| Show un ays Are Huge problem to the Police York Record Records Show ev I 17 Most Are Under girls are bet bethe be- be Missing York to t err kind of a bother the be biggest police deportment department eR Tort rork disappeared In of them Mme e 2160 lost last cal calendar the durin ng t of f them never could ear d and D number Many wound up In police found underworld dens A Aget Amet flow or oily untimely la to end ends their bodies met get abandoned by roadsides s here Oe room where they were resort hiding 1 Hn out ot the way In n I 0 or I eloped to t pre- pre group r c A sizable marriages b 11 1688 1639 were under Of tile the ot of age And of these lateen hundred bondred y rean rs or more went the theng theD thead e fix ail enough to claim the theof road ad far tar ng D' departments department's police of ot the he prevention bureau New Nearly y a adred s prevention ended their ot of them dred headquarters 1 lineon line line- nera ne- ne La in the police pollee ra on oa charges of ot homicide felony assault arson and ring to Commissioner va Edward dw however the he vast mathe ma- ma were not bad badria d ot of the runaways dis ls- ls Just were but rL ria ed with their ir homes their their- places their whole l environ environ- amp ere were e IB sot eol They he were not bad they ther i ly out cut of ot step Many Blam Blame Slump The be depression of ot course was Wal to toto hundreds hundred of the disappear disappear- gme am to for tor cases With the head of the milt ally out of ot work the larder all but for food q 11 small mall youths crying Nadu with which to buy finery or orTie Tie decent clothes clothe hundreds of girls girl 0 their thell early high school years suited to prolonged periods of de despair mr er their plight by br vanishing Into the estrom of ot city life lite In search of ot the future fever change In fortune t have lave in store for tor them Any- Any In hg better beller than their present lot q 17 seemed to reason On the tile other hand Capt John II for tor the last fifteen years yean head 1 the thi missing persons bureau and trolly recognized as one of the world ends leading experts expert on on the miss Ill girl Mn problem is convinced that H depression has been instrumental i keeping just as many would-be would run- run in WIll at t home as it has 0 forced out outto Into to the tile uncharted byways Perhaps note era year old year old Jane tired of dish dish- nr ng and and with a amm avey mm vey bee buzzing In her bonnet III most often otten think twice before she Yes I. op ap the safety and protection of oft t I humble abode and goes out In Inot Kirch of ot the Job nowadays the cap cap- till explained With unnumbered millions out of work the country over and wage scales not what they used to be for those lucky enough to rind find work the prospect Is le not so alluring as aa it might be Nearly All Accounted For Captain Ayers estimates that fully tully 03 OS per cent of the girls reported missIng missIng miss miss- ing here year in and year ear out are either restored to their relatives or otherwise accounted for Vast numbers numbers num num- bers of ot them return thoroughly of f of their own accord Many who had run away In a fit lit of ot pique are found In the homes of ot friends or acquaintances after a night or two of absence The reasons why young girls leave home are many and varied varied almost almost as ns many and as varied as the subjects of ot the Individual cases according to Captain Ayers Some of ot the stock motives were summed by the expert as discontentment with home surroundings surroundings sur sur- failures at school lessons desire to live ones one's own life lite eagerness eagerness eager eager- ness to earn money clothes and luxuries luxuries luxuries lux lux- uries desire to go on the stage and and- men As for the stage struck girl she Is becoming virtually non so far tar faras faras taras as the missing lists disclose Captain Cap Cap- tain Ayers believes that the records would show that town out girls who come here to make male a name on the stage are not one fifteenth what the they were a few tew years ago Whether the stage has lost Its lure or the fact tact that so many of ot Its Us people are looking for work like folk In more prosaic callings the bureau chief cannot guess He De only knows that the would would- be stage beauties who claim the professional professional pro pro- tensional attention of his Investigators tors are becoming fewer and fewer every year Not one single case of a stage struck girl was entered on the bureaus bureau's records last lost year t |
