Show NARCOTICS Tiny Woman Nabs Thugs NEW YORK Kathr Kathryn n Barry works from 16 to 18 16 hours a day is is Plenty scared lots of times limes shivers miserably in the streets on wintry days and frequently Is forced to wear disreputable looking clothes And if you think she feels sorry for herself hersell y youre you're u re of off ff the beam She wouldn't trade her job as a de de- second grade rade In the New York City police departments department's narcotics narcotics narcotics nar nar- division for any other job I like my work and Im I'm glad to help pr catch atch these narcotics sellers Miss Barry said at police On one arrest Miss Barry and four male detectives had a rough time in rounding up their victims While the other detectives were collaring two men Miss Barry guarded a third who was driving 0 a car Ha lie tried to drive off oft but she clung to the running-board running of the car fought off oil his punches as he tried to shove her heroff off of and quelled him by flashing her gun Weighs Pounds Although a good scrapper in a pinch Miss Barry is only 5 feet 2 inches tall weighs pounds and has steady blue eyes eyes' and a pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant soft pitched voice She can get along fine on four hours' hours sleep a night she says says' s ys so winding up her working day anywhere between 3 and 6 a a. a m m. is no hardship On h her r weekends she relaxes with her favorite pastimes of golf and bridge Miss Barry has been in the police department since 1939 joining inthe in inthe inthe the middle of training for her first rather reluctantly chosen career- career teaching Her first assignment was with the bureau of police women She went from there to the juvenile aid bureau bureau bu bu- bu reau then to the sabotage squad doing undercover work during the war years and finally to her present present present pres pres- ent post Miss Barry always works with a amale amale amale male partner on a case separating from him only when it is necessary to do so in order to trail someone I The nature of their job determines whether they'll be working in their car on foot or in subways or cabs In the car she carries three changes of clothes and two wigs Scared Most 1 of the Time Asked if she ever was scared Miss Barry grinned Truthfully yes about 90 per percent percent percent cent of the time But its it's mostly when everything is all over That's the time I get shaky Its It's been touch and go several times Once we were after two men who had big connections in narcotics One was wasa a prize fighter and the other was 6 feet 3 inches and weighed about pounds One attempted a break but then he stopped He said he was more nervous with a woman than thana a man because he knew a woman was sure to shoot comedy has mixed with peril in her career and Miss Barry didn't mind telling a joke on herself One time we were waiting to enter enter en en- ter an apartment and someone came out of another place she related I ducked behind a door and landed below in a coal heap I J showed up really in disguise- disguise |