Show alien fingerprinting increases work for FBI washington fingerprint records ot of the some aliens now being registered in the united states are adding materially to the work ot of the fingerprinting division of the federal bureau of investigation in addition to this increase the divisions regular work has increased steadily in recent months at present the division has on file fingerprints of 13 million persons when the first returns of the alien registration started coming in the division handled bandied sets of fingerprints ger prints to set a record tor for busy days fingerprints are being sent to the division from civic organizations whose members have carried out fingerprinting as a measure of per bonal security there are more than such sets in the files in addition all government agencies are fingerprinting job applicants I 1 in three months the division has received sets from rom the war department from rom the civilian conservation corps from civil il service from rom the navy from the marine corps from the coast guard and from the maritime commission all these the seare are filed under an intricate mathematical system based on the shape of the markings on the finger tips they are divided so only a few scora of each type are pled filed together the mg sprint expert thus is able to eh ct an identification of any set of prints in about three minutes la in addition to the large active files the division has inactive files for or persons past 60 after a person has reached SO 90 his bis prints are transferred to thedeas the dead files unless the division has been questioned on the individual fingerprint files also are cross referenced to a card system so all information may be obtained easily by clerks some individuals individual have as many as ai cards referring to different crimes about cards and fingerprints are marked with red tabs to indicate a fugitive from justice |