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Show New Uses for an Old Fashioned Knife Box FBI's Identification Division Can Name Anyone Of 97 Million Huge Files Now Hold Records of Majority Of American Citizen People Through Fingerprint Cards Specter of Starvation persons September Stalks Liberated Europe were killed train wreck at Terre On or drink touch for serving or to fill with plants or cut flowers. They are useful for sewing, knitting or reading matter too! And here is good news you dont 14, 1944, 29 in a Haute, Ind. Twenty or more were army air corps men returned from , prints were sent to the FBI perts carefully checked the Incom ing fingerprints and identified eight of them under names sent In from Indiana. Two other prints, however, were not identical with those of military personnel whose names were given, but were identified as two other soldiers whose names had not been furnished. So not all identifications are enm- inai identification!. Missing persons have been found, amnesia victim identified, traffic accident victim identified for instance Fingerprint of an amnesia victim from Fresno county general hospital in California were received. The victim had been asked to write on her fingerprint card any names which came to her mind. She listed seven names and addresses in Gary, Ind , Seattle, Wash., and Charleston. W, Va. As soon as the prints were received by FBI they were found to be Identical with a set of prints received from Portland, Ore., from a company doing war work. In making the application the woman, of course, had given her correct name and this information was furnished the police in Fresno. The woman had no criminal record in the FBI ?RRy" YOUK WC&K Place TO Place Oft ' ! Many Nations in Ex- Ficture a vast room, longer and wider than a football field, with a vaulted ceiling 75 feet high, filled with long rows knife THESE areold fashioned popular as a quaint food Hunger Already Rampant Relief Dependent on Sacrifices of United States and Canada. Run op DRihns E THE actual- - lK JiZf TE By BAUKIIAGE ft4 r0Eu5fi Aeus Anal) if and Commentator. of steel filing cabinets. in In this great hall 2,500 girls WNU Service, Union Trust Building they are number one priority UNRRA and of schedules relief the C. D. Washington, work at calculating machines, The size and ahape of the postwar of the countries which pay for their typewriters and filing cases.n This Is a of the Personal food emergency which the world haa own imports. Then visualize 90,588,265 sep-- Identification portion the finForm, showing An UNRRA worker In Yugoslavia been generally anticipating and i ate fingerprint cards (the gers of the left hand. The print of take reported that he saw girl 12 and 15 fearing is now beginning to mid-Jun' ital as this is written) in these each finger Is also recorded sepshape. As this is written In years old carrying hundred pound i.les, and you have some idea arately on the card, which alio cona awelling cry if coming lacks of grain on their backs for of the size of the fingerprint, tains all necessary written data. acrosa the Atlantic. "We're hungry. five kilometres. In Greece, women or identification division of the vent of ua food." In one day' Issue of and children hitched themselves Send photography, however, that New York Times there were to carts of supplies and hauled them federal bureau of investiga- law enforcement the agencies initiated over mountain road that were so tion in Washington. special dispatches stating: modern methods and built up But that isn't all. In addition a full of bomb craters that trucks liberated 1. the That European The famous "roguoa galleries. half dozen other large rooms are Bertillon method, nations were meeting in London to could not travel them. a aystem of measfilled with hundreds of other girls urements of certain hear the facts of the world food situ- 100 Million bony parts of People engaged in classifying incoming fination from British Food Minister the anatomy In addition to the frontLlewellin. He had spent three Hungry on Continent gerprint cards before they are for- al and profile photographs, was an warded to the main fingerprint files. effective but not a months in Canada and the United In the face of this situation, it is means of It is a complex, tedious job of huge identification since positive States surveying the world picture. evident that, as Colonel Llewellin it was early realproportions, but so proficient has the ized that one operative would take It was said that he would inform told the British House of Commons FBI become in this identification di- these measurements "loose and anthe delegates of the liberated coun- on June 13, "There are a hundred vision, so expert has become the other would take them close retries that there is in prospect a million hungry people in Europe classification system, that when sulting in different classifications. world shortage of 2.500.000 tons of today." Hope for relieving hunger is the sheriff of New Madrid county, This system, nevertheless, was the meat, 1,000.000 tons of fats and oils in imports this summer and next Missouri, or the chief of police of best possible until the fingerprinting and 1,500,000 tons of sugar. A short- winter. Will the imports be forthNorman, Okla., or the town marshal method was developed in the early age. that is, in terms of what is re- coming from the world outside? at Bluffton, Ind., telephones