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Show State Road Patrol Reports Drop In Arrests Of Motorists In November The highway patrol made only 500 arrests during November as compared with 777 arrests for the month of October, according to the November report of patrol activities submitted to the State Road commission by R. W. Groo, superintendent of the patrol. Of this number, 165 arrests were for speeding as compared with 240 for October and 183 for September. Only 117 arrests were made for lack of driver's license as against 288 made during dur-ing October for this violation. This would seem to indicate that the patrol has done a rather thorough thor-ough job of checking for driver's licenses during the past eleven months. By a coincidence the same number of tickets were issued is-sued for running stop signs during dur-ing November as in October fifty-seven for each month. Fourteen Four-teen arrests were made for drunken drunk-en driving as compared to fifteen for October. Only 133 warning tickets were issued during November as compared com-pared with 238 for October and 340 for September. W. D. Hammond, chairman of the Road commission, expressed the hope that it would not be necessary to make arrests next year for lack of driver's licenses. "The public itself must realize by this time how essential it is that the licenses law by obeyed", said Mr. Hammond. "There is no reasonable excuse for anyone to attempt its evasion and penalties pen-alties of violators of the license law must expect to be punished." |