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Utah Digital Newspapers (University of Utah, Marriott Library) - 2026-10-03

Site: https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ (full-text OCR of Utah papers 1850s-1970s: Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake Telegram, Deseret News, Ogden Standard-Examiner, Daily Record and others). Access note: the site serves a JavaScript cookie challenge; it was passed by evaluating the script and sending the cookie it sets. Search URL pattern: /search?q=...&rows=200&sort=date_tdt asc. Page details /details?id=N; page PDF /file?id=N. Result: positive. Recheck: yes (new titles and years are added; only some queries were run).

Queries tried (hit counts)

  • "Henry Moray" (49), Moray "radiant energy" (7), "T. H. Moray" (102), "Moray Products" (5)
  • Moray Frazer (46), Moray shot (200, noise), "Dr. Moray" (18), Cosray (129), Moray Hagmann (2), "Murray O. Hayes" (157), Lovesy, Moray "rural electrification", Moray syphoning, Moray Sanford, "Research Institute" Moray, Moray uranium, Moray "cosmic"
  • Halleck Moray (6), "radiant energy" REA (23), Moray "radiant energy" 1944 (1), "Felix J. Frazer" (0), Frazer REA Moray (10)
  • Moray demonstration, Moray invention, Moray inventor, Moray "energy from", Moray electricity air, Moray transmutation, Moray gold ore (word searches; too noisy to use, not read through)

Not yet tried (next run): Moray restricted to 1925-1931 by year facet; "Moray" "Emigration Canyon"; "Strawberry" Moray 1926; Bringhurst; Steffenson; Moray "Securities Commission" 1938; Moray shooting March 1940; Cosmoray; ElRay; Moray Manufacturing; obituary May 1974.

Findings (all [web], pages read from OCR; key ones checked on the page image)

  1. 1944 Senate testimony on the REA and Moray - Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec 1944, p.9, "Lawmaker Hits Bureau Tieup With S. L. Engineer" (Chicago Tribune Press Service, Washington, 10 Dec). [web https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=28911552] [read: page image]. Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind.), "after reading testimony of the senate agriculture committee's investigation of the R E A", said "the testimony showed R E A paid Thomas Henry Moray of Salt Lake City $25 a day to perfect a system of syphoning 'radiant energy' from the air. The testimony said Feliz [sic] J. Frazer, an investigator for the works projects administration, spent two years 'assisting, begging, cajoling and threatening Moray to develop his radiant energy.'" Franklin P. Wood, REA engineer, "was sent to see radiant energy in the making" and reported: "Moray is unfathomable. In some inexplicable way he has, I believe, stumbled on to something that he himself cannot understand, but which, if it is all he thinks it is, will more profoundly affect the human race than any discovery in previous history." Moray "was kept on the R E A pay roll after the engineer's report"; "Moray worked from February, 1939, to February, 1941." Moray (2484 5th East) told the paper "he was not employed continuously by R E A, but worked from time to time with administration officials on his experiments." The Salt Lake paper omitted a sentence of the Wood quote that the Chicago Tribune printed (see the Internet Archive note). PDF: files/UDN_1944-12-11_SLTribune_p9_REA-paid-Moray-Senate-testimony.pdf. - Bears on Claim 6 (REA episode, Frazer). The 5th edition (digest p.184) dates Halleck's investigation to 1942 and calls it a congressional inquiry into Communist subversion; the contemporary press dates Halleck's statement to 10 Dec 1944 and says it drew on testimony to the Senate Committee on Agriculture (and Forestry) investigating the REA. It is the first source outside the Moray books that names Frazer, gives his agency (WPA) and the dates (Feb 1939 - Feb 1941, matching the 5th ed.'s "association ended February 1941"), and points to a printed Senate hearing that should contain the Frazer and Wood testimony and the Wood report.

  2. Third District Court judgment, 1942: Sanford v. Moray. Deseret News, 27 May 1942, p.15, and Salt Lake Telegram same day, p.24, "Judgments Entered": "James W. Sanford [OCR also 'Banford'] vs. T. H. Moray, plaintiff granted $1290 for defendant's failure to deliver stock for money invested in corporation to use radiant energy in aircraft." [web https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=25602932] [web https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=17033832]. Not mentioned in the folder's documents as far as the digests show. A "radiant energy in aircraft" corporation is new. PDF saved.

