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cccc the ssn TPimasco examiner? BHIBUES MEAItIIG satorpay. mcy ft alls Oil for erense Help nages VISITING DADDY Leech Remains Firm Under Grilling Cross-Examination Maniac Slayer Fights to Death hokes, rowns id get In Insane Fury NEW YORK, July 14. (AP) grel pet, In her fourth floor apart A man of maniacal strength slew ment and stepped down to th third floor to ask Ferguson to be quiet. What happened then was told to the police by Sam Fox, an insur ance agent, who was coming down Entrance Denied To Tom Mooney A formal request to allow Tom Mooney to attend the Bridges' deportation hearing; has been turned down. The ruling- against Mooney's presence was made by James McCauley Landis, the examiner.

"Some one no, it wasn't Harry Bridges asked me if Mooney could be present," Landis explained. "I asked if Mooney was a member of the Bridges' defense committee. I was told he wasn't, and denied the request." Previously Landis had gone on record as saying that, even" despite the restricted facilities of the Angel Island hearing room, he would permit no one to attend who was prompted by curiosity. 1( the stairs. Ferguson came to the door, 1 Alien Placed At Two S.

F. Meetings implication that he was being economically taken care of for turning State's evidence, in a way. Denies Any Reward From Government All the defense got out of Leech on that was that he now has a steady job, is averaging around $45 a week Income and that he has never gotten a cent of other pay or any gift or other reward for telling the Government what he knows about Harry Bridges and the Communist Party. Grossman tried to get him to admit he'd been a labor "scab." With deep scorn Leech swore he had not, ever. Grossman probed to learn whether he'd ever tried to sell a story of what he knew naked.

He reached out with a i huge hand, grabbed her by th throat, snatched her inside and locked the door. Story Unshaken As Hearing Closes (Continued from Page One) funds solicited from Bridges' longshoremen, to boss the defense. Mrs. King has taken little part thus far in the active part of the trial young Grossman and Glad-stein havin done all the court work. But yesterday their best efforts- bounced off Leech like buckshot off a battleship.

Defense Fails to Shake Leech Story Under his unshakable firmness, even the lawyers got nettled. Grossman gave up in midday and turned things over to Gladstein. Gladstein shouted at him and purred at him in turn, but Leech didn't give In under either set of tactics. And at the close of the day, Leech's story that Bridges Was a member of the party, that he and Bridges had together attended inner circle Communist meetings, and that the party has no compunction or hesitance about the use of violence in its plans and aims remained ut a ninety pound woman midget with his bare hands today because she complained of the noise he was making in his lower East Side apartment. First he choked her, then he drowned her, fighting off the police who tried to loosen his grip on her throat.

Then he turned to give battle to four patrolmen and detectives. Screaming and howling fren-zicdly, he wrecked his apartment, injured four of his opponents, and finally collapsed and died. The whole affair lasted nearly half an hour. The neighborhood was in a state of high excitement for hours afterward. BROODED OVER IDLENESS.

The man was identified by fellow lodgers as Walter Ferguson, HEAD HELD EV TUB. Fox said he dashed down the stairs and summoned Patrolman John Campbell. Ferguson shouted as Communists. Hearing room attaches listened to these names 1 45, formerly of Detroit and un si employed for the past nine his defiance through the door. Campbell smashed the lock.

They came upon Ferguson in the kitchen, his hands squeezing the midget thin throat as ha held her in a kitchen bathtub full of water. Campbell tried to break his grip, but Ferguson held him and Fox off. So Fox ran for more help. Sergeant William Seubert and Patrolman William Moore and Salvatore Lamonte came in a radio car. After a fifteen minute fight they loosened Ferguson's hands, lifted the limp body of the midget from and guessed that they would be called later on as witnesses.

