Violations of the traffic laws have become such a menace in Okmulgee that the whole people have been crying out for relief and with the result that the police have awakened and are going to make a clean-up, in fact and about 100 persons were arrested there last night. Not only speeders, but the many persons running cars at night without lights are being rounded up. An additional motor cop was put on duty the day before yesterday and the first night he ran in six law violators. Last night it was a regular slaughter. The Okmulgee Times tells of it this morning, as follows: Nearly 100 drivers with no tail lights on their cars were arrested last night and 37 of them put up $2 bonds until they could get the lights fixed. Tonight there’ll be no refund, Chief Dick Farr said.
Violations of the traffic laws have become such a menace in Okmulgee that the whole people have been crying out for relief and with the result that the police have awakened and are going to make a clean-up, in fact and about 100 persons were arrested there last night. Not only speeders, but the many persons running cars at night without lights are being rounded up. An additional motor cop was put on duty the day before yesterday and the first night he ran in six law violators. Last night it was a regular slaughter. The Okmulgee Times tells of it this morning, as follows: Nearly 100 drivers with no tail lights on their cars were arrested last night and 37 of them put up $2 bonds until they could get the lights fixed. Tonight there’ll be no refund, Chief Dick Farr said.
The net last night brought to the station such men as R. E. Jenness, commissioner of internal revenue, C. W. Mantooth, Dan Keanan, and C. C. Daniels. The law is no respecter of persons.
And all those arrests were made by Traffic Officers Law Head and Williams, on motorcycles which had no tail lights; the police patrol made a dozen runs, without a tail light; the police scout car had no tail light; none of the city cars have tail lights.
That was a sore spot with motorists last night, but Chief Farr said that it wouldn’t be so tonight. He gave orders that every automobile in the possession of the city be equipped with two good head lights and a tail light before it appears again on the street at night.
Two of the huge street buses were brought to the jail last night and all taxi drivers were warned to obtain lights. Many who were told to report to the station repaired their lights there, and saved putting up the money.
But last night, after all the rush was over and the automobile drivers had gone away, Sergeant Bruce Rawlings had $34 in automobile money. The automobiles came to the police station last night like moths drawn to a candle. Curious at the large crowd which had collected, people out for a drive passed the station and were stopped with a warning to obtain lights at once. The accessory station across the street had only a limited supply of bulbs of the right variety and had to send for extra supplies after it had first put a tail light on the delivery car.