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Show 0. S. EMPLOYES FACECHARGES WHOLESALE THEFT OF GOVERN- MENT SUPPLIES HAS EX- TENDED THREE YEARS Requisitions Doctored and Excess Ma. terlals Thus Obtained Were Sold Contractors by Workers; Ar rost of Others Expected Wow York. Twenty-two civilian employes of tho Urooklyn nnval base wero arrested by department of Jus-tIco,,agcnts Jus-tIco,,agcnts in connection with grand Jury indictments charging moro than $l,U00,U0O worth of goods havo bet i stolon from tho haso since the war. Twonty-threo mon wero named in tho Indictments. Tho arrests wore miitlo under supervision of William .1. Ilurns, chief of tho department at Washington, Goods stolon from tho naval baso Included clothing, oil nnd other materials, ma-terials, according to tho federal agonts. The twenty-two men aro to bo nrrnlgnod boforo Federal Judgo Garvin. ArrcBt of tho twenty-third man Indicted In-dicted was declared to bo expected soon, tcdornl authorities also announcing announc-ing that additional indictments and arrests aro planned. Tho arrests woro said by police, who worked with tho federals, to be only tho beginning of tho exposure of a hugo conspirurcy to defraud the government extending over tho last thrco years. Ninety moro arrests aro oxpoctcd, It was disclosed. Clerk's, chauffoura, laborers acd others wero among thoso arrested. As they came to work they woro llnod up by guards and hcrdod Into trucks and tnkon to tho fedarl bullmng. Policemen assigned to provent Just such ttiofts aro Implicated, it was said. The federal agents said tho thofts wore workod through "doctored" requisitions. re-quisitions. For instance, when nn in-voco in-voco was presented for shipment of 100 pioces of any article, tho num-hor num-hor was raised to 1400. Tho extra thousand was sold to outsldo con-ractors con-ractors and concerns by tho "fraud ring,' it is alleged. |