Arizona republican., 1917-07-27
JAR TEST DOES
 NOT ENOUGH TO
 CONVINCE JUDGE

The trial in Justice De Souza's court yesterday of R. E. Balenberg, charged with speeding, developed that a fortune awaits the man who can invent work able registering speedometer. There have been speedometers which regis tered the highest speed attained in one setting of the device, but what is want ed is a SpeedOmeter that will register every rate of speed the machine has made in one run, according to the prin ciple of the self-registering thermom- eter.
 Mir. Balenberg was taken into GUS tody by Motorcycle Policeman George Schade near the Mcdowell road on Central avenue. The officer testified that he had first observed the machine hitting Ter up" near the crossing of the avenue and the Thomas road. darting in and out. He caught up with it at the Mcdowell road and asked the driver who turned out to- be MT. Bal enburg, if he had looked at his speed ometer lately The latter did not un- derstand at first and when the ques- tiOn was repeated, he said MT. Balen- burg looked and found that it was reg istering about 21. Schade said that when he first asked the question 50 yards back it was making about 35.
 Humane Officer J. W. Canning. who was 100 yards in the rear when the machine was stopped by the motorcycle policeman, said that when the auto passed him it was going at about 30 miles an hour. He was lettering along at 15 miles and he was sure that the other machine was going twice as fast.
 MT. Balenburg said that he had driven out to the country club and back and at no time had gone beyond p miles an hour and he did not think that at the time he was stopped he was going more than 21; the only ma chimes he recalled having passed along the route were two or three that were undergoing tire trouble at the side of the road. He said he was an eXperi- enced and careful driver and this was the first time he had ever been accused of disturbing traffic regulations.
 MT Balenburg said that the officer had described an impossibility when he said that though he had been going at only 21 miles, 50 yards back his rate . had been 35 miles. Such a reduction [ in that short distance could not be eff ! fected without tearing off the tires. This statement impressed the justice. who suggested that test be made and 1 that was done after H. J. Reed, com i paniOn of Mir. Balenburg at the time of | the arrest, had testified that he had | frequently looked at the speedometer I and beside that had sense of rates of | speed that would have been outraged i if they had been travelling at an unlaw- | ful rate.
 An hour later Messrs. Balenburg and
 Reed, Officer Schade and Deputies 1 Charles Nafziger and De Winton re- 1 turned from the test. There developed such difference of opinion regarding 1 the result of it that for a moment Jus 1 tice De SouZa was on the point of or
 dering a test of the test But then he reflected that he could not allow this
 controversy to drag along all summer
 like the food control bill in congress
 and he cut the dispute short by fining l Mir Balenburg $10.
 1 The defendant paid it like a smiling
 martyr still conscious of his rectitude ] with respect to the speed laws.