Show WAR WAB ON AUT THIEVES I IS BEGUN N DY I 1 G l Seek Seck Cooperation of All City Organizations in Drive to Rid State of Sinister Criminal Class I II I A A CAMPAIGN CAl against automobile auto auto- c 1 Illo mobile thieves operating in Salt Lake anti and environs and causing thousands of dollars of or damage and loss was inaugurated ed at t yesterdays yesterday's s noonday meeting of or the membership council at the Commercial club dub Socking Seeking In a spirit of ot cooperation with tho police and lud county officials to culminate cul cut minate minato the activities of ot car purloiners which the they claim has grown to tn the rato rata O of oC ten machines stolen a da day tho membership council yesterday appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed a committo o to carry an active campaign before the tho various arlous large or organizations organizations or- or of ot tho the city for Cor or support The Th enactment nt of ot a law b by the thc state I legislature next January for tho the more rigid prosecution of or automobile thieves s and arid making making- It a Celon felony to take taIe a R. car without the owners owner's permission will be bo advocated At present the committee will m confine Its activities to cooperating n. Ith officials In not lint only onh ii i t the lc return i rn of r- r rl the l st-ol st stolen cars running tho the thieves thle down hut but In securing ing prosecution to the full tull extent of or the thelan law lan Geor George o D. D Ald Alder r presided at yesterdays yesterday's yester yester- c ter- ter nays flays meeting and following an Involved discussion sion of the situation the following committee was appointed to act In b be behalf be- be halt half of ot the automobile owners VV W. H H. I Lovcy chairman W. W G G. G Burton and andL M. M L A. A Keysor csor CIVIC CLUBS TO HELP Immediate action will wilt be taken by bv this committee In fri placing the tIle matter before man many of or th the the- strongest organizations In inthe tho the eft city Including the Rotary notary club the theReal Real neal Estate association tho the Automobile Distributors' Distributors association the In Insurance urance men as well as the sheriff and chief of or police Tho methods method employed b by the thieves have drawn n down a protest from the owners IlL man many cases th the car when hen stolen Is used to entertain ln some party parly on a jO Joy ride and then left broken down downor 01 or stranded miles from frIm town on oit some lonely piece picco of road On other occasions the thief t merely steals the car in order to strip It of ot all It Its removable and casH easily salable ble oric lorle In still other cases cases the car is maliciously damaged and after acter being left lert by the parties i is stripped by a second gan gang an g and thus the tho owner as well ell as 8 the tho jn insurance company suffers a loss The third and of ot course the most extreme extremo case Is when the car is never ne returned nt at all WANT RELENTLESS WAR The automobile owners contend that not only should the car be recovered It If euch a 1 thin thing is but that the thieves should hould be he run nm down and captured cap cap- and then vigorously prosecuted to the full rull extent of the la law The They advocate ocate the system stem used b by the royal northwest mounted police that police that of following a man to tho the end until he is Realizing that officials of oC the tue Jaw law arc are often handicapped they feel fecI that by hy a spirit of cooperation the thc they can follow I c each ch individual case through and not culminate the matter with the mere re recovery recovery re- re covery ery of the thc car If 11 present plans plang are aro worked out out pur- pur Joiners or r automobiles will vill not only find t themselves evading the police pollee but hut an organized band or of business and automobile automobile automo automo- bile bib men who will scrutinize car c. carefully The Tue titans plan as outlined by 11 tho the member member- hip council include spreading such a dm dragnet that no matter where the tho thief thier m may I be if a description of oC the tho car toi to- to i with Its number be furnished to toc cry c motorist it will mean so O picketing the tho surrounding countr country that lint the law violator will find It hard to evade arre arrest t |