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The Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, Mandan, Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota
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President Roosevelt leads national drive against underworld with over 750 arrests in narcotics raids. Attorney General Cummings opens crime conference in Washington with 500 delegates to develop law-abiding program; suggestions for stricter laws and new institute.
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Roosevelt Leads Drive on Underworld as Over 750 Are Held for Dope Smuggling
Washington, Dec. 10.-(AP)-President Roosevelt assumed Monday the leadership in the nation's drive against the underworld.
As more than 750 persons seized in a "big push" against the narcotic evil awaited hearings from coast to coast, the president wrote a speech on the crime situation for the opening of Attorney General Cummings' crime conference Monday night.
Five hundred delegates-including some of the foremost criminologists, judges, lawyers, sociologists and officials-are here for the four-day meeting. The aim will be a closely-knit national program to make the country more law-abiding.
Many suggestions were heard, including:
1. H. J. Anslinger, chief of the treasury's narcotic bureau, said the week-end raids in which the government seized peddlers, addicts, narcotics, equipment and automobiles, showed the need for more drastic laws against the evil. At present, the treasury acts under its taxing powers.
2. The conference may chart drive against shady lawyers.
3. Treasury officials would like to have their police authority against bootlegging broadened.
4. A national criminological institute has been projected.
The government announced late Sunday that arrests in the narcotics raids totaled 587 men and 178 women.
There are indications that a second drive may follow swiftly.
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Washington
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Dec. 10
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more than 750 persons seized in narcotics raids; arrests totaled 587 men and 178 women
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President Roosevelt assumed leadership in the nation's drive against the underworld. Attorney General Cummings' crime conference opened with over 500 delegates including criminologists, judges, lawyers, sociologists and officials. Suggestions included more drastic laws against narcotics, drive against shady lawyers, broadened police authority against bootlegging, and a national criminological institute. Indications of a second drive.