Evening star., 1947-06-20
Details on Payments
By Garssons Withheld
u. 5. Agent Testifies
By Robert K. Welsh

An Internal Revenue Bureau
agent testified in District Court
today that Henry Carson with
held from the Government in
1945 information as to who re-
ceived $35, 900 advanced by Cars
son munitions companies to the
Cumberland Lumber Co.
The witness, John r. Royer, said
at the May-Garsson war bribe trial
that Henry Carson promised to
provide detailed explanation, but
never did.
The Cumberland Lumber Co, the
prosecution charges, was a Ken
lucky setup by which Henry and
Murray Carson paid former rep
resentative Andrew j. May more
than $4,000 in bribes in return for
favors he did for their $4,000, 900
munitions combine while he was
chairman of the HOUSE Military At
fairs Committee.
Mr.. Rogers story of the confer
ence he had with Henry Carson
and other officials of Carson IL
linois companies in November, la45,
differed considerably from the yer
sion given by Henry Carson On the
witness stand earlier this month.
Asked About Money.
The internal revenue agent said
that at the conference he asked
Carson about the purpose and ulti-
mate disposition of the money ad-
vanced to the. lumber company by
the Erie, Basin Metal Products, Inc.
and the Batavia Metal Products,
Inc, Carson affiliates. Carson
told him, he said, that the money
represented advances for materials.
Il had some information which
I didn't disclose at the time con-
cerning the actual receiver Of the
advances" Mr.. Roger declared. Il
didn't ask Carson who the Cuniber-
land Lumber CO. was because I
knew. 9Garsson promised to furnish
further information about the ad-
yances, but he never did"
Earlier in the trial, Henry Cars
son asserted that he did not know
until April, 1916, that operations OF
the Cumberland Lumber Co. were
being investigated by the Govern
ment. He added, however, that he
recalled the November, 1945, meeting
with Mr.. Roger.
He explained that he told Mr..
Royer that those advances had
nothing to do with the Erie Basin
and Batavia tax matters which were
the subject of the 1945 conference at
the Batavia plant.
Defense Request Denied.
Charles j. Margiotti, chief counsel
for the Garssons, asked Justice,
Henry A. Schweinhaut to strike out
all of Mr. Rogers testimony on the
ground that 1t did not contradict
Henry Garsson's basic testimony
Justice Schweinhaut overruled the
motion.
Alexander Ulenberg. Chicago au-
ditor who was tax adviser for the
Batavia company, testified he at
tended the 1945 conference and later
UiSCuSSc0 tllc HudttCi Will I1Clu
Carson.
The witness said he recalled that
Mr.. Royer did ask Carson: Who
is the Cumberland Lumber Coz"
Carson told the agent. Mr.. Ulen-
berg said. that the Cumberland
Lumber Co merely was a concern
with which the Illinois companies
did business and that the money
advanced to the company had not
been deducted from tax payments
under discussion at the conference.
He said Carson told him that
May was associated with him in the
lumber company, but had no finan-
cial interest.
The defense rested its case yes
terday afternoon without putting
Murray Carson on the stand
Joseph F. Freeman, Carson war
time Washington agent, who was
stricken by a heart attack while
testifying last Tuesday. will COM
plete his testimony in Casualty