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4 DEFENDANTS IN SCOTTSBORO CASE ARE FREE

State, in Surprise Action, Drops Attack Charges Against Quartet.

FIFTH GETS LONG TERM

Powell Enters Guilty Plea to, Count of Stabbing Deputy Sheriff.

By United Press DECATUR, Ala., July 24. —In a surprise move the State of Alabama today | dropped rape charges against | five Negroes in the Sottsboro assault cases after convicting | three of the nine defendants |

at this term of court. A| fourth was convicted last | year,

The charges were dropped, State's | attorneys announced, because the| prosecution was “convinced that the | defendants . . . are not guilty.” That the Negroes were minors at the time of the assault in March 1931, was said to have been a factor | also but this phase of the case was not mentioned by the prosecution in explaining why the charges were dismissed. Four of the defendants were ordered released to Samuel Leibowif$, New York attorney, who has fought for the lives of the Negroes through State courts, and in the U. S. Supreme Court where he was suc- | cessful in appeals against death sentence convictions. Immediately after the announcement Ozie Powell, one of the defendants against whom rape charges | were dropped, was brought into court and pleaded guilty to a charge | of assault with intent to kill. This was in connection with the stabbing of a deputy sheriff year ago. Gets 20-Year Term Powell pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison by Judge W. W. Callahan. Four of the defendants were convicted—three at this term of court and one last year. The State, it was | pointed out, has considered those | men—Heywood Patterson, Clarence | Norris, Andy Wright and Charlie | Weems, the ring-leaders in mass as- |

VOLUME 49—NUMBER 116

England Split Davis Cup Opening Singles

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OPPOSES DELAY Budge Wins 15-13, 6-1, 6-2

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SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937

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Parker America’s crack tennis troupe, led by Don Budge, is a heavy fovorite to win the Davis Cup when it opposes Great Britain's weakened team in the challenge round at Wimbledon today Monday and Tuesday. The trophy has been on the other side since the French bagged it at Germantown in 1927. Bunny Austin, veteran of many Davis Cup matches for England, will attempt to fill the large brogans of Fred Perry, | who turned professional, while | Charles Hare takes over the No, 2 | singles post. C. R. Tuckey and | F. H. D. Wilde oppose Budge and Gene Mako in doubles. Wilde replaces George Patrick Hughes, who suffered a breakdown. Bryan (Bitsy) Grant has given way to | Frankie Parker at the No. 2 singles position for the American | contingent.

Austin

E. P. EICHRODT, 64, DEAD HERE

HINT MNUTT

Party Strategists Consider

ling after a year to re-enter politics.

Father of Former Big League Star to Be Buried

rs. Victoria Pri d . tS On I i a moving reight | Prosecutor Acts to Retain as Date

train near Scottsboro, Ala. March |

WIMBLEDON, England, July 24.—Donald Budge of California gave the United States an even break against England on the opening day of | the Davis Cup challenge round play today when he defeated Charley |

22, 1931. Norris was sentenced to be elec-| trocuted, but an appeal stayed exe- | cution. The others received prison | terms ranging from 75 to 99 years. | Dash From Courtroom The four released, Olin Montgomery, Willie Roberson, Eugene Williams . and Roy Wright, dashed from the courtroom, accompanied by guards, as the decision to nol prosse the charges was announced, Mr. Leibowitz, refusing to comment on the action, accempanied the quartet from the courtroom and, with guards in attendance, departed for an unannounced destination. Neither did Mr. Leibowitz mention his plans regarding appeals on the cases of the four convicted Negroes. The five against whom rape | charges were dismissed were only | bovs at the time of the assaults. Roberson now is 21. Montgom- | ery, 24, is in frail health and half- | blind. Roy Wright, drother of the |

la. m. Monday.

Monday For Opening.

5 | Legal action was drafted by Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer today to | avoid delaying opening of the trial |

of Joel A. Baker, scheduled for 9:30 | |

Baker is scheduled to face trial | on an indictment charging him with | assault and battery with intent to murder Wayne Coy, former State Welfare Director. Defense attorneys vesterday | charged that a jury venire of 100 | names was drawn illegally and | notified Special Judge James Em- | mert, Shelbyville, that they would

| file a motion to quash the venire | Monday.

