Show Of 97 Million little Known Storiei About Well Known People Inept military censorship haa appalled many newspaper men However we believe there would be leas and between reporters quibbling it they brass bat would use the following yarn as their Some years ago an army guide: ammunition depot exploded on the Picture a vast room longer and wider than a football field with a vaulted ceiling 75 feet high filled with long rows of steel filing cabinets But the colooutskirts of Baltimore In this great hall 2500 girls nel in charge of the depot refused to work at calculating machines any information give reporters and filing cases They promptly appealed to the gen- - typewriters Then visualize 96588265 sepr il commanding the corps area arate fingerprint cards (the o picked them up in his car and i nvoyed the newsboys to the scene total as this is written) in these files and you have some idea cf the disaster They were greeted at the gate by the colonel who of the size of the fingerprint stated: “General I have Just thrown or identification division of the ' some reporters out of here" federal bureau of investiga“Colonel let The general replied: tion in Washington me present these gentlemen to you In addition a But that isn’t all They represent the local newspahalf dozen other large rooms are I've dlsoovered that it is bet- filled with hundreds of other girls pers ter to give them the news right engaged in classifying incoming fiaway They'll probably dig up the ngerprint cards before they are forbut a little Information anyhow warded to the main fingerprint files saves them time and It Is a complex tedious Job of huge The general’s helps the army" but so proficient has ths proportions name? Douglas MacArthur FBI become in this IdentiflcaUon vision so expert has become the When heavyweight Joe classification that when champ system the sheriff of New Madrid county Louis was a youngster his mother took him to Detroit's child guidance Missouri or the chief of police of Norman bureau or the town marshal Okla The psychologist there studied his case His amazing counst Bluffton Ind telephone for idensel Is still a part of the bureau’s tification of u given person or sends In fingerprints thess officials havs flies: ‘Teach him to do something an answer within a few minutes with his hands" For although there are almost 100 million separate cards representing haa who waded Anyone 100 million on file classipersons through the labyrinth of Brettoa fication has been reduced to such a Weeds er studied the intricacies science that It ia never necessary to ef reconversion Is aware remove more than 100 cards for Is a complex subject to make positive identiWUI comparison Regers once listened to a fication dlseuaslea by a group ef expert reserBuilding up this tremendous eeenemleta One of them asked voir identification of cards has beRegers: "What Is year eptulea come a hobby almost a fetish of Win a best rigid eoehornyf” the nation's boss J Edgar fattened: "The only thing I knew Hoover director of the FBL He sheet rigid eeeneray Is that H foresaw years ago the advantage of Is a dead Scotchman" the fingerprint system in both criminal Identification and in civilian One Lowell Thomas tells this: both in investigations evening in May 1111 when franklin peace and wartime The system has D Roosevelt and his wife were drivhad a tremendous growth during ing borne a concussion followed by these five war years a terrific explosion tors the air Boreas Expanded by War Need Turning bate their own street they 1941 For instance on July the found themselves in total darkness bureau had approximately 21700000 driving over broken glass Every fingerprint records on file But sines street lamp was blown away the ths war records havs trees stripped of their leaves At been comingfingerprint into the bureau at the home they found the front door rate of about 22000 daily Impetus blown open end ever f window shathas been given through the selective tered The lower floor was chaos service system and the civil service FDR dashed upstairs shoutcommission which requires fingeing “Johnny Johnny” Johnny was War rprinting of all employees and confused the sleepy by uproar workers are all fingerprinted too He wanted to know what the trouble and sent to the bureau was "Turn over and go to sleep" so thatcopies arethese war about during years Mrs Roosevelt said firmly and calm77 million prints have been added ly “It’s Just a little bombl” The job of classifying filing and Ever since then at moments of exthese millions of separate trema excitement or uproar in the sorting cards has been a tremendous one when a measRoosevelt household to recruit was necessary First it Is called for someure of These girls from all over the nation body quotes that priceless remark: girls had to be above the average ‘It’s Just a little bombl" with high school or college educaTeddy Reeaevelt Informed a bioggreat lesrapher that be learned son in the art of diplomacy from an Indian chief While touring the west Teddy met an Indian who had aix wives Roosevelt suggested that he choose one and discard the After thoughtful conother five sideration the chieftain agreed —on one condition "You choose the