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Show APPEALS AGAINST WAVE OF MURDER WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. An ap-peal ap-peal for prompt and rigid law enforcement en-forcement to cheek the '"rising wave of crime' was made by Justice Marcus Mar-cus P. Kavaiuch. of the Cook county superior court. Chh ago at the opening general session of the National Conference Confer-ence of Catholic Charities. Judge Kavanagh estimated that there were between 7 riim and 8,000 cases of mur-der mur-der and manslaughter In the United Slates In 191. adding that 'In San Fr:incWeo a'one ihere were as many unlawfully slain as in the whole of ' Canada. Nearly 2 000 delegates are In at-tendance at-tendance at th" convention, which will 'be in session through next Wednesday, 'to discuss national social problems. Secretary of Iibor Iavls declared !the problem of America todaj la iio-problem iio-problem of her children .Won- than :2jO,ooo babies die unnecessarily each year, he said, while "half a million I grew up almost totally neglected so- (.tiled defectives .mil delinquents ' thirty million American children face in our schools a false learning that will not fit more than one In ten for the placo they must oceup in life." T he secretary urged state laws for regulation of child labor |