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A. The Arizona State Journal.

Q. Is it a fugitive paper, appearing now and then, sort of intermittently?

A. No; I believe it is a weekly-I believe it appears quite regularly.

Q. This, then, is a campaign paper rather than a regular publication.

A. Well, I would surmise it was; I wouldn't call that a regular publication.

Q. Do you know who paid them for their publications?

A. I haven't the least idea; no.

Q. Did you meet with them and Senator Cameron, or Senator Cameron's committee?

A. In what?

Q. During the campaign, and in mapping out a program for publicity?

A. No, never.

Q. You were working independently of them?

A. Yes, sir.

Q. Did you prepare the speech which Senator Cameron delivered the night of the election over the radio?

A. No; I did not.

Q. Do you know who prepared that?
A. No; I haven't the least idea.

Q. It is to your credit you did not. Mr. Moy, what part of your time, during the two months that you were employed by Mr. Towles to do publicity work for Senator Cameron, did you spend in the office of the internal revenue collector in and for the district of Arizona?

A. Just a sufficient amount of time in order to get my material prepared.

Q. Was that your headquarters?

A. No; it was not. I wouldn't consider that-I did most of my work at my home.

Q. Did you have any headquarters?

A. No; I did not.

Q. If you were not at your home and were doing any work for the Cameron campaign, would it be done in the office of the internal revenue collector?

A. No; I did the bulk of my work at home.

Q. You were in the office of the internal revenue collector, though, a good deal, were you not?

A. Yes; off and on.

Q. It was sort of a political headquarters for Mr. Cameron, was it not?

A. I don't know. I wasn't in on the political situation at all. Q. Did you see many people coming in there for political discussion or political activities?

A. Not that I would recognize as politicians or anything like that. I couldn't say that I did.

Q. You couldn't tell whether they came to do business, to pay taxes, or something of that nature, or came to discuss politics? A. No; I couldn't say that I did.

Q. They weren't sufficiently labeled. Well, do you remember literature being sent there, any large sacks full?

A. No; I do not.

Q. In great quantity for distribution?

A. No; it was without my knowledge. I had nothing to do with it if it was.

Q. Wasn't there a great deal of literature sent into that office and distributed from that office?

A. Not to my knowledge.

Q. Did you distribute any from that office?

A. No, sir.

Q. Did you prepare any mimeograph stuff in that office?
A. No, sir.

Q. Or transmit it from that office?

A. No.

Q. Was that a part of your task, or did you assume it to be a part of your task to send out literature in behalf of Senator Cameron's campaign?

A. If they called upon me to do it, I would have done it, but I wasn't called upon to do it.

Q. At no time?

A. No; I prepared the copy.

Q. After the copy which you prepared was printed or put into form such as you designed what became of it?

A. The copy that I prepared, I suppose, was for the newspapers. Q. Did you prepare the advertisements in the newspapers?

A. Yes; I did. Now, I will not say all of them that appeared throughout the State. I prepared some of them.

Q. And the posters?

A. Posters? Yes, I prepared the copy for most of those.

Q. Now, after the material was prepared by you, to whom did you give it?

A. Well, I didn't give it to anybody.

Q. Who took it from you, then?

A. Nobody took it from me; I didn't handle it.

Q. What became of it?

A. I don't know. I know what happened to it after.

Q. Oh, let's be frank. What became of the stuff that you prepared? It didn't vanish into thin air, did it?

A. No.

Q. What became of it?

A. I don't know.

Q. Did you leave it lying around in your room? You say you prepared most of it in your house. Is it still there?

A. No.

Q. Let's don't fence. What became of the copy you prepared? A. I suppose it went into the newspapers.

Q. Whom did you hand it to?

A. Mr. Towles.

Q. Why didn't you say so? All of it?

A. All of it.

Q. Posters and all, advertising and all, you handed it to Mr. Towles. Did you bring it down to his office?

A. Yes.

Q. And was that the case during the latter part of your employ ment after you had ceased to be the employee of Towles?

A. No; I was more directly responsible for it after that time. Q. You mean for its preparation or distribution?

A. Preparation and distribution.

Q. To whom did you give it then?

A. Sent it out broadcast.

Q. Through the mails?

A. Yes.

Q. Was it printed before you sent it out broadcast?
A. Oh, yes; printed.

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Q. Which is the organization that prints this Slush Fund News! A. I believe so, I don't really know who printed that, to tell the truth.

Q. No, I said by the organization reputed to have printed it? A. The publishers?

Q. Yes.

A. No.

Q. Do you know who paid for sending out the material which you prepared?

A. That is, paid for the paper, the advertising that went in the paper and things like that?

Q. Yes.

A. Mr. Towles.

Q. And the paper itself?

A. Now, which paper?

Q. I am speaking of the white sheets of paper upon which it was printed. Who paid for that, who purchased the paper?

A. I don't know who purchased that.

Q. Who paid all the expenses of printing?

A. Oh, I don't know; I didn't have anything to do with the financial part of the settling with the printers; I don't know anything about it.

Q. Have you made any contribution to the campaign fund yourself?

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Senator KING. Mr. Flynn, have you any questions to suggest to the Chair?

Mr. FLYNN. Nothing more.

Senator KING. Mr. Moy, you are excused. In view of the reported illness of your wife, I have made arrangements between counsel and they will advise you in regard to that matter.

The WITNESS. I can bring her down.

Senator KING. No; they can take her testimony. I want it understood, though, that no one can escape the subpoena of this committee. The Government has a long arm, and sooner or later we will get them.

The WITNESS. I think you are mistaken in my attitude toward this thing.

Senator KING. Well, I am very glad to get your statement, and in consideration of the illness of your wife, she need not come. She is willing to respond to the subpoena ?

The WITNESS. Absolutely.

Senator KING. Well, the attorney and Mr. Flynn understand what disposition will be made of it, and you will accept their suggestions in the matter.

The WITNESS. Very well.

Senator KING. Have you anything else to suggest, gentlemen? Mr. FLYNN. Nothing.

Senator KING. So far then as the work of this committee at this time is concerned in the State of Arizona, it is now concluded, and the committee will meet next Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in the Federal courthouse at Los Angeles City, there to resume the hearing. When it shall return here or whether it will return at all it is impossible to state now, and it will depend upon circumstances. The committee stands adjourned.

(Thereupon the committee adjourned to meet in the Federal Building, Los Angeles, Calif., on Saturday, November 6, 1926, at 10.30 o'clock a. m.)

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