for iden- 1900s. The pioneer wor was done by files. quired to maintain a quite frugal, The best answer that can be tification of a given person, or sends Sir Francis Galton, a noted British Importance of fingerprint identifidiet though fairly health-givinat present seems to be not given is pointed in fingerprints, these officials have scientist, who discovered that no two cation of 2. That European nations were bein volume desired." To provide the when out that the shows an answer within a few minutes. individuals in the world have identidepartment to produce to the maxiing urged enough food to bring the populations For, although there are almost 100 cal fingerprints, and that the pattern in the past year alone 9,000 bodies mum in order to offset the lack of of liberated Europe and the Far to were and taken morgues nearly million separate cards, representing remains unchanged throughout life. food supwinter for their or import East up to the prewar level to 2.000 in doomed burial 100 million persons, on file, classipotter'a In 1892 he assembled the first collecply. even to a rather low minimum level fields because of inability of authorification has been reduced to such a tion of fingerprints in the world. 3. That the new food minister of for full health and strength would ties to identify them. During the science that it is never necessary to In 1896 the International Associasame year more than 200.000 persona France (Christian Pinaud) was bring the civilian food supplies in remove more than 100 cards for tion of Chiefs of Police, which indisappeared in this country and were coming to the United States to urge the major nations down considercomparison to make positive identi- cludes the heads of police departthe American food industry to sell ably from their present level. The fication. ments of most of the principal cities sought by relatives and friends. Fin- food to France. British ration has already been reof thousands solved has resergerprinting this tremendous Building up of this country and Canada, estaband in a number of items duced food 4. ration and returned the Bavarian That these bemany voir of identification cards has tragedies lished a special bureau at Chicago. was down to the low minimum of it was a tight ration before the relost folks to their loved ones. come a hobby, almost a fetish, of This was later removed to Washduction. Australia has cut down but1,150 calories a day (the average thd nation's boss Record Benefit Everyone. J. Edgar ington and became known as the ter and meat rations still fur3,200 American diet contains Hoover, director of the FBI. He National Bureau of Criminal IdenThe department In this connection within the last 60 days. ther foresaw years ago the advantage of tification. Its purpose was the compoints out the advantage of volunA the fingerprint system in both crim- piling of Bertillon records. As use tary, widespread fingerprinting. As Need It Acute good part of the answer to the of hungry Europe and the Far inal identification, and in civilian of the Bertillon system was disconidenplea permanent seal of personal East depends on how much sacInvestigations, both in tinued the national bureau gradually tity these fingerprint records offer in- In Many Areas peace and wartime. The system has began acquiring a collection of fin- dubitable benefits to those who take The need for food Is acute in rifice the civilians in the United had a tremendous growth during gerprint records. States and Canada are willing many areas throughout the contiadvantage of the service. to undergo. President Truman, in these five war years. in It nent to of Mr. The apFBI Took Over In 1924. Hoover, people living Europe. According Bureau Expanded by War Need. In 1924 this identification division pears to him as ridiculous that if a German - occupied Holland have issuing the report of Judge Samuel on For Instance, July 1, 1941, the was placed under the jurisdiction of victim of amnesia or of a disaster been suffering from outright starva- Rosenman on relief needs in western Europe, pointed out that the bureau had approximately 21,700,000 the FBI and received consolidattion for months. The physical conhas a prior criminal record, his famfingerprint records on file. But since ed in Washington the records of both ily will be Immediately notified, dition of many was so serious im- American people need to underthe war, fingerprint records have the National Bureau of Criminal while if he has lived within the law, mediately following liberation that stand the dire plight of the people been coming into the bureau at the Identification and the records of the his family, ignorant of his trouble, they were no longer able to digest in these Allied countries in orrate of about 22,000 daily. Impetus Leavenworth prison. More than can render no aid. This is an ordinary foods. The whites of eggs der to be prepared to accept conhas been given through the selective 11,000 law enforcement paradox because fin- in powdered form were shipped tinued control on our consumption agencies toservice system, and the civil service day are submitting prints to the bu- gerprinting of the criminal is the from the United States to pro- here. The coming months will give g commission, which requires finger- reau and more than 600 fugitives are rule, while fingerprinting of the vide special treatment for these the answer to the extent and severiWar identified by the