Show w M- Cross'- - Stitched ' FBI's Identificafioir DivisioifCan Name Anyone Of Stallrs Liberated Europe' 97 Million People Through Fingerprint Cards Huge Files Now Hold Records of Majority Of American Citizens Hunger Already Rampant in Many Nations Relief Dependent on Sacrifices of United States and Canada Towels Kitten! Picture a vast room longer and t wider than a football field with a vaulted ceiling 75 !eet high filled with long rows )f steel filing cabinets In this great hall 2500 girls work at calculating machines typewriters and filing cases Then visualize 9658825 separate fingerprint cards (the total as this is written) in these Ales and you have some idea of the size of the fingerprint )r identification division of the federal bureau of investigation in Washington On September 14 1944 29 persons were killed in a train wreck at Terra Haute Ind Twenty or more were army air corps men returned from overseas Difficulty was experienced a n identifying the bodies but were sent to the FBL Ex- incom-n- g peris carefully checked the fingerprints and Identified eight of them under names sent in from Indians Two other prints however were not identical with those of mil- -' tary personnel whose names were othgiven but were Identified as two er soldiers whose names had not been furnished are crimSo not aU Identifications inal identifications Missing persons have been found amnesia victims identified traffic accident victims identified for 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 Little Known Stories About Well Known People loeyi military censorship has appalled many newspaper' men However w believe there would be lesa quibbling between reporters and if they brass fast would use tha following yarn as their guide: Some years' ago' an army ammunition depot exploded on tha outskirts of Baltimore But th colonel in charge of the depot refused to giv reporters any information They promptly appealed to tha general commanding tha corps area who picked them up in his car and conveyed the newsboy to tha scene of th disaster They wer greeted at the gate by th colonel who stated: "General I have just thrown soma reporters out of here" The general replied: "Colonel let me present these gentlemen to ypu They represent tha local newspapers I’ve discovered that it Is better to give them the news right r1T)DV inspiration p away They’ll probably dig up the o work at hpUj Information anyhow but a- little I® sives them time and! towels 4on® he’ll make even Y Th the general's helps army" fun! ing name? Douglas MacArthur 1 By BAUKIIAGE Veto Aiudytt and Commentator Service Union Trnit Building they are number one priority in the relief schedules of UNRRA and Washington D C The size and shape of the postwar of the countries which pay for their This ia a portion ef the Fersenal food emergency which the world has own imports Identification Farm showing the finbeen generally anticipating and An UNRRA worker In Yugoslavia gers af the left hand The print ef fearing la now beginning to taka reported that he saw girls It and 15 each finger Is also recerded sepshape As this la written in years old carrying hundred pound arately an the card which else a swelling cry la coming sacks of grain on their backs for all pecessary wriUea data across the Atlantic "We're hungry five kilometres In Greecs women Send us food" In one day's issue of and children hitched themselves vent of photography however that the New York Times there were to carts of supplies and hauled them aw enforcement agencies Initiated special dispatches stating: over mountain roads that were so modern methods and built up But that Isn’t alL In addition a L That the liberated European full of bomb craters that trucks The famous "rogues" galleries rooms half dozen other large art Bertlllon method a system of measnations were meeting In London to could not travel them filled with hundreds of other girls hear the facts of the world food situurements of certain bony parts of ation from British Food Minister 100 Million People engaged In classifying incoming fin- the anatomy in addition to the frontHe had spent three Hungry on Continent Uewellin gerprint cards before they are for- al and profile photographs was an months in Canada and the United In the face of this situation it Is warded to the main fingerprint files effective but not a positive means of It Is a complex tedious job of hugs Identification since it was States surveying the world picture evident that as Colonel Uewellin early realIt was said that he would Inform proportions but so proficient has ths ized that one operative would take told the British Hobs of Commons thedelegates of the liberated coun- on Juns 13 "Thera are a hundred FBI become In this Identification dl these measurements “loose" and antries that there Is In prospect a million hungry people In Europe