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Show Gift of Money To NLRB Case VWness Told WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (UP) C W. Whittemore, national labor relatione board trial examiner, told the house NLRB investigation investiga-tion today that he gave four $1 bills to at- negro who testified sgslnst the Alma mills, Gaffney, S. C, In a board ease which Whittemore Whitte-more was healing. Whittemore told of the Incident after the house committee heard a letter from Whittemore to Chief Trial Examiner George O. Pratt describing a visit he had made with Warren Woods, NLRB attorney, at-torney, to the house of Sara Bailey, negro unionist who had been discharged dis-charged by the Alma company la 1938. Whittemore was not asked why he left the money with Bailey, but the letter Indicated that It was a Christmas present. "We left Sam a handful of small bills," Whittemore wrote Pratt "He gave them to his voluminous wife 'Ah reckon our little chap-pies'll chap-pies'll have a Christmas, after alL' But there was no groveling as he thanked his lawyer and 'de ledge.' " ' |