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Show -HALT AGAIN IN DEN91E CASE Armstrong for the Second Time Refuses to Give Testimony. SAN" FRANCISCO, Dec. 9. Grand jury invci'tigntlon on behnlf of the city and county of ian Francisco into irregularities irregulari-ties charged in a report hy John B. Pensniore, director general of the federal employment bureau, in connection with the cases of Thomas J. Mooney and others, received another check tonight when William J. Armstrong, said to have assisted Den? more in his investigation, for a second time refused to testify. Two weeks ago Armstrong was called and declined to give testimony, saying he had been advised not to do so by the Fnlted States district attorney here. This the ft-deml attorney afterwards denied. Armstrong is a sailor. Tonight he de- ""uared he would not testify on the ground Lh.it he m.irht incriminate himself. W Charles M. Kiekert. district attorney in whose office a dictaphone was installed by Pensmor's staff, according to Dens-riore's Dens-riore's report, liris threatened prosecution prosecu-tion of those makinsr the installation under un-der an ".inti-wirM tapping" statute. K. F. Tower, assistant attorney general, n Anted by the attorney g.r.eral of California Cali-fornia to siipervi:: the in estimation, was preent ns h-eai adviser of tr..- srrand jury. Alter it had adjourned until nexi V Thiiretiav, he gaw oi.t a Pt-itenier.t eritl-x eritl-x t-ising the department of labor for what hi characterized as failjrtr to co-operate with the state in th inquiry in that Oensmore was not pn-sent to testify and that Armstrong declined to testify. |