“If the venire is ruled out I will file a motion asking Judge Emmert |

from bystanders as is required by | law,” Mr, Svencer said. ! “I think there will be some order |

| Hare, 15-13, 6-1 and 6-2.

FIGHT LIKELY ON WAGE-HOUR BIL.

Vandenburg Proposes Rider To Amend Wagner Act; Court Bill Drafted.

(Editorial, Page 10)

By United Press

WASHINGTON, July 24-—-Ad-

| to order Sheriff Ray to pick Jurors | ministration leaders prepared to-

day to drive through Congress a modified wage nd hour bill. It is

convicted Andy Wright, is 20; Wil- | from Judge Emmert on the case to- | the only major bill likely to be en-

liams is 21 and Powell 22.

night sometime.”

| acted because of increasing general

Judge Emmert advised defense at- | anxiety for quick adjournment, but

——& In the first match of the best

| three-of-five series, Wilfred (Bunny) | | Austin of England defeated Frankie | | Parker of Spring Lkae, N. J, 6-3, | 6-2, 7-5. ; Hare's Play Is Surprise The challenge round play will be continued on Monday with a doubles | match, and concluded on Tuesday

In Chicago.

Edward P. Eichrodt, Manual High School music teacher, and father of Freddie Eichrodt, former big league baseball player, died at 3:30 a. m. today at his home, 3733 Ruckle St.

| He was 64.

Mr. Eichrodt was assistant direc-

with two singles matches in which | tor of the Knothole Gang Band

today’s pairings will be reversed. The only surprise of today's play was the resolute resistance offered by Hare in his first set with Budge. | No one in the crowd of 15000 which jammed the stands about the center court thought the young and inexperienced Hare could force Budge to the limit. But he did, in the | second longest set in Challege round | history. The marathon record was | established in 1914 when Maurice | McLaughlin of California defeated | Norman Brookes of Australia, 17-15. | This supreme effort burned Harve out and he was easy prey for the Californian in the remaining sets. Budge took the second set in 10

| prominent personalities in

| which plays at Perry Stadium. An | | ardent fan, he knew many

y of the baseball, including the late Charles A. Comiskey, “Old Roman” of the Chicago White Sox. Thirty years ago, while a resident of Chicago, Mr. Eickrodt organized the Little Dutch Band which furnished entertainment and long was a popular institution at Comiskey Park, Followed Son's Career

Coming to Indianapolis, he con-

tinued to keep in touch with the |

game and its people by his association with the Knothole Gang. This

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis, Ind.

WILL RON FOR VANNUY'S SEAT

Woodring for Island Post, Is Report.

PLAN ACTION BY JAN. 1

Former Governor's Machine Long Set to Eliminate Senator, Is Claim.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, July 24.--High Commissioner McNutt will return from the Philippines to Indiana and become the Administration candidate to succeed Senator VanNuys, if secret plans being made by party strategists here are worked out. Secretary of War Woodring would succeed Mr. McNutt as High Commissioner, and the Cabinet post would go to Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War. The switch would be made around Jan, 1. As Governor of Indiana, Mr. McNutt built an organization which dominated the Democratic Party in the state. His machine planed to eliminate Senator VanNuys long be-

tore the President proposed his Court plan, which the Senator fought.

Island Post Pays $18,000

Mr. McNutt, often mentioned as a possible Democratic candidate for President in 1940, went to the Philippines with the intention of return-

Mr. Woodring, in stepping down from the Cabinet to take the Philippines assignment, would be getting a salary increase. The islands post pays $18,000, against the Cabinet's $15,000. In addition he would have a $10,000 “cocktail fund” for entertainment, and two palaces in which to live, Mr. Johnson, a West Virginian, is a past national commander of the American Legion.

Mr, Woodring, a former Governor | siaying

of Kansas, was Assistant Secretary | when Secretary Dern died.

