Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1925, Page 70

ILLUSTRATED FEATURES Part 5—8 Pages New Po BY DAN RING. IVILIZATION has marched ahead during the last 40 ¥ So has crime = munication, transpor- tation and other general aids to society’s progress have cropped up on every hand. Education has ad- vanced for the Nation as a whole. The telegraph first, then the telephone Dbrought a decided change in systems of communication. More recently the radio has come into widespread popu- 2 Similarly with transportation. The railroads of the country have en- larged their network of tendrils until virtually every nook and cranny of the Nation today is accessible. And to them the automobile plays a supple- mental role. Transportation is an en- tirely changed element from the day of Dobbin and the surrey. As for edu cation, the child who fails to receive schooling is the exception rather than the rule. rtly as a result of all these things, | MAGAZINE SECTION he Sunday Stad WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 1 0, 1925. FICTION AND HUMOR Law Violators Make Use of All Improvements Which Civilization Has Provided, and Enforcement Officers Also Develop Methods—Wash- ington, Home of Original Plan to Co-ordinate Police Work of Country, Now Engaged in Internationil Co-operation — Modern Methods of Detection Made Necessary by Existence of Organized Bands of Criminals, Sometimes Extending Operations to Several-Countries—Interlocking Interests and Migrating Mobs—Records of 900,000 Criminals Kept Here. : it is held by criminologists who base their opinions on a scientific study of | affairs that crime has advanced by < and bounds. ociety in which the | today is a vastly anged place from that of 40 vears <0 the criminal is ifferent man | from the criminal four decades < the use W civili access | simple. He f all the improvements w tion has made. He ha distant points 2 nal and_communicational lin ucation been perverted b: of those whe received its benefits then turned enemies of the govern- | ment and society which donated the | education. | The composite portrait of a crimi y. is as follows: An individ- this first of all- ing alone: zenerally under cover of darkness, with force playing a might his unlawful achievements: a porch | climber or highwayman: robber or| burglar; sometimes a swindler in a rural community. Only the murderer of yesterda S the murderer of today—for murder is a crime of | violence, ing generaliy from the | heart of the individual and the mo- | tives for murder remain unchanged. | * ok x % | Tm; criminal of today is both an | individual and a cog in a machine, ses not rely solely upon his re- sources. He bands together with others to accomplish his purposes. He bas friends on the outside, ready to help him: able to nd willing to take any necessary risks to keep | their n intact. | . accordingly, was | an matter—a Main | streetaffair criminal did net | have the facilities for e: : he did not have the ci ne ready f help him: he did not have the corh- municational facilities that he has| today. Consequently the crime preveritive | and detective agencies of vesterday were local affairs—competent to cope with the erime. But today: Crime has been in the | ascendancy. Up the path of evolution has gone until organizations of criminals spread from Siate to State; from city to city and from one coun to another. - Lest this may sounl a bit stretched, listen to what JI. 1. Hoover, chief investigator of #ncle Department of Justice op- s ¥ is the work of com- in " its most important We have bands of automo- who steal- machines ‘in and pass them aver to another band’ in another to sell them. We have gangs of -violators of the dry law who are known to be linked in an organization stretch- ing from one _c Al city to another, who operate”in such a manner as to leave no doubt as to concerted action. 