Show SHTAFTER ON THE FRAUDS He Does Not Believe Officers Are Implicated San Francisco June 13 Speaking of the alleged extensive frauds In disposing dis-posing of military supplies supposed to have been stolen Gon Shatter salQ toI am of the opinion that goods found by the police were purchased from tile soldiers passing In and out of thin post More than 60000 men havo passed through this post during tho war If one man In every ten of thcse I soldiers sold to dealers a pair of RhoQrf COO pairs would thus be placed In the I hands of outsiders The samQ rule applies to shirts and blankets Notwithstanding that those having Government property wrongfully In their possession can be prosecuted on n charge of felony and given a sentence sen-tence of from one to five years confinement con-finement there are plenty of men willing wil-ling to take the chance The goods are first class and can be purchased from the soldiers at a ridiculously low figure The soldier cannot be preventod from selling the stuff In disposing of It he leaves himself l short The officer who Issues to the mon Inquires us tb the quantity of goods he has In his possession If the olllccr thinks he Is amply supplied he refuses to Issue tho goods the soldier asks for In this I t manner the enlisted man Is prevented from drawing more than he needs aIn I a-In my opinion the police and Federal Fed-eral authorities are exposing a system of petty thieving Owing to the large number men these petty dealers 1 a f have had opportunity to deal with Ii i their thievery has grown to larger 1 proportions than it otherwise would i have haveThe I The military authorIties have now t nothing to do with the affair other than the seizure of Government goods found In the possession of civil persons the possession of which cannot be satlsfac l torlly accounted for The detection and prosecution of these dealers rest with with the civil and Federal authorities and I hope they make a success of it So far as crookedness existing among army officers Is concerned candidly can-didly I dont believe there IB any The stalemcnt to the effect that a large quantity of army supplies had been found In a certaIn warehouse the location of which was not given has not as yet been substantiated by any subsequent developments |