Mr. BAUMAN. Now, what were some of the bodies with whom you interceded on behalf of some of these people that approached you? Mr. STOFBERG. Some of the bodies?

Mr. BAUMAN. Well, some of the boards.

Mr. STOFBERG. I would take people to the Zoning Board, the ABC Board, the Health Department-I imagine that sooner or later in the less than 10 years I was there I would probably have contacted most of the departments.

Mr. BAUMAN. Now, have you ever discussed any matters with the Zoning Board?

Mr. STOFBERG. The Zoning Board, that is the Board of Commissioners—well, let me say this.

We have two zoning bodies in the District of Columbia. You have your Zoning Commission, which is composed of your Board of Commissioners and the Architect of the Capitol and the representative of the Department of Interior.

You also have a lesser board which hears nothing but variances and exceptions to the Zoning Commission. That is composed of Mr. The CHAIRMAN. Do not tell us what it is composed of, just answer the questions.

Mr. STOFBERG. I am sorry, sir.

Mr. BAUMAN. When you were in the capacity you described you received requests from various people to make recommendations of attorneys in matters before the Zoning Board.

Mr. STOFBERG. That is correct.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did you make such recommendations?

Mr. STOFBERG. In those instances-when television first came to Washington

The CHAIRMAN. Please answer the question.

Mr. STOFBERG. Yes, I did.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did you recommend Harry S. Wender as an attorney in a certain case?

Mr. STOFBERG. In one case I recommended three attorneys including Mr. Wender.

Mr. BAUMAN. When was that?

Mr. STOFBERG. That was in 1946 or 1947 when Bamberger came here to start its plea to have a television station here.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did you speak to anybody on the Zoning Board about that matter?

Mr. STOFBERG. No. As I started to explain before, Mr. Gene Thomas, who was a former newspaperman here in the city, was then representing WOR-TV or Bamberger and he came to see Mr. Young and I was there in the office and he discussed the television case with Mr. Young and, of course, everyone was very much interested in television and it was at that time I recommended to Mr. Gene Thomas the three men.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did Mr. Wender give you any gifts or gratuities after you had recommended that case to him?

Mr. STOFBERG. He did. About a year and a half later at Christmastime I found on my desk a war bond in the sum of $500 which was in a Christmas package and a note from Mr. Wender.

I then called Harry-I have known him ever since I have been in the city-and asked him what this was for and he said, "Charlie, you were so good to me several years ago that"—I had practically for

gotten about it-he said, "You have no idea how well they treated me and I want you to have this gift.

And I was flabbergasted and he assured me it was perfectly all right, that he did it out of his own generosity-and I accepted it. Mr. BAUMAN. Did you recommend another such case to an attorney by the name of Philip Marenberg?

Mr. STOFBERG. In that instance, Mr. Bauman, Phil Marenberg, who just left the Federal Government and had started practice in Government agencies--he specializes in personnel cases-Jack Blank of Arcade Pontiac, with whom I have been visiting for the past 8 years, a good friend of mine, asked me if I could recommend someone, and I then recommended three attorneys including Mr. Marenberg. Mr. BAUMAN. Did you receive a gift from Mr. Marenberg at that time, or did your wife receive such a gift?

Mr. STOFBERG. Mr. Marenberg sent my wife a very lovely watch. I have since talked to him-of course, I did not ask him what it was for-and he said it was purely friendship because we had always exchanged gifts with each other, among the children-I have known him 12 years.

Mr. BAUMAN. I asked you before if you had ever exchanged such gifts of such value with Mr. Marenberg and you told me you had not. Mr. STOFBERG. My answer is still the same; they had never been of the same value.

Mr. BAUMAN. I believe you described this watch as being either platinum or gold, a diamond studded Longine lady's watch. Mr. STOFBERG. That is correct.

Mr. BAUMAN. Now, have you ever received any other gifts such as television sets or things of that kind?

Mr. STOFBERG. Around that same time, Mr. George Wasserman of George's Radio-and I have known him quite a while-asked me if I had a television and I said no and he said he would send in one in my house as a demonstrator, which he did.

