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Show BOOZERS' BLOOD TEST. Hard sledding faces drunken drivers driv-ers in Germany, according to a report from Berlin, where for the first time a court has officially recognized the Widemark test, which makes it possible pos-sible to determine with exactness the amount of alcohol in the blood. The test was applied to a young student who had "borrowed" a car for a little spin, in the course of which he knocked down and seriously injured injur-ed two pedestrians. The medical expert ex-pert making the test told the judge that the culprit had imbibed a quantity quan-tity of alcohol equal to that contained contain-ed in nine drinks of cognac and nine glasses of beer the assumption being be-ing that the beer, in accordance with "an international custom," had been taken as a chaser. The defendant, also adhering to an international custom, strenuously denied de-nied having imbibed to excess, but upon assurance by the expert that "the blood test never lies," the judge imposed a sentence of one month's imprisonment, which was a more severe se-vere penalty than even the prosecutor expected. In passing sentence the learned judge declared that "drunken drivers must be sent to jail under any circumstances," cir-cumstances," a dictum with which most persons will readily agree. Perhaps Per-haps we Americans might learn something about handling the drunken drunk-en speeder problem from our German Ger-man contemporaries. |