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*** "THE" - "CHINÄ” MAIL," "THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1958.

PART TWO OF RON EVANS' REPORT ON THE BATTLE

· AGAINST A NATION'S DEAD-END KIDS

Teenage Terror

WITH

me in my trip from the next street. But we inder

dkin't we guns in those days." to "high hazard"

That was fifteen Harlem were two detec- Now the gangs are armed gangs years ago.

tives -

Timmy, small, with lurid names like the Dra- gons, the Viceroys, the Harlem dappor, in an open- Dukes; lod by youths who adopt, necked sports shirt; and in the weird fantasy

work, fighting names ilke Super- Big Mac, loose-limbed man, Count Dracula, Dillinger, Negro in a leather wind- Big Cherokee. jammer.

of their

Prominent in their hierarchy

ure the cop fighters.

they're really in trouble.

I

Le

the nuspices of well- trouble before it happens. meaning, unwitting social clubs. they know we're here they dlich To vindicate an insult, the the weapons. They're scared of gangs arrange counells of war being lossed searched, that

'clean' and agree to fight, homing the because if they aren't timo and pinCO.

"They call that a rumble," sald That "Or they have a burn. is a gudden Commando-type cold in which they charge into other gang'e territory, beating up anybody happens to be there."

or anything which

Tim

HEFTY

on-

Slowly we prowled

They use guns they have through

the crowded

bought with stolen money; guna streets in battered they have stolen; zip guns they

a civilian sedan. We tried from toy revolvers, helts studdet stop against

convert with inanite cuning Suddenly the car lurched to a a gang of hefty not to look like cops with carpet tacks: machetes, coloured youths, who glowered but every watching eye aves, baseball bats, razors; from garbage cans they tear the han- knew, and the word dies to use as knuckle-dusters; went round; resentful, parked cars they map radio serials to whiplash their oppon- scornful.

Mao said: "I was brought up hore. I used to hang around the streels, too. Nowhere else to pe Sure we used to fight the gang

ents.

Mao stuck out a giant band, "C'm'an, gimme them dice. Broak it up. Move, MOVE An' if I catch you again I'll break your goddamned heads."

"It they're going on à rumble they give the weapons to the girls. They know we can't search them."

Timmy and Mac were talking about a stabbing the night be- fore.

That punk Chickly got shank- ed last night. Pound him on 109th Sireet."

The car lurched

halt

to again. Mae hurled open the door. "Cur'an in here, Spider. Wun- na talk with you."

Grinning cockily, a slim 10- Into the car

year-old flopped seat.

“WATTYA WANT?" "Wanna know about the shanking."

As we drove, Tim told me

to Said Timmy: "We've got about gangs, often formed secret- keep at them, let 'em know we're ly in raelöl and religious groupe around, crowd them, smell

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| POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

**My dear Professor, if you think for a moment that I'm going to give a penny just so you can have the watching satisfaction of American rackets not going into their orbits, you can think again."

ROUND-UP

20 CHOICES

out

LIFE in the Army is more than home from home for the modern

soldier at Victoria Harracks, Beverley, Yorkshire.

Each day The 2470 trainees in The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of York- Ahire have a choice of at least 10 dishes for their main course and half a dozen weels. The Press were invited to view this new self- service luxury catering recently. The air was alled with popular music, there were neat white cloths on tables set for four, and a mena with

from. 20 dishes to choose over

Guest, Major W. Northern Command Catering Adviser, insisted that there was no spectal show at al). "Some days the menu is even longer than

is," he said.

THE BIG STIR

INGREDIENTS for Christmas puddings for 1,100 men were given cky air at the Royal Marine Depot, Deal, Kent, by Mrs Margaret Price, wife of the commanding officer. Using a three- fout wooden flout paddle she mixed the ingredients-550 lbs. of currants, raising, sultanas and mixed peel, ten dozen eggs, juice from two dozen lemons, four, bread crumbs and surt, 28 lbs. of sugar, twelve ibs, of black treacle, twelve lbs. of ground almonds, some mixed spices, ginger and cinnamon and one ounce of nutmeg. halt a gallon of Navy run and the contents of 48 tins of milk.

ADMIRAL'S PORTRAIT

PORTRAIT of the 19th century Vice-Admiral William Henry Tremlett has gone from Buckland Abbey, Devon, to the Royal Academy, London, to be copied for a descendant, Major General E. Tremlett. Vice-Admiral Tremlett was born at

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ELECTRONIC BRAIN

PRITISH engineers have produced a machine which can "read" Bgures, shunt railway goods trueks into the right sidings and

FRED scan cheques to save bank clerks' time. It's name is

It works by scanning stylised Figure Reading Electronic Device. figures with five pin-paint light rays and can fit into Fred can also read and list cheques provided they have been marked with magnetic ink.

