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Show MOTORISTS MUST OBEY BOYPATROL Offenders Will Be Arrested and Prosecuted by Chi- cago Police. Motorists who Ignore the orders of members of th school boys' patrol In Chicago will be arrested on warrants and prosecuted In court, Commissioner of Police William F Itussell says : The commissioner declured thnt the patrol was by far the most effective agency yet devised for protecting school children and pledged the complete com-plete co-operation of the police department depart-ment to It after a conference with representatives rep-resentatives of the accident prevention department of the Chicago Motor club. Tbe club has fostered the patrol and supplied It wltb white 8am Browne belt and badges since 1920. Every school In Chicago, both public and parochial, has a patrol The members stand at Intersections near schools and assist pupils safely across the streets. Be Given On Warning. "I have assigned a patrolman In each of the 40 police districts to Inspect In-spect at least two patrols each day," asserted Commissioner Itussell. "Not only will they see to It that the patrol pa-trol members are working In accordance accord-ance with regulations drawn by the Chicago Motor club, but they will also ask tbe members .of the patrols for the license numbers of all automobiles whlcb failed to stop In accordance . . .. . . i.iiHini. .. . 1 . .. ..b u .. u . 1 n of these vehicles will be given one warning by the police. A record will be kept, and upon a second offense a warrant will be sworn out, charging the car owner with reckless driving, and he will be arrested and prosecuted. prose-cuted. 4 "Few persons realize the wonderfu'. efficiency of the school-boy patrolmen. There are more than 10,000 of them throughout the city. They have made It possible for hundreds of policemen who formerly guarded crossing near schools to be relieved of this work and go out after real criminals. There Is no question but that these boys have saved a large number of their classmates from Injury and death. Motorists wbo disobey their signals two or more times will be prosecuted by the police department to the limit'' To Enforce Regulations. Dr. Charles J. Luuak, assistant superintendent su-perintendent of schools, recently Is- sued orders to all principals and school-boy patrolmen to enforce the patrol regulations devised by the motor mo-tor club. E. C Delaporte, director of physical education, was recently appointed ap-pointed by the board of education as supervisor of patrols, fiev. D. F. Cunningham, superintendent of the parochial schools of Chicago, similarly endorsed the patrol movement. The 40 policemen assigned by Commissioner Com-missioner Itussell to Inspect a minimum mini-mum of 80 patrols each day will be under the supervision of Tollee Lieutenant Lieu-tenant James J. Scully, head of the unemployed boys' bureau of the police department The commissioner action ac-tion marks the first time that the Chicago Chi-cago police have supported the patrols In every possible manner. |