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Evening star., 1947-04-26
May Son, Nephew
To Be Called as
Witness Monday
By Robert K. Walsh

Several Kentucky relatives and
wartime lumber company associates
|of former Representative May viii
testify when the war fraud con-
|spiracy trial Of May and three ON
|cials Of the Carson munitions COM
|bine is resumed Monday in District
Court. Government attorneys said
today.
Hoping to introduce all their di-
rect evidence by the end Of next
week, Justice Department prosecu-
tors win continue questioning Of
Leroy w. Fields. ST., of Whitesburg
Ky. Yesterday Mr.. Fields told Jus
|tice Henry Al. SchWeinhaut and the
jury how he broke with May early
in 1914 after deciding there was
something wrong about the set up
|of the Cumberland Lumber Co. in
Kentucky.
May, Henry NJ. and Murray Cars
son and Joseph F. Freeman. who
was the Garssons Washington agent
during the war, are charged with
conspiracy to defraud the United
States. The Government contends
that May received compensation
from the Garssons in return for his
help as House Military Affairs chair
man to obtain favors for them and
their companies.
Considered May Owner.
Specifically, the prosecution ac-
cuses May Of having received 5000
in one instance and at least $53,Ooo
in the guise of Carson payments
to the lumber company. principally
for lumber that was never delivered.
The defense has declared that May
was simply the Kentucky agent for
the Garssons and that he kept none
of their money for his personal use.
Mr.. Fields, tall, thin, 70-year-
old former lawyer, testified yester-
day he worked with May for II
months in 1943 and early 1914 in
acquiring timberland and organizing
the lumber company. He said May
never mentioned the Garssons as
being connected with the enterprise.
The witness related that he always
considered May the owner and that
they made an oral agreement to
divide the stock on a $3.50 basis.
They discussed plans, Mr.. Fields
said, to produce and sell timber for
a variety of purposes such as ship
building, furniture manufacture and
mine supports. They also consid-
cred some of the land for grazing
purposes, he said. May never spoke
of producing box timber, Mr.. Fields
added. Defense counsel stated ear
lier this week that the Garssons
owned the lumber company and
Evening star., 1947-04-26

lous and fantastic-I never heard
of the concern" His attorney said
Costello will appear as requested.
Costello Derides Story.
This is the biggest fish and mari
time story ever" said Costello, who
has been described by New York
Gov. Dewey as the "gangster boss
of Tammany Hall"
"In the past year, I've been ac-
cllsed of every possible thing under
the sun. First, it was narcotics,
then penicillin and now this. What
happened to those yarns? They got
few headlines, few politicians
got publicity and then it was for
gotten"
Arthur G. Hampson, listed as the
treasurer of Aerodynamics, was un-
available to reporters but his wife
quoted him as saying he had never
heard of Costello"
Mrs. Hampson said her husband
had joined the company in May,
1945. and that "as far as my hus-
band knows, everything has been
absolutely above board"
She said the company had assumed
the tax obligations of its subsid-
iaries when it took them over and
had hoped to get an extension of
time to pay them off-something
she said her husband was confident
could be done if granted an extern
sion until 1852.
Evening star., 1947-04-26
By Constontine Brown
ssar Foreign Affair Analysf

PARIS (By Mall II the vener-
able French Socialist. Leon Blum
should be called to form q cab
met TO succeed that Of Premier
Paul Ramadier it is question
whether he would be able to organ
he q government.
A great deal depends on whether
or not Paul Reynaud accepts Mr..
Bluni's invitation to join In q bloc
to stop the rising star Of Gen.
Charles de Gaulle. If Mr.-Reynaud
feels that many who are dissatis-
fed with present conditions may
flock eventually to q standard
bearer who opposes the present
Observation-Disclosures administra-
ton, he win refuse Mr.. Blum's
proffered hand.
In most French quarters 1t is
believed that the young and am
bilious Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault, will accept the task Of
heading stop-gap government.
Mr.. Bidault has been seriously dis
illusioned in Moscow by the atti-
tude OF his Soviet colleague, Foreign
Minister Molotov. He went to the
Russian capital full Of hope that
the Fourth Republic would benefit
from its much vaunted collabora-
ton with the Soviet.
Mr.. Bidault was quite willing to
side with the Russian delegation
on all matters presented to the
Big Four. But when Mr.. Molotov
let him down on the Ruhr issue,
MIR. Bidault began to balk.
The French Foreign Minister'S
independent attitude became even
more marked after President Tru-
mans recent speeches and after q
number of private conversations
with Secretary Of State Marshall
and his principal advisers.
Word also reached Mr.. Bidault
from Paris that there had been
some slight change in French
public opinion as far as the Rus
slams were concerned, and that
groups which advocated collabora-
tion with the West rather than the
East had gained some popularity.
MIR. Bidault is not man to ig-
more straws in the wind, particu-
larly since in the last week he has
received strong hints from Premier
Ramadier that In case Of a change
OF government he would be the
Evening star., 1947-04-26
BY the Associated Press

