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JUVENILE DELINQUENCY (Los Angeles, Calif.) WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1955 United States Senate, Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary To Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Los Angeles^ Calif. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 1: 25 p. m., in room 518, Federal Building, Los Angeles, Calif., Senator Estes Kefauver (chairman) presiding. Present: Senator Kefauver. Also present: James H. Bobo, general counsel; William Haddad, consultant; and Harold Lane, field representative for Congressman diet Holifield. . .„ ^ Chairman Kefauver. The subcommittee meeting will please come to order. . ^ ., -r^ ,• Today the Senate Subcommittee To Investigate Juvenile Deliquency begins the first of 3 days of hearings on the problem of juvenile de- linquency. Before I discuss our purpose in these hearings, let me take this opportunity of expressing my personal thanks to many civic officials— State, city, and county—and the many organizations that have coop- erated with the subcommittee staff during the past few days. That staff tells me that the friendliness and the assistance of both the local and State officials, and others, have greatly enhanced our work. I want to particularly express my appreciation to some of the officials of the General Services Administration and Internal Revenue Department—Mr. Stillwell, Mr. Campbell, and Mr. Kroger, and to the field representative of Congressman Chet Holifield. Congressman Holifield gave us his assistant, Mr. Harold Lane. This subcommittee is composed of Senator Wiley of Wisconsin, Senator Hennings of :Missouri, Senator Langer of North Dakota, Senator Daniels of Texas. We had planned that three members of the committee would be here today, but at the last minute, it was impossible for Senator Hennings and Senator Langer to come for this first meeting. AVe do hope that Senator Langer will be here tomorrow, because personally I do not like to hold one-man committee hearings. But we had our arrangements made, and we feel that we must carry on. Last year this subcommittee held three hearings in California. We visited San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. At that time the candidness of California public officials and private citizens en- abled us to collect valuable information, on the causes of delinquency,