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Show WOULD MAKE AUTO STEALING A FELONY Sergeant Lester Wire of the traffic squad said yesterday that he. thought the present an opportune time for automobile, auto-mobile, dealers and owners to petition the legislature to. introduce a law making mak-ing auto stealing a separate and distinct dis-tinct felony. Only bv having a strict law, he thought, would tho stealing of automobiles be decreased. Last year 140 automobiles were stolen in Salt" Lake, but of that number 135 were recovered. Many of the cars were simply taken for joy rides and then abandoned, maybe one or two blocks from the place from which they were stolen. In many cases owners refused to prosecute and, due to the general laxitj', the prosecutions for auto stealing steal-ing have .been few. |