Evening star., 1947-06-28
Long Court SESSIONS l|
May Put Carson Case
Upie jury Wednesday
BY Robert K. WoIsh

The 500, ,00o-word trial Of former
Representative Andrew j. May and
Henry and Murray Carson was in
recess In District Court today, while
opposing counsel warmed up for an
other 10 or Ia hours OF closing
arguments to the jury Monday and
Tuesday.
The 72-year-old former chairman
OF the House Military Affairs Com
mittee heard himself personifled
yesterday afternoon as the wartime
once of the Garssons In Washing
ton He was attacked by Govern
ment prosecutors as conspirator
with the munition-making Carson
brothers In a bribery scheme to
profit from the war emergency.
May Go to Jury Wednesday.
The case, which began April ~
and had 1ls witnesses. 53S exhibits
and a wordage exceeding 1,500 900,
Is expected to go to the jury by
Wednesday noon. Justice Henry A.
schweinhaut said he hopes this can
be done without night sessions next
week. but with considerably longer
daily hours beginning at 8 am. and
continuing to about s pm.
Bernard J. Vincent and Ellis l..
Arenson, Special Assistants to the
Attorney General, yesterday used
total Of two hours and 40 minutes
of the eight hours allotted their
side. Special Assistant John T. M.
Redden will continue Monday for
another two hours.
Defense counsel then will start
summing up, with Sawyer Smith, a
former United States District At
torney In Kentucky, scheduled to
lead of for May. Perry w. Howard,
Washington attorney and Repub-
lican national committeeman from
Mississippi, will speak for an hour,
and Charles J. Margiotti, chief
counsel for the Garssons. is slated
for five hours late Monday and
Tuesday. Chief Prosecutor William
A. Paisley is to wind up with
rebuttal for the Government.
Payment Evidence Cited.
May and Garssons are being tried
on charges of conspiracy to defraud
the United States, principally by
alleged bribes totaling more than
SIS, 900 paid by the munition makers
to May In return for services to
their s78 1000, 900 chain of companies.
Mr.. Arenson told the jury of
various payments shown to have
been made by the Garssons to May,
mostly through the Cumberland
Lumber Co. in Kentucky. Mr.. Vim
cent traced. the numerous visits, tele-
phone calls and letters of May to
War Department officials in behalf
Of the Garssons.
1T is significant" Mr.. Vincent
said. that his contracts for the
Garssons we're always with the War
Department over which he had some
jurisdiction as chairman of the
Home Military Affairs Committee.
Holds May Real Office"
"It Is significant that all the Army
officials who testified here said that
Erie Basin Metal Products, Inc,
and Batavia Metal Products, Inc,
lIllIlOlS VI bllC
were the only ones May ever called
about. He kept after those officers
all the time. He was constantly
on the neck of 1t. Gen. Levin Camp
bell, chief of ordnance"
Referring to the Thomas Circle
ofice maintained by the Garssons
In Washington during the war and
headed by Murray Carson and
Joseph F. Freeman, Mr.. Vincent
declared that was not the real Cars
son office. r.
Whose Job was it to contact those
Generals he asked. WAS it the
Job of the expediter Freeman? No!
Was 1t Murray Garsson's? No! Who
was the Carson Washington office?
It was Andrew. ]. May May was
their real Washington Office, and
his duty was to contact those Army
officers"