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2d. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, con- —San Diego Union Stoft Photo fers with C. Erwin Piper, head of FBI office in San Diego. ATTORNEY GENERAL CALLED ‘MISINFORMED’ - Bureau of Investigation, yesterday said Atty. Gen. Brown was misinformed when he criticized the FBI for assertedly publish- ing incorrect figures on the crime rate in California. , In an exclusive interview with The San Diego Union, Hoover atso-took issue with Brown for saying the crime figures sub- mitted to the FBI by Los Angeles were ac- i curate while those for New York, Chicago and Detroit were not. Hoover, who is vacationing in La Jolla, was interviewed in the San Diego FBI of- fice in the San Diego Trust & Savings Buildinz. Asked if crime was increasing in Cali- - fornia, Hoover said it “definitely” was. “Recently the attorney general of Cali- . J. Edgar Hoover Scores | Brown For FBI Criticism J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal nately, Mr. Brown didn’t inform himself as to the facts before he spoke. “He said the FBI had announced there has been an increase in crime of 35 per cent in California and that this held Cali- fornia up to unjustified criticism. The FBI never did anything like that.” Hoover said the FBI's figures showed that the California crime rate had in- creased 12.9 per cent last year. “Mr. Brown’s own .figures showed an in- crease of 12.8 per cent. Unfortunately, Mr. Brown was misinformed or didn’t see the facts when he made the statement,” Hoover Said. The FBI director said Brown's statement had been predicated on a magazine article in which the magazine had compiled its own figures, based on the 1950 population flpeeiee SAN DIEGO UNION AUG. 12, 1958 hee