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GAMBLING IN OPEN/ URGED N DISTRICT Legalized Control Asked by Mrs. Norton, Who Says She s a “Realist.” While decrying gambling as having “brought ruin to more homes than liquor,” Representative Mary T. Norton, chairman of the House District Com- mittee, here as a delegate to the At- torney General's crime convention, de- clared in favor of “bringing gambling into the o} in the National Capi- | tal, since “we all know it exists,” by legalizing it under strict protective and punative regulations. Mrs. Norton also announced her in- tention of introducing legislation for full-salary compensation to widows of gangster-slain Federal officers. She said frankly that she has no definite plan for legalizing gambling in the District, has not thought of in- troducing a bill herself, but has defi- nitely made up her mind that “it exists as a known fact, with which | we must reckon. We cannot shut our eyes to it.” “Gambling will continue ‘under-; ground,’ just as the speakeasies | flourished” continued Mrs. Norton. “If it were possible to stamp it out, I| would be in favor of legislation to achieve that end. “But I am a realist. I believe that | when you are faced with an actual; situation, there is no use in trying to | camoufiage it. If prohibition taught us anything, it certainly taught us that the only way to correct a situation was | to face the facts. “And so let's regulate gambling. let's bring it into the open under | proper safeguards and under striet Government regulations. Then we may escape the evils that grew out} of the speakeasy.” . PLEA TO TURN PARK INTO CITY AIRPORT MEETS OPPOSITION (Continued From First Page.) of approximately two-thirds of the area of East Potomac Park, with an administration and passenger terminal Lead War THE on Crime President Roosevelt pictured as he arrived to address the National Crime Conference called by Attorney General Cummings (right). He urged co-operation of Federal and local crime combatting agencies. —A. P. Photo. Text of Roosevelt Speech Calls on Crime Conference to Perfect Administra- tive Structure and to Interpret Problem of Criminality to Entire Nation. EVENING STAR, ‘WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT SPURS PARLEY ON GRIME Delegates Heed Roosevelt’s Plea to Draft Twofold Plan in War. __(Continued Froin First Page) “problem children.” He also said there should be a qualified and trained judiclary to handle children’s cases. Parents who are not delinquent often contribute to the delinquency of their children, he declared, by their attitude in life that “you must take what you an get from the world because nobody is going to give you anything. Prof. Glueck asserted that “intelli- gent attempts to stop crime at the source should be the guiding principle of future action in community, State and the Nation.” In this work, he said, psychiatry, psychology, social case work and educational practices should be applied more effectively. President Roosevelt, in addressing & distinguished audience of govern- ors, mayors, judges, police chiefs, marshals and &’ host of other experts on crime eradication that filled to capacity Constitution Hall last night, deplored the “inadequate organization, unscientific administration and lack of public support and understanding” impairing the country's law agencies. Co-ordination Need Stressed. “In many instances, we may as well frankly admit,” he declared, “bandits have been better equipped and better organized than have the officials who are supposed to keep them in check. This is particularly true because of the lack of co-ordination between local agencies within the States. “It is, also, contributed to in serious measure by the lack of facilities for training skilled men for the work of detection, apprehension and prosecu- tion of % ed persons, and by similar lack of cilities for the study and supervision of certain types of crim- inals capable of rehabilitation.” ‘The President pointed out that effective detection of criminals may be rendered useless by “ineffective prosecution or by unintelligent judi- cial disposition.” “Beneficent and promising pro- cedure, such as probation and parole,” he said, “may become actually sources of danger, if ignorantly or D. C, TUESDAY,- DECEMBER 11, Elizabeth Ann Fellows, 5, and JF: and Mrs. Perry A. Fellows, shown as t! 1934 | Jobless Aid Santa | rnk H. Fellows, 7, children of Mr. hey inspected the toys at F. E. R. A. headquarters here. The toys were made by persons receiving relief from Emergency Relief Administrations in various parts of the country and will be distributed to children of the unemployed at Christmas time. —A. P. Photo. ———e et factor in the prevalence of crime in | this country. “British justice is effective, not only because it is prompt and certain,” he said, “but because it is undramatic. Over here our