Show I TROUBLE FOR TOUGHS Young Hoodlums Try to Break Up Meeting TWELVE ARE ARRESTED H I Released Because No Complaints Com-plaints Are Filed Authorities Determined That Boys Who Make Night Hideous Shall 1 Obey the Law or Suffer While Lonnie Dennis the negro boy I preached was conducting services In the old Armory building last night a persistent effort wns made on the part of n i KK of hoodlums to break up the meeting by disturbing It with noise and other methods An old handpower stamp standing outside the building was utilized the boys turning the cranks and causing the stamps to come doyn on the face plates with a great e tlOlsl Olllcer Gulbranson was notified of the disturbance and lay In wait for the crowd finally catching about twelve of I them whose ages ranged from 10 to 18 I years lie took them before the colored doorkeeper who declined to appear against them and with a warning to get off the streets in ten minutes the officer released them It Is known to the police that there Is a gang of boys living In that neighborhood neigh-borhood who are organized to commit all kinds oC depredations Thej apparently defy the truancy and curfew law for they can be seen at all hours of the night either engaged In making trouble or playing cards under the electric lights During the last two boxing 1 contests held In the armory this gang has been much In evidence cal Ing the roof and breaking both skylights sky-lights and windows and causing much trouble and some property loss Chief Sheets has recently issued or den > lo the police force requiring them to exercise special I vigilance in rounding r up this and several similar gangs who arc known by different names In dlf r rent wards Rusty Dozen seeming to be the most popular Members of these bands are frequently In the City court charged with crimes ranging from petty pet-ty thieving to burglar They are rarely rare-ly I punished because their parents are generally on hand to beg them oft and also because there Is no place where they can be confined without placing hem among hardened and older crimInals I crim-Inals where they would learn no tiling goodWith With the enactment of the new juvenile ju-venile offender law and the completion of the new city fail where room has been provided for youthful prisoners the authorities hope to he able to suppress sup-press these organlxatlons in a most thorough manner |