Washington, May 14.
President Hoover is seriously concerned with the current increase particularly as regards the of "Scarface Al" Capone fand his henchmen, (Chicago beer ring. "kings," and other gangs in various parts of the United States. act as constituting a defiance The President construes these
of organized Inw and the Federal Government, and he feels that they must be suppressed at all costs.
The Department of Justice wise, collaborating with the distri orneys and in many instances the state prosecutors, is similarly exercised lover the situation and taking immediate steps toward cor-reeting it—United Press.
The Weapon to Hand Washington, May 14.
Congress has approved the trans-for of prohibi enforcement activities from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.
This transfer was requested by President Hoover for the purpose of strengthening the machinery for the enforcement of the "Dry" law—
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