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...favors to friends. The Government produced records of two $1,000 checks May had pocketed, a $2,500 deposit in his account by Murray Garsson, an old $5,000 note Murray had obligingly paid off at the bank. But the biggest payoff was an enterprise known as the Cumberland Lumber Co., conveniently located in Andy's home town of Prestonsburg, Ky. The owners were Murray and Henry Garsson; their agent was Andy...
...Garssons had put more than $50,000 into Cumberland for lumber they never received. One former Garsson employee testified that he had been ordered to juggle the books to show orders and receipts for nonexistent lumber. The Government insisted that Cumberland was simply a blind to shield the fat bribes Andy May extracted from the Garssons...
...helped many another war contractor. The checks and cash, he said, were just "campaign contributions," proceeds of private business transactions, funds to pay off notes he had signed to help the Garssons get a little ready cash. He had never made a dime out of the Cumberland Lumber Co. He had posed as Cumberland's owner, he said with a smirk, because no Kentuckian would work in the mill "if it were known that this company was owned by outside people who were Jews...
First, he told them the news they wanted to hear-about how the steamer, Frost, was all set to boom the pulpwood across Lake Mooselookmeguntic. Then he told them about the men he had seen at the other lumber camps. After a while he worked around to religion, passed out some leaflets and invited the men to look at the Bibles and paper-covered Gospels he had piled on the table. Most of his congregation were French Canadians who understood little of what Pastor Burger had said, but they were glad to find "La Sainte Bible...
...with the beginning of the log drive last week, began another season in the strange ministry of Bill Burger. Pastor since 1944 of the North Eastern Lumber Camp Parish under the Presbyterian Board of National Missions, Pastor Burger serves an estimated 30,000 lumberjacks and expects it will be another two years before he has visited all 250 camps in his territory. Burger is New England's first full-time lumberjack preacher...