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MEMPHIS 1S PRAISED” FOR LOW CRIME RATE Gore Suggests Ways To Fur- ther Reduce Figure ! PROUD OF CITY’S RECORD; 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, = 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,” Represerfa-| Gore said, “I am proud of fhe. eat city of Memphis, proud Jof, the record of civic improvem it, law enforcement and clean livi rq that you have as citizens and a city. 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 3950 | ialmost one instance per day of ag- gravated assault of one of, your fellow citizens upon another—156 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 |-4s for the period; nearly two ‘thefts or larcenies of more than $50 Per day—341 for the period; more than five larcenies per day of sums less than $50—888 for the period; almost one robbery occurred. per. day—150 for the period. “When you add together these crimes, large and small, plus mur- ders and manslaughters, you find that during the first six months of Prosperous 1950, there were 2619 .rimes reported to the FBI as com- imitted in Memphis, Ahe youcsat- lliedewith that?” v8 RE: MEMPHIS CRIME RATE FROM: THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL MEMPHIS, TENN. 2-21-51 ‘ =:Compares Figures ir, Gore” compared Me mph rders'-during the first «| lat year with 29 in“ Birmingh| 41 in Atlanta, 34 in New. Orl and 20 in, Nashville. “=. | ‘He told'mémbers and guests that’ crime’ could: be reduced: anywhere by encouraging a desire’ to’. do right and creating a Christian con-| science, ‘fémoving a. criminal temp- tation, “minimizing the probability! lof @ successful crime and making certain that retribution will fol- slow criminal acts. _ | Representative Gore was intro-' iduced by O. D. Bratton. . Special guests were Commissioner Armour, D. S. 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. - jot Arts and Don Brown of Mem- pis State for the first four prize- ners in a crime preventio: ter contest. Pe Ralph Crockett presided. ‘Th Iujcheon was at the King Cottor ISFORVATION CONTAINED HEREN § UNCLASSIFD, ysfert yt pate GLZGEL BH. bb.