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Friday. April it. ItSO
Use of Fingerprints Valuable
Aid to Long Arm of Oregon Law
By William Warren
United Preii Correspondent
Salem, Ore., Apr. 28 U.R)
The long arm of Oregon law has
fingers: fingers able to span a
continent ana
nab a man who
fled from Ore
gon state pris
on 33 years
ago.
A United
Press story the
other day dis
clos e d that
Louis S t r o f,
63, who walked
away from
Oregon state
prison here In 1917, had been
picked up in Somerville, N. J.
The tired little hobo who had
lived from handout to handout
in the years after his escape was
identified through his finger
prints prints taken way back in
the days when he was admitted
to the state prison.
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Did fingerprints go back that
far? Indeed they did, said
Warden George Alexander. The
prison began taking prints in
1910, being the first in Oregon,
along with Portland police to
adopt the system introduced in
this country in 1HU.
That Introduction to America
was an interesting one. The
occasion was the St. Louis World
Fair. England sent the crown
jewels for exhibit at the fair,
and men from Scotland Yard
came along to guard them. Sir
E. R. Henry had set up a finger
print system for Scotland Yard
and the men who came with the
crown jewels took fingerprints
as a precautionary measure. The
system took hold in this coun
try. Of course the Chinese had
been practicing a form of finger
printing for several hundred
years, but this was new for
America.
Other cities Adopt Plan
Gradually other cities added
fingerprint departments until
now prints are taken by police
departments of all the large
cities and many of the smaller
ones. Every sheriff's office in
the state takes prints.
When the state police were
organized in August, 1931, they
started a master file of finger
prints and it now is available to
every peace officer in the state
and to authorities in other states.
A copy of each set goes to the
FBI in Washington for its master
file and a copy goes into the
master file of the state here.
The Oregon Bureau of Identi
fication here the OBI is di
rected by George A. Kanz, who
has most of the records in his
mind so that he just about knows
if there is or isn't a record on a
man when his prints come in.
The OBI checks each card of
fingerprints against its files. If
the man has a previous record,
or is wanted elsewhere, the in
formation is sent to the authori
ties interested.
Information Sent
In turn when other states find
through fingerprints that a man
lias a record in Oregon or is
wanted here, the information
comes to the OBI. Or if the FBI
finds the man has a record it
informs this state. That's how
fingers of the long arm of Ore
gon law reached out to fetch
Strof back to Oregon state
prison.
That brings up another ques
tion. How long do these prints
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last? Longer than a man's life
time, says Kanz. And mat s as
long, of course as they are
useful. Says Kanz:
"When we have p o si t i v e
proof that a man is dead, his card
is taken from the active files
and placed in the inactive or
dead file. We keep these indef
initely. An insurance company
may want proof ol nis aeain or
dcntification. Or relatives may
make inquiry. When we have no
positive proof, but our files show
that the man is 85 or 90 years
old. we Dresume him to be dead
and his file goes into the inactive
list."
395.000 Matter Cards
The OBI has some 395,000
master cards in its active files.
It has only about 8,000 in its
dead file. But the reason for the
seeming discrepancy is that it's
only been in recent years that
the dead file has been kept. Be
fore then, the records were
destroyed after proof of death.
Besides, the OBI has some
130.000 nhotos of criminals and
a seDarate single finger file
mnHp un from the master files,
each of which records all fingers
and thumbs. The reason for the
single finger print files, taxen
onlv for those men who have
been convicted of major crimes
or crimes of violence, is so that,
in case of a robbery, only one
fingerprint is found at the scene,
the OBI can use that fingerprint
to put the finger on the criminal.
The long arm of Oregon law,
indeed, has firm fingers.
Medford Man Named
College Alumni Head
Portland, Apr. 28 John
Brewer, member of the June
Graduating class of Lewis and
Clark college, has been ap
Dointed executive secretary of
the Albanv-Lewis and Clark
association. He will assume his
new office in June.
Brewer's responsibilities will
include promotion of alumni
activities and general college
nublic events with special at
tention to annual tours of the
colleee choir and mens glee
club. For the past two years he
has been student manager of the
choir tour and director of the
men's elee club,
Prior to three years' army
service Brewer was office man
ager of consolidated ireigni-
wavs in Medford.
He is a member of Acacia
Masonic fraternity and Blue Key
national honor society for men
He was eraduated from Medford
high school in 1940 and is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. K. A
Brewer, 307
Medford.
Laurel street,
Employment Lowers
Along Pacific Coast
San Francisco. Apr. 27 (U.R)
Employment on the Pacific coast
decreased during 1949 in line
with a nationwide trend, the
U. S. bureau of labor statistics
reported today.
Industrial and commercial em
ployment in California, Wash
ington and Oregon averaged 4.-
Of) 1.000. a decrease of 3 per cent
under 1948.
