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THE WORK OF A DETECTIVE

PRIVATE

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LONDON.

BY CHARLES GRAVÉS

ECENTLY some men were prosecuted for allegedly stealing their employer's property. But it was not disclosed in Normally the fee for this kind of court that the preliminary

work is two guineas a day plus inquiries, before the police very steeply for expenses, others expenses. Some agencies chorge were called in, were done by do not. The test is what the a private detective. For taxing master allows in the Law allliough private detectives

Courts. are used-and used exten- gively-it very rarely hap-. pens that they give evidence in court.

thinking of marrying an English- man and wants his background over here.

to know, about

debtor is a man who has paid Typical example of the missing down £70 fur car and who owes £450 in instalments,

AMERICAN COLUMN

A Light Shines In The West

By C. V. R. THOMPSON

New York.

NTI-BRITISH talk

las DEING JUNE, tho, big

American over the Elster York's Safety Council cane cut month for marriages, New

deelsion is turning into

pro - British talk. Letter today with the correct way for columns in the newspapers are a man to carry his bride across

of the threshold.

Alling up with criticisms

those Washingtonites who call-

John

"Keep your body upright but

not

ed the decision "British in- gratitude." Says reatter Stanborough in the New York end your knees. The struire Herald-Tribune: "Justice is not should be on your legs,

not for sale. It is not meted out your back. Don't try to lift too as payment on loans or as much weight." And through- courtesy for favours received." out their pamphlet the council And James Marlow, a Washing refer to the brido as "The ton writer, kald.. the decision was a "living memorial to one

of the most priceless treasures of the West-man's right

justice.

to

object."

taking the

THE WETS are

offensive against: America's dryx. They have started, a drive OUTED as the possible saver to prevent areas which are dry

of the American home, under focal option Jawn from TV was cited as grounds for sharing in revenue from liquor separation by a New York

wife, laxes. Mrs Betty Hill. Her charge:

"My husband deprived me of ROX OFFICE receipts ¦ ¦ from his love and companionship by

B

American cinemas are stili develing himself exclusively to dropping, sald a report today. watching television pro- Business is down batween ten Krommes.". .....Butter. wiitch and 10 percent. on last year. went up to 6s. a pound after In sections of the country dropped

abolished, where TV is available, that is today to 2s. 10d.

blamed. Other cinemas which is just a halfpenny above poor business conditions and the old control

price......In not enough good films. Cleveland, Ohio, today, Charles LECTRICALLY WARMED Lupica climbed atop a 10ft.

controls

were

wooden post and threatened to

stay

blame

carpets for bedroom floors there until his favourite went on the market today. team, the Cleveland head the League..

Indians, THE FIGHTING SEASON

In New York's night-clubs.

had no general alphabetical in- got permission to use its new the most plush-lined establish

MOLE HILL, a West Virginia opened today. Police were sum- hamlet of 03 people, has moned early this morning

dex,

THERE ARE 580,000

case

her

Horder

10 I'll show you, said the clerk, name--- Mountain. Women's ment in town to break up a and pulled down one of a hun-autumn will be the cheapest in and the manager.

and children's clothing

"We've dozens dred volumes from the self.six years...... Washington's

this battle between two customers "There you are," he went one of those coincidences he with mumps.

like this." By old Hugo Sims, has gone down

By Youngest Congressman, 27-year- How the Chicago Tribune

sees it: "This nation opened the pago at the exact

noting like a British depen- place.

dency, adopting its foreign- more policy to fit Britain's." One of the first Scotland Yard the Census Bureau, reporting a men to turn private detective record population of 148,027,000 warns Americans to go

Americans this year, said IN NEW YORK for a medicat 'Security' work

when he was due for hla penalon

convention, Lord was Chief-Inspector Arrow who America's highest court by Mies THOUGH divorce work is silll

before with

'slow died shortly before the

their national Still flourishing is ex-Divisional her own

war.Incz Gay, an ex-model fighting to go about it

health work of

three-quarters of, the average dozen if required. Of these cialises in security work. An- weasel wording and legal huts plainly seen. The whole philo-. schemes. "Britain has refused private detective

Det-Inspector Leach, who spefather: "My opponents resort to Unfortunately there

against la no legal rency, "security" work is be-

Gradually," he said, "and the result can qualiflention for a private detec- coming much more common.

