Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-29
CHIEFS WELCOME
z POLICEMEN TO
ANT|-CR|ME SCHOOL
Cummings and Hoover Open
Course in "G-Men" Tech
nique for Picked Groups.
SESSION IS HELD MOVE
TOWARD COOPERATION
Federal Weapons in War on
Lawlessness Placed in Hands
of State Officers.
BY REX COLLIER.

BY REX COLLIER.
Accepting an invitation Of the De-
partment of Justice to come here and
see how its Omen" get results, %
picked policemen from as many State,
county and municipal departments
today sat down with Is embryo agents
to begin a three-month course in the
so-called National Anti-Crime Col
lege"
The new institution, officially desig-
mated the Police Training School of
the Federal Bureau Of Investigation"
was opened this morning in an air
cooled modern class room, where
Attorney General Cummings and In
vestigation Director j. Edgar Hoover
hailed the school as an earnest at
tempt to better the two aligned Fed
eral and local law enforcement agen-
cies for formidable drive on gang
land.
The school represents an expansion
Of the bureaus widely pubhcized
training school for its own special
agents and the faculty of the original
school will be augmented by more
than twoscore leading criminologists,
law professors, scientists and other
specialists.
There were no formal ceremonies to
mark the launching Of what Cum
mings and Hoover characterized as an
experiment designed to bring about
oHnPfiun
agencies and more efficient co-opera-
ton against the Nations public
enemies.
Cummings and Hoover welcomed
the students in brief addresses and
then posed with the policemen for
news photographers and cameramen.
After that, the trainees, all young off,
GERS who have made exceptional
records in their respective depart
ments. got down to the serious bust
ness of learning how to outwit the
criminal.
Post Graduate Course.
Today was enrolment and organi-
zation day, bu. as soon as prelimi-
naries are over, the students will
plunge into an intensive postgraduate
like course in latest strategic methods
in the Governments war on crime.
They will investigate staged crimes
in the bureaus crime scene room"
where Oscar, the dummy known to all
&c" men as a test murder victim"
will greet them in tragic and CORY
silence.
They will listen to Dean" Hugh H
Clegg or one of his assistants tell d
fantastic story Of having been kid
naped and held in a certain house
and they then will be turned loose in
automobiles to find the described
"hideout."
They will look through powerful
microscopes in the bureaus technical
laboratory, seeking to discover tell
tale Identification markings on rife
bullet, to classify hairs or dust par
ticles or other tiny crime clues, to
check forgeries by hand or typewriter.
They will spend hours with busting
powders and magnifying glasses look
ing for flngerprints on "Old Beulah,"
venerable automobile used in crime
experiments. How to classify finger
prints and search files will be studied
They will learn the art of moulage-
the molding of footprints, tire treads
or other marks at the scene of a
crime to preserve the impressions per-
manently in wax or plaster.
To Reveal Secret Writing.
The use of ultra violet rays, chem
icals, heat and other agents to reveal
secret writing, identify stains and
check other possible bits of evidence
will be demonstrated.
In short, Uncle Sam will make
available to police of the country the
modern developments in scientific
crime detection which have enabled
his own men to establish an en-
viable record in rounding UP kid
napers, bank robbers and other des-
peradoes.
An entire week will be spent by the
agents and police at Quantico, where
practice will be held in firing all
types of guns under every anticipated
| type Of difficulty. How to hit still
and moving targets while lying prone,
standing, running or riding in fast
moving automobile will be studied on
the range and in the field.
The Justice Department announced
the representatives included:
Baltimore Police Department, James
c. Downs; Bergen County, N. J.,
Police Department, Matthew James
Donohue; Boston Police Department,
James T. Sheehan; Connecticut State
police, Leo Mulcahy; Delaware State
L. E. Goodrich selected by the Gov
ernor Of Florida; Miami Police De-
partment, Fred J. Manning; New
York City Police Department, James
B. Nolan; Pennsylvania highway
patrol, Earl j. Henry: Petersburg, Va,
Police Department, E. W. Savory;
Pittsfeld, Mass, Police Department,
Camille Marcel; Rhode Island State
police, Charles r. Blake; Tamaqua,
Pa, Police Department, Nelson
Hughes, and a representative of the
Elizabeth, N. j., Police Department.
An indication Of the scope of the
curriculum is obtained from q list of
subjects to be taught. Some of these
are:
Cryptograms, developing obliterated
numbers and letters on metals, docu-
ment identifications, explosives. gun
powder tests, hand writing identifi-
cation. toxicology, pathology, police
photography, crime trends, report
writing. traffic control. abnormal psy-
chology. arson, road blocking, criminal
law. mobs and violence, location Of
fugitiyes. problems in catastrophes.