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Pt ae EE Nt am ate a ct ee ee eS bee ae eee . cee ae ee meee eee te ee a ee It was considered desirable to procure information as to the personal history of memboars of the Bonus Expeditionary Foree, Tho Police Departmnent was requested to furnish the ramea of persons arrested and copies of their fingerprints. They were able to furnish the fingerprints of but 51 who had been arrested. These Were persons who had been arrested about the time of the riots. Before that time no finger- prints had been taken when arrests were made. A corparison of these Cingerprinta with the police records maintained in the Identification Division of the United States Bursau of Investigation, resulted in the disclosure that 17 of these. : 51 individuals, or 33-1/3%, had prior police records, divided a as follows, the name of the offense indicating the charge for p which convicted: - Taraandy wea ooay Military offenses Assault: Sex offenses Disorderly and vagrancy Felonies (unknown) Forgery Robbery Liquor laws Dismissed foe ee op ee i on The fingerprints of these 51 individuals were, likewisa, compared with the records in the service branches of the Govern=- mente From this search it was found that 16, or $1.3%, had no Wokld War service record, and, thus, were not entitled to bonus certificates. * aE During the time when the Bonus Expeditionary Force was in Washington, legislation was enacted authorizing loans to veterans for the purpose of returning to their homes. In order to ascertain the eligibility of applicants for these loans, the Veterans Ad- ministration required each applicant to fill out a card containing his name, hia Army serinl number, service record, names of or- ganizations in which served, date. of servics, claim number, if any, and the number of his application for adjusted service certificate. In many cases the cards were not completely executed.