They included Elaine Black, Ida Roth- months. The woman was Miss Elizabeth Schneider, 55, once a sideshow and circus midget, who was living oh a small trust fund stein, Harry Jackson, Louise Todd, about Bridges and Communism to any publishing agency and Leech said that he'd once been approached by a Chicago syndicate and that he'd told them he wasn't even interested! Party Discipline ammered Into Him f( James Garrison, Catherine Key and Myrtle Child, among others. And that ended the Govern established by her father. For some time, tenants told police, Ferguson had brooded terly unshaken. Defense tactics, as in the case of Major Lawrence Milner, the over his unemployment and the difficulty of raising money for the tub and arrested Ferguson.

Suddenly he screamed and broke Oregon National Guard secret service agent who was the Government's first witness, concentrated on trying to break down Then Grossman tackled him on "party discipline." Earlier, Leech had testified that due to the strict party discipline which had been hammered into him in his five years of party membership, he still reacted involuntarily along the so-called "party line." Grossman wanted to know rent and food. Frequently he became boisterous, shouting and screaming. He kept many pictures, books and pamphlets dealing with religion. At times, he was sullen and mute. PLEADED TO BE QUIET.

Today one of his noisy moods Leech's reputation. They didn't get very far, even though they aevoted the major part of the day's full five hours to the loose. He lifted a rocking chair and crashed it against Lamonte's head, struck Campbell with a kitchen table, bit the sergeant on the right hand and tried to strangle Moore. He threw furniture back and forth, dodging around the room, swinging his arms and shouting. Pictures were knocked off the walls, chairs were broken.

And in the midst of the fighting Ferguson suddenly stopped and slumped quietly to the floor. He was dead. what Leech meant by the term Jv party discipline. And then Leech ment's direct examination of Leech, their second witness. It was then that curly haired Aubrey Grossman, youngest of the trio of defense attorneys, took over the job of confounding Leech and trying to nullify the effect of his anti-Bridges testimony.

Fur Begins to Fly Early in Hearing Before Grossman had been at Leech a half hour, fur was flying. The day before, Letcfi had remarked, during a hearing recess, that "if they try to hurt me on cross-examination, they'll get burned!" And so, as Shoemaker turned him over to the mercies or merci-lessness of the Bridges' lawyers, Leech turned his witness chair so that he directly faced Bridges got personal i came upon him. His voice rang through the house, a babble of sounds that alternately terrified and annoyed Miss Schneider. 'V i I She left Bessie, her brown mon-1 Tells of Bridges Attending Sessions Before the Bridges barristers went to work on Leech, Leech had thrice fcgain put the finger on the Australian Bridges as an out and out Communist. As though to weld still stronger the link the Government is forc UNIMPRESSED Utile daughters of Dean Landis on visit to Angel Island with their mother.

Ann (aged 11) left, Ellen "Most every one, as YOU WELL KNOW," and here Leech glared into Grossman's eyes, "is conscious of the party's discipline!" Grossman didn't take up that personal: "As you well know." He (9) and Mrs. Landis. The children had lunch with father and commented on his poor quarters compared with Harvard. -rholo by Sun Francisco Examiner, Shasta Dam Bids Received turned instead to questions that S. F.

Tire Workers Vote Walkout A strike against twelve mem- dealt with how Leech had come ing to tie Bridges irretrievably Lengthy Belay in Verdict After Hearing Foreseen to give his original affidavit to tne Hammer-and-Sickle outfit, Landis Family At Angel Island EXAMINER BUREAU, SAC- uovernment Attorney Tom Shoemaker began yesterday's interrogation of Leech by carrying him and his lawyers. jber firms of the Rubber RAMENTO, July for He looked Grossman in the eye, against Bridges. Questions Parried By Defense Aide And during the midday recess he parried newsmen's questions back to the Communist meetings I in iura, iiao uftrii vutfu. Just like any other Interested by the AFL Garage Service the last unit of the railroad graa-family, they came to see the Sation Employes' Union No. 665.

Ing job on the Southern Pacific lit was announced yesterday by Company relocation around office where daddy works. Kenneth B. Flagg, business repre-' Shasta Dam reservoir were re-Examiner Landis' family his sentative. ceived today. and he hitched himself forward, and he squared his shoulders and it was all as though he was saying like an actor in the day's of silent movies: "Come on and do day he will probably have his decision and a summary of his findings within two weeks after the case is concluded.

