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Given Jury as U. 5. Opens Biggest Drive | Buchalter First on List. ‘In War to Break Up Whole Underworld: System / By the Associated Press, ; NEW. YORK, Aug. 7.—The Na-! tion’s greatest assault’ on organized crime, delving into underworld ter- rorism in half a dozen major cities,; Omiy two weeks ago, a law-abid- opened today with the presentation music publishing official bie ° of a 500,000-word “encyclopedia of lived quietly in the Bronx wit as ” e and two c , crime” before a special Federal down by gunmen as he walked to grand jury. - ithe subway—apparently in mistake Thirty patrolmen were assigned to! for a witness against “Lepke.” Dis- guard witnesses in the sweeping in-! trict, Attorney Thomas E. Dewey has vestigation. ~ -OoN, -\plamed four other murders on Bu- Dominated by the shadowy figure|chalter’s ‘war of extermination” of Louts | (lepke) Buchalter, 42, against witnesses... °° 7 0 ** oe beady-eyed Manhattan racketeer) © 97; e Attacked. and will-o’-the-wisp target of an in-| , Hayboring to Be Attacked f tensive “dead or alive” manhunt, the Federal authorities said their far- inquiry was described by Attorney fung search for the former racket General Frank Murphy as the out- | overload indicated he had been pro-. growth of secret, concerted action | tected ‘by a criminal) undergromd by “Federal agents for several reilway—such As Was Veen th vo th months, i ee 2 | Oe an aan owhich ‘enabled ‘ “ gimultaneous offensives, Mr. Mur- | the Civil. Weak wie phy said, will be launched in Chi~ nim to: Ang shelter almos’ any- cago, New Orleans, Boston and other!) "\ 4; f ior ere key centers, perhaps including)", .-"* Pig iicies eng barticularly Miami, Philadelphia and San Fran-,®ttikes at harboring criminal, Mi “One of the major objectives will | 2° me . be’ to get at corruption and crime: Organized . crime canner onde in politics,” the Attorney General. whee itis deprived o its ple- nee pruchalter Case First. (Withe.Federal. prosecutor said wit- a © Buchalter Case First. nesses from. the. Southwest, Middle } -Athough United States Attorney | weatjyand Pacific Coast would. be ‘John T. "Cahill, directing the Na-'calléd-hefore the grand jury to give” ‘tion-wide anti-crime war through || direct ‘eyidence.in: support of the ceritral “clearing house” here, said the inquiry was “broader: titan any voluminous . “crime encyclopedia” i ‘ mpiled by G-men, which report- case or criminal,” it was known the/| edly chronicles an astonishing series | grand jury would quickly direct .its|| off murders,. kidnapings, underworld : attention to the Buchalter case.. — {{- t" A fugitive for two years, sought |” both in:this country and-abroad at er 4 cogt of $250,000' a year,.“Lepke” is |Tltories and raciet ctte ord | wanted as the alleged master: mind com ae ® Who's Who,” -iareotics operations, in various | indubtrial. rackets and in a series of | With names, dates and complete in- formation’on rackets and gangsters ‘| moujh-silencing - murders .of wit- | *°" nessts against him, ws. >] every State. 0. os