prosecutors are very often ambitious young men who hope some day to be elected Governor of their State and think that the drama of a fight against crime will help them on their way. They are well stocked in zeal. They rarely try to conceal their praiseworthy efforts from the press, but they sometimes are not quite 80 well stocked with ripe experience or knowledge of the pitfalls of criminal law.” He advocated ldoinz a little poaching on the other CRIME CONFERENCE VISITORS CONDEMN NUMBERS RACKETi __ (Continued Prom First Page.) runrers and trail them to their source. It usually turns out to be a big or-| ganization. They divide the terri-| tory and if anybody crosses the line it's apt to mean ‘curtains’ We had one ‘rubbed out’ a short time ago for crowd's district. PRESIDENT T0 GET AID NEED WARNING Conference of Mayors Asks Ickes for Haste in New P. W. A. Program. By the Associated Press. Secretary Ickes will transmit to the Presidedt, who is framing rellef rec- ommendations to Congress, & warn- ing from the national conference of that 23,000,000 persons would be on relief this Winter if a new public works program Wwas not launched immediately. A delegation headed by Mayor Dan- fel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, president of the conference; carried to Secretary Ickes a plea for haste in P. W. A, and housing projects as “the best means and aid to recovery.” ‘The mayors will go directly to Con- gress with their demands for contin- uation of public works, “If the ad- ministration does not propose a P. W. A. progral Paul Bettors, secretary of the conference, said. The conference was unanimously agreed that a revitalized construction program was essential to prevent trou- ble in industrial centers this Winter, Hoan said. Hoan was accompanied by Henry Worley, Mayor of Columbus, Ohio; T. Semmes Walmsley, mayor of New Or- leans, and Bettors. Hoan said the delegation - would protest to Relief Administratgr Hope kins against what he called unjusti- flably high construction costs on housing. Prices of building materials were so0 high, Hoan said, that “any- body is plain erazy to build anything now.” — POLICEMAN ROBBED Lieut. Guyer’s Trousers and Badge Taken as He Sleeps. A humorous thief last night taught Lieut. Allen W. Guyer, sixth precinct, that police must beware of burglars as burglars do of police. Upon awaking this morning, Lieut. Guyer discovered $16 and his police badge had been taken from his room at 4824 Piney Branch road. He first noticed his bea room door ajar, then found his trousers missing. A search revealed these had been left in the basement where the thief left by an unfastened window through which he had gained entrance. FOUNTAIN IS PROBLEM FOND DU LAC, Wis.,, December 11 (#).—Under the will of Mrs. Cordelia Felton, who died 15 years ago, For< du Lac was left $300 for a cast-iron drinking fountain for “man, beast and dog.” ‘The fund remains intact. City offi- | cials have been offered fountains com- {bmlng drinking accommodations fo: | man and beast, but can't find one with an added place for dogs. You know he’ll appreciate something in which to lounge around—and we're prepared wonderfully for that. Lounging Robes Importations from Welsh-Mar- getson of London, as wvell as the best American productions— $6.75 to $45. Handsome Brocade Lounging stripping of * “The game itself is a form of petty glamor and sentimentality which Fourteenth Street indifferently administered.” bolidg pear 0 S 8S | larceny and if you let them alone h X snd Robes — beautiful patterns — Bridge entrance to the park an hangars along the railroad embank- ment, partly on ground occupied by the Tourist Camp. In a statement made public today, Mitchell said: “Providence has provided a site which could, at small expense, be made into an almost ideal air terminal. From every angle, East Potomac Park, sometimes called Hains Point, which is owned by the Government, is ideally located as the site of an air terminal which could be used equally well by airplanes, amphibians and jseaplanes. This site needs no filling in and would save the Government several million dollars in purchase price and im- provements.” Mitchell pointed out that Washing- ton Airport is divided by Military road, that the purchase price for this property has been set at $1,600,000, and that the airport never could be used by seaplanes. Park Area Large. The maximum available area at ‘Washington Airport, he said, is 173.35 acres, while the tract proposed to be used in Potomac Park is 217 acres. “This would leave 112 acres on Hains Point, which could be used for a golf course and other park pur- poses,” he said. “The present drive- ways around the edge of the park could remain, so that its use by the public would be interfered with very little.” Mitchell gave the following com- parative lengths of runways on the Potomac Park and Washington