bureau each month. printing of all employees. victims. Britain also ty of controls that are imposed. citizen Is still the exception. starvation workers are all fingerprinted, too The bureau has now on file more All civil personal identification shipped to Holland a special food Food Not Mone- yand copies are sent to the bureau, than 1,200,000 prints of persons ap- prints are kept in files separate consisting of solutions of predigested so that during these war years about plying for government Remains Scarce and apart from the criminal records proteins, glucose and vitamins. positions un77 million prints have been added. der the Civil Service commission. and are there available in case the In Yugoslavia, when UNRRA supRelief for liberated countries is The job of classifying, filing and Comparison with criminal records individual meets with any mishap plies arrived and were being un- not a matter of financing. The counthese millions of sorting separate show that 7.7 per cent of these have which makes it necessary to deter- loaded from the first shipment, tries of westerp Europe have their cards has been a tremendous one. had a previous criminal history, or mine his identity. food was so scarce that the women own financial resources and are First it was necessary to recruit about 1 out of 20 applicants. Through One interesting sidelight on the brought brooms and brushes to seeking in vain to particubuy girls from all over the nation. These the vigilance of the FBI these people criminal Identification side is the sweep up the grain that spilled from larly such items as canned meats, girls had to be above the average, are barred from obtaining positions maintenance in conjunction with its the sacks of wheat. When cans of dairy products, fats and oils and suwith high school or college educa- of trust within the government beans were distributed to the peo- gar. The liberated countries of eastregular alias name file, an additions They took the regular FBI Heres an example of how these tional file of nicknames. This nick- ple, the Yugoslav weighing offi- ern Europe which do not have the oath. Their habits and lives were requests of identification work. In name file now includes approximate- cials were so careful In measuring foreign exchange resources to pay thoroughly Investigated and even 1939 the Works Projects administra- ly 285,000 cards and Is of value in out portions that it was common to cash for their supplies are receivtheir place of residence in Washing- tion in New York City submitted establishing the identity of criminals see a single bean removed from the ing them from the uninvaded United ton picked from a list supplied and prints of a woman applying for a who are known only by aliases scales In order to give each person Nations through UNRRA. UNRRA approved by the FBI. no more than his fair share. and nicknames. Search rehas financial resources contributed job as housekeeper. But to get this bureau started vealed that she was arrested in June, In May, the office of foreign agri- by the uninvaded nations. The It sometimes occurs that the only to overcome the popular prejuclue to a particular crime is a nick1933, on a first degree murder charge cultural relations of the United trouble is that supplies are not dice Bgainst being fingerprinted, to and a fingerprint card sent from name used unconsciously during the States department of agriculture re- forthcoming in the scarce food lines sell police officials on the advantages Sing Sing indicated that the woman crime. Many of these names are ported that this years output of at a desirable rate. of the fingerprint system in the earwas incarcerated at Ossining, N. Y., descriptive and amusing such as Ash food In Europe will be the smallest Incidentally, the director ly days, took months and months of awaiting execution for murder. It is Pan Slim, Dill Pickle, Cream Puffs, since the beginning of the war. It of UNRRA, in a somewhat general educational wor by FBI agents justified interesting to note that after being Ant Eater, Bughouse Bill, etc. A may be as much as 10 per cent un- didactic vein, has lately pounded traveling throughout the country. sentenced to execution in 1933, this number of cases have been solved by der the 1944 production. As the war Enlisted Help of Local Police. woman was somehow free six years coordinating these names with fin- has come along, machinery is home in his public utterances the fact that if UNRRA fails to provide It took painstaking effort on the later. worn out. Factories have been kept gerprints. of to the bureau build out of most of Europe by the lack supplies, it is not because of up good part UNRRA's shortcomings, but bewill among police officials and pub' of transportation and the shortage cause the member nations do not lie officials everywhere. In those of materials. come through with the supplies. had orders early days every agent Manpower has become scarcer. when passing through a town to pay UNRRA, Director General LehIn the final agonies of the conflict, his respects to the police officials farm animals were slaughtered man says, is not a superstate with and to pass along a message from or stolen by the retreating Nazis. resources and powers of its own. J. Edgar Hoover concerning his willFar from it. It is the servant of the Hence, the production of the contiingness to help in any local investinent will reach the low point of this governments