  3. Washoe County (Nevada) court notice, 1932. Salt Lake Tribune 27 Apr and 3 May 1932, p.17: legal notice "In the Second Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada, in and for Washoe County. In re Moray Products Company, a corporation ... Notice is hereby given that Thomas Henry Moray having filed a petition ... praying that said court appoint directors of Moray Products Company ... under the provisions of section 35 of [the Nevada corporations act]". [web https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=28958019] [web https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=28958209]. Independent confirmation that the Reno litigation existed, its court and its legal basis. Gives the court to query for the case file and the Hayes testimony.

  4. Moray Products stock traded in Salt Lake, 1932. Badger & Co. "unlisted stocks" tables list Moray Products (15 May, 19 Jun, 14 Aug 1932); classified ads "TRADE Moray radiant energy lighting stock ... for piano or car" (11, 13, 14 Feb 1932); "FOR SALE SHARES MORAY PRODUCTS COMPANY STOCK BEST OFFER TAKES IT. CHECK INSURANCE COMPANY, RENO NEV" (Salt Lake Telegram 8 Oct 1932). [web ids 28958527, 28959479, 30573901, 28956019, 28956063, 28956085, 16190172]. Consistent with the 5th ed. account of stock sold outside Moray's control.

  5. Other suits. Deseret News 14 Feb 1941 p.21, new suits, Third District: "E. H. Brewster & Son, et al., vs. Thomas Henry Moray, et al., $616.24 on contract" [web id 25592906]. Salt Lake Telegram 30 Dec 1947 and Tribune 6 Jan 1948: "Mrs. Henry Moray vs. J. E. Green and J. M. Christensen", judgment for defendants, no cause of action [web ids 17366409, 28979013]. Daily Record 25 Sep 1970 p.1, district court: "Research Institute and T. Henry Moray vs. Mark J. Hagmann; return of papers; [case] 195569" [web https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=29749860]. The 5th edition (digest p.278-279) prints an endorsement by "Mark J. Hagmann, Ph.D." stating he worked with Moray and was convinced of the work's validity; the 1970 suit shows that Moray and the Research Institute went to court against him for return of papers, so the relationship broke down. What the papers were is unknown.

  6. 1949 laboratory tour. Ogden Standard-Examiner 11 Mar 1949 p.9: Clearfield businessmen toured "the laboratories of Dr T H Moray"; "a cos ray machine reportedly quite successful in treating cancer"; "The doctor has done much work in transmutation of metals now being proved at Harvard university" (per city treasurer J. W. Cummings). [web https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=30889738]. Bears on Claim 5 (therapy claims extended to cancer in 1949, ahead of the 1963 FDA action).

  7. 1942 reader letter. Ogden Standard-Examiner 1 May 1942 p.9, letter by J. G. Teuscher: "In 1931 Dr T H Moray from Salt Lake City informed the world of his invention the 'Moray radiant energy device' ... Public statements ... were made by such men as Milton H Welling Secretary of state, H E Crockett, Thomas J Yates ... G W Gazolio [OCR] consul of Mexico" and asks who suppressed it. [web id 25941776]. Shows the suppression narrative circulating locally by 1942; not evidence of suppression.

  8. 1930 standing. Salt Lake Telegram 19 Sep 1930 p.11: a reader's list of ten greatest Utahns includes "Dr. Murray O. Hayes ... outstanding scientist in geology" and "T. Henry Moray, a scientist who has made wonderful inventions and discoveries". [web id 16142530].

  9. Family and address details (minor): 1926 dog-show judge; 1931 St. George visit with the Schmutz family; 1932 real-estate transfer to T. Henry Moray; 1936 Mrs Ella Moray's stallion embezzlement case (address 2481 [sic] Fifth East); 1952 engagement of John Eugene Moray to Emma Lou Romney; 1954 Lt John E. Moray in Okinawa; 1958 Richard Moray's wedding. Useful only for identity and dates.

Negative / red herrings

  • "Cosray" in Utah papers 1933-1955 is mostly a different product: "Cosray Vitamin D Skin Soap" and "Cosray Lotion" national advertising. Do not count these as Cosray therapy evidence.
  • No news coverage was found (with these queries) of the 1925-1931 demonstrations, the 1938 Securities Commission inspection or the March 1940 shooting. This is a gap, not a finding: the queries were word searches and OCR is poor. Retry with year facets.

Files saved

files/UDN_*.pdf (8 page PDFs: 1930-09-19, 1932-04-27, 1941-02-14, 1942-05-01, 1942-05-27, 1944-12-11, 1949-03-11, 1970-09-25).