one for me to keep" he replied “and then you tell the other five" France’s great statesman demanded drastic punishment for Germany’s war criminals after the last war but he was overruled by his diplomatic colleagues One diplomat Informed "Your demand to kill so The many Germans Is murder" French statesman looked him straight in the eye and mapped: “Killing microbes is also a form of ’murder But they must bs killed In order to cure a disease!” to be jabbed The OWI continues by fiapjaws who deprecate the importance of propaganda in the cur- But the use of propa- rent struggle ganda as a weapon of war Isn't new Napoleon was as wily a propagan- he was as a dist Dur- militarist ing ths war in Spain Bonaparte's of- flcial editor penned this communl- que: "The emperor with forces much Inferior to the enemy inflicted a decisive defeat on him” In the I margin Napoleon wrote: “Idiot! I have more than I need no glory want already But I need the enemy to think I have soldiers when I have not” Striking out the references to his Inferior forces he wrote: “At the htad of forces far superior to those of the enemy the emperor gained u brilliant victory” Ysu could fill s library with G B But thers have Shaw squelches been times when the haa been the victim Shaw abof a rapier retort hors dinner parties One time Lady Randolf Churchill invited him to come to one of them Shaw wired: “I will not come to your dinner party Why should 1 break my well known habits?” Lady Churchill her reply: "Know swiftly wired nothing about your habits but trust bad are as jour mannot as they ners” tions They took the regular FBI oath Their habits and lives were and even thoroughly Investigated their place of residence in Washington picked from a list supplied and approved by the FBL But to get this bureau started to overcome the popular prejuto dice against being fingerprinted sell police officials on the advantages of ths fingerprint system In the early days took months and months of educational wor by FBI agents traveling throughout the country Enlisted Help of Local Police It took painstaking effort on the part of the bureau to build up good will among police officials and public officials everywhere In those early days every agent had orders when passing through a town to pay his respects to the police officials and to pass along a “message” from J Edgar Hoover concerning his willingness to help In any local investiThe crux of the message gation was “don’t forget to take fingerprints and send them In” The identification division is now boused in the for the duration white stone District of lumbia national guard armory It occupies the whole building and has new temporary addiconstructed tions to house the cafeteria lounges ind locker rooms ' Where it will go ifter the war Is a question Criminal identification is indispensable in combating crime and of course is a most potent factor in of the fugitive From ipprehension the earliest annals of history per tonal identification of tome character has been in vogue Members of me savage tribe were distinguished Yom others through distinctive attire bodily decorations or scars from cuts or burns It was not until the ad- - This is s portion ef the Personal Identification Form allowing the Haters ef the left hand The print of each finger Is alse recorded separately on the card which alse contain all necessary written data vent of photography hdwever that law enforcement agencies initiated methods modern and built up The famous “rogues" galleries BertiUon method a aystem of measurements of certain bony parts of the anatomy In addition to the frontal and profile photographs was an effective but not a positive means of identification since it was early realized that one operative would take these measurements “loose” and another would take them “close" resulting in different classifications This system nevertheless was the best possible until the fingerprinting method was developed In the early 1900s Ths pioneer wor was done by Sir Francis Galton a noted British scientist who discovered that no two Individuals In the world have identical fingerprints and that the pattern remains unchanged throughout life 1892 he assembled the first collection of fingerprints in the world In 1890 the International Association of Chiefs of Police which includes the heads of police departments of most of the principal cities of this country and Canada established a special bureau at Chicago This was later removed to WasIn and became known as the Bureau of Criminal IdenIts purpose was the comBertillon records As use of the Bertillon system was discontinued the national bureau gradually began acquiring a collection of fingerprint records FBI Tok Over la 1924 In 1924 this Identification division was placed under the jurisdiction of the FBI and received consolidated In Washington the records of both the National Bureau of Criminal Identification and the records of the More than Leavenworth prison 11000 law enforcement agencies today are submitting prints to the bureau and more than 600 fugitives are Identified by the bureau each month The bureau has now on file more than 1200000 print of persons applying for government positions under