European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Pfulg 6 the stars and stripes tuesday july 21, 1959 influence quiz asks ruling on Macarthur Washington unix rep. Hebert a la said he has asked for a defense depart ment ruling on whether there is any conflict of interest in Gendy us a a s Macarthur ret and holding other five Sta general jobs with defense is chair Man a Dii seared services s u b o m m i the which is trying t e r m i n whether i n f 1 uen Cep e d doing plays any role in defense contract awards. The in Quiry stemmed Hebert 4 from concern Over the Large num Ber of retired officers now employed by weapons makers. Appearing on a television pro Gram Hebert said his group has not yet uncovered any pattern of conspiracy by defense firms in the hiring of former High ranking officers. Discussing Macarthur s position in answer to a question Hebert noted that five Star generals Are in the position of being retained inactive duty by the defense depart ment yet without assignment. Though not technically retired Macarthur is chairman of the Board of Sperry Rand corp., a de sense contractor. Probe planned Hebert said it is up to the de sense department to Rule on the question of any conflict of interest in Macarthur s dual role. But he Saidl his subcommittee also will delve into the matter. He refused to say who future witnesses before the group might be but said it. Was a Safe Assumption that Macarthur and Gen Omar Bradley re chairman of the Board of Bulova research and 152 million sets of identification on file Fri fingerprint unit 35 years old development laboratories would be among them. I n c., Hebert also served notice that adm Hyman a. Rickover must and will furnish the subcommittee the names of outsiders who he has said exerted indirect pressure on him regarding defense matters. Washington up the Fri identification division is 35 years old this month. They Telf this Story around Headquarters to illustrate Why the underworld in t sending anniversary Greet Igsa new England sheriff took the right hand of a prisoner he was preparing to fingerprint and found a $100 Bill tucked in the s yours the prisoner implored if you Don t take the prisoner arrested in connection with a minor incident looked like what he claimed to be a poor Farmer. But he showed a criminal s respect for the Fri s fingerprint files. The suspicious sheriff forwarded the prints to Washington and a Telegram to the sheriff later that Day said the poor Farmer was wanted under another name by California police in connection witha $672,000 swindle. An act of Congress established the Bureau of investigation and its Central fingerprint files in july 1924. The nucleus800,000 sets of fingerprints came from the fed eral prison at Leavenworth Kan. But fingerprinting was in style Long before Leavenworth. Prints were used As official seals on Busi Ness agreements in ancient baby Lon and china1 More than 2,000 years ago. In 1684, or. Nehemiah grew a fellow of the Royal College of physicians commented on the Ridge patterns of the fingers but their significance to identification apparently escaped him. Several other professors commented on Finger patterns during the next two centuries. But it was t until 1858 that fingerprint ing was used on a Large scale. That was the year sir William . S Whalen improving new Haven Conn. A Glover Whalen 73, once new York City s no. 1 greeter was described As quite Alert and improved Bya spokesman Hospital. At a new Haven Whalen entered the Hospital after suffering a stroke at his sum i Mer Home at Madison on Long Island sound. His doctor said whal-1 in s condition had improved since being admitted to the made the ticker tape Parade a Symbol of new Yorks hospitality. He Rode at the Side of Many celebrities on the Parade route from the Battery to City Hall. Youth admits he slew two wounded two Quaker to. A a 19-year old Rural boy told authorities that he shot and killed a country store keeper beat a 17-year-old girl to death and critically wounded two other persons because he and his 14-year-old wanted to go out and have a big the dead were store owner Lynn Arr 57, of Quaker and Bobbie Lou Shipp of nearby Belgrade. Washington county sheriff Thomas b. Allen identified Heyoung admitted killer As John Crump and his companion As John Edward Davis both of Huzzah mo., about 10 Miles West of Quaker. The sheriff said Crump admitted Bothila Yiris. Wife shot. Barr s wife Vallie 52, was Cut Down by two Shotgun blasts an their daughter Ella to 16, was severely beaten. Both were listed in critical condition in Bonne Terre,mo., Hospital. Crump and Davis were being held without charge in Washington county jail. Allen said Crump told him the pair sought six or eight bottles of Beer in a tavern near Huzzah and drank them then abandoned a car near Quaker and entered Barr store. Shot in head there they ordered Sandwich Sand As Barr was preparing one Crump raised a 12-gauge pump action Shotgun and shot Barr in the Back of the head the Sherif said. He quoted them As saying the intended to get Barr s car. They ran to Barr s Home nearby and or dered mrs. Barr at. Gunpoint to hand Over the car keys. She refused and made a dash forthe door. Crump told the sheriff he shot her twice but she Man aged to stagger outside. He then proceeded to beat the two girls with the Shotgun inflicting fatal injuries on Bobbie Lou. Crump and Davis climbed into Arr s Auto but could t get it started without the keys and fled on foot. Meanwhile mrs. Barr attracted the attention of Hurlen Gilliam passing by who called police. Strikers turn House painters Joseph Huncke standing on porch Roo of Homestead pa., near i Pittsburgh had plenty of help to paint his House. The painters Are his sons Ben and Joseph jr., and a son in Law Frank Urda All striking steelworkers. Paint dealers reported sales have gone up since the strike began. Associated press photo Royal visit Banner Day for . Flag fanciers Birthplace of american Navy picks 81-year-old fete Queen Ltd a v Whitehall . A a Ely 81-year-old retired school Acher received a Silver Queen s a own and a kiss from the of Navy. Is Alene Manville will reign a week Long Bicentennial Cele on in this Lake Champlain Vil which claims to be the birth of the american Navy. E Crown was placed on her Ambrose Gilligan White ool principal of often is chosen a Beauty off it with her future in who shines in the Public la Eye for a few Days and then slips into oblivion he said. Miss Man Ville s entire life has been one of Secretary of the Navy William b. Franke volunteered the kiss at the conclusion of the 2% hour program at which he was the principal speaker. Whitehall was known As Skenes Borough in 1776 when Benedic Arnold s forces hastily built a Fleet of Small vessels that turned Back a British attempt to invade the new nation by Way of Lake Cham Plain. I Washington up americans Breivig born souvenir Hunters it s a cinch they la have a Field Day when and if a russian head of state Ever gets to Washington. The state department says the flags it puts up in Honor of visiting presidents and Royalty Are a hot item on the souvenir Market. Sorrich so in fact that the depart ment expects to lose 25 to 50 percent of the 3-by-5-foot foreign flags it flies from Washington flagpole while the motorcade pass by. During the visit of former Iris president Sean o Kelly .202 flags of Ireland waved hello to o Kelly As he paraded from National air port to the White House. Three Days later the sprightly irishman was gone and so were three quarters of the Irish banners. Somehow the souvenir Hunters ripped them out of the 12-t oot High Light pole sockets. Police say it done by standing in top of cars anybody son shoulders or climb ing the poles. Flag Wise Only Queen Elizabeth was More popular than o Kelly. All500 flags representing her majesty s to Commonwealth nations were spirited away of a 1957 washing ton visit the state department sets aside special Flag fund Only official Heads of state get the Flag treat ment. Heads of government like British prime minister Harold Macmillan a Don t. Neither would soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev. Before each visit the stale department orders 500 of the 3-by-5 footers eight 15-by-25-foot_ flags and 1,200 Small ones 4-by-6-Inch models. The Small ones Are Given out along the Parade route. What s left after the Flag pickers Are through is donated to the embassy of that country. There s no use keeping them. The King or president of a country rarely gets Here More than once in 10 years. If you store a Flag that Long its Likely to fall apart when you want to use it again. As for Cost the government paid$2,700 for the multicoloured Al Sal Vador flags with their fancy emblems. The same number of Irish flags Cost Only $1,500. The most expensive says the state depart ment officer would be the saudi Arabia Banner with its arabic lettering and sword embellishment. If the russian head of state gets to Washington fla making will be cheap. The russian Banner is solid red with Only a Small Hammer and sickle in one Corner it won t Cost too much to keep the Flag pickers Happy. James Herschel chief British administrative officer in the Hooghly District of India established their real value in identification. Herschel required natives to affix their fingerprints to contracts. After 20 years of this he decided the prints could be used to identify prisoners and began using the for this purpose. In 1883 Mark Twain in his Book life on the Mississippi described the identification of a murderer by his thumbprint. Another Means of identification the Bertillo system was popu Lar around the turn of the Cen Tury. This called for the measure ment of certain Bones in the body and the reduction of these measurements to a formula which sup Posedly fit the individual All his life. But Alphonse Bertillo s scheme never recovered from the will West Case in 1903. No liar West was sentenced to leaven Worth but denied that he d Ever been imprisoned there before. Abe Tillon Check turned up the record of a William West with the same Bernillon and a striking facial resemblance. But will West was no liar. An other Man William West already was in Leavenworth serving a murder sentence. Despite identical Bertil Lons their fingerprints were completely different. The army Navy and marines adopted fingerprinting several years later and today the Bureau of identification files hold More than 152 million sets of Finger prints. Prints breakdown of , 34 million belong to criminals and suspects 49 million come mainly from the armed serv ices 51 million belong in Industry with defense contracts 11 million Are in the alien and prisoner of War classification and another 5 million Are for personal identification. The last category includes Camp fire girls and airline pilots and almost anyone who wants to have his fingerprints on record. In fact the 150 Millionth print received by the Bureau belonged to a Boyscout. The big year for the fingerprint people was 1943, when almost 29 million persons had their fingers pressed against the in an average of More than 93,000 per Day. A mathematician with nothing better to do says that the Finger print cards stacked one on top of the other would be 100 times taller than the Empire stat building. Can t change there is no recorded Case of two people having identical prints. Also there s no getting rid of the ones you have. Criminals have tried it by skin grafts but the original set soon grows Back through the graft. Even a fresh graft won t work because there always a Tell tale line. Prints from police can be matched with a set from the Fri files within 30 minutes if the re quest is urgent. Routine identifications take about two Days. The voluminous files Are used Ina variety of ways. They be led to he reunion of families ident Ifica Ion of Accident victim and for helping amnesia victims. Hit and run Driver fails to ground Stork Lynbrook .Wood . Gave birth to healthy girl five hours later. . A .,jl1klvl3y,u a. 1 y. ,.-1
