New-York tribune., 1918-11-29
Vice-President Gabryel, Of
LEADER" Says German.
Paid for Stories
Testihes to Survey
OF Munitions Mill.
Washington Post" Editor
Named as Writer Of
Propaganda

German propaganda ring and the pss,,
played by Louis N. Hammerliny .,s
former Secretary of Commerce ,-s
Labor Nagel, which has been tpr,.s
over to the Overman Senate invs.,;
eating committee. was made nuh,,.
yesterday by Deputy State Attorn.s
General Alfred L. Becker. 1t wa. !,
timatcd that Hammerling and Nss.,
VIII be witnesses at the inquiry. which
Will start III Washington on Mons.r
Hammerling, who is president NJ -.
American Association of Foreign Isr
guage Newspapers, Inc, has lust bea,
given number of large advertisin,
contracts by the Committee on publ;e
Information, of which George Creel is
chairman.
Hammerling's concern was II,
agency through which the now 70.
nous s2O5,0 900 German propasands ID
vertisement entitled IAN Appeal to III,
American People"-an appeal to for.
elgn workmen to stop making NUM-
tions--was published in 500 news.
papers on April 5, 1915.
Many Deny Signing appeal
More than half the men whose names
were signed have been examined bv
Mr.. Becker. Seventy-five per cent Of
them have sworn they never gave con-
sent Tor the use of their names.
Mr.: Becker yesterday gave out psrt
Of the sworn testimony of Arthur
Gabryel, vlce-pre of the Foreign
Language Newspapers Association.
which was taken three weeks ago,
Asked by Mr.. Becker whether he had
ever seen Count Won Bernstorff in the
office of Hammerling, he said:
"Yes. | saw Bernstorff there in tbe
latter part of March and the early
part of April, 1915. About week Of
ten days passed and | was sent for.
Hammerling said to me: 'GabryeL |
want you to go to Bethlehem, Penn,
and get me the dope as to the num-
Der of foreigners working for the
Bethlehem Steel Works; that is to say,
the percentage of Hungarians, Italians
and Poles.
Told to Avoid Works
Find out the onditions-whetnef
they are satisfied, their earning ca.
do not go near the works.
20 to the saloons. go to the priests and
rabbis if necessary He told me to
get the data and hurry back vent
but did not take my wife. Instead I
was accompanied by an Italian, doc.
tor named Viggino. We got the data
and returned to New York"
Did any other persons go to sny
other places to get the same sort Of
information" ?" asked Mr.. Becker.
eyes. On the same day my brothsr,
Henry B. Gahryel, was sent to Uti4
( The Lewis machine guns are made IN
Utica A man named Bird went to
New England, man named S. Dattnsr
went to Bridgeport, a man named Don
5. Moman was sent to the Bliss Tor
pedo Works, IN. Brooklyn, and a fellow
named L. Webster was sent to Phila.
delphia. All Of them handed In re-
ports"
Mr.. Becker then turned his inter
rogation to the publication known ss
The American Leader" which was
published by Hammerling as head Of
the American Association of Foreign
Language Newspapers. Gabryel was
asked if he could give any information
about certain contracts mentioned ID
the statement.
"All that can say" responded Gabryel,
els that we had some contributors who
wrote for The American Leader Some
of the contributors were paid by tne
b hamburg AM erican and the North Ger
man Lloyd Steamship lines. For IN
stance. if you were an editor ana you
got $500 for two articles, you wouid ges
a check from the association sno tns
association would charge it to 1he
Hamburg American or the North 1er-
man Lloyd people"
What was the nature Of these st-
ticles, pro-Gernan or WHAT"
81 remember cne that was par'Ieu.
larl pro- German and the editor WIZ
wrote it was Mr.. Nagel. the ex,secIs-
tary of Commerce and Labor: fsssI,
ally l do not think that MI Nss.;
knew that the money was being ps'1
by that side (the Germans
w dSHItS ION Cultoi -N
Anybody else besides Mr. Nagei VII"
for The Leader p" r,
'The contributing editor was -
Bennett, of The Washington Fess
What about Boyd? Do you ki''
anything about him ?" -
Yes; he was in touch with nin ~
telephone Every time he Ham@ls sss
ling) called UP Captain boy-h9s Ss
regular telephone operator wcua
removed and Miss Lefler or hef ss,
would take hold of the swiscno0ISs~ he
There was also corresponding i
tween them. I personally saw esp' :.
Boy-Ed's lctterhead. | have cesas cearrs
ouested to step out Of Han1usiirpssy psy.
office while he was talking 20 ~
Ed" ,sr.
Gabryel then testified regaruiDs
tain stsnographers and see.sssam Ann
employed by Hammerling, two o. VIZ
he said were Germans. .sst
Another feature of the evidef;ue ;u..tnr
to the Senate committee by Nr. 0es IN.
is the testimony of Haumerahs i.sr-
self concerning the appeal -, he
tisement. Hammerling said i1as rs
money for tho advertisemsn.
turned over to him by Dr. SdwJI;sh SdsI;shsy
Rumely, former editor and puDi's'
= e