The Lead Belt News, Flat River, Missouri. Published Friday, December 28, 1923. WILLOUGHBY FORD STRIPPED OF ALL ITS VITAL PARTS. K. D. Willoughby, who is a student in Missouri Valley College at Marshall, Mo., but who is spending the holidays in Farmington with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Willoughby, had so much of his Ford roadster stolen Tuesday night that he would have been quite willing to have exchanged what was left for the parts that had been stolen, with the feeling that he would have had the better of the bargain. Young Willoughby was driving from Bonne Terre Tuesday afternoon. On the road between Bonne Terre and Desloge he bent the radius rod to the extent that he was afraid to drive on without adjustments. He left the disabled car by the road. Wednesaday morning he, his father and a young gentleman friend whom he met at the college and who is spending the vacation with him, went to the spot where the disabled car had been left to see to getting it to a garage for repairs. When they reached the spot young Willoughby experienced quite a bit of difficulty in deciding that what he found could possibly be the remains of his car, for remains it was. All vital parts had been removed and only the empty shell, the ghost of an automobile, remained. All four tires, with rims, had been removed. The steering wheel, the batteries, and the lights were gone. The radiator cap and the cushion were missing. The mute remains could utter no word that would throw light on the whereabouts of its missing parts. The dismantled Ford was towed to the Desloge Motor Co. in Desloge. Let us say in young Willoughby's favor that he is the embodiment of our ideal of a good loser. He seems to think that the joke was on him, and said that the thieves had taken everything worth having, except the certificate of ownership. He said he and the friend who is visiting him had intended to make the trip back to Marshall in this same Ford and use it after they got there in touring the surrounding country.