CARS wanuacawie, Dusnescs ana proie- sional men. Names that appear on the national advisory boards, include Joseph A. Faurot, deputy police com- missioner, New York, Dan Beard,'na- tional Boy Scout commissioner, J. A. Hall, educational director Associated Advertising 'Clubs of the World, and Gutzen Boglum, sculptor and presi- dent of the Inuternational Sporting Club. T BODYI L THEFTS' MARKET of Dealing With s System of lIearanceJ [arch 2.-Destroy the' stolen automobiles and the thefts, is the plan as of formation by the, tor Theft Commission and protective devices themselves inadequate, ran Courtland, commis- professional motor car shed. Motor vehicles of value of $300,000, the says, are stolen every cited States, despite all n to check the thievery. s of persons thrive as Require Registration The plan is this: A car is stolen in Chicago. If the numbers are changed one of two things happens, either a duplicate of some other number is made or a fake number, one that the manufacturer never placed on a car. When the car is sold and re-registered in any state some number must be given. A dupli- cate number will immediately be caught and the two or more cars carrying that number will be thoroughly investigated. A fake num- ber will show up just as quickly and be looked into. If they number is not changed there will be a r'eport of the number on the commissions records as that of a stolen cad and when the same number is registered again from the same state or any other it will im- meditely be caught. lack National Clearance The lack of any national clearance system in the past has been one of the largest contributing factors in making this lawlessness easy and profitable, Mr. Van Courtland states. With the Commission's national clear- ance system in operation a car stolen in Maine the numbers changed and the car sold and registered in Cali- fornia, would immediately be caught he asserts. The plan is virtually a "finger- print" system as applied to automo- biles.. A master-record of every car registered in the 48 states as well as the new cars that come into existence is to be kept at the commissioner's headquarters. The numerical ar- rangement of the records makes check- ing of any vehicle simple and auto- matic. _ Through this "national clearance test" the commission believes that it will be virtually impossible to dis- pose permanently of a stolen machine. Closely identified with the commission are sheriffs, police department heads, STAT TO STRIBUTE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT WILL PAY ONE-FIFTH OF DEBT TO COUNTIES Lansing, March 2.-The state high- way department expects to distr ibute this month about $500,000 of the $2,- 500,000 it owes counties for state re- ward roads. With that payment the state will owe the counties 'approxi- mately $2,000,000, while the counties, as part of their contribution toward state trunk lines for last year, will owe the state about $1,750,000. Some time ago the history depart- ment announced that under the 1922 program no highway work will be, done in counties that have not paid their debts to the state. Some of the counties have intimated that they will not pay the state until the state has paid them what it owes on state re- ward. The result would be an appar- ent deadlock, but highway department officials ,declare that there will be no tie-up in the work for the simple reason that the counties, when served with an ultimatum to pay, will pay rather than be ov'erlooked in this year's program. That the state is within its rights in not paying state reward claims to counties immediaely, is the conten- tion of the highway department. Offi- cials point out that the state has not the money at this time to pay the claims, and that the law provides that they need not be paid until there is money in the treasury. Midget on Church Program Tonight ' Entertainment at the First Metho- dist church starting at 7:30 o'clock tonight will be furnished by Miss May Consaul and several members of the School of Music. The program is under the a spices of the Young Wo- men's auxiliary of the church. Miss Consaul is a professional character reader and has traveled around Michi- gan for quite a time. She is a real midget, and although she is about forty years old, ahe has the growth of an eight-year-old child. __R A E _ ast Times Today DOUGLAS McLEAN in "PASSING THROUGH" Also Century Comedy This "AD" with 16 Cents will admit you today. 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