CHARLOTTE—The functioning of "America's Scotland Yard," the United States Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice, in the criminal affairs of the nation is being related in detail in a series of radio broadcasts from station WBT, Charlotte. N. C., heard each Thursday at 8:15 p.m., EST. The activities of the United States Bureau of Investigation, its place in the country's policing system, and many thrilling and human interest stories encountered in the course of its working are to be told by Edward E. Conroy, who is at present in charge of the Charlotte field office of the famous organization. Previous to his appointment to the Charlotte district in May, 1932, Mr. Conroy was in charge of offices at St. Louis, Mo.; Oklahoma City, Okla., and at Omaha Nebr., at which points he brought to a successful conclusion the cases of innumerable outstanding criminal violations.
The series of broadcasts were arranged by officials of WBT with Mr. Conroy, who obtained the necessary permission for so radical a step in policy from John Edgar Hoover, director of the United States Bureau of Investigation at Washington. Appointed as chief of the organization in May, 1924, Mr. Hoover's revolutionary philosophy of crime administration has been unique. Discarding old ideas of "get the man by hook or crook," he entered office as a lawyer of distinction with a new policy—that of getting the evidence to convict, but insisting that agents observe the laws of the state and country and the rights of the citizenry in so doing.
The several thousand of letters received at WBT since its power increase to 25,000 watts indicate that Mr. Conroy's thrilling and instructive radio chats from the Charlotte station will reach a major audience in the two Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.