NEW FUELLING SYSTEM

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"What shankin'? Don't know nuttin."

“SOCIAL”

"Come off it, Spider. You

never know nothing."

"I gone social, honest."

"Don't give me that slob!" Timmy takes over. "Whalya know about that guy called Jippy

Spider didn't know him. Spid- er didn't know nothing. Then he remembered: “Oh sure, some guy got shot in la apartment. But I don't know the guy."

The car door swung open! "GI," suld Mac. "And Spider,

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TV IDOL SLAMS... TV

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If you aint leveling with me,HE man with the best-

I'll break you, I promise, man."

Timmy knew what I WIZA Chinking.

THE mice the head

the most famous faces in America sat in his tiny Yeah, we're tough," he told office contless, his collar me. "That little guy's a knife expert,"

Through the night goes on .. questioning, sitting, watch- Lag croes-questioning.

Prowling post the hopeless, pitiful Junkies' waiting for the dope, a wensel of a man ahead saw the car, turned und Wi swallowed up in an alleyway. Sald Timumy: "That guy's the dope pusher he brings the stuff to them."

PUNKS...

of

On une corner, a crowd butly youths waited. They were the ellies of the stabbed Chic-

kle.

didn't know nothing. They elther. But one they colied Cheyenne admitted: "I did hear there'd bin some misunderstand- ing."

Said Timmy: "Yeah, it was misunderstanding all right. You punics 'll end up in pine boxes unless we stop you frst,"

So it went on the pathetic par- ade of youth. The one they called India (He's a shank expert");

open, his braces bright red against his white shirt, He was, of course, smoking.

This was Edward R. Murrow, the United States' and, perhaps, the world's

071

DON IDDON

HAS A PERSON-TO-PERSON TALK WITH

ED MURROW

most distinguished televi grammes. Let us cut down the hape, in insulation from reality, and he did not seem to mind. sion commentator and trivial, the purely entertaining, then Nero and his fiddle, Cham- It's a habli I have had for years broadcaster. Certainly the the canned commercials, and berlufn and his umbrolla could not showmanship or anything most widely seen and listen- give hour or two each not find a place on an early like that--just a habit."

week to the mortal per which afternoon sustaining show. ed to.

the West faces."

"It Hollywood were to run Mr Murrow, who has won

out of Indians the programme every award there is in tele-

schedules vision

broadcasting. and

de-

A list

Insulated

Murrow talked on:

"One of the basic troubles with radio would be mangled and television news is that both instruments have grown up beyond all recognition."

with an incompatible combina- As we talked in his

amall

tion of show business, adver- tising, and news,

I said to Murrow: "Do you livered E tow days ago A really believe we ara in speech to his colleagues call- mortal perii?" And the man

office 001 the 17th floor of ing for reforms in television puffed at blu cigarette the

smokes do a and radio programmes,

day) and sald C.B.S. on Madison Avenue-

the door with the name

"Each of the three is a rather "MI simply; "Yes. Perhaps not in a

Murrow" in gold letters--the bizarre and demanding profes- millary sense yet, but certain-

ali developed

And when you get his Rion. The man whose talks with ly in an economic. The Soviet broadcaster

themo:

three under one roof the dust the great and whose Per out to defeat us economicai-

never settles. son-to-Person programmes have ly and has already penetrated watched and heard by into the Middle East and the millions of viewers doty not Far East.

bee

In

1

More mature

make the Anal and crucial decisions having to do

"Frequently they have neither

"The top management of the networks, with a few notabis "I am entirely persuaded that exceptions, have been trained in like being interviewed himself. "During the dally peok

the American pubile is more advertising, research, sales, or The other week, when the viewing periods, television

and show

business; and by the Saturday Evening Post sent its the main insulates us from the reasonable or restrained Pete Martin to talk to Murrow, realities of the world in which more mature than most of our nature of the corporate structure Mac the vão known as Cruzy

the TV star's co-producers, John we live. If this state of affairs industry's programme planners they also Aaron and Jesse Zousmer, gave continues we may alter an ad- belleve ("He's due on a rape sap against

I asked: "Do your crilclms with views and public affairs. Martin a list of 35 questions vertising slogan to read Look a girl of 11"); Búi Al (2god 17

of American television also and suggested that he submit now, poy later." at a cost of and with 12 convictions for DG-

them to Murrow.

