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@ NATIONWIDE DRIVE: ON CRIME IS PUT UNDER WAY HERE New Federal Grand Jury Starts Work and $25,000 Is on Lepke’s Head. I The coun®ywide drive against -erime and criminals began inl earnest today, the last of the pre- liminanes having been disposed of: with the impaneling .of a Federal; crime Grand Jury and the posting! by the city of a $25,000 bounty oni Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, the na-| tion’s No. 1 fugitive, who brought the campaign to a head. The twenty-three men selected to, serve on the Federal investigating’ body before Judge Edward A.Con-' ger, organized yesterday and stood! ready to tackle the vast record of. crime prepared for them when they convene at 2 P. M. today. : Unhampered by city, county or State lines, this Grand Jury wilt be able to hear witnesses from all over the nation during its ninety-day session. While its activities are be-: ing carried on under great secrecy! jt was understood that subpotnas hay? been issued requiring the ap- ealrance before it within the next offj as Cleveland, Miami and Lo Pew! days of witnesses from as of Anveles. | i w—eHeaver Here to Help. J. Edgar Hoover, durectér of The! Frdcial Bureay of _Lovesticauon, ts) flere to take personal charge. fhe work (he FBT is doing” to dist United States “Attorney” John a> CannL.and. the_Grand_Jun. “District Atterney Dewey. whor has intensified his search for thes missing Lepke, made this statement after the Board of Estimate com-! pled unanimously to his request’ ‘that the reward for the racketeet “be increased: “Twenty-five thousand dollars! will now be paid by the City off pNew York for information leading | yto the capture of Lepke. | i exy office and that of Capt.: , Conrad Rothengast are open twenty-four hours a day. The per-' .son who gives the informatian leading to Lepke’s arrest will be fully protected, his identity will inever be revealed, and information will be received with absolute con- fidence.” The board at the same time ap proved a reward of $5,000 for the capture of the slayers of Irving Penn, music firm executive pre- sumably mistaken for a formel Lepke associate. Mr. Dewey disclosed yesterday that at his request the police hat syat out an eight-State alarm fc ldidore Zenmreich, one-time Le ph} plrtner indicted with him in 199° oj. charges 10 connection with tH blkery racket.