t‘meR 21, film
_ ......“ .m. .
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"J
{farefui‘ roo
dedicated. failed because a clerk
in the ignition look establishment
Auto Thieves Steal $100,-
\ x . . disobeyed orc' nstrn
UUO 000 to Care an Strict ‘ ‘ c.
. In 1922- tions had been issued that the code
“I“ DARK night last ear book. with its almost inealculebie
O . ...n a... u- k ’ ‘ value. Would than be locked in
.....HM-“Co b‘gf '35 driven the safe when not in use. the
. - h * 7 “a "10 Phih- sate had been locked for the nig‘ht
. 1 .rsnch of the largest man- wbeirthls clerk} '01.“ late w ' ’
“zrcrs of automobile ignition to pg: :3 5.“. re‘flu‘of "1.2;:
, . t:..‘f§..°.3§?.2'§'.¢?.'3 I“ ...... ’°' “°‘ ...... "m“ "
. . .... .. .. . In- earlier. he did not tele one one
s» “my. and l back door of of u:- heads of the «331mm...
it‘l‘l’jlmm‘im W“ Own- A to return and open the safe. but
...fifi‘i 5.??? .22 “5.3“": "W" ‘° 1.... ‘° 3" “ M W
... maid» - an :y‘wuhout observation, and’tnck- .
_ - _ - t on a high shelf. Luck was -
.u- ca.dboard. when unfolded. not onl to steal . “0 home. Now an
’r :3: exact reproduction of the y "m him. but with the 1
months in jail is heavy for stealing
establishment and the country’s a $5.060 car.
urtich stood under lights in ""0,“th owners.
That is one reason
. ”w of the front Win 0 _ . .. The "COGO The tower row of wh automobile theft is on the in-
2. the '0“ of second: ‘2": . lager which the thieves blew open figures was invisible creise.
.15 a screen in front of the 139.213.:3 Obu'filtumed out to be until treated with But the big reason is that steal-
114 3 Info crgck" went to i” a on; he“ ‘nd lc‘d- ‘3. ing an automobile is so easy. Md
The tarnishing machine has
never been recovered. but it is use-
less— without the book. The
thieves nailed the catalogue back
with a poiite note of regret.
The failure of this gigantic plot
did not prevent thieves stealing
8100 000.000 worth of automobiles
in the United States last year. ac-
-. the combination in con:-
wcnriiy from interrup-
ts the meantime his com.
- -..-. ‘21 unbolted a machine weigh-
~.:::«‘.reris of, pounds from its
- :~ :a in the dark recesses st
. K of the shop, and carried
' their truck.
.~.. was an almost unnotice-
doiwion as the sale. which
i.» .. 'vwl stubborn, was blown.
-'~ sorting of its contents. and
cracksman. disregarding ap
valuables. carried I heavy
...» out to the car. whicn was
rim-lily ewnv
. v. n perpetrated one of the
daring and disturbing rot»
in the history of American
capture is so unlikely. Automc»
biles recovered does not mean at»
prehension of the thieves. The re-
covered cars are almost always do
sorted. .
Revealing Erased Numbers
A real step toward detection of
disguised cars. turned back into
mechanical: of trade. has been
made by perfecting a process for
making visible identification num-
bers that have been filed away
from metal surfaces. The profes-
sional thiefe first step is always
to file away the numbers placed on
the engine by the manufacturer
and stamp new ones their
place-s. This is done so skillfully
that only an expert can detect that
a change has been made. and the
mere detection of a change does
nothing toward identifying the car.
Recently it was found that the
impression by die of the original;
number left an invisible compares;
sion in the metal. By appljringi
heat and acids to the surface. this
M} .
mighty little risk. bio wonder this 12
is a. business w ich is pressing
bootlegging for importance.
last year 7,107 cars were stolen
in New York City. and 3.220 recov—
ered—the lowest rate of recovery
on record. In 1918 there were
3.340 cars stolen, and 2.578 recov-
ered. In this one city an increase
timers permanently lost from 762
to 3.85? in five years! These fig-l
Missing a Rich Haul
.. w-u aimed at no petty loot.
two or three million dol-
~. bands or currency. it was
i 1 m place at the mercy of
~ ~‘:"“.‘.r.ai element of the coun-
”mobiles with a value of
o‘ ~11
. . 74% ‘ rash-am; rift. Jilin...
