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nit DAILY SUN 5- Saturday, November 5, 1955 VOLLMER, FAMED BERKELEY CRIMINOLOGIST, KILLS SELF TO i niWjiiiiiiinjiii i jipm i ii.ninpipi 1 i hi 11 i ii mi I i.u.ii? ni.ii. i I 1 i ii i ii i 'il i jii foimp a fj fl 1 Weeks Asserts I Business Will Hit New Highs i WASHINGTON" (UP) Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks said Friday the nation's economy is "in the pink" and is expected! to hit new fecords next year. He I said "Old Man Prosperity just keeps rolling along." Predicting record Christmas sales this year, Weeks said the oldi pioneers' dream of "gold in them I thar hills" is coming true almost everywhere. No generation, he said "ever has been blessed with suchj general prosperity as we are having right now." He added a note of caution by TRA declaring that "we must watch carefully the quality of credit andj be aware of the possibility of BERKELEY IT) August 'Gus) Vollmer, 79, the father of modern police science, killed himself Friday with a bullet through his right temple. The former Berkeley police chief and noted criminologist had been ill for years and suffered intense pain.

The knowledge that he was losing his eyesight, and- might no longer be able to read, might have decided his act, his housekeeper said. After breakfast Friday morning, Mrs. Lida Miller said Vollmer told her: "I'm going to shoot myself. Call the Berkeley police." FIRES SINGLE SHOI "Then he stepped out the kitchen door of his residence at 923 Euclid Ave. and fired a single shot from his .38 caliber service revolver.

Police Chief John D. Holstrom expressed his grief and called Vollmer "an oustanding pioneer in modern police administration." "Through the long years of his retirement Vollmer continued as an active criminologist in association with his colleagues in the United States and thousands of visitors from overseas who called on him in Berkeley," Holstrom said. "We shall miss him." Vollmer was born in New Orleans March 7, 1876, and attended New Orleans Academy. Criminology attracted him and he became chief of the Berkeley department in 1905 and held the post for 27 years. He encouraged John Larson in developing the lie detector, and the Berkeley department was the first to use the device.

FIKST PKINT BUREAU Vollmer also established one of the first fingerprint bureaus. As early as 1916 he sent a letter to moderate price rise." But he saidi inflationary pressures are less! (AP wirephoto) AUGUST VOLLMER the Berkeley police' in which police officers coordinated their college education with police work. Among Vollmer's students were Maj. Gen. William Dean, the hero of Korea; Walter Gordon, governor of the Virgin Islands, and George than a few months ago.

RECORDS CITED Weeks made his highly-optimistic statement in a speech to the annual National Savings Bond Con WET WASH Mrs. Betty Luneen takes in wash as flood waters from Skagit River rise around her house nearConway, flooding basement and fields beyond. Many families were forced to move to higher ground. (AP wirephoto) ference. The conference also is i to the new 0T0R0LA Dikes Holding In Northwest SEATTLE ITv The water and the estimates of damage both dropped aiming at a postwar high of in sales of series and bonds next year.

Citing records in employment, earnings and income, Weeks said that technical consultants to his top-level industry advisory council believe "pretty unanimously that 1956 will show a higher rate of activity than 1955." Some of the consultants see a "modest slideoff" in the second half of next year, he said, following an inventory buildup by in Brereton, chief of the California Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification. Vollmer and Millicent Fell of Dunkirk, N. were married in 1924. She died in 1946. Vollmer was consultant to more than 50 smaller police departments, and reorganized the San Diego force in 1917; the Los Angeles department in 1923-24.

He wrote books on criminology Friday in the Pacific Northwest's worst flood scare since 1951 as rains slowed and dikes held the water in choked river channels." Thousands of acres still were dustry. But each quarter still is ex-; 11 l5! ji! ffijif Front I 1 Ij Tuning i --c ZS and penology, and once served as head of the University of Chicago's department of police administration. He was an Army private in the Spanish-American War and the in mint in i i ii iiLi.miup ijn iHiJumumoiMu 1 1 uniiji Hi.jj,ii.upiM!. mmiimminiiwiMuj. i wm' rrST rr-tFrn i HL peciea xo De Detter tnan tne corresponding quarter this year.

CONFIDENCE 'HIGH' Weeks, said other consultants doubt there will be any decline at all. "Confidence is high, income after taxes is at an all-time high, the desire for a higher standard of living is keener than ever," he said. "The cost of livinE? which had Congress urging establishment of a national bureau of fingerprinting, now carried on by the FBI. He also established the juvenile traffic police force, and at the end ot World War I established his "college cops" training program Finest 21 table TV in superb wood-grain Blond or Mahog Philippine Insurrection. He underwent throat surgery three years ago and had to wear 'a brace for a spinal injury.

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