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Show 12. Sunday Herald SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1964 Utah County, Uitah Defense Contractors ‘Tipped Off’ , Charge Pancys ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY PROVO PHONE 373-4500 ——_ By NORMAN G. CORNISH are tipped off to big contracts in advance by “pigeons” inside United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — A the Pentagon. i Pennsylvania congressman be- Rep. Daniel J. Flood, D-Pa., lieves some defense contractors in testimony made public by the House defense appropriations subcommittee Friday, said that a grand jury should look| into the way some contracts| are handled. He accused some defense firms of being ‘mother hens” which round up subcontractors in advance of bid announcements by using inside informaFAIRFIELD, Ill. (UPI) — A tion on contracts to be let. “This is one of the most viformer Baptist minister from politically prominent family re- cious evils in the entire promainedin seclusion today while curement system,” Flood told Federal Bureau of Investigation Air Force officials at a closed accountants probed his finan- hearing of the subcommittee. “These big boys have leaks cial affairs in an effort to trace $972,371.41 missing at the from the Pentagon, from your office, from every procurement bank which employed him. While the federal agents office in the Department of Dehecked the “‘i i manip- fense,”’ he said. “They have ” planted there—officers ulations” at the bank, Lee Roy ‘pig Brown, 29, was at home bit too who are going to go with them whenthey get out .. . civilians ill to talk, according to his wife. He had ben hospitalized they have a finger on.” Flood charged that some big earlier in the week for a stomach disorder and ‘“‘nervous- prime contractors “have all this advance dope and . . send ness.” field men out . . . (who) go Brown remained hospitalized around to all these subcontracuntil Thursday, when FBI tors and they get a whole book agents whisked him to EastSt. full of prices.” Louis, Ill., for arraignment beHe said the field men ask the fore U.S. Commissioner Elvira Stone on a charge of embez- subcontractors what they would bid on a certain job on a cerzling $15,000 from the Fairfield tain date if they were asked to National Bank. bid. Brown waived preliminary “So they collect all this inforhearing and was freed on $10,- mation,” he said. “This is the 000 bond posted by his father- ‘mother hen’ running around in-law, Wayne County Treasurer Loren Mauck. Shop Monday and Fridaytil 9! Bank Short ae eeaaa ee $972,371.41; Clerk Held SPECIAL! soot sed? The FBI said it would take at the bid—and they know when| least four more days to evaluate the manipulations of bank ledgers to conceal the shortage and at least 30 days to trace the nearly $1 million. The shortage was uncovered April 2 when an employe noticed that an error had been made in the posting of an account. The next morning bank employes found a note written by Brown in the bank’s night depository. OUR ANCESTORS the time will be and they know! whatit is all about—they make| their bid, based upon the sub-| contracts that they already | have locked in and sewed up— | captive. So the bid is made and | they win. And the subcontrac- new summer-shape cotton shifts tor is stuck and hooked and/| dead.” | Flood called the whole thing] A-lines! Empires! Straight little skimmer styles! It’s the grand- est, gayest, shapeliest group of summer cotton shifts we've “a racket” which should be in-| vestigated by a grand jury “specially impaneled.”” ever seen! 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