The Washington herald., 1921-08-12
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OYSTER FAVORS
TRAFFIC BUREAU
AND new COURT
Suggests Central Control
........ And Additional
+. Bench.
SPEEDERS PAY $50
Two Men Fined for Making
Forty Miles With Cut
outs Open.
SPEEDERS PAY $50

Creation Of a centralized trame
bureau controlling every traffic Of
ficer in the District, and trafic
court to try only violators OF the
trafic regulations. was suggested
last night by Commissioner Oyster
as the most efficient means Of
coping with the speeders- Of WASH
ington. ~ H.
Vigorous enforcement Of our
present trafic laws by trained
traffic officers supported by our
courts will solve the problem OF
speeding and reckless driving. said
Oyster. Both police and court OF
ficials have been cooperating to
end speeding by unusual vigilance
and prosecution. Of offenders.
Judge Mcmahon yesterday fined
George Weinberg, of Is L street
northwest. and Charles b. Bell, Of
107 Pennsylvania avenue northwest
$50 each for racing up Pennsylvania
avenue at a 40-mile clip with cut
outs open a little after midnight
Yesterday morning. These speed
sters almost ran down Bicycle Po-
precinct. and then explained that
they were auto mechanics and were
taking out cars that had just been
repaired to see il they would run
all right
Fined on Two Counts.
James +. Dixon. a colored hacker.
of 1915 Fifth street northwest was
arrested Tuesday night by Police
man Rollins. Of the First precinct.
for driving TWENTY-FIVE miles an
hour on Pennsylvania avenue north
r"est While the case was pending,
Dixon rode up Maryland avenue
northeast. at the same speed and
was again arrested. this time by
Policeman NJ. r. Payne. OF the
Ninth precinct. Judge Mcmahon
fined Dixon $40 for the FIRST, Of
Tense and SIS for the second. and
threatened a term in jsil as the
penalty for another violation.
George NJ King was arrested by
Serrt. ]. f.. Ro~'e end Poli~er-an r..
l. Taylor for speeding on Fifteenth
| street northwest. but he forfeited
ESQ collate-al rather than aprear in
Police Court. 4 writ OF attachm~ Mt
has not yet heen sworn out in this
case.
Motor Corps Makes Report.
Commissioner Oyster was shown
| the report Of observations of the
motor corns of the HOWE Def""s~
| I.eagre. VIII" weres stationed along
Sixteenth street northwest earlv In
| The week to record speed violations,
One-fourth OF the speeders oh
served by the corps carried other
State tags. the report shows. The
most reckless driving. say members
| Of the corps. was that Of n car
hna-'nP TNNas number. whose
0river drove almost in the left gut
'er at higb sr~"d. Twice was the
car of a Cabinet member seer
speeding far in excess OF the limit
| THE Police Department intend'
rot oriv to hreak up sn"edinC. hut
violations OF traffic regulations. bu'
also to wage a war on all kinds OF
lawlessness." said COMMISSIONS
ICyster. "Punishment Of handboHk
makers and bootleggers must sub
stitute release on bond and noilf
pressing
0thers Out on Bond.
Ninety arrests for handbook
making and arrest of almost five
hundred bootleggers have been re-
norted to me recently. but every one
lsf the bockmakers and a number OF
the bootleggers are out on bona
free to recommit the crime.
Recently there came to my ateen'
tion the case Of man VIII" was ar
rested. on n Friday for handbook
making. released on bond. and ar
-essed for the same crime the fol-
lowing Monday.
! Because the courts are 1ar pe'
Sind in their work. many OF the
cases Of men released on bond arg
practically pigeon-holed until IL Is
imnossible to gather the witnesses
md then the District Attorney nolle
rrosses the cases. In this way many
lawbreakers are escaping deserved
| nenalties.
Passage of the Phinns hill the
measure giving the District su'
creme Court two additional Justices
] ma the Zihlman hill. creating
| traffic court. would enable an o.
the District courts to keep tneli
work current. The traftlc cour,
would relieve the Police Court o,
t-ying the traffic violators and tne
courts could then punish all OF tn'
rounded up by the po'