Show i Wholesale Auto Thievery 1 lE THE wholesale sc scale le on wh which ch a automobile tomo S ll 14 and nd accessory th thefts have lia been carried S on on fl in fn Salt Lake Lake Lake-is js is demonstrated te in the confession confession confes conies S sion of Orville to the taking of S sixty-nine sixty cars 4 For m more re than a year has b been en st stealing Sf aling cars at at- least once a w week ck he be is quoted as admitting to the p police Jice His practice tice lice has been to strip the stolen autos of their storage batteries which he would then s sell w to junk junk I dealers Its It's becoming a common common occurrence of late to read of auto uto thieves being arrested One local gang is blamed the theft of one twenty cars then shortly afterward another an an- another other group is charged with stealing ni nineteen cars car car Ind so on with a record of of's s 's sixty nine stolen machines climaxes a long longS list of such cases No wonder almost a h him him- n- n S dred d cd cars are taken in Salt Lake every month of of f the year car L Letting auto thieves off with 25 23 and 50 fines will never stop the rampant thievery and nd heavy losses t td auto owners Taking one olie car is is made a felony under Utah statutes Yet Vet stealing twenty-one twenty cars has been recognized recognized d as delinquency in one court here Certainly the he time thue has conle for effective steps to b be taken 10 io stop the r reign of auto stealing S of Ohe of the best measures will be for the courts 4 to tolerate nothing except the full impartial j enforcement of the law |