which created it. gation. The crux of the message winter in the current crop year. There Is one bright spot amid the was dont forget to take fingerSharpening the difficulties is the encircling gloom of the food situprints and send them in. breakdown of internal transpor- ation. This is the fact that the world The identification division is now tation to move what food is pro- has plentiful supplies of wheat. This housed, for the duration, in the duced from the countryside into the member of the bread has brand-negrains white stone District of Cocities and towns. In the final phases been produced in bumper quantities lumbia national guard armory. It of the war the Nazis systematically for several years in succession by occupies the whole building, and has destroyed railroads and rolling the farmers in the U. S. and Canaconstructed new temporary addistock behind them as they re- da. The crops have been average in tions to house the cafeteria, lounges treated; the Allied air forces sys- other exporting countries. The reind locker rooms. Where it will go tematically blew bridges and burst sult is that wheat is not even under ifter the war is a question. locomotives. The result is that in allocation and the full amount Criminal identification is indispen-labl- e Greece, for example, there were needed for a normal diet can be in combating crime and of for months no railway lines op- supplied to the people of liberated course js a most potent factor in Even when some of Europe. But man doesnt now, erating. live by ipprehension of the fugitive. From the tracks and bridges are repaired, bread alone. For health and vigor, the earliest annals of history, there are less than 20 locomotives you and I and everyone need some identification of some characand less then 500 good cars in the fats and proteins in our diets ter has been in vogue. Members of country. More are being rushed we be willing to cut down on Will our me savage tribe were distinguished there, but the railway transport will by the standards of Europe rather !rom others through distinctive atThe main file room is now located In the great drill hall of the national be far below even the wartime nor- lavish consumption of these tire, bodily decorations, or characguard armory. The Identification division of the FBI now occupies the mal. The highway service has dis- so that our liberated Allies can things teristic scars from cuts entire armory. This is a temporary arrangement. After the war a special integrated and the bridges are through the next winter with a come mini-muor burns. It was not until the ad- - building probably will be erected. blown. Trucks are so scarce that loss of health and strength? this country was established by Sir Individuality and Uniqueness of Fingerprints Was commissioner of poE. R. B First Established in 1880 by British Scientists lice at Henry, Londons Scotland Yard ofThe first known scientific observa1901. in introfice 1880 First practical to establish the at Tokyo in The Domei (official news agention particularly relating to fingerfact that individual fingerprint pat- duction in police work was in Sing Slide fasteners, hooks and eyes prints was made in 1686 by Marcello terns were of very great variety, Sing prison in New York state in cy) broadcasting station in Tokyo buckles and other closure items' 1903. Then on September 24, 1904, reported transmitter trouble. Static will soon reappear tfalpighi, professor of anatomy at and that they remained unchangeand then well R. W. McClaughry, warden of the or he University of Bologna,.Italy, who able. be all fenced in again. illuded to the ridges which Sir Francis Galton, noted English U. S. penitentiary at Leavenworth, divers figures on the finger scientist, established the fact that Kan., was granted authority to finImporters of French lace ordered A large increase in the latand five the and no two years subsequent paid for before the occupation of bicycles in the third production and days are During prisoners, alike, gerprint ips. fingerprints quarter of of France will be assisted in locat1945 is doubtful, ithers pointed to the ridges on devised the first collection of finger- er the St. Louis police department to the ing it by the foreign economic ad- wpb so m- -ta according he finger tips, but it remained for print records in 1892. inaugurated the system under suBut the comprehensive system pervision of a British officer from ministration. The frills will help pay pedal extremities and not Dr. Henry Faulds, an Englishman your ped-alfor the necessities. lonnected with the Tsukiji hospital which is the basis for that used in Scotland Yard. for a little longer. e. ... OR READING FROM USE FOR il.RviN& T ROLLS, jfWj-aHO- g al ever-recurrin- g DIRECTIONS for . MAKlNS TH knife box with OR without the attached STAND WHICH HAS LEAVES TWO pull-ou- t jjave to rummage in antique shops to fln(j one may be macje at home without any complicated tools. Even the little stand with t leaves is of such handy simple construction that it can bo made by any amateur. It may be attached to the knife box and carried right along with it. pull-ou- It Is fun to cut these pieces out of good clear pine or maple. The Joinings are of the simplest type made with plasUc glue. quick-dryin- g NOTE Pattern 281 gives actual-si- r patterns for all parts of the knife box and for the tides of the stand. 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