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Show NARCOTICS TinyWoman Nobs Thugs NEW YORK. Kathryn Barry works from 1G to 18 hours a day, is plenty scared lots of times, 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, you're off the beam. She wouldn't trade her job as a detective, de-tective, second grade, in the New York city police department's narcotics nar-cotics division for any other job. "I like my work and I'm glad to help catch these narcotics sellers," Miss Barry said at police headquarters. headquar-ters. 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 a car. He tried to drive off, but she clung to the running-board of the car, fought off his punches as he tried to shove her off, and quelled him by flashing her gun. Weighs 125 Pounds. Although a good scrapper in a pinch, Miss Barry is only 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 125 pounds, and has steady blue eyes and a pleasant, pleas-ant, soft pitched voice. She can get along fine on four hours' sleep a night, she says; so, winding up her working day anywhere between 3 and 6 a. m. is no hardship. On her weekends she relaxes with her favorite pastimes of golf and bridge. Miss Barry has been in the police department since 1939, joining in the middle of training for her first rather reluctantly chosen career-teaching. career-teaching. Her first assignment was with the bureau of police women. She went from there to the juvenile aid bureau, bu-reau, then to the sabotage squad, doing undercover work during the war years, and finally to her present pres-ent post. Miss Barry always works with a male partner on a case, separating from him only when it is necessary to do so in order to trail someone. 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 of the Time. Asked if she ever was scared, Miss Barry grinned. "Truthfully, yes about 90 per cent of the time. But it's mostly when everything is all over. That's the time I get shaky. It's been touch and go several times. Once we were after two men who had big connections in narcotics. One was a prize fighter and the other was 8 feet 3 inches and weighed about 250 pounds. One atempted a break, but then he stopped. He said he was more nervous with a woman than a man because he knew a woman was sure to shoot." Occasionally 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 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 showed up really in disguise blackface." |