Show Locker Business Poses Problems Mystery Shrouds Many Abandoned Articles NEW YORK Frederick G G. G Smith doesn't like mysteries especially I when they're wrapped in packages In two big shelf lined lined rooms off oU Times Times' Square he be has hundreds of mysteries to solve Each of them themis is from a public locker j I He is district manager of ot the firm which operates thousands of the slot dime parcel bins in New Yorks York's railroad bus and subway subway subway sub sub- way stations Just how many are in use is a trade secret Nationally public lockers garner an estimated 40 million dimes a year At first Smith worried about boxes of ot bones that turned up Inthe in inthe inthe the bins Now he knows that the little skulls and skeletons do not mean murder murder v Usually they are cat bones which he dutifully returns returns re re- re- re turns turn to universities from which they were borrowed by absentminded absent absent- absentminded minded students I Police FoUre secret service men and FBI agents frequently call on him for Information We T help as 81 much T as 81 we can but we never give tips to the police he emphasized if It I we did we might as well sign the death warrants of people who work for tor us About locks are changed every day It If a locker isn't emptied after 24 2 hours houn of ot use its contents are removed the bin Is sealed for tor three days day and the lock Is changed before it is put back bark into service Locks are S switched from railroad to subway to bus bu stations then out nut of the district One One conspicuous unclaimed tt item frI frIIs is a ty typewriter with an large extra-large carriage Smith called the maker of 0 the machine and learned w bought It by tracing the semi I number The typewriter had bad be ben bel n traded In In and there the trail grew I cold old In almost a year no one has claimed It With other forgotten packages It will be bt au auctioned oil at a the end of ot 12 IZ months I Almost any day you can find at atleas least leas a half ball dozen forgotten part able Ie tie radios in the storeroom Th There re are clothes racks lined with apparel ap ape apparel parel of ever every description End d ut uI the straw bat hat season brings brine wn an avalanche of mens men's summer ummer skim mer mere M |