It was indicated from othpr sources that the case will not follow the usual procedure, of being mulled over by a Labor Department three man board of review, but will be immediately referred to Madam Terkins. When both sides finish presenting their cases at the Bridges deportation trial, no verdict will be handed down at its immediate end. The "jury" in the case will be James McCauley Landis and Secretary of Labor Madam Perkins, and a final derision may tako months. Examiner Landis said yester about Leech's insinuation with the overworked: your damnedest; I'm not scared!" "I have no comment to make." But after lunch Grossman went The sanction, approved three to The Federal Bureau of according to Flagg, involves lamation announced that a cor- Mrs. James McCauley Lan-1 and their two daughters, wu; dis, ne'd attended with Bridges.

And there were three such meetings, Leech swore and each of them by no stretch of imagination anything but a secret meeting of the big shots of the Communist Party. One meeting was at the party's San Francisco headquarters at 121 Haight Street; that was a meeting of the party's executive committee for California and those who attended were "only Grossman began with a check up of Leech's record of arrests. back at Leech hammer and tongs, but again without effect on the imperturbable witness. Grossman Again he bared that incident in which Leech, when he first took tried a line of questions about the stand, said: mitted that the signature they. Leech's dealings with Stanley Ann, 11, and Ellen, 9.

dropped of wage and hour negotiations Concrete and Pipe Corporation, over to Angel Island yesterday, way since May 18. Ralph A. Bell, of Los Angeles, had lunch with him; and then, as' Pending developments, no date and A. Teichert and Son, Sacra-the two children played outside has boen sct for a strikc Flagg mento, had the low of five bids I said. Action will depend upon with $1,857,567.

Mrs. Landis sat in temporarily thc gan Francisco Labor Council's! Bids called today will be opened at the proceedings. approval. The council met last August 8. The work will extend The little girls were dressed night, but had not been asked to the present construction from showed me "had certain charae "I'm not proud of it." That was the time in Toledo, when he was 19, when Leech cashed a "Larry" Doyle, the Northwest's teristics" of his own signature, even so, he admits on the stand fear is still with him and his kin.

Witness in Tilts With Attorney firebrand anti-red prosecutor, who but he'd under no circumstances has been subpoenaed for this hear admit that it was actually his signature, or that the document During Grossman's cross-ques like identical twins with blue i take UP tne Institute strike. (Nichols to a point two miles ing by the defense and whom Bridges accuses of being the main spring of a gigantic conspiracy to get rid of him. tioning, he and Leech had several forged postal money order for $10 and got a Federal court sentence of one hour in custody. Witness Admits Beer Hall Arrest verbal set-to's. sweaters, short red dresses, pigtails.

And they weren't impressed Once Grossman, nettled at Grossman tried to trap Leech with daddy's "office." was the one he had signed. Gladstein was furious. Once he shouted at Leech and Leech shouted back. Gladstein hammered again and again at the same set of questions, until Dean Landis finally chided him for his repctitiousness. into admitting that Dovle and iiiu union abKi'u u.

nvc-udy iiunneasi VI vuncui u. week and an eight-hour day to ssssir'SS from $130 to $140 per month pYtrO'PrV ChiWfTP tire changers, and from $135 to 1 ultocl vHU $150 per month for lubricators. Mrs. Margherita Fatima, 65, Shops at which the strike sane-of 128 Fair Oaks Avenue, was Rmnton beine held under $10,000 bail Leech's indirect answer, snapped: "I don't think you understand my question." Replied Leech, undaunted: "And I don't think you understand English." the most influential and trusted members of the Communist Party in California." Bridges was one of thesec Second Meeting In San Francisco A second meeting was at Red Men's Hall in San Franciscct-the meeting where Bridges, using the "nom de party" of "Rossi," stood up on the rostrum and for an hour discoursed on the red tactics that were to be pulled in the forthcoming maritime strike crisis. And the third meeting was at the San Francisco home of a Communist a home whose address Leech, stranger from Los Leech told next of being pinched 'others had offered him fabulous in a beer joint raid in Los An- sums to testify against Bridges geles, just before repeal, and get-jthe sums began at $500.