Air- port sites, except one of them showing an advantage in favor of the present airport: No. 1 runway, Potomac Park, 4,000 feet; Washington Airport, 4,600 feet. No. 2, Potomac Park, 4,000 feet; Washington Airport, 4,100 feet. No. 3, Potomac Park, 3,000 feet; Wash- ington Airport, 2,850 feet. No. 4, Potomac Park, 2,400 feet; Washington Alrport, 2,850 feet. Approach Over Water. ‘The effective length of runways in Potomac Park, he contended, would be increased by the fact that the ap- Pproaches are over water from two di- rections, Thése water approaches, however, would bring airplanes across the Speedway, with its heavy automo- bile traffic. Capt. Doe submitted his proposal for development of the park as a re- sult of a controversy between his com- pany and officials of Washington Afr- port. Doe contended that rates charged his company by the airport were excessive and called upon the Government to establish an airport in East Potomac Park to prevent dis- ruption of airline service here. Doe had detailed plans prepared in New York for development of the East Potomac Park site. Parks Office Opposes. On the day after Doe submitted his plan, officials of the Office of Na- tional Capital Parks vigorously op- posed the plan, declaring that it would mean a sacrifice of the golf course, the tourist camp and the double- blossom Japanese cherry trees. John Nolen, jr., commission -city planner, declared that an act of Con- gress would be required to divert the use of East Potomac Park from park purposes. F. W. Hoover, general manager of the Welfare and Recreational Asso- ciation of Public Buildings and Grounds, in charge of the touriss camp, said the camp had been placed in East Potomac Park by an act of Congress and “it would take an act of Congress to take it away.” He pointed out that the camp serves more than 50,000 people annually and rep- resented an investment of more than $200,000. Local civic orzanizations also ex- pressed opposition to the plan and on November 16, just a week after it was first proposed, the proposal was completely abandoned by Capt. Doe, who reached an agreement with air- port officials as to rates to be charged for use of the facilities there. Rail Towers Planned. It was pointed oy} that electrifica- tion of the Pennsylvania Railroad, which will include the erection of high electric power-lie towers along the already high railroad embank- ment at the boundary of the pro- posed East Potomac Park site would constitute e serious hazard in the case of landings and take-offs in that direction. A large-scale program of improve- ment has been undertaken at Wash- ington Airport during the past few days, adding to the already large in- vestment at that site. The program includes completion of a hangar for non-rigid airships, enlargement of the terminal building, moving of the old brick administration building, widen- ing of the main runway, burying of transmission lines and minor im- provements, a . against these forces. The text of President Roosevelt's | pose. They are looking to you for speech last night before the Attorney | guidance and intelligent leadership. General's Crime Conference follows: During the past two years there have been uppermost in our minds the problems of feeding and clothing th destitute, making secure the founda tions of our agricultural, industrial and financial structure and directing the vital forces that make for a healthy national life. As a component part of the large objec- tive we include our constant struggle to safeguard ourselves against the attacks of the lawless and the criminal elements of our population. Relentlessly and without com- pfomise the Department of Justice has moved forward in its major offensive With increasing effectiveness, State and local agencies are directing their efforts toward the achlevement of law enforcement; and with them, in more marked degree than ever before, the Federal Govern- ment has worked toward the common objective. Officers Devoted in Service. It is a privilege to pay tribute to the men and women who, in many capacities, official and otherwise, have contributed to our growing success. To & much greater extent than is generally realized our law enforce- ment officers throughout the country have rendered devoted, conscientious and effective service, often under ex- asperating and hazardous circum- stances. Their effectiveness has, unfortu- nately, been impaired because of in- adequate organization, unscientific administration and lack of public support and understanding. In many instances, we may as well frankly admit, bandits have been better equipped and better organized than hgve the officials who are supposed toxeep them in check. This is partic- ularly true because of the lack of co- ordination between local agencies within the States. It is, also, con- tributed to in serious measure by the lack of facilities for