Mr. BAUMAN. Do you still have that?

Mr. STOFBERG. I had it in the country and I told him I would return it because when I retired from the District Government my gift from them was a Telecrafter set

Mr. BAUMAN. I shall interrupt you, so we can keep moving along. How long did you have that television set?

Mr. STOFBERG. I have had that set about 3 years.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did you receive any gift of a refrigerator?

Mr. STOFBERG. No sir, I never have.

Mr. BAUMAN. Now, as a matter of fact, did you not tell me that Mr. Wash B. Williams gave you a nine-cubic-foot refrigerator in 1947 or 1948

Mr. STOFBERG. The circumstances, Mr. Bauman, were these: Mr. Wash Williams put money out for me, he paid $153.70 because he could get it for me wholesale and they were rather difficult to get at that time and he was more or less tied up with the refrigerator business and he told me he would get one for me, which he did, and I have since paid him for it.

Mr. BAUMAN. But you paid Mr. Williams after you spoke to me; isn't that right?

Mr. STOFBERG. That is correct.

Mr. BAUMAN. And, as a matter of fact, up to the time you spoke to me you accepted it as a gift from him; isn't that right?

Mr. STOFBERG. I had told him whenever I had the money I would pay him for it, and I am sure if I had not wanted to pay for it he would have waited until I did-but my intention always was to pay for that.

Mr. BAUMAN. Do you know a man by the name of Albert Dicker? Mr. STOFBERG. Yes, I do.

Mr. BAUMAN. What is his occupation?

Mr. STOFBERG. He is the owner of the Pennsylvania Linoleum Co.

Mr. BAUMAN. And did Mr. Dicker make an installation of linoleum in your property?

Mr. STOFBERG. He did.

Mr. BAUMAN. Where was that?

Mr. STOFBERG. Edgewater Beach, Md.

Mr. BAUMAN. And what was the nature of the installation?
Mr. STOFBERG. He put some Kentile on my floor.

Mr. BAUMAN. When was that?

Mr. STOFBERG. 1948.
Mr. BAUMAN. 1948?

Mr. STOFBERG. 1948.

Mr. BAUMAN. As a matter of fact, Mr. Stofberg, you told me that you had some trouble with Mr. Dicker about the bill; is that right? Mr. STOFBERG. I did.

Mr. BAUMAN. And it turned out that the trouble was Mr. Dicker did not want to send you any bill at all; isn't that right?

Mr. STOFBERG. I didn't say that. I said, Mr. Bauman, if you recall, that there was a discrepancy in the price and that I thought he was asking more than it should be and that I finally settled with him and I have since paid him.

Mr. BAUMAN. You paid him—I want this record straight-my best recollection, Mr. Stofberg, and it is clear indeed, is that you told me you had trouble getting a bill from Mr. Dicker, and I believe Mr. Solomon was present in the room when you made that statement. Does that refresh your recollection?

Mr. STOFBERG. I don't deny it does refresh my recollection, but the truth of the matter is that Mr. Dicker, if I didn't want to pay it, would probably cancel it off his books, but I didn't want that, he would have accepted it as a gift or something of that nature, but I didn't want it. Mr. BAUMAN. As a matter of fact, you didn't pay Mr. Dicker until after you saw me; isn't that correct?

Mr. STOFBERG. That is correct.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did Mr. Dicker make any linoleum installations in any District buildings, to your knowledge?

Mr. STOFBERG. Not to my knowledge.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did his installations have to be approved anywhere? Mr. STOFBERG. Not that I know of.

Mr. BAUMAN. I believe you told me of an occasion when you attended the funeral of Major Barrett's mother, did you not?

Mr. STOFBERG. I did visit at Major Barrett's mother's house; yes. Mr. BAUMAN. Did you notice any of the floral tributes particularly? Mr. STOFBERG. There were many, many floral tributes.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did you notice one in particular and the source from which it came?

Mr. STOFBERG. I did.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did you see the name on this particular floral tribute! Mr. STOFBERG. I did.

