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Show GUM-SHOE OFFICE OF AUTO COMPANY "Another car stolon In New Or- leans, plea.se take this letter to the gum-shoe' department." "A clerk In the offices of the Willys Wil-lys company of Toledo. O, recently! gave the above order to an office boy I as he handed the youngster a letter' he had just opened." savs J W Leavlti "The boy delivered the missive lo a man In another part of the office.' I the latter read and filed it away and reached for a telegram blank Thus was the detectie department of the1 big automobile organization, an Inno- ; vation which has become very important impor-tant In a short time, set to work on the latest 'case ' The guni-shoe department as if has been dubbed by the office itaff, does nol look anything like the head-quarters head-quarters of a detective agency, but It has proved Its ability and worth on several occasions, to the joy of automobile owners whose machines have been stolen The purpose of the department i? to assist in tracing aud restoring to their owners cars which are appro-do appro-do not heliee In buying them The work is done through a system of J correspondence with several of its j large dealers throughout the country The working if the department is slm-I slm-I I'le. V dealer will write to the factory thai ;i car belong to one of Ins us-tomers us-tomers has been stolen, and giving the factory' number The gum-shoe' department immediately notifies other distributors to be on the lookout for j uch a cur, and frequently the stolon property Is quickly recovered The latest instance of success in this co operation of factoTy and owners occurred oc-curred a few weeks ago wheu tho dealer in Jacksonville. Fin , notified the department thnt a car stolen in Philadelphia had been recovered in that city and the thief arrested." |