The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-11-22
Chairman Dies Gives Word to Seize Records
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1 financial arrangements were made, explaining also that his firm was in- terested in purchasing a large num- Der of the papers fer distribution.
 "As result of the conversations between Soskin and Strassburger, the Dies committee report stated, ''it was ascertained that the pri- mary purpose of Strassburger,s in- tereSt in the publication of these documents was his personal dislike for William c. Bullitt, United States ambassador to France"
 The First German White Paper" contained references to Bullitt and excerpts from what purported to have been parts of his diplomatic correspondence
 Guenthem Tom, described as zapp's assistant, had correspondence with Fred Kreutzenstein, disclosing that for short time the latter was the Washington representative of Transocean News Service. Tn 8 let ter dated Sept. 9, 1899, Kreutzen- stein informed Tom of his difficulty obtaining press credentials and about Michael J. McDermott, press relations officer of the state depart ment, telling him not to attend White House press conference.
 T am gradually finding my way about here, but I still do not know how to arrange it so that will not come into conflict with Transocean, Kreutzenstein wrote Tom. Ken un0d of fhn TTv,ifal Tracc co.-l. ls kindest regards and believe that you have definitely succeeded in squeezing him over to the German side. Edelstein, the little fellow who sits opposite him is going to fix things up so I can slide into the Ma tional Press club, because he is the chairman of the committee on ad- missions"
 Scare Thrown Into Them
 Kreutzenstein on Sept. 27, 1888, wrote to Tom that:
 "The State Department is taking upon itself to scare our American people away from us, and does not ] even stop at threats. Various peo- pie who have been recommended to me by Transocean, United Press and others refuse only few hours later to work for us. Some of them opened up right away and said that one had scared them, and later on I learned through United Press that Dorcy Fisher and McDermott of the press division of the State Department took particular delight in enlighten- ing the people with what a danger ous' enterprise they had become tied up and that soon it would go tough on them"
 The committee document also re- produced numerous records of the German library of information, New York, the American Fellowship Forum, headed by pr. Frederick Aughagen, and the German Rail- roads information office. It pictured them as additional propaganda agencies
 The committee submitted copies of correspondence between Zapp's of flee and Herbert Moore, of Trans radio Press Service, 342 Madison Ave, N. r., as conclusive in estab- fishing the fact that Berlin looked to zapp for proper broadcasting of material to the South American countries A letter of Dec. 29, 1888 from zapp's secretary to Moore re- layed the text of a cable from Berlin, as follows:
 Text of Cable
 Impossible double transmission expenses since charges for reception | here are very high. RIGA (Radio Cor poration of America) would be cheaper under circumstances Stop | Suggest retaining midnight service with old frequency under old condi- tions Stop Should experiments show that transmissions at other times are | possible at old price increase num- Der of words to 1,200 Stop Continue experiments with increased power and double frequency Stop Baires (Buenos Aires) reports WIS and WICK receptions, as yesterday on account of blurred words impossible to read Santiago reports Tuesday WIS P. M. WICK P. M., made quate midnight adequate despite air disturbances Stop Ria CRio De Jan- eiro) New York sent yesterday p. m. apparently WICK inaudible while simultaneously WIS transmitted in English WICK here only after 6 P. M audible Stop 2 P. M. and mid night receptions adequate" | Comment of Committee The committee commended:
 Tt appears reasonable to assume from the above four exhibits that the South American countries to which Transocean News was directed from New York, by means of short wave broadcasting, reported them success or failure of this transmits sion directly to Berlin. In the event that the South American reception was faulty, Berlin immediately ad- viSed Zapp in New York. Thereupon Zapp took this matter up with the Transradio Press Service, which service appears to be not only the receiving agency for Transocean but also the transmitting agency. This fact is further substantiated from an examination of the Trans ocean financial records in which it is disclosed that for the period from Jan. l, 1889, to August, 1940, Trans ocean News Service paid Transradio Press Service the sum of $44,387.91.
 "The certificate of incorporation of the Transradio Press Service, Inc, filed with the state of New York, bears the name of Arthur M. Quis- enberry as a member of the board of directors of the said corporation. The list of employees of Tansocean News Service, as contained in the files of this organization, indicates that an employe, Arthur Quisen- berry, was entered on the rolls as of April 12, 1939."
 German Govt. Implicated
 The committee reported that "the German government not only exer- cised a certain amount of control over the operations of Transocean News Service but also interested it. | .@ff s.. 4I.- Gna~asaI