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Show 0. S. EMPLOYES FACECHARGES WHOLESALE THEFT OF GOVERNMENT GOVERN-MENT 8UPPLIE8 HAS EXTENDED EX-TENDED THREE YEAR8 Requisitions Doctored and Excess Materials Ma-terials Thus Obtained Were Sold Contractors by Workers; Arrest Ar-rest of Others Expected Now York. Twenty-two civilian ' employes of tho Hrooklyn naval base ' woro arrostod by department of Jus-tlco Jus-tlco agents In connection with grand : Jury Indictments charging more than ' $1,000,000 wortli of goods havo boci stolon from tho baso stneo tho war. Twenty-three mon wero named in ' tho indictments. The arrests were mndo under supervision of William J. Hums, chief of tho department at Washington. Uoods stolon from the naval base Includod clothing, oil and other materials, ma-terials, according to the federal agents. Tho twenty-two men are to be arraigned before Federal Judge, Garvin. Arrest of the twenty-third man Indicted In-dicted was declared to bo expected soon, federal authorities also announcing announc-ing that additional indictments and nrrosta are planned. The arrests wore said by police, who worked with tho fodernls, to be only the beginning of U10 exposnro or r huge consplrnrcy to dofrnud the government extending over the last threo years. Ninety more arrests are expocted, It was dlsclosod. Olcvk'g, chauffeurs, laborers and othora wero among those arreitod. As they came to work they were llnod up by guards and herded Into trucks and taken to tho fedarl bulluing. Policemen assigned to prevent Just such Uiofta are Implicated, It was said. The federal agents said tho thefts wero worked through "doctored" requisitions. re-quisitions. For Instance, when an In-voce In-voce was presented for shipment of 400 ploces of any article, the number num-ber was ralsod to 1400. The extra thousand was sold to outside contractors con-tractors and concerns by the "fraud ring,' it Is nlleged. |