European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                F f ton1 w i i i i clan e c 11 f t v i w 5 x r u y s of r c Hopkins removes inured Kayfus robot by Jonathan Kilbourn yank staff writer in youre now on shipping Home that liberated youve packaged up a Parachute your wife would love to youre gathering equipment to go into Busi Ness or sending baby hand grenades to rattle in his youre smuggling in most read and until a few months ago the armed the customs people and the postal authorities formed a mad and worried government property Worth thousands of Bucks was being sent Back to the by officers and gis who had no right to Send weapons needed at the front and an equal amount of non mail i checkers in new York look Over a pile of contraband caught by the inspect scope Able which were technically not stolen but we rent Legal to pass through the getting by the postal authorities and reaching their Home front the postal examiners in new York City and san Francisco Laboured mightily to give the More than packages mailed each month by men overseas thorough yet again and again evidence cropped up that examiners were missing stuff that  have the answer Lay partly in the fact that Many officers and pm had become artists at camouflage and they hid contraband under harmless looking Cand Box covers they built false Bottoms in wooden but mainly the illegal stuff got by simply because the Over worked examiners were pressed for the army got its Dander up and decided that the smuggling problem had to be the solution it finally evolved was a robot detective with a magic the accursed called the finds illegal items that the human eyes of the examiners the principle of the inspect scope is not scientifically the army device is just an adaptation of the fluoroscopy machine which has been put to use Many times in factories to break employees of the expensive habit of smuggling com Pany property out through the the army inspect scope is a Lea covered Booth housing three xray units which Pierce a package from three diagonally from the diagonally upwards and in a Light proof closet at one end of the Booth sits the i packages Are passed behind a Lead impregnated screen and in front of the xray the image on the screen shows whether the packages contain anything metallic or with a Little the operator learns to spot a Field jacket at a glance by the an of shirt presents no problem at the buttons give it technical equipment is a since inspect Scopes were installed in san Francisco and new York City a few months thousands of contraband items of a Hun dred or More kinds have been discovered in packages sent Home by Over enthusiastic collect this latest Apo Gadget is Able to see through packages and to Check on the legitimacy of the souvenirs you mail Back ions in the armed during a recent week 30 percent of the packages inspected contained property of a legally no mailable the list of smuggled articles is practically a handbook of army it includes a whole Arsenal automatic flare grenades including Many live Trench ammunition and ammunition plus motor navigation compasses and welding the inventory of quartermaster items includes almost every piece of clothing that is As Well As kerosene one i went so far As to dispatch to his family a Batch of Field no doubt both his Tongue and his taste buds were in his mechanical items there Are signal corps radio Field receiver tubes and camera medics have sent Home enough equipment to Start a one dental corps officer mailed Home enough dental including hand mirrors and so to set himself up in private practice after the his packages included everything but the chair and the but the prize Story involves an pm in the Eto he sent a jeep almost got away with in crate after after dismantling the the i started to Send pieces of the jeep to the the Crank Case gave him the magic Eye of the inspect scope spotted it the army Hopes the inspect scope will continue to catch contraband and eventually halt the smuggling of thousands of items into the it Hopes so not Only because it wants the smuggled articles Back but because the process that must be undertaken upon discovery of stolen government property is rapidly using up the diminishing Supply of red when an illegal shipment is the Bureau of customs takes it into a report is made to the army command that has jurisdiction Over the then an investigation is started to determine if the property was and if theres any evidence of that Means the the visual Powers of the inspect scope  deter gis from sending Back souvenirs which the War department any such items May be sent if the package contains two copies of a certificate signed by an officer and bearing the official Seal of the theater com but live ammunition and automatic firearms and concealable radio and radar parts Are All taboo no matter where you Are or who okays the if youre planning on shipping any of these or other contraband youd better find some 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