COMPLICATED ILLNESS
MUNITIONS SCANDAL WITNESS INDEFINITE REST PRESCRIBED WASHINGTON. (Rec. 7 pan.) Aug. 8. Two Kentucky physicians certified that Representative May is suffering from chronic myocarditis with angina pectoris and general physical exhaustion with associated hypotension and bradycardia. He therefore must have an indefinite rest period. This precluded all possibility of May testifying to the Mead Committee regarding his war-time intervention on behalf of the Garsson munitions combine.
According to a message which we oublished on July 4. a former Government ordnance officer told the Senate War Investigating Committee that Representative A. J. May. chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee had intervened to secure contracts for a group of men who were accused of improper practices in connection with war contracts. An Illinois munitions manufacturer’s office/ produced a transcript of a telephone conversation between Representative May and Majorgeneral Campbell, then chief of army ordnance, in which May was reported to have said; “These fellows are good friends of mine and have been very kind to me in the past. I want to help them.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26227, 10 August 1946, Page 7
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