Show i America threatened by sinister unholy alliance from FBI Enforcement by J. Edgar Hoover I TO ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT America today is threatened by a unholy alliance which saps the strength of our Nation and smirches our country's To the profession of law this dark force is known as a of strong-arm hoodlums and professional racketeers whose greed reaches into every community of our Their lust for power and profit costs American citizens an astounding billion a No longer arc their victims necessarily individuals of position who were the targets of the so-called of the and Professional hoodlums have turned to looting every Their prey is the small the legitimate and the unwary community which leaves its door open to supposedly ORGANIZED CRIME EXISTS by exploiting nesses throughout our society whether they be city county state statutes or Federal The infiltrates through every Its booty flowing Into underworld coffers whether It be nickels and dimes from a jukebox In a bar in the smallest town from a stranglehold on largo metropolitan centers obtained through the domination of a few dishonest labor Their depredations are an endless shame to the countless law-abiding labor leaders and businessmen across the Organized crime must be met head on now by organized law enforcement no city or Federal agency can stand If we let us learn a lesson from the barons of the underworld who have shown that cooperative crime is profitable cooperative law enforcement can be twice as America has the law enforcement tools with which to do the we need but to use them together and with more vigor than ever It is encouraging that this country's citizens and governing bodies are becoming more and more concerned over organized crime interested in providing methods of successfully fighting But in their zeal to achieve this have called for Federal domination over the investigation and prosecution of Nothing could be more harmful to the tradition of American law THE ANSWER TO NATIONWIDE crime is nationwide law with each agency state and Federal forming a cooperative front against professional At the same local prosecutors must back up this campaign with tho same unrelenting prosecution which U. S. Attorney General William P. Rogers has ordered In Federal President D. Eisenhower described the need for concerted action rather than the creation of a Federal commission or police force when he spoke on before the FBI National a training school for local Eisenhower 1935 when there seemed to be a wave of lawlessness in the when kidnapping seemed to be the favorite sport among the criminal there were those who as usual seeking the easy way said the the Federal Government will establish a police Had they succeeded in doing I believe it would have been a great step toward the loss of the kind of America that was founded by our Fathers and handed to Our President then endorsed the idea of cooperation between the the and the state as well as the individual citizens of our in order to bring about needed law enforcement Eisenhower as police officers in our cities and our our our our heads of are certainly on the first line of for the simple reason that all defensive power that is applied to protecting us from without has its its its in the people of our THERE CAN BE no more eloquent challenge to the law enforcement profession than this charge from the President that we perform our respective duties and that we do the job WEED TRUCK BIDS ASKED BY COUNTY Weed truck bids were considered at the county commissioners meeting It was decided that the county purchase cab and model one ton with dual rear size 5 oil bath air one quart oil directional front and rear and overload springs for Profitable crops are high-yielding |