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capital stock which includes valuable real estate on Park Row, but that ac- tion must be taken immediately.
 "Under roper conditions my friends would be willing to take a one-fourth interest, provided some ar engagement could be made giving them the option to acquire the ma jority interest at future date, say after the elapse of one or two years from the close of the war, which would afford every opportunity that could possibly be wanted. 1 under stand that the project is now break ing even-that is that it is neither losing nor making money, but my friends are satisfied that it can be made substantial earned and l am disposed to agree with them.
 "I shall be glad to hear from you as to whether you are now in posi- tion to take up this subject seriously and promptly with me and bring it to conclusion, if. as l believe, the terms are advantageous.
 T expect to leave here on the 26th, spending the forenoon of March 1st, in Washington and reaching New York that night. l shall probably have to leave about March 8th or 10th for South America as a member of the international high command of which Secretary McAdoo is chairman"
 MT. Bielaski also produced copy of message relating to Dr. Hale go- ing to Germany for the Hearst news papers, which he said was sent by Von Bernstorff to Berlin June End. 1916. through Beunos Aires and Stockholm. Dr.. Hale, the witness said, was on the German embassy payroll at $15,000 a year, and also received $500 week as writer for the Hearst papers. William Randolph Hearst. he said, did not know that Dr. Hale was in the pay of the Ger man government.
 Von Bernstorff's message, which asked preferential treatment of Hale, because he was employed by the Hearst organs, follows:
 he said MT. Hale wrote to Dr. Albert, advising him how notes written by Secretary Bryan during the Lusitan- ia controversy should be answered. He also testified that Hale was paid by the German government to visit Ru- mania and if possible, prevent the entrance of that nation into the war. He said MT. Hearst was ignorant of Hale's employment on this mission.
 Mir. Bielaski gave the committee a list of names of prominent Americans, which he said, contained names of practically all those who were active pro-Germans before the entrance of United States into the war. The list, which was labelled for the department of justice files, important list of names," follows:
 Prof. William R. Shepherd, Colum- bia University; Prof. Hugo Muenster- burg, Harvard University; Prof. Will liam M. Sloane, Columbia University; Dr. Edmund von Mach, Cambridge, Cambridge, Mass; Dr. Auth von Bries- en, New York; Prof, John w. Burgess, Newport, R. l.; Prof. Eugene Smith, Columbia University; Prof. H. G. Sam born, Vanderbilt University; Prof. J. G. Mcdonald, University of Indiana; Prof Ferdinand Schevill, University of Chicago; E. c. Richardson, Prince ton University; Prof. Kuno Francke, Harvard University; Prof. Geo. B. Mcclellan, Princeton University; Prof. A. B. Faust, Cornell University; Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., University of Wis consin: Dr. Walter s. McNeill, Rich mond; Dr. David Starr Jordan. Berke- ley, Calf; Peter s. G Rosscup, United States federal judeg, Highland, Park H.; Richard Bartholdt, St. Louis :; Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, Harvard University; Dr. c. J. Hexamer, Phila- delphia; Charles Nagel, St. Louis :; Oswald Garrison Willard, New York ! Evening Post; William Randolph Hearst, New York American Bernard Ridder, New York Staats Eeitung; Ed ward A. Rumely, New York Evening Mail; Frederick A. Schrader, 1493 Broadway, New York; Frank Harris No. 8 Washington Square, New York City; Robert I. Ford, Freeman,s Jour- nal, New York; Rev. Father Thirney' American Catholic Weekly. New York; Max A. hein, 2S0 Riverside Drive, New York; George s. viersck New York.
 Besides this list, Mir. Bielaski also presented supplemental list of about thirty names. of others to whom he said German propakanda matter va, mailed but ti'who wers fhot' 6Stiexed to n 216 (Continued on page five)