2 More Held in Beating of Chinese-American, Friends : Arrests: Teen-agers, both suspected skinheads, are taken into custody at their homes without incident.

Police said Thursday that they have arrested two more suspected skinheads, both teen-agers, in the beating earlier this month of a Chinese-American youth and two white friends in a local park.

A 17-year-old was arrested without resistance around 9 a.m. Thursday in his Anaheim home, while a 15-year-old was taken into custody at home in Whittier on Wednesday night, said Capt. Lee DeVore, head of investigations for the Fullerton police.

Two teen-agers had been arrested earlier in the week after the July 7 attack at Gilman Park. Police did not identify the suspects because of their age but said they were believed to be members of a white-supremacist, skinhead gang known as the Confederate Federation of America.

The four youths are in custody at the county’s Juvenile Hall and have all been charged on felony counts of civil rights violations and aggravated assault.

Race relations professionals are worried that attacks by skinhead gangs and other groups may be on the rise because of the recent legal troubles involving white supremacist leader Tom Metzger, who faces trial in Los Angeles in a cross-burning case.

“The skinheads are a little antsy right now,” said Bunny Hatcher, a senior consultant with the Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, who has studied hate crimes.

“Metzger’s followers are a little upset right now, and they’re on the warpath,” she said.

In addition to the Los Angeles trial, Hatcher noted that Metzger, who heads the White Aryan Resistance, has been hit with a $12.5-million civil judgment in Portland, Ore., after the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant by skinheads.

Hatcher said she has noted increased “hostility” on the skinheads’ “hate lines” since the onset of Metzger’s legal problems, with “nastier” messages urging people to attend his court hearings.

The Fullerton arrests have also come during a spate of racially tinged crimes in Orange County that have worried local officials.

Since the end of June, the word Jew has been sprayed in 3-foot-high letters on the lawn of a Jewish family’s home in Rancho Santa Margarita; an auto parts store manager in Tustin has been arrested for allegedly running a group of children off the road, then screaming racial slurs at a 12-year-old black boy and striking him, and a black man has reported being harassed with racial slurs and then knocked to the ground while awaiting a ride at John Wayne Airport.

In the Fullerton case, police said that at least 15 skinheads, most with buzzed haircuts and the traditional leather jackets and boots, surrounded a Chinese-American teen-ager and two white friends, grilled them on their racial views, then jumped them.

The two white youths escaped with minor bruises, police said, but the Chinese-American teen-ager was knocked unconscious. A cut on his ear was later stitched in a local emergency room.

None of the victims of the assault could be reached for comment on the latest arrests.

Police said that the two who were arrested were part of a gang of skinheads who had been in Placentia a few hours before the Fullerton attack, harassing a black family, and that police there secured names and photographs from the group. Using these, Fullerton police made the arrests.

“We had all the information as a result of the work the Placentia Police Department did,” said Fullerton’s DeVore.

DeVore said investigators also met Thursday to “clarify” the roles of the remaining 11 youths, two of them females.

While some law enforcement officials have voiced fears of rising activity by skinheads, DeVore said that “as far as we know, it’s just this one group, and they’ve apparently come from several different areas.”