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Show DOPE S : REVEALED i lllE Shipment Said to He Largest in History, Valued at Four Million Dollars, C o n f i s-eated; s-eated; Cocaine is Captured. NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (UP) Federal District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle revealed late last night that $4,000,000 in drugs, described as the largest allotment In history, had been seized here. Tuttle immediately announced hu : would go before the grand jury to- j day and seek an indictment aftor , a man named "Klein." "Klein" is believed to be Joseph Ungcr, now in Tombs prison here, on a charge of piacing $2,000,000 worth of narcotics nar-cotics on board a train bound for Chicago recently. 1 Shipment Concealed The drugs, packed in boxes marked mark-ed "brushes," were seized at Pier 2, Jersey City, by Oeorge O'Kccfc, s;nenial aeent for liquor seizures. j O'Keefe found five cases and opened open-ed one which contained 1000 : ounces of cocaine. ! The drugs, Tuttle said, were shipped ship-ped from France and arrived Fri- day on the French liner Rocham- i beau. Tuttle said arrangements for the drug shipment had been by Klein." Unger, who will be ar- 1 raigned today in federal court in connection with the $2,000,000 drug shipment, has used Klein as an i alias... .... International Ring Yesterday's seizure. Tuttle . said, bore out his suspicion that an in- ' ternational drug ring, operating j from bases in France- and Swltz- i erland, was using New York as a ! clearing port for the American trade. He declared the source of the shipment was the same as that of the $2,000,000 allotment. . , Arnold Rothstein, gambler who was slain in the Park Central hotel ho-tel here, has been mentioned as the financial backer of tho . narcotic ring and Tuttle said there was little lit-tle doubt but that Rothstein had been connected with the group that attempted to send the $2,000,000 allotment al-lotment to Chicago. |