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MAKE SURPRISE VISIT NEW YORK, N. Y., April 5. The outstanding law enforcement personalities Attorney-General Frank Murphy and No. 1 G-Man J. Edgar Hoover paid a dramatic surprise visit to New York today. Both men entered the Brooklyn Federal Building without advance notice. They declined all comment on the purpose of their visit and were closeted immediately with Clyde Tolson, Hoover aide; D wight Brantley, New York director of Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Acting United States Attorney Vine H. Smith. Though denying that his trip to Brooklyn had any special significance. Murphy admitted he planned to confer during the day with John Harlan Amen, former assistant attorney general now assigned to a special prosecutors job in tracking down official corruption in Brooklyn. "I will also confer with United States Attorney John T. Cahill in Manhattan,! Murphy, said,.