vision so expert Ass become the other would take them "close" reclassification system that when sulting In different classifications world shortage of 2500000 tons of today" Hope for relieving hunger Is meat 1000000 tons of fats and oils In Imports this summer and next the sheriff of New Madrid county This system nevertheless was tM and 1500000 tons of sugar A short- winter Will the imports bs forth- Missouri or the chief of police of best possible until the fingerprinting Norman Okie or the town marshal method was age that is in terms of what is re- coming from the w6rld outside? developed in the early files at Bluffton Ind telephones for 1900s The pioneer wor was done by quired to maintain a quite frugal The best answer that can be Importance of fingerprint identifiof a given person or sends Sir Francis Galton a noted British diet though fairly Is pointed at present seems to be "not in cation of given fingerprints these officials have 2 That European nations were bein the volume desired" To provide an answer within a few minutes scientist who discovered that no two out when the department shows that In the world have ldentl individuals ing urged to produce to the maxifood to bring the populations In the past year alone 9000 bodies enough 10Q Tor are almost there although cal fingerprints and that the pattern mum In order to offset the lack of of liberated were taken to morgues and nearly Europe and the Far million separata cards representing remains unchanged throughout life Imports for their winter's food sup- East up to the prewsr level doomed or 00 million to burial in potter’s persons on file classi In 1892 he assembled the first collec- 2000 ply even to a rather low minimum level fication has been reduced to such fields because of inability of authorition of fingerprints In the world 1 That the new food minister of fer full health end etrength — would ties to identify them During the Is to In 1896 the International AssociaFrance (Christian Flnaud) was bring the civilian food supplies in science that It never100necessary remove more than cards for tion of Chiefs of Police which in same year mors than 200000 persons coming to tho United Statee to urge the major nations down considerdisappeared in this country and were to maka positive identieludes the heads of police departthe American food Industry to sell ably from their present level The comparison ought by relatives and friends Finfication ments of most of the principal cities toed to France British ration has already been regerprinting has solved thousands of this tremendous reserof this country and Canada estabBuilding up these 1 That the Bavarian Hood ration duced in a number of items — and voir of identification cards has be lished' a tragedies and returned many special bureau at Chicago ones was down to the low minimum of It was a tight ration before the repomes hobby almost a fetish o Thla was later remoyed to Wash- lost folks to their loved 1150 calories a day (the average duction Australia has cut down butRecords Benefit Everyone the nation' boss J Edgar ington and became known as the American diet contains 2200 calo- ter and meat rations still furleover director of the FBL He National Bureau of Criminal IdenThe department in this connection ther within the last 60 days ries) 1'oresaw years age the advantage tification Its purpose was the com- points out the advantage of volunt A good part of the answer to the ha fingerprint system In both Need Is Acute piling of BertUlon records As use tary widespread fingerprinting As of In and the identification' and Fer civilian hungry Europe n permanent seal of personal idem of the Bertlllon system was disconplea In Many jAr eat East depends on how much sacInvestigations both in tinued the national bureau gradually tlty these fingerprint records offer ineac and wartime Ths system has began acquiring a collection of fin dubitable benefits to those who taka The need tor food is acute In rifice the civilians In ths United and States Canada a tremendous growth during gerprlnt records art willing tad many areas throughout the conti advantage of the service pent of Europe The people living In to undergo President Truman in these five war years FBI Took Over fas 1924 According to Mr Hoover it apBnreaa Expanded by War Need German occupied Holland have Issuing ths report of Judge Samuel In 1924 this identification division pears to him as ridiculous that if a on 1 westIn Rosenman 1041 the was relief needs For instance on July been suffering from'outright starvaplaced under the jurisdiction of victim of amnesia or of a disaster ern Europe pointed out that the mreau had approximately 21700000 tion for months The physical conhas a prior criminal record his famthe FBI and received consolidatdition at many was so serious Im- American people need to underlngerprtnt records on