JARDINE LECTURE IN TORONTO BANNED

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| By United Press | TORONTO, Ont. July 24.—The | visit to Toronto of the Rev. R. A. Jardine, who presided at the mar- | riage of the Duke of Windsor, has been postponed because of his attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury at Baltimore. The manager of the Eaton auditorium, where the Rev. Mr. Jardine was scheduled to speak next Thursday night, announced that he would not permit the lecture. “When we saw the article in the | paper about what Mr. Jardine said | in Baltimore, we thought it was not | the kind of thing we wanted,” Paul | B. Johnson, the auditorium manager, said,

STREETCAR BANDIT GETS 1 T0 10 YEARS

Pleads Guilty After Young ‘Sleuth’ Aids in Arrest.

James Beciord, 35, of 3967 Park | Ave, tracked down by a 10-year-old “Sherlock Holmes,” today

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SAFETY

FIGHT IS PUSHED

Seven Speeders Fined $81 by Judge Karabell

Following Overnight

Arrest of 54 Motor-

ists on Various Traffic Charges.

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Court Decides Assessment Upon Basis of $1

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ove 30 Per Hour;

Five Killed in State.

Forty-four erring motorists paid fines and costs totaling

| $305 in Municipal Court today, an average of $6.93 each,

Seven speeders paid a total of $81 as authorities pushed

their drive on this type of offenders.

Twelve were arrested

overnight following Chief Morrissey’s orders that all persons

caught driving more than 50 the jail in the patrol wagon. Lieut. Ray Peak, Accider

miles an hour be brought to

it Prevention Bureau head,

ordered arrests of all motorists driving faster than 30 miles

OW INDICTED |

BY GRAND JURY

Murder Suspect Here Faces | Charges on Two Counts; Probe Scene Shifts.

Indictments charging Mrs, Etta |

| Jones, suspect in the Beech Grove |

of 12-year-old Helen

an hour in the residential district and 20 miles an hour in the business areas.

‘I Object, Says Driver

Eugene Daley, 43, of Rushville, who was arrested yesterday in the 3500 block on English Ave. by Motors

| cycle Patrolman Alvin C. Emmel-

man, objected when the officer told the judge Daley was doing 62 miles an hour, Daley claimed not over 45, Judge Karabell said: “We will just fine you $1 a mile for all over 30 miles an hour, That is not too stiff, is it?” When Daley failed to answer, the judge told the clerk, “$15 and costs.” The stiffest sentence was given

Schuler, with first degree murder | Bruno Zoellner, 28, 619 Weghorst St,

and assault and battery with intent to murder, were returned by the Marion County Grand Jury today. The second true bill charged Mrs. Jones, a widow, with wounding the slain child's stepmother, Mrs, Lottie Schuler, Meanwhile, Bess Robbins, the de-

| His license was suspended

interest was heightened when his | plead guilty to grand larceny and

MARSHALL FIELD'S | torneys to have their motion ready | will encounter concerted opposition. | Minutes and the third in 14 minfor argument early Monday before The gate for Congress to end its| py. : WIDOW DIES AT 84 <chedulea opening of the trial. | yo37 session remained uncertain but | (JTS, offered rousing resistance | “There is no doubt from the in- —With farm legislation virtually | Yom the start of the first set. Un- | formation I have that there was | hy © | daunted by Budge's reputation, he . : . | abandoned—adjournment day did . some irregularity in drawing the ' 0, appear to be more than two | Started attacking early and met venire,” Judge Emmert said yester- 'gaaks away ; | Budge's bristling shots with a rak-

own son became a big league player. He followed closely Freddie's career | as a member of the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox and for a period in New Orleans and | Nashville of the Southern Associa- | tion.

