The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-26
LEE BRADLEY TALKS
 OF ALIEN PROPERTY
 AND ITS EXTENT I
Birmingham Man Has Work So Organized He Will Spend September
 at Home
By HUGH w. ROBERTS

Washington, August 25.-(Speciall Alien Property Custodian A. Mitchen Palmer has begun a series of reVela- tions which will show that many rich Germans just prior to the entry of the United States into the European war very shrewdly concealed their inter ests by transferring them to dummies bearing good American names
 Lee Bradley, Birmingham attorney who is general counsel for the os- partment over which MT. Palmer pre- sides declares that this work was so well done that only at the present have investigators been able to find and reveal the truth. MT. Bradley in- timated that all primary steps nave been taken,s and that the property will soon be acquired by the custoa- ian. MT. Palmer, quite recently, tooS possession of certain valuable inter ests in New York which Germany managed to conceal for more than year.
 MT. Bradley has been so assiduously engaged in his work that for eight months he has been unable to return home for visit. Now however, ne has so thoroughly perfected the organ ization of his department that as ne says flor the time being, 1t can run itself" He will go to Birmingham next week and remain there during sep tember.
 GERMAN PROPERTY SOUTH
 In an informal discussion of certain phases of the custodian's develop ments, Mr. Bradley declared the south .,.., ,..I.v oe o1i stated that no evidence had been brought to light showing that Ger mans had a single dollar invested either in Georgia or Mississippi. The only evidence out of Alabama was brought to light few days ago when it was learned that German in Ger many had a small interest in a small Alabama estate.
 "The south is singularly free,.' he continued. There is some alien prop erty in Florida, and some in Texas. Nothing has been developed in Geor- gia or Mississippi, and but for the holding in small estate by an alien, Alabama would be equally free.
 'The great bulk of alien property in the United States is in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, thouS Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois makes an appreciable showing." Mir. Bradley l fer some of the German property for sale at a future date. The sale of such valuable property will be mace at auction, and buying, it is indicated, will be spirited and extensive. For that reason, the sale will be postponed until aftef>the next Liberty Loan cam paign.
 BRADLEY MAKES GOOD Mir Bradley has established himself in the affection of the government and is recognized as one of the best lawyers in the service. In the begin- ming, he offered himself as "a dollar year man. to work in Birmin gham in Washington and Birmingham, and finally in Washington exclusively. | He was accepted by the alien prop l erty custodian. and immediately madt | such fine impression that he was made second in command in the legal de. partment He was offered title ant salary, both of which he declined. IT a remarkably short time. the talenl of MT. Bradley so thoroughly asserted itself that he was put in supreme com mand in the legal department anf
 given the title of general counsel.
 He is serving without remuneration