Evening star., 1933-07-26
FOREIGN POLICE
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Group Studying War on Crime
Visits Justice Department
and White House.

How the American Government IS
waging intensive warfare on kidnapers
and other gangsters Of type little
known in Europe was described today
to group Of foreign police officials
who visited the Department Of Justice
and the White House.
The delegation Of criminologists,
representing Scotland Yard and other
famed European law enforcement
agencies, manifested keen interest in
the scientific strategy employed by the
United States Bureau of Investigation
In tracking down violators Of the Lind
bergh" kidnapping law and other Fed
eral statutes.
Prior to a brief visit to the White
House, where the group was received by
President Roosevelt, the police chiefs
inspected the new crime laboratory and
expanded Identification division of the
justice bureau. where European theories
and processes Of crime detection have
been improved upon and new crimi-
nolog1cal devices are being perfected.
Fingerprints Are Studied.
As guests Of J. Edgar Hoover, director
OF the United States Bureau Of Inves-
tigation, the visitors spent some time
In the f1ngerprint division, where the
largest collection Of criminal finger
prints in the world is maintained Most
OF the police bureaus represented by
the delegates cooperate with Hoover's
bureau in an international exchange of
criminal f1ngerprints. L. c. Schilder,
head of the f1ngerprint division, ex-
planned operations of the agency.
The new Federal crime laboratory,
first to be established by the Govern
ment in the interest of criminoIogical
research, attracted special attention be-
cause OF the advanced development Of
crime laboratories abroad. Intricate
scientific paraphernalia for crime anal
yses were pointed out by Charles Appel,
in charge Of the laboratory.
Attorney General Cummings and then
taken on a sightseeing tour of the city.
This afternoon they were guests Of Di-
rector Hoover at luncheon in the May
flower Hotel
Augmenting the foreigners was a
group of police officials from q number
of Eastern cities. All are en- route to
Chicago, where the International Po-
lice Conference will be held this week
end. Maj Ernest w. Brown, chief of
police here, and Director Hoover will
attend the Chicago conference.
Arrangements for Tour.
Arrangements for the tour here were
In charge Of Barron Collier, advertis-
ing magnate and special deputy po-
lice commissioner Of New York city.
In the delegation were: DR.. Antonia
Pizzuto, commissioner Of police. Rome,
Italy; Florent E. Louwage, commission
er, Brussels. Belgium; M. Mondanel,
assistant controller general, Paris,
France; Commissioner K. H. Brock
hoff, Amsterdam, Holland; DR.. Eugene
Bianu, director general of police, Buch-
Arrest, Rumania; Chief Constable Rod
erick Ross, Edinburgh, Scotland; Chief
Constable A. K. Mayall, Oldham. Eng
land; DR.. Leon Nagler. inspector gen.
eral Of State police. Warsaw. Poland;
DR.. M. Baerensprung, Berlin, Germany;
M. Mensen, police president, Copen-
hagen, Denmark; R. Krause, police chief,
Horsens, Denmark; James B. Bolan,
New York commissioner of police; John
J. O'Connell deputy chief inspector of
police, New York; Chief Of Police
Michael Crowley, Boston, Mass; Fer
nand Dufresne, police director. Mon
treal, Canada; Emile Trudel, police
chief, Quebec. Canada; j. H. Caholane,
port authority, New York City; R. B.
Jordan, chief 6f police, Richmond, Va,
and James A. McRail, chief Of police,
Newark, N. j.