The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-17
49l ARRESTED
IN CITY-WIDE:
SPEEDER WAR
Smashing Drive Launched
to Cut Down Heavy Toll
of Traffic Mishaps.
AUTOISTS TAKE HEED
Police Motorcycle Squads
Make vigiIant Patrol
of Streets.

A smashing city-wide drive to halt
the epidemic of traffic accidents in
the city, several of which have re-
suited fatally within recent weeks,
, was pressed today by the police de-
partment.
Forty-nine motorists, twenty-nine
of them alleged speeders, were ar
rested by police motorcycle squads
Thursday night.
AS a result, motorists were driv-
ing more carefully and slower today,
police officials said.
Death Spurs Action
The anti-Speeding drive was start
ed by Police Chief Claude F. john
son Tuesday after the death Mon
day of Frank j. Forth, 1925 N. Ala
bama ST., struck by an alleged
speeding truck at Twenty-Second
st. and Central Ave-
Howard Adams, 20, of 280 N.
Holmes Ave, was in city hospital
suffering from several broken ribs
and bruises received when struck
by hit-and-run driver late Thurs
day night in the $500 block on w.
Michigan st.
He was taken to city hospital by
Walter Wright, 432 NJ Holmes Ave-,
and Clifford jenkins, 2O03 w. Michi-
gan st.
Police also made two arrests in
failure to stop after accident cases
and charged three with violating
the ordinance prohibiting more than
three persons from riding ir the
drivers seat.
Held as Drunken Driver
William Witt, 38, Of 324 N. Key
stone Ave-, was charged with driv-
ing while intoxicated, and E. j.
Bledsoe, AZ, Negro, IT'S Perkins St.,
with passing a street car unloading
passengers.
A. c. Moneymaker, 20, of 2103
Jackson ST.; Joe Seeley, 81, R. r..
o, Box 1913, and Frank Dorm, 28,
Stubbins Hotel, were charged with
having too many persons in the
front seat of their cars.
Seeley and Moneymaker also were
charged with failure to have tail
lights on their cars.
Walter Ridout, 80, of 1915 Ludlow
Ave-, and Grover Davis, 80, Negro,
were charged with failure to stop
after accidents.
Many Taken as Speeders
Those charged with speeding gave
their names as:
Don Laird, 10, of 1921 Guilford
Ave; A. E. Croft, Al, of 3217 w.
Michigan ST.; M. L. Pease, 26, of
1902 E. Eleventh St.; Burford Har-
vey, 10, of 1842 N. Rural St.; Carl
Oliver, %, of 1929 w. Washington
ST.; William Barrett, 10, of 1874
Barth Ave; Sam Wides, "a, of 518
Central Ct; o. w. Manifold, 90, of
1852 Dexter St.; Eugene Hite, %, OF
1888 N. Pennsylvania St.; Halle
Burkhardt, 25, of 209 S. Butler Ave. /;
Louis Laker, 81, of 1859 S. Illinois
ST.; Alfred Rodecker, 26, of 4915 N.
Capitol Ave-; William Jacoby, 30, of
1924 Dewey Ave-; j. E. McMana-
mon, %, of 1922 N. Talbot ST., and
Willis Wright, 80, Negro, 1925 Indi-
annapolis Ave.
Other speeders held we're booked
as Malcomb Aldridge, 25, of 1906 Cen
trail Ave-; Ralph Metcalf, "a, of 1925
Dinner Ave; Floyd Fox, 26, of 122
e. Pratt St.; Harold Smith, "a, of
1906 Lawrence Ave; Sidney zern-
stein, 18, of 4021 Broadway; Harold
Morgan, 27, of 2133 Shriver Ave.
H. o. Hartman, 26, of 3012 N. New
Jersey ST.; Robert j. Smith, 20, of
1906 N. Emerson Ave; John Van
Stan, A, of Ben Davis, Ind; Eugene
Hite, %, of 1888 N. Pennsylvania St.;
o. j. Pollard, 10, of 1861 Madison
Ave; Harley Stokes, 10, of $50 W.
Vermont ST.; Hugh Upton, %, OF
$3.50 Rawles Ave-, and Virgil Cox,
27, of 2111 Highland Ave.
Mrs. D. Wore, 81, of 3141 E. Tenth
st., was the only person slated on
speeding charges this morning.