Evening star., 1947-05-23

tinued, a prominent Washington
lawyer" told him at a dinner that
the War Department was invest1-
eating about something" May
testified that he got in touch with
various War Department officers
and was told there was nothing to
the report.
The first he knew about the SEN
ate War Investigating Committee
inquiry, May declared was when
George Meader and Francis Flana-
gan, chief counsel and assistant
counsel Of that committee, came to
| his office and asked for whatever
records he had of the Cumberland
company.
It was at this point that Mr..
Margiotti asked May about the
operations of the Senate War In
vestigating Committee. May ex-
planned that the House Military
Affairs and the Senate War Investi-
eating Committee had gentleman's
agreement whereby they would not
duplicate Investigations OF any
phase of the, war effort. May de-
clared that he made that agreement
with the then Senator Truman,
chairman of the Senate group before
Senator Mead succeeded him early
in 1945.
WAS Senator Mead active in the
investigation against you?" Mr..
Margiotti asked.
Objection Is Sustained.
Special Government Prosecutor
william A. Paisley jumped to his
feet and objected and the objection
was sustained by Justice Schwein-
haut.
"Was Senator Mead a candidate
for Governor of New York at the
time?" Mr.. Margiotti went on.
Before Mr.. Paisley could object,
May answered, YES"
Justice Schweinhaut then called
the opposing counsel to the bench
and. after brief discussion, in
structed the jury to disregard the
questions and answers concerning
Senator Mead.
Mr.. Margiotti then turned to
questions concerning orders sent W
Carson companies in Illinois to the
Cumberland company.
"Was any lumber ever delivered to
the Illinois companies?" he asked.
II was In Washington all the
time" May replied. II don't know
If there was but I was under the
impression that if any was sent,
it was q very small amount.
In Yesterdays testimony the Mayor,
a minister, a bank president,
county Judge and others from Mays
home town of Prestonsburg, KY, said
that May had a good reputation for
truth, honesty, integrity and fair
dealing"
witnesses Provide Respite.
Nav hao a brief breathing spell
when the defense obtained permis-
sion to call the six character wit
nesses from Kentucky. Warren E.
Magee, counsel for May, disclosed
he had great difficulty finding hotel
rooms for them and did not wish to
detain them longer In Washington.
Prestonsburg witnesses who praised
MAYS reputation in his home COM
munity were the Rev. William B.
CARROT, Methodist minister; B.
M. Spurlock, president OF the
First National Bank; James B.
Hurt, secretary-treasurer of coal
mining company: Mayor Edward P.
Arnold, woodrow Burchett, county
attorney of Floyd County, KY, and
County Judge Alexander l.. David
son.
When May resumed the stand, he
told how he first met Joseph F.
Freeman, Washington agent tor
the Garssons, in 1910 at an embassy
reception. The late Senator William
G. McAdoo introduced Freeman to
him, he said.
| Later he met Murray Carson with
Freeman at the House restaurant
and Henry Carson about a year
later. His first dealings with Muir
ray Carson, he said, were in West
Virginia manganese company prof.
ect.
This, he said. was before he ever
heard of the Batavia Metal Prod
uets. Inc, and Erie Basin Metal
Products, Inc. Illinois afhliates In
the Carson chain. In the spring