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Show i D. SPMEfiT SPEKOSif I JI Wealthy Calif ornian Gets Two Days for Violation of Auto Ordinances. SAX FRAXCTSCO, Jan. 15. John D. Spreckels, Jr., member of a wealthy California Cal-ifornia family, spent today in jail at Redwood City, thirty miles south of here, serving sentence for not having dimmed the lights on his ' automobile when passing through that municipality. George Seoly, justice of the peace, in imposing sentence, said that a muney line would be absurd and quoted Spreck-els Spreck-els as saving he would not pay one without fighting it in the court. He made the sentence two days in jail. Spreckels claimed that he had dimmed hU lamps with tobacco juiee and that a policeman in San Francisco had told him this would be satisfactory. "That policeman was wrong, wasn't he?" demanded Spreckels of his secretary secre-tary after receiving sentence. '"'He was," replied the secretary, and went out to see about meals. "I am just a plain man and want to observe the law," Spreckels said. "This law, however, should be amended so that a man automatically could dim hi-? lights when necessary and turn them on full in the lone stretches of the conn- try." |