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gy GNIT + (AX SLUSIVE) | ( 4 yp (Fon SATURDAY P.''. PAPERS, JULY 26) BY FY ED MULLEN UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT “WASHINGTON, July 26.~--(UP).--Director John Edger Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investipation today began his 3lst year with the justice department with a forecast that the days ahead would be -usier than those of the recent war and the gangster era of the 30's. He was 22 wien he started work with the department 30 years ago today. For neurly 23 years he has beer director of theFBI which wien he took over, had about 600 employees, including agents and other types cf employees. Today finds him with 8,00 men and women under his command. Hoover told the United Press that the work-load on these persons--apents, tvpists, switchboard operators, messengers to whom he fondly, refers as "my associates"—-has increased by leaps and bounds. "In addition to the general increase in work resulting from the rise in crime trends", he said, "the FEI, by legislation and other means, has been given new responsibilities since the end of World War II+ He said that the Atomic Energy Control Act "will in one year more than double the case load of the Fei." The end of the war, Hoover said, saw a enerai. debtine in the se OO? security duties of the FEI, out this was imnedistely offset by " a rising SZ, Bb.00 oS FE serious crimes reported to the police during 1946. Major crimes showed ara > tide of crime which swept over thé United States and reached t alarminc proportions by the end of 1946. There were well over increase of 7.6 ver cent over 195." : = —— i vas Vere } ' FEM aw ore 2 nr a ere en om,