Evening star., 1947-05-09

body contract with the Batavis
Metal Products, Inc. and also about
|manpoWer shortages at that Minot,
afiliate Of the Carson chain.
Gen. Somervell said he did mol
recall that May ever telephoned
him In behalf OF any other wal
contractor.
Col. Fred G. Sheriff., retired, for
mer procurement division chief h
the ONCE Of the chief Of engineers
gave similar testimony about calls
from May concerning the Batavia
company. May. he said. asked him
whether Batavia had been given an
opportunity to bid on q water stor-
age tank contract In 1943.
Hauck Cross-Examined.
Defense counsel this morning be-
gan cross-exanination Of Col. Clar-
ence j., Hauck, jr., former Army
liaison officer at the House Military
Affairs Committee, Of which May
was chairman. Col. Hauck testified
late yesterday that May tried to get
Army action on some IS personnel
cases allegedly involving the Cars
sons or Freeman. One OF these at
tempts, Col. Hauck said. was a Piles
for draft deferment for q men,
her Of an acrobatic troupe.
4 Justice Schweinhaut sustained q
Government objection this morning
when Mr.. Magee asked Col. Hauck
to 60 into details about q record
he had kept Of calls and visits by
other members Of Congress to the
Military Affairs Committee ofi1ce.
These approximately $50 In.
stances, the witness indicated, re-
ferred largely to requests fol
transfers, promotions, deferments
or other changes In the status Of
soldiers.
Charles J. Margiotti, chief coun-
sci for the Garssons, questioned the
witness about the alleged request
for deferment Of the acrobat, who
had been identified merely as a
man named Lee.
Singers, Defense Implies.
weren't these three men singers,
and not acrobats?" Mr.. Margiottl
asked. Weren't they used to enter
tain our boys in the service, and
weren't they stationed at a camp In
the United States and were going
to be sent overseas, and wanted to
be together7"
THAT was not my understanding
of IT," Col. Hauck answered. He
added that he had a distinct recol-
lection that May asked about an
acrobat, and that the request seemed
very unusual" because Of the mans
work.
Brig. Gen. Miles Reber, deputy
chief of the Legislative and Liaisor
Division Of the War Department.
Special STAFF, testified, as did Col.
Hauck yesterday, that Freeman con-
ferred with him In 1914 about the
possibility OF having his son. Sergt
Albert II. Freeman, transferred
permanently from the Pacific to the
United States.
Gen. Reber said he told Freeman
this request could not be granted
He arranged, however, to have the
younger Freeman undergo a thor
ough medical examination at Walter
Reed Hospital.
Compilations" Cited.
The testimony brought out that
Freeman wanted his son brought
back to this country not only be-
cause Of the death of his mother
and because the young soldier was
suffering from tropical disease,
but also because of several COM
pliications." These complications,
Gen. Reber said, involved, I be-
lieve, marriage to a Japanese
woman"
Col. Hauck testified yesterday that
during the four years he was
assigned to the Military Affairs
Committee as liaison officer, prin-
cipally concerned with Army per-
sonnel questions, he took part In
Is or 20 conferences on 20 or Sc
cases involving Murray Carson OF
Freeman" Col. Hauck added that
May attended most of the confer
enceS. @-..--.---.-
The Government seeks to prove
May took at least $4,000 from the
Garssons for wartime fayors he OBJ
tanned for them or companies In