States became involved in World War I, the Illinois Staats-Zeitung supported the German war effort. Editor Arthur Lorenz was reportedly "unrestrained" in his support for the Germans, and the paper lost a great deal of advertising and funding as a result. By the late 1910s, it was in dire financial straits and garnered significant controversy when it ran an article describing members of the American Legion as vagabonds and bums and that the legion had been "bought with British gold to betray American labor." In 1921, the paper was sold for $25,000 and Colonel John Clinnin, assistant United States district attorney, recommended deportation proceedings for Lorenz. The paper was resurrected as Deutsch-Amerikanische Bürger-Zeitung. A short time before, the Chicagoer Freie Presse had merged with the paper. Illinois Staats-Herold Following the sale of the Staats-Zeitung, the paper was resurrected and merged with the Chicagoer Herold in the late 1920s to form the Illinois Staats-Herold. The Staats-Herold's circulation was around 40,000 by 1934, but the paper again ceased publication around 1936. It was the first German newspaper in Chicago to host a German broadcasting hour on the radio. The president of the Staats-Herold was Ernest L. Klein and the editor-in-chief was Julius Klein. Like its predecessor, the Staats-Herold was Republican-affiliated. Staff In November 1871, publisher Anton Hesing's son, Washington Hesing (1849–1897), an 1870 graduate of Yale College, finished a stint as a political appointee on the Chicago Board of Education and became actively connected with the Staats-Zeitung. The younger Hesing became managing editor of the Staats-Zeitung in April 1880, by which time he was a part owner of the publication. Upon his appointment as postmaster of Chicago in 1893, Washington Hesing was replaced by notable Illinois Republican Joseph Brucker as managing editor of the paper. Other notable members of the staff of and contributors to the Staats-Zeitung were Adolf Wiesner (who served in an editorial position from 1866 to 1867), Caspar Butz, Emil Dietzsch, August Boecklin, Henry E.O. Heinemann, Paul Grzybowski and Henry Merker. Between 1891 and 1899, the paper had a separate evening edition, Abendblatt (Evening Paper). See also German language newspapers in the United States References Further reading Rudolf Hofmeister, The Germans of Chicago. Champaign, Illinois: Stipes Publishing, 1976. John B. Jentz and Richard Schneirov, Chicago in the Age of Capital: Class, Politics, and Democracy During the Civil War and Reconstruction. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Richard Junger,