be other D.D.P. is live. It is a pity that the Law

firm of private detectives in Sted to, get Its. summer burst of his patient What is alling you?" pariner in a hula"......America is expect Where once the doctor asked Society, which is the governing detective's nume

ula sophy of the G.P. has changed. Security work is the reputable luxury hotel without attracting

James's Street, body for solicitors, does not

for securing attention and others,.

strikes any week now. Indus he now is forced to ask "What insist that there should be some Information In big factories obviously can not,

tries threatened kind of legal registration for which will provide enough evi-

codi, steel, and cars....Home in

are shipping,, do you want?! private detectives as there is in dence for the police to

lake

Georgia, General Lucius Clay Une United States. As things are, Blackmailing is on the decrease The othere need a knowledge of For one thing he is highly re-regimo in power there.

action

"inside jobs"

retired police officers the being urged to run as Governor best sort of private detective. to oust anybody in this country can put up a plate and call himself a

(in any event a reputable detec

the white-supremacy private detective, which is more billent that not be in being

tive when informed by a would than you can do if you want to binckmalied at once advises the start a beauty parlour.

cifent to go to the police). There are at the moment a couple of hundred private.delcc-

a

A large detective agency em- with

ploys

dozen

men full-time a call on another half a agents, as they are called, some are obviously ex-police officers, some can lunch and dine at a

very

Ex-polico ofcera, of course, have had specialised training.

common sense. A

Retired policeman

languages, thinking and simple powers of thing reprehensible. Also, he knowledge of the world, quick loses his pension if he does any

putable: a retired police offer

deduction.

on good terms with police if the eventuality

does sometimes,

will be

the

д

It

It is by no scans unusual for a lengthy attract the

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FRANCIS HARRIS, of Bri-

tain's Raw Cotton Com quick look mission, came to the U.S. for cotton position.

at. the

NDER PRESSURE from m dent Truman announced today fant women's groups, Presi- that ho is thinking of sending. women ambassadors to several

Including Denmark. countries,

HOW BUSINESS: Tin Pan.

Alley la It is inaccurate to suggest that arises There are a certain amount of a private detective has

out: a song. called

....President ally, I would not care to recom- investigations now than before ing details at Somerset House, tion of the occupant of a neigh-taught him something.

pens," but there are fewer of it is sheer hard work-check- observation to

Truman will Before leaving for home to Bankhead for campaigning for,

repay Tallulah mend more than about half a dozen of them. Anybody needing the war into the background of company registration offices and bouring house and then and the services of private detec-

share pushers and confidence the like. tive should take

himself being interrogated by the recom- mendation

Luck occasionally plays a part, of a solicitor-for a very simple reason.

A private detective tells me he was trying to ringe in India. He went to the is, in fact, a former police officer I paid £2 for it at home." in his life Gary Cooper has.

"prove"? a mar- India Office and was informed

If the agent can show that he America for two dollars (10s). Story"...For the first time.

"That con bo bought was essential to know in which with the minimum of obstruc-10s. shirts to take home, by the clerk in charge that it he can continue his observation

Asked if he had bought some hired province the marriage had taken tion,

personal Press agent he. kaid no. Not enough dollar to Bergman to play Eve in.

Hollywood wants Ingrid -(London Express Service) buy even one, he explained, Adam and Eve fim,

tives about the country, Person- private inquiries about "polson glamorous job. The vast bulk an agent who is doing a ten-made it clear that his visit has him, by taking front seats dur-

Risk of slander

men.

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CUPPOSING.a-private detective Psychiatrist once the delin-

employed by you gives you an adverse report about somebody he has been told to watch, ho might be gulity of either slander or libel, according to the form in which his report was presented

Sometimes n family of high reputation suspects one of its members of stealing. In such cases there

по question. Usually it is a matter of calling

is discovered. quently in the files of a detective

Missing persons

Agure agency. They are easier to trace now, in this world of identity cards and visas, than they used

fre-

to you. But if the adverse re to be. It needed a good deal of port were given to a solicitor it hard work recently, though, to would be privileged, therefore trace the son of there would be no risk of legal had run aff to the United States woman who trouble.

