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only briefly. With a wave of his
hand, he refused to express an
opinion on the minister designate's
fitness to represent this country in
Australia.
There was sucn standing
political bitterness between him and
Mr.. Flynn, Mr.. La Guardia said,
that he did not feel himself un-
preiudiced.
DO you believe anybody crooked
and corrupt should be employed
as an ambassador to any country?"
inquired Senator Bridges, Republi-
can, of New Hampshire.
Il think your question answers
ITSELF" Mr.. La Guardia replied.
Then you say MOP"
Certainly"
AS for work done at Mr.. Flynn's
country estate in 1941 by New York
City employees, an incident which
largely dominated the hearings, Mr..
La Guardia said he knew nothing
about it except what William B.
Herlands, New York commissioner
OF Investigations, had reported.
Nothing Improper
Mr.. Herlands told the committee
Friday it was his personal convic-
ton that Mr.. Flynn knew while the
work was being done that the labor
ers were city employees using city
owned materials. But, Mr.. Herlands
said, there was no direct evidence
that Mr.. Flynn knew this and he
doubted a jury could be convinced
that he did. Mr.. Flynn denied that
he knew the origin of the labor or
materials until the work was COM
pleted, and said he then promptly
paid the costs, $3.50.
Mr.. Goldwater told the committee
that If Mr.. Flynn went to Australia.
he would still receive so per cent of
their law firms profits. Otherwise,
his testimony was largely given over
to clearing up minor points of his
and Mr.. Flynn's earlier testimony
Wednesday.
Mr.. Moran detailed the work done
at the Flynn estate and insisted that
there was absolutely nothing i'm
proper about it.
The only thing improper was
that it was done for Mr.. Flvnn."
ne said. IF it was done for anyone
else there'd have been nothing said
about it,"
Owes Nothing to Flynn.
In Mr.. Moran's account the work
descended still another notch on
the construction scale. Critics of
Mr.. Flynn's nomination had called
1t paving an antique Belgian court
yard Mr.. Flynn said it was paw
ing small parking place for auto
| mobiles.
Mr.. Moran said it wasn't even
paving. 1t consisted, he said, of
laying some blocks and sprinkling
sand and earth between them-"you
can't call that paving!"
1t was technically called, he de-
clared, AL granite block Iandscap-
| ing"
AS for his part in it, that was
| nothing more than he would have
done for any citizen and taxpayer
of the Bronx, he said.
| Mr.. Moran declared that.
There was never any intention that
the work should be done free. (Mr.
Flynn was never my sponsor. owe
nothing to Mr.. Flynn
The city employees were certified
to be on vacation"
The paving blocks were VIRTUALLY
worthless" Contractors frequently
dumped them into sWamps or the
river to get rid of them. He had not
known they we're taken from city
yard.
Private Trucks Used.
Private trucks were used to haul
the blocks.
Relating his version of how the
matter began, Mr.. Moran said MI.
Flynn told him he was having some
work Done on his odd farm" and
asked him to 60 up in his spare time
and look at It,
He said, Just see that I don't
get overcharged'
Mr.. Moran got in touch with Mrs,
Wllhelmenia Haas, landscape archi-
tect on the job, and went to Mr.
Flynn's Putnam County IN. "
estate with Fred Dennerlein, fore
man Of a city paving gang.
After looking things over, Mr..
Moran said, he had in mind getting
a contractor, but Mr.. Demerlein
said to let Mrs. Haas get the grad
ing done, then he would bring four
or five of the boys over on their
day off and they would throw the
blocks in"
Mr.. Moran said he arranged to
buy the blocks from J. Leopold &
Co. but they ''let him down" and
MI. Dennerlein said he could get
them from dump. MI Moran did
not understand, he explained, that
Mr.. Dennerlein meant city dump.
Mr. Moran arranged for the Frank
Trucking Co. to haul the blocks at
SIT load, he testified, and dis
patched to Mrs. Haas the company
bill for $204.
When he learned that Mr.. Den
nerlein, some two months after the
work was done, had not put in a
bill for the mems time, he insisted
he said, that this be done inmedi-
ately.
Conceding that Mr.. Dennerleir7
had hauled the workmen to the jot