Show I FOE PF OF GANGS t I Ai 1 1 11 X I- I t i v s f 1 I. I J 1 l' l v ip l' l p gt J 4 i t mI I- I Iw w x W zM v. v 1 q V f r r v W j T E Edgar Hoover POLITICS SEEN AS HANDICAP IN GANG WAR 1 J. Edgar Hoover Dec Declares ares All Outside Pressure Must Be Removed By nt Associated 1 d Pre Press Frew WASHINGTON D Dec 11 II Elimina Elimina tion of ot political cal pressure was described described de de- de scribed today by J. J Edgar Hoover head of ol the d department of or justices justice's bureau of 01 investigation as as' as asa a necessity if it gangs gangs' are to be permanently ex ex- terminated Addressing the attorney y generals general's crime C conf conference conference- th the man who directed directed di di- the thc federal warfare against Dillinger Pretty Pretty- PrettyBoy Boy Baby Face Nelson and others termed gangsters gang gang- vermin rm o of th the worst type The conference heard Hoover after President ent Roo last st night called for a double at attack ck on law law- Roosevelt's SJ Speech e ch on an Par Tase 12 U in what h hat t w was s described as the greatest Campaign of its kind in the country's history Until political al pressure is' is doomed Hoover said and until there arrives a continual state of or cooperation between between be be- tween all all' arms of ot law enforcement we must regard the eradication of ol gangs like hat of oC Floyd Bailey and others as transitory phases of a cond condition tion which can change over overnight night He said they began as petty thieVes Continued on Page Two Iwo POLITICS HOLDS U OP lip CRIME WAR WAn Continued from Page Pace One bootleggers hangers on of or crime and none was a superman They killed from ambush he added They murdered with machine machine machine ma ma- chine guns They were protected by steel vests Any person living a life of ot hidden debaucheries and robbing and killing hilling to make friends along his rotten path by strewing favors favor is not a hero Not Pessimistic Emphasizing that he was not pessimistic pessimistic pessi pessi- Hoover said I am here to report progress John ohn Dillinger the flag lag bearer of lawlessness is dead killed by federal bullets Pretty Boy Floyd who for years laughed at the law lies in his grave dead of gunshot wounds inflicted in open battle by our special agents The career of Baby aby Face Nelson is over he died of 17 bullet wounds while two of the finest men I ever knew gave their own clean lives that they might serve serve society b by b- bending ending his filthy one Wilbur Underhill no long iong longer r carries carrica carries car car- ries rica the name of the terror He too as as aswell well as such men as as' Homer Van Meter Tommy Carroll and others That is progress He lie mentioned the increase of or facilities ties of the division of investigation saying that eight months ago agents had no arms and were given n no DO rifle training but that today every man is isa isa isa a trained marksman After calling the roll roU of ot gangsters who died under federal fir fire firc he paid tribute to to government operatives who gave their lives in the battles He called caned by name Ra Raymond mond Caffrey killed in Kansas Kansas' City W W. Carter Baum aum Samuel P. P Cowley t nd nd Herman Herman Her Her- man E. E H HOllis victims of Face Nelsons Nelson's rattling machine They were soldiers lighting sIdeby side sideby sideby by side with other brave and honorable honorable honorable honor honor- able soldiers of the division in a war against the enemy of the thc people he lie said Pensions Sought For Agents Agents' Widows WASHINGTON Dec 11 Citing ll-Citing Citing the case of Samuel P P. CowIe Cowley Cowley- former Utahn slain by George Georgc Baby Face Nelson Representative Mary T. T No Noton Norton Nor Nor- ton D Dj N N. J J. J a delegate to the n national national na- na crime conference here toda today said she would introduce a bill pr providing providing pro pro- viding full salary compensation fo for widows of slain gangster-slain federal federa officers Mrs Norton called the slaying o of Mr Cowley and his companion agent agent agen of the department of justice Herman Herma HermanI I E. E Hollis the most cold blooded murders ever committed and said she wanted the widows of these men me especially cared for |