Evening star., 1937-10-03
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Identification Group to Ask
Hays Back Plan to Pro-
tect Players.

Fingerprinting of every one in the
motion picture industry-from Shirley
Temple and Clark Gable to the low
hest studio hand-as protection
against kidnapers and extortionists,
will be urged on Will Hays, movie
~czar," by the International Associ-
alton for Identification.
Declaring Hollywood is overrun with
'blackmailers, confidence men, kid
napers, extortionists and criminal ad-
venturers of various kinds" the asso-
citation, just before adjournment of
Its convention at the Willard Hotel
yesterday, named committee 10 con-
fer with Hays about this deplorable
condition"
The committee, headed by Louis NJ
Rubens, police commissioner of Joliet,
Ill. was directed to urge earnestly
the adoption by the industry of a
practical plan to fingerprint each and
every individual now employed at the
various motion picture studios in any
capacity whatsoever, and also every
person who makes application for en-
PiOg ol oily hliid VI QCSCl lJblOll
IN the motion picture industry"
Cashin, Walsh on Committee.
Other members of the committee
are William E. Cashin, superintendent
of the New York State Bureau of
Identification, who introduced resolu-
tions on the matter, and Douglas E.
Walsh, superintendent of the Bureau
Of Identification of the Dallas, Tex,
Police Department.
The committee recommended that
all such fingerprints be filed in the
non criminal personal identification
files of the Federal Bureau of Investi-
CATION. A number of stage and screen
stars already have recorded their fin
serprints on their own initiative.
The associations resolution assert
ed the crime situation in Hollywood
has become increasingly and notori-
ously scandalous because of a long
and brazen series of criminal offenses
which could be almost entirely oblit-
Grated through the establishment of a
modern system of personal identifl-
cation"
Gordon Elected President.
The association at its final business
session elected the following new off,
GERS: President William c. Gordon,
superintendent, Police Bureau of Iden-
tiflcatlon, Kansas City, Mo; first vice
president, Supt Cashin; second vice
president, w. T. Whitney. Wake
County Bureau of Identification.
Raleigh, N. c.; secretary-treasurer.
Leroy Goodwin, superintendent, Police
Bureau of Identified ton, YOUNGSTOWN.
Ohio; editor, Al Dunlap, Chicago;
sergeant at arms, John o. Simon.
superintendent. Police Bureau of Iden-
tification. Duluth, Mimi; foreign rep
resentative. Commissioner Rubens. and
directors, Robert Moore, Detroit: In
spector Emmett Evans, Chicago, and
Walter Roberts, Tallahassee Fla.
The convention chose Columbus.
Ohio, for its next annual meeting.
Honorary membership in the organ
ization was voted for the following:
Attorney General Cummings, Rev. Ed
mund A. Walsh, S. j., vice president of
Georgetown University: Deputy Com
missioner S. T. Wood, Royal Canadian
Mounted Police; George Reyer, super
intendent of police. New Orleans:
Edward j. Kelly, superintendent of
Rhode Island State Police: Prof Albert
Coates of the University Of North
Carolina; Edmund P Mulrooney. COM
missioner of correction. New York:
Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New
York; Representative Randolph. DEM
ocrat, of West Virginia. and State
Representative R. j. Lyons of Illinois.
Attend Graduation Ceremonies.
Earlier in the day the delegates
attended ceremonies marking grad
uation of 36 police officers from the
F. B. I. National Police Academy at
the Department of Justice. Addresses
were delivered by Cummings. ]. Edgar
Hoover, director of the F. B. l., and
Q number of others.
Yesterday afternoon the association
conducted a radio forum on crime
over station WJSV and associated sta
tions. Hoover led the discussion.
The four-day convention was cli-
NAKED by banquet last night in the
large ball room of the Willard Hotel,
with more than 700 persons present.
Cummings and Hoover we're guests of
honor. The former spoke briefly
There were no other addresses, the
program being devoted to entertain
ment.
A special attraction was the show
ing of the motion picture sponsored
by the G-men, You Can't Get Away
With It, through the courtesy of
Charles E. Ford, producer. THE
Star Spangled Banner" was sung by
Clarence Crandall, F. B. 1. employe,
accompanied at the piano by Walter
Kealy. another employe. God Save
the King" was sung by George Shea,
chief special agent of the Canadian
National Railway.
John Doyle, commissioner of DO
hce of Brighton, N. Y, was toast
master, and John Slaughter was mas
ter OF ceremonies.