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THE PHONE TAPPERS TRY ON SOME APPROPRIATE UNIFORMS
Left to right-Horr Rab Himmler. Herr Adolf Macmillan, General Hormann Hill, Or. Selwyn Goebbels,
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A candid very candid commentary from America on the matter which has roused the indignation of Britain
HERE WE DON'T FOOL OURSELVES: ANYBODY
New York
fme morning. Racketeer Frank Costell
gets out of bed in his Man- hattan. apartment. He is at peace with his own world. He picks up his telephone and in his gravel voice sends . cheery greeting down the wire: "Hey, boys, how are yuh this morning?" There is no reply.
MAY BE TAPPED
by CHRISTOPHER DOBSON
ear. They caught him right at found to be completely, "vired
On another morning when the world is not so rosy Frank will grab the receiver and you
the control box in the basement for sound." down It: "Are you still there,, tapping her up and then threw McLaughing reported his you lousy coppers?" There is to
him out."
indings and Herzfeld replied: "As long as I Clark denied reply.
know the taps this, saying 'Lewis norded no wire-taps-ho are there I don't care. Let them But his greetings are hoard, talked feud enough for anyone stay there.” for every minute" ol'every day to hear. Frank. Costello's telephone is
The toppers use a variety of The fact is that wire-tapping equipment in their work, equip tapped. There are silent men has become on everyday part ment which in its crudest form 1stening in to every word. of life in America. Gangsters, allows the tapper to clump wires Ramblers, politicians policemen on to his "subject's" telephone This is going on all over the and company executives do not wires and listen to United Sintes.
police talk freely over the telephone versation through a net of head forces and the G-men tap the any more. They nover
know phones. telephones of men they believe who is listening.
Local
to be crooks, Rival companies
tap one another's telephones to
spy out business secreia.
Politicians eavesdrop on ona
another. And susplelous hus-
Professionals
bands check on wayward wives. W-TAPPERS have become
Here are COMO examples: Mickey Jelkę, helr to a mar garine fortune, was arrested and convieled three years ago vice charges after polico laten ed in to his telephone.
on
ghosts thousands of telephone feasts and the un- scrupulous men who conjure up the ghosts have made for- tunes from the pickings.
The law In fact Bays that wire-lapping is illegal. But the
The phono .booth in the law is gally disregarded even famous Toots Shore restaurant by the polico and the Govern in New York, was tapped and ment, poilee listened in to customers arrunging meetings between po- liticians and big-time gamblers.
By mistake
The F.B.I. are great wire- toppers and in New York a wire-lapping kit is almost standard equipment for every policeman,
ملط
con-
But in this electronic age that is as about os modern as a caveman's club effective but so very crude.
these methods are
through
to the telephone wires and it "The snoopen use hidden will stop and start when the microphones, tiny transmitters volco "subject" starts and stops his which send the human conversation.
Over ardinary electric
power lines, contact microphones which Holels, apartment houses, and enable them to listen office buldings arc easy solid walis, minuto radio trans- game. The lapper merely hires mitters that can be hidden in a room, goes down to the base a couch, a briefcase, or a vase ment pretending to be a tele of flowers-plus a dozen other phono workman and connects diabolical siening devices. The telephone in his room to his "Most people think that "ubject's" telephone.
crackling and fading tip them But even
off if wire-toppers are at work. being outmoded by electronics. That's an okl wives' talo. A The expensive tapping equip properly installed tap gives no mont-t can cost thousands clue whatever to its presence. of dollars is being replaced by "Other people have como simple, cheap electronic devices. with the myth that you can fofi "A direct tap," say the bop, wire-tappers by using your tapper", "belongs to the horse phone in bathroom or kitchen and buggy days."
with the tops turned on full An induction coil is the latest force. But if the fellow you marvel. It is so built that it want to talk to can hear you can vick up radiation from the so can the wire-tapper." air and when.a tělephone con-. versation le taking place the radiation given off by the tele- phone wires is translated by the induction coll into plain Eng-
ish-or American.