the Civil Service commission Comparison with criminal record show that 77 per cent of these have had a previous criminal history or about 1 out of 20 applicants Through the vigilance of the FBI these people are barred from obtaining positions of trust within the government Here’s an example of how these requests of identification work In 1939 the Works Projects administration in New York City submitted prints of a woman applying for a reSearch housekeeper job vealed that she was arrested in June 1933 on a first degree murder charge and a fingerprint card sent from Sing Sing indicated that the woman was incarcerated at Ossining N Y awaiting execution for murder It Is Interesting to note that after being sentenced to execution In 1933 this woman was somehow free six years hington National tification piling of as later and Uniqueness of Fingerprints Was First Established in 1880 by British Scientists at Tokyo in 1880 to establish the individual fingerprint patfact terns were of very great variety and that they remained unchangeable Sir Francis Galton noted English scientist established the fact that no two fingerprints are alike and devised the first collection of fingerprint records in 1892 But the comprehensive system which is ths basis for that used in that i fashioned knife old boxes are popular as a quaint touch for serving food or drinks or to fill with plants or cut flowers They are useful for sewing knitting or reading matter too And here is good news— you don’t 'T'HESE i On September 14 1944 29 persons were killed in a train wreck at Terre Haute Ind Twenty or more were NEW WHITE HOUSE TEMPO been army air corps men returned from Harry Truman has now overseas Difficulty was experienced President of the United States for a in identifying the bodies but finger- little over two months— two of the prints were sent to the FBL Exmost historic months in the nationsuf- s are perts carefully checked the incomhistory These two months ing fingerprints and identified eight ficient to get a fairly accurate gauge of them under names sent In from of how the new President will funcTwo other prints however Indiana tion for the rest of his term atwere not Identical with those ef milOn the surface there is a new itary personnel whose names were mosphere in the White House when othtwo as were but identified given walk into it these days If for you er soldiers whose names had not Instance you drop in on White been furnished House Secretary Charlie Ross he i So not all identifications are crimbut brief There cordial eourteoua inal Identification Missing persons Is no Invitation or inclination to sit have been found amnesia victims down and gossip This business-likidentified traffic accident victims the atmosphere prevails throughout identified for Instanc- eentire White House staff Fingerprints of am amnesia victim If you go on In to see Ross’s boss from Fresno county general hospital few are There you get in on time in California were received The vicwaits And the little man on the tim had been asked to write on her other side of the big broad shiny card any names which fingerprint desk listens intently He wants to came to her mind She listed seven hear what his visitors have to names and addreases in Gary Ind are two definite innovations W Seattle Wash and Charleston Truman gives the impression of Va As soon as the prints were rea firm grssp’on all domestic having ceived by FBI they were found to problems He knows them thoroughbe identical with a set of prints re— undoubtedly better than Frankceived from Portland Ore from a ly Roosevelt lin during his latter years company doing war work In makwhen he was devoting all his time the woman of to the war ing the application course had given her correct name One of Truman’s frequent replies and this information was furnished to callers when they urge sanction The woman the police In Fresno on some special Idea is: had no criminal record In the FBI “I realize that But it fakes time files to do all these things and seldom Importance of fingerprint Identifhave so many important things is pointed ication of confronted us all at one time I’D out when the department shows that around to that jjift as soon as in ths past year alone 9000 bodies Iyetcan” were taken to morgues and nearly One thing that worries him most 2000 doomed to burial in potter’s la our foreign affairs Ths new Presfields becaust of inability of authorident frankly realizes It is his main ities to identify them During the He does not have weakness 200000 more than persons game year international - background disappeared in this country and were therefor has to rely almost wholly sought by relatives and friends Finhis diplomats on has solved thousands of gerprinting Trsmaa's method ef running these tragedies and returned many la that ef pickthe government lost folks to their loved ones ing good men sad giving them Records Benefit Everyone free rein This Is s geed system and we could have had The department In this connection more ef it In the past Bnt it points out ths advantaga of voluAs breaks down when the President ntary widespread fingerprinting Is sot sore he can rely on the a permanent seal of personal idenmen