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? ead ’ bing; burglarizing, assaulting, They tein they're 31016 mney ave all highspecd drivers, auto thieves. They can get an automosiie openec, started and moving by using 2 1 jump rope!, fast.r than you or I can ¢o it with a key, Tho girls aro nremiscuous, vile, vicious and abusive," A snceinl and int help some of these noonle; to get. an the into cloan work and activity. Thi ort the g us vaby-talk", < uy assistants wore Ceeci Tis zang has two recognized leaders, One tins relcased from San “centin in 194<; the cther ontered. that institution curing the samo ycar, In all, twelve of the gang wore sent to San cuentin during 194. Pederal authori tics took over a nunbcr of them as draft evacors3 others hava been incucted into the Armed Forces curing the last two yoarS.s ‘ Bit the gang gots now recruits; it romains an organized and operating sroup; it has not decn ronted out and extorminated in spite ef tho best cfforts of the authoritics. . . ¥e contacted the suskers Club in San Quentin, exnlained the orodlem, tole them here was a cefin’ te Gnadionse for their elu to vork an. The members of the ganz whe wore in the prison were invited to attcnd Seekers: Club mootinin. tha ganz leader and several ot ers foineca tho clu», fhe cang leacer was chairman of one of tne usual Saturcay meetings. Tas wang members still at large are under suspicion in con- nectisn with the recent large mumver of sare-crackings. oo. LA $3: Severe] Latin-Ameriean groups have formed into ganes. cane {s known aS “The Jenny Jive Club" , another as “me Aces", Tho Jenny Jive Clud bas about 70 mendsrs aged from 12 to 19 years. : Mom ora of these gnnes are American born Moxicans, M141." pinss, Neg sroes, a few whites, Tac group sesraznte themsclvas; soem te want it that v way. Mombera carry a "chip on their shoulder", leok constantly for treudle, got togetucr and attemt to raic or "enashtt other tteen-azo parties and eances; they censtantly’cavse disturdencos at thece places whetior adnitted or kent out; they havo brutally asenrited other younssters; they are problems in schools, many are 53 low averare intellisence, many sre non-reacers, They clcin that they are not wanted, that thoy arc Ciscriminatoc against. MANAGES and intellicent work has — to their activity ince the . Or dest youth loaders have directed ts. Fo cate ther as becn no success. The plan has beon . seprotation, to get these children ta mingle, work, play cnd- 7 th the other chileren of the nelzhacrhoocs, It hasn't worked.’ These groups liv3 ané congresate in the industrial’ district around 8th and Howard 5 treots, and in the “ission District, vicins ty of 2lst and Howarc Etrosts. hev are Gefinitoly known and many have Juvenile ‘Court recorss.e j Extensive inves tigation of this. critical community problcm was rade, The vest we hiave in lan Feaneiseo is lnboring in this ficld today. Tris is on serious and tramenceus prodlem. Jt must de met and a solution must be found, There 3s, end thers can bo, no comproriigo until the vrovlcm is settled Perhaps segremstion is the answer, Perhios giving’ these groups recreational centers ef their own is the thing to co. San Francisce 2uthorities are experimenting, They hope to fin® the answer | One other ancle reflecting the cemplexity of this matter camo eee e rig | seat etes thet tet le