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1934,

HERE, THERE

EVERYWHERE.

DERELICTS AT DARTMOUTH

In spite of the activity at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth there is a great deal üf unemploy- ment in this picturesque port. The College itself is at little more than half-strength, and its staff has been heavily reduced.

Commander Williams, the mem-

WOMEN MAKE GOOD DETECTIVES

MORE ATTENTION PAID TO DETAIL

INTUITION AN ASSET

(By Gilbert Frankau.)

London.

times for every once you could pull

ber for Torquay, lives in Raleigh's A S a member of a certain famous it.over hers.

Dart.

club whose proceedings are It is so ridiculously easy for a old house on the left bank of the always private, I learn a lot about woman to deceive a man that the Crime in real Hfe. Almost the only average woman does it with no men- But the shipyards are silent, and books I read for relaxation are de- tal effort at all. If she once sets the river is blocked with derelict tective stories. Yet in real life, and her mind to deception, even Scotland shipping.

in that mirror of life which is fic-Yard can throw in its hand. Last year 28 vessels were laid tion, 1 have very seldom been able But net another woman to unravel up in the river channel. They to discover a female sleuth. that deception, to unmask the vil included the 14,000 ton Oropesa,

Last year for the first time women lainness, and no power on earth will which once carried the Prince of-three members of the women po-keep her long from the truth. Wales.

lice were appointed to the Criminal In such cases a woman detective To-day, there are only 18. Since Investigation Department of Scot would he invaluable. And since her 1933 the price of scrap-iron has land Yard. Now this is a very intuition very rarely fails to pene risen.

curious circumstance. More cetrate the mask of the male hypo- pecially if you consider that we have crite either, why should her work had a female police force for many stop there? A despatch from Greenland has living exponents of the detective very important part of all police. The examination of suspects is a years past—and that two of the best broken the silence surrounding Mr. story are women. Martin Lindsay's gallant attempt

work. If an averagely intelligent In real life. nevertheless, when we woman attended, perferably in con. to cross the ice-cap and thus make have to selve a mystery, we still cealment. all such examinations I am the longest sledging journey ever almost invariably rely on a com-convinced that not even the New undertaken by a self-supporting ex-pletely trousered C.I.D.. while in York police would need to use the pedition.

fiction we turn to Sherlock Holmes, Third Degree. For although science The party of three young men to Monsieur Poirot. to Lord Peter has already produced an elementary has reached its advanced base and Wimsey. Mr. Ellery Queen, Mr.lie-detector-sud a

IRON RATIONS

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very uncanny

is probably by now in terra in Philo Vance, or Mr. Fortune-my machine it is, as I myself know by cognita.

latest favourite in the sleuth-hound personal experience the finest lie Already they have had a bard

race. So far, indeed, I have dis- detector yet created is the average time. They are in for a harder. covered only one story in which a female mind. cently, thereby closing the Power-

Esch man's ration is 11b. 14oz. women selves the murder problem- to-Power disarmament negotia of food a day. It is composed as though dozens in which a

Women's Potentialities woman Nevertheless, if woman's poten- BASTO-At the Canossa Hospital, tions. For, with characteristic follows: Pemmican, 7 oz.

mar-either instigates the murder or come tialities as a detective ended there, on July 31, 1934, to Erica, wife diplomatic ineptitude, Germany garine 4oz.; biscuits, 2oz.; peaflour, mits it herself.

she would never make a Sherlock of R. A. de Castro Basto, M.D, had just disclosed the figures of 2oz.; phosphates of milk, 3oz.; por- And this in itself constitutes for Holmes. Because although she is a D.O.M.S., a son.

her 1934-5 Budget, which show-ridge, 3 oz.; sugar, 40z; cocoa-me a mystery. Because in my esti- logical animal and sometimes a ed an increase of 33 1-3 per cent, and-milk, 2oz.; chocolate, Soz. mation every woman is a in the Defence Ministry vote, the

natural hyper-logical animal, she is, at the On this Lucullan fare they pro- detective-and that almost from the same time, an over-imaginative ani. largest percentage of increase pose to sledge for 12 weeks several day she is born. being shown in the expenditure thousand feet above sea-level, · ·

With her, curio mal, and far too apt to jump at, her Jon the Air Ministry of General

sity, at least, is instinctive. And conclusions. Goering, which was 210 million way across the ice-cap they cannot must fall.

Once they are more than half-without that Instinct every detectivejing at a conclusion-being one of This last this jump-

reichmarks, as against 78 mil-turn back.

the worst attributes a detective can Their supplies would lion for last year. In reply to not suffice for the return journey.

Habitual Crime

possess. The German Air Fleet. British inquiry, it was stated

Fiction apart, the average work for minute observation of purely It is, rather, woman's capacity that the increased expenditure

of crime-detective is a routine af material matters which could make The prohibition of bombing was necessary for reorganisation

Most criminals are habitual her so valuable in the elucidation of from the air and the abolition of pf civil aviation and defensive

A woman was seen behaving in ones, either.

criminals and not very intelligent all military and naval aircraft measures against aggression

crime. a atrange manner at an open-air law-breakers, moreover, go outside by the very employments (mainly

Very few habitual have been considered at several from the air. German, it is Disarmament Conferences with stated would be content with a cently. She was doing her best

meeting addressed by an M., P. re their own particular line, out any agreement having been defensive air force, not including to get close enough to hear what Pickpockets pick pockets. reached. Last year M. Nadolny, bombing "planes, the numerical he was saying. the spokesman for the German strength of which would not ex- delegation at the last conference, ceed 80 per cent. of the combined strongly urged this form of dis- air forces of Germany's neigh- armament, stating that he "need bours, or 50 per cent. of the sible to control a driveless auto tabulates them and even associates not explain that a war of avia-French strength, whichever was mobile. And now we want an in-with them when they are not reAsk her to describe the people at

vention that will control a car ceiving his Majesty's hospitality. So that in nine cases out of every ten suspicion narrows itself to a very limited group.