training skilled men for the work of detection, ap- prehension and prosecution of accused persons, and by similar lack of facili- ties for the study and supervision of certain types of criminals capable of rehabilitation. It is important, too, that we recog- nize clearly the increasing scope and complexity of the problem of criminal law administration. Undoubtedly there are unfortunate aspects of our na- tional life which seriously threaten the American home; increase the danger of juvenile delinquency and multiply offenses against the good order of society. The regulation of the illicit traffic in drugs, the pre- vention of commerce in stolen goods, and generally, the interstate character of offenses attributable to the roving criminal have presented national problems against which primitive forms of law enforcement are rela- tively powerless. Must Realize Importance. It is equally necessary that we realize the importance of common action all along the line—starting with crime prevention itself and car- rying this common action all the way through to prosecution and pun- ishment, Effective detection of criminals may be rendered useless by ineffective prosecution or by unintelligent ju- dicial disposition. Beneficent and promising procedures, such as pro- bation and parole, may become actu- ally sources of danger, if ignorantly or indifferently administered. So, too, rellance on mere repression cannot take the place of intelligent training and guidance of youth. We have come to & time when our need is to discover more fully and to direct more purposefully into useful channels that greatest of all natural resources, the genius of the younger generation. Crime is a symptom of social disorder. Widespread increase in capacity to substitute order for dis- order is the remedy. ‘This can come only through expert service in marshaling the assets of home, school, church, community and other social agencies, to work in com- mon purpose with our law enforce- ment agencies. ~We deceive our- selves when we fail to realize that it is an inter-related problem of immense difficulty. Scientific re- search, highly treined personnel, ex- pert service are just as necessary here as in any field of human endeavor. ‘To the extent that we provide, in- stead, unscientific methods, poorly trained personnel and hit-or-miss procedures, we may expect bungling, heartbreaking results. Lauds Attorney General, I am delighted, therefore, that the Attorney General has called you to- gether for this conference. The coun- try knows that under his leadership we are getting better results than ever before. It is heartening and reassuring to the people of the United States that you have gathered here for this pur- nd releasing | ‘They have a right to expect from you a constructive program of action in which they as individuals, and col- ectively as communities and organi- zations, may participate. It should be a challenge to you to respond to these expectations. The task of this thoroughly repre- sentative conference is two-fold. First, I ask you to plan and to con- struct with scientific care a constantly improving administrative structure—a structure which will tie together every crime-preventing, law-enforcing agen- 2y of every branch of Government—the Federal Government, the 48 State governments and all of the local gov ernments, including counties, cities and towns. Your second task is of equal im- portance. An administrative structure that is perfect will still be ineffective in its results unless the people of the United States understand the larger purposes and co-operate with these purposes. Must Keep Nation Informed. I ask you, therefore, to do all in your power to interpret the problem of crime to the people of this country. They must realize the many implica- tions of that word “crime.” It is not enough that they become interested in one phase only. At one mament popular resentment and anger may be roused by an outbreak of some par- ticular form of crime such, for ex- ample, as widespread banditry; or at another moment, of appalling kid- nappings; or at another of widespread drug peddling; or at another of horri- fying lynchings. It is your positive duty to keep be- fore the country the facts in regard 10 crime as a whole—great crimes, lesser crimes and little crimes—to build up a body of public opinion which, I regret to be compelled to say, is not in this day and age sufficiently active or alive to the situation in which we find ourselves. I want the backing of every man, every woman and every adolescent child in every State of the United States and in every county of every State—their backing for what you and the officers of law and order are trying to accomplish. The sustained interest and assist- ance of the organizations here repre- sented can become a public service of high significance in the social life of the Nation—a