Evening star., 1933-07-30
Rise Earned by Develop.
ment of Investigation
Bureau.
WEB SPREAD PLAN
New Director to Collabo-
rate With Special AS.
sistant keenan,.
BY REX COLLIER,

~ Hoover as directors OF the
wv soon to be created United
States Division Of Investiga-
ton, Attorney General Cum
mings yesterday completed organization
of his supreme command" for the
Governments Nation wide war on kid
napers and other racketeers.
Hoover, 38-year-old Washngtonian .
whose development Of the Bureau OF
Investigation into a world-famous de-
tective agency won him promotion to
the important new anti-crime post. will
collaborate with Joseph B. Keenan,,
special assistant to the Attorney Gen.
eral, In a relentless drive on gang ter
rorism.
Plans for the crusade. the scope of
which will exceed anything ever before
attempted by Federal authorities. have
In view the spreading Of q co-ordinated
web Of Federal, State and local detec-
tive forces from which few criminals
may hope to escape.
This cooperative network OF ma
tional, State and municipal crime In
vestigators. requiring no legislation for
It's establishment, Is expected to be or
ganized IN lieu Of an american Scot
land Yard" type Of national police
force advocated in some administra-
ton quarters. -.
Dry Bureau to Go.
The new Investigative Division Of the
Department Of Justice will be set up by
presidential order of June 10, providing
for abolishment on August 10 Of the
Prohibition Bureau and transfer Of its
investigative functions to the new di-
vision. Cummings announced the ap-
pointment of John S. Hurley, assistant
prohibition director, as assistant direc-
tor of the Division of Investigation in
charge Of dry activities.
Hoover already has provided the
basis for q Federal-interstate pooling
Of detective resources In his national
division of Identification, the astoVnd-
ing growth of which in the past sew
eral years has been made possible
through the cooperation Of 5000 law
enforcement agencies in the United
States and abroad. The division pos
inal fingerprints In the world-a pow
erfu1 aid to crime detection and po-
tent deterrent to hardened criminals
whose prints are among the $500 900
on file
Although young In years. the keen
eyed director of the Justice Depart
ment,s new investigative arm is a
pioneer in the modern school of scien-
tific crime detection and q recognized
authority on criminal Identification.
His force Of special agents-scattered
over the country in % strategic field
ofdces-are lawyers or accountants who
have been graduated also from Hoo
ver's novel training school here for in
vestigators-popularly called his Crime
Detection University"
Methods Once Ridiculed.
Their methods, when first instituted
by Hoover as he took over the bureau
In 1924, were ridicluled by some old
timers in police work, but HoOver's
answer to critics is the bureaus record
last year of 1851 per cent of convic-
tions in all cases In which his agents
secured Federal indictments. That Is
a record said to be unequaled In the
realm Of law enforcement-and was an
other reason for the decision OF Attor-
yer and elevate him to head OF the
crime division.
Since receiving authority under the
so-called "Lindbergh law" to inyest-
gate kiduspings and extortion cases, the
bureaus agents have had remarkable
success in bringing kidnapers and extor-
tionists to justice. Attorney General
Cummings announced Thursday that
only two kidnapings remain unsolved-.
the Urschel and O'Connell cases-and
in the latter the family has refused to
cooperate with authorities. Since
enactment of the Federal KIDNAPPING
statute after the Lindbergh tragedy
Hoover's men have investigated II kid
naping and extortion cases, in IS OF
which the perpetrators have been
caught. Convictions have been OBJ
tanned in all IL of the cases SO lar
tried and three cases are awaiting trial:
Hoover is q native of the District OF
Columbia and a product OF the local
public schools and George washington
University. from which he received de-
grees of LII. B. and IL. M. He was ad-
mitted to District and United States
Supreme Court bars and began Ine
practice Of law. He entered the De-
partment Of Justice in 1917 under AZ
torney General Gregory and IN 1917
was appointed by Attorney General A.
Mitchell Palmer as special assistant
to the Attorney General in charge OF
criminal syndicalism prosecutions: After
the resignation of the late William j.
Burns as director Of the Bureau OF In
vestipation, Hoover was assigned as act
ing director, in which capacity ne ef-
fected a drastic reorganization OF the
agency. In 1924 Attorney General
Harlan Fiske Stone appointed him per-
manent director Of the bureau.
Extent Of Activity.
Since taking over the bureau Hoover
established and developed the division
of Identification, the national crime
laboratory, the. crime statistics col
lection service, q national clearing
house for fusitives-wanted Information
and an international dngerprint ex-
He is a major in the Military Intel
lieence Reserve Of the Army, NE
member of the international Associ-
alton OF Chiefs Of Police, honorary
member of the International 'Associ-
alton for Identification and . member
Of other police and anti-crime organi-
cations.
The inyestigative shake-up announced
Yesterday made no mention OF MAI.
A. v. Dalrymp,e, director OF prohi-
bition, whose bureau will be cut rom
under him by the executive ofoer.
Dalrymple at one time was said to be
a candidate for the Job given Hoover,
but lately 1t has been reported he would
20 over to the Internal Revenue Bureau
with that part of his former bureau
which will be transferred to the Treas
ury. Dalrymple could not be reached
fer a statement last night as he was
on a fishing expedition in Chesapeake
Bay. Justice oficiels refused to COM
ment.
When the Reorganization becomes
effective II days hence, all personnel
in the Internal Revenue and Investi-
cation Bureaus automatically will be
removed from the rolls and presumably
most Of the employees will be reap
pointed Immediately in a wholesale
transaction. As many Of the abolished
Prohibition Bureau employees as are
needed for the new dry unit will be
reappointed, but many will be left with