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Show PUZZLE CORNER When Mrs. Con Science became the mayor of Anyvtlle, she began trying to fulfill her campaign promises. She called in the chief of police and told him that to keep his Job, he had to close up the horse-betting rooms, slot machine parlors, so-called night clubs which were selling liquor to teenagers, teen-agers, and other rackets. . "Just what I wanted to hear," said the chief. "Tve always wanted to clean up this town and make It safe for my own kids. But my hands were tied by politicians who made deals." Immediately after leaving city hall, he issued pointed instructions to every msn on the force. Suppose thst you are star In-vestigstor In-vestigstor In the Confidential Squad, and you're assigned to get all the dope on the msn who, behind be-hind all the camouflage and go-betweens, go-betweens, actually runs the gang which controls local racket. Hers is what you find out: The man who is boas of the crime syndicate syn-dicate probably is Lefty Scartino. He's about 41 or 43, who cams to town from Brooklyn, where he had soma kind of tleup with Murder, Inc. He's supposed to have some sort of brokerage business, but lives beyond the income such s business would provide legitimately. legiti-mately. By the sheerest coincidence the daughter of the widow your step brother married Is employed at the brokerage business aa a sec- retary. This step brother l younger than Scartino, and was only 35 when he married the older ! woman with the grown daughter. ( In dealing with an unprincipled gang of criminals, any method of getting information seems to the police to be fair, but they must, of course, consider whether such evi-dence evi-dence a they get will stand up In j court, and there' a question of how far to go in pinning thing on Scartino. Now having read an this, you should know whether the detective who I pitted against Lefty Sacr- j Uno kj older or younger than Lefty. What I th answer? j Sotting Out Tr j A. Foreater, the nurseryman, 1 wishes to plant 27 tree In a symmetrical sym-metrical Arrangement which will create nine rows with six tree In a row. How can he do It? Then are two possible solutions. ! Try to work out ons or ths other i before peeking at the solution shown elsewhere In the page. ! (Solutiona on Pag 25) |