The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-07-25
ARREST 100
IN CITY WAR
ON SPEEDERS
First Charges of No Driving
Licenses Face Three
Motorists.
DOUBLE CYCLE SQUAD
Strive to Abolish Peril That
Took Life of Officer
Shipp.

Striving to abolish a menace that
took the life Of one of their conf
rades, Indianapolis police. with more
than one hundred arrests Wednes-
day night. today continued their
drive against speederS, reckless
drivers and other traffic violators
Three persons were neld for al
legged failure to have a drivers IL
cense. the first to be so charged
since the automobile operators Il"
cense law went into effect July l
Elmer Snyder. 1919 Ashland ave-
nue., paid a $25 fine for speeding;
Louis Rosenthal $500 North Meridi
an street, paid the same amount on
a charge of driving through a red
traffic signal; Alya Snider, 824 North
Rural street, was lodged in city
prison for inability to pay a $25
fine on the same charge, and En-
mis- Clark, 1923 Finley avenue. was
fined 81 for driving without lights,
as the first four violators appeared
in municipal court today.
Police Chief Claude Worleys Or
ders to double the motorcycle squad
followed the death of Motorcycle
Policeman Roscoe G. Shipp early
Wednesday from injuries received
when his motorcycle collided with
an auto while he was pursuing
speeder sixty miles an hour at
Delaware and Sixteenth streets
Tuesday night, sent the largest
traffic patrol ever mustered in the
city on the streets Wednesday
night.
Fifteen motorcycles and extra
SQUAD cars we're dispatched by Cap
tain Lester Jones, traffic depart
ment head, as the evening traffic
grew heavy.
Fifty-FOur Speeders Caught
They sent f1fty-four drivers, in
cluding five women, to police head
quarters with tickets for speeding;
twenty-five, of which one was
woman, for failure to stop at prefer
ential streets; tWenty-eight, includ-
ing two women, for improper lights,
and ten for other offenses.
Mrs. Bessie Hadley. 30. of 3408
Clifton street, was charged with
drunkenness, drunken driving and
failure to have an operators license
after she had driven her car into
the rear Of a parked automobile at
Thirtieth street and Graceland
avenue.
Daniel Kesser, 27, Acton. Rural
Route A, Box 81, was charged with
failure to have a drivers license,
speeding and reckless driving, and
Arnold Mccoy, Is. Of 26031a North
Delaware street, also was arrested
on charges Of having no operators
license.
Six Persons Injured
In a further effort to eliminate
traffic hazards, Police Chief Claude
M. Worley today asked motorists to
report to police headquarters any
street intersections where weeds or
hedges have been permitted to OBJ
struct the view from the street.
Although the accident prevention
bureaus brake tests have been re-
tarded by Lieutenant Frank Owens
absence, due to traffic death cases
in criminal court, fourteen trucks
we're stopped on the city's streets
Ovens reported. Five
were found to have faulty brakes
which we're repaired on police Or
ders.
Despite the safety campaign, six
persons were injured in traffic ac-
cidents Wednesday night and to-
day.
Henry E. Mott, 25, of 2313 Shelby
street. was cut on the head, arms
ana legs when his auto was struck
at Arlington avenue and Raymond
street today by a cattle truck driven
by Oakley Sampson, 80, Of Arling-
ton, Ind. When the truck plunged
into a ditch. Sampson was thrown
on his head, wrenching his neck and
Elmer Abercrombie, As, of
Arlington, riding with Sampson, cut
his head on the windshield. Deputy
Sheriffs Harry Bendel and Fred Fox
sent Mott to city hospital.
Car Goes in Ditch
When their cars sideswiped on
State Road 81 one mile west Of West
Newton Wednesday evening, Harry
L. Walls, 26, of 1909 North Haugh
street. and Robert Van Hoy, 10, of
1854 Bates street, the drivers, escaped
but two others were hurt.
Robert Miller, IL, of 1923 Fletcher
avenue, was thrown from Miller's
car on his head. His condition was
serious at city hospital today He
suffered deep cuts on the head and
possible skull fracture.
Mrs. Mary Kennedy, "a, of 1881
East Washington street, was thrown
through the windshield of Walls car
when it plunged into the ditch. She
vas recovering today in city hos
0ital
Walls is under arrest on charges
Of having no certificate of title for
MS car, having no license plates and
assault and battery with a motor