service to which the American people, I am confident, will not fail to respond. Elliott R'oosevelt Makes Fly-Leaf of D.C.Social Register Omitted in New York, President’s Son in ‘Dila- tory Domicile’ Here. By the Assoclated Press, . Elliott Roosevelt, who failed to make the 1935 New York edition of the Social Register, got on the fly-leaf of the Washington edition with a note under “Dilatory Domiciles.” He was listed: “Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. El- liott (Ruth J. Googins), Leesburg, Va.” The name of Senator Huey P. Long, printed in last year's Social Register, was missing from the new issue. Jesse Jones, head of the Recon- struction Finance Corp., was not list- ed, nor was Donald Richberg, on whose powerful position in Washing- ton much is being written these days. Senator Omitted. Most of the Senators were given social standing, but Senator Ashurst, Democrat, of Arizona, who made the grade in 1925, and Senator La Fol- lette, Wisconsin Progressive, who was listed in 1928, were among the miss- ing in the 1935 edition, Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emer- gency Relief administrator, was not among those mentioned. ‘The House will have & hard time electing & speaker if it depends upon the Register for the names of candi- dates. None of the several announced candidates is mentioned. Candidates Out. These missing ones include Repre- sentatives Byrns of Tennessee, Ray- burn of Texas, Rankin of Mississippi, Crosser of Ohio and Banhead of Ala- bama, whose brother, a Senator, was included in the list. ‘The White House listing included Roosevelt, Frank. The BSocial Register hadn't quite caught up with the Roosevelts yet, for John has now gradusted from Groton to Harvard Sees Twofold Objective. Marshalling of “the assets of home, school, church, community and other | social agencies to work in common | purpose with our law enforcement | agencles™ is essential if success is to | be_attained, the President asserted. Describing the objective of the con- ference as twofold, Mr. Roosevelt said: “First, T ask you to plan and to construct with scientific care a con- stantly improving administrative structure—a structure which will tie together every crime-preventing, law- enforcing agency of every branch_of Government—the Federal Govern- ,ment, the 48 State Governments and all of the local Governments, includ- ing counties, cities and towns. “Your second task is of equal im- portance. An administrative struc- ture that is perfect will still be in- effective in its results unless the people of the United States under- stand the larger purposes and co- | operate with these purposes.” Cummings Urges School. Cummings last night renewed his proposals for a national training school for those assigned to detect crime and catch criminals. “I am thoroughly, convinced,” he said, “that we need methods for better selection and training of personnel, laboratory facilities for work in de- tection and apprehension, opportuni- ties for scientific research as to better ways of taking all of the various steps in criminal law enforcement. “Personally I am satisfied that we must have a great national scientific and educational center for work in this field. Whether this should be called an Institute of Criminology or a Federal School for Training in Law Administration; whether it should include, at its inception, a degree- granting academy for those who may be selected and trained for profes- sional careers; or whether it should begin with the co-ordination of al- ready existing units of instruction and research and develop gradually —these are less important questions than that we should declare ourselves clearly upon the underlying proposi- tion that there is need for training and research of this type and that it can be done.” Uniform Laws Held Need. Besides a permanent establishment of this kind, he said, there is need for interstate compacts, uniform laws and Federal and State legislative enact- ments to increase effectiveness of State and Federal agencies. Cummings declared the crime prob- lem today is “freighted with graver menace to the Nation than could pos- sibly have been true only a few decades 8go.” Crime was largely a local prob- {lem when life was moving slowly, he pointed out, but fast means of trans- portalion and communication have broadened the aspects of law enforce- ment and increased responsibility of the Federal Government. Just how far Federal responsibility should ex- lend is & question difficult to decide, he explained, due to constitutional and other restrictions, With emotion, Cummings also re- ferred to the deaths at Chicago re- cently of Cowley and Hollis. Calls Situation “Amazing.” “It is amazing,” he said, “that such & situation as now exists is possible at this stage of our civilization. When officers of the law are forced to engage in drawn battles on public