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...Andrew Jackson May, 84, backwoods Democratic U.S. Congressman from Kentucky (1930-47), who rose to chairmanship of the powerful House Military Affairs Committee during World War II, was accused in a sensational trial of defrauding the government by accepting $53,000 in bribes from Munitions Makers Murray and Henry Garsson, served nine months and 13 days of his sentence, protested his innocence to the end, although some of the nation's top brass (including General Dwight Eisenhower) testified against him; in Prestonburg...
Died. Murray W. Garsson, 67, sometime millionaire munitions maker and financier, who was convicted in 1947 in a bribery and conspiracy scandal involving Government war contracts, served 19 months in prison (1949-51), and ended his days homeless, borrowing small sums from his doctor for barbiturates; of a brain hemorrhage; in New York City. At war's end Garsson and his brother Henry, a consulting engineer, pasted together a paper empire (once valued at $78 million) of contracts for shells, mortars and aircraft parts, worked with lavish expense accounts through the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Kentucky...
Charging cruelty, Mrs. Ruth Garsson, ,33, filed suit for separation against 63-year-old former Munitions Maker Murray Garsson, now living quietly in New York City since his release from prison over two years ago. Garsson served 19 months of an 8-to-24-month sentence. With his brother Henry and Kentucky's former Representative Andrew May, he had been convicted of conspiracy and bribery involving Government contracts...
...late Joseph Freeman, onetime Washington business agent indicted in the Garsson-May munitions scandal but later acquitted, demanded $100,000 for steering Green to the right people. Freeman never did a thing, said Green, but after he died, the truck dealer softheartedly thought of Freeman's widow and infant and settled out of court...
...release of New Jersey's ex-Representative J. Parnell Thomas from prison (TIME, Sept. 18), the only other ex-Congressman behind bars walked out to freedom. As wartime head of the House Military Affairs Committee, highhanded old Andrew Jackson May had accepted $53,000 from the notorious Garsson brothers in return for pressuring through their munitions contracts, had used his power to render many another shady service to his friends. This week he was paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution at Ashland, Ky., and headed home to Prestonburg, after serving nine months and 13 days of an eight...