Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-20
SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE PROBING PUR- CHASE OF WASHINGTON TIMES AND MONT
 GOMERY ADVERTISER BY BREWERS
BELIEVED PART OF GERMAN PROPAGANDA TO
 CREATE GERMAN SENTIMENT IN UNITED STATES
Investigator Will Be Far Reaching In Its Scope to the End That All Facts May Be Brought Out
 That Full Truth Be Known

Washington. Nov. l9 Evidence d2-
 signed to prove that brewers assist ed William A. Sheehan. and Charle.;
 II. Allen to finance the purchase of the Montgomery, Alabama. Advorti- ser. was offered today at the openin , of the Senate Judiciary Sub-C Commit tees investigation of brewers acti- vities. The inquiry was ordered by the Senate after disclosures had been made that brewery interests had loaned Arthur Brisbane $373 ,0oo for the purchase of the Washington Times.
 nC. w. Feigenspan. with whom Bris- bane dealt in securing his loan. iden- tifled as brewers men who had en- dorsed notes for $50,O00 each or which Philadelphia bank loaned Allen and Sheehan $lO0O00 alleged 10 have been used in pushing the Advertiser. Feigenspan said that Edward $. Schmidt, a Philadelphia. brewer handled the $1O0,G00 under writing for the Advertiser and that either the brewers counsel in Wash ingtOn or Mr. Brisbane had arranged the loan for the purchase of the Washington Times. His recollection was that Brisbane had solicited tile loan.
 Feigenspan also testified that he had arranged financial assistance fGt the Newark (N. J.) Ledger, to the extent of $150.000 which represent ed loans at different times The brewers organization contributed no part of this fund.- the witness said.
 OtEer activities of the brewers also were inquired into by the committed Hugh F. Fox. secretary of the Uni mitted that brewers propaganda had been published in the International Monthly, edited by George Sylvester Viereck, once editor of the Father land. a pro-German publication. Fox said that he did not know at the time the matter was published that the Viereck publication was inclined toward pro-Germanism. but that he has "had some suspicion in it since then"
 Questioned further by Major F. Lowry Humes of the army judge ad- vocate generals department, and counsel for the senate committee, Fox said that it was the business oi the publication committees of the brewers association to advertise the doing it employed writers to write up certain subjects relating to tnc brewers trade.
 Writers named in this connection were John koren. of New York, who wrote matter published in the Allan tic Monthly and whose salary was believed by Fox to be $5,000 a year Dr. Edward H. Williams, author of published in medical and other journals, and j. G. Rice.
 When Secretary Fox was called to the stand he produced subpoena from the committee, a bulky pack age of letters, pamphlets and other documents of the brewers associa- tion, but had no bank checks or stubs. He said it had been a long practice of the organiza- tion to destroy these.
 The witness disclaimed any per- sonal knowledge of activity by the in political fields in be- half of state or national legislative favorable to legislation the use of beer and light wines.
 Fox stated that when the brewers realized that something was brew ing besides beer" referring to the prohibition movement, they endeav- bred to meet it by advocating use of peer and light wines.
 It was sought to reach leaders of 1 public thought and also the masses of the people. In both efforts, the said, mistakes had been made and, finally, the popular propagan- la was abandoned and attention cen .ralized on the leaders of opinion.
 Major Humes read to the commit tee letters from the files of the brewer organization in an effort to | show that the brewers organization employed only union labor and that ts officers believed that by working through the American Federation of Labor and other labor organizations t could exercise political influences.
 Other correspondence was produced oy Major Humes. for the purpose of showing that the brewers started a boycott against other business or opposing the manufacture ,f beer.
 OFFICERS ARE QUIZZED.
 Washington, Nov. 19.-Investigation |