Then ting off with a $20 fine which 'the ante was raised to a thou-was suspended. sand then to two thousand, five "All my other arrests, and thousand and finally, according there have been quite a few, to defense questions, some mys- "Hmph," they sniffed, eyeing (he drab little dining room converted into a hearing room, "it's not at all nice as the one lie has at Harvard. There he has his name on a door, in the law school, and it says 'dean on it." "Golly vvillikens he hasn't his name anywhere here!" It was only a few moments after that that young Grossman gave up the job of tangling Leech and turned things over to suave Gladstein, whose forte Sons, Cox Tire Firestone here last night for Santa Bar-Store. Bush Franklin Streets bara authorities, following re-Tire Service, Goodrich Tire Store, ceipt of telegraphic charges of I Goodyear Tire Store, Lord, forgery and falsification of docu-Kahn Kcville, Lambert Tires, ments. Southern authorities jMcKales Mission Vulcanizing gave no details concerning the ar-'and Thompson Tire.

rest. AUTO WORKERS RELENT Handwriting Sample Goes Before Hearing And finally, at the close of the day, Gladstein was having Leech write things on pieces of paper, with the flat statement that he'll bring handwriting experts into court to prove that Leech himself wrote the signature on that document. And irony of Ironies the sample of writing which Dean Landis had Leech write was the in this trial seems to be the business of catching witnesses giving two different answers to the same Deadline Monday For Tax Protests The San Francisco Board of Supervisors yesterday set Mon tery man with a bald patch in front went to Leech and asked him to "name his own price" for an affidavit against Bridges. Leech Stands Firm Under Grilling To all of this Leech replied with repeated statements that nothing of the kind had ever happened and that all he ever asked or got question a trick which resulted early this week in open charges Angeles, couldn't remember. That meeting was again a meeting of the party's secret State executive committee, and was called for the were in connection with Communist Party activities and and street meetings and riots," he explained.

Scornfully, he denied Grossman's question of whether he'd ever been arrested under any other name. Then came a question from Grossman that sent Leech into a plea to Dean Landis, the presiding examiner "By whom are you now employed?" "I'd rather not answer that," said Leech to Dean Landis. "I'd rather not; I don't want to of perjury against Government purpose of preparing party tac Union Paves Way for G. M. Peace witness Milner.

Document Signed To Protect Family tics to be used at the coming Sacramento "congress" for re day morning at 10 o'clock as the last meeting at which protests will be reviewed on assessed valuations. There were twelve protests heard yesterday and seven re- old typewriter test phrase: United Automobile Workers be DETROIT, July 14. (AP) for testifying for the Government was transportation from Los An "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of THE PARTY." Negotiators seeking to end the General Motors strike turned to fore the fundamentals in the dispute were discussed, agreed to accent the nresent contract as geles to Portland, where he made rJiirtinti! pranted. amnuntiner to Leech wasn't having any of that perjury stuff, however. No sooner had Gladstein begun an interrogation about a state his affidavit before Federal offi day to the existing contract be r-i aroi iving, wiiuse uuui- efi R40 in valuation and S3S5 in cials; promise of protection for jeopardize my peal of the criminal syndicalism law.

Bridges' presence at any or all of these meetings stamps him undeniably as a high ranking official of the Communists' secret inner command, testified Leech because nobody else was allowed at these meetings. ness is Decoming a neanng room And Dean Landis supported himself, his wife and six children commonplace, smiled a bit at that, him; directed Grossman to skip from bloody retaliation by the groundwork for settlement negotiations. In return, officials of the UAW-CIO agreed to shelve, at least temporarily, a demand that the UAW-CIO be recognized as sole bridges aiani. isnages, wno rlTV ri AIMIMP. nRIVF tween the corporation and the United Automobile Workers Union for a basis of settling the ten day old dispute.

