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_Kashincton, ». C. FELEPHONE MAIN IF3O le. B. Jones & Sons Inc. SINCE 1889 INSURANCE IPT! FLOOR FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BLDG. ’ Bt de ! KANSAS Crry,Mo. — — oe ne Se oa SE Sta pee a eer ge et R_BRYSON JONES dune 19, 1933 7 *® : a CHAINMAN OF THE BOARD Hon. Homer 5. Cummings, - iiy dear hire Cumaince “Gur nex -soeDers: ‘heve “recently ‘informed us thet “it is. your ‘ntention te take in hand the matter of crime prevention and suppression. | - Saturdey momning, es vou kmor, a massacre occurred on our Station Plaza. Four . officers out of the seven who vere”escorting e “prisoner to Leavenworth from Hot _ Sprinzs, Arkansas, were killed, as wes the prisoner. “he three things that == - contributed most to the success of the s surprise. attect on the part. of, ‘the ganz oo sters were: 1. The unrestri ected sols of iirc arms, including machine | pang--notwithstending ae " “the lant thet “are sun osed to prevorit ‘such unrestricted Sales. | we 2. The wnivereal eistom of tne officers of the len paying no. ‘attention to ‘the : — eriue of carryinr concealed reanons by people not authorized to do. Soe 3. The lack of treining of the officers tho are suposed to do such work ‘as this and which results——es in this ease, all of them being huddled © close together betreen oarked cars, like a covey of quail--in their being utterly unable to repel an attact of this characters .. ea “Guday ‘lnost any citizen of our comnmmity can, within a fer minutes, buy any sort of fire erm - including a machine gun. All he needs to have is the money, Ho ‘references oY -“iything else being resuired by most of the retail dealers of | these 1 weapons dnc. Kansas City. oo, Ds Furthermore,» our ofiicers are dcily arresting men suspected of crimes end ‘fing then well ermcd rith revolvers and other concealed reanons, but if they do not find: them” . guilty of the narticular crime for which they were arrested we never hear that they aon ere fined or irtecrcereted becausc of the lar vresenting the carrying of. eonesaled | yenoonse ra lay o _ oreo woe Yr 7 _ Es galt ¥ [as V% . | A RECORDED . eae 7 0, geese = |! v gun 30108 “ui 2 8 | tation " ae a7 | ~