Show READING DENIES All CHARGES CHAES OF GRAfTING I 0 Charles Reading superintendent or of the city fire alarm system at a hearing before be be- fore ore the the city commission today on charges that he had misappropriated city supplies In installing a fire alarm system system tem tern at Ft Douglas and that he had acce accepted accepted ac- ac ce ted money from the government while he h was working on city time denied the I allegations when placed on the witness allegations stand When questioned b by Karl A A. Scheid I commissioner of public safety Reading said that out of the he had re received received re- re from the government all but 80 SO was used to purchase supplies He lIe admItted admitted admitted ad ad- I that he kept this amount but stated he thought he had it coming to I as ilm as he had worked for lor th the city and had never received a vacation taking the 80 as a tip He stat that the I charge of misappropriation 0 of city of-city f. f cIty supplies supplies sup sup- plies was false and that he had SUP SUP-I dall q d all supplies he used |