Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-10-24

MIN. just as IL comes alongside
l the driver slows down and waves
THEY ALL, KNOW HIM
"You see, they all know me-"
he declares, "and 1 know them,
too. They don't forget, and
neither do i. I've got nearly
page OF license numbers of
kids whom 1 know drive reck-
lessly,
81 haven't been able actually
to catch them ut it yet, but 1
will. Some day they will forget
to look In that rear view mir
ror and see me coming"
Several OF the cars Of students
who play their deadly game with
Mentally carry extra rear view
mirrors just so they can spot him.
Many have three and four mir
rors and one has seven, long ones
and short ones on each side and
a big curved one in the middle
of the car.
THAT makes Ii tough" Nc
Nally says. Some OF the Kids
even drive with one or two pas
sengers In the back seat look
ing behind to see IL I'm
following.
THEY'RE A PROBLEM
"what can you do with driv-
ers like that:
eff 1 catch them and IL they
are driving really fast give
them reckless driving tickets.
Then they have to 60 before
q Judge and maybe they'll have
their licenses suspended. That's
all that will stop them. Fine
them for speeding and they just
get tho money and keep right
on driving Wild"
As he talks, McNally is driving
down Hubbell avenue. the street
on which Cooley students hold
most of their auto rodeos. They
have played tag with their cars
down this avenue. They have
raced from side to side up one
curb and down the other in games
of follow the leader. They have
pushed each other along in a
string Of cars, racing bumper to
bumper.
In three years McNally esti-
mates he has given more than 400
tickets on that one street within
a distance of five blocks.
TICKETS TEACHER
"And not all Of them 10 stu
DENTS" he says. "a lot have
gone to older people and only
tho other day I gave one for 40
miles m hour to school
teacher"
A car speeds past him. Three
young boys are in the front seat,
five others are piled in the rear.
follows for two blocks
and then motions the driver over
to the curb. He has clicked him att
81 miles an hour for the last block,
but he was going much fasterl
before.
The driver Is a 15-year-old|
student of Wilbur Wright School,
On his way to Cooley for football
game. He will pay SIS fine.
School Is letting out and Nc
NaIly continues driving up and
DOWN Hubbell. Twenty minutes
later he gets another speeder. This
time it is John L. Clark. II, of
1884 Steel avenue. Mentally says
he was going 43 miles an hour.
MANY EXCUSES
'T thought 1 was going about
S." was young Clark's only ex-
PLANTATION.
Usually they say they are
late for a date" Mentally ex-
planned. cor else II they have .
girl with them they have to get
her homo in Ave minutes.
Tho other day a young fellow
told me he was hurrying to .
friends home to borrow q radio
so his mother wouldn't miss .
program"
A short time ago, Mentally on
his spare time was patrolling the
streets near his home at 15019|
Steel avenue to catch motorists
who were using the roads as a race
track. They were endangering the
life of his own child and the neigh
bors had complained.
TICKETS COMPLAINERs
"And would you believe It,"
Mentally says, "the Same people
who complained were the ones
caught.
"One night stopped q fellow
I knew and when 1 started to
talk to him no began telling mo
what q shame IL was the way
people raced around the streets
OF our noighborhOOd.
"'You bet it is,' I said, hut
what do you think stopped you
for
'T gave him q ticket"
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