Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1935, Page 5

» - Pisher.” CHAIN STORE FILES PROBE BROADENED Firms Other Than Groceries Included in Lobby In- vestigation. Files of several large chain retail organizations outside the grocery busi- ness are being studied by investigators of the special House committee named to inquire into the proposed lobbying activities of the American Retail Fed- eration, it was revealed today by Rep- resentative Patman, Democrat, of | Texas, chairman of the committee. Thus far, the principal emphasis on committee hearings has been on the business practices of the grocery con- cerns, notably the Kroger Baking Co. of Cincinnati and the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Although the intentions of the whole committee will have to be ascertained before a thorough investigation is made, the chairman said, he believes the inquiry will be pressed. Patman | said he did not know, however, when the next meeting of the committee would be held. “We uncovered mecre information about chain store methods in a single night than the Federa! Trade Com- mission has revealed ir six years” Patman declared, “and it is my opin- | fon that the investigation wil not be allowed to pater out.” | Meanwhile, however attention is being diverted (o hearings before the House Judiciary Culnmittee on three pending bills whica affect chain store business practices. Two of these were introduced by Reprcsentative Mapes, Republican, of Michigan, one of which would amend the anti-trusg| laws to prevent a covporation from acquiring contrcl of & competing cor- poration for the purpose of creating a monopoly, and the stcond to Jmend} the Clayton act ic prohibit unjust or unfair price discrimination The third bill was introduced by Patman and would make it “..mlnwlul for any person engaged in commerce | to discriminate in price or terms of sale between purchasers of commodi- | ties of like grade and quality, to pro-| hibit the payment of brokerage or commission under certain conditions, | to suppress pseudo advertising allow- ances, to provide a presumptive meas- ure of damages in certain cases, and to protect the independent merchant, | the public whom he serves and the manufacturer from whom he buys, | from exploitation by unfair com- petitors.” | | SRR l Lobby (Continued From First Page.) | sending by Herron of hundreds of | anti-utility bill telegrams to Repre- sentative Driscoll, Democrat, of Penn- | sylvania and other members of Con- | gress. She said Herron had dictated many of these telegrams in the office where she worked and signed names from the directory. Miss Loding, dressed in dark blue and a checked white hat, said she did not know who destroyed the tele- | grams. Less than a dozen spectators vere in the air-cooled committee room as Chairman Black- opened the hearing by reading a telegram from Herron | saying his summons arrived too late | last night and, “due to lack of funds,” he could not arrive here until tonight. A ripple of laughter swept the room 8s the telegram was read. Half a dozen witnesses mentioned by Fisher yesterday were then sworn, | but told to leave the room while Miss Loding testified. Among these were F. R. Veale, Western Union official | who investigated the burning of the messages; Christenson, the Sunplex operator, and P. Elmer Danielson, a | messenger boy in the Warren office. Miss Loding said Herron gave sev- | eral telegrams “over the counter” in | her office, but dictated most of them to Fisher, using the telephone di- Yectory Tor sgnatures I She said she helped search for the | originals when it was discovered they ‘were missing. ‘ Miss Loding testified that Herron | was in the office “almost every day” between the time the telegrams were sent to Representative Driscoll and the time when they were burned. Speaking calmly but in a voice so\ low it was at times almost inaudible, the girl told the committee she had not been invited to help in destroy- ing the records. “When Herron came to the office | at these times’ Senator Schweilen- | bach, Democrat, of Washington, asked, *“what was he doing?” “He was conversing with Mr. “Did Herron talk to Christenson?” “Nothing secretly.” She said she was rarely in the office at 3:30 p.m. and was not there, she said, when Christenson and Her- | ron reputedly discussed the records | on July 10. She explained that the telegrams | left on file with the company by Her- | ron were sent in groups, 40 or 50| periodically during the day. | Recalls Payments Made. | She recalled that Herron paid $50 or $60 in cash, on two nccasions, to ‘Western Union. “After the messages were burn Senator Black asked, “did Fisher Lel.l you of finding the remnants?” “A few.days after that. I didn't see it, but Mr. Fisher told me of find- | ing pnrc of one with the name of Dris- coll on it.” 1 Suddenly Senator Gibson, Repub- | lican, of Vermont, broke in to ask: “¥ou have a suspicion who did 1t2” “No.” John S. Bayer of Warren, one of those whose names had been attached to a telegram, took the stand after Miss