highways, in railroad stations and elsewhere— armed with the desperate implements of modern warfare—we realize the danger which is involved and the men- acing character of those who thus boldly defy the power of our Govern- ment. “Innate courage, trained intelligence and professional skill of the highest order are necessary to meet this intol- erable affront. Those who are risking thejr lives in this public service are as deserving of esteem and of recognition as are the soldiers and sailors who represent us in time of war.” The Attorney General said that when the situation “is realized in all its hideous aspects,” those who “ro- manticize crime and idealize the gang- sters and the racketeers will transfer their affections manyfold to those, like our Government agents, who only a few days ago gave their lives in the line of duty, “These men, together with others who have died in the service,” he as- serted, “will hold places of honor as long as the records of the Department of Justice shall endure. Such trag- edies are shocking and sorrowing be- yond measure, but they should serve to strengthen our determination and stiffen our morale.” British Justice Contrasted. Stimson contrasted slow-moving ma- chinery of American justice with the swift and sure justice administered to crimirals in England. He expressed the belief that “inefficlency of our legal machinery” is an important A | fessionally to defend in court. !ciety’s only recourse is “remorseless | pursuit, complete punishment, and, if been permitted to grow up around crime.” The bar assoclations were held re- | sponsible by Stimson for part of the | delay which occurs in bringing the guilty to justice. He said some lawyers in State Legislatures have passed laws | giving added advantages to the crim- inals whom they are called upon pro- | Lax Paroles Rapped. Hoover asserted he is not opposed to the principle of parole, providing it is happily administered, but he said he opposed a system of parole which, as has been demonstrated in some communities, permits “offenders of a vicious type and men and women, who | have shown by a repetition of offenses that they are not worthy of parole, to be turned loose upon society again.” Describing the battle against gang- land as a dangerous undertak akin | actual war, Hoover declared that | ldiers” of the law enforcement agencies waste their efforts “without the supporting influences which are | the usual lot of soldiery. “Thére was no martial roll of drums to buoy the spirits of Cowley, Hollis, Baum and Caffery,” he said, “as they went to face their deatl Only the vicious rattle of a machi gun in the hands of a gangster who cravenly accepted the aid of his wife, knowing that these men of the law would withhold their fire, rather than deliberately shoot down a woman. “No Medals No Ceremonies.” “There would have been no medals for them had they lived. There would | have been no ceremonies, no public offering of gratitude, no massing of applauding throngs, nor did they ask it. “Special agents of the Division of Investigation work in silence. They seek no acclaim. They evade when- ever possible the notoriety which the conclusion of big cases often forces upon them. They do all this willingly and fearlessly. “No men ever died more bravely than Cowley and Hollis and Baum and Caffery. Yet dying, they were forced by this Nation to which they gave their lives to leave their families with- out an adequate means of livelihood and that protection of family which every good man seeks' to provide. There are no funds from which the wives and children of such men can be provided a decent maintenance. There should be some provision for the security of families of men in this dangerous calling—some evidence that this country does not expect & man to give his life in its defense only to leave his wife and children without & means of livelihood.” Turning to problems of detection and apprehension, the division direc- tor called on all law enforcement agencies of the country to stand be- side one another in a united front on crime. One means of bringing about closer co-ordination, he said, was develop- ment of a national teletype or radio broadcast system of police intercom- munication. Hoover sald much of the re-| sponsibility for suppression of crime rests with State, county and city po- lice authorities. These State and lo- cal agencies, he said, formed the framework for “the best and only kind of a national police which Amer- ica will tolerate.” Police, he told the conference, should be able to arrest the men with- out having “their arms stayed by the more powerful hand of some town or county or State politician.” | Hoover said that until political pressure is doomed and there arrives continual co-operation among all forms of law enforcement, “we must regard the eradication of gangs like that of Dillinger, Floyd, Bailey and others