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144 / THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
Mr. and Mrs. Chambers told about certain meetings with the Hisses, but they never testified about the same meetings. Mr. Chambers said that around Christmas of 1937 the Hisses visited their Mount Royal Terrace house. But at other times he testified about a New Year's Eve party. Before the trial Mrs. Chambers said she did not remember ever seeing the Hisses at Mount Royal Terrace. But at this trial she said the Hisses celebrated their wedding anniversary there in December 1937. She said she saw the Hisses at Auchentoroly Terrace, but Mr. Chambers had no recollection of this. Mrs. Chambers said the two couples were together on New Year's Eve 1936. But we have a letter that Hiss wrote to his wife in Chap-paqua, New York, on December 29, 1936. She could not have received this letter before New Year's Eve. In it Mr. Hiss says how sorry he is that Timmy had exposed the other children to chicken pox. Mr. Hiss told his wife to stay in Chappaqua over the weekend. Mrs. Hiss did not return to Washington for New Year's Eve.
Chambers used aliases all the time. He told us that it was quite possible that he used the name Crosley.
After seeing Hiss a couple of times in his office and at lunch, Chambers said he needed a car and an apartment. Hiss generously offered his old apartment for two months at $60 per month including his old car. It was not a bad deal for Hiss. If Chambers
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