Loding. “Did you send a telegram to Mr. Driscoll?” Black asked. “No.” “Did you authorize one?” “No.” “Did you discuss sending one?” “No.” He declared he didn’t know any- thing about the telegram until Repre- sentative Driscoll acknowledged in a Jetter he had received one. Later, he said, Montgomery Mc- Clure, president of the Warren Ki- wanis Club. had interceded in behalf of Pisher. McClure describgd Fisher as “on the spot” because of loss of the records, Bayer related. Refused to Aid Fisher, He said he refused to take any part in an effort to save Fisher from a censuring. He told McClure, he add- ;‘d;hth"n“twowmlwulnmmxan Bayer said Fisher'’s reputation in ‘Warren was good, that he never heard snything wrong against him. Fisher has been suspended until he proves his innocence in connection with burning of the records. He denied J Tell Lobby Probers of Mystery Telegrams WILLIAM P. BACH, Western Union manager at Brad- ford, near Warren, who said his office sent no protests against the bill, although Bradford is in the same congressional district. —Star Staff Photos. yesterday he had anything to do with it. Questioned by Schwellenbach and | Gibson, Bayer said he owned no stock in utilities. William P. Bach, manager of the Western Union office at Bradford, Pa., | followed Bayer. He produced records of cash receipts in the Warren office. They showed a due bill against Her- von for $82 on June 26, $196 on June 27 and $52 on June 28 “Do you know anything about the burning of these records?” Black. “No, I do not,” Bach replied. He said he could not recall if any snti-utility bill messages had been sent through his office at Bradford. Messenger Boy Testifies. Danielson, the 19-year-old mes- | senger in the Warren Western Union office, said he saw Herron in the office almost daily in June and saw him dictating telegrams to Fisher, using telephone directory names. “Where did Herron get the wording for the messages?” asked Schwellen- bach. “I didn't notice, but I believed he had forms,” Daniels replied. He said he heard a conversation be- tween Herron and Fisher before July 10 in which Herron mentioned there had been some protests about the mes- sages from persons whose names had been signed to them. He added he heard Fisher say “it didnt look so good” and that he “wished he hadn’t gone through with it.” Danielson told the committee, with considerable hesitation, of aiding Christenson burn messages in the base- ment of the building on last Wednes- day night. He said Christenson, in charge of the office at night, had told him to burn the records of July, 1934, as it was a custom to burn year-old rec- ords. Contrary to custom, he said, Chris- tenson helped him burn the old files. The messenger answer as ‘to whether Christenson burned any records during his own absence delivering telegrams. “I wasn't there,” he explained, with a boyish grin, but later added he had burned some messages before leaving to deliver telegrams. Found Messages Blazing. On his return, however, he said, he “found some messages in the fire | burning.” Danielson first denied he found the June 25, 1935, records in the base- | ment the morning after the fire. Asked if he had received any in- structions regarding his testimony, the boy said he had not. He said he told Christenson he was | surprised to see the June, 1935, rec- | ords in the basement, and the ope- rator also appeared surprised. “He didn't know how they got there, either,” Danielson said. The messenger insisted he heard | no one say who ordered the records | destroyed. He said Fisher suspected the ope- rator. Replying to a crossfire of questions from several members of the com- mittee, Danielson, after smiling wryly In embarrassment, declared he had not taken the June 26 records to the basement. Only he and Christenson, Danielson said, participated in handling the rec- ords on last Wednesday night. Corrects Statement. He sald Christenson and Herron | were the only ones he had heard tell of the “necessity” for burning the rec- ords, but later corrected his statement by saying Christenson alone had men- tioned it to him. Christenson, a brown-haired youth in a gray suit, took the stand. He said he had been a clerk and mainte- nance supervisor at Warren for seven, | years. He added he heard of the com- plaints from signers of the utility mes- sages, most of which he said were typewritten. He said he had been suspended, along with Pisher, since Monday. He denied he talked over his testi- mony on the way to Washington with other witnesses. With an absence of the hesitation that characterized the messenger boy, Christenson told of burning the July, 1934, records, but denied emphatically he had taken out the June, 1935, records. He conceded he had never before burned the records and that it was not his duty to do so. “Who pulled them (1934 records) E HIGY ‘INCORPORATED "OUR PLUMBER' ¥ & b asked | hesitated over an | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, GLADYS LODING, Western Union clerk at Warren, Pa., who told how R. P. Herron, bond salesman, took