Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-01-17
UNCLE SAWS GIRL DETECTIVES HELP
 FORMER SERVICE MEN
Ecce homo!
 Behold the man!

benold the man!
 Get me this mans name so that can report definitely on the status O.
 his insurance"
 That, together with a slip bearing the memo, James Hall, (3,721,5O5, Mccall, South Carolina; Beneficiaries Mrs. Ella Stalks (Wife), Mrs. Fannie Stalks (Mother', was handed to file searcher in the Bureau of War Risks Insurance.
 The mans name was given as Hall while those of his wife and his mother were given as Stalks. Patiently something was wrong somewhere Just what was wrong, however, was not so evident. To find out what and where the error was, was the job.
 Finding the error somebody else
 made is always the job of the War Risk index file searchers, and it's a tough job if they fail to get at the bottom of it.
 Going into the index files section where are listed the names of nearly five million men who were inducted into military service, the young woman made complete inventory of all the thousands of men named Hall. Among them all there was one who came from. Mccall, South Carolina, nor yet who had wife or mother whose name even remotely resembled the Stalks" given as the name of the two beneficiaries.
 This clearly, was case for the use of that specially nimble wit and fine deductive faculty which has charac- terized much of the work of the searchers of teh index files and given them a process of procedure which might be used to add leaf to the book of the Burns, the Pinkertons and the Flynns.
 "Well", remarked the girl charged with producing the needed informa- tion, "this man may be Stalk, since that is the name given for his. wife and mother"
 But search through the Stalks" brought nothing to identify the case.
 "Still", she persisted,-and they always do persist, these girls-"His name must be some kind of a Stalk, but WHAT kind? Corn stalks, bean stalks, and cabbage stalks are the only kind of stalks I know anything about so I'll just look them up."
 And sure enough, it turned out that his name was "some kind of Stalk" Cabbage stalks, in fact, and his in dex card was duly changed to read:
 James Cabbagestalks, (3,721,505) Mccall, South Carolina; Beneficiaries, Mrs. Ella Cabbagestalks (Wife), Mrs. Fannie Cabbagestalks (Mother)."
 Another opportunity for the use of keen deduction grew out of the ef- forts of an army company clerk to dis play what he believed to De rare sense of humor in the matter of apply ing a nickname on a record of dis charge sent to the Insurance Division of the Bureau, but which unexpected ly proved of service to a research worker.
 Notice of the discharge of Private i Charles E. Fliver, of Pushmataha, Alabama, was received by the Bureau, and a complete search was made through the files. The cards of all the Flivers, Fleavers, Fluvers and Pflue- | vers, as we'll as men of somewhat similar names were looked over in hope of locating MT. Fliver of Ala bama."
 Failure to locate the sought~for party brought the comment "A fliver is Ford" from one girl worker, q am going to look up the 'Fords' in the file" She looked ,and there he was-"Charles E. Ford, Pushmataha, Alabama" right where he should be, in the card index of the Fords.
 "You see that girl wearing the blue sweater over there" said one young woman.
 The girl of the blue sweater appear ed so young she might have just left school. She was searching some in- dex cards, her fingers rapidly running from one to another. With each flap of the card she had taken mental note of the inscription thereon, but to the observer she was making a speed record in touching every card in the file drawer.
 Suddenly-Bang! The drawer was closed. She moved fot to the right, began another Marathon in card movements, selected one, made a mo- tation on slip of paper she carried, placed the card among the others, closed the drawer, and walked toward E the man who is in charge of the file section. . This pantomine was quickly enact ed, and as it turned out, it brought to close a remarkable case which had been under investigation for some days. "That girl is working upon my stery", continued the speaker. eff she puzzles it out, she is wonder"