Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-01-24 | Page 7 | Theft Of Milk Bottles Costly

THEFT OF MILK BOTTLES COSTLY COSH Y Dealers Organize and Save Near Million on a Year YearBy By lly JOHN CROSBY Special Correspondent of or The Standard Examiner Copyright 1926 by Consolidated 1 Press Association CHICAGO Jan 23 One 23 One little of ot petty the crime crime the theft of milk cot bottles bottles cot t the United States almost as much in the tho last week as the robberies by violence which Involved murders shootings assaults and burglaries which set the police of ot a dozen cities by the ears The milk bottle bandit is Is eel eel- sel seldom dom om mentioned d In the newspapers yet his depredations and careless which have diverted toil mil mil million lions lion of bottles to junk dealers cost thousands upon upon thousands of dollars annually But Dut while corn com committees com of 1000 economists crim- crim criminologists crim and police chiefs hav have been arguing about how to stop crime by violence an organized fight is being conducted against the milk bottle bandit ORGANIZE OnG EXCHANGE This campaign camp Is being carried on through the Milk Dealers Dot Dot- Dottie Bottie tie tic Exchange a a- operative co-operative or- or organization or organization of or milk dealers which h has headquarters here This tight light Is IsaId said aId to be ho saving a year ear to milk dealers of Chicago citY alone You woul would 1 think nobody would steal an empty milk bottle aId Ernest manager of or the tho ex- ex exchange ex exchange change Nevertheless ItIs It Is is A common form of ot banditry For a awhile awhile while nobody thought much about It as II the cost ost of a milk bottle hottle Is only about seven cents IThen Then M they ey got together and deck decIded decked I ed to stop top the leak The result was the Milk Dealers Bottle Ex- Ex Exchange Ex Exchange change chane OVEn BOO DEALERS DEAfEns Thirteen big automobile trucks are used to haul the milk bot bottles Ilea which are r handled by the exchange here The exchange collects sorts and distributes distribute for tor more than local dealers The trucks pick up bottles a day and carry them to the exchange where they are sorted crated and re- re returned returned re returned turned to their rightful owners Last year the exchange recovered over bottles from Illegal I use and recoveries aro are now run run- run running ning close to a month i her The truck trucks of or the exchange nv- nv av average erase 30 miles a day Automatic bolt belt conveyors conveyor are used In loading and unloading trucks The ex- ex exchange ex exchange change operates on a differential 0 of three quarters of a cent a P bot- bot bottle bottie bot bottle tle tie though It sometimes coal costs three or four tour cents to recover recover a bottle no