Evening star., 1947-03-20
'HenryGarsson,
Aide Indicted on
Perjury Counts
Grand Jury Testimony
Of Munitions Chief
And Freeman Cited
By WiIIiom 6. Pollard

| A special District grand jury
today returned two indictments
charging Henry M. Carson, who
has been described as the
"brains" of a wartime munitions
empire, and Joseph F. Freeman,
Washington representative of
the Garssons, with giving pre-
jured testimony before the Janu-
ary grand jury.
The indictment against Carson
contains two counts. One charges
that last November 27 he testified
before the grand jury that he had
not seen certain invoices from the
Cumberland Lumber Co. to Erie
Basin Metal Products, Inc, until
the latter part of 1945.
The indictment charges he knew
he had seen the invoice approxi-
mately year before that time.
The invoices in question, it was
said, were dated October IL, 1914,
in the amount of $12,355.65; Octo-
Der %, 1914, in the amount of $12,-
436.45, and November 2, 1914, in tha
amount of $8,36439.
Lumber Invoices Delivered.
The second count charges that
Carson told the grand jury he
had not delivered the lumber com.
pany invoices to Harry S. Click,
Identified as an employe of Erie
Basin, and did not know who had
delivered them. The indictment
charges, however, that Carson had
personally made the delivery to
Click.
Two counts in the indictments
against Freeman accuse him Of
perjury. Count one charged that
Oh December 8. 1916, he falsely tes-
titled before the grand jury that
he had never requested Edward D.
Feldman to contribute to the CAM
paign of former Representative An
drew j. May of Kentucky, who was
chairman of the House Military AZ
fairs Committee.
Feldman was an officer of the At
las Carbon & Clay Corp. of Los An
geles and Freeman was the WASH
ingten representative of that cor
poration. it was said.
$1,000 Check for May.
Count two accused Freeman of
telling the grand jury he understood
Feldman had sent former Repre-
sentative May $1,000 and that he
had learned this at a later date
during an investigation conducted
by the FBI. The indictment charges
that actually Feldman gave Free
man check for $1,000 on October
6, 1914, and that Freeman caused
the check to be delivered to former
Representative May.
The check was dated October II.
1914, and made payable to r. v.
May, SON of the House member,
the indictment said.
The District code under which the
indictments were returned provides
that person convicted of perjury
shall be imprisoned for not less than
two or more than 10 years, United
States Attorney George Morris Fay
said.
Conspiracy Charged.
In January grand jury indicted
the Carson brothers, Henry and
Murray; Freeman and former Rep
resentative May of conspiracy to
defraud the Government.
May was specifically charged with
accepting at least $4,000 and agree
ing to accept $50, ,63407 from his CO.
defendants for services rendered in
attempting to win favors from the
War Department:
The others, the indictment said,
conspired to bring the influence of
May to bear on Army officers to
further the interests of the NUM-
tions combine headed by thesGars-
sons. In all, the men were indicted
for 35 covert acts
Motions asking for dismissal Of
the indictments are still under ad-
visement in District Court.s