EST TUBE
DETECTIVE...

Science ts crowding the criminal a little harder
every year. White-jacketed men, seldom heard
of, are sometimes the real crime busters.

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By

MORTON L. BENNETT
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IN MOST OF THE “who-dun-it’s,”
the good looking rugged detective
adds up the score in his mind and
plays Nemesis; but in real life the
truth is often stranger than fiction.

Here in British Columbia a group
of white jacketed men, seldom heard
of, are sometimes the real crime
busters.

They're the chemists who put the
proverbial two-and-two together, and
cause juries to nod their heads in
silent agreement.

Back of the Parliament Buildings
in Victoria, in a wooden building
which once housed the Legislative
Assembly nearly a hundred years ago,
you can step inside to view a scene as
modern as the atom bomb.

Here are rooms full of crucibles and
retorts, hissing stills and batteries of
slender glass tubes. White coated
figures weigh and balance. This is the
laboratory of the Provincial Depart-
ment of Mines, where every form of
analysis is performed for the Pro-
vincial Government. Annually some
two thousand samples of mineral ore
are assayed here. But in addition
there’s work of a more dramatic
nature.

MARSHALL BROS.
SPORTING GOODS

HUNTING — FISHING
SUPPLIES

BOATS — GUIDES
For Information Phone 119
CAMPBELL RIVER B.C. At the micro-burette, ‘“‘Doc’’ Davis can measure one three-thousandth of an ounce.

Phone 13

WILLOW POINT STORE “Often Buttered — Never Bettered”
G. G. ADAMS, Proprietor ~ PION FER BAKERY

GENERAL MERCHANTS Bread — Cakes — Pastries

Willow Point, R.R. No. 1 P.O. Box 14
CAMPBELL RIVER B.C. CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C.

54TAXI 54 TAXI

Phone 54
24-Hour Service — Five Cars
Agents for Q.C.A.
Standard Oil Products
Limousine Service to Airport

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