The evening world. Newspaper, November 16, 1920, Page 21

SAYS SHIP BOARD LOSES MILLIONS IN "ASBESTOS AWARDS Contracted for at Fifty Per Cent. Higher Than Market Price, Congressmen Told. Additional revelations of alleged graft and mismanagement in opera- tions of the Shipping Board ved made by witnesses at to-day's hear- ing before the Congressional Com- mittee, Stuart Dickson, ‘the first witness, @escribed a loss of $1,500,000 a year in the purchase of asbestos packing for the board’s 1,200 ships Purchasing Agent Bowen, at Wash- ington, signed a long contract with the Anchor Packing Company of Philadelphia, Mr. Dickson testified, for supplying at $1.60 a pound of all asbestos packing for Ship Hoard | Veasels in every port. That price, he | asserted, was 50 per cent. higher than | the market price for the packing at the time the contract was made, and turers, Alex Sn Rich Chinese, meda and tan Auction Purchase light and dark va Auction Purchase Auction Purchase 27x54 inch- value $7.47..... nith & Son, Finest Seamless Axminsters carpet designs in rose, blue, cream grounds values $89.50 to $98,00— Best Seamless Velvet Rugs Reproductions of finest Orientals, | also small effects for Library, | Living Room, ete. $75.00— Auction Purchase 8.8x10.6 ft.—value $65.00 6x9 ft.—value $42.00 the ‘market has steadily declined since. “the entire repair plant could moved on one large truck.” A block down the the contract & costs $3,000,000 ce us much as it sho d of bidding, at a much lowe before the contract was award- , and of how bis bid was turned down because ping Hoard en-| nevrs clajmed of in- ferior quality, J. F. Richardson, one of the Board's |}, investigators, testified that he knew of 500 American citizens, qualified boat paigters, who were notonly re- | fused work but ordered off the docks by aliens acting us foremen in the camouflage department. Investiga- tion of these aliens, he said, revealed that not one lad ever handied a paint [* brush. Relatives of the allen fore- men, Mr. Richardson declared, were permitted to report late for work and to “pile up overtime” without criti. sism. The witses told of f iealty in the Shipping Boar i uld. He t guods were it did business. | Wilkin & Co, n June, titution of $5,009 made only In June, 1920. a forced ¥ The Unio Works, a ship re- pair firm ‘orfolk, Va., enjoyed marge contr according to William R. Morte agent of the Board's Depart stigation, but orfolk to look he found ESTABLISHED 1827 © Fourteenth Street Wert of WIfLk Avenue IMPORTANT! 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