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.V .u. Page Two / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949 department of justice were all he ing the FBI some jurisdiction in kid- had behind him, but Attorney Gen- napings. The law was later strength- eral Palmer picked the young prod-! . . . 1Q ,. 1 , *. ., ' r * .. i ened. In 1934 congress gave the FBI I igy to prosecute the subversives the ,, department was then rounding up > w,c * c authority to act against robbers tin its mass raids. (Hoover had noth- of national banks and against major Washington, May 7.—The Com- in S t° do with the raids themselves.) j crimes of almost every kind if cer- munists have met J. Edgar Hoover Hoover got most of the ringlead- tain interstate angles were involved, before. ers deported. Best known was Em-! The resuUs came fut In 1934 the FBI Chief Marks 25 Years of Service Some of them may recall it as ma Goldman, the anarchist. Lindbergh kidnaper was caught. the case was watching for FBI ac- the senate floor, where one member ^ on> * il charged that Hoover sat at his desk As FBI agents closed in on “Ma- anc | j e t his men make arrests and chine Gun" Kelly, Urschel’s kidnap- t heir lives. er, Kelly squealed out of his corner,! „ . , . .q,* fKie "Don’t shoot, G-man!” ° ne day m 1936 thlS senator pil - loried Hoover while the director sat facing him in a committee hearing. ‘Don’t shoot what?’ "G-man—government man." Thus Kelly gave Hoover’s agents and the name that became famous fiction, movies, comic strips breakfast food premiums. I For all >iis successors in this pe-, they sit on the prisoners' bench in When Hoover, a medium-sized largely through FBI efforts. When federal court in New York City and man brisk, military gait, cooly Charles F. Urschel, millionaire Okla- Jisten sheepishly to the testimony of escorted Emma Goldman down to homa oil man, was kidnaped, the "party members" who for years the New York barge office one nud- culprits artd everypne connected with riod, Hoover had his foes—even on have been agents or informants of night in 1919, a fascinated reported the Federal Bureau of Investigation, described him as “that slender bun- It was in 1919, when Hoover was die of high charged electric wire." only 24 and two years out of law His voltage took him places in a Si bool. Two years of work for the hurry. In 1921 he became assistant Hoover said nothing, but the burning black eyes above the square jowls showed he was tense and anxious. At that minute a plane was warming up to take him to lead the raid in which he hoped to capture a kidnaper, Al vin Karpis. Karpis had been publicly threaten ing to go to Hoover’s office and kill him. But when the head G-man grabbed his arm Karpis was so terri fied he froze to the spot. Hoover personally conducted many other raids. When he led his agents in the capture of Harry Brunette, a pistol pointed directly at him mis fired. That was his closest shave. Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St. Office Hours 9:00 to 5:30 Phone €58 P & G PAINTS All Colors for Outside and Inside Work J. R. Crawford South Broad St. at Armory Phone 10 HEAVY AND FANCY GROCERIES We Deliver H. J. PITTS STORE ALCOHOLISM Treated Safely - Effectively ftesident M. I). in Charge Alco-Haven Sanitarium Telephone Day or Night 6u5 E. North St., Greenville, S. C. 2-4485 GULF PRODUCTS Tires, Tubes, Batteries and Accessories INSECT KILLERS Quick Action Gnlf Spray Gulf Trak Gulfspray Roach, Ant Killer CLINTON SERVICE STATION E. Carolina Ave. Phone 9€ director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and on May 10, 1924—- 25 years ago Tuesday—he was made director. He built the FBI up out of almost) nothing, brick by brick. As it gath ered power and momentum it mow:-, ed down the gangs and the kidnap ers, the bank robbers and the racke teers. And now it is in the midst of its biggest battle—against American Communists. Hoover’s men consider this the toughest battle of all. It is so vastly complex—lines and net works tunneling and criss-crossing throughout the nation. The bureau was founded in 1908, but it had never amounted to much It had only 657 employes when Hoo- | \er took it over (today there are 