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STANDARD FORM NO. 64 | Office MemorSedum An, prints to hin ¢ seles Gay before yesterday, that the vashinaton via wirephoto and the rirl and informed the Leaminer and ts was correct, that we hai mace involvec a local case any further conment would have to core from the UNITED stat GOVERNMENT TO : Pu. POLSON PA DATE: January 17, ee : rs FROM : ZL. 3B. NLCHOLS : & SUBJECT: §=TDEMUTIUCATECN OF sLi,ABeTil SHORT At 6:10 p.m. yesterday I received a call from warren Francis oj the Los Anceles Tines. He stated he was inquiring “yecardine our identification of the murdered rirl found in Los Los An-eles Examiner had sent her that the Bureay hac identified the Los Anoeles police. JF told the identification, that since tt 7@ mass Chies of wolice. e asked for the airl's name and £ tole hin. ver? anorectattive. NU at 7:00 n. 2411 vtontnoon of IFS called. Ze asied if we covlc vive ther a statenent at 9o "clock, as he would be smack in the t at e since they had received a previous inguiry from the -lerald Bepres aM the day paper, and he had celiberately declined to answer this inquiry anc’ t& worl’ he very embarrassing unless they carried somethinz on their rire. Of course, at 9 o'clock the Szaminer was on the street. At 6:40 p.m. F received a call from the Associated fress stating that their Los Anceles Bureay was nakinz inguiry recardin~ the case, that y the Los Anreles Examiner had the full details, the Times had a story. Ny F also ascertained that Mited tress had a similar inguiry. Accurdirely, | at 8:50 p.m. I issued the following statement to INS, which was riven to the AF at 8:55 and to VF at 9:05. All were appreciative. "J. Hdnar Eoover, Director of the FBI, annomnced Wy fincer- prints sent to the FRL by wire photo of an unidentified mirdered ctrl whose hody was located by local athorities in Los Anceles were tdentisied when searched throuoch the finserprint files of the F3I, containing sone 104 million sets of Sinserprints« ma "The finoerprints, taken by Los Anzeles Police, were trans nitted to washineton hi the Los,, eles Examiner today over th facilities of the Internati ongtyVews whotos. "von receipt in vashinoton they were deliveret: to the FRI ia enti fication Diviston by a representative of the Los ‘Vad ee , EX. - f F "Only 8 Pin eo appealed ater th IN 3 others mere badly blurrec, yet it was possible | for ft erprint experts to ope search them throuch the files angle ffect’ an tidentification with bet two finnerprint cares previorsily on hearine the name of RECORDED COPY FILED IN —_ Slisabeth Short. rae "Cre oy the rincerprint cards Has \subnicied dy authorities at Carp Cooke, Cari fornia, on January 59, 1943, indicatin.” taat BM a 441947