'here are other organizations which tiention might be called io.” And. lest this appear too imagina- tive, let the mind wander back to the celebrated Arnstein case, in which an entire organization v found to stretch from New York to Washing- ton. Bonds are stolen in Wall street | by one group in the combine and| rketed in Washington by another Incidents surrounding _the pe from Atlanta of Gerald Chap- . recently convicted of slaying a The Heart of Amerigas Rew Anti-Crime Machire, Home of the Department of Justice Division of Information and Idewntificatiow. Wem (Avqasens T these cabinets may be death warrants in the form of Littte whorls and loops are telling finger prints for many outlaws. The Seatching and Hling division tales 1o these tolle, lice Stratesy Must Keep Pace With Organized Crime Gathering of the names and identity of known outlaw organizations and |all such information that can be col lected along this line. Traffic laws and regulations of the | various tes, If the plan goes through, will be made matters of record with the national bureau, for the ‘use of any jurisdiction: lists of hospitals, asylums, prisons, work houses, police department rules. or. ganizations and their numerical desig- nations and annual reports and statis- [li(‘s of ail sorts will be placed on file. The National Bureau of Identifi- ation will become a clearing house for any puzzle of the local police what ever, if the contemplated plans go through. But this is not the farthest step of the fight of the law against or- | zanized crime afd organized crim inals. The chiefs of police and the Department of Justice are stepping |out for one further move. That is » check up on internetional crime. he deta e heing handled by the Department of Justice Bureau of In fon, headed by Chief Hoover XGS with international today are fraught with The Red pe Detour’ is cierization ven to the method whereby papers relative to the e of criminals from other countries ave rouied. For instance A ecrime oceurs i don which ha= i American The route is from Scotiand Yard. to the home of. fice, to the foreizn office, Lo the Amer ican Aml dor. to the State Depart ment. to the Department of Justice, to the Bureau of Investigation. That’s the detour. The plan now in contemplation iz to change this detour to a straigh Feelers have been thrown out nd are finding agreeable acceptance to the practice of instituting direct contact between the National Identi | fication Bureau and Scotland Yard or any of the leading police agencies of any foreign nation. Direct con tact_is needed | “Time is of the essence.”. Chief Hoover said. “Speed in handling cases is requisite. 1f bands of inter national crooks are unhampered by red tape interchanges. why bind up the hands of those cl ged with the apprehension of inter ional crim inals? Give us an equal show with them. They take every advantage of the roundabout state of affairs.” . if the new plan goes through e will be still another function for this heart of the criminal-preventive works of this country—an interna tional function rom the Tdentifi Scotland Yard, and and it's done with TTHUS crime’s development leads to police development. Even locally police departments have been through a mighty evolution during the last 40 ved ake \ashington for in vears ago evervthing was in cincts’ power. Today there are zed experts for all sorts of crimes, There are specialized groups in In spector Grant's detective bureaun—an automobile squad, a second-hand shop squad. a narcotic squad, spe- cialists on hold-up work, specialists in forgery work. specialists in pick pocket work, in murder work, in other | lines In the department as a whole there is now a specialized traffic bureau, a 1 specialized woman'’s bureau. a police school, a vice squad and half a dozen other specialized activities. The criminal has specialized; the police must. The training of a policeman is a far different thi from the training given in vears zone by. Then it was a purely’ practical training. Today theory is combined with the practi- “broke beside a policema the bricks™ another policeman Today he through the polic school In the course there he hears lec tures given by detectives who special ize in the detection of certain types of criminals, by finger print experts and other specialistx of the police depart ment The youn week: policemen study law for and become generally versed tford policeman, leave little, if doubt to the most skeptical that crime is now being made the subject of operations of persons who have interests which are interlocked ——— — - —_——— 3 4| engaged 1w fingey priit clessitication inthe thiorma- Tney handle the outgoing letters reguarding criminafsfronv uo% division. : I et Fehts duties-and obleatjon the central identifidation office in the Railroad | 2 : e With the ‘advanee of crime: Adwministration Btl.lld.i‘vtg > h ; ; s > i ientific advances have been made use of by criminals, but to checkmate Police watched crime growing year the criminal syndicates and combines by year. They watched it spfead from - : D : $ - G : 2 | which have sprung up in recent one community to another. They felt < 8 . g S 