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Show MG PICKERS LOOT, GOUEHII Investigation Shows That $1,250,000 Would Have Been Lost . I Intimations that the making of unl-, unl-, forms for the United States army was indirectly in the control of a "ring" and that the government stood to lose $.1,250,000 through this ring taking cast-off army overcoats, blankets and scraps of uniforms were made before the Senate committee on military affairs, af-fairs, investigating the supply shortage short-age in the army. , . Senator McKellar asked the question: 'Is it not a fact that a junk dictator was to be appointed for the United States?" . Alexander H. Kaminsky, former United States distrlot attorney for New York, replied that firms' he represented rep-resented could do the sorting of army rags for 1 cent per pound and "make a good profit.". It has been testified that the Base Assorting company of New York had contracted "for this work of assorting rags, at 6 cents .Per pound, while the quartermaster general's department found that 2 cents would have been a fair price. Kaminsky said three members of the Base Assorting company, which was capitalized at $10,000, Ira Kaplan, Edward A. Stone and Edward Myers, sought to control the trade in army scraps. He called them "dummies" and a "closed clique." |