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« ington staff. The prints were sent via Internas Honal News Soundphote and the Las Angeles | Examiner to _identify the Los Angeles slaying | victiiy as Elizabeth Short. 3 RY ATDES——Quien Tamm (seated), in- bpector in charge of FBI identification in Wash- ngton, D, C., examines a set of fingerprints held by Jerome Butler, of Hearst newspapers Wash- LICE AIDED: AY SOUNDPHO i By Ray ny Richards }Les 4nceles ixaminer Washington urea WASHINGTON, Jan. i6.-—~ Identification of 22-year - old lizaheth Short as the Los An-. Acles victim of one of the most, ibgutal murders in crime annals iwis a cross-country feat of en- terprise and seientifie coordina- tion today. Participatings were the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, the Los Angeles Examiner, the! Washington Bureau of the! Hearst newspapers, International. News photos and Sergeants H. Blown ot Los Angeles. ee pane eee transmission by wire across ecantinent of the delivate ris, loops and “tents” of the déad girl's fingerprints is be- ‘Hieved to have expanded the boundaries of erime detection, | [PRAISE GIVEN. Praising the Examiner's enter. “| prise and the clarity of the INP. Soundphotos, the FBI said it considered the* identification “ar ustanding accomplishment.” The Examiner dispatched the) j jpfints to Washington by the INP) { wpich sends images by sound im.t i ‘pulse through leased telephone i jwires in the most up-to-the- minute development of picture trangnission. Facilities for a eheck of the} Sopndphotoed images among the. : {204,000,000 separate fingerprints} ‘in the vast FBI files in Washing-| on had been arranged by thes iFBI officials. ; r en aa Hearst Washiggton Byreau with hint mR ont enRRMIRTRANES smi ntornational Pithin an hour afte the ORAL a delivered the rints J IMPERFECT--— Given perfect fingerprints, it would have taken the FRI only. ia few minutes to locate those of he girl among the 104,000,000, erfecily ‘organized is th ageney’s file system. But the dead fingers had nt provided goad prints. The FBI undertook the task of *“puildiag up” the blank spots and: other defects In the printe by system which represents the final advance in identification, methods. y With defective ‘prints, as in the case of the Los Angeles murder victim, much of the search had to be conducted by hand, among filing cabinets crowding a former National Guard armory fourg times the e a regula. | tion football field. 2 weno niger t y shee