BROWNING ©... COMPANY ST. LOUIS, MO. December Mr. M. Ae Browning, JM. & M.S. Browning Ogden, Utah, l5th, 1931. Company, Z Dear Marriner: gape aE ; A SEERA 4 F a Dali a aaa itl ust Mr. H. Me me a visit paid Gillman, Customs Agent out of the Chicago under instructions from the New York After properly identifying himself, which I verified by telephone with the local Customs Office, he explained he would like to have information concerning the entered value on superposed Gun, that the I promptly told him that I «would gladly give him any information he wanted. He was pretty 'foxy' in that he said that if we cared to compile the information and have it available for him tomorrow, he would call then; whereupon, I promptly suggested that he get it now, since we could give it to him as easily then as if he called tomorrow. Furthermore, that we would be glad to give him full information and he might take it from our records, if he so chose, I explained the procedure by which we had established the foreign value on the Superposed gun and showed him commercial invoices in substantiation of the Consular invoices, which, as you know, are cancelled checks Factory with the given to the Customs Office, I so he could compare the amounts amounts shown on the commercial also showed him wevactually paid the and Consular invoices, We then discussed unrelated matters a bit proved to be a sort of sensible and likable type, though, of I was as tactfully on guard as my wits would permit, and he course, I finally asked him just why he came here, after having satisfied him, as I felt that we had nothing to hide, and he frankly told me that a complaint from a souree unknown to him, had been made to the Collector in New York concerning the entered value of our whose guns, He read a letter to me which explained that some name was not given in the letter, claimed to be Superposed guns and found that they had to enter it at $55.00 one, importing this alleged importer stated that we were getting the benefit mach lower rate, namely, $34.50. Consequently, this alleged importer had asked for this investigation, our whereas of a i then told him briefly of the experience we had had with the Automatic shotgun and that we had succeeded in getting | the value of that gun established, but after considerable difficulty. I also related briefly the tariff difficultieswe had in the last Congress. I did not make any definite statements or blame anyone definitely, but simply gave him the story and he was plainly interested.