BEVERLY FARMS, Mass, July 24 —Funeral services will be held Monday for Mrs. Marshall Field, 84,

widow of the original Chicago merchant of that name, who died at, her summer home here last night. Burial will be in Graceland Ceme- | tery in Chicago. i Mrs. Field, once reputedly one of | the nation's wealthiest women, had , been in ill health for several weeks |

day. W. €. Bachelder. who has been handling Baker's case alone, chal(Tarn to Page Three)

INDIANS SEEK LOOT,

| Majority Leader Barkley (D. Ky), | checking over the program: in a | purely tentative way, indicated that the labor bill, sponsored by Senator | Black (D. Ala); the $700,000 bond | issue Housing Bill, offered by Sen[ator Wagner (D. N. Y.), and legislation to plug tax avoidance loop-

| ing fire of his own. Throughout the (Tarn to Page Six)

WIFE OF MISSING

Mr. Eichrodt taught during the last year at Manual but recentiy had been in failing health. Mod CI or hig Rs h or for alcoholism and a nervous disvived by his wife and a daughter, | 256 Bedford said, “If someone had Ms. Arthur Jung, now ill in a Chi | told me the day before the robbery

cago hospital. | that I would commit a crime, I

| to the lesser charge because he had no past criminal record. Testifying he had been treated

and her condition became worse THREATEN OFFICIALS

a few weeks ago, shortly after she gy United Press opened her summer home, | PANAMA, July 24—Naked In- , | dians, seeking loot, threatened police rospectors in the Piedra Can-

land p 3 BOB BURNS | dela area where it was reported oe prospectors found $3,000,000

Funeral services are to be held in Shirley Brothers Central Chapel at 3 p. m, tomorrow. Burial is to be in Chicago Sunday. .

| holes were the principal measures

JUDGE FAGES QUIZ | on the agenda in addition to the| Semieldbuiiluds

mild Lower Court Reform Bill. | N. Y Attorney to Question

On Monday, the Senate will attempt to act on the bill offered by | Mrs Stella Crater

Senator McCarran (D. Nev.), to]

limit freight trains to 70 cars, but LOCAL TEMPERATURES

in gold bars, the government was | whether that measure can be com- 6am. 6 10am. 8 Sa S: ‘advised today. pleted or not the leadership ex- (Photo on Page Two). : Am. ow 3 Bi oo 33 YS. OLLYWOOD, | Police reported that Johannes Van | pected to take up the Black Labor | ry United Press sal » 3 ’ Yon) 8

July 24.— Steck, one of the prospectors, shot

Bill late Monday or early’ Tuesda These bright and cheerful girls who | himself fatally as he led police into | The general belief was that the OR ADE Lanes, Ne on are the life of the party have no |a tunnel where the treasure was | labor measure, greatly modified in tioned sometime today or tomorrow trouble havin’ all the beaus they | supposed to be. Before he died, Van | committee, would be passed after | in connection with the mysterious want but I want'ta tell you, when a | Steck was reported to have told an | a tussle over amendments offered by | gisa CATANCE Seven Vears a of fella is figgerin’ on gettin’ married, official, however, that the tunnel Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.), and | her PC New Yor Su BS he wants a girl was not the one in which the bars by Senator Lodge (R. Mass). The court Justice Joseph FoterT On: (Turn #0 Page Three) " i

