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Show II NEED AUTO TO 1 I FIGHTBANDITS Motor Vehicle Plays Important Im-portant Part in Combatting Com-batting Terrorism The effective part that automobile play in tho efforts of police to subdue sub-due the bandit terrorism which Infests In-fests so many of the larger cttiea nowadays, is resulting in a general overhauling and expansion of department depart-ment fleets. In Minneapolis for Mt-imole Mt-imole it is reported that six Hup-mobllcs Hup-mobllcs have just been -added to tho btg fleet of police department cais there These are to be used by precinct pre-cinct un squads in their nightly tOUM of tho districts where criminal activity ac-tivity Is especially prevalent "Many an outlaw, now at liber., might have been captured had our police cars been able to make the "ra.de " is the substance of tho police Report which resulted in the appropriation appro-priation for nvs cars. "And the same situation exists in almost every large city." says O. C. Hutchinson the llupmoblle general sales manager. "A police department without pe pendable cars Is today tultoj as lner-ficlem lner-ficlem as one would be without the necessary weapon- Tor offense and fle-fenee fle-fenee In fart the speed available In certain motor ears has become just IS r-s?ential a factor In subduing crime as the revolver and officer's club. Without the speed to overtake the perpetrators of crime the gun and stick are of little use. "I know of no other service, to which the motor car may be adapted adapt-ed that requires more positive assurance as-surance of dependability than police work." |