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Show Company 'Fixed Up' Shipbuilding Graft WASHINGTON. May 5. John F. Ovorend, an assistant controller on tho emergency fleet corporation, testified tes-tified today before the house committee com-mittee Investigating shipping board operations that tho Virginia Shipbuilding Ship-building company, a Charles YV. Morse concern at Alexandria, Va., had diverted more than $1,000,000 paid It for ship construction. Ho said $400,000 had been expended in 1018 for building workmen's homes at Rosemont. Va., and that $640,000 had been used to complete the company's plant. Replying to Representative Steele. Democrat. Pennsylvania, the witness said tho diverslSn of money for home building was discovered through the statement of an auditor who was discharged. dis-charged. Mr, Overcnd added that in September, Septem-ber, 1919, tho company executed a new contract by which "it fixed up tho diversions." |