x
5 “it you leave your bank roll lean-
!ing against the curb. somebody’s
with trunk and trailer. like any
honest working men. and trundled
“Min of millions of dollars. $80133 to pinch it." is a. summary the “disabled" :ize sway under lites 31"! in the possession of the: compression was made visible in
summon stolen was one of 1 o: the situation by a thief. now in the eyes of the law. He did it once A9133 Life Insurance Company. " the farm of .the 5:131:13“ figures-l
:. . «' ”1““ in “7‘3 mm“ Slate: is New York State prison, who'stols too often, but it worked for 20 Borrowing Cars for Bandizry 31’ 356 Of this magma the “595‘!
l . ! 2-“- makinx key: to the igni- 131000.000 worth of cars during 20 years. The-so car permanently 10:: safeguard 0’ “3‘3 LII-9’11“ be“? ’9‘-
. .. m on 80 per cent of the 'yenrs of operation. He boasts that The next nave 13 to get the were the grist of the professional moved. and 333103531 “he method.
in
has only recently come into use.‘
hundreds of cars have already been
identified and returned to their
owners. .
The pedigree of a used car
should always be traced by the
prospective buyer. The man sell-
ing the car may be honest. but one
or two steps back of him a thief
may lurk.
Bringing to justice the men who
automobiles manufac~ =
’ The tool: sought in the safe . . E
H; ' w-i the code letters and ' i
’7" thieving organizations. They are
traveling other streets. in altered
guises. The cars raovered were
largely “borrowed" for banditry or
joyriding. Your uptovdste bandit
seldom walks. He goes about is
business in somebody else's gaso—
line buggy. In the fracas in w ich
he engage-s his license number is
frequently taken. and this clue is
‘of course run rim. lending to
there is no type of lock or safety
device Which he has not entwined.
He admits a. preference for cars
no: locked—«ind there are plenty
29!: that way—but madeoit a point
to foil all of the locksmiths during
his career. just as a matter of pro—
fessional prid
Laugh at Locksmiths
feed pipe locks,
stolen goods to a friendly garage.
of which there are dozens in every.
large city. and remove all identifi-
cation xnarks. scraping the number
from the body and filing the num-
ber from the engine. New num-
bers are impressed over the old
with steel did. the body refinished
and tires changed. possibly. and
the car is ready for market. If of
.‘i of each of these lacks.
r7 looking at the nuniber
,~ . I‘Ck of any of these cars.
' i "it down that number in
1 . molt. keys duplicating the
- ~ 1‘- ~:.’.i be manufactured.
mm. of these keys would
. - ' .' make the actual stealinz
cording to a careful computation
made by the statistieai department
of the Ae-tna Life insurance Coin-l
pany.—a figure which is increasing‘
all proportion to the increase in:
police departments. As the
ber of cars which each poiicemnnf
must guard grows larger. the carpi
. Casci‘me
ber stolen mounts and the person-=3 I ‘
HtV’YV_.
d .....- .3
O .
at. a rate which staggers the lm- Leer
1‘ CJTS more 5131318. but 381331503- ‘33 "COVEFEG dwindma. locks, chained wheels, 3. common make it is often sold John Smith. banker and church are getting rich in this bustle“:
" ' 1 iii the ornnised bands of Motor Thefts increasing There has been a. tent-:2: 3 IOCKF‘m‘Y are all where stolen. If conspicuous, it is member. Smith's car is found by is the duty of every citizen. The
2&3th in disposing of The police. despite splendid ef- crease in automobiles in ton yea. experienced man. be shipped elsewhere. In rare cases a roadside, usually the worse for. police can't do it all. They have
~~ mrs without suspicion. forts. are unable to cope with the This year will see 3.530.300 an'o ; an be tool: ’a fancy to stolen cars have been sold back to wear. too much else to do. The first
t wit Ha ingenious plot. to situation. Automobiles. and those mobiles manufacture 1. A? com! 2 .3: :ar, protected by half the owners. i it used to be a penitentiary ct- step is for the driver—the car
~ i “*1" best brains of the crim- who acquire them by other than pared to such growth. poi.ce tic-g 2‘ dozen or so assorted locks, 1213‘ A small investment. 3 quick! tense—in some sections an offense owner—to be as careful as the
""‘f' mics. hail evidently been lawful means. are increasing out of partments are almost stationary. ,3 crew of huskies drew alongside} turnover. and a big profit, withl rewarded with informal hanging— thief.
