The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-15
Merry -Go-Round

WASHINGTON July 15-n all the history of that fabulous character Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky and his family compiled in one vol ume, it would make novel more unbelievable than fiction.
 The only other unbelievable thing is that grown men in the War Department with the responsibility of millions of lives on their shoulders should not have seen through the Congressman from Kentucky long ago. If they had read past references to May in the Washington ryGo-Round or kept the usual clipping morgue operated by efficient news paper, they would not today be so red-faced when called before the Mead Committee
 But they did not even bother to consult FBI files the records of the Justice Department Instead, Secretary of War Patterson humbly went up to Congressman Mays office when summoned So did Pattersons aide the present Undersecretary of War, Brig. Gen. Kenneth Royall. In Washington Cabinet members or sub-Cabinet members do not call on CongresSmen; it's the other way around Reason why the War Department chiefs groveled be- fore May will be told later.
 Before Secretary Patterson entered the War De- partment, he very able judge the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Had he bothered to do little checking the Chairman of the Military Affairs Committee with whom he had to do so much busi ness, he would have found revealing record in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
 The record would have shown that Mays brother inaW and cousin sent to jail for relief frauds back in the old Civil Works Administration days and that Mays political machine burned down the coun ty courthouse in Mays home town in order to de- stroy the relief records and prevent the conviction RdJuelSOn also WOQlQ nave discovered that IA or Mays friends and political supporters went to jail for relief frauds, and that May appeared their at torney.
 A Congressman is not supposed to take against the Federal Government He is paid by the Federal Government and is supposed to be the ser want of the Federal Government Therefore it is penitentiary offense to profit from handling against the Federal Government. Perhaps the ebul- lient Andrew Jackson May got around this the technicality that he did not profit. Anyway he appeared in court shamelessly and brazenly to de- fend of the worst relief frauds in U. s. history
 Furthermore, if the Mead Committee would dig into the files of the Post Office Department, they would find that May exerted all of pressure have the case dropped. He used hls influence Congressman in exactly the way he did on be- half of the Erie Basin war profiteers
 What happened that, back in 1884, Harry Hopkins and his CWA staff found that in Mays home town of Prestonburg and the surrounding coun- ty, 112 percent of the people relief-n other words, more people than in the county. Mays Walt Stumbo had dug up hundreds of names ot people later identified buried in the cemetery
 Mays brother-in-laW, J. D. Mayo, a grocer was Ill on the racket So was his cousin Curtis w. May Who ran the Kreuger Baker and Grocery Company Both went to jail Mrs Mayo, wife of Mays broth er-n-law was ill the County Relief Committee while nleee also vas employed there.
 This was how the racket opera ed
 The County Relief Committee gave a relief