Ne ioe Lp i ae | Assistant District Attorney We had one of Jags T. Neary of New York, Sald| , j3.year-old Toledo girl was sie ow Buffalo Faces Acute Food |x: Lo ty inl | rs. Crater is at her summer | hurled from an amusement par oh 2A GHIS; u a 0 aces cu e camp here. whirligig and fatally injured last time. The boys | > night, a tragic €nding to a gay all liked to take | i her to ice cream | Shortage Due to Strike | mimes Features || brass owns. socials and | Ce i | Thelma Chambers came here things like that, | ok \ ON INSIDE PAGES from Toledo last week with her but none of ‘em | BY United Press | tions Board, took personal charge parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Chamwould propose to BUFFALO, N. Y, July 24.—Buf- | of settlement negotiations. | bers, and her older brother, Forrher. Finally, |falo's meat supply virtually was| A Swift truck, loaded with meat, | Auto News 12 | Merry-go-R'd 10 |4gt, to visit her sister. {wo strangers came to town and |cut off today as the strike of 2000 | was overturned by 10 men who with | BOOKS uo... 91 Movies ....... 8! It was their vacation, and they they both started courtin’ her. produce truck drivers, warehouse | their automobiles forced the driver | Bridge ....... 4 | Mrs. Ferguson 9 | gore to have returned to the Ohio One day one of ‘em told the other | workers and packing company em- | to pull over to the curb. The truck | Broun 10 | Mrs. Roosevelt 9 | ii. today. one, he says, “I know this is gonna ployees spread to Swift & Co. | wes upset despite the driver's pro- | Churches .... 2 Music ........18| “yesterday was something of an hurt you but I proposed to Maimy | The International Longshore- | tests that he was carrying only | Clapper ...... 10 | Obituaries ...16 | ;ocasion at the home of her sister, and she accepted me.” He said, men's Association announced it meats and no staple foodstuffs. Gas- | Comics ...... 14 [O'Keefe ...... 9 | vys, James Olvey, 1510 E. 34th St. “The reason 1 proposed to her is would not allow any more meat to|oline which spilled from the over. | Curious World 15 | Pyle ......... 91% was the birthday of Mrs. Olvey's because underneath her gaiety, [ be shipped into the city, already turned truck caught fire from a | Editorials ....10 Questions ....14 5.year-old son, Clay. know shes a home-body because | faced with an acute shortage of thrown cigaret and both the truck | Fashions ..... 4 Radio ........15| At the Olvey house, a celebration every might she sits there and darns butter, eggs, canned goods and other | and its cargo was badly damaged | Financial ....11 Scherrer ..... 9 | was held. Thelma and her parents her father's socks.” The other fella | staple foodstuffs. before firemen could extinguish the | Fishbein ..... 4 | Serial Story...14 and brother Forrest were there. So says, "Well, she purt near caught The Jlongshoremen acted after blaze. Forum .......10 | Side Glances. 9 were Mr. and Mrs. Olvey and their me on that, too, until I noticed it | violence flared in the five-day old| Father Boland reported that he | In Tndpls..... 3 | Society ...... 5 | two children, James Jr., 7. and Clay. was always the same sock!” | strike and the Rev. John P. Boland, | had arranged a meeting between | Jane Jordan. . 4 [Sports ....... 7! Then in the evening, Thelma (Copyright, 108%) chaigman of the State Labor Rela- (Turn to Page Three) Johnson '......10 ( State Deaths 16 | asked to go to the amusement park.

| would have laughed at them.” He was found guilty of holding up a streetcar operator at Illinois and 38th Sts, July 186. The young “detective,” Robert | Nefille, 3969 Kenwood Ave. witnessed the crime and trailed Bedford to | Boulevard Pl. and 40th St., where he | notified officers. Indianapolis Rail | ways gave the boy a camera for his work,

fendant’s attorney, announced she had hired private detectives to investigate the case, Probe in Louisville, Tell City Deputy sheriffs were at work in Louisville, former home of Mrs. Jones, and in Tell City, former home

of Walter Schuler, Helen's father, and the victim's home until her death. Both Mrs. Jones and Mrs, Schuler, who accused each other of the shooting, were reported recovering in local hospitals. Mrs. Jones was injured when she jumped or fell from a catwalk in the County Jail. Called Into an early session to consider this case, the Grand Jury then vacationed subject to future orders until September,

GUARD'S AUTO AIDS 3 IN PRISON ESCAPE

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Up College Student.

By United Press BELLEFONTE, Pa. July 24.-— Cutting their way through barbed wire, three convicts stole a guard's car and escaped today from the Rockview State Penitentiary. Abandoning the guard's car near Stormstown, Pa, 12 miles from the prison, the criminals threatened Victor Onachilla, a Penn State College student, took his automobile from him and continued their flight, presumably toward Pittsburgh. The escaped convicts were identified as Raymond Hill, sentenced 5 to 10 years on a larceny charge; Steve Masternak, sentenced 5 to 10 years on a robbery charge, and Frank Burke, 4 to 8 years on an armed robbery charge.

