Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1963 — Page 12

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FBI Passes Along Crime Information

By MORT J. SULLIVAN United Press International CHICAGO (UPI) — On the bitterly cold night of Jan. 28, deputy sheriffs drove to an abandoned house northwest of Kenosha, Wis., on the site of former Bong Air Force Base. In the basement, just as agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had predicted, the deputies found the body of Anthony J ■ Biernat, 43, a Kenosha juke box distributor who had been abducted 21 days earlier. Biernat’s body was encased in lime, giving strong indication that the gangland-type assassination was carefully planned. The FBI entered the case 24 hours after Biernat, apparently Struggling for his life, was hustled by two men into a car at the Kenosha depot of the now defunct North Shore Line. It did so under the legal presumption that after the lapse of a full day, the victim could be presumed to have been taken across state lines. For more than two weeks, authorities on all levels combed the area, checked Biernat’s background, questioned and re-ques-tioned known associates and friends of Biernat. They got nowhere. Then the FBI told the Kenosha County sheriffs office it had ' some information on the Biernat case which the federal agency itself could not act upon because the information concerned an intra-state matter. The FBI said it had information that Biernat’s body might be found where, in fact, it was. How did the FBI come by its information? The FBI won’t say. But the case illustrates the flow of information generated on a ’’daily basis” by the FBI to various law enforcement agencies. It also flows the other way. “We are daily passing information to all levels of law enforcement,” Marlin W. Johnson, special agent-in-charge of the FBI Chicago office, said in an interview. “This is in line with Director (J. Edgar) Hoover’s belief that the first line of defense NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Estate No. 5826 In the Adams Circuit Court of Adams County, Indiana, Notice is hereby aiven that Katharine Kern & Lewis L. Smith were on the Ist day of April, 1963, appointed: CoExecutora of the will of BLANCHE R. KOCHER, deceased. f All persons having claims against ■aid estate, whether or not nowdue, must file the same in said • court within six months from the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Dated at Decatur, Indiana, this let day of April, 1963. Richard D. Lewton Clerk of the Adams Circuit Court -for Adams County, Indiana. Lewis L. Smith, Attorney and Counsel for personal representative. 4/3, 10. 17. LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Public Service Commission of Indiana Docket No. 29952. IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF CITIZENS TELEPHONE COMPANY, DECATUR. INDIANA FOR AUTHORITY TO BORROW 3300,000.00 AND TO EVIDENCE SUCH INDEBTEDNESS BY UNSECURED PROMISSORY NOTES. Notice is hereby given that the Public Service Commission of Indiana will conduct public hearing In this cause In the Rooms of the Commission, 907 State Office Building, Indianapolis, Ind., at 2HHT PM., EST, on Tuesday, April 16, 1963. „ Public participation is requested. _ PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF INDIANA §Y Allan Rachles, Secretary lanapolis, Indiana, April 1, T»«3. 4/3.

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against crime is the local law enforcement agency.” Johnson said many cases successfully Investigated by the FBI began from information supplied by city, state and other federal agencies. “But the best insurance for good law enforcement is an alert, law-abiding citizenry,” he said. “A local law enforcement agency is only as good as the people it serves.” Johnson said the average citizen doesn’t know in each instance the “proper” place to report a crime. For this reason, all agencies accept and immediately pass on to the correct department, the information tendered by the citizen. The FBI is the "proper” place for investigation of more than 160 matters, ranging from crimes on the high seas to extortion, from bank robbery to espionage, from sabotage to fraud against the federal government. The FBI, Johnson said, respects the sovereignty of local law enforcement and "has always opposed widespread expansion of federal jurisdiction. . “The FBI has always opposed the establishment of any agency which might serve as the precedent for a national police force,” he said and for this reason has refrained from injecting itself into local matters. “This is not to say that FBI facilities are not available to the local police officer,” Johnson said, “for they most certainly are.” How many agents are there in the FBI? Where they are located? The FBI won’t say. “We think we have good reasons for this,” Johnson said. “You just don’t throw away your trump cards. Knowledge of this type in the hands of the wrong person could well prove dangerous.” Johnson did say that the FBI has 55 “field offices” and “there is always someone on duty around the clock.” “If the head agent is away, his assistant must be available, and vice versa,” he said. “If I had a speaking engagement in Rockford, my assistant would have to be available in Chicago.” Johnson's office covers the northern 18 counties in Illinois. The remainder of the state is covered from the Springfield bureau. “The offices generally run akin to federal court jurisdictions although population density is also a factor,” he said. Besides the main field offices, the FBI also has “resident agencies” in hundreds of communities across the nation. These are staffed by one or two agents who are accountable to their main field office. Warns Broadcasters To Regulate Selves CHICAGO (UPI) — Newton N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, warned broadcasters today to regulate themselves or face the possibility of government doing it for them. “The way to keep any neighborhood from crawling with police-

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and that the association should have the power to enforce its own standards of broadcasting practices. The NAB code is a good one, he said, but the trouble is that “it is not complied with and is not adequately enforced.” Only 38 per cent of radio stations and 70 per cent of television stations subscribe to the code, he said, but not all of them always adhere

to its provisions.” Mino said his analogy of the policemen came from an article by the Wall Street Journal, a New York financial newspaper, which urged greater self-regulation by the stock exchanges. The same principle should apply to the broadcast industry, he said. “Self-regulation is clearly the best regulation, just as self-dis-cipline is the best discipline,” he

said. “Yet, though you have established reasonable standards for yourselves, you have demonstrated neither the capacity nor the will to enforce them. You can no longer have it both ways. You cannot subscribe in principle and ignore it in practice." Minow suggested that, with television about to expand from the present 12 to 82 channels under

new legislation providing for greater use of ultra high frequency transmission, networks in the future might have several affiliates in an area One would carry first-run programs, and the others might be used for specialty type programming and reruns of topp fare, he said, top fare, he said. Minow said broadcasting had greatly improved since he first

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described television as a “vast wasteland” before an NAB convention two years ago. There is more than three times as much informational programming i n evening hours now “and much of it is done with skill and courage,” he said. “You’re beginning to demonstrate what television can do but it is only a beginning,” he said.