Evening star., 1951-10-11
FbI Seizes 12O
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TheftsFromU.S ).
One D. c. Man Caught
In nNution-Wide' 'Ruids;
ThieveY Widespread

Wholesale arrests throughout
the country were disclosed by the
FBI today in drive on thieves
said to have looted more than 81
million worth of Government
property, mostly from military in
stallations. One suspect was
seized here.
The largest amount of loot was
described as $500,000 worth of
radio and electronics equipment
taken from the Warner-Robbins
Air Force Base at Macon, Ga.
Fifteen persons were arrested
there recently after stolen equip
ment had been traced to France,
Belgium and Spain, as we'll as to
various parts of the United States.
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover
revealed that in one instance
stolen radios were sold to a Los
Angeles firm which installed them
in airplanes delivered to the
armed forces.
District Case Listed.
Mr.. Hoover said one person was
arrested here and 20 others were
taken into custody during the
last "a hours in California, New
Jersey. Ohio, Massachusetts, and
New York. The Washington case
involved the theft of an adding
machine from a Federal agency
here.
The man arrested here today
was Leroy Bernard Murray, So, of
the 200 block of w street NV,
who was picked up at his home
on a charge of stealing the adding
machine from the Veterans Ad-
ministration in Temporary Build
ing j. He was to be arraigned
before the United States commits
Sioner.
The machine, stolen in Septem-
Der, 1949, was traced through the
serial number with the aid of the
manufacturer, the FBI said. It
had been sold several times since
1t was taken.
Arrests Total 120.
Mr.. Hoover said today's arrests
brought the total to 100 persons
throughout the country in the last
two months. Stolen goods ranged
from guns and radio equipment to
raw crude rubber, pure silver,
sheets. boots and blankets and
other materials being procured for
the defense program.
Those arrested, it was said. in
clude long time Government Civil
Service employees, supervisors,
military personnel, civilian and
military police and private citi-
zens.
The FBI director said the bu-
reau still has under investigation
1.025 other cases of thefts from
Government supplies.
Sixteen civilian and military
employees at Camp Kilmer, N. j.,
were arrested today in connection
with a theft of $4,000 worth of
bed sheets from the camp.
In addition, some persons out
side the camp have been rounded
up and accused of assisting in the
sale of stolen property.
Military Police Accused.
Mr.. Hoover said whole truck
loads of the Government-owned
sheets were removed from camp
warehouses, driven through the
gates with the assistance of mill
tary police. transferred to civilian
trucks and delivered to buyers in
several New Jersey cities.
The earlier arrests there in
cluded 13 civilians, mostly Civil
Service supervisory personnel.
The California arrests included
the Mare Island chief of police,
the assistant chief of police and
an inspector of the civilian po-
lice department at Mare Island.
The FBI said it had recovered
$4,000 worth of stolen property
there.
Three persons were arrested last
night at Dayton, Ohio, on charges
of taking miscellaneous property
(See THEFTS, Page A-4.)