Show I DOLLAR ft A YEAR MEN ACCUSED ACC USED INDICTMENTS DY DV U U. U 8 S. GRAND JURY BASED ON CONTRACTS FOR ARMY CAMPS Former Official Under Wilson Wilton Administrators Ad Declares He Ho Cave Investigators Every Ivery Assistance Wa Washington CIO Crowell assistant as 11 secretary of ot war under the tha Wilson und and six x dol dots dolar tar ar a n year men mien Associated with the council of or national defense defenso tl of en so were In In- dieted hero by hy tho Cho special grand jury In Involving I frauds frauds' of ol war on on charges conspiracy to defraud tho the government ro in n a II of ot wartime army camps rumps und and cantonments The othor other Indicted aro are William A A. A Morcott Morton C. C Tut tie W W. W Chair I oser John Juhn 11 II bons and Jamos James A A. Moore Mears Tho The indicted charges a conspiracy to existing laws awe anu regulations to control the giving ot or contracts to usim an and d clients clente under the tho cost plus Ius system which h It Is charged resulted In a lost loss to tho the government go of or millions millIon of ot dot 1101 tars lars hud bud reduced Uio the m of laborThe labor Tho The Indictments arc aro the tho first hi big salvo sal In Attorney General Daugherty's attack on 01 many wartime contracts which the tho department of Justice holds after arter exhaustive o Investigation to be fraud lent Others Uth aro are expected to follow and It I is I. estimated that the amounts involved oJ when the attorney generals general's full tull program Is la under wa way will run ran Into hundreds of ot millions of ot dollars Tho Thu indictments came as the tho ro tilt suit of h by tho the grand Jury of or a mass of ot evidence o which too Imo attorney general has bas b boon been on gathering for Cor n months It was WIlS proS pro seated by former Mo Ma of Ohio now a special assist ant attorney general Tho The Indictments charging forty seven soven overt o acts and applying to all alt named alike charges rant mat contractors their agents engineers architects and officers of tho the goi government go eminent entered a conspiracy to set up a system profit able ablo to the tho contractors and prejudicial to tho Uie got O eminent and to control trio the i giving of ot contracts contract to friends asso asso- so cites and past last and live tiro I Tho The emergency construction com coin I of ot the tho council of national de do- defense tense tho the Indictments charge chargo was used as tho the vehicle for tor carrying out tho alleged plan The he government go charged that the alleged r used used their membership on the Ute com coin to unlawfully Influence older othor of the United Lulled States tates In tho the plans and policies for carrying out tile Die wartime construction program pro to attain tho the cost plus system to eliminate usual safeguards for tor tho government o and to defeat chocking up and supervising tho the contractors |