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FRE ALDES—Quinn Tamm (seated), in- pector in charge of FBI identification in Wash ington, D. C., examines a set of by Jerome Butler, of Hearst newspapers Wash- PALIGE AIDE BY SOUNDPHO By Ray Richards Los Anxeles Lxaminer Washington Buread WASHINGTON, Jan. 46. Identification of 22 - year - old lizaheth Short as the Los An- |Acles victim of one of the most, ington staff. fingerprints held victii a antane> | uccesstul, almost. in: loug transmission by wire across th$ continent of the delicate wiforls, loops and “tents” of the déad gil fingerprints is be- lieved to have expanded the boundaries of crime detection, ||PRAISE GIVEN —— Praising the Examiner's enter- prise and the clarity of the INP Soundphotos, the FBI said it considered the* identification “an ntstanding accomplishment.” | The Examiner di: ehed the) }Phints to Washington by the INP} utal murders in crime annals} Hwhich sends images by sound im-¢ jwiis a cross-country feat of en- tion today. Participating: were the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, the; Los Angeles Examiner, the! Washington Bureau of the ‘Hearst newspapers, International aws photos and Detective Sergeants Hi sen and ¥ Brown of Los Angeles. terprise and scientific coordina-]/ pulse through leased telephone! jwires in the minute de transniission. Facilities for a check of the’ Soundphotoed images among the| (204,000,000 separate fingerprints, in the vast FBI files in Washing- ton had been arranged by the) {Hearst Washiggton Bureau with iF BI officials. } most up-to-the-} pment of picture), ‘The prints were sent via Interna- tional News Soundphoto and the Las Angeles Examiner to identify the Los Angeles staying as Elizabeth Short, ’ s International oundhote | Pithin an hour afte) the ibugeau had delivered the brints] jto the FBI, the identification had ‘begn made. IMPERFECT Given perfect fingerprints, it lwould have taken the FBI enly ‘a few minutes to locate those of the girl among the 104,000,000, werfectly ‘organized is tl agency's file system. But the dead fingers had m provided good prints. The FBI undertook the task of “buildiag up” the blank spots and lather defects in the prints by a system which represents the final advance In identification, methods. . With defective prints, as in the case of the Los Angeles murder victim, much of the search had) ito be conducted by hand, among \National times the ¢: tion football field.-