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". . . There is today a new home of crime in America," wrote Chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover in February's American Magazine, "a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder. Hence the terse order that goes out daily to law-enforcement agencies when criminals are on the loose: 'KEEP CLOSE WATCH ON TOURIST CAMPS!"

This blast echoed at the convention of United Motor Courts (Eastern Division) and the eastern branch of International Motor Court Association last week at Miami Beach.* The 350 convening tourist-camp owners agreed to...

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