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SCOTLAND YARD INQUIRY

GANG PERACE

**Telling me you'd like to give me a damn good 'air-cut, then tan the 'ide off me ‘ardly comes under the 'cading of prychological training—do it, Cop?”

London Express Service

Find this boy or he will die! It's the sixth-day of the hunt and now there is little time

I was suddenly frightened

of what was coming next...

Then I heard

a scream

I

Every policeman in Britain is hunting for 10-prar-old TONY ROWE, who vanished after seeing his mother "murdered has an iffness which will kill him unless he is given an injection. and his father, GEORGE ROWE, may die too, on the gallows, for he has been arrested for the murder. Superintendant STANLEY. n! Scolland Yard, learns that TONY was kidnapped and he questions JOE TRENT, a bookmaker, about tie-dan man HARRY THRAKE, convicted thief, who knows where Tony 13.

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REDCAR. "I want your tic-lae man to OE, 1 said, "have get a message through to Harry Thrake." I said. "Tell him 1 read about

Want to see hi, Tell him I Tony Rowe?" He offer him tamunity from prose- thought for at cutron- it he'll tell me wher's moment and then nodded, iding Tony Rowe," "Course," he said. "That

if they don't find him."

"Allowy!" said

Now you must know

that buukles urg like actors. The sort of bokles, I mean, who get up there in front of their standin and shout the odds at the people They take your money and they risk their own. but what they are mostly in- terested is their performance.

Up there on his stand, Joe Trent looked (and, I am sure, felt > like Falstaff You would never have guessed that he was interested this afternoon anything but the horseA about to come on to the course.

In

Every so often he would bend down to his clerk- hnd warn- ed him to be circumspect.. and the clerk would

signal to

ՈՒ Treal. Hymie Finkelhofe, the tic-the

mun, And then the arms would wave, and all over the course the message would be carried:

Thrake "la Harry

anywhere

poor kid what's going to die. And then, holding uut his handyn

for me to shuke: "Let's get over to the course ៥t`s ] can tell Hyme what to do. If Harry Thake's on the course today ru lay you two-le-one Hymie near you?" And all through the deliver him!"

"You may be able to save his life, Joe. Do you really think Harry Thrake will come to Redear today-even

It was not a question of trust-

afternoon vame the answer: "No."

though he hasn't got your ing him. It was the only thing (These messages, I may say, to do. Bu made it clear that I got through a translation from

cur?"

"He sud he sud an important date here, and Sons.

he'll come."

I leaned forward.

I think

"I've

to get holl of him und Lalk to I've reason to believe him, Jue. he knows where Tony Howe is. 1 abo beleve 1 may know ething about the murder of Tuny's mother,

"The police

It be let ine down he might And # rucecourse policeman who be us a bookie som- what difficult in

the future: and then sent Joe Front off to the

low him on

race-course, and

ON MONDAY

mry

The killer strikes again

police

had boon trained un a

tic-lac man too.)

It was just after the end of the third race that a man got up on & box

in Tattersalls the

and made a gesture of own failed to get Harry Thrake, then his hands: "Herry's here. He's genial Joe was the only ran who coming through

uld help.

It was beCPRSITY

ring.

to the

silver

said to

my

will be looking keep out of the way. I Harry Police tle-tae man. "Send the

At

S

Mustration

ROND

And all through the afternoon came the answer; "No"

WHY THE TORIES

LOST THE VOTES

HE

By VAUGHAN JONES

"All right," for me to

for lum, and he's probably cagy Thruke knew about me, then 50

signal down to Hymnie Finkel- hofe, Tell him to get the by now. Bet vou com tip him off, Joe, that I want to see him, did the propia he was working message over to Harry Thrake" Have you got your own tie-ine for--the man, for instance, that I turned to the sergeant man with you? Can you trust Joe Trent called Harry's Boss the electric buzzer. You give sterling and the

and I must not frighten them the signal too. I want the silver ring closed. Don't let anyone away by being seen.

out or in. I'm going down there So bad them take me into to see Harry Thrake,"

areas,

for their

London. merdy in big industrial British people live It covered small boroughs, ton. politically by paradox. In 305 boroughs altogether, Last week came good the Socialists gained 544 seats, The Tories gained 80, news from all home fronts. last 34.

Jost 440. As a result Labour The Bank rate was cut to captured ten boroughs from the three percent, reflecting in- Tories and equalled Tory op- ternational confidence in position in a number of others. world's Inevitably. Tory leaders ora respect for Tory handling seeking explanations of Britain's finances,

defeat.

They point out that, with good Unemployment remained at a times being enjoyed by every low level The stock marke! section of the community, the racecourse by a

And pray God, i added to continued booming. House build- polling was

exceptionally low. about

route and hustled into myself, that he doesn't get away ing hit a new peak-all under in one district, less than eleven the police box! from which from me, I moved down fast, Conservative guidance.

percent of the electorate with # powerful pair of wondering why my mouth had

bothered to vota. In many feld glasses, glued my eyes gone so dry, why I was sud- Yet the nation-wide borough others, only about a third went

so frightened of what council elections ended in a clear to the polls. "112 do anything on foc, his clerk, and his tic- denly

What tac man down in the to help that little grazer,

silver was coming next. Then I heard victory for Labour. The swing

the Left was to

m?"

"I'm sboring with Honest

Fred and Gusty Lewis," said Joe. "We're using Hymie Finkelhofe. He's a nice kid,"

"I'm I took a deep breath. dung this cff my own bat, but

il's a risk we've got to take."

Joe said:

do you want?"

zing.

round-

a scream.

marked not Those who did

50, my the Torles, Included the organised disgruntled who would voto against Conservatism under any condition.

Well, how CHILDISH are YOU?

IT'S THE YES-KO WAY TO TEST

YOUR EMOTIONS

• TEN ample questions from

an

"emotional age"

test. Answer" Yes" or " No." "

1. Do you build castles in

the air?

2. Do you tend to get

bored eally 2

3. Does the sight of blood

upset you?

4. Do you kick, stamp, or

throw things

about

when you are angry.?

4. Are you very attached

to your mother ?

Does it annoy you to

* be beaten in an argu-

2. Do you blush onally ?

1. Have you ever regretted &

Krowing up

DDƏT You like taking

WOMEN

lot less mature

Wemotionally than men of the same

age. They are more child-like in tempera- . ment, subject to more childish fears, nud leas willing to shoulder responsibility.

Those are the findings of a leading psychiatrist after the first-ever attempt to assess the exact emotional ages of representative mon and

women.

THE

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