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tion Formed at U. of c. “BY PHILIP. “KINSLRY. ¢ Tha Ghicage regional Top of the of Law Enforcement Off- oers of America was organized yester- @ay at the University of Chicage to Wheet the challenge of organi: crime. Its first action was to elect Acting Police Commissioner Jobn H. Aleock as president and to adopt resolutions endoraing the new code of crimina! Procedure prepared by the American Institute of Law and recommending the establishment of a state bureau moto fe ot eae as Bo x tion under the department of public ‘welfare, From Many Organitations. Mors than one hundred officials and representatives of crime fighting org- anizationa met in the hall of Social Bclences at the call of Prof, August ‘Vollmer, head of the Gepartment of police administration at the university. They represented everything from the T federal prohibition bureau to the vil- Jagt chief of police in the far. ‘flung to saree which somortsas 1,808 independent governments. In the all day forum that resulted many sug- gestions for meeting the crime prob- tem were flung into the hopper. Codperation not only in pressure for thew jegialation but in the actual work ef catching criminals through a new system of records and information and the extension of police radio and other Tmeans will be effected, . “We are weakiings if we don't beat a crooks,” said Prof. Volimer, former ehief of police of Berkeley, Cal. “it ie a question of government by gang- ers, for gangsters, or & government the people for the people. The renredy is organtsation.” ' Bleock Sees Hops fer Future. Commissioner Alcock sald he was wery hopeful for the future, with such an organization to help him He sug- gested that when complaints come fn concerning officials tt would be. well to find esut whatuer they originate, with good people, “or are wor! up through the racketeers to Mumiliste destroy competent officials.” “irom & a policeman’s standpoint,” mid, “I know what would be teal “iret, a citisenry which would de- mand = strict enforcement of afl laws, against themselves aa well: = Becond, a police force thoroughly trained im every branch of fta dificult eas, With promotions based strict- ly upon merit, and with the head of the department “ prosecutors who, after be thoroughly educated in law, take aneriel serres in B university im the eS = , ‘New ‘york, ‘or. i. 2 itoieni ta District Attorney T. u, Tt. Crain’s ap- pee! for @ committee of public safety to help him rid New York of racketeer ‘rule was answered today by forty men —feadera ia industry, churchmen, labor leaders and public afficialsa—who met tn his office in the afternoon and + outiined a program for combating the “publlo enemisa.” The details of the program wore not Drede public and the session was heki behind closed doors, but Mr, Crain told reporters that “concrete suggestions ~ had been offerad, that a definite course of action had been cutilned, and that the program would be carried out. He hinted that the reason for withhold- ing the details of the plan was that xt might thwart the committee's work. Mr, Crain opened the meeting with a talk en the extent to which the racketeers have gone in thelr raide on various branches of Industry in New York. He tcld how they work and pleaded for emancipation from their power. - - Telia How Rackets Wark, “In many linea of trade and com- merce,” he said, “ racketeers coerce the workingman, the merchant, the mant- facturer, ané the financier, These are Pe details of their experiences with eteers and other “ public enemies. Weston Alien, chairman of the tional erime commission, wrote Dis drive against racketeers. Complete crime situation were given at the con- ference as follows: . Prof. Charles E. Meriam — The crooks pay no attention to politica! gtography. They rely on the Inabil- ity of the rest of us to organize. They are a good deal better organized than the law enforcers. There are brains and energy enough among the peace officera to put an end to this hide and seek game. I p that the next great advance in municipal govern- ment will be in police administration. Polios and public welfare will be re organized. It is not all man hunting. The time to deal with crime a to get at the rects of f. 3; Cet. J. F J. Herbert ftederai prohl- bition officer}—-You all took the same cath of office to uphold the constity- ion ae I did, Unless you cobperate with the federal forces and there is strict observance by you we are grievously handicapped. There in too often indifference on the part of offi- cers to that part ef the constitution which Jed to the national prohibition ect. You are ms seriously charged with enforcement of prohibition as I “Gur force is pitifuny amail for the requirements forced upon it, no be dons.” I must be hopeful . I balleve that at @ Rot distant da data there ere wil come an awakening of ‘civic cen- scloustieés on the part of officers and private citizens that will omen the yolume of work now required of us. I will give you cotperation until hurts, and J -@ek-you to give mes a i S lished by State's Attorney Bwainen : in room 563 Temple West Washington citizenry is in the last analysis respon- aible for present conditions. “The mayorality is the key position. The citizens of Chicago will have a chance in the spring to get a good mayor.” Lieut. Cel. Calvin Geddard—“ The scientific crime detection laboraters of Northwestern university is at the service of a]! law enforcement agen: clean in Cock county free * We are experimenting with a truth serum, which produces twilight sleep and under which the peiet answers questions truthfully. © Usually confesses after he a Teopy: wore.” f are eomerteyenee. and moon dhe 2d a een ‘