3 : | years police are working along ex the hand of mig “‘mobs”—as > iy 1 : 5 . j actly similar lines: also making use of S o G Fainils eSS | every improvement which the crimi- S such men | nal utilizes. Hero of the Brazos. [SOME vears ago, near the city of [ Hempstead, in Texas, lived a | farm hand who proved himself to be a real hero and whose name has al ways been remembered by the people | of ‘his county with-all the gratitude | they might have willingly bestowed upon a hero in the military forces. Now one of the great rivers of | Texas is the Brazos. a stream sub- | ject to vast floods, which often rise 30 suddenly that the people living near it have no time to escape the rush of the waters. In early times a colony of Francis. can friars established a mission on a mound near the bank of the river | They built a church and a village and | taught the neighboring Indians. A | hostile tribe, however, swept over the | country, ravaging and burning, and combed. 11l finger prints would be | there seemed no chance for the friars cities. Replies misht come back h i |and their converts behind the feeble showing that he was wanted. Co-oper- | iR - p R . 5 o -~ s < e e atlon began to stem the tide of crime. | § deie k . g ; \ | sudden the waters of the river rose. tem the and terrible floods swept the savages i g i Pee and saved the little garrison. YET crime contimued 1o grow. As Then the friars, so the story goes. Y Tk 8 e pice saw plainly the working of the Lord, to fight co-operative c ime with co- ‘::Se;:ep\(i ".?‘”e“ ’”‘e ;“‘:,r "de Dios- operative police work. and formed the | The'Armhe of oa " P70 % Dlo National Police Chiefs' Union. Under BUiiEe Brasos Is not alwnye meccl- e e e then ful. During the floods in Texas from organization started the combined fight against crime. time to time its waters have played a mighty part in the destruction of lite The year following. in Washington, the organization met again. It then and property. One night, a®a flood became the National Assoclation of was beginning to overspread the farming lands. a young man named Chiefs of Police of the United States and Canada. From that time on the : Technieal Exper A.J Renoéd; Chief C.DMSKean and Tech- Fritz McGee was wakened by the d organization has continued to grow in ' ¥ Lo :Zag S 3 d 26 3 t f v B b k“ tant roar. He rose, hurried out, and nical Expert Tugene Van Buskick,. power, as the crime syndicates also : 3 P 3 it £ i : after some difficulty, secured a single grew. The greater the criminal ac- . i ; § frail rowboat and started alone on tivities, the greater the drawing pow-| — ‘ E Ly 2 £35S the work of rescue. All through that terrible night he ‘worl among the negro cabins scat- ers of the organization proved. until| y. ... \hot ne says of the differ-|burglars who can scale a brick wall | police chiefs began to fight * for |the Nation. Each day 400 names are [the afrinative or . negatiy feaioye e’ docded Dottoms, ‘and today the International Assoclation encg betweon the criminal of vester. | by means of the drain wbe. the fire. | the ‘sstablishment of & National BU.|added to the fles: course bt fow hours; > | | R s of 2 o s bec: 5 v nal of today: escape climber who the dining |reau -of Criminal len ¢ 7 i Sl 5] phg J . 1 nized as the greatest organization of | 44Y ::2 u;. f,’;m:h:\ gr::‘: y,m“g,, 2na card-parcy hour: hfln victim re. | Washington. - Last July the fight was | Sibce ‘crime has grown beyond the| Whén the local oficials are puztled | (oioiiicd “The new -plan embraces St by cehyoN Yo 1o ligh oficials charsed with prevention. de-| ~Apropon of the ereat. chENECS | ) ged and the gentleman in stage at. | won. - Congress: had authorized und | bounds ‘of local interest, this is the | the ‘natiohal -buredu: eledrs up the | many fmprovements and has the sanc. | g sa(e ground. = . tection and suppression of erime known | FICR | BN Boe0 e aRents of | tire who does the holdup wo approved such a plan, and ‘on July 1. | method by which the crime preventive | doubt. ‘When. Unclé Sam is ‘puzdled, |tien of the practical policemen from | . et before suved o waany Hore man dorthe clvilised R as | society.selected to contend agménst the | “With these modern, high-class pro- | 1954, that office was opened In the | 4zencies operate from a centralized [he cin call ‘on ans of ithe local offi- lall parts bf the country, as represented so time. McGec sSeveral hundred authorized heads | (0Ll (on™of crime and to appre. | fessionals the police should have the | Rallroad Administration Bullding as | ,;in. . ; cials for informatiom.