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May ?4, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE s.s {NORTH SHORE MOTOR NEWS} NATIONAL PARKS DRAW MIWONS OF AUTOISTS Popularity Increases and Chicago Motor Club Gives Opening and Closing Dates 'take., I T Do ·You Know ·_ ·1 Nation-wide ~---------~ Probe of Auto Thefts Is Started by "Comish" HAT the American Automobile association has asked Congress to increase Federal-Aid appropriations from $75,000,000 to a maximum of $125,000,000. The Chicago Motor club Each year the national parks have furnishes this information. become increasingly popular, and this year three million motorists may be There were 40 motor vehicles regisexpected to visit one or more of them, tered to every mile of improved highaccording to a bulletin issued by the way in 1928. touring bureau of the Chicago Motor club. Those contemplating such a · Yellowstone National Park will open tour should make their plans as early June 20. as possible. The opening and closing dates of the parks follow: Steamship lines have made special Crater Lake, Oregon, July 1 to Sep- arrangements for the transportation of automobiles abroad. tember 20. General Grant. California, May 15 to October 1. Glacier, Montana, June 15. to September 15 .. Grand Canyon, Arizona, open all the year. all Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, open the vear. Hot s,.~rings, Arkansas. open all the vear. · Lafayette, ~faine. open all the year. (Summer season, Jnne 15 to Octoba More than fifty million dollars will be spent abroad by American motorists this year. The American Automobile association now maintains twenty port reprcsentatives at European ports of entry. The cost of touring abroad now fits the average pocketbook. NASH SHIPMENTS UP Reports from the Nash Motors company covering April shipments to the Dominion of Canada show the month to have been substantially the largest in the history of the company. In addition the report for an eight months' period closed April 30, shows an increase in shipments of 167 percent over the same period a year ago. or long distance pleasure tour miss one of the most glorious aspects of traveling if they go and return by the same route, points out the club's bullt!tin. It is almost always practicable to drive over two separate routes, a practice which provides variety and which is somewhat erroneously known as a circle tour. Circle tours do not necessarily mean that a motorist must travel extr~ miles. In many instances there will be another road, parallel with but a few miles distant from the first road. A national investigation into thefts of ·automobiles has· been launched in Washington, D. C., by a special com ~ mittee of the National Crime Commission, which decided that the growing number of motor car thefts is one of the most pressing questions to he decided. For the purpose of making the proposed automobile thefts survey, with a view to obtaining reports on this form of crime, ]. Weston Allen of Boston, former · attorney general nf Massachusetts, as chairman of the committee, announced the following sub-committee : A. B. Barber, director of the national conference on street and safety; C. C. Hanch, general manager of the National Association of Finance Companies, Chicago; Charles D. Rilles, resident manager Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Ltd., New York. Russell Hoffman, secretary motor vehicle conference committee New York; ]. Ross Moore, secretary general National Underwriters' Conference, New York; Ernest N. Smith, general manager American Automobile Association, and Frank Seydel of the National Board of Underwriters. It was explained that the appointment of the committee is the first step toward a probable investigation of the entire field of criminal procedure. Expert workmen. Specialized service Modern Equipment. 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