Evening star., 1934-12-10
j. s. TO PUSH WAR
IN UNITED EFFORT
To PREVENT CRIME
Roosevelt and Cummings to
Address Conference
Tonight.
STATE AND MUNICIPAL
COOPERATION SOUGHT
"Put Gangsters Behind Bars and
Keep Them There" Theme
of Sessions.

President Roosevelt and Attorney
General Cummings tonight will launch
a determined effort by the Fedora
Government tc secure cooperation OF
State and municipal authorities anc
the citizenry in continuing cam
paign to stamp out crime.
Put the gangster and all his asso-
ciates behind the bars-and keep them
there"-this was the theme of the
ATTORNEY Generals National Confer
ence on Crime, which will open to-
night in Constitution Hall with ad,
dresses by the President, Cummings
and former Secretary of State Henry
L. Stimson.
500 Delegates Arriving.
More than 500 delegates from al
parts of the Nation were assembling
here today for the conclave, whlcf
will continue through Wednesday
Governors Of several States, mayors
of a number of large cities, judges
lawyers, police and prosecution au'
thorities and representatives of hun
dreds of public and private agencies
interested in better law enforcement
will take part in the deliberations.
During the regular business sessions
which begin tomorrow morning IN
Memorial Continental Hall, the con-
ferees will discuss such major phases
of the crime problem as detection ano
apprehension of outlaws, more ef-
fective prosecution, improved penal
methods and the recurring evils oi
lax pardon, parole and probation
policies.
A new kind of civil war" thai
must be "courageously dealt with
was the way Right Rev. James E
Freeman, Bishop of Washington, de-
scribed the crime situation in state
ment read yesterday by Canon Ansor
Phelps Stokes at a special service II
the Washington Cathedral. The serv'
ice, arranged as an inspirational ap'
proach to the conference, was at.
tended by Attorney General Cum
Inings, members of his staff and 6
number Of conference delegates.
Church Support Pledged.
A pledge of support from the church
In the drive to end laWlessness of al
kinds was given from the pulpit by
several speakers. --.-.
After making short address ir
place of the usual evening sermon
Canon Stokes introduced Rev. Rus.
sell j. Clinchy, pastor of the Noun
Pleasant Congregational Church, ane
Rev. DR.. j. Campbell White, min
lister of the West Forty-fourth Stree
United Presbyterian Church in New
York City. Dr. Clinchy drew hi
illustrations from the Life Adjustmen
Institute, which is part of the socia
service program in his church, ant
DR.. White told how several hundred
boys and girls had been reclaimed
from a life of crime through th'
work of the Community Center Set
tlement House sponsored by hi
church in New York City's Hell!
Kitchen" district.
Bishop Freeman'S statement on tht
attitude of the church toward law.
lessness was as follows:
THE church readily and gladly sup
ports the efforts of the Attorney Gen
eral, through great national confer
ence, to mobilize the moral forces o
Z. America in the interests of crime sup
preston and more drastic enforce
ment Of law. This action is mos
timely. Recent years have witnessed
new and glaring examples of lawless
ness, examples that, unchecked anC
unreStrained, must issue in conditions
threatening our peace and our Sc
curity.
"a form of civil strife is manifest
Emboldened and organized criminal
defy civil authority and brazenly at
tack our most treasured institution!
sss
THE present hour is a grave one
All loyal citizens are called to sus
tanned effort that crime conditions ma,
be abated. A new kind of civil war /
on and it must be met and courage
ously dealt with. Crime and tn
criminal must be defeated"
View Crime Museum.
Groups of the delegates today wer
taken on tours of inspection in tn
new Department of Justice Building
They manifested special interest il
the "crirle museum" which contain
guns, diSguiSes and other trophies o
the departments war on gangland
and in the identification division
where millions of flngerprints o
criminals are on file.
Because the lynching problem wa
not included in the program for dis
cussion at the conference, the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People announces
today it would picket the convention
hall tomorrow. In press statemen
the association said William Stanley
assistant to Cummings, has notifie,
the organization that it was mo
probable" that lynching would be dis
cussed. The picketing will be done b
the District of Columbia branch, o
which Mrs. Virginia r. MCGUIRE i
v,raefLnnt mas cfofad