FBI Identification Division Names 97 Million by Fingerprints
A feature outlines the FBI Identification Division in Washington, housing nearly 100 million fingerprint cards. The piece details rapid matching, early history from Bertillon to fingerprints, wartime growth, and the role of fingerprinting in civilian and criminal cases including missing persons and amnesia victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington
New Madrid County
Missouri
Norman
Okla
Bluffton
Ind
G-Man
J. Edgar Hoover
Selective Service
Civil Service Commission
District of Columbia National Guard
National Bureau of Criminal Identification
Leavenworth
Bureau
Ossining
N. Y
Terre Haute
Army Air Corps
Indiana
Fresno County General Hospital
California
Gary
Seattle
Wash
Charleston
W. Va
Portland
Ore
Fresno
Potter’s Fields
Hoover
Unseen European unrest noted by returning senators
Western reporters summarize private European assessments from U S senators just back from Europe. They describe De Gaulle delaying France elections to stall communists, Britain’s looming vote, and tension between De Gaulle and Churchill amid broader anti democratic currents across France Italy and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Washington
de Gaulle
France
British Isles
Churchill
Britain
Middle East
North
Africa
Italy
Germany
Eisenhower
Greece
Yugoslavia
Romania
Bulgaria
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Stalin
First Fingerprint Experts and the 1904 Leavenworth Start
The article traces the evolution of fingerprinting from Malpighi in 1686 to Faulds and Galton, up to 1904 when Leavenworth Prison gained authority to fingerprint inmates and St. Louis police began the system under Scotland Yard supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcello Malpighi
University of
Bologna
Italy
Henry Faulds
Tsukiji Hospital
E. R. Henry
London
Scotland Yard
Sing Sing
New York State
R. W. McClaughry
U. S
Leavenworth
Kan
St. Louis
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Fr. C
New Orleans
Real F. Ransom P. D
Richmond
Texas
Lookout Mountain Hotel
Chattanooge
Tennessea
White Maida
Lookout Mountain
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Travis Smith
Hicks Rubber CO
Wharton, Tex
Business & Invest
OPPOR
Oxford Ave
Dept. 14
Los Angeles
Calif
P. O. Box
Freeport
P.O
Laura Lastiger
17Th St
Corpus Christi
Tex
Owles Sales CO
W. Becca
San Antonio
Delco
Insdale Electric Service
Main
Houston
Barstow
Young Bell
Pecos
Oscar Moellenberndt
la Grange
C.O. D
Carlsam
St. St.Louis
U. 8
Blank'’s Exchange
Wichita Falls
Lee White
Etta White
Bandera, Texas
Hiway
Goose Creek
E. E. Staples
Rt. 1
Ward-Baird Lbr. CO
Pannell
WIU
Rds
Kache
Doans
Francis Galton
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Canada
Chicago
National Bureau
National Guard
Paul Mallon
Western Newspaper Union
Tokyo
Bellanw
Connecticut
Office of Price Administration
Mary Martin
Paramount
Hollyw
McKesson & Robbins, Inc
Bridgeport
Conn
Carbell
Spurlock-Neal Co
Nashville
Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia
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