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LOUIS (LEPKE) BUCHALTER: $30,000 ‘Price’ Put on Head of Fugitive Lepke NEW YORK, Aug. 8—(?)— Somewhere in hiding Tuesday is a middle-aged man with a $30,000 price on his head. He is Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, 42, a stocky, swarthy, big-nosed gangster—newest wearer of the ver-shifting title, “Public En _gNo. 1.” . ') J. Edgar Hoover, G-man chil hose men have hunted Lepke f oO years, will pay $5,000 for : District Attorney Thomas E. | Dewey—thanks to action Monday ‘by the City Board of Estinat—! has raised .wew York’s ante to $25,000. : Both Hoover and Dewey have promised to keep secret the name of the person who “puts the finger” on Lepke, and the reward will be paid whether the fugitive racketeer, held responsible by Dewey for the slaying of five for- mer associates since he jumped $10,000 bail, is captured dead or alive. Se ee eee THE ATLANTA. JOURNAL August 8, 1939 In the hope of obtaining .a lead to Lepke’s whereabouts, Dewey rdered an eight-state alarm for Isidore Zennreich, 41, a partner lof Lepke and Jacob (Gurrah) Sha- ‘piro in the days when they domi- nated the baking and garment in- dustry rackets here. The search for Lepke was just one angle of an assault against a national “confederacy of crime” undertaken by a federal grand jury impaneled Monday by United States Attorney John T. Cahill. To begin immediate consideration of an 86-volume “Encyclopedia of Crime” prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hoover, FBI chief, is taking personal com- mand of the: investigative end of « Ceteidotlecrime b0-/S Of An aa . Cnffey .... Mr. Ejran ..... Mr. Ciavin |... Mr, Crowi...... Mr. Ha Mr. Lew Ptr, Law Mr. Nic Mr. Huse! j Mr. Sears .. 9 Mr. Quins Tam: Mc. Tracy ..... Miss Gundy ....