| Show DURY IRY CONVICTS MAY Lawmaker Ex-Lawmaker Ex Says Only Only Round V l' Over VA WASHINGTON SHIN July 3 UP Ex Congressman An Andrew ew J. J May and the ex making Garsson brothers Murray and Henry Jenry were convicted Thursday on charges of using for or their own profit Mays May's wartime influence as chairman of the house military com committee i Defense counsel promptly served notice of I appeal and 11 sen sen- tence was lone outcome of that action May who received the verdict calmly almly commented that it was only round one Tho year old former Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic congressman from Kentucky Ken Cen- Cen tucky was Wa accused of accepting more than in bribes for forgetting forgetting getting war department favors for tor forthe forthe the Gar Garsson Garason on brothers brothers' munitions empire during the war years A federal jury that heard 11 weeks of testimony deliberated only 1 hour and 50 SO 0 minutes before before be be- fore returning it ita ith verdict The maximum penalty for each would be six ix years' years imprisonment and fine Poll PoD Jury ry Jury fury Foreman Foreman George E. E Wells solemnly intoned Guilty to each of the three counts of the Indictment Indict indict- ment charging that May and the Garon conspired to defraud the government nent t Then in response to toa a de defense ense request all ail seven zeven men and five live women jurors were polled Each answered Guilty Gunty to all lr charges charges' against the defendants Charles J Jf head of th the def defense counsel I s c aid uld he a p peal al within five days At At that time tune he told tola t the e court he will file a motion for tor a judgment of acquittal irrespective of th the jurys jury's decision a motion for ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested judgment and a motion fora for a new trIaL Continues ues Ball Ban Trial Justice Henry A. A haut said that ball bail for the defendants defendants defendants defend defend- ants will be continued until this matter is settled May licked his lips several tim times times' s' s sas as the jury was being polled and at the conclusion remarked to re reporters reporters reporters re- re porters Well this is the end of round one Murray Garsson said vehemently Im still not guilty His brother He Henry ry declined to make any com corn ment A fourth defendant Joseph F. F Freeman Washington agent tor the Garsson munitions combine won a directed bench acquittal midway inthe in the lengthy triaL May and the flatly flAUy denied de de- de- de rued flied the government contentions that they conspired to defraud the public of Mays May's services In congress by using his prestige In wartime Washington on behalf of the Gars- Gars sons IOns The defense conceded that May got the money from the Ganson but claimed he repaid it by spendIng spending spend spend- ing it all on a Kentucky firm linn the C Cumberland Lumber Co owned by bythe bythe bythe the munitions men The prosecution prosecution prosecution tion asserted the real purpose behind behind be be- be hind Cumberland was to conceal the alleged bribes and set May up in hi a lucrative lumber business Instructs Jun Jury In this connection Jus Justice tic e instructed the jury late Wednesday that it was immaterial imma fauna te lal whether May repaid the money The question for the jury the court said was whether the intent behind the payments was was to comp compensate May for tor his frequent discussion of Garsson war production production productIon tion problems with war department officials ranging from colonels to Secy SeEr of f War Robert p Patterson t similarly the court cautioned au the against any sympathy for or against the because they are Jews Dont let Y yourself stoop to a consideration as as ugly and as foreign for for- eign to this c case e said The defense had Insisted a princIpal principal principal prin prin- cipal reason May helped out the GarMons during the war years was that the war departments department's Chicago ordnance district discriminated against them on war contracts be because because bee be- cause of their faith directed the jurors also to disregard government testimony testimony teat mony that Henry Garsson Ganson was tried and acquitted many years ago on other bribo charges and that he was vas refused admittance to the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York bar The present case grew w out of a senate war investigating In committee probe Drobe probe last summer presided over overby overby by jy then Sen James M. M Mead CD D. D N. N Y The defense charged during the trial that Mead was motivated moti by political ambition See F Page Pago c 2 Z Column 6 t I I MAY GUILTY Continued from Page Oneto Oneto One Oneto to become governor of New York The only trial Clu Queried ried on ott this denied It It was brought out In the senate hearings that the tile G got their fir l W War r contract Ot dh a a hot bor rowed letterhead d and ran it hita hit a giant arms combine At the trial the government m maintained d that Murr Murray Y Garason Fr Freeman eman Wormed d their way into Mays May's graced before th tile the recent val Wat St Started l rt d and that a m month nth alter after l' l Pearl Harbor M May y an and ana Murray M fl flew W tg together lh t t to Havana i Thereafter the gov government laid the paid d debts bt May ow d and ad conCeiVed n elved the Idea of ot creating the Cumberland com company party to buy b the military Committee eh Chairman's n a influence ne with the War d department The tI defense l lU pl pictured tUr d M May y a aa M a ft patriot and rind the thO a as liB experts wh whose 1 U efforts lU h hastened t rt d Ven pence peace |
