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taught by private instructors and
will be limited to pupils who have
never studied piano before.
Cost will be so cents for each
weekly lesson plus a maximum OF
81 for a dummy keyboard and
frequent phone calls to Mr.. Hunt
about the Lido Beach case.
mo-" replied the witness. Not
to my knowledge
Mr.. Flanagan then read off a
series of Hunt diary entries show
ing that from August Is, 1916,
until December 8, 1947, Mr.. Hunt
and Mr.. Levitt talked more than
score of times about the Lido
Beach case.
After the reading of the diary
entries. particularly those refer
ring to fees in the Lido Beach
case, Mr.. Rogers told the witness:
"It looks from these records that
you had a prior arrangement to
get a 10 per cent fee."
Mr.. Woods, during his testi-
mony about Gen. Vaughan and
the Tanforan permit earlier today
drew the ire of Senator Mccarthy
Republican, of Wisconsin when
he said the permit was granted
because of hardship"
Tortured interpretation"
The hardship" involved. MI
Woods explained. was the fact
that local authorities had con-
demned the track for health and
safety reasons until certain re-
pairs were made.
They purchased the hardship
with their eyes wide OPEN" Sen
ator Mccarthy protested.
Mr.. Woods agreed to that, but
argued Suppose they had gotten
permission from local authorities
to have racing and the stands
had fallen in and killed 500 people.
We would have been blamed"
Mr.. Woods said that by "hard-
ship" he meant one of the loop
holes in the law restricting con-
struction because of the housing
shortage except in cases of hard
ship, but Senator Mccarthy told
him that in this case Mr.. Woods
had an lawfully tortured inter-
probation Of the law"
The Senator Mccarthy wanted
to know what happened between
January 8 (the date Of Mr.. Woods
visit to the White House, and
January 13 to make the hardship
greater.
Expected Public Reaction.
In reply Mr.. Woods began by
saying that the permit was ready
at that time, but he was checking
to be sure every point was cor
rect because realized this being
race track there would certainly
be a lot Of public reaction"
"On January 12." he added,
Gen. Vaughan came to my office
with Eugene Mort tpresiient of
the track. Vaughan did the talk
ing. At that time, he said would
we please hurry up because there
was something before the Cali
fornia Racing Commission and If
these peopH' didn't 80 ahead with
the building they would lose their
franchise"
by please hurry up" Senator
cCarthy interpolated. "he meant
please hurry up and grant the
|permit."
Biggest Recreation Permit.
Mr.. Woods argued that the per-
nit was granted only to meet the
health and safety condemnation,
but Senator Mccarthy observed
that the track company built a
beautiful clubhouse. The legisla-
tor also commented that the per-
NIT was for $150,000 worth OF
construction, the largest permit
for any recreation facility during
the time Mr.. Woods and his pred
ecessor were in Office.
Meantime, as a result OF dis
closures at the hearing, Presiden-
tial Press Secretary Charles G.
Ross was asked if President Tru-
man was still willing for Gen
Vaughan to testify. Mr.. Ross said
yes, adding that the President has
mot contradicted himself"
Maragon Role Unexplained.
On the basis of testimony put
into the record. this was the time
table of the Tanforan case:
In October, 1947-probably
around October 24-three men
came to the Office of the Housing
Expediter to find out how they
could get construction underway
again. They were Mr.. Mori,
who said he was president OF the
firm in the new group of owners;
Samuel p. Orlando, secretary OF
the corporation, and John Mara
gon, the friend of Gen. Vaughan
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