| Show 1 f ZITS tITS ITS GETTING HARDER TO I STEAL AN AUTO THESE THESE DAYS DAYS f f P I ITRIS I TRIS FO FORM FORtt r 01 01 ED E n ID NUMBER PLATE IS SAID TO TOISE TOBE ISE I PROOF AGAR ST ST CHANGE Oil Oft DESTRUCTION D B Dv ISRAEL I T IL KLEL ILIIN l EA J-A J Service Writer Ariter It Is getting Increasingly harder to steal an automobile successful successful- successfully ly Iy Elements working toward to the further increase se of at this difficult are aret 1 A tact vait prevention pre and detec detec- detection detection detection tion systems system built up by the Iho Na- Na National National Na National Automobile Under conference ence in close op co-op co operation alth a the United States Stales department of Justice and with t ith slate state and city authorities ever a whore here 2 operation Co-operation bel between een Canada I and the United States Stales for tor a close scrutiny of at all automobiles crossing cross cross- crossIng Inc cross Ing wo Llie border 3 Title 1 11 tans laws s no non nonn In n 15 states and promising to spread throughout the tho country 4 Careful checking of at auto li- li li license cense records 5 6 Reports of at used car sates sales CROOK DOOMED Changing engine and other Iden- Iden Identifying Iden Ideo Identifying numbers no longer helps the auto thief even It if he can c cade ade the closely cosey checking and e system pitted against I II him lor 1 or methods of at all sorts have I been bren de Mid and are still have being Invented to toil foul the crook A special agent of ot iho rho auto uno un 1 un underwriters conference has discovered ered a system called processing b by which original motor numbers even though removed remo ed entirely al- al al altered or substituted can be bo absolutely Absolutely determined This has already al- al already al already ready been the tho means ot of identify Ing Ing thousands of at stolen cars Although originally designed to Identify one make malte the Iho plea pl has been been found applicable to other de- de designs de designs signs also FORM IORI Or OF PEEVE PREVENTION rnE TION All AI those 8 s stems siems however are not preventive No plan or deuce de- de deIce lice de-lice uce Ice has yet vet et been found to keep a thief from tram stealing a car One device however howe which might warn thieves away from cars using It-a It it a mild form of at pre pre- pre prevention Is Is a patent numberIng plato plate thil thit can be welded on en- en engines en engines gines from flam frame frames and that is considered con con- considered con considered more difficult to change or counterfeit than money moneyMaking money mane moneyMaking Making this plate evolved a new newart newart art In engraving The rho numbers are distinct but they run through a scroll decoration somewhat like the engraving Ing of at a banknote Be sides being numbered the are spelled out t twice Ice above and be- be below be below low 10 And each plate pale has the name and trademark of at the automobile cartIng i Ing it t Tho The New ew York firm producing there plates establishing Itching lishing ft a regular mint where here the tho thode deuce deIce de Ice will be coined Tho The plate Is attached to the op en Ine or 01 chassis of at the Iho auto with a patented device which Is le said to tomake tomake make removal Impossible N L FAILURES Out of at 60 50 numbering schemes some somewhat hat similar to this which have been submitted to the under under- underwriters underwriters writers laboratories In Chicago for tal approval only one has passed the close scrutiny and e tests of the experimenters All the others could be bo altered replaced or coun counterfeited by some Ingenious meth meth- method method od ad Theft Insurance companies otter offer to 10 reduce their theft rate rato s 7 1 pel per cent wherever an anti anti- theft anti theft device approved ed by the un- un underwriters un underwriters der laboratories Is used Inventors In are arc still hilI hand haid d at it to find that device deuce de Ice Ice- tor for it means mon mon- money money ey to them |
