THE FLYNN AFFAIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1943, Page 3

THE FLYNN AFFAIR

SENATE INQUIRY

ALLEGATIONS DENIED

(Rec. 11 am.) WASHINGTON, January 25. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has heard the evidence on the allegation that Mr. Edward Flynn, who has been appointed Ambassador to Australia, is not a fit person for the appointment, having had cityowned paying blocks used on his estate. Decision is deferred. Robert Moran, former public works commissioner for the Bronx, said there was nothing wrong with the ar-' rangement by which city employees! laid paving blocks in the courtyard of Mr. Flynn's Lake Mahopac estate. In October, 1941, he said, Mr. Flynn told him he wanted a parking lot at Lake Mahopac filled with granite blocks and asked him to consult in his spare time with Mrs. Haas, who was landscaping on the estate. "Mr. Flynn asked me to get a private contractor to do the work and also to <see he wasn't overcharged. It was customary for me to advise taxpayers who had problems about their property. The materials were hauled in private trucks, and city employees laid the blocks, working in their own time, and were paid by Mr. Flynn." He added that when Mr. Kern began the investigation, he supplied all the data he wanted, because he knew there was nothing wrong. Fred Dennerlein, foreman of one paving-block gang, told him he would get the blocks from some dump if Moran arranged for the trucks, which he did, at a cost of 17 dollars a load. If he had wanted to be dishonest, there were 30 city trucks available. He had engaged private trucks in order that Mr. Flynn and he would not be involved. He said he had not been sponsored by Mr. Flynn during his years of public service. He owed nothing to him and sought nothing from him. Mrs. Haas was charged approximately 300 dollars for the work, plus 404 dollars for the cost of trucking. <: POLITICS IN NEW YORK. Mr. Moran said he had retired on a pension because the paving-block investigations had caused himself and his family great distress and embarrassment. Politics in New York was at present not a place for an honest man. Concerning Mr. Harland's charge that he acted as major-domo for Mr. Flynn and was responsible for the use of city materials and labour on Mr.