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Show NATION OFFERS SI 0,000 REWARD WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 U.P) President Roosevelt, describing the brutal kidnap-murder of 10-i 10-i year-old Charles Mattson as ! "ghastly" today ordered the federal fed-eral government's full forces flung into a drive to capture the perpetrators per-petrators of the crime. Offer of a $10,000 reward for apprehension was made by attorney at-torney General Homer S. Cum; mings after a personal conference with the president. In an official White House statement state-ment Mr. Roosevelt said: "The murder of the little Mattson Matt-son boy has shocked the nation. Every means at our command must be enlisted to capture and punish the perpetrator of this ghastly crime. "I bespeak for the agents of the department of justice the continued contin-ued and whole-hearted cooperation of the local police and all other law-enforcement agents in this necessary work. "A crime of this kind is renewed evidence of the need of sustained effort in dealing with the criminal menace." |