Show POLICE ENDEAVOR TO COMBAT CRIME CRIM ALBANY N Y Feb Fob 5 By S The Associated Preps Among Press the tho agencies with which police do- do departments In various cities of the United States are arc endeavoring to t combat crime are social service activities surveillance of dance halls hails and pool rooms Instruction ot of juveniles through Boy Scout and an kindred organizations together with a check up on strangers strang en- en entering entering entering a city These facts were deduced from replies to a question question- sent out by the New York state bureau of municipal infer infer- matlon mation to police departments ot of all cities with a population In ex cx- cx excess celS cc of o Of the m received 15 Indicate that no spa spa- special cial efforts are aro being made to pro pro- vent crime other than routine de- de departmental work Sixty ono mild did not answer the question Close supervision of youthful delinquents Is exercised at Berke- Berke Ie Icy Cal with efforts to mold pre pre- preadolescents adolescents Into good citizens a report stated |