Show FBI Fingerprints You Yon and Me Over Million Already Stamped WASHINGTON Last Last year in Des Moines Ia la an auto crash victim was identified at the morgue by four reputable citizens The mourners had barely assembled assembled assem assem- bled before fingerprints checked in Washington with the federal bureau of Itt i r t i Fingerprint expert at federal bureau of oj investigation in IF Jr trash ashington ash ash- ington examines files Jiles from the bureaus bureau's records record gation cation proved the reputable citizens to be wrong The mourners went home happy About the same time the body of a woman decomposed decomposed decomposed posed to the point where identification identification iden iden- was Impossible was identified iden tided by fingerprints as that of ot a former government employee leadIng lead Ing to Investigation of a death theretofore theretofore there there- I These cases similar to hundreds arising each year prove the value of FBI's FBI civil fingerprinting file IDe started a few tew years ago and already bearing earing the prints of some people eople They include John Jobs D. D Rockefeller Rocke Rocke- eller feller feller Shirley Temple Noel Cow Cow- ard and Jack Dempsey and thousands of you-and-me you folks all stamped voluntarily either when visiting FBI offices In Washington or during a municipally conducted campaign somewhere else Prints In this category are kept apart from FBI's highly prized collection collection col col- col lection of criminal prints They serve a double purpose First the they protect the individual and his family by providing a positive identification tion at any time In cases of amnesia amnesia am am- nesia routine police Investigation legal disputes and disasters these records have bave kept families together and prevented unjust prosecution Second the prints safeguard public public pub pub- lic tic interest Were employers banks and institutions affected with the I i public interest to insist in cases where there was any possibility o of f doubt that positive identification b be e secured via the fingerprint route huge sums would be saved raved Swindlers Swindlers Swin would be kept from passing themselves oft off as someone else Chronic narcotic addicts repeating forgers and check would be brought to task Eventually the FBI hopes to have all Americans fingerprinted which would mean times the number of prints already on file IDe Scores o of organizations are operating co Inthe in inthe inthe the drive soliciting prints on cards supplied from Washington In one northwestern state for example the Junior Chamber of Commerce CommerCII is sponsoring a fingerprinting project which will eventually record prints of most of the states state's resl resi dents |