Lester Arwin, secretary of the
Palmer Nut & Bolt Co., told q
House committee yesterday his firm
bought surplus nuts and bolts from
the War Assets Administrator for
$3.50 a ton and has found much
of the material is worth $165 ton.
He said the company just bought
"a pig in a poke-blind" when it
agreed to take all the surplus nuts
and bolts WAA had.
Mr.. Arwin said the company had
plenty of headaches, too, in "un-
scrambling" $1,000 tons of surplus
hardware. When it started to
clean out WAA warehouse in De-
troit, he explained, every item had
to be counted, and a large crew
spent a day loading just half a
carload.
He said his company has paid
approximately $1,600,000 so far, and
the WAA still is looking for more
nuts and bolts to send it.
Mr.. Arwin showed the House Ex-
penditures Committee, which is in
vestigating WAA deals, pictures OF
material delivered to the company
saying, there were all kindSof nuts
and bolts-some scrap, some usable
and in the original packages and
some just usable."
When Senator Ferguson, Repub-
lican, of Michigan, who sat in on
the hearing, looked over the picture,
he whistled in amazement and
asked the witness:
do you know how it is possible
for the Government to scramble
this stuff the way it is scrambled
here without having an expert in
scrambling?"
"Sir, I just don't know" Mr..
Arwin replied. -~
The WAA had no idea how much
Evening star., 1947-04-26
Thieves CoryOH
Safe With $1,000
In Stolen Truck

Police today were searching for a
1-ton truck driven away from the
Hertz Drive-Ur-Self System Ga
rage, 1919 L street NV. last night
The thieves also escaped with nearly
$4,000 in cash, police said.
The blue, panel-bodied 1916 truck
was missing this morning when en-
ployes reported for work. Also miss
ing was a safe said to contain near
ly $4,000.
The thieves entered by breaking
a paddock on a furnace room door
police said. They then apparently
loaded the safe into the truck
opened large door and drove off
Hertz Drive Ur-Self is written
in large letters across both sides
of the missing truck, police were
told.
Evening star., 1947-04-26
WAA Gusts Omaha Official
Who Protested Bolt Deal

OMAHA, April 26 (R.-Gordon T.
Burke said last night he has been
relieved as director OF the Omaha
regional office of the War Assets
Administration-five days in ad-
vance of the effective date OF his
resignation from the post.
Announcing his resignation March
IS, Mr.. Burke said superior officers
were installing a lot of hare
Drained theories that have no place
in sales organization.
He subsequently testified in Wash
ington before House subcommittee
of the Committee on Expenditures,
investigating surplus property dis
posal. His testimony covered a
WAA contract with the Palmer Nut
& Bolt Co., for the purchase of
surplus nuts and bolts. He tried
to block the contract.
Mr.. Burke said he received teie-
gram late yesterday from Raub
Snyder, acting director of the Kan
sas City zone, informing him that
he had been relieved as OF the end
of yesterdays working day. James
w. Roberts, formerly of the Kansas
City office, was named acting re-
gional director.
Mr.. Burke said he guessed" the
reason for his dismissal might be
that he had stumbled onto" an
other contract with the Palmer firm.
Mr.. Burke said by accident he
learned week ago of another con-
tract with the Detroit firm made
last February 25 He asked the
WAA Washington legal department
for copies of the second contract,
he said. Failing to receive them he
addressed similar requests to Mai.
Gen. Robert Littlejolln, WAA ad-
ministrator. Finally Thursday, ac-
cording to Mr.. Burke, he wired
Representative Riley. Republican,
Of Oklahoma, telling him about the
second contract and his (Mr.
Burke's) failure to get a copy.
The next word he received, the
WAA official said, was the dismissal
notice.
Evening star., 1947-04-26
Reynoud Believed HoI ding Key
To Next French Government
most likely man to form stop-gap

most likely man to form . stop-gap
government.
French politics are by no means
Iclear-cut black and white, but q
notified grey. Hence, 1t is not pos
sible at this moment to make
positive estimate, except for the
certainty that Mr.. Ramadier, who
was fished out Of obscurity three
months ago to become Premier, viii
return whence he came. He tried
honestly, but In vain, to cope with
situation which was made hope
less by the constant obstructionism
OF the Communist ministers to every
attempt to deal effectively with the
present economic chaos.
Evening star., 1947-04-26
CormeIite Futhers Elect
New Director General
BY the Associoted Press

ROME, April 26.-The Discalced
Carmelite Fathers yesterday elected
Father Silverio de Santa Teresa,
former vicar general, as the new
director general of the order.
Sixty-six members of the general
chapter from all parts of the world
attended the meeting. The secular
name of Father de Santa Teresa, a
Spaniard, was Julian Gomez.
Evening star., 1947-04-26
House Group Orders
Public Hearings on
Air Research Firm
BY Miriom ottenberq

