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Show J. Edgar Hoover Cites Profit To U. S. Taxpayers from FBI NEW YORK. Dec. i JPI J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal fed-eral bureau of investigation, today to-day announced "dividends" to taxpayers tax-payers of ST for every dollar spent on the bureau. He said that during the last four years the cost of operating the F. B. I. amounted to a little more than $18,000,000. while it was able to return "in savings, in fines, and in recoveries of stolen goods a total of more than $135,000,000. or more than $116,000,000 above what it costs to operate the bureau." Hoover addressed the Associa- tlon of Life Insurance Presidents. He took occasion to attack parole systems (excluding the federal), the failure of police units to cooperate co-operate in the collection of statistical statis-tical data and criminal records, jail conditions, shyster lawyers, venal politics, "kid glove treatment" treat-ment" of criminals and other weak spots In the American scene of police and court activity. He said that during the last four years, of every 100 persons chsrged by G-men and tried, 94 were convicted. "The records of the F. B. L show that 55 per cent of all criminals crim-inals arrested have been previously previous-ly arrested for other crimes," he said. 'The records also show that approximately 50 per cent of all prisoners now are being released on parole. "Thirty per cent of the 13.511 dangerous criminsls listed in the F. B. I.'s single fingerprint file as the country's most desperate kidnapers, racketeers, hoodlums, bsnk robbers snd extortionists show a record of having been the recipients of parole or other types of clemency . . . not only once but in msny cases as often ss four, five. six. seven, eight, nine snd 10 times." He declared the "criminal army of America" was composed of 4,-300.000 4,-300.000 persons. |