Mr. BAUMAN. Tell the committee what the name was.

Mr. STOFBERG. The name was Warring.

Mr. BAUMAN. Did it have the full name on it?

Mr. STOFBERG. No; it did not-"Warring Family," I believe.
Mr. BAUMAN. Warring Family?

Mr. STOFBERG. Yes.

Mr. BAUMAN. Now, do you remember sometime after the Davis. Committee had heard about the Richitt incident, having a conversation with Mr. Maher?

Mr. STOFBERG. Yes; I do.

Mr. BAUMAN. And did that concern itself with certain statements that Mr. Barrett was supposed to be making?

Mr. STOFBERG. It did.

Mr. BAUMAN. And did Mr. Maher say something to you about the Richitt incident?

Mr. STOFBERG. Yes, he did.

Mr. BAUMAN. What did he say to you, without mentioning any particular incident involved?

Mr. STOFBERG. There was at that time a little ill feeling between Mr. Maher and Major Barrett, and I was hearing both sides, from Major Barrett and then from Mr. Maher.

Now, at that particular occasion Mr. Maher called on me and asked me for lunch with him, and when I met him he was quite disturbed about a reference that the major had made about a particular incident which I have told Mr. Bauman about, and his feelings were such that he said, to my best recollection, that "if he doesn't keep his mouth shut I will prove everything that Richitt alleged."

Mr. BAUMAN. And did you understand by that statement that he, Maher, was going to prove what Richitt had alleged about the relationship between Warring and Barrett?

Mr. STOFBERG. I understood by that statement, Mr. Bauman, that Richitt had made some statement at a prior time that Warring had referred to Major Barrett as the "chief," or the "boss," and it was' that that I thought Dan had in mind.

Mr. BAUMAN. I have no further questions.

Senator HUNT. I would like to ask the witness: What was your relationship with Major Barrett, was it friendly?

Mr. STOFBERG. Yes; I would say it was friendly, sir.

Senator HUNT. You never had any major disagreement you can think about?

Mr. STOFBERG. If we had, it was of a personal nature.

Senator HUNT. It was not a lasting disagreement that carried over any period of time.

Mr. STOFBERG. No, sir.

Senator HUNT. Thank you.

Senator PASTORE. Whatever happened to the $500 bond? Did you give it back or keep it?

Mr. STOFBERG. No, I did not, Senator, I invested it along with $1,300 in bonds in a restaurant up on Georgia Avenue, which I am sorry to say several weeks ago went into bankruptcy.

Senator PASTORE. Did you ever tell any of your superiors you had received this gift and decided to keep it?

Mr. STOFBERG. I don't think I told Mr. Young about it.

Senator HUNT. May I ask, how did you happen to leave your position with Commissioner Young?

Mr. STOFBERG. My brothers are in the furniture and manufacturing business in Baltimore, and my older brother, Sam, who has the bedding company, became in ill health around about September or October of 1950, with fainting spells, and he has a heart condition, and the family at that time decided that I was to leave the Commissioner's office and another brother of mine, Michael, who was with the Hecht Bros., was to leave Hecht, and we have since left both jobs and I did tell the Commissioner sometime ago, before I left, that I contemplated leaving.

Senator HUNT. There was no break in the friendly relationships with the Commissioner before you left?

Mr. STOFBERG. One of the proudest things I have, sir, is a very lovely letter from Mr. Young, which he penned with his own hand on the Monday that I left, and he told me how much he missed me. I received a letter from the Commissioner and his relations have always been very nice, he treated me very wonderfully while I was there.

Senator HUNT. Mr. Chairman and members of this committee, I want to express my thanks to the witness for being open and aboveboard and attempting apparently to hide nothing whatsoever and giving us the full benefit of the happenings while he was in the Commissioner's office.

Mr. STOFBERG. Thank you.

The CHAIRMAN. The subcommittee is adjourned until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.

(Whereupon, at 4:07 p. m., the subcommittee recessed to reconvene at 10 a. m., Tuesday, January 22, 1952.)