Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-05-19

Farms and the Summer Camp
by Local IL, been audited?
Al don't know what you
mean by audited" Do you
mean by an auditor, or what?
Q-By an auditor.
Al would assume the fell
lows from Detroit who made the
audit, would know.
Q-But you don't know
whether they made such an au-
dit, or not?
A-Well, they are clear down
to 1949.
! Q-Are you referring now to
the men from Detroit who were
here up to last week?
A-No, others from Detroit.
They've been here since No
vember.
I Q-Do you mean auditors
have been there since Novem-
Der?
Ayes.
4 Q-Are they still working
there?
A-To my knowledge they
are, but | haven't seem them for
day or two.
+ Q-Within your recollection
have they gone into the items
OF purchases and all items of
that nature?
A-Yes. To the best of my
knowledge they have.
/ Q-These are all auditors
from Mr.. Mazey's office in De-
troit?
A-Thats right.
/ Q-Have you ever been asked
to sign any blank checks.
A-Well, was sent a note
that I should sign a blank one,
and that / could fill 1t In after
ward.
Q-Who sent you that note?
A-Gosser.
Q-Mr. Goser sent you a note
ordering you to sign a blank
check which would be filled out
afterward?
A-Well, do the three of US /
think 1t was, Mr.. Seren and Mr..
Meyers and myself. know /
got copy of it. That's all I know
about it. i don't remember SO
much about the wording.
Q-You did not comply with
that order, did you?
/ A-No. / did not comply with
it?
I Q-Had you refused TO sign
other blank checks?
Al just haven't done II.
Q-Do you know whether Mr..
Seren or Mr.. Meyers have sign
ed any blank checks which were
to be filled out afterward?
Al don't know that.
Q-So that you wouldn't know
then, whether in fact they did
sign any such checks?
A-Not to my knowledge -
mean as far as could say gen.
orally, and so forth.
/ Q-You never have signed
any blank checks?
MR.. STEINBERG: Objection.
think he has answered that.
1 Well, l might have signed
a few, based on my being gone
and wouldn't have the time to
make them out, and SO forth. i
have done that - occasionally !
mean, but very seldom.
(NOTE: As q matter of
fascinating fact, Gray tDos
not going to sign the pay
checks for the girls in the
dues office - the ones Dho
quit in his support-on the
day he gaze this testimony.
Not until a delegation
cornered him with the
checks did he finally sign
them, grudgingly, so the
girls could get til cir
money!
/ Q-Now within your knowl-
edge, Mr.. Gray, were any OF the
many items purchased for the
Summer Camp or the Farms
ever sent TO the Wili-O-Land
Sportsmen's Club?
A-That I wouldn't know be-
cause I'm not up there.
Odd anyone ever tell you
that that condition existed?
A-Outside of just that had
heard rumors of stuff being bor-
rOwed. is all.
Q-Were those rumors from
people who should know?
Al mean that's all i know
about it from people who were
at the Camp. don't 60 up there
myself.
Q-People who were at the
camp advised you that material
purchased for the Camp was be-
ing sent to Will-O-Land?
A-No, not that they sent 1t;
they might have borrowed some
thing. It's possible that they bor-
o w e d something, but they
should have returned it.
Q-Within your knowledge
what was borrowed by Will-O-
Land?