Word: dengler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of the Prohibition Bureau's correspondence school for Dry agents is short, stout, Pennsylvania-Dutch Harry Morgan Dengler, 48. An oldtime Pennsylvania and Montana teacher, he learned sleuthing in the Intelligence Service of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Treasury Department, and was transferred to the Prohibition Bureau ten years ago. He went with the Bureau from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice this year (TIME, July 7), will continue his courses as adjuncts to Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock's new personal instruction plan (TIME, Aug. 11). Last week a newshawk obtained...
...find breweries, Mr. Dengler advises trailing "trucks delivering wort* or other supplies. Various expedients may be used. Officers have used a pail of sand fastened to the axle. A hole in the bottom and plug with a string attached to the wheel completes the outfit which makes the sand trail when the truck starts. Others have taken speedometer readings to get an idea as to the distance covered. ... A man or boy on a bicycle can follow a truck without suspicion...
Several times in his lectures Mr. Dengler advocates employment of minors to enforce the nation's laws. In Lesson V he says: "Two boys can engage in games near the home of the subject without attracting attention, whereas a man loitering in the neighborhood would soon arouse suspicion...
...collateral reading, detective fiction is recommended, such as: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug and Murders in the Rue Morgue, William Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. But Detective Dengler reminds his pupils: "The officer [in these stories] always wins against crooks by some superhuman effort." He warns against "disappointment...