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4y F-B.1. Hunts Lepke in New York Area City to 0 Boost Reward for Him To $25,000 The nation’s resurgent, spectacu- lar war on crime is centered here jtoday. i} While the U. 8, Attorney John T. Cahill began spreading before a special Grand Jury the sagas of a thousand criminals in all quarters |of the country, New York’s Board of Estimate was expected to approve “The first of a series of articles on ‘Louis (Lepke) Buchalter’s ex- - ploits and the hunt for “him oP “pears on Page 11. an additional $25,000 reward for the jeapture of Louts (Lepke) Buchalter agitive gpin racketeer. : At ‘the same. time federal agents under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover, concentrated their efforts to turn up” Lepke here. “There appeared to be little Ukeli hood of any slip-up in boosting the}: reward for Lepke’s arrest. “The: $25,000 ‘boost wil bring thé ante on Leépke to* $35,000—dead ‘or|. jalive. Both the city and federal gov-}. ‘ernments have already put up $5,000 ‘each, The _spectal” tederal Graid’ Jury was: drawn this morning from a panel of fifty and immediately: set about hearing. testimony from the several .score witnesses. Mathias F. Correa, chief. assistant to Mr. Cahill;‘and Jerome Doyle and. William. Young,’ assistant United {States Attorneys, presented addi- tional material from the nearly half ‘million pages of a report which took ythe: Federel Brees of Investigation petal ‘emphasis 5 wil be pinced on securing indictments of those who] | ihave for the past two years “‘hiir- bored Lepke, considered th cnt Hon:, dollar . fugitive,” ‘an er racketeers, who are on the lam. ™ “Fhe government:has ‘made it cléar that doctors. ee treat’ Lepke: ‘tor hif-jinesses- he 4s. b Mr. Sera... eee Mr. quiaa ‘¢amm.... . Tr . rat -— ° —— i 7 Clivpine fram . NOY Teel RET ELEGRAM peta: ANG 7 1839 7138 — eee FORWARD BY LEW YOLK DIVISION