| Show 4 ALONG BROADWAY WITH Jf WALTER ALTER WINCHELL Nations Nation's Number One Olle Man G-Man Gives Some Facts About F FBI B I J J. J Edgar Hoover Americas America's celebrated Man G chief chief of the greatest crime detecting agency in the world is guest columnist today for Mr l Winchell now on vacation By J. J EDGAR HOOVER Winchell Didn't Know That One in every 14 male persons in the United States over 15 years of age has been arrested for some violation of the law and printed finger-printed by the police authorities of the United States No two fingerprint impressions have ever been found to be identical Statisticians estimate the chance of finding two identical identical identical iden iden- prints is one in an It is written as follows 10 A A- persons person's fingerprint impressions never change They form before birth and tho the details remain constant until putrefaction sets In after death Claims that crime conditions Inthe in inthe inthe the United States can be blamed upon the foreign clement element are not supported by statistics or a review of the nationalities of ot recent so called public enemies such as Face Pretty Boy Floyd Baby Nelson Verne Miller Frank Nash Harry Campbell Thomas H. H Robinson Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- inson Jr Harvey Bailey Bonnie Parker Eddie Bentz John Paul Chase Albert Bates George Machine Machine Ma IIMa chine Gun Kelly Robert Mais and many others A crime of serious proportions is committed ever every 20 seconds in inthe inthe th the United States and a man or ora ora a woman is murdered somewhere in the tho United States every 45 min mm- utes It is estimated that a total of major crimes arc are commItted committed com corn In t tho e United Stat States each year ear including murders 46 cases of felonious assault burglaries larcenies and 2 automobile thefts The cost of crime in the United States is estimated at each year or 10 each month for each man woman and child in the country Thero There aro are no G women in the F FB B L LEach L L- Each year more than persons per per- sons convicted of murder are discharged discharged dis dis- dis charged from penal institutions Of these more than 52 per cent centre are re released as a result of pardon or parole The average time served in prison by persons In the United States after afLer conviction for murder murder mur mur- der is only 43 months and tho the average term served by persons given a a. life sentence upon conviction conviction tion of homicide Is less than 10 years Special agents of the F FBI B I arp known to tho the underworld by a a. number of ot titles Including Men G-Men The Men en With the Long Arms The Tho Untouchables Sons of the Old Man with tho the Whiskers rs Feds Sharpshooters During tho the past year the FBI B I spent for its ita com complete pIe to operation and during tho the same sarno period of time its special agents recovered property and otherwise saved the government a total of more than thirty-eight thirty millions of ot dollars dollar In other words more than 8 were returned to the tho taxpayer tor for each dollar expended No one h lies has yet successfully ef effaced effaced ef ef- faced Ills his fingerprint patterns sufficiently suf suf- to avoid l Identification John Dillinger spent and suffered much pain In an nn effort to do so so His Ills fingerprints taken after his death when checked against his fingerprints before before- attempted mutilation revealed re o over or r identical characteristics When a criminal attempts to mutilate mutilate mu mu- his fingerprints to defeat identification ho lie merely brands himself further as M a criminal Special agents of the F FBI B I last year secured convictions of 95 per cent of all aU persons brought to trial for commission of ot federal crimes Each special agent of the F FBI B I must qualify each month as a a. marksman or or better In the use of the pistol revolver gas gun shotgun high powered rifles and submachine gun It is estimated that there aro are today in this country persons persons per per- sons who will commit murder be before before before be- be fore they die dlo and persons now living who will die at the hands of ot murderers The F I B. B I possesses more moro than criminal fingerprint records rec rec- the the largest collection in existence ex ex- ex- ex and and is receiving over additional criminal fingerprints each day from moro more than law enforcement agencies throughout tho the world Each month over fugitives from justice wanted by the police agencies agen agen- gen gen- des cies of the tho United States are ate lo ho- ho through checking fingerprints fingerprints finger finger- prints in this file at Washington Tho The qualifications for appointment appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment to the position of ot special agent In the F FBI B I are that tho the applicant must be between 25 and 35 years of age and that he be a a. graduate graduato lawyer or an expert ac- ac or that he have extensive extensive exten exten- sive law enforcement experience One of ot each 1000 qualified applicants applicants applicants cants for positions in the F FBI B I Is appointed |
