Show - i i f4' SilEtiCE -- - ' - r - -- 141141 ‘ tI 41 4144ttr 44Ft44044444rtot z 1 I Ir 1 ' 4 -- i it 14 t t ' - t !lig ' 5156A -- ' :' - ' i ' 4 '' - t ' ' ' 1 ' 4 - t - t t WitSICUI A' 1'S -- - -- ' - g t we- ' I ! - MAGIC - : ' 1 is - ' ' 1 1 By Frank Cameron - I N i ' :4 - 1 Ak - 1 i - ' g t 1 ' ' " -- I Mils inventor's gadget can prevent prison breaks unmask assassins and trap smugglers It may even solve the problem of "frisking" l'o ' 4 ' - --- - - l ' 11' ' 4 t ' c ' I‘ Congressional gallery visitors - ' " t - - I' L --- time soon probably this summer customs offruds at a New Yost pier or airport are going to give a suspected smuggler a surprise They won't so mudi I as peek into his trunk and yet he'll be as bereft of secrets as a burlesque stripper in the last eight bars of "A Pretty Girt Is 1 - it -- ''s i Qoada 0 2 — - — --- -- t '' ' - - ' jfJ r matter The year-ol- d 1 t 1 I a shoe inside of seconds little-know- n invention an overshoe y engineer It is at Congressional committees as the answer to the problem of keeping gunmen out of the Senate and House galleries Installed at the gallery entrances it would automatically detect any weapon brought inside It has already been used for similar purposes for many years in various places Warden Harley O Teets for example would hate to think of operating California's big San Quentin without an "Inspectcoscope1" as Sicular's invention is called In days the relatives and friends of narcotics violators had to be comb On week searched almost literally with a ends when visiting is heavy this strategy aliened prison manpower dangerously The Inspectoscope eased this situation nicely Now all visitors to San Quentin pass through the machipe instantly hidden inside or revealing anything metallic or lic th - 1 ' ! tf - t t f 1 in a tattletale that does the trick is the 10- of Henry Sicular San Francisco present under study by three different (me-too- 1 And they'll do it 1"- 1 Like A Melody" Making use of a portable electronic Henry Siculor device newly adapted for the Customs Service the customs men will find out everything the suspect is bringing into the country in his expensive luggage including the uncut diamonds he may have in a can of shoe polish inside y : - - IC:FICCT11 11:1 i ' reveak oil objects wore or coaled - t - i a result of this foolproof screenoutside the human body As ing the prison's attitude toward any visitors has changed from one of nervous suspicion to downright friendliness Only one guard is needed to keep a relaxed eye on as many as 60 to are brought together visitors and inmates when - n they Throw Asglos P THE Inspectoscope looks something like two telephone booths One booth is loaded with decwith a passageway between tronic tubes tramforrners colds timers imd other sensitive instruments The other is a light-proo- f hut where the observer sits watching a sawn through a small window On this screen appears a fluoroscopic image of everything that passes through the passageway And by merely pressing a button the image up from three different angles which gives the effect of rotating whatever is being examined Women have usually proved to be the best operators At San Quentin the chief operator is Mrs Jeanne Dean a small alert brunette who looks too fragile for prison work Since the machine was installed in 1947 she has spent mod of the hours between 9 am and 3 pm five days a week peering into the viewing Sancti She has yet to be bored Each year Mrs Dean scans the insides and outsides of between 40000 and 50000 visitors This probably makes her the country's foremost authority on the contents of US WOrtlineS purses In a split second she can tell the difference shows -' i s 10 TW-- - 14-1- 4 b - i Ls: - |