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Show PiEZ DEFENDS ! SHIPPING BOARD Wartime Shipbuilder Denies Varied Charges Brought By Investigator VVASHIKOTON, Jan. JJ It the! 'American merchant marine is to bs developed successfully, the shipping board must be relieved of operating E I ships and settling claims growing 00.1 r lot the cancellation of war contracts..! 'Charlen Piez. of Chicago, former dl- ji I rector general "f Ou emergencj fleet b (orporation declared today before iln- B I house committee Investigating the J board's operations He also flatly denied charges 0I IB i mismanagement against the construe- t, Itlon dlision of the. board by Martin '.; IJ Glllen before the committee. He k 'also denied that Charles M Schwaojl had been reimbursed by the govern- I nicnt for his personal expenses While I Mr. Schwab was director general of I the fleet corporation. s H Mi s WORK PRAISED. Mr, Pies made no direct reference to the charge of Colonel B. ft. 4badie, formerly comptroller of the shipping braid that a voucher for 1280,000 had, beerj presented for Mr. Schwab's "personal "per-sonal expenses." but he did sa be was 7 Certain that no voucher had been 1--1 I Praising Mr Schwab's service, n I j Pie. -aid he had accepted the job I reluctantly because be expected to be I subjected to unfair crilit Ism The committee on Monday morning, H in New York, rxpcts to inquire fur- K Ither Into Colonel Aba dl. , charges. g Mr. Plex's reply to Mr. Gillen's I charges was made in a prepared state-R ment which was 110. re.id Ix cause . Chairman Walsh suggest..! that all ffl members had acquainted themselves Jh With it and that its reading would 011- I lv consume time REPORTS " RMED l-'ALSB Tn the statement. Mr Piez declared I that Mr. Gillen's lep'ori did not l "square with the facts" in a single M vital Instance" and that the charge of I a lu. k of an accounting s". st.-ni 111 the i. U 1 is 1 on 1 1 c. in " v 1 1011 a 1 out, . 1 k The claim also was made that Mr. B Jlllen's report regarding the fleet u corporation checks against authorlza- Q l lou and appropriations was wrong B and that the destructive effect of Mr I Allien s testimony had Impaired pub- K lie Interest In the establishment of an Ij American merchant marine and prac- tlcaliv destroM .1 '.be market i..r ship- jj1 plng securities. no |