It was the first time she had gone since she was 6, Her parents were tired, however, and didn’t go. But the Olveys, their two small children and Forrest went to Riverside Amusement Park. They rode on all the trappings of the park, glamorous and gay to a girl of 13. Huge crowds milled up and down the sidewalks. Thelma laughed and ran and stared wide-eyed at the midway’s wonders. Then she wanted to ride on a “whirligig.” Mr. and Mrs. Olvey, entering the spirit of the evening, sat in one car together. Thelma rode alone in a third. Little Clay and James Jr. were tired and sat on a nearby bench looking on. The device started up. Gathering speed as the cars soon whipped madly about the floor. As she passed Clay and James Jr, Thelma waved 10, Se

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Forrest was in another. |p

Girl, 13, Killed in Ride on ‘Whirligig’ During Gay Visit to Amusement Park

Suddenly, she was catapulted out |

through the air onto a wire fence. Mrs, Olvey saw the accident, She

Pennsylvania Convicts Hold

jor a | year, he was fined $10 and costs and [given 45 days on the State Farm when witnesses testified that he struck a parked car owned by Mrs. Christina Oaks, 857 Sanders St. and that he had a bottle of whisky in the car at the time. Zoellner also was fined $1 and costs on a drunk charge and $1 and costs, suspended, for not having a driver's license,

Hurt in Collision

Willard Murphy, 25, of Allisonvilla Road and 62d St. was reported in fair condition in City Hospital toe day. His car collided head-on with another, driven by Woodrow Neill, 20, of 3215 N. Olney St., at Keystone Ave, and 32d St. last night. Mr. Neil and Benson Hockman, 21, of 2233 Wood St. ,a passenger, were treated in City Hospital for cuts and bruises. Mr. Neill and Benson Hockman, 21, of 2233 Wood St. a passenger, were treated in City Hospital for cuts and bruises, Cecil Ross, 29, of 4717 Guilford Ave,, Indianapolis Times employee, was treated in Methodist Hospital for slight injuries received when he was struck by a car as he crossed Pennsylvania St. at Washington St. last night,

One Drowns, | Five Killed in State Traffic

Four traffic deaths and one drown ing were reported in Indiana during the last 24 hours. George Humphrey, 14, drowned at Emison in Knox County while swimming in a gravel pit with three other boys. Charles Rowland McClure, former Rowland Cal, police chief, died in a hospital at Vincennes from ine juries received in an auto accident several weeks ago. Mrs. Missouri Kreutzer, 76. of Harrison County, was Killed in a collision near New Albany in which too others were injured. Dr. F. B. Baylor, 55, Chicago surgeon, was Kkilied when his car went out of control and overturned three times near Lebanon. Marion Canada, Winchester Glass Co. official, was injured fatally when his auto, which he was attempting to start by pushing, rolled over his body near Rockcastle, Ky.

Girl Fights for Life After Losing Leg

Little 14-year-old Patricia Ann Sentney battled for her life in Methodist Hospital today after surgeons lost a 19-weeks fight to save her leg, injured in a traffic accie dent. Patricia Ann was struck by an automobile at 36th St. and College Ave. March 11. Doctors at the hos« | pital employed every known means | to save the leg, but to no avail, Patricia is the daughter of Mr,

screamed. The operator stopped the | and Mrs. J. R. Sentney, 719 E. 36th

cars’ mad whirling. It was really only a moment, but it seemed hours before they came to a rest, The Olveys ran frantically to Thelma. Meanwhile, little Clay and James Jr. had gone to her. The strident sounds of the mid-

way were hushed. A crowd gathered. Someone called authorities. The

ital, She died there early today of a skull fracture. Survivors are her parents; five sisters, Mrs. Olvey, Indianapolis, Mrs, Roy Wright, Mrs. William Denhardt, Earnestine and Christine Chambers, all of Toledo, and the brother, Forrest. The body is to be taken home for burial tonight.

child was sent to Methodist Hos- |

| St. Mrs. Ella Stickley, housekeeper | in the Sentney home, who also was

| struck by the automobile, died a | week later, MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC | TOLL TO DATE RUBY wusnnvnrrrsvarsnssnsnavenny 20 | 1936 varvvanashsueseee DB July 23 Accidents verhrvevan 8 0 EEE RRR | TRAFFIC ARRESTS | Speeding ......... vv 00000000 12 Reckless driving ............00 3 Running red light .......... or Running preferential street ,,. 17 Driving through safety zone .,. 2 Failing to stop after accident , 1 Improper parking ...... sirens 8 Others BERNER ANI RN RNNNNRIRIRAYE MT 5