Show I iT i Truman ruman Asks uI IU Wide S1-Wide i Crime ime Fight I V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Feb 15 UP President T Truman r l' urn m a an n Wednesday urged a great moral crusade crusade crusader crime in this his country And he ne r pledged his wholehearted support support support sup sup- port to an official drive to stamp out gambling and vice vice We Ve have to work worle together to combat organized crime wherever I it appears the president told a conference of federal state and local law enforcement officials summoned here b by Atty Gen McGrath Mc Mc- Grath Mr Truman said that World War Var II had been followed by a resurgence of underworld forces living Jiving on vice and greed He called on the officials to cooperate at all levels to combat this And he said the country must have the proper fundamental moral background to meet the issue O Other her Developments De Besides the word from Mr Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man in the great hall of the justice justice jus justice jus- jus tice department there were these thes developments at the conference 1 1 McGrath pledged every possible possible pos pos- sible assistance from the justice department in community efforts to smash organized crime and especially gambling 2 2 Atty Gen Alan H H. Bible of Nevada called for a federal law I to assist the states in every way to enforce their own statutes He said such a law should prohibit us use of any interstate facility ty for gambling gambling gambling gam gam- bling and related elated i purposes except where local laws and ordinance e permit their use Higher Moral I ora I Values alnes Mr sir rr Truman indicated he considers considers considers con con- siders it of equal importance that the nation as a whole be educated to higher moral values We Ve must encourage education religious instruction and home training in the family and in the thc guidance of our oui children he said in his speech to the group at the justice department He added The fundamental basis of law was given iven to Moses on the Mount The fundamental basis of our bill biJJ billot ot of rights is found in Exodus St. St Matthew Isaiah and St Paul Without moral backing we ve will wind up with a totalitarian form of government go Blast lat Gambling Atty Gen J. J Howard McGrath earlier had thrown the weight of the federal government behind community drives on organized crime especially gambling F FIn In a speech to the group McGrath McGrath McGrath Mc Mc- Grath said that commercialized gambling in the form of bookmaking bookmaking bookmaking book- book making slot machines and the numbers racket are yearly drawing drawing drawing draw draw- ing off billions of dollars from legitimate business To end this he said the justice department stands ready to give I every possible assistance McGrath called caned the conference to work worle out a program for federal I state and local cooperation in the thc See Sec Page 2 Column 1 4 I i ry r l 1 r or a r a C 11 o f fr r f. f r. r d ti i y r rr rry y J E i Associated Press WI This Sk Sky y G. G Giant lant Carri Carried ed a C Cargo argo of Death Eight airmen including a Salt Lal Lake c pilot Maj CI Clyde de Butts utts are presumed dead in flaming wreckage of this 29 B at Great Falls I Mont 1 Seven Sc others escaped as part of air rescue force hunting hunting- lost t B 36 northwest of Seattle crashed and burned I Truman Asks i Cr rime me War Wr Continued from Pa Page Pago o One drive All sections o othe ol of f the nation were represented Mr Truman told the gathering that the spadework for arousing g public sentiment against crime an and anc d vice Ice must mul start in your local communities it it is your task t tc to o mobilize public opinion n. n I I 1 hope you develop a a. sound d plan to move against organized organize d crime rune I pledge you my wholehearted wholehearted wholehearted whole whole- hearted support the president asserted Mr Truman spoke in the justice justic e departments department's great hall flanked d by McGrath on one hand and F FBI B I Director J J. J Edgar Hoover on the theother thed other Hoover recently referred d to gambling gambling- operations as the nest egg of the criminal underworld underworld underworld under under- world which operates throughout this country The president said the increase in crimes of violence after the war followed the pattern of most I war periods He commented This is one reason for working g with other nations for peace After World orld War Var I I. I we had a terrible time tune with criminals and met the met the situation We Vc will do it again agam We Ve have ha to work together to combat organized org crime it appears The president said the mos most t important business of the nation is the raising and training of chil chil- dren He said those properly trained rarely turn out wrong In addition to good home traIning training training train traIn- ing ing- he said every child regardless regardless regardless regard regard- less of race creed or 01 color should have equal opportunity for employment employment employment em em- in this nation Our children are arc the hope bope o of f our future and the future of the world Let us teach them idealism honor ethics the moral law The president however cautioned cautioned cautioned cau cau- the law enforcement officers officers cers against any actions that tha t would violate the bill of rights right which guarantee the rights of the individual He noted that all are arc entitled to due process of law and that includes fair treatment b by bythe bythe the police |