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Show AUTOMOBILE THEFTS In a recent address, Alfred Reeves of the National Automobile Automo-bile Chamber of Commerce declared that $300,000,000 worth of automobiles were stolen last year, 'of which $60,000,000' worth remain re-main unrecovered. One car out of every 30 registered in Detroit last year was stolen. Mr. Reeves also says that automobile insurance rates' are too high, because there is too little effort made by insurance companies to investigate the personal integrity of the applirant for a policy. Car owners who have a record of recklessness or criminality should be refused insurance, he says, because their delinquencies increase the rates which the honest and careful driver have to pay. He also warned that the motorist who leaves his car unlocked is tempting the thief, and in particular aids the kind of thievery which is for the purpose of a temporary joy ride. Greater cooperation with a view 'to the apprehension and punishment pun-ishment of automobile thieves is urged. As Mr. Reeves says, "it is a mockery of justice that millions of dollars in motor thefts every year go unpunished." |