Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 9 | Paris Speeders to Face Court

0 Paris Speeders To Face Court Gendarme Adopt New Plan for Dealing With Drivers of City PARIS Nov 13 United Press Press Press- Paris boulevards are c doomed to become become become be be- come race tracks when the new po police police police po- po lice regulations governing motor traffic go into effect After the armistice the war spirit seemed to possess most most of of the taxi drivers her here an anc an J as a a. a t a accidents acci- acci ci- ci dents due to er 0 g began to Increase at an alarming rate In an eff rt to make malte the streets of Paris safer for pedestrians the prefect of police resorted to stopwatches stopwatches stop stop- watches similar to those thos in n use in America to time over over-hur over hurried le automobilists au- au So many many summonses summonses were issued following the prefects prefect's deci decision th that t soon th the Avenue des Champs Champ's and the Grand boue ar s looked like a Long Island highway pa a Sunday with tipping one another off to the effect that they were being timed While from the police point of cf view the method was a complete success the victims with the tra tra- I 1 French rench attitude in iii matters pertaining to time and speed de decided decided decided de- de that as no two clocks clucks in Paris Paris- ever told the same time tithe so no two watches even though official police watches could ever determine witha with a a. fair degree of accuracy whether or not a summons was as w warranted When t more protests reached po police police police po- po lice headquarters than could be handled handle the prefect came to the conclusion that it would woul be as dif difficult difficult dif dif- if- if to use watches in lit enforcing speed prohibition in jn Paris as it would be to close up Montmartre so it was decided decIde to leave well enough alone until different restrictive measures could be adopted These have just begun to appear in the form of twenty p police automobIles automobiles auto auto- mobiles equipped with the most up- up upI I to- to date to-date ate models of speedometers I which will afford plenty of thrills for Parisian amateurs of aut automobile mobile racing I These cars will follow and overtake overtake over over- take take- all those thosa who exceed the speed limit in Paris day or 01 night and this time assures the prefect of police police- those who are are summoned will pay their fines protest or no protest