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BOYS GRADUATE IN ANTI-CRIME COURSE. . J. Edgar Hoover pins medal on Louis Bohar, one of group from the University Settlement in New York. ANTI-CRIME PUPILS | WASHINGTON, June 16.—After |intensive study of the evils of crime, ‘twenty-five boys who have been tS Td. E. HOOVER graduated from the anti-crime ‘East Side Boys Get Thrill by Seeing and Hearing Head of Federal Agents. TRIP IS COMMENCEMENT | Marks Their Graduation From Course Conducted by the University Settlement. Special to Tae New Youx Tours. Ehe New York Cimes Published: June 17, 1935 course of the Boys Anti-Crime Council, University Settlement, in the lower East Side of New York City, had a real thrill today when they visited J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice. They saw some of the famed government agents and inspected the govern- ment's man-hunting facilities. The boys gazed at the fingerprint collections, had their own prints made, and got a close-up of how the department functions in cooperation with cities and States. Mr. Hoover made a brief address, declaring that crime never succeeds and that detection of crime has in- creased greatly in the last few years. : Kidnapping, he asserted, will be brought to an end because crim- inals realize that they cannot es- cape the laws which are constantly becoming more rigid in every State, with many States now imposing capital punishment, Badges Presented to Boys. He gave to each boy a badge bear. ing in gold and blue the slogan “Crime Can't Win.” Thus the commencement exercises of a unique course came to an end. The boys then visited other Federal buildings and journeyed to Mount Vernon. The class included: Moe Atchek, 97 Stanton Street; Max Aguado, 176 Eldridge Street; Louis Bohar, 120 Orchard Street; Hyman Bueller, 47 Clinton Street; Isidore Corito, 176 Eldridge Street; Paul Cassell, 62 Rivington Street; Moses Cohen, 115 Ludlow Street; Jack Caucer, 157 Suffolk Street; Jo- seph Golstein, 174 Forsyth Street; Max Goldstein, 147 Orchard Street; Ben Gear, 44 Delancey Street; Hy- man Katz, 142 Suffolk Street; Irv- ing Kramer, 42 Rivington Street; Abe Leibowitz, 166 Allen Street; Jo- |seph Lax, 99 Suffolk Street; Michael Mosio, 176 Eldridge Street; John | Paletta, 142 East Fourth Street; jArthur Rosenberg, 142 Suffolk | Street; David Seigel, 126 Ludlow | Street; David Sedaka, 122 Suffolk Street; Jack Sosinsky, 143 Orchard Street; Sam Weiner, 170 Delancey Street, and Richard Zaffos, 207 El- dridge Street. Guests of J. A. Voice, Accompanying the boys was J. A. Voice, president of the Consolidat- ed Lithograph Company, whose generosity made the trip possible. He is an East Side boy who rose in Horatio Alger fashion and has maintained his interest in young- sters at the University Settlement. Magistrate Jonah J, Goldstein, pro- ponent of the social attitude in law administration and at one time a) worker at the University Settle- ment, also accompanied the boys. The boys of the Anti-Crime Coun- | cil, ranging in age from 12 to 15, rode as part of the course in a| Black Maria handcuffed together | and learned at the Tombs prison’ | how it feels to be on the wrong side’ of cell bars, They went through the arrest process at New York police headquarters, sat in at a court session with a magistrate and studied probation and parole mat- ters under official auspices, The New York authorities are cooperating to make the University Settlement's work city-wide. Other | cities have requested data upon | Which to plan similar operations. Irving Ben Cooper of Seabury in- | vestigation fame is chairman of the | council,

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