as transitory phases of a con- dition which can change overnight.” Hoover pointed out that only eight months ago Federal agents of his di- vision had no rifle training and were without legal authority to carry arms. Today, he said, every man is trained to the use of firearms. Declaring there is no short cut to eradication of crime, Hoover said so- necessary and adequately provoked, elimination of the criminal.” Patrick J. Hurley, former Secretary of War, presided at last night's session prior to the election of Cummings as permanent chairman and of Scott Loftin, special assistant to Cummings, as permanent secretary. The elections were held on motion of William Stan- ley, assistant to the Attorney General. Hurley commended the Roosevelt administration for its move against crime and pledged the support of all right-thinking citizens, regardless of politics. Loftin was named chairman of a Resolutions Committee to which all proposals for action by the conference will be referred. A they'd soon be taking money from children in the kindergartens.” Supt. of Polict John P. Smith of | Detroit: “There isn't anything in the gam- | bling game that has any good to it.| All these things are rackets of the most contemptible sort and I've been | fighting them through 33 years in the Police Department. Says Game Breeds Murder. “If you let these fellows go on with their numbers game there will be | murder in your city. There’s no way out. “Everybody speaks of this as a | ‘petty’ racket, but I can't see it that | way. It's this kind of a game that leads to the worst criminality, Mur ders, thievery, kidnapings and eve thing else spring from gambling rows and the cliques that run the business. “We put 150 kids on the witness stand in a single penny-and-nickel gambling racket in Detroit a few years ago and we gained convictions. And before the case was finished the judge expressed amazement that such con- ditions of luring youngsters into steal- | ing and begging pennies for gambling purposes could exist.” “Bleeds Decent People.” Chief of Police Philip T. Smith of New Haven, Conn.: “There isn't a single one of us not ' against the numbers game. It is an insidious racket that bleeds decent people for the benefit of underworld rings that have become very extensive. ‘We have been hitting at the sources and uncovering elaborate and expen- sive operating machinery, such as add- ing machines, printing equipment and other evidences of considerable cap- ! ital investment on the part of the racketeering groups. “We are fortunate in New Haven in having aroused public sentiment to a point where foolproof laws give us an effective weapon against this kind of gambling. In addition, the courts up there are back of us 100 per cent. You will do a great service to this community if you succeed in arousing the public, so that effective laws are given your enforcement and Pprosecuting agencies.” Sees Serious Crime Peril. Chief of Police Edward J. Tighe, Revere, Mass., president of the Massa- chuetts Police Association: “The numbers game has become a big paying racket—that is, to those who operate it—and with that con- dition has come violence and crime of a more serious nature, We have hounded them throughout Massa- chuetts, and we're knocking them off every day. It's the kind of game that mushrooms up quickly, in spite of all enforcement, but it mustn't be allowed to_continue without interruption.” Police Chief Charles A. Wheeler of | Bridgeport, former president of the | International Association of Chiefs “For years we have been arresting and convicting gamblers operating the numbers racket. At the present time, Connecticut is fortunate in having ex- ceptionally good anti-gambling laws and State and city enforcement agen- cles that are effective in fighting the game. “I am deathly opposed to gembling, | it’s just another form of robbery with | the odds always stacked against the honest player. This is particularly true in the numbers racket. I hope you hit them hard down here.” Inspector Moore of New York State Police: “The numbers racket—is that pop- ping up down here? Why nobody but suckers play that, I've seen it sporad- ically throughout New York State, but I've always thought those who played it were mentally subnormal. I've found | people who charged their groceries so ! they could pay cash to the numbers runner. “But they're all suckers; intelligent people don’t play that game.” RADIO MEN NAME JETT New Officers Elected by Insti- tute of Engineers. Lieut. E. K. Jett of the Communi- cations Commission was elected chair- man of the Washington section of the Institute of Radio Engineers last night | at the annual geeting in the audi- torilum of the Potomac Electric Power Co. Other officers elected were: Chester L. Davis of the Radio Corp. of Amer- ica, vice chairman, and Warren B. 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