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$30,000 Is Offered For Surrender of Lepke, Gangster Racketeer’s Aides . . ‘Also Sought as Dewey And Hoover Press Hunt ‘BY the ‘Associated: Press. "0 i l NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—Somewhere lin “hiding today is a middle-aged man with a $30,000 price on his head. He is Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, 42, a stocky, swarthy, big-nosed gang- ster—newest wearer of the ever- : shifting title, “public enemy No. 1.” J. Edgar Hoover, G-man chief | whose men have hunted Lepke for \ two years, will pay $5,000 for him. | District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey ; --thanks to action yesterday by the City Board of Estimate—has raised New York's ante to $25,000. “Becrecy Promised. , omised | to keep: secret the’ Chat eeet ret ene oe pin \Vname of the person wha “puts the finger” on Lepke, and tdreward Paha os ety raed came lb esis Mr. Hoover and Mr. Dewey Chote . 22.22 eeaeee « Coley ...ceenewee § Mr. Lester ..0..----- 4 5 » Laveler ....2- svc : . Nichols ...-..-.2- | a a “ a 5 a ro) is] 3 a bad * . Sears __..--..+--- ra n & # mj i os a 4 wD iy eg a ay a will be paid whether the - fugitive racketeer, held responsible by Mr. Dewey for the slaying of five former associates since he jumped $10,000 bail, is captured dead or alive. In the hope of obtaining a lead to Lepke’s whereabouts, Mr. Dewey ordered an eight-State alarm for Isidore Zennreich, 41, a partner of Lepke and Jacob (Gurrah) Shaprio in the days when they dominated the baking and garment, {nduatry rackets here. oy Part of Anfi-Crime Drive, ”’ ~ The search for Lepke was just one d angle of an assault against a nae {ional “confederacy of crime” under-_ en by a Federal grand jury im-. paneled by United States Attorney John T. Cahill. ete Ee Several business executives were: named on the jury which prepared to begin immediate consideration of an &86-volume “Encyclopedia of Crime” prepared by the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation. Mr..Hogver, F. B. I. chief, is taking pepfonal the “anti-crime” drive. cal 7