picked to perform the meet tity these fingerprint records offer indubitable benefits to those who take Important Job we now face — building sp the peace after the advantage of the service it apwar Truman told Stettinius for According to Mr Hoover Instance that be was to be Ms pears to him as ridiculous that if a But own boss at San Francisco victim of amnesia or of a disaster has a prior criminal record his famhe found that Stettinius called him on the phone once or twice ily will be immediately notified while if he haa lived within the law s day to get his approval of almost every decision his family Ignorant of his trouble This Is aii can render no aid Truman does Unlike Roosevelt paradox because fin- not hesitate to fire a man who la the of the criminal He let Leonard gerprinting doesn’t produce rule while fingerprinting of the Reinsch go back to his radio job in citizen la still the exception Atlanta the day after bo handled identification All civil personal himself badly in a press conference files are in separate kept He transferred Edward D McKim prints and apart from the criminal records his administrative assistant‘after it and are there available in case the became known that the genial and meets with any mishap individual likeable McKim seemed too enwhich makes it necessary to deterDiamond” in Mrs “Hope grossed mine his identity McLean’s dinner parties snd the soOne interesting sidelight on the cial whirl of ’Washington side is the criminal identification in conjunction with its maintenance ONCE MscARTHUK FIRED EISENHOWER regular alias name file an addiThis nickof file nicknames tional Sometimes it is from quirks ol name file now Includes approximatefate or personal jealousies that ly 283000 cards and is of value In heroes are bom Old army establishing the Identity of criminals friends of General who are known only by aliases couldn’t Eisenhower help but reand nicknames member this as they gathered to It sometimes occurs that the only pay him tribute clue to a particular crime is a nickFor If It had not been for a pername used unconsciously during the sonal row with General MacArthur crime Many of these name are in the Philippines Elsenhower probas stick Ash and amusing descriptive ably would be in a Jap prison camp Pan Slim Dill Pickle Cream Puffs today instead of receiving the plauAnt Eater Bughouse Bill etc A dits of millions number of cases have been solved by retired as chief When MacArthur these names with coordinating of staff and began the reorganization of the new Philippine army h gerprints took with him to Manila one of the men of the bright army Col Dwight Eisenhower But after some time in the Philippines things didn’t go well and MacArthur fired him Eisenhower went back to the USA to climb to fame and the top command of the American army If he bad remained with Mac Arthur he probably would now be with Gen “Skinny” Wainwright and the 16 other American generals taken prisoner by the Japs The mala file reem la new located in the great drill ball of the aational guard armory The identification division ef the FBI new oocupiee the entire armory Thin la a temporary arrangement After the war a special building probably win be erected Individuality Thd first known scientific observation particularly relating to was made in 1886 by Marcello dalpighL professor of anatomy at he University of Bologna Italy who illuded to the ridges which divers figures” on the finger ip During the subsequent years thers pointed to the “ridges" on he finger tips but it remained for 3r Henpy Fauids an Englishman onnected with the Tsukijl hospital Fashioned Knife Box People Through Fingerprint Cards Huge Files Now Hold Records of Majority Of American Citizens for an Old Uses New Division Can Name Anyone FBI's Identification BASEBALL AND UNITED NATIONS In San Francisco a delegation ot called on Australia's Philadelphiana External Affairs Minister Herbert Evatt to ask that the city of broth-llove founded by William Penn become the seat of the United Nations in the future Dr Evett listened carefully Then be replied: “I can’t vote for Philadelphia until the Philliea get out of the cellar I'm afraid it would give the United Nations a defeatist attitude if both Philadelphia baseball teams were at the bottom of their WOR JJR READING FROM FOR SERV1N6 OR HOT ROLLS FRurr OR CARRY PLACE place THE PATTER GIVES YOU COMPI DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING box wtth WITHOUT THE ATTACHED 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in polics work was la Sing other war that he has become one ol Sing prison in New York state in the most ardent advocates of inter1903 Then on September 24 1904 national Tobey even R- - W — bleated (indirectly) his old friend Mc?ugtu7 U S penitentiary atHCesvenworth and colleague Dsnsher Kan was granted authority to fiwho Connecticut while an execof ngerprint prisoners and five dayi latutive of the Republican national comLouis St er the police department mittee used his position as to go on the senate floor end inaugurated the system under suof a British officer from pervision lobby against the reciprocal trade Scotland Yard agreements act - - Ct Into Action For Full Victory! |