U.S. WAR CONTRACTS CASE
FORMER CONGRESSMAN INDICTED (Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. The Attorney-General (Mr Tom Clark) announced that a Federal grand Jury had indicted a former member of the House of Representatives. Mr Andrew May (Democrat, Kentucky) and also Messrs Henry M. Garsson, Murray Garsson, and Joseph F. Freeman, former officials of the Erie Basin Metal Products Company and the Batavia Metal Products Company, war contractors, on charges of conspiring to defraud the Government. Mr Clark said that one count alleges that May agreed to receive from these firms a total of 53,634 dollars. May was defaeted in November after serving in Congress since 1930. The Garssons organised 19 firms into a combine, which received 78.000.000 dollars in war contracts. Freeman was their Washington representative.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25092, 25 January 1947, Page 2
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