Memorandum re Bache and Company

AND DECLASSIFIED ARCHIVES RECORDS SERVICE' E.0. 12065, Sec. 3-402 By COMM. State Dept. LTR. Guideline, 5-31-79 June 12, 1979 Subject: BACHE AND COMPANY HL NARS, Date 7-16-fo 36 Wall Street New York 5, New York Bache & Company, filed Department of Commerce Forms 57 and 57a (applica- tions for Listing on the Importers Exporters' Index) on July 5, 1950. According to information provided in these applications, the referenced firm is a partnership, 100% American-controlled, with all of the partners being U. S. citizens: Harold Lo Bache 812 Park Avenue, NYC Morton F. Stern 115 Central Park West, NYC John J. Ryan, Jr. 100 Everett Avenue, Hewlitt, L.I. James C. Pyan Sleepy Hollow Rd., Scarborough, N.Y. *Frank T. Ryan 17 West 54th Street, NYC A. Charles Schwartz 791 Park Avenue, NYC 21 Laurence B. Rossbach 1112 Park Avenue, NYC George Weiss 70 East 96th Street, NYC Sam H. Sampliner 3140 Montgomery Rd., Cleveland 22 William Reid 180 Central Park Sourth, NYC Sam Jo Smith 205 West 89th Street, NYC Walter F. Schultze 17 Crestwood Avenue, Yonkers, N.Y. Hugo J. Lion 127 West 79th Street, NYC William J. Flynn 310 East 44th Street, NYC Adolph Woolner 32 East 64th Street, NYC Donald M. Lovejoy Round Hill, Greenwich, Conn. Myron F. Ratcliffe 914 Main Street, Evanston, Ill. Walter A. Schiffer 1175 Park Avenue, NYC 28 A. Glen Acheson 162 East 63rd Street, NYC 21 Robert Proddow, Jr. Ituri Towers, Greenwich, Conn. James A. Fayne 175 Highland Road, Rye, N.Y. Charles A. Blackwell 417 Park Avenue, NYC Adrian C. Israel 31 East 72nd Street, NYC Joseph M. Ryan 3 Woodland Way, Greenville, S.C. Merwin a. Woodward 247-04 87th Drive, Bellerose, L.I. Reportedly, the subject firm was established in New York in 1879 with a paid in capital of $6,000,000. As importers and exporters, it acts as the U.S. representative of the Japan Development Corporation, Tokyo. According to confidential D=851, from Tokyo, December 20, 1950, Bache & Company were reportedly investing money in Daiichi Bussan Company, Tokyo, one of the successors of Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, which was one of the largest, most famous, and oldest trading companies in Japan. Daiichi Bussan Kaisha, Ltd. was reported to be considering the ap- pointment of Bache & Company as their U. S. representatives, until exchange restrictions eased enough to allow them to establish a branch in America. *Frank T. Ryan is reported by Dun and Bradstreet dated November 10, 1950, on World Commerce Corpo, to be president of World Commerce Corp. and John J. Ryan & Sons, Inc., wholesalers of cotton and rayons. DISNET