War Bill Fraud Arrests Target Morse Dry Dock Scheme
Four men were arrested in Washington on charges of government fraud tied to duplicating and reusing a bill for repairs on the transport Canandaigua. The scheme involved Navy and Army officials and a New York contractor, aimed at securing a second payment by altering and passing a duplicate bill. The Department of Justice and Navy Bureau of Intelligence say the plan relied on a confederate in the Morse Dry Dock Company, with investigations widening to contracts let by fleets and shipbuilding programs.
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New York Times
Washington
Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company
New York
Canan
Clyde Waltmanland Peake
Morse Dry Dock Company
Peake
Grydock Company
T Hen
Eres
A. Bruce Bielacki
Department of Justice
Navy Haureau
Clyde Waltman
Mowery
State War and Mery
Audiling
Aluman
Street Rothen
Penn
Charles E.i Waltman
Itte
Ipping Card
Emert Corporation
Morse Dry Dock
Orig
License Revoked for Penn Fuel Company Over Low Grade Coal
The United States Fuel Administration canceled the license of J. P. O’Connor of the Penn Fuel Company for selling low grade coal for ship bunkers to the steamship Stella. The action cites violation of a 1918 order defining coal for bunkers and notes possible Department of Justice review. O’Connor denies wrongdoing and says May 16 order changes permitted coal causing more smoke.
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Washington
United States Fuel Administration
J. P. O'Connor
Penn Fuel Company
Broadway
New York City
Fuel Administration
O'Connor
License Board of the
Tidewater
Stella
Union States
Department of Justice
Export License Policy Shapes Trade Toward European Neutrals
War Trade Board announces broader licensing for exporting less essential goods to European neutrals and South America. The plan seeks to curb German influence, improve America’s trade balance, and foster new relations with Sweden Norway Switzerland Spain and others while maintaining wartime control over strategic items and tonnage.
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New York Times Wakhtitington
Germany
America
War Trade Board
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Switzerland
Spain
South America
Contingent fee agents tied to $10 million in contracts
Definite proof of payments to contingent fee agents emerged from records seized Monday at the agencies’ headquarters in Washington. An AAG Thompson disclosed that agents negotiated about $10,000,000 in contracts for clients, with many commissions paid as installments by contractors. The seized papers include coded telegrams naming government officials and others described as politicians, suggesting close ties between officials and fee agents to obtain favored manufacturers’ contracts.
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Washington
Associated Prena
Nh Thompson
E Agenta
Wer On
Wshington
City
Reidea
Department of Justice
Staley in Tom bs on Morcy Charge and Bail Fight
Lieutenant James Staley of the Army Quartermaster Department was arraigned on a charge of accepting morcy in a raincoat contract. He waived examination, posted no $30,000 bail, and was sent to the Tombs. His wife, in motor corps khaki, sought bail or to accompany him as authorities prepared for Grand Jury action.
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James Staley
Quartermaster Department of the Army
Morcy
United States
Hitchcock
Staley
Lawrence G. Axman
Federal
Grand Jury
Army Beef Theft Ring Arrests Drawn by Quartermaster
A police complaint from the Quartermaster Department led to six men being held on bail by United States Commissioner Hitchcock to face examination on June 26. The men, three checkers, two trackmen, and two butchers, allegedly conspired to steal 1,288 pounds of beef worth 23 cents a pound from Lehigh Valley yard deliveries bound for France. Investigations indicate thousands of dollars in losses with further arrests expected.
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Quartermaster Department of the Army
France
United States
Hitchcock
George Killian
Frank Kilinjer
Theodore Mancini
George Williarms
Harry Rothman
Joseph Zegan
Lehigh Valley
West Twenty-sixth Street
Cabinet Adjunct in Britain Report Denied as Mistake
In Parliament Bonar Law and Earl Curzon rejected a plan for a new Cabinet on home affairs. A proposed committee would coordinate domestic questions across departments and report to the War Cabinet, with policy choices reserved for the War Cabinet. Law defended wartime expenditures as necessary and saving millions through commodity controls.
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Committee On Home Affairs
Earl Curzon
Prinatel Home Departments
Home Sec
Retary
War Cabinet
House of Commons
Fourth Liberty Loan Plan Proposed to Raise at Least 6 Billion
The Treasury outlined a tentative plan for the Fourth Liberty Loan with a minimum principal of six billion dollars and an interest rate of 4 1/4 percent. The campaign is set to begin in early October and bonds will carry the same denomination as the third loan.
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Washington
Treasury
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