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Se a er ee Sn OTS CY FOR LOW CRE RATE Gore Suggests Ways To Fur- -- ther Reduce Figure = i a PROUD OF CITY’S RECORD. vo . By ARCHIE QUINN . Representative Albert Gore yes- terday paid tribute to Memphis’ low crime rate and then asked .What would be done to’ reduce it , further, oo a The congressman from Carthage, representing Tennessee's Fourth District, spoke to the ‘Exchange Club in the climax to Crime Pre- vention Week, sponsored annually y the organization. “As a Tennessean,” Representa-; tive Gore said, “I am proud of the, eat city of Memphis, proud fot the record of civic improvement, law enforcement and clean liv. 4 that you have as citizens and a ' city. oe . City Has Problems “But even with this good. rec- ‘ord, Memphis, too, has its problems: According to statistics of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, there! was during the first half of 1950 | jalmost. one instance per day. of age! ‘gravated assault of one of. your fellow citizens upon another—i56 from Jan, 1 to June 30; nearly two auto thefts per day—341.for the Period; more than four housebreak- _ings or entering burglaries per day | —T48 for the period; nearly two ‘thefts or larcenies of more than $50 per day—341 for the périod; more than five Jarcenies per day of sums less than $50—868 .for the period; almost one robbery occurred. per day—150 for the period. : : _“When you add: together these Arte tt ee eR en F 41:in Atlanta, 34 in New. Orl |by." encouraging a . desire>. to’. r. Gore’ compared -Memphis{"15_ itders’ during the first “half of- t year. with 29 in’ Birmingh m, and 20 in. Nashville “78 238 | ‘He told’mémbers and -guests‘that. crime could: be reduced ouywhere -ao right and creating a Christian con- science, ‘femoving a. criminal. temp- tation, minimizing the probability of a successful crime and making certain that retribution will. fol- low criminal acts, | Representative Gore was intro- i duced by O. D. Bratton. . Special | guests were Commissioner Armour, D. 8. Hostetter, special agent in charge of the Memphis office of the FBI, and G. C. Gearty, FBI field inspector from Washington. ' Before the address, Homer Gen- try presented checks to Joe Giles of the Memphis Academy of Arts, Bob Hurt of Memphis State Col- lege, Joe Bennett of the Academy. of Arts and Don Brown of Mem- pltis State. for the first four prize ‘lwinners ina crime preventio: ‘poster contest. i P . Ralph Crockett presided. Th lugcheon was at the King Cotto crimes, large and small, plus: mur- ders and manslaughters, yeu find u INFORMATION CONTAINED that during the first six months of AUL | UNCLASSIFIED. bec jptA~ ‘Prosperous 1950, there’ were 2619 HEREIN 1S Ui b4Ab7, VL ‘b crimes reported to the FBI as com- (FO, Y. DAT imitted in Memphis, Ahe younsat- | ksdiodewith that?” + RE: MEMPHIS CRIME RATE FROM: THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS, TENN. 2-21-51