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Show CRAVr: CHARGES 11 E piST Payrolls Padded and Evidence of Other Graft Found, Report Re-port to House Says WASHINGTON Nov 10 Charges that the action ot the shipping board has resulted in an enormous waste of grovernmehl funds are contained In a report submited to the house eom-mittee eom-mittee on shipping board operations b two former employes of the board. A. F. Fisher and Jeff Hlchardaon, who for more than a year have conducted an investiratlon for the committee. , I V'IDENt E GR VFT. Tlie report, released for publication, today, I'V i lie i ..limine.- f which Representative Rep-resentative Walsh.. Republican, Massachusetts, Mass-achusetts, la chairman, states the ln-vestlr.utors ln-vestlr.utors found evidence of graft In the purchase of supplies for repairing govejrnment-owned ships, of corruption corrup-tion on the part of officials and employes em-ployes of the Shipping board einerg-ency einerg-ency fleet corporation and of the U8i of political and other Influences In the negotiation of I ontractS for construct .on and allocation of vessels, i- kYROLLS PADDED. The report Charged that payrolls had been padded by some uf the firms which repaired government-owned vessels and there hajj been a heavy loss to the government as a result of wholesale thefts from ships and yards. The Investigators also reported that the companies operating government .es had in some instance:-! owned stock in companies which furnished supplies to the ships at prices- rftng- lng as high as 0 per cent above the wholi sdlo costs. CO |