Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-08-15
Hearst to Be Buried in City
Where He Started News Empire

had published documents-sup.
= posedly taken from Mexican gov
| eminent f1les-purporting to show
: that the Mexican government hao
S ordered the payment of $12 mil
: lion to four United States Sena-
: tors to further pro- Mexican propa.
, ganda in the United States.
/. Senate committee investigated
j., The four Senators emphatically
: denied any connection with the
matter and Mexican government
! officials branded the papers as
frauds and forgeries.
During the 1896 presidential
campaign, when Mr.. Hearst wa.
opposing the reelection Of Frank.
, lin D. Roosevelt. a White House
statement referred to "a certain
notorious newspaper owner" Mr.
Hearst, though not named in the
statement, issued a reply to the
President"
Shortly after the Munich agree
ment of 1888, Mr.. Hearst accused
England in radio address of
flooding the United States" with
propaganda to win this country
backing in her difficulties. His
speech was termed a reply" to
Winston Churchill, who had urged
that America join with Great
Britain and France in an effort to
halt the aggressions OF dictator
nations.
A year later. Immediately after
England and France had gone to
war with Germany, there was
an exchange between President
Roosevelt and Mr.. Hearst over this
Nations foreign policy.
MI. Hearst said that "the Hearst
papers are never quite sure
whether they can support or op-
pose the Presidents policies, be-
cause those policies change 50
much on their way from express
sion to execution"
we are quite sure" le con-
tinued, that we oppose Russian
communism, German naziism and
English and French imperialism
We support American liberty and
democracy, American freedom of
the press and freedom of speech.
including freedom OF the President
to take a few fireside shots occa-
sionally."
/ Shortly after victory in World
War II. the American Legion
awarded him its DISTINGUISHED
Service Medal for his intense
patriotism" in supporting the pro-
gram and principles Of the Legion.
/ Had Many Activities.
I Though most widely known as
militant newspaper publisher,
Mr.. Hearst had many other fields
OF actlvity-magaZineS published
both in this country and England,
newspaper feature syndicates. a
news service. photo service, art
collecting, real estate, mining.
motion pictures, radio and ranch
ing.
He inherited a fortune esti-
mated at around S25 million from
his father, George Hearst. a for
mer United States Senator. In
cluded in the heritage were gold
mines, ranches and railroad and
bank stocks.
Though he could have had a
life OF ease, Mr.. Hearst pitched in
at work Immediately after he was
'rusticated' temporarily sus-
pended) from Harvard in his SEN
ior year for prank, and through
the years increased his fortune
MANIFOLD.
Breathed Life Into Paper.
His father was reported to have
given him the choice of whatever
he wanted, from the famous
Homestake Mine to a baronial
ranch in Mexico. The youth choose
the San Francisco Examiner. a
broken down, money losing" pa
per of only 5000 circulation.
He introduced red and heavy
black headlines into the once con-
servatlve newspaper and made
numerous other changes. Circu-
lat1on began to increase and the
Examiner took its place among
the leading papers on the West
Coast.
Eight years later the young pub
Usher crossed the continent to
New York. bought the Morning
Journal for $4,000, poured vast
sums of money into the enterprise
and went into competition with
the World Of Joseph Pulitzer. An
evening edition was started and
gradually other papers acquired as
his kingdom grew.
Born at San Francisco April 20.
1868, he was an only child. He
was educated in the public schools
of his native city and at Harvard.
In l9U3 ne married Mllllcent Will
son of New York.
Raided Worlds STAFF.
Immediately after acquiring the
New York Morning Journal, Mr..
Hearst began to spend money in
a manner unprecedented in Amer
lean Journalism as he battled with
Mr.. Pulitzer's World. He reduced
the price of his paper from 2
cents to penny and Mr.. Pulitzer
followed. He paid astonishing SAL
aries in "raiding" the World staff's
talent. In some instances he hired
whole departments from the rival
paper. ...-
One of the men he got from the
World was Arthur Brisbane, later
Ito become the chief Hearst execu-