WITH with her lover 30 years ago, leaving her husband and her

An inefficient or disreputable two-year-old child behind. private detective can cost

For in the meantime the bus-

a client a great deal of money band had died and the child had either by dragging on a caso grown up and married. longer than is necessary or blackmailing him. It is not

by The private defective on the unusual for a reputable private job duly found his man, but felt detective agency to be asked to a tride dublous as to his recep- watch and report on one of its tion. "You have more. unsavoury competitors.

direct answer to prayer. I've of the cases handled by a first-

always wanted Generally speaking. 75 percent mother," was his greeting.

moet my

cldas detective.

· Clamour?

concerned

agency

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with matrimonial troubles, usually divorce. Out of five such cases four are women who suspect their husbands and only one where the husband suspects his wife.

to

come 18 a

place because the India Office

Ing her performance at Washington "Look at this shirt," he said, Equity, the Broadway trade

suminer

theatre the sergeant-la-charge of a Fly pointing to the cotton shirt he unten, has given Serah Chur- ing Squad car sent to investigate was wearing. following a call to 990,

chill special permission to tour the summer theatres for In weeks in

The Philadelphia

DOCTORS. HAVE BEEN GETTING SOME ODD SURPRISES ABOUT

YOUNG MEN ***

THE ON TARZAN

COCKNEYS

CATCH UP

EUR

84% percent, Grade 1-recculls, Midland men of Leicestershire. have mystified the doctors by and their fitness.

Northants have

much poorer eyesight than anyone Many of them

else. Less than 60 percent of grew up in them were graded with perfect sadly depressed towna Gateshead,

like vision, compared with an over- Sunderland, and all British average of 60 per- Inen Jarrow.

cent.

the

By CHAPMAN PINCHER` THE caber-tossing Celts than 00,000 20-year-old

up for medical lands are still the best- test:

Writes Dr Martin: "It seems". proportioned men in Britain. It includes

remarkable that such a large counties are only next door." Surprisingly, the keenest-eyed. books of a certain private do-catching up on them, accor- doctors claim it is a fair cross their

the Grade IV.a proportion of these men should Beds and Bucks, together, with UT of 12 current cases on the but the Cockneys are fast who were tective, avo are concerned with ding to a Medical Research section of Britain's up-and-were

rojected as well as have been physically it when Oxfordshire, averaged nearly the men who passed.

So the the economic conditions during 76 percent, of hawk-yes. matrimony, two are

years of rapid growth status in Council report published to coming manhood. quiries about somebody's finan-

50 bad and their en Dr Martin muggests that cial background, one concerns a Sometimes you find

vironinental condition so poor." although Welshmen are day. who have gone abroad demand- missing debtors and one concerns women missing person, three are about

Chlef conclusion of the re-

This news is soured

sborfest, except for the Lancas ing money from their husbands commercial traveller whose Scot was 101b. heavier and one physique and Diness. do not by the fact that the men from

Eighty years ago, the average port is tho

still for maintenance of

fact that good, further for the social theorists trians, they seem to be getting existent. child. The head non- employers suspect that he is inch

taller. taller detective agency whom I have rival

simultaneously

than a sample always go together.

the cream-and-cider counties of met had to spend three months.

Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset growing faster.

And everybody seems to be In the United States,

Thus in spite of their brawn are among the least at going as Of the status inquiries, one is are the

. But now the Bow Bells boys the Highlanders are far os California, to disprove a fellows to invest in a film com-7

of a man who

SRID

not the average height country's Bitest men. They are

But the figures for highly rase of this sort,

wanta rash as the heather-tramplers att beaten by the Lowland Scots out as theory predicted. The men does not appear to have.

industrialised, Lancashire turned.m

Fifty years ago the 4-5--and have cut the and

maximum pany and wishes to know its weight difference down to 54lb. Geordies' of Commencing To-morrow: "CYNTHIA" securing, evidence for divorce, of Australians whose daughter la analyses the records of more men who put up a

lature of British The same man before the war exact financial strength,

also by the spare, wiry men from Merseyside are the been reached unul about the had a series of lucrative jobs other is an inquiry from a pair statistician De W. J. Martin

The

Northumberland shortest, lightest, and have the age of 20, while today ft is Tho report prepared by and Durham. C

smallest chests. These Tyne and Toes-side: Oddest spot of the whole Attained at about 27 score of report is the discovery, that the

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