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VOL. XLV1I. NO 7137. SIXTEEN PAGES JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936. SECOND SECTION—PAGES I TO 8
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FIVE INDICTED IN WENDEL KIDNAPING
CHIEF G-MAN
SAYS POLITICS
HAMSTRING LAW
J. Edgar Hoover Urges War
* Against Crime, Flays
Racketeer Lawyers
WASHINGTON, April 24.—J. Ed
gar Hoover, Chief of the Federal 1
Bureau of Investigation, told the
Daughters of the American Revo- j
lution in session here that 150,000 |
murderers are at large in the United
States.
Chief Hoover urged the D. A. R.
to wage war on crime, and de
clared :
"Throughout our country law en
forcement has been hampered.1
hamstrung and strangled by the1
blood-caked hands of crime affil-1
iated with politics in every large !
American city. ,
“There is attorney after attorney j
who makes his living by counseling ;
men he knows to be guilty. Often ,
t he plans with them.”
Professor Rates
‘G-Men'Superior
to Scotland Yard
COLUMBUS. O., April 24.—Harvey
Walker. Ohio State University
criminologist, tips his hat to Uncle
Sam's department of justice agents
and says he would rate them better
than even with England's famed
Scotland Yard operatives.
Walker, an authority on English
police methods, says a definite com
parison could not be made because
of "the vast difference in the crimi
nal problems here and abroad.
"But Scotland Yard never faced a
job like that the Federal agents had
» in cleaning out the Dillinger and
similar gangs," Walker says.