9,- 500), and they spent most of their time poring over corporation ledgers; trying to ferret out violations of the abti-trust and bankruptcy laws. 1 Their other chief assigments were catching white slavers and automo-' bile thieves. { The agents couldn't carry weapons * and couldn’t make arrests. If they had a prisoner they had to find a policeman or U. S. marshal. Having no automobiles, they had to use streetcars. The bureau was a joke among the nation's policemen. | There was no fingerprint file. If there had been one, it could have proved embarrissing. Many of the employes were ex-convicts. When President Coolidge came in he began to clean house. He brought in a highly reputable scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone, as attorney general. 1 (Stone later became chief justice of the United States.) One of Stone's (first acts was to appoint Hoover asf 1 acting director A few months later he made him director. The FBI National academy, in; which Hoover's agents are trained, also holds courses for picked local police oifkiuls. Well informed per sons say that the FBI ha- helped \o remold the entire law enforcement system of the natron Hut t >r years after 'Hoover began to build his bureau his work was. '.isr.ittied f>r lack of federal junsdic- i t.on over the crimes of the gangster , era. which were growing worse and worse. Bank robberies, gang massa- ' cres and hundreds of kidnappiogs baffle:! local poliee They couldn't punsue criminals from one jurisdic- ' tion t<^ another. The local officials themsel rts asked congress for help, j The Lindbergh kidnaping in finally shtseked congrass into action. It passed the "Lindbergh law,."' giv- BE SURE ITS "DEAP OUT" BEFORE IE AVI NO A BONFIRE OR BRUSHFIRE. ! Notice of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS The Cftnton group of Alco holics Anonymous meets to night and every Thursday eve ning at 8:00 over Copeland Hardware Supply Co. store. Anyone who has a sincere desire to rid himself or herself of a drinking problem is cor dially invited to attend these meetings, or write Alcoholics - Anonymous Clinton, S. C. P. O. Box 113, Clinton, S. C. for an interview or informa tion. Four Inured Om County Highways During P«st Month Special to Thn Chronicle. Columbia, May 11,—Four persons, were injured in Launms county highway accidtaits during the month i of March, according to a report just; issued by the motor vehicle divis-J ion of the S. C State Hiid>way Do-! partment. All of the injuries result—’ ed from accident* taking place on state highways. Eight of th*'thirteen highway accidents in Laurens coun-j ty during the month took place oni state highways, i icluding five of the accidents which involved property damage. A total of 710 notor vehicle acci dents w ere reported for the state < as a whole, of w'h-xh 476 occurred on ; state highways. T'ke 32 highway fat alities reported f ir the mimth all lesulted from accidents on state highways, as did the acckfcents in 1 which 231 persons* of the cntal 265 persons injured, w^re hurt. Accidents involving property damage* totalled 508 for the state, with 303 the ac cidents occurring on state ixghways,; according to (he rt?port. J Bill Proposed To “|Moke Exemptions State Income Taxes Special to The Chronicle. Columbia, May 11—The House of Representatives last week, after «fx- tensive debate, recommitteed to the Ways and Means CommitUie a bill to amend the Code of Laws of South Carolina in regard to exemptions I PICK m COOPER MOTOR CO. PhMe 515 West Main Street from net income in the mater of state income taxes. The bill •'cruld adlcrw an individual taxpayer to deduct i before computing his state income [ tax the amount be had paid iai fed eral income tax. Before voting to send the bill back to a committee, the Heuse refused by a 59 to 45 vete to “continue” t€e bill, which usually has the effect of killing a measure. The House then voted, 53 to 49, not to kill the motion to send The bill back to a commit tee, and finally by a 58 to 46 vote agreed to recommit the measure. On the final roll call vote, Rep. C. Culbertson of Laurens county and Reps. C. L. Milam and R. C. 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