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...Kentucky looked remarkably fit when his trial began last April. For a man on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government, he was amazingly full of bluster. For a onetime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he was in the company of unsavory codefendants: the mysterious brothers Garsson,* owners of a shadowy wartime munitions empire. But Andy May was an amazing...
...minute May was urging an ordnance colonel to "get a nice, big contract" for his good friends Murray and Henry Garsson to manufacture artillery shells. The next, he was demanding draft deferment for an acrobat friend of Murray Garsson. Then he was back to see if the Garssons could not get an Army contract to build wooden watertanks...
...Blitz Calls." In those days Handy Andy was at the top and he always worked at the top. At one time or another he had turned his persuasive efforts on Secretary of War Robert Patterson (to get the Garssons an E award); Under Secretary of War Kenneth Royall (to see about unfreezing Garsson funds, which were held up during profit re-negotiations); General Brehon Somervell, wartime head of the Army Service Forces (to investigate a cutback contract for Garsson-made truck bodies). Lieut. General Levin H. Campbell Jr., former Chief of Ordnance, heard from Andy so often he began...
...last summer, when the Senate War Investigating Committee began to rummage through the shadowy Garsson munitions empire, it turned up evidence that May had gotten something more tangible than pleasure out of his wartime career. There was talk of packets of $1,000 and $3,000 sent him from the Garsson's Washington office. There was the peculiar circumstance that May had endorsed a check as president of the Cumberland Lumber Co., which the Garssons paid for lumber which was never delivered or even...
Last week a District of Columbia federal grand jury returned indictments charging May, his "warm friends" Murray and Henry Garsson, and the Garsson's Washington business agent Joseph F. Freeman, with conspiring to defraud the Government. May was accused of accepting $16,000 in checks and cash from the Garssons and arranging for the payment...