Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
DRIVE ON CRIME
ROUNDSU Up SCORES
Vacations Cancelled as All
Ranks of New York Police
Force Go on Duty.
Py the Associated Pros.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 25.--In drive
against crime, the pol e today started
roundup OF suspicious characters and
known gunner. Scores we're arrested.
Police vacations were cancelled. Every
available detective and policeman, in
GLIDING several hundred clerical workers,
went on C-ty, either In squad cars or
on foot In two boroughs alone there
were 80 arrests. Police cruising cars
were bein. equipped With radio.
Twenty thousand persons crowded
Madison Square Garden evening in
an anti-cri--e mass meeting. Hours be-
fore the meeting nsgan, fire oficials or.
dered the doors clCsed. First plans were
for q meeting in Central Park. ou-
SANDS went TO the park unaware Of o
change.
Attacks "PuIl" In Affairs.
Prohibition and crooke. politics were
blamed By speakers for gang outbreaks.
Bainbrs1 ee CODY, Secretiry of state
under President Wilson, asked: why
Is this condition CT affairs tolerated?"
The answer" he continued, lis that
1t is congenial to the whole spirit Of our
local government.
Ours Is q government Of pull. In
munity from prosecution, exemptions
from penalties, Illicit fayors, the myriad
shapes privilege takes, are the first, last
and most vital concerns Of the orgaai-
zation which dominates the city sd
ministrAtion.-
Says City Is Unsafe.
The simple facts remain that New
YORK has ceased to be . safe place to
Babies In the care Of their parents
are shot to death.
Children engaged in inrocent play
on our streets are murdered.
Peaceful citizens on their way TO
work or TO their homes are dropped in
their tracks By the bullets of racketeers
and gangsters."
Samuel Seabury, counsel to the Leeis-
lative Committee investigating the city
government, wrote: The rule of the
grnester and racketeer f1our.shes
through a corrupt alliance with those
who exercise political power, with plum
DER as its only objective"
Roosevelt Urges Honesty.
Gov. Roosevelt. wrote urging honest
Judges, prosecuting officers ana honest
police. He warned against being at
tracted By the glamour thrown around
the gunman and urged that citizens
90 their duty as jurors and witnesses.
Vice President Curtis wired that AZ,
implacable stand by citizens AGAINST
enemies OF society had his support.
A committee OF 20 was named To de-
nnAnd action from Mayor Walker 81, his
return to this country.
"Good-by. Mr. Racketeer," written for
the occasion by George NJ. Conan, was
sung
The mothers Of Gloria 1opez and
Michael Vengalli. children who died
in gangster shootings. attended the
meeting.
Coughiin Hits Dry Law.
Rev. Charles Coukhlin Of Detroit
widely known for his SUNDAY raein
addresses. attacked prohibition, saying:
II todays gangsters we're jailed the
causes tnat prouuced them would pro-
duce new batch tomorrow"
Police Commissioner Mulroonev said.
The Dootiegger gets his Opportunity
rom the law and his customers from
the resentment against It. Gunuaen
ana gangsters have declared war on the
Government. We viii give no ouar-ter. =
Maj. Gen. Smedley b. Butler az the
Marine Corps criticized politics as har-
boring crime by It's betrayal Of trust
Patrolnien Churchill and webb. sIain
by pay roll robbers In d i2-rifie chase
Friday, in which there were six "a
talfties, were buried yesterday. Their
widows were voted 5000 each hv the
city government.