Confirmation
up
Bernard Spindel, who is one AND that is the ziuation in wire-tappers, bas this to say of to this; if an export is hired to of America's most successful America today. It amounts the latest equipment: "The casa sien in to your telephone with which electronic caves, conversations there 14 Very droppers can listen in on almost little to stop him. anyone's conversation makes ell Mute confirmation of this the more frightening the fact judgment is provided by Mr that defence against them is so Spindel. There is no telephone
The modem wire-lapper will altach 1 recording device dificult.
WANTED IN.
NEW
13,000
In his homo.
ZEALAND
is city
BRIDES
ALIGIBLE young women people of Scottish descent pre- dition of spinsterhood a mi-
Dunedin, founded in 1848 by the independence, which can be
The reason is that a `eigniß- cant proportion of the
males New Zealand does not com- who emigrate to New Zealand pare with Canada, perhaps, in
But the men who really make and a place in the sun members of the Free Church of its compensation. In New Zeo- the killings are the electronic might do a whole lot worse Scotland. It stands on Otago land, on the other hand, the experts who hire themselves out than turn their thoughts to prosperity dates from the dis- an excess of do less than thirteen Harbour, and its commercial alluation is reversed. There is as professional wire-toppers.
One New York professional New Zealand, a country covery of gold in the vicinity in thousand men, and that gure is DURING the war the G-men
lapped a gangster's telephone gets a 600-dollar fee, plus 25 that is currently crying out 1881, though its chief industries likely to increase, in a large building where Mrs dollars a day for maintenance. for immigrants of both are now connected with wool Roosevelt kept a flat..
And then there is the reverse Boxes but needs rather more and frozen meat. of the coin. Many men are so of the feminine gender than They chose the wrong wires frightened p1 wire-tappers and, extremely embarrassed, that they hire the professionals it is at present attracting. listened to the US. President to inspect their wires, and keep
its opportunities to get rich are young bachelors, and their talking to his wife.
them free of taps. That service The main 'recruling-grounds' quickly; but it offers plenty of numbers are not matched by The Hazel Bishop Cosmetic costs come 80 dollars an inspee-for malo migrant. at the sound prospects for the emigrant the tally of the giris sagiving Company became suspicious
moment aro Holland, Scot in most trades and professions, in the country.
Deasely- land, and England. populated Holland, whero A considerable number of So, there could b wedding pressure of numbers has led to German girls have emigrated to bells for thirteen, Ĺžidutand a State-assisted exodus of sur New Zealand. They make good women choosing to ijin this plus · Inhabitants, has bidden housewives. But more women Dominion of the Brit Com- farewell to thousands of her are wanted in order to counter manwealth-a country discover- sturdy and industrious offspring balance on unusual ratio of the ed more than three hundred in recent yearu,
xes which applies to New years ago by
Abel Tasman, Zealand and to few other coun- Dutch explorer, who named it And there has been a steady tries a proponderance of males Staaten Land and admired the
(which has lately over femålen
beauty of its contours os ho quickened) of hopefuls from
salled along" İlp...westem: coast- Englanni
line,
Lion,
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'Let them stay
when they found that
a rival the flem was beating them to punch-but only with number of new products,
They found that their tele- phone Inca had been topped COME men pay even and their rivals wore Itening that
more early morning caller in to all their conversations.
Frank Costello, for instance. Fiery, bushy eyebrowed e hired a telephone linesman trade union leader John L. called James McLaughling to Lewis accused Attorney-General inspect his unes and paid him stream Tom Clark of trying to tap his 150 dollars a time. headquarters telephone,
and Scotland, of Almost ovorywhere else in Sald Lewis: "He sent one of McLaughling graduated from course. Scolainen, in fact, have the world there is a surplus of nla gumshoe men in to top Costello to other racketeers, figured prominently in the de- the fake sex, and single status' out Telephones In our office und including one called Nat Herz velopment of New Zealand, and is the outlook for many women our boys threw him out on his fold whosa wwitchboard war i there are communities
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT MY PINNERT
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where whether they consider the con
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
LOTHAR IS USUALLY GENTLE- BUT HE'S VERY PROTECTIVE
CONCERNING NARDAT MUST
HE TEAR YOU-AND STHE HOUSE,
** APART
TO FIND
HORT
By D. Weish
There's More than Magic in
CADBURY'S
It is Perfection
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