Show ti V V Y V Y YI I LAYS FLAYS DAUGHERTY FO FOR FORWAR W WAR AR CAMP MP CHARGES I I I I WAR VA BUILDERS I i DEfENDED BY 1 FORMER CHEF Bemoans Spectacle of Contractors Pilloried Before Public I POLITICS IS BLAMED Cantonment Erectors Did Great Piece of Work Marshall Says PITTSBURG Pa PJ April At 23 23 3 t At Attorney torney General Daugherty Wil was Sc- Sc accused ac accused of using the PO power er ot of Indict Indict- In Indictment Indictment lct- lct ment in the war camp contract eases for tor political purposes and ot of besmirching reputations without to en e e esen en decently port tup-port up- up port his char charges es in a it here tOday by It R C Marshall Jr chief ot of the of the army during the war war I Addressing i 1 business mens men's luncheon Mr r Marshall wh who for fr- formerly far merly held the rank ranI of ot brigadier genera said the department of justice J after atter lute fl years ant ani fo- fo lowing fo-lowing lowing investigations costing th tbs tb's gO hundreds hun redS of ot thou thou- thousands thousands sands sand of o dollars had the un un mitigated to plead un mm- mm preparedness in se several eral of ot the tho thoI I cases at the same time contractors of Inefficiency for tor hay hav bavIng having I ing lag built whole cities CHIPS In 90 days S POLICIES ilL BL SLED I The spectacle of ot these men the war camp contractors pilloried In Inthe inthe Inthe I the public press posted as evil I self seekers in the time of the na- na nation's nation's na nation's tion's travail Mr Marshall saId IS the result ot of our ocr fluctuating political power There are mn and processes actively at 1 work ork In Inthis Inthis Inthis this great department today who unless re trained can an so discredit the functioning of ot that organisation I atlon alion that the confidence of ot the people In it will be bo lost I Plis for tor letting contracts under which war time camps ps were con constructed lie he continued were the I only plans under tinder which they could have been properly built In the I 1 time lime required The Tho form torm of ot th the I contracts lie le said 8 were ore identical with those generally employed cd In commercial work ork and contractors I who built the tIme camps received less 3 per cent gross profit and less than 1 per cent net profit I II I when taxes and other charges not reimbursable were deducted DEMID Mr Marshall denied L char charges s sable able wast waste ot of o material aM labor declaring It was as bitter Irony that the men who built the camps It at ata ata a time when enough skilled labor labor- laborers laborers ers were Impossible to find now stare erp accused of ot fraud because they prod produced results with the sec sac second sec second ond on and l third and rate men a Testimony on which the Indictments were ero based was gis gI gIn en n b picked by picked hand band witnesses |