In October, 1933, SAC R. A. Alt of Jacksonville had a problem we're all familiar with; manpower. While most today in law enforcement management and day to day problems realize this continuous problem, I don't think many can really appreciate the manpower needs of the early FBI until you read something like this.
Alt's plea to the Director for men begins with a somewhat comical note about how in October there's "always migration of crooks from the North to Florida increasing the work...."
On the other hand, one of the 4 Agents has only been in the Bureau for a month and Alt cannot assign him various cases due to "lack of experience." (However, he does send this new Agent by himself to South Florida to check a lead on notorious killer at the KC Massacre, Verne Miller.)
One Agent has iodine poisoning (seafood?) and it goes on.......
He only had 4 men covering the state and Puerto Rico and 2 of them were sick. 1 has been in for only 30 days.
In 1933, the Jacksonville Bureau Office was the only office covering the state of Florida. As you can imagine, 4 men "just doesn't cut it."
Those assigned to Jacksonville at the time were: SAC Alt, SA R. L. Shivers, SA L. E. Kingman and SA T. E. Nance (only in the Bureau about 30 days)