Evening star., 1934-12-09
Representatives of U. S.,
State, City and Private
Agencies to Meet.
THREE-DAY DISCUSSION
EXPECTED TO DRAW 500
Roosevelt Will Sound Keynote of
Conference-Cummings and
Stimson to Speak.

crime Will pe put on tne spot
by representatives of scores of Fed
eral, State, municipal and private
agencies interested in law enforce
ment at the National Conference on
Crime which convenes here tomor-
row under auspices Of the Depart
ment of Justice.
LawleSsneSs in all its varied and
formidable phases will be placed un-
der the searchlight of criticism and
analysis and subjected to q mass
attack by an army of 500 officials
and public-spirited citizens mobilized
by Attorney General Cummings.
The united assault on gangland and
the underworld in general is planned
to begin here in a three day discus
sion Of strategy that will result in
carefully co-ordinated, relentless
offensive along a wide front-not as
a mere campaign for the time being,
but as permanent, continuing siege.
Roosevelt to Sound Keynote.
President Roosevelt will sound the
keynote of the conference in the
opening session tomorrow night in
Constitution Hall. Attorney General
Cummings and former Secretary of
State Henry L. Stimson also will de-
liver addresses at the initial session.
Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary
OF War, will call the opening session
to order at pm. The Marine Band
will give a preliminary concert.
Hundreds Of the delegates, who
range from Governors, mayors and
other State and municipal officials
to members of the judiciary. the bar
and of numerous organizations con-
cerned with the crime problem, were
to arrive here today. Scores of dele
gates already are in the city. They
were registering all day yesterday
at the Department Of Justice.
Inspirational Service.
Attorney General Cummings, mem
bers of his staff and many OF the
delegates will attend a special in
spirational service today at pm. in
the Washington Cathedral, arranged
by Bishop James E. Freeman as q pre-
liminary to the conference. In the
absence of Bishop Freeman, Canon
Anson Phelps Stokes will preside
Speakers will be Rev. Russell j.
,Clinchy, pastor of the Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church, and Rev. Dr.
j. Campbell White, pastor Of the West
Forty fourth Street Presbyterian
Church, New York City.
After the formal speeches tomorrow
night the delegates will organize the
conference for ensuing business
The first session for regular business
will be held Tueday at 10 am. in Me-
mortal Continental Hall. Clarence
E. Martin will preside. Speakers
for this session include ]. Edgar
Hoover, director of the Justice De-
partment's Division of Investiga-
ton; Gordon Dean, special attorney
of the Department of Justice; At
torney General John J. Bennett Of
New York. Dr. Sheldon Gueck Of
Harvard Law School, and Judge
Charles w. Hoffman, of the Domestic
Relations Court, Cincinnati.
Editor Will Speak.
The session Tuesday afternoon will
be devoted to a discussion of the
part the press, radio and motion pic
ture industries can play in the fight
on crime. Grove Patterson, editor
of the Toledo Blade and president of
the American Society of Newspaper
Editors, will preside, and speakers
will include Paul Bellamy, editor of
the Cleveland Plain Dealer; Stanley
Walker, city editor of the New York
Herald Tribune; Fulton Oursler, edi-
tor of Liberty Magazine: H. v. Kalt-
enborn. radio commentator. and Carl
E. Milliken, secretary Of the Motion
Picture Producers and Distributors Of
America.
At other sessions the conference will
consider criminal prosecution, paroles,
pardons, probation policies, firearms
control, penal problems, scientific
crime detection, cooperation of the
bar, police functions, court procedure
and social aspects of crime.
At the concluding session Thursday
night Cummings will speak on Les
sons of the Crime Conference"
A reception is to be rendered the
delegates jointly by the Federal and
District Bar Associations, the time
for it having been set tentatively for
Thursday evening after the closing
session of the conference 1t prob
ably will be held at the Pan-Ameri-
can Union Building. Music will be
furnished by the United States Marine
Band.
Plans for the affair, being given
upon suggestion of the Attorney Cen
eral, are being made by a committee
composed of ]. Bruce Kremer, rep
resenting the District Bar Associa-
ton; William r. Valance, Federal
Bar Association, and Dean Justin
Miller of the Attorney Generals