Evening star., 1953-11-16

pie who could do so were staying
off the streets that night, Deputy
Chief Agnew added.
They said we shouldn't let them
push us around" he explained.
The dance broke up at mid
night. He and his date left with
two boys from Coolidge High
School and their dates and went
to Hot Shoppe for curb serv-
ice.
"A red convertible pulled up
close to us. There were older
boys in the car and one of them
was drunk. He tried to pick a
fight and they took the food off
the tray when the waiter brought
it. saw a boy in another car
pointing at me and l heard
somebody say I had squealed.
Try to Sideswipe Car.
"We pulled out and three cars
pulled out behind us. 1t was
awfully foggy and we couldn't
go very fast. An old blue car
tried to sideswipe us. We turned
into Geranium street, where the
boy who was driving lived, and
one of these cars pulled up in
front of us.
"The boy who was driving
got out and they jumped him.
He started to fall and they
pushed him down against the
stone steps. Then, one of them
said. I want that boy in the
back A couple of them slugged
me. Somebody kicked me in the
head and one of them kicked me
in the back. That's all l re-
member"
Leaving the girls screaming
and two boys unconscious on
the street, the three carloads of
youths drove away. They had
taken time to knock out the
lights of their victims car to
insure against being followed.
I'VE had arranged to pick
him up at his dates house."
said Mrs. Judith Hartman,
Mixes mother, "and then the
neighbors came and told us he
had been taken to the hospital"
Mother Hears Screams.
Mrs. Fran said she and her
husband. returning from a movie,
had parked a block and a half
from their home and were walk
ing down the street when they
saw three or four cars speeding
into Geranium street.
I'VE were shocked. It was
foggy and almost impossible to
see, and then 1 realized it was
our car in the front"
She said she heard screams
but before they reached their
home, the attack was over. She
added that she and her husband
saw about Is boys climb into
three cars and speed away.
"These aren't juvenile delin-
quents." she declared. They're
gangsters."
Some of the fathers spent
most of yesterday at the 9Th
precinct, where nearly a score
of teen-agers were brought in
for questioning.
What can we do for our
children?" asked Mr.. Hartman
when he came home from the
precinct. We've got to think of
their safety"
What can parents do to pro-
tect their children from gang
Sterism in the Schools?" asked
another. There are boys there
on probation and parole. 1t starts
with them. They should be sent
to some school where they have
trained people to work with
them. It's up to the police and
the school board to do something
about these boys"
At the sixth precinct one of
the boys who admitted taking
part in the fight sat with head
bowed last night. He is Is and
has quit school. He said he had
been in fights before but hadn't
been arrested because Il guess
they never caught me-"
He was asked what he would
have done if he had been in the
position of the boys who had
been threatened by his friend.
Il wouldn't have given him
any money" he said.
Then you would have been
beaten up?" he was asked.
II guess so," he said and
frowned.
He apparently hadn't thought
of that.
The boy who had decided to
stop being a victim rested on a
sofa under doctors orders and
talked with the friends who kept
calling his apartment.
I'm not going to be afraid
any more" he said.