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Show U.S. BIARINESGU-ARD SIXTEEN "TREAS- ' TJRE TRAINS" Secretly Cross the Centiiv cnt to San Francisco, I i California' . , l Now that the government has com-1 plotcd its war tlmo shlpmonts to India In-dia of sliver from (jn'pl ted dollars, dl-lector dl-lector of tho mint Dakor disposed how thousands of tons of tho metal wcro hauled from tho Philadelphia mint to San Francisco in special trains guarded by armed Marines, wlthuot loss of nn ounco nnd xvlthout general knowlcdgo of tho procedure, ' nightccn of theso treasure trains niado tho trip across tho continent in tho txvclvo months ended last April 23rd with tho silver, llko big bricks, j plied high in each of the flvo express cars composing a special (rain. Two Marines with automatic pistols nt their hips and caxved-off shot fjuns on their laps sat In each car, and lator tho secret transfer of tho bars from train to Rhlp at SanFranclsco. Each silver brick weighted sixty-two sixty-two pounds and was worth $1,000.1 $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 ot tho bricks. Guarded shipments of sllvor dollars also worn mado from thu United States treasury In Washington Washing-ton and from tho Now Orleans sub-treasury sub-treasury to Philadelphia. More than 205,000,000 sliver dollars were melted melt-ed and shipped to India during thn year to meet urgent war demands for coinage. |