Evening star. [volume], April 24, 1948, Page A-5, Image 5

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$100,000 Union Funds
Stolen Due to Laxity,
Conspiracy Trial Told
Lax money practices enabled con-i
spirators to steal $100,000 from
locals of the International Hod
Carriers’ Union (AFL), the Govern
ment contends.
The District Court trial of six;
men charged with the conspiracy is
in recess today.
Clyde B, Stovall, certified public
accountant, employed by the union
but being used as a Government;
witness, is scheduled to return to:
the witness stand Monday.
Leo A. Rover, special asistant, to
the Attorney General, placed in
evidence yesterday testimony to
show mising financial records of the
Building Committee and Local 74
of the union here. The evidence
showed bank checks and stubs were
missing as well as other records of
the Building Committee.
Holds Records Not Approved.
Mr. Stovall said there is no evi-!
dence that all Executive Board
meeting minutes were read and ap
proved by the union membership.
The Government contends $15,000,
listed on the records as going to buy
additional union property, actually
was used for a party to celebrate
a mortgage burning.
Larry Kelly, missing defendant,
bought six War Bonds for the union
for $4,400 in September, 1942, but
when Mr. Stovall examined the rec-,
ords, only three were accounted for,
it was testified. The accountant
said that in April, 1943, the de
fendant George Morgan, former
Jnancial treasurer of Local 74.
brought in three bonds, dated April
1, 1943.
Defense Counsel Austin F. Can
field said, after court adjourned, the
defense will try to show that Kelly
used the three missing bonds for his
own use but that, on being con
fronted by the international repre
sentative, Herbert Rivers, took funds
from the City Bank to buy three new
bonds. These were taken by Morgan
to Mr. Stovall, the lawyer said.
Mr. Rover also introduced testi
mony to show Kelly used $3,600 to
make up a shortage in the union's
civilian defense account here.
Say Fund Misuse Permitted.
While Kelly's name is most fre
quently linked with finances, Mr.
Rover said the Government's posi
tion is Kelly, Morgan and the de
fendants Joseph Speed, Evans H.
Hamilton and George W. Plummer
were all members of the Building
Committee and permitted the money
to be stolen.
With Mr. Canfield for the defense
are Attorneys Charles E. Ford and
Kenneth D. Wood. Mr. Rover is
being assisted by Attorneys John B.
O'Brien, jr., and Frank Cunningham.
Also on trial are Faust Moreschi,
former secretary-treasurer of the
District Council and now interna
tional representative, and Isaac
Weiner of Leonardtown, Md., real
estate, insurance man and movie
theater operator and one-time mem
ber of Local 832 of Southern Mary
land.
Theft Suspect Arrested
After 'Perfect' Description
A pickpocket victim's description
of the man who jostled him on a
treetcar was "so perfeect," accord
ing to police, that the suspect today
laces Municipal Court action on a
theft charge.
Charged with the theft was Rob
ert Earl Williams, 62. colored, of the
1100 block of New Jersey avenue
S.E. Police said Williams had a
record of arrests and convictions for
.similar offenses.
According to police. Lacey T.
Adams. 55, of 1146 Seventeenth
street N.E.. reported he was jostled
in a streetcar on his way to the
baseball game at. Griffith Stadium
last Tuesday. The jostling cost him
a wallet and $57. he reported.
Mr. Adams gave police a detailed
description of his fellow rider. De
active Sergts. E P. Jefferson and
W. R. Coffey said the description
vas so perfect that it fitted a
"well-known pickpocket" in detail.'
The detectives telephoned Wil
liams and asked him to pay them a
call at headquarters. Last night.
Williams was put into a line-tip
with four other men. Sergt. Jeffer- j
son said Adams promptly identified
him. Williams denied taking the
wallet.
Baby Recovering From Burns
Kathleen Marie Szwed, 2-month
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jo
seph D. Szwed, 3984 Blaine street
N.E., was reported in fair condition
at Providence Hospital after being
burned on the face and right arm
yesterday at her home. The child,
police said, was burned by a va
porizer. '
Landlord Must Maintain
Electric Wiring, Court Holds
The United States Court of Ap
peals held yesterday that it is a
landlord’s duty to keep an electrical
system in repair.
By the split decision, the appellate
; court sent a damage suit back to
Municipal Court for retrial. The
lower/ court had awarded Mr. and
Mrs. Richardson S. Gladden, 100
Nineteenth street S.E., $1,750 dam
age for injuries suffered by Mrs.
Gladden on May 12, 1944.
Mrs. Gladden testified she received
a shock when she leaned against
an electrical fixture and, in falling
to the floor sprained an ankle. The
defendants, Walker & Dunlop, Inc.,
> appealed to the Municipal Court
j of Appeals which also ordered a
| retrial. Thence the case went to
the Federal Appeals Court.
Justice Henry W. Edgerton's
: opinion said the, tenant who uses
plumbing and electrical fixtures ‘‘is
usually not expected to maintain
them, but merely to notify the
landlord when they appear to be
! out of order.”
| The opinion added that “the land-;
; lord is not an insurer of the safety
of the system, but is liable for action
or inaction that is negligent in view
of what he or his representative
knows.”
Tennessee Society to Elect
The Tennessee State Society will
elect officers at 9:30 o'clock tonight
! in the Wardman Park Hotel. A
dance will follow the meeting.
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