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Show road commission, said that it is difficult for the commission to understand un-derstand the reluctance of some motorists to have their cars in- spected. DRIVE TO BE MADE ON CARELESS AUTOISTS The state highway patrol is determined de-termined to stop traffic violations and si making a vigorous drive against careless motorists, according accord-ing to the six months report of patrol activities submitted to the state road commission by R. W. Groo, superintendent. During the first six months of 1940 the highway patrol made more arrests for traffic violations than for the entire year of 1939, with a total of 6,054 arrests for the six-month period as compared with 5,823 for the year 1939. In addition, 3,242 warning tickets were issued from January 1 to June 30. In its drive to curb speeding, the highway patrol, during the first six months of this year, issued is-sued 1,584 arrests for this traffic violation, as compared with 1,325 arrests for the same reason during dur-ing the year 1939. Running stop signs resulted in the arrest of 1,-074 1,-074 motorists from January 1 to June 30, a total of 240 arrests more than were made during 19 39 for this cause. The report discloses that 452 arrests were made for lack of official inspection. In commenting on this phase of the report, W. D. Hammond, chairman of the state |