Evening star., 1951-02-27

De worried II anyDOQy owed Hlill
that much money.
Thanked for Information.
"He thanked me for calling and
told me he would get in touch
with me later in the day."
Meanwhile, Mr.. Fedder said, his
attorney, Marvin Braitherman
also got into collection difficult
ties" when he talked with Mr.
Jonkel, whoSeportedly was quite
agitated."
He was advised by his attorney
the witness sal, that if he held
his ground he would receive legal
ly binding assurances that the
money would be Forthcoming
prior to distribution.
This proved to be the case,
Mr.. Fedder continued. "for al
about pm. November 2, Senator
Buffers personal guarantee of my
account, together with his COM
pliments for the quality of my
work was delivered to my office
I considered this very responsible
assurance of payment, and was
quite satisfied"
$4,000 Added to Sum.
On November 8, Mr.. Fedder said,
Mrs. Van Dyke called and said
she had $4,000 to add to So, ,240
brought over by Miss Kerr" The
witness said these amounts added
to $1,000 given him the previous
day by Mrs. Van Dyke made a
total of $8,240 "for the sole pur-
pose of getting immediate release
of the paper from the record.
While Mr.. Buffers letter OF
guarantee covered my entire ac-
count" Mr.. Fedder said. he still
considered the job was on a
COD. basis, Notwithstanding
the guarantee" a.
On November 4, the witness
said, his attorney gave him a
letter addressed to Mr.. Butler
extending credit for the balance
due.
Il took this letter to campaign
headquarters where it was signed
by Mr.. Butler. 1t was at this time
I gave Mr.. Butler official post
Office receipts covering the letters
addressed by Mrs. Meyers and
the mailing of From the Record
On Saturday we delivered all the
remaining printed matter to the
Annapolis headquarters, Towson,
the Lord Baltimore Hotel head
quarters, and to Marse S.
Galloway"
Wife Excited BY Call.
Mr.. Fedder said that he was
expecting a call from Mr.. Surine
on the evening of November 4,
and he telephoned his home to
find if the call had been received
my wife was very excited
nearly hysterical. She said that
two men had spoken threaten
ingly about my having left home, y
he said. "They had threatened te
come to my house in spite of hel
pleas that they wait for my call
and in spite of her reiterating that
she and my children were in bee
and that I was not there.
THE reasons for my being out
that I had to pick up the COM
pleted work before the workers
went to sleep-did not interest
them. They screamed at her thai
didn't matter, and the workers
didn't matter, but that they were
coming for me and I had better
be there-that I had $4,000 cards
and had better have them DONE
The witness said his wife pre-
vailed on the callers not to come
by his home but to leave tele-
phone number for him to cal
instead. When he returned the
call, Mr.. Fedder said, Il was
frightened, too, and very upset
The number turned out to be
phone booth in the lobby of the
Emerson Hotel"
Was Afraid and Nervous.
"The fellow at the other ent
of the line asked me how many
cards I had. 7 said there were
about 5000 or 5000. He roaret
at this-got excited because there
were so few. I was afraid ane
nervous and completely exhaust
ed. I could not take his abus'
so I thought I might appease hin
till I got downtown by telling
him that one large group of card'
was already mailed, though thi:
was not so. This did no good
1t made him angrier yet. He sait
I had no right to do this on my