Show Scores Navy 5 w 1 c 4 I. I 4 4 5 Senator INA NAVY VY CRITICIZED FOR OR IDS BIDS PROBE Senator Sa S Says Pr Prices e eNot Not Investigated v WASHINGTON ASHINGTON April 10 th-An th P-An P An assertion that tha the navy department had been content to run down rumors rumors rumors ru ru- ru- ru mors of c collusion ll ion among shipbuilders shipbuilders shipbuilders ship ship- builders instead of getting at the facts was made to the senate munItions munitions mu mu- committee toda today by Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor cR R. R Mich He spoke shortly aft after r President Roosevelt had made known that he and Secretary Hull would discuss discuss discuss dis dis- dis- dis f cuss cuss this afternoon a new neutrality neutrality neutrality neutral neutral- ity plan for th the United States in inthe inthe inthe the event of a future war OnTO One has been Under consideration for some time recited that bids of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporation corporation corporation corpo corpo- ration on the same type of cruiser had jumped in six m months without adequate explanation His-assertion His grew out of a statement statement state state- ment meat by Rear Admiral Emory S. S I I Land chief of construction that the he rumors of collusion were all traced to one man I Previously Land had indicated he meant Laurence R. R Wilder head of Gulf GuI Industries an independent shipbuilder No inquiry was made into the physical fact of the bidding itself asked When the he admiral replied the department department de de- de- de had examined the bid forms the Michigan senator added It appears that when the government government gov- gov gay gov I oas as as about to be defrauded and the reason for it i is c collusion he the navy department was satisfied to ru run down the source of oC the rumor rumor ru ru- mor and not investigate these prices |