Show CRIME Dwarfs the To those who remember the roaring twenties and such gangs as the Capone boys Senator Kefauver Ke Ke- fauver chairman of ot the senate committee com com- committee investigating crime made a shocking announcement The senator said that organized crime in the country today would make kindergarten play out of ot the operations of ot the Capone boys and that the influence of ot crime on public public public pub pub- lic official is very sinister and very great lIe He went so far lar as to say that his committee had the facts to prove that well-organized well and tough groups of ot criminals criminals' are operating throughout the country with interlocking interlocking Interlocking inter locking ownership between all groups lIe He said the racketeers are corrupting corrupting corrupting cor cor- cor- cor public officials and law enforcement enforcement en en- officers and are putting their money into so called legitimate legitimate legit mate businesses In which they use racketeering methods Kefauver's reasons for tor the the continued continued con con- prosperity of ot crime agreed with those of ot most observers Local public indifference to stopping the rackets Kefauver's wide nation-wide study is aimed at strengthening federal laws lawsto to block the way for organized crime Such laws would include interstate In- In ban on the shipment of ot gambling gam gam- bUng bling devices more control over the he wire services strengthening of ot the he postal laws and amendments to the internal revenue laws which would require real boo bookkeeping Gamblers and racketeers now cheat the United States out of ot hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot millions of ot dollars a year in 10 taxes |