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Show SHIPMENTS OF DUCKS PROBED BY U. S. WARDENS NEW YORK, Bept. II. Federal in- estlgatinn of the shipment to New ork City of ducks shot upon the Georgetown, S. C. estate of Bernard j.M. Iiaruch. former chairman of the war Industrial board, in alleged violation viola-tion of federal game laws, is being I conducted b Fnlted States officials. The Investigation, according to Mr. Baruch, Involves the number of ducks I ipped The law. he said, limits the number to fifty a person and ho be-lieved be-lieved it was "claimed there were 21 loo many." "There was no shipment of birds oui of season.'' he said, "There seem- ,ed to be a misunderstanding." I Mi. Baruch explained that the date When the shipments under investigation investiga-tion were made was a 'year or so" ago. It was necessary in making shlp-Iments, shlp-Iments, he said, to go "three and a jhalf or four miles across tne bay " Ducks shipped by hts friends he s. id, may have been sent by the same I man who made shipments for him. lei ding game wardens to the conclusion conclu-sion that all were his. |