close friend of Fran
! Rmtelen, who is now interned as dan
! gerous enemy in Georgian prison CAM