Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-11
CRIME BODY PLANS
j. S. THEFT SURVEY
National Survey of Automo-
bile Robbery and Fraud viii
Be Made by Group.

Plans for an extensive survey through
out the country of automobile thefts
and fraud were announced today at
meeting of the committee on the de-
lection and prosecution of crime, is a
NJ" standing committee recently Gre
2ted by the National Crime CommiS-
SIGN. 1t met today in the Hotel May
flower
For the purpose OF making the pro-
D2~ d automobile thefts and fraud sur
Wy. with a view to obtaining reports
cn these crimes j. Weston Allen OF
2Gcton. chairman of the detection and
prosecution OF crime committee, has
11Ointed a special group composed of
- following persons: A. B. Barber, di-
2ctor OF the national conference on
ttrcet and highway safety, chairman;
c. c. Hanch, secretary-general man.
ager of the National Association of
Finance Companies Chicago; Charles
D. Hilles, resident manager En-
ployers' Liability Assurance Cor
poration, Ltd, New York City;
Russell Huffman, secretary Motor
YORK City j. Ross Moore, secretary
general National Underwriters Confer
ence, New York City; Ernest N. Smith,
general manager American Automobile
Association, and Frank Seydel, assist
ant general counsel. National Board of
Fire Underwriters, New York City, who
IS secretary.
The appointment of this committee
Is its first step toward a probable in
yGHtia2tion of the entire field of crimi-
nal procedure from the time crime is
committed until the prosecution of the
criminal has been completed. 1t is ex-
n hannnln r.
tive committee OF the National Crime
Commission
1t was pointed out at the commit
tees meeting In the Hotel Mayficwer to-
day that it may undertake the study of
detects in criminal administration in
the State courts at the same time that
the national commission, to be appoint
ed by President Hoover is making a
study of the administration of the
criminal law in the Federal courts.
j. Weston Allen of Boston, chairman
of the detection and prosecution of
crime committee, is a member of the
executive committee of the National
Crime Commission and also of the
American Bar Associate He formeriE
served on the committee selected by the
late Gov Hadley of Missouri 70 draft
a model criminal code and has had free
hand in forming this committee which
Gov. Hadley exercised IN selecting the
members of the committee to draft the
criminal code. The committee on the
detection and prosecution of crime is
composed of leading authorities OIL
crime from all sections OF the coun-
try. Besides the chairman, it has the
following members:
Charles Edwin Fox, Philadelphia; ;
Frank j. Loesch. Chicago Dean Jus
tin Miller Los Angeles: Prof. Raymond
Moley of New York. Dean James G.
Rogers of Boulder, Colo: Dean Alfred
E. Sshweppe of Seattle, Wash; Maj
Richard Sylvester, Wilmington. Del.
Guy A. Thompson. ST. Louis, Mo, and
Inspector t. w. S. Parsons, Victoria,
British Columbia.
A ma ajority of the committee members
are in attendance at the meeting and
Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of
War, chairman of the National Crime
Commission. is expected to attend sew
eral of the meetings of the newly
created committee on the detention aud
prosecution of crime.