Show ul 19 FACE WHOLESALE THEFT OF government SUPPLIES HAS EX TENDED THREE YEARS requisitions doctored and excess ma serials thus thug obtained ined were sold contractors by b workers Wor kara kars arrest of others othora expected new york rork twenty two CITI linn emp employed employ loyes ca of tile brooklyn rooklyn ll annval base baio were arrested by department qt of jus jua tice alce agents in e connection with jury indictments charging more th tsiun 11 worth ol of goods have bec boci beci i stolen from the imse huso since the war twenty ahrea raen men were in tho the indictments the ilio arrests wore were made under supervision of william NV Illiam 1 burns lii irna ahlai chief of tile department tit nt washington goods stolen from the naval base included clothing oil und and other nin ma tor corlais lais according to tho the federal agents anonte tho twenty two men ion aro are to lo lo 10 a arraigned before federal judge garvin arrest of tile twenty third man I 1 indicted 12 was declared to ila ho expected soon federal authorities also arno unc ing in that additional indictments and are planned the arrests ivero said by police who worked wor hold with the feder federals aag to he 10 only tho the beginning of tile exposure of a huge to defratis defrat id the lie government extending over ever tho the last dinst three tarco years ninety moro more arrests aro are expected it was disclosed clerks chauffeurs laborers and others were among those arrested As they came to worl work they were lined tip tit by guards and herded herc loil into trucks and taken to tile tho edahl bul bullying loing policemen assigned to just such thefts aro are implicated it was sold said the federal agents said the tha cherta were through doctored requisitions for instance when tin an in boco was presented for shipment of places pieces of any article the number was waa raised to 1400 I IOU the extra thousand wils sold to outside contractors trac torB and concerns toy by tile tho fraud ring it Is alleged |