Then, obviously quoting from apply to British television?" the time nor the competence to NEW fuciling facilities at London Airport, built

sault and battery-Man, I don't

Nothing like that happened his speech, MuITOW went on: Mr Murrow replied; "Well, 1 Alrey Neave, have just been inaugurated by Mr

or during

our talk. I "Surely we shall pay for using understand you run an awful Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport and Civil shank, I fight clean.")

Tummy said: "They're not all before Aviation. The new storage depot on the west side of the airport

bad itids. But good and bad, they have admired and known Mur- this most powerful instrument 101 of our light American enter-

of communication

insulate tainment program:C9, row for years, feeds through pipelines another large new depot three-quarters of

have to join the street gang for He made his controversial the citizenry from the hard, dues, Incidentelly, I am going

"It is дот A third new depot has been

the a mile away in the central aren.

casy for protection. Then they have

Interview speech before the Radio and demanding realities which must over fairly soon to

scano small built in the maintenace area on the east side of the airport. Dis-

group of men to been installed, light, sooner or later"

Television News Directors Asso- be faced if we are to survive. Field-Marshal Montgomery.".

decide whother to buy new? pensing equipmont of the most modem type

In effect: I mean the word survive

"Will you smoke in front of stations for millions of dollars, including radio control rooms. The duty officer is advised by To be concluded in a third clailon, and he said

Let us be more serious, more literally.

the general?" Ucker tape when airliners are due to land, and short-wave radio

article: Boy Gangsters --

"If there were to be a com "Well, 1 don't know informative, more responsible enables the large deel of fuelling vehicles to be employed where-

Angry Cops

in our TV and radio Pro- petition in indifference, or, per~ smoked ever required.

£600,000,

Nelson's Hair

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ATEST acquisition by the National Maritime Muscura, Greenwich, is a lock of Nelson's hnir. It was attached to iettor written by Lady Hamilton friend just after Trafalgar. The Museum bought it at a London zale. It is the only one among many locks of the famous Ad- miral's hair received by the Museum

which is regarded as genuine. Mr Frank Carr, the Museum's director, has slated that other supposed locks of Nelson's hair which have been sent to them would thatch o small barn. He said Nelson's "glass eye" keeps an turning upbut Nelson nover had one) The Museum WDS founded largely with relles of Nelson and the special display on him is sti the chicf attraction, The authorities treat any new objects they are offered with suspicion. Coal Under Sea

FTER "very successtu?! 41 operations down to 2,100 foot, the Nationul Coal Board's aca-boring tower which started! proving undersen reserves of coa); off Binckhall Colllery, Durham, In August; has now been moved to its second drilling position About two miles north, Thiory further exploratory, proving of the underace atamo is now taking place. The iret borehole was about four miles off the colliery in cbout 10 fathoms of water- and two miles east of the nearest undersen workings, The object of the operations is to provide. additional Information about the extent of the seams It Ja Intended to mine from Blackball dad' Horden collieries.

PSYCHIATRIS

ROOM

tr

to

do this.

It

Not easy

1

to build a new truliding, alter buy a now before Mr Macmillan the rate card

Western, scil 巍 500p opera, decide what defensive line to take in connection with the latest Congressionsi Inquiry, .bow much money to spend on promoting a new programme, what additions or deleitons should be made in the existing covey or clutch of vice-presidents and, at the same time, fro- 'quently on the same long day, to give mature thoughtful con- sideration to the manifold pro- blems that confront those who aro charged with the respon- sibility for nows and public -affairs,"

'This time we'll try a slightly different approach. You have dropped your cash. You bond down to pick it up,

A little pompous this, per- haps, but penetrating. What docs Ed Murrow propose?

He says: "I am frightened by the Imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for every- thing, by the absence of a Gustained study of the state of the nation.

:,:

"I do not advocate that wo turni television into n 27-in. wailing wall where long-hairs constantly moan about the state of our culture and our defence. "But I would just like to eco reflected occasionally the hard, unyielding realities of the world In which we live."

What does Ed Murrow, at 49, plan next, apart from his crusade to educate and Inform the public through the modi he has mastered?

Apparently

not politics, would have to be polite to.so many 8.0.be,"

And never big business, sa ko desplaas what he calls, "the money-making machines."

Actually he recoils from long- rango blueprints, but will con- tinuo as beforò, a dedicated man, a perfectionist, and a ver fins human being,