Archive Report
Archive Report
Pleas for Federal Aid in Suppression Of Organised Crime
The Lindbergh kidnaping case has given wide publicity to the recent growth of this type of crime and has fixed the attention of Congress on demands for federal assistance to state and local authorities in efforts to extinguish it. On March 9, 1932, eight days after the Lindbergh kidnaping, the House of Representatives passed unanimously a bill providing severe penalties for persons sending communications containing threats to kidnap or demands for ransom through the mails. The House Judiciary Committee held hearings in February on a bill to make transportation of any kidnaped person across state lines a federal crime punishable by death or imprisonment. The committee has already reported one bill and is soon to hold ...