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Show BREWER HOLDS TO STORY OF BOND FRAUDS WASHINGTON. May . Summoned Sum-moned aa the first witness before the house commute invat (gating alleged Irregularities at ths bureau of engrsvlng and printing. Charles H fre war, special ssslatant to the attorney geaeral, declared that h couM prove ther had beea duplication duplica-tion f government bonds t a value f "about l.vt.00." Tvs nvr said that hundreds of millions of dollars wsrth of bonds were flooding th country," atd Brewer. "I hav Insisted that I knew of duplicates to, a value f about fl.O0.wvt snd part of them fraudulent, and will prove It. Brewer read a long ststemenf la reply to a recent treasury report which declar ad ther was n foundation foun-dation for many of his charges. Me is stated .he had spent nearly three yeara Inveaxigating conditions at ths bureau aad had uncovered "both carelessness and fraud.' snd could prove tbat "many government se-cunt se-cunt les hkva beea stolsa from treasury vaults." There had beea glaring errora, he ssld, "In th destruction divlaloa of ths bureau, and many bonds supposed sup-posed to have been cancelled and destroyed were In fact retained. He charged also that ths treasury had dons Ms utmost to block snd discredit dis-credit him, snd that "vigorous attempts" at-tempts" war msde to override Presidents Harding sad Coo I id a In thsir sfforts to get at ths truth. |