Suspicion aroused, there follows

tion must necessarily be particu- the less.

Your Daily Smile!

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¡fair.

Bur-

Woman, by her very nature. and

domestic) which she has had to

glars burgle. Forgers forge. Practise through so many centuries, Safebreakers break open safez. Smash-and-grab raiders smash and Scotland Yard. therefore,

A radio invention makes it pos-grab.

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larly feared by so highly popu The British Draft Convention with a driver in it. lated and industrialised a cour had already proposed substantial try as Germany, who was aware reductions of military aircraft that thousands of military aero-and limitation of their sizes. At Some tourists were being shown an

Ma's Lost

pianes were ready to fly over her the same time it frankly recog famous painting, the guide said, the procuring of evidence.

art gallery. When they approached a

But

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is more aware of, more concentrated detail than man is. She notices and remembers daily hundreds of Hittle things that the average man either fails to notice for forgets.

for any minute description of any a party she has attended; ask her

scene she has witnessed-and you will realise the truth of this at once. But

In the detection of all crime-any,

DOW-

clue.

frontiers, while she herself had nised the validity of Germany's Pause here."

there, also, no very great effort of real, as apart from any fictional, de- not a single aeroplane. for de claim to equality and the abro- A small child looked about her in the imagination or the intuition is]

tective will tell you it is nearly fence against attack from the gation of certain clauses of the bewilderment." "That's right," she air, no military aeroplanes. no Versailles Treaty. And the old, "but we must have left ma in the sciences such as that of finger that eventually brings the criminal required. Routine and system, always the observation of minutio anti-aircraft guns." It must be "Round Table" magazine re- other room," remembered that Part V. of the marked recently that "if Sir Kindness To Insects. Department haustive Inquiries, remorselessly gent barglar knows enough

printing or microphotography, ex- to justice. Even your least intelli Versailles Treaty imposed upon John Simon's programme could

adays, not to leave footprints or fin- a defeated Germany the total have been presented a little over A campaign has been launched conducted, are the main need. prohibition of all "military or a year before to Chancellor urging people to be kind to in- It is only in the exceptional case,[ger-prints. But not even in fiction naval air forces." Yet the ex- Bruening, there is little doubt sects. I have often slapped a gnat proaches the extravagance of the without leaving some clus.

in the case where real life ap can your master-criminal operate istence of an invisible German that he could have taken it home heartily on the back.

fiction-writer. air fleet has been reported. It to Germany in triumph."

that exceptional. Every criminal, even your excep Aviators say that a

qualifies the sixth sense or, the tional criminal, leaves some is claimed that the new airport French intransigence and British at Celle, "the largest aerodrome slowness, delayed the offering of seen from the air is not a bow but sense of pure logic no, dear to the The "perfect crime" has never yet in Germany,

crime novelist are required at all. been, and never will be committed. probably in a reasonable compromise to Ger- a circle. So there goes the idea of Europe," is designed purely for many. And the result was that an air expedition to the end of one cases that a woman detective might covering such clues as a man's eye It to however, precisely in such A woman's eye is as capable of dis- military purposes. It is possi- Chancellor Bruening gave way to Chancellor Hitler. And Nazi ble, of course, that this

-perhaps even more capable. Wo- Young Webster drome has been constructed for Germany, taking her stand upon

For to say that the average man's powers of observation, wo- appetite," requested the woman is not a logical animal is to man's sense of logic, woman's intui- commercial purposes or for mili- the failure of the Versailles instructor in an English school tary purposes purely defensive, signatories to carry out their "When you're eating you're 'appy" prove oneself even more ignorant tion, and ever woman's imagination, to both of which Germany has disarmament commitments, re-announced the student; and when about her than the averago British could all help the law to defeat the an undeniable right. But it is fuses to recognise the treaty's you're through you're tight; that's ap-husband. While not even the least law-breaker. There is no earthly

petite.' significant that a recent book. provisions in regard to German

imaginative British husband can reason why we should not have more "Hitler Over Europe," makes the rearmament. The position at A critic declares that there is sixth sense which is intuition. she

deny that when it comes to that woman" detectives. same assertion in more definite present may become even more nothing that

annoys novelists can give him ninety guesses in a

aero-

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no man can conceal his true charac

PARTIES.

First Arriving To-morrow.

and detailed terms. The author. complex if Russia enters the more than the person who starts hundred and still win, M. Brast Henri, alleges that "the League, following present indi- reading their books in the middle. whole of Germany to-day is one anti-German bloc. But the pros-who stops reading at that point.

cations, and joins France and the Unless, of course, it's the person criminal inevitably entails the un-

The discovery of the exceptional AMERICAN TOURIST vást aircraft factory," the Ger- man automobile and electrical en-

pect of a German air fleet makes

masking of character. And even gineering industries having beenit even more imperative than

when a woman is in love with him, turned into aeroplane industries, ever for Great Britain to con-Facts You Did Not Know Goering and Hess, two of the tinue the disarmament fight

ter from her very long. four supreme leaders of National Air warfare means that England disks of black and white stripes in Your lady secretary, Mr. Average A party of de American tourists,

A clock has been invented that has

The Sixth Sense Socialism, were former active political and strategical insulari-persons that, their eye are affected by Business-man, is a very much better travelling under the direction of the stead of numerals on its face to warn airmen, and are still ardent ad- vocates of aviation as a method

ty. In a "three-dimensional" astigmatism. war the British army and "navy

will lose all her advantages of

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