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Show The Capital Now a Sleuth's Paradise WASHINGTON. The capital city is sleuths' paradise nowadays. now-adays. Government and private pri-vate detectives cross each other's trails as they follow those of prominent men. Investigators pore over musty records and newspaper files, and their reports bob up in the half score and more congressional investigations in-vestigations that are now being conducted con-ducted by house and senate. If the statements of various senators sena-tors and other persons interested in the investigations are to be accepted, there are more shadows in Washing: ton today than those of night and darkness. Direct testimony has been introduced that gum-shoe men have gone through senators' offices at the capitol for whatever Interesting documents docu-ments they might find. Members of the senate committee investigating Harry M. Daugherty's administration of the Department of Justice declare that they are being watched day and night. Frank A. Vanderlip, founder of the recently established Federal Research Re-search bureau, has admitted that he ' has at least forty investigators and detectives in his employ. Thus there is evidence pointing to the existence of private, as well as governmental, "chekas" in Washington. Washing-ton. As might be expected, the secrecy with winch they work encourages encour-ages exaggeration. Reports have been published that f00 federal and private detectives are playing hide-and-seek in Washington. Because of the unknown un-known quantity involved, one estimate may be said to be as good as another. It can be said, at least, that if there are not f00 sleuths there seem to be that many. Une faction of the official popu'.a- I tion of Washington Is engaged, no doubt, in efforts to find out what the other faction is up to. The Republican organization keeps an agitated watch upon the Democrats ; the Democratic organization's breath occasionally comes in short gasps from scenting nefarious Republican plots. Newspaper Newspa-per correspondents seek the underlying underly-ing reason behind the public stale-1 stale-1 ments of each side. |