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These cards were obtained by the United btates bureau of Investigation and submitted to the different service branches for the purpose of identifying the applicants, and taus ob-— taining fingerprint records which could be compared with the. police records of the Identification Division of the United States Bureau of Investigation. Notwithstanding the fact that . the applicants, themselycs, furnished the information shown on the cards, it was impossible for the sary: 92, branches to identify az veterans some of these individuals. ° : , Of these cards, 4723 fingerprints were obtained and com- » pared with the records in the Identification Division of the United States Bureau of Investigation. There is sanown on Page 9 a tabulation of the number of in-” 3 . dividual bonus marchers which the records of thy United States . , Bureau of Investigation show as having been arrested by police fies + Of€icévei+. Thess are divided according to the classification of ; . crime for which they were charged, It vill be nbted trat there is + show, not only the number of persons charged with offenses, but the disposition of these charges — that is, whether tne charges remain pending {this includes unknown dispositions}, or the chargec were diemiseed, or the persons were convicted. . The records in the United States Bureau of Investig:tion from which the tabulation was made consist of fingerprint cards and deta forwarded by police officere throughout the country. They ave fur- nished 1n the regular course of business by Polica Departments, end are maintained es a National Clearing House fo? identification pur- poses. It ‘Should be uncarstood that fingersrint records are forwarc:d te this Buresu at the tine of arrest for the purpose of seeking any identification data such 48 prior arrest or conviction of the sane ‘ >, 8ubject, Consequently, many fingerprint records ar intained in z ‘the United States Bursau of Investigation of persons who have been arrested on one or zore occasions but who have not bean convicted > erime.e On the other hand, the Bureau also receives from Polive De- partments dispositions of charges against arrested persons whose fin- o, gerprints hava previously been forwarded. These disvositiona aru noted on the records of tha Bureau at the time of receipt, and the convictions eet out in the analysis which followa represent racords of fines and sentences of imprisonment following trisl of the charge:. The distinction between charges which have been dismissed and convic-— tions of persone for the offenses is believed to be clearly eghosn in . the summary, The term "Charges Dismissed* includes all dispositions «| 3" of the charges other than by conviction.