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Show BONE-DRY-AUTO LAW HARD ON DEALERS Confiscation of Cars by federal General Agents Becomes Serious Factor. Perhaps the, most curious effect of! prohibition so far recorded is its bearing' on the safety of the automobile dea'er industry, as brought out recently by the National Automobile Dealers' association. This menace to the dealer, says the asso- j ciation, has been brought about through : the fact tn;-tt In numerous dry states fed- I eral "revenue agents have confiscated automobiles carrying liquor. In a majority, ma-jority, of these cases the cars have been sold by the dealers on conditional bills uf sale. After the car has been seized, it Is either sold or destroyed, the dealer is deprived of bis machine, and, in many instances, it is impossible to recover the balance d ue on the purchase. This procedure pro-cedure has been upheld in the United States circuit, court of appeals for Georgia, Geor-gia, despite the fact that the dealer bad no knowledge of the purpose for which the automobile w?s to be used. Cases are also pending in Colorado, Washington. Washing-ton. Virginia and California. The directors direc-tors of the Is. A. li. A. have made a pledge of ad equal e financial support to the Georgia dealers fighting this case, which vwll be taken to the United States supreme court. The N. A. D. A. further says that one of the most serious features of the confiscation con-fiscation is that the federal reserve banks are considering a proposal to rediscount automobile dealers' commercial paper when cars ore sold on such conditional bills of sale, and that it has also seriously seri-ously impaired the ability of car owners to insure their cars. |