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ae TRANCE LATION FROM FRENCH NENG ITEMS: ; ; ’ UNITED STATES: - oe Dees Los Angeles bid fair to become a secon Chicago as a consequence of gangster activities? The authorities in California, from Govenor FARL WARKEN to the Mayor of this active city, L.A. FLETCHER BOWHON to the sheriff, EUCGKNF BISCATWZ, challenge the actual existence of this threat and announce that they have resolved, at all events, to ward it off by every means in their power, Statistics, as a whole, justify their opti- mis. Crimes and serious offenses, for the entire area of Greater Los Angeles, decreased in 1948/49 by 20%. The mumber of murders have dropped from 30 to 24, fatal wounds from 6 to 1 case, ° Figures, on the other hand, stress a renewed and extretely alarming outtreak in juvenile delinquency, which has increased by 96.54. It is fair to assume that it is a question of minor offenses, However, young people appear to be directly ~- menaced by gangsterism. Gang leaders are manifesting a very intense zeal in the enlistment of young recruits, and it has been confirmed that too many new arrivals have come to the Pacific Coast in order to devote thenselves, on behalf of groups of malefactors, to the recruitment of unreliable young people or those already seduced by the "glory" of Rowdy Life. Police Headouarterse in Los Angeles possess an extensive collection of synoptic files, electrically eclassi-+ fied. The same supervisor, assisted by thirty-two women clerks, has had charge of these files for 26 years. If there should be any need to stress the useful- ness of such a system of classification, it would suffice to cite the following example: ; . 0 : F rth re REOrDWH of aera 3/24/50 (- Cee