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Show I HDWAUTOTHIEF I; h balked Locking Devices Are- Useful. Says Officer. But Not Absolute Protection n Ceaseless vigilance on 9 ' t the owner is the only ahsolutely sure 1 , ; protection against the automobile 9 9 thief, declared a police official recent- ijj iy. locking devices, he paid, arc use- m a ful because they render the work of IS the thief more difficult, but IheV are ?j not an absolute protection 11 :, jj "Automobile thievery," h declared S "is a highly organised Industry. The a i thieves have every facility at their PPH E& command and often are Connected H t j with some garage, the owner of whi H 14 acts as a 'fence.' Frequently w. H celjie reiorta of cars having been tow- H ij ed away or even having hern put on a 9: irl - truck and taken to some remote plac- l : where any locking device may In- B moved at leisure. kLBt' i '1 x'ti "So you can see that almpsl H Impossible to prei thefts, the next 1 j j , best thing is to take every measure 1 j X, i possible to sasure the return of the Hll 1 ll i i car after It is stolen. Ah the thieves H j jj make it an invariable practice to erase Hi j 1 11 "J , the usual Identifying numbers, every 9 l ' owner should place some se ret mark.-. H 1 ' on his car by which he can positively H 1 identify It in case of ner d. "A mark may be etratchcd under '. the seats, on the batfc ry box or In j fact any plaxe where I' Is apt to rc- i I main unnoticed. This system is cm- ployed by a few of the larger mamu- 9 facturers. Elvery Hudson and Bases, 9 ' fr Instance, has a special series .u. -cret numbers, a record of all of them being kept at the factory In Detroit H on a card with the owner's name. H These numbers are all cross Indexed H bo that given any one of the numbers 9 1he owner and the car tan be id ntl-H ntl-H , lied at a moment's notice. H "TNTien a Hudson or iSsseai car Is 9 reported stolen at the factory, a oom-plete oom-plete description together with all Its H numbers is sent to an d 1st rihutors and 9 dealers and to polio u.ml Insurance 1 officials all over the country ihls 9 1,as resulted in the reeocry by their 9 owners of on average of four cars a |