Show NAB SOLDIERS IN ARSON CASE Claim 18 Privates Set Fires at Fort for Excitement FORT SILL Okla OkIa Sept Zept 21 21 By The Associated In Press Press In a aI desire for tor excitement 18 prIvate I soldiers Including members of o the Fort Sill SIli military fire department are alleged to have started a series of fires tires here over the la last t two t years which resulted In the destruction tion ion of more moro than In gov gov- government gov- gov government government property The Tho men were arrested Monday guardhouse and are being held In the guard house on charges of Officers announced that se oral of the soldiers have confessed ad- ad admitting ad admitting muting they set the tires fires for tor ex- ex ex excitement The officers said they learned the themen themen themen men were planning to fire two hotels ho ho- ho tel In Lawton Okla here so I that the tho Fort Sill fire fighters b be called upon More than 15 16 fires tires all of mysterious mysterious rious origin have occurred at the post In two years Officers bar bar- barracks barracks racks arsenals supplies guns uns gov government store stores Mores and have been destroyed Tho The government Investigation JL was as started last January when J L Fallon a 0 wounded veteran Of the World war was sent here hero as a secret service operative Fallon en- en en entered croci the service as a 0 private and became Intimately associated with wilh the men rounded d up He found that the ho arson ring Intended to de- de destroy do stroy every building at the fort of- of of officers said Th The case ease probably will be sub submitted to the federal grand Jury |