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Show BARE RING CF AUTO THIEVES Gang In Iowa Extended Their Operations Opera-tions Into Neighboring States Had Branch Offices, Dubuque, Iowa. A ring of automobile automo-bile thieves covering the whole of Iowa and extending into Illinois, Wisconsin Wis-consin and Minnesota was unearthed here by State Investigator M. S. Campbell Camp-bell of attorney general's office. Headquarters Head-quarters of the ring have been discovered dis-covered here and, according to Mr. Campbell, cars were brought here, where they were renumbered and repainted re-painted and sent to other parts for sale. One hundred stolen cars have been traced and more than 800 autos sold in Iowa during spring and summer sum-mer months are being traced. Des Moines, Muscatine, Cedar Rapids and Davenport officials state, are listed as branch offices of the ring. County records show sales and transfers trans-fers of cars that have been bought In Chicago, Rockford, Minneapolis, Milwaukee Mil-waukee and other middlewest cities. Of fifty stolen cars sold in Cedar Rapids to Innocent purchasers, thirty have been traced as coming from Dubuque. Du-buque. Whether the garage owners and those who sold the cars are Implicated, Im-plicated, officials were not able to say. A state-wide Investigation has been ordered into the activities of the ring. One man Is held here and further ar rests are predicted. |