Arizona republican., 1919-01-08
FINANCED
 BANDIT VILLA NOW
 REVEALED BY HUMES
Trust Company of St. Louis Named Also Guaranty Trust, N. Y.-Principal
 Interned As Alien Enemy

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Documen- tary evidence intended to show that S3S0,o00 worth of munitions, shipped in 1915, to agents of Francisco Villa, the Mexican bandit leader. were paid for by F. A. Sommerfield, now interned as an enemy alien, was presented today to the senate committee investigating German propaganda. by Major E. Low " Humes, who is conducting the in- quiry.
 The munitions were bought from the Western Cartridge company at Alton, Ill., according to the evidence, and were paid for through the Mississippi Valley Trust company of St. Louis, ! from funds transfgerred from the ] Guaranty Trust company of New York city. The first shipments were sent | to Louis Goxiola of Fl Paso, Texas, who. it was alleged, dealt with the ban ! dit's brother. Hippoito Villa, but later l the shipments were consigned direct to | the latter, according to the evidence. 1 Source of Funds Unknown [ Major Humes told the committee he 1 had been unable to trace the source of the funds which the Guaranty Trust company sent to the St. Louis bank 1 Sommerfeld, he said, lived in a hotel 1 in New York city and transacted his ! business with the St. Louis bank large l yby mai..and telegraph. Major Humes introduced documents showing pay ments to the cartridge company. and also letters from the Guaranty Trust compan yto the St. Louis bank, direct 1 ing that sum be credited in the latter bank to Commercials account.
 Today's testimony dealt also with loans to the German government. through New York financial houses, some of which dealt with banks in Germany. Captain B. Lester of the military intelligence bureau produced evidence showing that the total Ger l man loans negotiated from early in 1915, when Albert began his propagan- 1 da work, up almost to the time the , United States entered the war, amounted to s34, 900. This was off 1 set in losses amounting to approxi- mately s3S,777,o00, covering cargoes on ships sunk or captured by the British.
 Products Company Named
 More than s15.000,000 of the loans 1 were made on German treasury notes and remittanceS from the Reichsbank, but two of the loans were on shipments of cotton. According to the deponents, the Chase National bank loaned three million dollars with cotton as security and the Southern Products company was party to the loan.
 Another loan, it was said, was in the form of credit for s1,S00,O00 from the Equitable Trust company of New York to finance cotton shipments with two German banks. the Tidemann X O. of Fort Worth, Texas, as parties to the loan. The ship carrying the cot ton was seized by the British and the cargo sold. the proceeds being trans mitted back to the United States.
 Gaston Means Heard
 The committee today also heard Gaston B. Means of Concord, N. c. who at one time was employed by Captain Boy Ed, former German maya attache here. Means denied any dis loyalty to the United States. He saic he left Boy-Ed's employ in the fall o 1916, and that whenever be heard any reports on German activities detri. mental to the United States, he report ed them to the proper authorities.
 At the request of Means, the com. mittee went itno executive session tl hear his testimony concerning the To- cation of some papers of Boy-Et which, he said, the government nigh ' desire. After a tWo-hour executiv, session, Chairman Overman announced that the committee had concluded tha the papers were not important to tn, present investigation.