Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1927 — Page 8

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GIANT SWINDLE OF U. S. LAID TO NAVALOFFIGER Justice Agents Assert Land Worth Two Millions Is Obtained for $2Ol. BY KENNETH WATSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. —The amazing story of how a naval lieutenant obtained Government property worth $2,000,00 in Porto Rico for $2Ol by a clever scheme will be probed by Congress to ascertain if higher officials were involved. The transactions also are being investigated by Assistant United States Attorney General Oscar Luhring, with a view to criminal prosecutions. The Department of Justice has succeeded in restoring the property to the Government through equity proceedings in the Federal court of Porto Rico. This proceeding disclosed that former Lieutenant Virgil Baker gained possession of some of the most valuable land in San Juan by a series of clever misrepresentations to the Navy Department. Gets Land Transfer Before the war Baker, a retired naval officer, was inspector of hulls at San Juan. He asked for active duty and on April 6, 1917, was put in charge of the San Juan radio station, continuing to draw his salary from both the Department of Commerce and the Navy Department in disregard of law. An area of almost twenty acres containing the famous San Geronimo castle belonged to the War Department. Representnig that it was vitally needed by the Navy, Baker succeeded in having it transferred “to quarter marines.” When the marines arrived, however, they were not quartered in the castle, but lived in tents on Army property. Obtaining San Geronimo castle for his own use and having the property transferred to the Navy Department, Lieut. Baker several months later asked Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels to approve a lease transferring a “small section” to himself so he could build a residence. On August 26, 1919, the Navy Department transferred this tract, which really contained almost twenty acres, to Baker for five years. Puts Over Other Deals Baker then represented that land owned by the Luiza Sugar Company some miles from San Juan was needed for a distant control radio

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station and requested that Congress authorize the Secretary of Navy to exchange any property in Porto Rico not needed for naval purposes for a distant control site. Getting approval for the Luiza site, Lieut. Baker succeeded in getting the sugar comapny officials to lease him the site for $2Ol. Department of Justice officials claim this low price was fixed because the men thought they were doing a patriotic service and dealing with the Navy Department. In the final and biggest ■ step, when Baker obtained, a 999-year lease on the San Geronimo property in exchange for the tract of sugar land. The deals might never have been brought to light had not Baker erected a fence on the San Geronimo grounds and attempted to prevent soldiers from trespassing. Investigation revealed the swindle and six weeks ago United States Marshal Hubbard executed a court writ removing Baker from the property.

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