The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23
Law Violations To Be a Danger
Gus Pastime Here Now.
Police, Sheriff's Force and
Secret Deputies Are on Guard.
THREE DAYS FOR new TAGS
After This Period Drivers Will
Be Subject to Arrest.
Reckless Driving in Country
VIII Be Stopped at Once.

Topekans who drive motor cars
would better stop. look and listen. ~
The secretary of state, the sheriffs
office. the police department and the
Topeka Auto club are Camping on
their trails. The sheriff and police
today received official instructions
from the secretary of state to enforce
A large number of Topeka Auto club
members, whose, Identities are being
/ kept secret, have received commits
sions as special police and deputy
sheriffs 70 watch for violations and
enforce all other provisions Of the
state auto laws and city auto ordi-
nances. All these laws, it is assert ed,
are going to be enforced to. the letter.
Motorists who have not yet applied
for new license tags will have not
more than three days to do SO. After
that, unless they can show an appli-
cation for the new tag, they will be
subject to arrest, a fine of from $25
to $500 and Imprisonment for from
thirty to ninety days. Offenders ar
rested will have the privilege of put
ting up a bond not exceeding in
amount the maximum fine.
The authorities were also instructed
| by the secretary of state to enforce
| the law relating to changed engine
numbers and the use of license tags
! on cars for which they were not is
sued. The penalty for altering, de-
facing or changing the engine number
of any car, or of changing an engine
| from one car to another with unlaw-
full intent, is two to five years i'm
prisonment. Cars which have no
-engine number, or cars on which the
| engine number has been tampered
| with, may be confiscated and sold for
! costs. A new number can be obtained
| by owners by making the proper ap-
| plication.
Watch Country Speeding.
Undersheriff Oscar Carlson also an
nounced that his office will, beginning
at once, enforce the law against
| speeding in the country.
The special deputies of the Topeka
Auto club will be on duty in city and
country. They will watch for the fol-
/ lowing offenses: In the country:
Failing to stop after an accident, fast
| and reckless driving, passing, another
vehicle on right. refusing to give way
/ to faster moving vehicle from rear.
! bright lights. spot lights, only one
| headlight. no rear lights, cutting short
! corners, failing to slow down at blind
| intersections In the city, in addition
to all the foregoing offenses. Officers
| will watch for motorists driving with
| the cut-out open, driving to the left
of street cars, stopping between safety
zone and curb and parking the wrong
way
!
use of bright lights will be cause for
the arrest of country drivers as well
as those in the city, it was asserted.
| Drivers those lights are not COM
! pIetely c1ouded in accordance with
| the law will be subject to arrest. it
was declared. 1t was intimated that
J many lenses now supposed by their
| owners to comply with regulations
will be found unlawful when the traf-
fic squad gets to work. =
| Norton Before City.
Not enough persons have provided
1921 licenses for their motor cars, ac-
| cording to Col Jonathan D. Norton,
| of the state automobile license depart
| ment.-who spoke to the city commits
| sion about the matter today.
Il have seen hundreds of cars with :
out the new license" Norton declared
! IT believe the police should watch
| such offenses more carefully"
The new licenses have been ready
for more than a month, Norton said