names from city directory in sending telegrams to Representative Driscoll, urging him to oppose the “death sentence” for holding companies. | out of the files and put them on the table?” Black asked. “I did.” “You didn’t get any but 19342" “Ni “How did the June, 1935, records get there?” “That's what I have been trying to find out.” “You lighted the fire?” “Yes.” “You ever do that before?” “Who told you to?” “No one specifically.” “Who not specifically?” Questioned About Gifts. He explained Fisher had put him in charge of the messenger boys and had given him authority to end “trouble” with them by “firing” them, if nec- essary. “Fisher told you it was all right for you to fire the boys?” Black said. es.” “Did he tell you it was all right to fire the records?” “No.” Black reminded him he was under cath and then asked him if he had ever received any loans or gifts of money from Herron. “No, sir.” Fisher had testified yesterday that he had seen Christenson and Herron talking together in the Western Union office one evening within the period when the telegrams were burned. Later, the witness said, Herron came to him and suggested that he take the blame for destruction of the records. Refused to Be “Goat.” “I told him,” said Fisher, “that I would have no part in such a plan because I had notling to hide end would not be made the goat.” A few days later, Fisher added, he was suspended from duty as man- ager “until such time as I can prove my icnocence of having burned the records.” More than 800 of the 1,300 tele- grams were received by Representa- tive Driscoll he told the committee yesterday. He said his suspicions were aroused by the fact that most of the messages were signed with names beginning with the Letters T R T Investigation in five cases, Driscoll said, brought either denials from the purported signers that the messages had been sent, or else a report from telegraph or postal authorities that they could not be located. Backers of compulsory abolition of certain holding companies looked on yesterdays testimony as a potential aid in their effort to pass a utilities bill containing an abolition dause. The bill is now in Senate-House con- ference for a decision on the question. CONFER ON-T. V. A. BILL Charges Heard That “Unfriend- ly”” Members Are Chosen. Amid charges that members “un- friendly” to the measure were being chosen to represent the House, the T. V. A. amendments bill was sent to conference by the House today for an adjustment of differences with the Senate. MARINE INSURANCE and all forms of Insurance J. Blaise de Sibour & Co. INSURANCE BROKERS 1700 Eye St. N.W. NAtL 4673 NOTICE U The Butler-Flynn Paint Com- pany has arranged FREE PARKING facilities for its patrons while C Street between Sixth and Seventh northwest is undergoing repairs. Just go direct to the Ellis Parking Lot on the southeastern corner of Sixth and Indiana Ave. N.W. This service will be rendered until C St. is reopened to traffic. BuflerF Iunn 609 C St. N.W. Metropolitan 0151 If Your Dentist Hurts You Try DR. FIELD Plate Expert 406 7th St. NW. MEt. 9256 'MURDER WARRANT JOHN S. BAYER, One of the residents of Driscoll's district whose names were signea to telegrams. He was one of the “B” list taken from the city di- rectory and denied having any interest in the defeat of the utili- ties bill. WIRED FOR ELLIS| Seattle Prisoner to Answer in‘ Chestertown (Md.) Road House Killing. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, July 17.—A telegraphic warrant, charging John Ellis, 26, ma- chinist, Chester, Pa., with the murder of Kellis C. Terry, in a road house at Chestertown, Md., the night of June 29, was received yesterday by Detec- tive Capt. Ernest W. Yoris. Ellis, arrested here last week, said he had been on a prolonged drinking party in Chestertown over that week end and did not recall his actions, Yoris said. Yoris said Ellis asserted he remem- bered going to the home of friends, the Downs brothers, at Chestertown, about 9 pm. one Friday night. He said he stayed at their home all night, and drinking was resumed the next morning. The next he remembered, he said, | was when he awoke at his own home | at Chester Sunday morning. The | Downs brothers also were there and | told him of a fight the previous night, | in which a man was badly cut, he said With the aid of a sister, he went to | Marcus Hook and left his car in a ga- | rage there and then proceeded to Phil- adelphia. He left Philadelphia for the West Monday night, arriving here several days later. Many Dogs Killed on Roads. Over 100,000 dogs were killed on roads of England in the last yea D0, PAUL ELMER DANIELSON, 19-year-old messenger boy who told how he and Christenson burned the messages in the basement of the Western Union office at War= ren. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1935. A. F. CHRISTENSON, Telegraph operator at Warren, who admitted helping to burn the orig- inals of the telegrams, but denied knowing they were involved in the controversy. 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