The House Merchant Marine
Committee ordered public hear
ings on the wartime operations
OF the Aerodynamics Research
Corp. as Bureau of Internal
Revenue Investigators today
continued their efforts to un-
cover the tangled financing ar
rangements of the parent COM
pany and it's manufacturing
subsidiaries.
Chairman Bradley of the Mer-
chant Marine Committee said pub
lie hearings will open May u and
that Frank Costello, New York
gambling figure, has been asked to
testify In connection with pub
Hshed reports that he is connected
with the corporation.
The House group acted as the
Bureau of Internal Revenue an
nounced that notices of tax liens
have been filed, not only against
the parent company, but against
two Of its subsidiaries-the AIR
Track Manufacturing Corp. of Col
lege Park, Md, and the Kensing-
ton Dry Dock Corp. of Philadelphia.
Legality of Action Questioned.
In all the liens filed, the govern
ment noted that the companies were
"transferees." A tax expert ex-
planned that the Government be-
lieved that Air-Track had trans
ferred its assets and liabilities to
Aerodynamics and then, after the
lien was filed against the parent
concern, Aerodynamics transferred
its assets and liabilities back to Air
Track and Kensington.
The legality of this procedure is
one of the questions the Bureau Of
Internal Revenue is now studying,
it was understood.
The core of the investigation, how
ever, hinges on whether Aero
dynamics' subsidiary companies were
able to underbid competitors because
the parent company was operating
under a tax-free status as nom
profit corporation. The Bureau of
Internal Revenue announced yester-
day 1t had Cancelled Aerodynamics'
tax-exempt status.
The bureau, it was understood, has
not yet decided what legal steps it
Will take to recover some of the tax
money it contends Aerodynamics
and its subsidiaries owe the Govern
ment. 1t could apply to the court
for a receivership and operate the
companies until some of the money
is recovered or it could foreclose on
the properties.
Wire Sent to Costello.
AS for the House committee in
vestigation, Mr.. Bradley announced
the hearings as he sent this telegram
to Costello:
Referring to Washington news
paper accounts today alleging your
personal or financial connection with
Aerodynamics Research Corp, in
corporated in Washington, D. c.,
and/or Kensington Shipbuilding g.
Dry Dock Corp. of Philadelphia, Pa,
the latter of which presently holds
certain United States Maritime
Commission contracts for the re-
conversion of vessels, we advise that
our United States House of Repre-
sentatives Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries will open pub
lie hearings on these contractural
matters at 10 am. Monday, May IL,
1947, in Room 219, Old House Office
Building, Washington, D. c., at
which time we request your appear
ance as a witness. Advise"
In New York, Costello told re-
porters that reports of his connec-
ton with Aerodynamics were "fabu-
Evening star., 1947-04-26

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Evening star., 1947-04-26

|expected to obtain timber for max
ling wooden boxes for shells.
Paid $1zs Monthly.
The only indication he had that
May knew Of 4 large prospective
market for the lumber connpany,s
output. MI. Fields said. WAS Nays
comment In April, lo13, that abig
financial interests'' were concerned
with the project.
Pending anticipated profits from
the sale Of timber, Mr.. Fields con-
|tinued, be was paid q $125 4 month
nominal salary by May. The
former Representative also sent
checks every two weeks to pay other
company employees including q
nephew, A. j. uittle jack May.
These checks came from Mays per-
.sonal account in prestonbtrg
lKy.)s bank. the witness recalled.
No lumber was sold during the II
months Fields was with the COM
pany. The witness said he stayed
on the job until / finally decided
something was wrong"
{ He never did give me satisfac-
tion about the stock" Mr.. Fields
added.
Bankers Testify.
Leroy Fields, r.: Little jack
May and Mays son. Robert v. May,
are among witnesses scheduled to
be called Monday by the Govern
ment. The prosecution indicated it
win try further to develop its charge
that sums sent by the Garssons to
the lumber company were personal
payments to May instead OF funds
for the company or timber orders.
Most OF yesterdays trial session
included testimony Of bank trans
actions between May and the Cars
sons. John Alden, vice president OF
the National Bank Of Washington
and Edgar B. Ewell. jr., q teller
there, testified that on August "a,
1914, the bank received 5000
check on the Erie Basin Metal
Products, Inc, an Illinois affiliate
of the Carson combine, and In
.dorsed by Murray Carson and A.
j. May.
The bankers said $4,000 OF this
was deposited in Mays account
which at the time totaled only
$48.04. The other $1,000 was paid
out In cash. The witnesses said they
could not recall whether the cash
was given personally to May or to
an authorized agent"
Evening star., 1947-04-26

lous and fantastic-I never heard
of the concern" His attorney said
Costello will appear as requested.
Evening star., 1947-04-26
Arubio Fifth in Oil

Saudi Arabia, with only a small
area Of its oil concessions developed,
is the fifth largest oil producing
nation in the world.
Evening star., 1947-04-26
Firm Says 1t Paid $22.5Oo Ton
For Nuts, Bolts Worth $165

stuff 1t had, Mr.. Arwin continued
and the Palmer Co. often did not
know what it had even after the
material had been delivered.
Explosive rivets actually blew up
in a furnace because we thought
they were aluminium" he explained.
Evening star., 1947-10-05
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Evening star., 1947-10-05
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Evening star., 1947-10-05
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Evening star., 1947-10-05
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