fils But since ed in Washington the records of both ily will be immediately notified mediately following liberation that stand ths dire plight of ths people the war fingerprint records hsv the National Bureau of Criminal while If be has lived within the law of his trouble they were no longer able to digest in these Allied countries In or- been coming into ths bureau at ths Identification and Jthe records of the his family ignorant ' ordinary foods The whites of eggs der to be prepared to accept con- rata of about 22000 dally Impetus Leavenworth prison More than can render na aid This is an tinued control on our consumption us been given through the selective 11000 law enforcement tn powdered form were shipped paradox because finagencies tofrom tho United States to pro- here The coming months will give service system and ths civil service day are submitting prints to the bugerprinting of the criminal Is the commission which requires fingervide special treatment tor these the answer to the extent tnd severireau and more than 600 fugitives are rule while fingerprinting of the War Identified by the bureau each month Britain also ty of controls that are Imposed Starvation victims printing of aU employees citizen is stiff the exception workers era aU fingerprinted too the bureau has now on file mors All civil personal identification shipped to Holland a special food Food’— ‘Not Money — and copies are sent to the bureau than 1200000 consisting of solutions of predigested are kept in files separate of persons apprints prints Remains Scare so that during these war years abou plying for government proteins glucose and vitamins and apart tram the criminal records positions unIn Yugoslavia when UNRRA supder the Civil Service commission and are there available in case the Relief for liberated countries is 77 million prints have been added 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 Ths counloaded tram the first shipment tries of Western Europe have their sorting these fnlllloni of separate show that 77 per cent of these have whkh makes it necessary to deterfood was so scarce that the women own financial resources 'and are cards has been a tremendous one had a previous criminal history or mine his identity' First it was necessary to recruit about 1 out of 20 applicants One interesting sidelight on the brought brooms and brushes to seeking in vain to buy — particuThrough criminal identification side is the sweep up the grain that spilled from larly such items as canned meats girls from all over the nation These the vigilance of the FBI these people the sacks of wheat When cans of dairy products fats and ells and su- girls bad to be above the average' are barred from obtaining positions maintenance in conjunction with its educaor with high jehool college beans were distributed to the peo- gar The liberated countries of fastof trust wMhln the government regular alias name file an addiThey took the regular FBI Here’s an example of how these tional file of nicknames This nickple the Yugoslav weighing off- ens Europe which do not have the tion Their habits and lives were requests of Identification work icials were so cartful fat measuring foreign exchange resources to pay oath In name file now Includes approximateeven and thoroughly investigated eut portions that It was common to cash ferthslr supplies are receiv1939 the Works Projects administraly 283 00(1 cards and ia of value in tee a single bean removed from the ing them from the tmlnvsded United their place ef residence in Washingtion In New York City submitted establishing tha identity of crlminils scales fat order to give each person Nations through UNRRA UNRRA ton picked from a list supplied and prints of a woman "applying for a who are known only by aliases th FBI no more than bis fair share has financial resources contributed approved by and nicknames Search rejob at 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 tha only to overcome the popular prejucultural relations of the United trouble is that supplies are not 1933 on a first degree murder charge clue to a particular crime Is a nickto dice against being fingerprinted States department of agriculture re- forthcoming in the scarce food lines and a fingerprint card sent from name used unconsciously during the sell police officials on the advantages ported that this year's output of at a desirable rate Many of these names art Sing Sing Indicated that the woman crime of the fingerprint system in th earfood in Europe will be the smallest descriptive and amusing such as Ash the director general ly days took months and months of was incarcerated at Ossining N Y since the beginning of the war It ofIncidentally execution for murder It is Pan Slim Dill Pickle Cream Puffs awaiting UNRRA in a somewhat justified educational wor by FBI s gents may be as much as 10 per