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Show 'I. S. EMPLOYES FAGECKARGES WHOLESALE THEFT OF GOVERNMENT GOVERN-MENT SUPPLIES HAS EXTENDED EX-TENDED THREE YEARS Requisitions Doctored and Excess Materials Ma-terials Thus Obtained Were Sold Contractors by Workers; Arrest Ar-rest of Others Expected .New York. Twenty-two ciylflan employes of the ISrookiyn naval' base were arrested by department of Justice Jus-tice agents In connection with grand Jury lndktments charging more than $1,000,000 worth of goods have been stolen from the base since the war. Twenty-three men were named in the indictments. The arrests were made under supervision of William J. Uurns, chief of the department at Washington. tioods stolen from the naval base Included clothing, oil and other materials, ma-terials, according to the federal agents. The twenty-two men are to be arraigned before Federal Judge Garvin. Arrest of the twenty-third man indicted in-dicted was declared to be expected soon, federal authorities also announce tug that additional Indictments and arrests are planned. The arn-sts were said by police, who worked with the federals, to be only the beginning of the exposure of a huge conaplrarcy to defraud the government extending- over the last three years. Ninety more arresta are expected, it was disclosed. Clerk's, chauffeurs, laborers and others were among those arrested. As they came to work tucy wero lined up by guards and herded into trucks and taken to the redarl builwng. Policemen assigned to prevent Just such thefts are Implicated, it was said. The federal ugents said the thefts were worked through "doctored" requisitions. re-quisitions. For Instance, when an in-voce in-voce was presented for shipment of -KKl pieces of any article, the mini-Ler mini-Ler was raised to 1400. The extra thousand was sold tu outside contractors con-tractors and concerns by the "frau I ring,' it is alleged. |