The corporation, which previously had proposed that the present contract be eliminated Communists and the chance to it. Grossman skipped it but hammered away, nevertheless, on Removal of shacks at Cole and laughed out loud the first day of the hearing, who grinned the second, smiled the third, didn't ment which the defense will introduce wherein Leech says he knows Bridges is NOT a Communist that Leech quickly disavowed the document. It was made, he swore, under duress, when a squad of Communists tried to force their way Grove Streets, by abatement pro bargaining agent and to negotiate get a job in Portland because it wouldn't be safe to go back to Los Angeles and risk the revenge of the party. He got, he swore, $110, for smile yesterday. There wasn't ccedings, was recommended by how much Leech was now earning.

It turned out that the question was part of the defense's effort to indicate that since he gave affi- insofar as it applied to the CIO under the present contract. anything for him to smile at. In the supervisors' health board yes-the parlance of the sports writers, terday. Final decision in the mat- utviL iiiu few int0 ms nouse jg AngClCS 'vpc-tprdav'q was the Govern- tor rests with the meeting of tne Leech Identifies List of Members That was Shoemaker's last blow through Leech at Bridges. There followed a long list of names men and women, asked by Shoemaker, and identified one by one GRAND OPENING TONIGHT Harry Bridges, Leech has been a job in Portland thats paying; and thrust the statement at him entire board tomorrow.

getting more money than he did, him about $45 a week and he's I for his signature UB -VILLA MAI GL before he turned against the Com- gotten protection for himself and munist Party in other words, an1 his family at least, so far. But, Landis Says Bridges Case 'i Would Be Swell at Fair jjj Stanford Professors Called hy Befeiise Are Hath Ilobed Liberals' in Politics i Under titw Muagcmcat Introducing famous National Stars Ftaiurlnq CHIC ENDER CHARLEY FARRELL Direct from New York DOROTHY GERRON, of Earl Carroll's. Hollywood Dancing by BOS GRANT'S Famous CLOVER CLUI and TROCADERO ORCHESTRAS ExceJfent Dinner de Luxe, Specially prepared by "TONY" LA RUSSO of the HOLLYWOOD CLOVER CLUB Dinner V-f Chant Rficrvotient thurify1 WEISS Sefcool Strtt "I signed it, regardless of what it contained, because I knew that if I didn't, I and my wife and children would suffer. I know the methods of the Communist Party, and; I wasn't taking any chances." Leech Refuses to Identify Signature With that simple disavowal, Leech has already taken much of the force out of the document itself. Nevertheless, as yesterday's session ended adjournment until next Monday morning, the defense was still trying to get Leech to identify his signature on that piece of paper.

1 Leech refused to do it. He ad- missions maybe Benny Good-man could hop over and play something." Doc Strub, he admitted, is one of the few persons who haven't besieged him, pro or con, to move or not to move the proceedings from Angel Island. Dally, he says, he receives oodles of fan mail from Interested parties some want it to stay, some want it moved. No, Doc Strub can't sign up the Bridges hearing for one of his smash Treasure Island hit attractions. Jokingly, James McCauley Landis, presiding at the rase, made that denial yesterday.

"But wouldn't it be something," he grinned, holding it right smack under the Sun Tower; and during the inter demic nature held by League for Peace and Democracy formerly the League Against War and Fascism). Walter Thompson, professor of political science at Stanford since 1928, has degrees from McPherson College, Kansas University and Wisconsin (Ph. studied at Sorbonne, France; liberal in social and political' views; journeyed to Sweden recently to study cooperatives and liquor licensing system; not active politically. Doctor Brown is at present confined to his home with illness. Doctor Thompson declined comment, declaring it would be out of order since he is under subpoena at the hearing.

These are the Stanford University professors for whom subpoenas were asked at the Bridges deportation hearing on Angel Island: Harold Chapman Brown, professor of philosophy since 1914, has degrees from Williams, Harvard and the University of Berlin; politically a liberal, active in protest meetings of aca RAndolph 0454 ui( Jntpro 5rr.