F.B.I. PREPARES

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 68, 14 December 1944, Page 7

F.B.I. PREPARES

Post-War Crime Wave Expected YOUNG DESPERADOES (Reecvied December 13, 9.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 12. “The first signs of a post-war crime wave -of considerable magnitude are already appearing,” ' said Mr. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He added that groups of G-men were being brought back to headquarters for retraining in the three avenues of crime which he expected -would prove .the most troublesome. These are kidnapping, extortion, and bank robbery. Mr. Hoover said that bank robberies and kidnapping were on the increase. A number of the crimes were being committed by discharged servicemen. Factors influencing the increase in crime named by Mr. Hoover were juvenile delinquency, which had grown to sizeable proportions, nnd the economic readjustment of workers and ex-servicemen who had criminal tendencies before going to the war and who have now learned to kill. I “The most desperate of. post-war criminals will be young men in their late ’teens or early twenties. Already ffiany ex-soldiers who learned to shoot men in Tunis. Sicily and Italy are forming gangs the bulk of whose members are ’teen-age delinquents. Many of these bands of young desperadoes have figured in daring bank robberies in which the lives of many innocent persons have been-, placed in jeopardy. We will use all the latest.developments of science, including television, in our efforts to smash this coming crime wave.”