} | by the /International Association of of departments of police, representing | | 4% iminals ‘meet with perpetra- | intelligence to contend, aside from the | & WINg of the Depdrtment of Justice. | “'fixe (he center of a spider's’ sveb | It the Federal Goveynment is gu*the| Chiefs of Police. These improvements all principal municipalities and lead- | iy ies the mystes ooy under Chief Hooyer. stands the National Identification Bu: | trail of ‘a beotlegging combine, with |include space for information regard- little_ organiza- | reau.” Into, it pour finger, prints and problem came to this: me has advanced to the point where it is co-ordinated and collective, engineered by combinations, we'll have to get together in the same way to fight it.” The result was vanced. so did that as crime ad- police strategy. In- exclusively, police in various , towns and cities began to co-operate Main Street joined the Capital and the Capital joined Main Street in the fight. ldentification methods became improved. e cities pledged their tdentification bureaus to co-operative action. and decided to fight the crime combine with a police combine. This worked finely A ecriminal would e picked up in Washington. The case against him here would be weuk. Files would be combed. His finger prints would be 144 1448 244 Ii. Ghatqo of aseepbling Iiling i didtpersi afqur&.{gs%n cr:’lfi.cs and &minfifi%mfia A seclion of the card, 1udex files of tte Divisiot of Tufox- o) mation and ldentification of the Depariment of Jistice - in ‘the'| and are now actively co-operating with | the_national bureau. Now .an enldrgement is being con- | by one, in so short a time. McGee, farmhand, rowing his fragile skiff perpet through the darkmess over the tur- X . s ar - | tlons. greatly at variance S3eh those ; - i bulent waters, is a figure to stir the ingiownain ithefchustiurs Qe TIORIx |lop Tormer years. The man with pow. | pearances, —murders and This _unpretentious connections in_ Waghington,; Norfolk {ing Tugitives and missing persons. | noblest feelings. 2 1»,5 Io this m:.‘ m;unnl: S | der and fuse, the speculator on ficti-| which always were and al tion, with 55 clerks and a bit of space | criminal records daily from all sections |and Savannah, the! national/ burean | Lists of automobiles missing and addition, '“']‘.“’ o f~l_°“puhmnnd‘ng | tious stéck figures wired -from some |be. Thus, an advanced inteliigence, |In the Railroad Building, today has|of the: country gets in touch wiib' each center. Each |'stolen and reports of crimes of great- }mrflt‘e anolice w-: s | underground retreat, ~the sawdust |.experienced training, undivided -ap- | become the heart of organized ctime| Suppose a criminal is arrested ‘and | works independently. But each works|er! magnitude against persons or "fie'l e T ormer chief | Samester_and *lottery - swindler are | plication, honesty and energy are re- | detective work throughout the coun-|information reliarmng him_is peeded |for the centralized purpose, and the | property will be filed with the Na. ot ':u'm here, was one of the most | Plavers of the past. quirements of the times on the part {try. It is a clearing hox:fl f';”om which | by the’loval official. He has the. cen- |result is harmony: 5 tional ; Identification ‘Bureau, under O e amOnE the founders of this or- | “They are superseded by skilled ar- of the poliggl who should be afforded | the entire Nation can benefit. tral identification bureau to call on.| This is the resulf of the fight of the | this plan. Other developments in- e mation. C e 1u known as its | tistsin forgery, scientific experts in the | every ‘meafis and equipment of as-| There's a.ton of paper there: On|Kven a telegram asking if there is a [Internatiohal. Association’ of ' Chiefs | clude: returned unharmed to the British zan £ X 5 its o sistance. that paper are: the records of 900,000 | certain indexed finger print record|of Police. Gathering of reports of threatened |lines his rescuers will receive 10,008 Fifteen criminals known in various. parts of | there will get an immediately reply tnl| = The police chiefs have been Invited | depredations against the Government. rupces, or proximately §3,500. Reward for .Return. VERY British aviator fiying over Afghanistan carries a letter sewed into his coat stating that if he Is “grandfather.” and he is now its'handling of high explosive, convincing honorary president. advocates of sure-thirig investments, years ago this hand g