Show DANGEROUS RADICAL HI ACTIVITIES AMIS FACED PALMER SAYS Record of Cases Is Kept Attorney General Tells Congress WASHINGTON Dec The 25 2 25 The The de department department department de- de of ot justice Is confronted with Increasingly dangerous radical activities activities ties Attorney General Palmer said sald in his annual report submitted to congress con con- gress Mr Palmer did not go into details I as to red activities In general but said that of ot the total of ot Index record cards records and finger print records now In in the department some represented represented represented data concerning reds and their work ONLY HALF THROUGH Mr r Palmer said that while other government agencies during the past year were rounding out their labors Incident in incident incident In- In to the T vat Alt r his department found itself only hart half way through It its scores of ot investigations and litigated ques ques- Countless hundreds of claims growing out of ot the war hav have been made against the government he said and must be fought through the courts I The department policy polley of 01 resuming prosecution of ot trusts has restored to activity other investigations and crime proving machinery the attorney general general general gen gen- eral added I In addition to these Mr Palmer said the department will be burdened for tor months to come with its prosecution I of violators of or the sedition and selective select select- selective select select-I ive service acts Under the latter the number of ot cases runs high he said I Investigations and trial arguments I during the year have shown loopholes s I in many statutes Mr Palmer said He i called attention to the fact that under existing laws it is not a crime to send letters through the malls unless te la furtherance of a scheme to defraud or as a means mea of ot extortion Mr Palmer said also there was waa great need for a statute providing punishment punishment punishment punish punish- ment for an individual attempting to defraud the United States Recommendation also was made that criminal procedure be changed to make more simple the removal of ot Indicted persons to the districts where the Indictments in indictments indictments in- in w Wee wre returned He described the present system stem as grievously de defective defective defective de- de and as making removal proceedings proceedings proceedings pro pro- infinitely more cumbersome than extradition The attorney general recommended creation of ot a pardon and parole board of ot three fully empowered to handle all pardon and parole cases thus relieving the office of ot duties which are becoming In increasingly heavy and onerous Jurisdiction of or penal Institutions also should be vested in this board he said |