Evening star., 1947-05-24
May Faces Further / III'
Quiz on Checking Out. IIIl|.
Funds From Gar sons
b. Robert K. Walsh

QkUSGCutQi6 A6ES yS9 AAA1A>AN 49, 49,
District Court trial on charges OF
war briAe conspiracy.
When the month-old trial OF May
and Henry and Murray Carson is
resumed Monday morning, the for
mer chairman Of the House Mili-
tary Affairs Committee is scheduled
to undergo ut least full day Of
further cross-examination.
I Seeking to break down Mays
story that he kept none OF the ap-
proximately $53, 900 sent him by the
Garssons, allegedly in return for
wartime services, Government Spe-
cial Prosecutor william A. Paisley
gave the n-year -old Kentuckian an
uncomfortable afternoon yesterday.
Mr.. Paisley painstadngly made
him admit he used Carson money
to pay income taxes and some other
personal expenses. May insisted.
however, he used equal amounts
of his own money to spend for the
GarssonS.
Denounces Investigators.
The question and answer ex-
change became so tense at one point
that May broke out with bitter
denunciation of Federal officials
who investigated his financial deal
ings.
II was nat on my back for three
months last year" he exclaimed
when Mr.. Paisley asked why a
financial account sheet read at this
trial differed in some items from a
similar summary given out by his
lawyers last September.
Il had no opportunity to make a
complete account" May continued.
All that time your agents were pill
iaging my bank accounts. They
should have known how spent the
money. One Of the banks fthe Ma
tional Bank of Washington was In
the very shadow of the Department
of Justice. Your agents even
wanted to know how much spent
for flowers for my wife's funeral. !"
Questioned on $3.50 Check.
Mr.. Paisley handed May a record
OF deposits and Withdrawals on
Mays personal account in the First
National Bank at Prestonsburg, KY.
Reading from a ledger sheet, Mr..
Paisley said in quiet, drawing
voice, that the record showed May
had a balance of $3.50 in the ac-
count in March, 1943, when he de-
posted a check for $3.50, drawn on
the Batavia Metal Products, Inc,
an Illinois company in the $78,000.-
600 Carson munitions chain.
The lanky, bald-headed Govern
ment prosecutor then asked May
for detailed explanation of Is
Withdrawals which reduced the bal
ance from $1,926 to $3402. Each OF
these Withdrawals, May admitted,
was for personal expenses and none
was for the Cumberland Lumber Co.,
of which. May claims he was unpaid
Kentucky agent, for the Garrsons.
The Government charges the lum-
Der company was set-up by which
the Garssons paid bribes to the
former Representative. e
Paid on Store Bills.
May said, for example, that
$695.16 withdrawal was for payment
of his Federal income taxes to the
collector in Kentucky. Other checks,
he disclosed, included $110.l9 for
payment of bill he owed Wood
ward 81 Lothrop Co., $29.13 for pay
ment Of q Julius Garfinckel b Co.
bill, $15.65 to the Roosevelt Hotel
where he lived, $296.79 for school
tuition for a grandson here, $75.02
for his daughter, Mrs. Olga Latta,
and various other checks, many
made out to "Cash."
May explained that he deposited
Carson checks both in his personal
account and the lumber company
account In the Prestonsburg &C
count.
How much OF that 81 $50 check
was spent for the Cumberland COM
pany2" Mr.. Paisley demanded.
"All OF it," May insisted ut was
replaced by me in the Cumberland
account in the bank"
No Distinction in Accounts.
"Was there no distinction between
the Andrew J. May account and the
Cumberland account in your fiscal
affairs?"
That's correct" May replied. II
checked out the money in the most
convenient way. But all of the
money got from the Garssons was
spent on the lumber company" I
handled my personal account just
like the lumber company account.
I drew money on whichever one was
available, but ultimately checked
all the money out for the Garssons'
benefit"
Mr.. Paisley then produced the
National Bank of Washington rec
ord of q 5000 check drawn on the
Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc, a
Carson company, in August, 1914.
This check was indorsed by Murray
Carson and cashed by May as the
second indorser. May testified
previously he deposited $4,000 and
took 81 900 ia cash, which he gave
to Joseph F. Freeman, Carson
Washington agent, to be returned to
Carson at Garsson's request.
Payments Recounted.
May told Mr.. Paisley he wrote a
50, ,6O6 check and sent 1t Immediately
TO the Cumberland Lumber Co. for
operating expenses. Later he gave
81 800 in cash as legal fee to AL
bert Levin, a Carson lawyer who
since has died, he said. He took
that money from his onice safe, but
later reimbursed himself from Cars
son money, he explained.
AS court adjourned for the week
end Mr.. Paisley was asking May to
explain seven personal expense
checks he apparently drew on that
account.
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