Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1920 — HOOSIER MOTORISTS ORGANIZE TO CHECK THEFTS [ARTICLE]

HOOSIER MOTORISTS ORGANIZE TO CHECK THEFTS

Indianapolis, Ind., May 22.—Fifteen hundred members of the Hoosier Motor clubs in this (Marion) county, began organizing themselves today into voluntary detective force to assist the police in protecting the hundreds of visiting motorists who will be here for the eighth annual 500 mile automobile race May 31. Members of the club, spurred to activity by the great number of ajitomobile thefts recently, met with representatives of the local police department and offered its assistance in ridding the state of automobile thieves.