Show Nations War on Crime Hits Efficient Successful Stride S v d g key W. W y v t sz r i a t T F t Si ti 1 6 i i Heading America drive I te N r the tho nation aU- e of or t crime en- to Is the lie Federal ladies Bureau Burean of 0 Investigation Upper Vp right plate photo Lows J. J Ed Edgar Hoover giblet chief r et th lie Ilse r. r B. B L L. designating on a s map the center unter r of r activities of r the kidnap pa rang gang sow BOW rat out Upper left leIL a member of or the tho P P. P B. B L laboratory tuff fait show lases a death mull mash of t John leu Oil linger Bel Below la II an as air view new of ot proof escape Attains Alcatraz pr prima la In Baa Francisco Bay Bao A AMERICAS AMERICA'S A S drive to 10 purge puree Itself It It- tell self of crime It is showing r results re- re Attacks Attack on the problem on many fronts fronti are rt reflected today toda In fewer homicides homicide extermination termination tion of kidnap gangs and wholesale whole- whole tale sale roundup of ot a Ion long list lilt of Public Enemies The country In the last latt four years year hat has awakened awakened awak awak- ened ned to the enormity of Itt Its crime problem with It Its Ita annual toll of It ha has awakened wakened and taken action Between 1033 and 1935 1035 report reports re re- ports port Dr Hugh H. H Clegg assistant assist assist- ant nt director of the th Federal Bureau Bureau Bu Bu- reau mu of of Investigation murder and Ind homicide declined 18 UI per percent percent cent burglary and larceny 28 26 per cent auto uto thefts theft per percent cent Encouraging also it Is hit his an announcement that whereat whereas In 1930 1030 the tha biggest age ae group of ot all aU persons arrested mated and fingerprinted fingerprinted finger linger printed was waa 19 Ill 10 now sow the top age it is 21 Three to five live year yean ago alO the time big gangsters a n I t era strutted across America with brazen de de- de fiance lIance Today most of them are in Alcatraz Uncle Sams Sam's newest prison or burled and forgotten D DR R. r CLEGG a attributes 1 t this remarks remarkable re- re marks a A le progress against I crime erlmo to 0 many factors repeal factors repeal of prohibition more mort of efficient pollee police departments department greater e ter cooperation cooperation opera co tion between titles and nd states better Urn time But he be points point out ow heading the th list lilt are th the Omen G O men mm the fellow fellows who dealt th the tho lint ant smashing blows to crime Today thanks thank to the G men several leveral of whom lost their lives In Une line of ot duty the names name of ot Baby Face Nelson Neison Karpis and aDd secret scores of other mur mur- murdering dering racketeers racketeer are blotted out Today firmly determined t to clear der up the crime problem the country presents a united front Having checked off a long list of notorious rats rata a as aa J. J Edgar Edlar Hoover head of the F. F B. B 1 l. calls calil them the nation now It Is turning to the fundamental issue mme Issue crime prevention Conferences Conference In states state n and l lamon amon among states new laws lawI reorganized reorganized reorganized police systems police training t s c e h boo o o 01 11 II s delinquent youth and public welfare work fit Into O a broad co program program program pro pro- gram to 0 whip crime R REPEATEDLY REPEATEDLY c Hoover v has 11 pointed out that h ultimate I control of the crime problem rests on the operation co of so society society so- so clety as a whole Today that teems seems to be the watchword It Is la best evidenced by the Important Important im important Im- Im fact that youth emulates the officer today and not thi tho lawbreakers Gangster glamour It I. pretty well faded Working with and behind thil mighty drive of course Is II thi ti long arm of science The laboratory lab tab oratory It Ia the laws law's right hand assistant now as al never before befort Radio simultaneously plays play t s vital part Headquarters of ot the F PO B B. I I. I Ir to Washington houses house one of the most mOlt amazing and aDd efficient crime laboratories In the world It title 1 I also millions of fingerprints fingerprint the criminals criminal's and those voluntarily offered CO SO the battle progresses Three years ago the tie nation watched It its Ita tires Ore flare In an Ohio cornfield cornfield corn com field from a Wisconsin resort resort- hideout In Chicago's North Side wherever the law caught up with the lawless Toda Today It watches the same battle batile but It has swept on to the dark alleys where Juvenile delinquency de de- b breeds r e e d s I Into the schools Into the homes Into the hating crime-hating minds of countless millions America Is getting at the roots now Its It's a right fight to the finish 0 There wa was wal alwa always a a box of 01 dominoes dominoes dom dom- inoes Inoel in somebody somebody's stocking sine since m my father liked t to pia play We usually usually ally sp spent nt Christmas morning In a family game and Ind 1 have Just Jull this moment suspected ed It wasn't the children who started It rye Ive another another another an an- other friend 00 whose father insists on makin making popcorn balls ban Christmas morning and her mother must always al ways fry try sausage So Merry Christmas each In your own way 1 w erre N Newspaper par Union |