Arizona republican., 1918-12-07
Newspaper Dealings Aired In Report Of Justice
 Department Head; Tried
 To Keep Us Out Of War
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 WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Confiden- tial records of the Department of Jus tice dealing with the activities of Ger man agents and others in the United States were placed today before the senate committee Investigating brew CTS and German propaganda by A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the depart ment's bureau of Investigation
 They dealt with correspondence Of Count von Bernstorff. former German ambassador. and others concerning the possible purchase of the Washington Post and other newspapers; the send ing of William Bayard Hale to Ger many as correspondent of the Hearst newspapers, described by Von Bern storff as having "outspokenly placed themselves on the German side; and with suggestions of fomenting trouble between the United States and Japan as a means of stopping munitions ship mentS to the allies.
 MT. Belaski told the committee that under date of October 17, 1914, Count von Bernstorff sent this message from Washington to Dr. Bernard Dernberc and Heinnerich F. Albert German propaganda agents in New York:
 The Washington Post was offered me to buy today for s2.000,0O0 with the understanding to buy it back again af- ter the war for million and a half. A second offer was to put the paper en- tirely at our disposal for two months for $100,000. The paper is of import anee as the only large newspaper of the capital. How do you stand on the ques- ton of the money? I have not yet in quired at Berlin
 Wanted Washington Post Thpra hi fo chou hot reply was made, but Mr. Bielaski said that under date of August ?, 1918. this message to the Berlin foreign office ia cipher. signed by Dr. H. K. Fuehr. a former German consular agent in the i Orient who came to the United States i early in 1914:
 The Washington Post, whose neu- l tral attitude toward the belligerents 1 during the present war has won for it warm recognition from the German side has of late materially changed its tone in questions of European politics and seems fairly on the way to join our enemies.
 From reliable sources, learn that l this change of front is due to the Rus
 sian ambassador in Washington. After 1 the death of its former owner, John R. Mclean, the Washington Post, togeth- CT with the Cincinnati Enquirer, came ihNO Ait Ol lllt SUI Ol lne luSA
 mentioned, on whom his aunt, Madame Bakhmeteff, is said to have great in
 fluence
 MT Mclean, Jr.. inaugurated his ownership by naming as editorial di-
 rector one Bill Sturgeon. who is said
 to be British subject, and a nephew of Robert Porter. one of the chief lead CTS of the Northcliffe. ring" Considered Buying New York Sun t& I
 Mir. Bielasl1i and alleged to have been
 written by Samuel Untermyer, of New
 York, to Albert, ill February. 1916. dealt
 with the purchase of a New York paper
 for S2,000.000 The name of this paper
 was not mentioned in the communica- |. tion, but MT. Bielaski said there were
 indications that it was the New York
 Sun. The letter said in part: T have received word that our op- l portunity has now arrived to acquire
 that morning and evening paper about : which we have been talking and that it can be had at a price slightly under , 900 for four -sixths of the capital
 stock, which includes valuable real es-
 tate on Park Row. but that action , must be taken immediately" , Hearst Correspondent Hun Agent , MT. Bielaski also produced a copy of ' a message relating to Dr. Hale Going to
 Germany for the Hearst newspapers.
 which, he said was sent by Won Bern I storff to Berlin June ?, 1916. through , Buenos Aires and Stockholm. Dr. Hale : the witness said, was on the German : embassy payroll at s15.000 year and
 also received $500 a week<as a writer
 for the Hearst papers. William Ran
 dolph Hearst, he said, did not know
 that Dr. Hale was in the pay of the ! German government.
 c Won Bernstorff's message asked pref d ereptial treatment of Hale because he n was employed by the Hearst organi- | zatiOn.
 = Names Big Pro- Germans. s Mir. Bielaski gave the committee ., : list of names of prominent Americans
 which, he said, contained names O. S practically all those who were activel,- e pro- o-GeTman before the entrance of tn,, . United States into the war. The list which was labelled for the department y of justice as important list of names. follows:
 Professor William H. Sheperd, Co., . lumbia university: Professor Hugo = Muensterburg, Harvard university: :. Professor William NJ. Sloane, Colum u bia university; Dr. Edmund von Mach.
 Cambridge, Mass; Dr. Auth von Erie
 sen, New York; Professor John w
 l.,
 Eugene Smith, Columbia university
 Professor H. c. Sanborn, Vanderbilt
 university; Professor J. G. McDonal,;.
 University of Indiana; Professor Fer . dinand Schuell, University of Chi 7 cago; E. C. Richardson, Princetoh ! university; Professor Kuno Francke.
 Harvard university; Professor Georg
 B. Mcclellan, Princeton university
 Professor A. D. Faust, Cornell uni
 versity; Professor Morris Jastrow. JI . t University of Wisconsin; pr. Waltt Id S. McNeill. Richmond: Dr. David d Starr Jordan, Berkeley, Cal; Peter = s. Grosscup, United States federal r, judge, Highland Park, H.; Richard ,- Bartholdt, St. Louis; Professor Albert 1T Bushnell Hart, Harvard: Dr. C. J g HeXamer. Philadelphia; Charles Nagcr IS St Louis; Oswald Garrison Willard L1 New York Evening Post; Williala of Randolph Hearst, New York Ameri- s- can; Bernard Ridder, New York Staats > Zeitung; Edward A. Rumely, New > York Evening Mail; Frederick A e- Schrader. 14s7 Broadway, New York ie Frank Harris, New York City; Roi T. I. Ford, Freeman's Journal, New s- Pork; Rev. Father Thirney, America of Catholic Weekly, New York; Max A o Hein, New York; George s. Viereck ,o , New York.
 lo Besides this list, MT. Bielaski als' 1. presented supplemental list of abou ts 30 names of others to whom he sai, r- German propaganda matter was maile; IS but who were not believed to b rs friendly to the cause. This list tn