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Show Highway Patrol Arrests 717 In September A tota lof 717 arrests, of which 507 were for moving traffic violations, viola-tions, were made by the State Highway Patrol in September according ac-cording to the monthly report issued is-sued this week by Superintendent P. L. Dow, new head of the patrol. pa-trol. In addition, 574 warning tickets tic-kets were issued during the month. The totals were above the figures fig-ures for September, 1940, when 590 arrests were made and 394 warning tickets were issued. Speeding topped the list of moving traffic violations for which arrest tickets were issued, with 227 persons cited into court for tramping too heavily on the foot feed. Other moving traffic arrests were made as follows last month: drunken driving, 21,; reckless driving, driv-ing, 31; stop sign violation, 72; semaphore violation, 49; improper passing, 45; improper turn, two; cutting traffic, one; no arm signal sig-nal three; driving on wrong side of road, 19; failure to yield right-of-way, 14; railroad signal violators, viola-tors, 9; hit-run, two; failure to keep proper lookout, two; following too close behind another vehicle, one- allowing passengers outside vehicle, five; failure to dim head- lights, four. Topping the list of non moving violations was failure to have operators' licenses, with 197 arrests ar-rests reported. There was one arrest ar-rest for involuntary manslaughter. Major classifications for which warning tickets were Issued are as follows: speeding, 287; stop sign violation, 79; semaphore violation 13; improper passing 85; driving on wrong side, 7; driving to slow, 1; failure to dim headlights, 21. |