Shipment Condemned

Your twice as sure with two great names Frigidaire and General Motors Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as the man called X Wherever there is mystery, intrigue, romance and all the strange and dangerous places of the world There you will find the man called X How Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston The man called X

It was a cunning and devily scheme with a pattern that touched three countries and crisscrossed an ocean between. Ken Thurston is called in late, but then the last stages of any game are always the most dink.

I don't know whether you've heard about the deal or not Ken, I don't know more about it when Miss Books gets that call through to Pringle. Anyway one of the food commissions up here in the US contracted to buy a million dollar order of canned beef from the Gallivan Export Packing Company in Montevideo.

Gallivan Export. Yeah, in fact, they advanced half the payment of this company so they could step up operations and make quicker delivery. The canning job was finished about ten days ago. The meat intended for European relief.

It was? What do you mean, Chief? Well, the Inspector for the Commission airmailed sample cans to Washington the first of the week. Can't every sample was spoiled. Only thing they could do was order the whole ship and destroy it.

Oh, fine. And with the food situation over the other way it is. Yeah, well, it's probably nothing more than a bum job of processing, but anyway, Pringle went down there and I had the papers on the deal, sent up here to the bureau.

In fact, the only guy here a little while ago, the Lord. What's the matter, Chief? Well, this report, look how it's signed. Hmm? Food Commissioner Inspector, you're a great division. P. Selchmidt. P. Selchmidt. Now, how the sandhilda, that bird-brained little scoundrel ever get tied up with...