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Prosecution NXf itnesses / 55
Q* When you went to the guest house in Peterborough, did you see your name or the Hisses' names in the registry? A. No, our names were not in the book.
Chambers claimed that Hiss lent him $400 for a car, but the defense believed he got the money from his mother.
Q« In 1937, when you bought the farm in Maryland,
where did you get the $650 for it?
A* From my mother.
Q. In 1938, you bought a place in Baltimore. Where
did you get the $500 down payment?
A* From my mother.
The defense moved on to the crucial question of when Chambers left the party. On at least sixteen different occasions, he had said he quit the party in 1937. If he had left the party in 1937, he could not have gotten these documents from Hiss, for they were all dated the first three months of 1938.
Through the defense's questioning it was shown that Chambers stopped using false names in 1937. He had a telephone line under his own name in later 1937, and Mrs. Chambers used her own name on her driver's license at
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