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Show NAVAL SUPPLIES ARE RECOVERED Chicago, Nov .. A carload of naval na-val supplies, taid bj the police to have been stolen from the Mare Island Isl-and nav jard at San Francisco, valued val-ued at about .lo,onn, was seized b edcral authorities in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad yards near Hawthorne. III., today. The supplies were taken on a writ issued by United Slates Judge Kene-saw Kene-saw M. Iindls. Thc car was billed to. a smelting and refining company with a plant here. - Goe:nment investigators said there had existed r band of thieves which 'have been robbing United Stato3 naval na-val vards of supplies aggregating ssv-i ssv-i oral hunrdeas of dollars. The government agents have been working for several months attempting attempt-ing to locate shipments of stolen materials. ma-terials. It Is belle; ed today's discovery dis-covery will result In disclosing fur-, ther caces. The carload conc'3tcll op more than 50,000 pounds of copper and brass used in the construction ot battleships. Vallejo, Cal., Nov. 5. News that a carload of copper and brass, supposed to have been stolen from the Marc Island navy yard, had been seizod near Chicago was received with as-tcn'-'inicnt at the yard. Lieutenant Cr andcr M. 11 Standlo. acting co...iandant, said that no inkling o' any such theft existed Sales of copper cop-per and bras.s junk had been madv within the past month, but not sufficient suffi-cient In amount to mak,c u.o anything like a 50,000 pound carlot. I |