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cizssnnskjrt was nét'cn '_
rancos c.” the Rev. Charics E1, 1‘
of the. Vans: Side Unitarian
Dr. Potion,
is Scheduled in debate with Dr. '
a hunch Stratum tomorrow cw» "
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in! Jesus. acceptable to God without
it‘\‘int in 1'. r infuliibiiity of t e'
. rim. CTF‘IILJED stories in Gene. __.,
:ruln Birth legend. the Deity of. 4
or his bodily second coming. §
Just incidental.
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m Now York 12;..sv-‘zul. Fresh: A"l‘r~;v.':‘. rr.-“.r~*»i cool-”s 2:: Dr ' "j’ ‘ril'; be my purpose in this
;nnd Baptist cliurclws will 5mm 111-. l'nrks' 5 mon ham“. no; yr-t bow-n of dcbatos to Show that the[
rode the South. hot-bed of lv‘un‘idv‘. mzuio 1111i n to tin» pli‘t'if, it was :mvmalists are not fundamen-
mentnlist ihourrht, was made today i barrio-l autltcritiwiy that the: that is. that the propositions.
The prediction came from the Run? dvcmratirtt; “ 3727701 tho; .Lh they maintain as of vital im- :
w once are incidental. almost 30--
riniol. 1
Dr. Stain-t 1.. Tyson. ViCE-Dreeiricnii fllfldlni-fnfallFiS
of the Modwrn churchman‘s Union}
while clcrnymen and laymen awaited §
In cxpcctmi pronunciamento from ,
lBi’shop “‘iiiiam T. Manning. Episco-g
pal Bishop of Saw York. answering;
the challenge of the Rev. Dr. Leigh«'
“Thvrc is in; r: from scrip-x
turn fszr ‘* 2- deny that tile':
\ irzrin ilzrrh was an instancal fact."
_ Bodily Resurrection
Dr. I’:1~"':s mad» :3.
.‘
Spokesmen for the Modernists yes-
zl-rdny claimed that hundreds of clcr‘ . g;
iz'yxncn all over the country are join‘ l a“?
.3."
tantrums
q-wular state-ling their movement for “greater;
Simmer Till 1925.
Belief grew today in church cir—;
differing thought the war—
rmz factions.
among
Luke‘s Church. Montclair. N.‘J.. to-?
day took sides in the controversy‘
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for espousing modernistic doctrines; hats up. “5“,“.me cg “ ‘mh finds! The Rev. Luke “‘hltc. rector of St. i ‘8 “
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thing that is difficult for the Modern-
ist to understand is how people who
my such emphasis upon the dogma.
the confszrcncr‘ do have the creeds
the morninc' and eve-
n ih~a
ciee that Bishop Manning for thel Strengthening the belief that a “‘th the Modernism. He m‘d‘ l A F’EWY B‘ARGAINS LISTED BELOW ;
present will ”more Dr Parks’ sermon, l truce may lm declarvi in the. “It is almost unbelievable that in-
V“? ...—«- sun's“ l but will. probably on Christmas Day,. doctrinal war until the general l toilltzont persons who have experienc _
‘ ‘- 44-h make answer rather than a. definite' conference is hold in 11:25. is thewui the power of Jesus could base“
(“615103 effecting the status of mod- reported intention of the Praycr- their belief in that power upon the 9 .- .v s
cm clemmen in the church. In Book Commission of the Diocese manner of His coming into the; LADIES .’ LADIES r _! LADIES
*his sermon Dr. Parks questioned the! of Massachusetts to memoranze world. of His some out of it- The:
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Goodyear Welt Black and; Tan Vici Kid and Tan Calf?
Virgin Birth of Christ and the bodily; xf
‘ Tan 0 ords I
.roeurroctlon an historical facts. : taken out of
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‘ ' V 3 FOUR~MODERNISTS TAKE 2 . . :3an pl‘flf‘f‘l‘fi nix? pzm‘n thorn
Questlons for Chnst- . .-.--- .... ’
Shoes, Waited Soles
hotel; of prayer books for optional ot’ the Virgin birth and the bodily I
\ \ the so-caiied revolt of the modem-g use, resurrection could have so complete- * 9 y
will simmer iv forgotten the essential doctrine of ' _ ’ . 7
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conference of clertrymen in New;which it sanrrmnad by the confer- the forgiveness of sins. which is as
Orleans in 1923. when it may be‘em‘n wo:12vi.xtis cirrimmi. be a pointimmfh an M11018 0: the €11?”th
‘ expected to have reached such pro-{gained for the modernism. "faith contained in the ADOSUES' Creed.
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