Evening star., 1936-05-23
ANTLCR|ME DRIVE
OPENED BY GROUP
Of LEADERS HERE
Washington Criminal JUS
tice Association Headed
by Eugene Meyer.
AZ MEN AND WOMEN
IN NEW ORGANIZATION
Research and Co operation With
Enforcement Agencies to Strike
at Source, Is Aim.

In a major step toward divorcing
crime and the Capital AZ leading
Washington men and women were
organized today in the Washington
Criminal Justice Association.
The intention of this powerful group
which framed its program last night
in the Offices of Eugene Meyer, pub
Usher of the Washington Post, is to
strike at crime at its sources through
research and intelligent cooperation
with established law-enforcement
agencies. Plans for the organization
were made at a Mayflower Hotel din
ner last Winter
After hearing lurid descriptions
from Newton D. Baker and James M.
Hepbron. heads of the functioning JUS
tice associations in Cleveland and Bal
timore of the cost of crime and the
most eficacious methods of eradicat-
ing the underworld. the organizers
elected Meyer their president.
Other Officers Pledged.
Other officers pledged to support
Ing the campaign to make the Capital
clean are John Remon, general man
ager of the Chesapeake g. Potomac
Telephone Co., first vice president;
Ella c. Werner, president of the So
roptimists Club, second vice president:
Edward C. Baltz. secretary of the
Perpetual Building Association, treas
urer, and Joseph E. Rice, chairman of
the board of the Washington Opti-
mists Club, secretary.
The executive committee is made
up of the officers, the committee
chairman and three citizens named
with the approval of the directors
Newbold Noyes, associate editor OF
The Star, William r. Valance, as
sistant legal adviser of the State De-
partment and past president of the
Federal Bar Association, and Mrs.
Harvey w. Wiley.
The purpose of the association,
which is to act as a fact-flnder and
not a prosecuting or arresting agency,
Is set forth in the third section of the
articles of incorporation:
The business and objects of the
Washington Criminal Justice Associa-
tion shall be to promote and obtain an
efficient administration of criminal
justice in the District of Columbia
through constructive cooperation
with all officers, departments and
tribunals charged with the admins
tration thereof. and to gather, record
60 nte rli irr
all criminal cases originating within
the District of Columbia to its mem
bers and to citizens of the said Dis
trict, and to keep them informed re-
garding the administration of criminal
justice therein, and for the mutual
improvement of its members, and to
do and perform every act appropriate
or necessary to carry out any of the
foregoing objects"
The 40 incorporators who with Mrs.
Jesse K. Biddle and Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell, elected yesterday, form the
board of directors, are:
Ann Archbold. Edward C. Baltz,
Henry N. Brawner, jr.: Emma Mclean
CaStell, Beatrice A. Clephane, James
A. Cobb, ]. Harry Covington, Rev. w.
L. Darby, Clarence Phelps Dodge.
Charles B. Dulcan, Fred A. Emery.
Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Malcolm
G. Gibbs.
Daisy G. Grimes. Charles H. Hell
legeist, Margaret K. Hume, c. D.
Kaufman, w. M. Kochenderfer, Mark
Lansburgh, Justice F. Dickinson Let's.
Bolivar J. Lloyd, Harold N. Marsh,
Curtis E. McCalip, Eugene Meyer,
George E. Morris. r. j. Murphy, Frank
F. Nesbit.
Newbold Noyes. John A. Remon.
Joseph E. Rice, Vincent Saccardi.
Rabbi Abram Simon, Arthur Clarendon
Smith. Jesse c. Gutter. William Roy
Valance, Ella C. Werner, Roland
Whitehurst. James G. Yaden, Ann
Kelton Wiley and Santus w. link.
President Meyer named Malcolm
G. Gibbs, president of the Peoples
Drug Stores, chairman of the Finance
Committee, and Vincent Saccardi,
manager of the Washington branch of
the Metropolitan Insurance Co., chair
man Of the Membership Committee.