cent un- didactic vein has interesting to note that after being Ant Ester Bughouse Biff etc lately pounded traveling throughout the country der the 144 production As the war home in his sentenced to execution in' 1933 this number of cases havs been solved by public utterances the Enlisted Help ef Local Felloe has come along machinery Is fact that if UNRRA woman was somehow free six years coordinating these names with finfalls to provide took painstaking effort on the later It worn out Factories have been kept gerprints supplies it is not becaust of eut of most of Europe by the lack UNRRA's part of the bureau to build up good shortcomings but be- will among officials and pubof transportation and the shortage cause the member police do not nations lic officials everywhere In those of materials come through with the supplies Itrly days every agent had orders Manpower has become scarcer UNRRA" Director General Leh- when passing through a town to pay In the final agonies of the conflict farm animals " were slaughtered man says"i not a superstate with his respects to the police officials resources and own of its and to pass along a "message" from powers or stolen by the retreating Nasls Hence the production of the conti- Far from it It is the servant of the J Edgar Hoover concerning his willnent will reach the low point of this governments which crested it" ingness to help in any local Investiwinter In the current crop year There is one bright spot amid the gation The crux of the message Sharpening the difficulties Is the encircling gloom at the food situ- was "don’t forget to take fingerbreakdown of Internal transport ation This is the tact that the world prints and send them in" The Identification division is now tatlon to move what food-i- s has plentiful supplies at wheat This produced from the countryside into the member of the bread grains has housed for ths duration In the white stone District of Cocities and towns In the final phases been produced in bumper quantities brand-neIt of the war the Nssla systematically fer several years in succession by lumbia national guard armory and rolling the farmers In the U S and Cana- occupies the whole building and has destroyed railroads stock behind them as they re- da The crops have been average In constructed new temporary to house the cafeteria lounges treated the Allied air fortes ayeether exporting countries The retematleally blew bridgos and burst sult is that wheat is not even under and locker rooms Where It will go locomotives The result Is that in allocation and the full amount after the war Is a question Criminal Identification is indispenGreece for example there were needed for a normal diet can be sable In combating crime and of for months no railway lines op- supplied to the people of liberate is a most potent factor to courts now Even But of when some man doesn't live by Europe erating From the tracks and bridgos are repaired bread alone Ter health and vigor apprehension of the fugitive there are less than 2t locomotives you and I and everyone need some the earliest annals of history per - and lets then 500 good cars in the fats and proteins in eur diets Will sonal identification of tome character has been In vogue Members of w be willing to cut down on our— country More are being rushe there but the railway transport wOl by the standards of Europe—rather one savage tribe were distinguished bo for below even the wartime nor- lavish consumption at these things from others through distinctive atThe mala file room la mw located ta th great drill ball of the national mal The highway service has dis- so that eur liberated Allies esa come tire bodily decorations or characguard armory Tho MentlficaUoa dlrtaloa of tho FBI sow occupies the cuts enliro armory Thla Is a temporary arrangement integrated and the bridges are through the aext winter with mini- teristic scars from After toe war a specla not or burns was It until the b ad so are slid tag probably win bo erected blown" Trucks scarce that mum loss of health and strength? 4FNU - T — i 'ttJ v BARBS a’v The Dome I (official news agency) broadcasting station la Tekye reported transmitter trouble Static or fi29s? Importers of French lace ordered end paid for before the occupation of France will be assisted to locating it by the foreign economic administration The frills will help pay for the neccisltlcs by U Slide fasteners books and buckles and ether closure will soon reappear end then be all fenced to again A Individuality and Uniqueness of Fingerprints Was First Established in 1880 by British Scientists auk ha ge eyes Hems large Increase tn the production bicycles to the third quarter ta doubtful according to the WPB So you will have to use your pedal extrciniUee and not your pod als for a little longer of 1IH3 The first known scientific observaat Tokyo In 1880 to