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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.
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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-
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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
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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. Wasson
voted with the majority to send the
measure back to the Ways and
Means Committee.
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