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PAGE TEN THE NEWS -PALLADIUM. BENTON HARBOR. MICH. WEDNEDAY, AUGUST 21, 1937 CrCTION TWO 1 YOUTH: BRUTAL SUPER GROCERY Britain Crystal Avenues Terrorism i Grips Cities iWhat Is Driving Teens TaKill? (Flnt of a Seriea) By ward cannel NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (Special) at its own throat.

It is not a pleasant sensation to walk down the streets of your neighborhood with the niggling fear at your neck that you may be jumped and beaten. It Is sometimes terrifying to wait for a subway or bus at a lonely station. And there is a panic that reaches out when you hail an empty taxi only to find that the driver is as frightened as you and will not pick up a fare, In the area where you stand. AND THE INHUMANITY that has created this terror, spread Itself easily among the "law abiding citizens." Two middle-aged women walking down a street on the outskirts of the metropolitan area see a gang of young men beating up a boy. "Please help me," the boy calls.

"I don't know these people. Please help me." The two women quicken then-footsteps and hurry to reach the apparent safety of thejir own homes. Killed In Crash Of Three Trucks "The man who walk New York' TI. FEll. SAT.

AN. 22, 23, 21 treete at night either a fool or a criminal." These are the words of a veteran city reporter and the sentiment of most law enforcement people, New York City is in the grip of a real terror as wild teen-agers AM V- In gangs or in two's and three roam the streets attacking each other and paasersby without pro' vocation. There is hardly anybody In tab city of eight million who has not been attacked or does not know someone who has been attacked. I was pushed around by a couple of young thugs on brightly-lighted, heavily -traveled Lexington Ave nue. I escaped serious injury only because I was lucky enough to find an opening In the moving traffic, But a man who works less than 20 BASKETS of GROCERIES FOOD SAMPLES AND DEMONSTRATIONS ft MANY OTHER GIFTS Children Included NOTHING TO DUY-JUST COME IM AND REGISTER 80 feet away from me was less lucky.

Three young hoods in his Brooklyn neighborhood Jumped him from be hind, beat him, kicked him in the head, took the two dollars he was carrying and fled. HIS STORY Is not unusual. This kind of savage assault is reported over and over on police blotters and TEENS IN TROUBLE: A detective herds youthful gang members from a police van in New York after a pages of local papers. teen-age slaying. No neighborhood is safer than any other.

Neither age nor sex, time nor this brutality by the city's youth? beatings, gang assaults never get re Added Attraction Fri. Sat. Be-Mo Majorettes, Baton Twirling Specialists health is any security against this ported in the daily Metro What is the motive, the gain, the politan New York is very large and satisfaction? One answer comes from a 14 there is other news to be told, sxa ednstant threat. Nor is money or personal revenge always the motive. Here, for example, is the way Michael Farmer was killed as far MT.

CLEMENS," Aug. 21 (AP) Truck driver Shirley Tacie, 36, of Port Huron, died Tuesday in a fiery three-truck crash on US-25 north of Mt. Clemens. He was trapped in his cab by flames. Sheriff's officers said Tacie's big tractor-trailer piled into the rear of another which was being towed by a third truck.

Van Buren Marriage Licenses Approved PAW PAW, Aug. 21 The following marriage license applications have been approved by. Van Buren Clerk Rex Martin: Richard I. Hart, 24, Detroit, and Sally A. Lockwood, 22, South Haven.

George R. Smith, 23, South Haven, and Veverly A. Wilsey, 18, route 3, South Haven. Junior C. Lillie, 28, route 3, Do-wagiac, and Shirley A.

Cook, 19, Decatur. David Hoger, 20, Paw Paw, and Phyllis J. Johnson, 21, Paw Paw. George A. Maguire, 21, route 1, Paw Paw, and Mary Lou Reed, Paw Paw.

Donald W. Jennings, 24, Paw Paw, and Sharon Dorstewicz, 22, Paw Paw. I Thomas Brennan, 32, Breedsville, and Dorothy E. Welder, 37, Breedsville. Charles J.

Nier, 23, Fort Sheridan, and Maryl Whipple, 22, Evans-ton, I1L i John Hudson, 26, Dearborn, and here is a small sampling of one re cent week's rampage by some of as police have been able to recon year-old boy who wanted "to get the feeling of a knife going through bone." It was this boy who drove his knife so hard into the back of this city's youth: SEE? struct the senseless and vicious The son of a city policeman was caught between two warring gangs crippled Michael Farmer that the blade tip almost reached the chest and beaten and kicked to death, wall. An elderly man and bis son were beaten and robbed by a 18-year-old boy who later smashed the getaway car and injured three detectives who For the most part, the reasons for this inhuman terror are stated Bi Table King fi KIDNEY BEANS by the terrorized. "Kids are like animals," one hears a man in a subway say. Or, "The tried to subdue him. A 71-year-old woman was ambushed on her apartment house stairs, slammed against the wall and robbed by three young boys.

Table King CORN eSir WK Table King PEAS 303 Cans 7 99' trouble is In the family." Or, "Every' rime. Seventeen beys ranging In age from 14 to IS eame upon Farmer and a friend near a public swimming pool in the Washington Heights neighborhood. The gang was armed with broomsticks, knives, machetes, belts and bare hands. Farmer's life ended with severe dubbing, belting, pummeling and repeated stabblngs "about the back, chest, and limbs." His friend, stabbed twice in the cheat, is still in highly critical condition at a hospital There was nothing new, unique or unusually vicious about Farmer's death in the annals of today's terror. The inhuman horror lies in the fact that Farmer was a polio-crip body's too concerned with making a buck, like the landlords Or, "We're taking away the fear of school and the police and we're pay A young man was knifed and beaten and left to bleed in a gutter by several boys who, police said, were defending the honor of then- girl friends.

An 18-year-old reformatory alum ing for it." In the hodge-podge of desperately quick answers one feeling comes through sharp and clear: Metropolitan New York fears for Its life, freedom and deepest of all the system of values that once worked so well and is now clutching nus held off police with a long knife after he had robbed a drug store. After his arrest he admitted Karol A. Kahne, 18, South Haven. Finding one part in a billion Is comparable to locating a quarter-inch spot on'" a string stretched from New York to San Francisco. pled, 15-year-old boy.

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