establish the tion partiadarly relating to finger- fact that Individual a fingerprint prints wss made tn 16SS by Marcello were of very great variety Malpighi professor d anatomy at and that they remained unchangethe University of Bologna Italy who able alluded to tho ridges which "deSir Frsncle Galton noted English scribe divers figures" on the finger scientist established the fact that tips During the subaequent years te two flngerprtnts are alike and others pointed to the "ridgea" on devised the first collodion of fingertho finger tips but It remslned for print records in 1832 Dr Henry Faulds an But the comprehensive system Englishman Connected with the Tiuklji hospital which la the basis for that used in this country was established by SU E R Henry commls loner of police at London's Scotland Yard office In 1901 First practical Intro ductloo to puhco work was to Sing Sing prison to New York state In 1903 Then an September 24 1904 R W McClaughry warden of the U S penitentiary at Leavenworth Kan was granted authority to fin gerprlnt prisoners and flvo days later the St Louis police department Inaugurated th system under to of a British officer from perviswin Scotland Yard is tt Pattern 7233 has a tru5 broidery Seven motifs 8'b by I inches ttli Due to an unusually large dent current war conditions slightly ts required In filling orders for tho most popular pattern numbers Send your order to: When heavyweight champ Joe ouis waa a youngster hla mother ook him to Detroit' child guidance bureau The psychologist there studied his case His amazing counsel la stiff a part of tho bureau's files: "Teach him to do something with his hands" Sewing Circle Needlecraft Box 2217 San Francisco Enclose waded bas through the labyrinth of Brettos Woods or studied the intrlcaclee af recanveraloa is aware economics is a complex subject Win Rogers once listened to a discussion by a group of expert ' economists One of them asked Rogers! "What b year opinion Will about rigid economy?" Intoned: "The only thing I know about rigid economy ia that It la a dead Scotchman Anyone who mauiinN mm l west Teddy met an Indian who had six wivaa Reeeevelt suggested that he choose ana and discard the other five After thoughtful consideration the chieftain agreed— on one condition "You choose the one' for me to keep" he replied "and then you tell the other five" A Dab a Da Tho OWI continues to bo Jabbed by flapjawa who deprecate tho Importance of propaganda in tho current struggle Bat tho use of propaganda as a weapon of war isn't new was as wffy a propaganNapoleon dist as ho was a militarist During tho war in Spain Bonaparte's official editor penned thla communi-qu"Tho emperor with forces much inferior to the enemy inflicted a decisive defeat on him" la tho margin Napoleon wrote: "Idiot! I need o glory I havo more than I want already But I need the onemy to think I have soldiers when I have Striking out the references to his inferior forces ho wrote: "At tho head of forces far superior to thoao of tho onemy the emperor gained a brilliant victory" a B library vrllh But there have the white beard baa been th victim Wig of a raider retort s Shew dinner parties On time Lady Raadalf Omrcblff tavited him to came to aaa ef them Shew wired "I will not tome to yeur dhmer par-ty Why should break my waff! known habit?" Lady Churvhifi swtflly wired her reply: "Knew nothing about your habits but trust they are not as bsd at your man- ners" r keeps PO! a way fUadarona France’s great statesman Clem-- 1 deeau demanded drastic punishment for Germany's war criminals after the last war but he was over- ruled by his diplomatic colleagues One diplomat Informed Clemen- ceau: "Your demand to kill so many Germans la murder" The French statesman looked him straight In the eye and snapped: ia microbes alto a form of "Killing murder But they must bo killed in order to cur a disease!" Yoa caul 4 ca Shaw squelches bee times when Dq t cents for Pattern No Lowell Thomas tellr thla: One evening in May 1919 when Franklin D Roosevelt and fall wife were driving home a conclusion followed by terrific explosion tore tha air Turning into their own Btreet they found theinselvea in total darkness driving over broken glass Every street lamp was blown away tha trees stripped af their leaves At home they found th front door blown open and every window shat- tered Tha lower floor ‘was chaos' FDR dashed upstairs shouti ing "Johnny Johnny" Johnny was sleepy and confused by tha uproar Ha wanted to know what the trouble was "Turn over and go to sleep" Mrs Roosevelt said fiimly and calm-ly-v "It just a little bomb!" Ever sine then at moments of ex- trema excitement or uproar in tha Roosevelt household when a meat-ure of is called for some- body quotes that pricelesa remark: "It's just a little bomb!" 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