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Show STOLEN AUTOS ARE RECOVERED Millions of Dollars Saved! Since Federal Law Be- j conie Effective Since the passage of the Dyer antl-theft antl-theft atomoplla law In October. 1919, -120 automobiles worth, at a fair second-hand valatlon. $2067.208 have beeii recovered by the bur eg of In Btigation lnit-d Slates department nt j us', 1 -r according to figures co... piled by that bureau at tho request ol Officials .if the American Automo-la Automo-la '. Ii i The d. partment v-COrdln? v-COrdln? to these figures, has investigate.! investi-gate.! '39i dases Which Involved 4.H8.". pesoris 'i'lier,. wero L.,T75 persons af rested of nrhlch 1.53 were indicted nnri 1118 coil Icted. 1 hose convicted persona received sentences amounting In the aggregate to 2.366 vears. G months H days and paid fines to the amount of $41,140 The American' Automobile association look an ucti. part In supporting the Dyer anti-theft bill which was prepared by Representative Represen-tative L C. Dyer of Missouri who Is an aetiv. no ,.,1hm ,,f 11,.. Automohll. rinb of Missouri and who was assisted in obtaining fm-ts necessary for the preparation prep-aration ..f this measure by the Automobile Auto-mobile Club of Missouri and the A A A -Any doubt as to1he need for such a measure is dissipated by the presentation pre-sentation of the above figures which show a material reduction in the per-1 Rentage of motor cars stolen since tb'i law went into effect. Credit tor th. enforcement of this aw, which has resulted in such a large per entage of arrests, is targslr duo to William J Burns, head ..f the bureau r.f investigations, department of Justice Mr. Bums iucs given sipo realizing the- extent of 1h!s Industry, for it had become an Industry, and has placed some of his best operatives opera-tives on these cases. The Outstanding feature of the Dyer law is the fact that It places intVr-state intVr-state transportation of stolen motor vehicle-, under federal law and makes such an action punishable in federal '"ii m. Before the passage of this act there had been built up a great and :rrowlng traffic in stolen motor vehicles, ve-hicles, conducted by bands of unficrui ''1 "i m'.'i who in ain'a.ne.l astern!. ling factories at various points ami who, through their ability to transpose parts of various machines, one tu the other, oth-er, were able to so alter a stolen car a? to make it practically unrecognizable unrecogniz-able to the original owner. State lawn were inadequate to reach these men am! the Dyer bill filled a long felt want. At the present tlmo officials of the A A A. are working In conjunction with federal officials and head sof other organizations Jn an endeavor to Indue motor car manufacturers to permanently mark all automobiles so OS to make Identification more easy. It Is hoped that results along this line will be obtained in the near future. |