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Show Heavier Fines, Jail Sentences and Trips About Morgues and Hospitals Curb Mounting Toll of Auto Victims CHICAGO. Dec. 6. (By The Asso-i elated Press). Heavier fines. Jail sentences and trips through morgues and hospitals to view the dead and Injured victims of reckless automo-l bllists are becoming effective in parts of the middle and far west to curb the steadily mounting toll of automo-, bile victims, a digest from tho report: of scrral states shows. Fines alone, the reports indicate,! aro not proving effective In Chicago Chi-cago and Cook county, despite increasingly in-creasingly heavy fines, the death toll in automobile accidents for the fiscal year ending November 30. was 736 lives as compared with 660 last year and 642 the year before. There were 76 automobile deaths in November of thLs year. JUDGE IS STERN. In Louisville, where 41 persons were killed, one police Judge now imposes fines of $2 for each mile per hour on speeders and adds Jail sentences if the prisoner was intoxicated. Judge Charles L. Bartlett of Detroit De-troit sends speeders to Jail for terms of ono to 15 day. Among those sentenced sen-tenced was John Duval Dodge, wealthy weal-thy young man, who served five days. Recently speeding increased in Detroit De-troit and Judge Bartlett began conducting con-ducting offenders through the morgues and hospitals to see the results of speeding Arrests the week after the trips started dropped from 76 to 26. VISITS TO MORGUE. Cleveland is employing workhouse sentences and morgue and hospital visits as well as fines. Six speeders were sentenced to attend the funeral of a four-year-old victim of a speeder. speed-er. In Ds Moines. Police Chief John Hammond has ordered Intoxicated drivers held without bail, while Judges are adding Jail sentences In many cases to heavy fines Judge George E Mix of St Douls Who assesses fines as high iua $300 has added a traffic law act to his court. Speeders who admit they know the traffic ordinances draw heavy fines. Those who do not are required to sit down between two policemen and study it. When they recite the entire en-tire law law to the Judge they get a lighter fine. In Indiana the secretary of state has revoked six autolsts' licenses on j recommendations of courts Judge Dclbert Wllmeth of the Indiana police po-lice court has added Jail sentences to fln.s on third convictions. Kansas City has had no continued campaign against speeders. Pollre take license numbers of traffic law violators and on tho third violation, a fine of $26 is Imposed. Judge W F. Wapplck of Omaha takes groups of speeders to hospitals In the pollco patrol to soo their vlo-tlms vlo-tlms and then orders fines. Judge Sylvester J McAtee of San Francisco recently sentenced a speeder to 60 days In Jail, and announced he would I continue a drastic campaign against traffic law violators. GIVEN PRISON TKRM. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 6. Four motorists, charged with speeding nni reckless driving were given sentences In San Francisco court.s Tuesday ranging rang-ing from two days in Jail to from one to 10 years In the penitentiary. Xavler S hmah. mechanic charged with manslaughter after running down and killing a boy of eight, was sentenced sen-tenced to from ono to 10 years In San Qucntin prison and denied probation pro-bation Frank Reddenbaugh was sentenced sen-tenced to three days in Jail for speeding and George Richards and Andrew Anderson wero each m ntcneod to Jail for two days on similar charges. WARRANT FOR ACTRESS. LOS ANGELES Cal . Dec. G. Sixteen Six-teen more speeders and reckless motorists mo-torists were committed to tho county Jail for varying terms Tuesday by Police Judges Hay D. Chesebro and Joseph F. Chambers. Jaekio Sounders, film actress, failed fail-ed to appear to answer charges of speeding and driving without an operators op-erators license and a bench warrant was Issued for her. Tuesday's offenders sent to Jail: brought up to 300 the total so pun-, lshed sinro tho campaign was opened' November 20 to stop speeding by Imposing Im-posing Jail sentences. |