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DIRECTOR, FBI dune 7, 1949 SAC, MIL®AUKEE : JAY LAVIE WAITTAREL 6. ADBENS, GAS., ET aL | PSRIURY; ESPIONAGE + BR; IN(HUiaL SECURITY ~ R Rebulet May 24, 1949. Mr. THOMAS F. oRADY, 2126 ‘fenominee River Parkway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was reinterviewed concerning the bcodstock typewriter he sold to HARRY MAHTIN and his partner FasoléR in Philadelphia in the year 1927. In again relating hia recollection of the sale of a typewriter to PANSLER and MARTIN, GRADY pointed ovt that the sale must have been in the year 1927 for the reason that after GRADY left the employ of the Woodstock Typewriter Company in December 1927 he never again was in the business of selling typewriters and, furthermore, it could not have been prior to 1927 for the reason that vAaRY KMARTIX was not in business for himself selling insurance unbil about the middle of 1927, and GRADY is sure that he made the sale shortly after FANcLcR and MARTIN became associated in the insurance business. He stated that while his recollection is that he dealt with MARTIN, it could very well be that FANSLER signed the order but he has ne reeollection regarding this. It was pointed out to GRADY that ANS COYLE did not go to work for FANSLER and WARTIN until the fall 1928 and thut she could, therefore, not have tried out the typewriter before it was seld, if he sold it in 1927. GRADY stated that he never was positive that ANn COYLE had tried out the typewriter he sold to FANSLER and sARTIN and that he could very well be confused on this matter fcr two reasons, the first being thet he was | acquainted with MARTIN over a period of several years, including the two | years he, himself, sold insurance for Northwestern Mutual and does not believe that he recalls the period of Asi COYLE's employment. The second reason for his confusion in this regard was a practice they had in selling typewriters where a "junior salegman" would go around various offices and leave a typewriter on trial with a stenographer in that office. A week or so later one of the salesman would follow up and attempt to sell the typewriter. It was his original recollection that this procedure wag followed in the ease of the sale of the typewriter to FASSLER and MARTIN, but he is not at all sure on this point. WRALY had bean following the events of the HISS trial in the | newspapers and remarked he noticed HISS had preduced a typewriter. It was pointed out to him that the typewriter produced by HISS, according to co records, was manufactured in the year 1929 and was a Mode mpany , year 19 i * Pei $87, 65-786 leno fA end Yrs ea ot riLaoese At ff AMSD hesndur triaded . eae _ ce: York (AMSD) Philadelphia (AMSD)