Show U US S SPEEDS DRIVE FOR FINGER PINTS f taken a day as movement Move mert sweeps nation washington driving ly for a vast file of such records director J edgar hoover of the federal bu reau of investigation is enlisting civic groups throughout the nation in the task of finger fingerprinting printing the population maintained as a separate unit apart from the criminal record division the civil fingerprinting sec see tion of the bureau burdau already boasts prints gathering swift momentum as va rious groups join the movement new civil fingerprint records are flowing owing into the bureau at the rate of a day intent upon further accelerating the campaign director hoover em pha sized his sole aim is to protect american citizens against loss of identity traffic accidents fire ore and a dozen similar instrumentalities of fate annually send hundreds of per sons to unmarked graves he pointed out thousands of parents aware of the value of fingerprint records in the event their children are lost or have filed prints here I 1 recently scores of commercial houses including banks express companies oil companies and ho aels employing large numbers of people have had their workers fingerprinted noted statesmen diplomats entertainers and mer chants of international prominence have filed their prints with the bureau flooded every week with scores of urgent pleas to aid in the iden of persons seriously in aured or killed in accidents the bu reau has played an important part in identifying them |