Principal declines were felt in
manufacturing, especially ma
chinery and shipbuilding, con
struction and trade.
However, in the last quarter
of the year, "encouraging'' re
vivals were noted in residential
building, lumber and trade.
TACTICAL ERROR
Coral Gables, Fla. (U.R) Mrs.
Grace A. Flinje picked the
wrong car to bump into when
she turned to wave at a friend.
Her car slammed into the rear
of a police cruiser, doing $85
damage. Mrs. Flinje paid $15
fine.
Mile Rock Lighthouse, about
half-a-mile off San Francisco, Is
visible for fourteen miles at sea.
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Medical Professor
Warns on Use of
Magic Hormones
San Francisco, Apr. 28 (U.R)
A Stanford university medical
professor warns that ACTH and
cortisone, the "magic" hormones
used successfully in treating
many diseases, may have toxic
effects.
Dr. William Kazell said last
night that ACTH and cortisone
are now "tools of laboratory and
clinical research and not cures
for diseases."
He said their promise lies in
the hope that derivatives of the
two substances will be found
which do not have harmful side
effects, are less expensive and
which will relieve or cure cer
tain diseases.
May Build Resistance
He said ACTH, a protein sub
stance, might build up in the
body such a resistance that a
patient would not respond to
continued injections of it.
"ACTH, on long continued ad
ministration," Kazell said, "can
produce a condition not unlike
diabetes In some individuals,
and this elevation of blood su
gar is not always responsive to
the use of insulin."
ACTH, he added, can also pro
duce a condition of dropsy
through enlargement of the adre
nal glands and an elevation of
blood pressure "to dangerous
levels."
Gland May Cease
He said the prolonged use of
cortisone probably will cause
the adrenal gland of the patient
to cease functioning properly. It
can also produce a condition of
dropsy, he said.
Control Board Urges
Food Budget Increase
Salem, Ore.. Apr. 28 U.R)
The state board of control ap
proved an increase of 10 per
cent in the food budget of the
Oregon state hospital today.
Secretary of State Earl T.
Newbry proposed the increase,
saying he did not feel that pa
tients at the state hospital here
were getting the proper grade of
food.
Rat Revision Asked
The board also decided to ask
the 1951 legislature for an up
ward revision of rates for vol
untary patients at the hospital.
Most of these are ones being
treated for alcoholism. Volun
tary patients now are charged in
accordance with the ability to
pay, up to $25 a month. The
legislature will be asked to in
crease the rate to a maximum
of $50 a month, with $60 a
month the rate for voluntary
alcoholic patients.
Gov. Douglas McKay said he
thought the legislature would ap
prove the boost if the members
understood the situation.
"It costs more money if we
are to bring the food diets up to
the proper standard," he said.
"And I believe that some pa
tients and their relatives are fi-
"In certain individuals the
administration of ACTH and
cortisone causes an acute mania
during which patients have to
be restrained and treated as
mental cases," Kazell said. "In
other patients, sleeplessness is a
difficult problem.
. ACTH and cortisone have been
used to treat gout, rheumatic fe
ver, certain forms of arthritis,
lobar pneumonia, asthma and
certain kidney disease with
"striking success." he said.
nancially able to contribute to
these increased costs. '
Gov McKay asked that a
study be made of the use of
utos by various state institu
tions with a view toward co
ordinating vehicle use.
Pooling of Cars Urged
"I believe there is a waste in
the use of cars among the in
stitutions," he said, "and if a
plan could be worked out where
a vehicle of one institution could
handle services for another near
by institution, the state might
save considerable money."
He mentioned the Fairview
home, Hillcrest school for girls
and tuberculosis hospitals as be
ing in the same general vicinity
where vehicular use could be
pooled.
The board took under consid
eration a proposal to build a
warehouse here to store surplus
property bought by the state
from the federal government.
Wakefield Walker, executive sec
retary of the state educational
agency for surplus property, said
the warehouse could be built for
$20,000 to $25,000 and the cost
could be made up in rentals over
a period of about four years.
The state gets about $200,000,
original value, worth of surplus
from the federal government a
month. Wakefield said surplus
property will be available to the
state for about six more years.
OUTRANKED BY WIFE
Manchester, N. H. (U.R) One
ranking navy officer doesn't
rate a salute from Petty Officer
Horace L. Carter. The officer is
Lt. Cmdr. Donna Carter, his
wife, and a navy nurse. Carter
calls her "dear" instead of
"sir" at home.
HONEYMOON DATE KEPT -r
San Francisco (U.R) Fifty
years ago Arthur L. Osborne
promised his bride they would
return for another honeymoon
at San Francisco's Palace hotel.
They have just kept the date.
Osborne wonderingly admitted,
"I didn't believe the promise
would pe Kept myseu. nuin sue
75 years old.
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his collections 10 years ago. To
day he has more than 25,000 dif
ferent match book covers.
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