Evening star., 1934-12-11
PRESIDENT SPURS
CONFERENCE HERE
TO WAR ON CRIME
Delegates Heed RooSeve|t'S
Plea to Draft TWofold
Plan in Fight.
COORDINATION URGED
IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
Public Support Also Necessary to
Curb Banditry, Chief Executive
and Aides Emphasize.

Spurred by an earnest appeal by
President Roosevelt for a more con-
certed offensive on crime, more than
500 delegates to the Attorney Cen
erals Conference on Crime today ap-
piled themselves to a twofold task
suggested by the PreSident-co-ordl-
nation of law enforcement work and
enlistment of public support.
The conference, opened last night
with addresses by the President,
Attorney General Cummings and
former Secretary of State Henry l..
Stimson, plunged today into vigorous
discussion of the grim business OF
ridding the Nation of its criminal
public enemies"
Referring with a show of emo
ton to the deaths of four Federal
officers at the hands OF criminal
gangs, j. Edgar Hoover, director OF
the Justice Departments Division OF
Investigation, today told the confer
ence that the Nation should make
some provision for "a decent main
tenance" of the widows and children
of these brave men"
Recalls Agents Slain.
Hoover mentioned the Staying by
"Baby Face" Nelson of Inspector
Samuel P. Cowley and Special Agents
Herman E. Hollis and w. Carter
Baum, and the killing by Pretty Boy
Floyd and others of Special Agent
Raymond ]. Caffrey, in connection
with his appeal for support and pro-
lection of families of officers who
sacrificed their lives on duty.
Hoover, somewhat bitterly, pointed
out that three of these four Federal
men were slain by convict who
had received leniency from the courts
Nelson.
Easy paroles" Hoover declared,
especially of hardened offenders,
form a detriment not to crime, but
to those who, all too often. give their
lives in an effort to prevent crime.
Interstate Pacts Urged.
Following the admonition of Presi-
dent Roosevelt that police agencies
cooperate more closely in the drive
on criminals, Gordon Dean, special
attorney in the Department of Justice
advocated interstate compacts for
crime control in an address this
morning in Memorial Continental
Hall, where remaining sessions of the
conference will be held. Last nights
brilliant opening was held in Consti-
tuition Hall.
Others who spoke this morning
we're Judge Charles w. Hoffman of
the Domestic Relations Court, Gin
cinnati, who discussed modern youth
and his part in crime; Attorney Gen.
eral John J. Bennett, jr., of New York,
who exposed commercial racketeer-
ing" and DR.. Sheldon Glueck of Har-
ward Law School, who told of rela-
tions that should exist between police
and prosecutors if criminals are to be
adequately punished.
Dean cited four principal fields in
which interstate law enforcement con-
facts could be utilized proftably. They
are, he said, first, the arrest of persons
who had fled from one State to an
other by pursuing officers of the first
State; second, the return of witnesses
who have crossed State lines, but who
are essential to the prosecution of a
criminal case in the State from which
they have fed; third, the establish
ment by two or more States of joint
agencies such as crime detection bu-
reaus. crime laboratories, or combined
police units, and, fourth, the super
vision of persons in one State who
have been paroled or granted pro-
baton In another State.
Judge Hoffman urged that pre-
ventive measures in the war on crime
be instituted by proper training and
education of the younger generation.
Schools, he said, should have a per-
manent part in preventing delinquency
through diagnosis and treatment of
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