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_ LEPKE INFORMER Will Keep Identity. Secret as Protection against Retaliation — ie il Mr. OC sine Fiaucom. Bfr, Tragy 20.2... 2 XM fiss Gandy....... OS Re TRIER RRB ENCORE OTL SMOME Ty ote : te: wer FeeioD ea aes ooo Federal and city agencies direct- ing a nation-wide hunt for Louis (Lepke) Buchalter Pinned their chief hope today on the $30,000 re- ward that is now offered for-in- a formation leading to his capture, dead or alive, oO ‘ District Attorney Thomas E£. Dewey made no secret of the fact and promised complete protection! to any person whose fear of under-: world retaliation may prove less: strong than the lure of the small! fortune offered for the nation’s No. Lracketeer, 00 fas yt “My .office and that of - Captain Rothengast are. open twenty-four hours. a day,” Dewey said. “The person who gives the information leading to Lepke’s arrest will* be fully protected, his.. identity "will never be: revealed and information 7 will be received with absolute con- fidence.” bee oe Captain Rothengast is in charge of a special squad of fifty-five po- licemen and detectives assigned to the Lepke search, — ot Following the action of the-Board of Estimate yesterday in increasing the city’s reward from $5,000:. to $25,000, in addition to the $5,000 stil). offered by the Federal: Bureau of Investigation, -the - Police : Depart- ment began printing 1,000,000 circu- fars ee descriptivnand details of the new offer. Es