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Show LAW OFFICERS f-OF f-OF UTAH HOLD ; CONVENTION, i Public Urged to Report Viola, tions of Law to Police i Officials. j i CONVENTION CONCLUDE . WITH BANQUET TONIGH' Election of Officers Final Bus , iness of I. A. I. Con- i i vention. J "Co-operntion" in all it's vnrioi' phases was the main topic of discut I ' sion nt the session of the Utnh Sen ' Division of the International A. sociation for Identification he Tuesday afternoon at the Ell' building. 1 President R. H. Wooten, of O-' O-' den, presided at the meeting at" Secretary H. L. Bauer, of Salt Lak-1 recorded the proceedings. f C. Clarence Neslen, mayor of Sal ' Lake City, was Introduced by tl1 ' president as the keynote speak' ; of the afternoon and his topic w; "Co-operation." In his speeo Mayor Neslen said : ' "Co-operation is a word that j: j used very frequently in modern da: but it cannot be used too often f the good of the public. Men use to work out their problems indivi . ually, each person making the san '' , mistakes as others, but nowada;1' firms and individuals co-opora , and profit by each other's mistak ! and successes. 1 "As individuals, not much can 1 ' done in the prevention of crime bi organized into associations, each c 1 operating with the other, mo: criminals will be caught and mo: crime prevented." j Mayor Neslen also stressed tl ;j need of co-operating with the ci! zens. lie said that the public shou ' report any law breakers they s and in this way furnish the info ' mation that will bring the wron 1 : doers to justice. (; "I feel that this association ci 1 do a great Goal of good for tl . f good of the general public," May ' j Neslen said, ''and I promise I divided support in-a iivi . ' f I may bring to me." r-" iu,'' j Open discussio.s.r'Vras hold th. j and many members from the diftV ent departments' of the I. A. i : voiced their sentiments and opinio ' on co-operation. W. E. Scboppc, chief investigatt Pacific Coast Underwriters Conf ; ence. then gave a paper on "An: Thefts in Relation to Other crimed' He introduced his speech by tellii1 1 of the different marks of identit'hj tion employed by nature and by ai ' mats and then explained that in; has a .symbol on his finger tips tliJ must bo carried through life ni! that this symbol is often very ii' 1 porta nt in detecting criminals. j1 "It is not my purpose today j specify the means of ideiitifyii machines," Mr. Schoppe said, "; is quite probable that the nveraj. officer knows where to find the m tor number upon the best know 1 makes of cars. Every city or tow of consequence has today upon i police personnel at least one m:i who is qualified to the extent tin he knows not onlyl where the mot or serial numbers are but also tl ' location of generator, frame, bod and other master numbers. I "Turning to the question of wh drove the machine last, it is nee less to say that the finger print ! upon the steering wheel, the bod; doors, choker or spark lever migl i answer the problem. The earefi i officer will many times find th I same justification for guardin probable marks upon an automobib i as he will those marks surroundm ' the vault of a bank, which has bee i recently robbed." Mr. Schoppe (hen divided the ai tombile thief into three classes an i explained each class in detail. i "One cannot fail to have the deer, est respect for the several olh'i important brandies of police work but it cannot be denied that th identification bureau and the pro perly organized detail form the btil warks of the modern police dc partment," he said. Following his paper. Mr. Scbopp- explained to the members present the method California uses in tin prevention of car theft. James De vine, warden of the state pen! (en tinry arose and suggested that the; present a somewhat similar law t their legislative committee for con sideration. President Wooten then asked Mr Dcvine to take the chair while Ik presented, for their consideration, : law he had prepared for the preven tion of automobile thefts. When it was finished Mr. Devim' made Die motion that Ibis hiw presented to. the committee, whic) motion was carried. '! j Following this a general discus ' sion of finger prints as n medium o ! blent i Heat ion was held durim which time Mr. Wooten explainci and gnvu a short history of finger 'printing. The meeting was then adjoumef ': and all the members were presentee' with tickets for the open air box ing carnival Hint, was held at tin ; Tinqianou'os ball park, at S p. in. The final session of the conven tion of the Utah division of flu T. A. I. w:is held Wednesday morn ing at 0:30 o'clock at the Elks home, i |