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DOPE D OPE RING IS lS SHATTERED T SA RAIDS REVEAL DRUG TRAFFIC WITH CHILDREN Many Arrested in Nationwide NationWide NationWide Nation Nation- wide Swoops by Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Agents By Dy Associated Press Joining in a afar far flung drive to smash the narcotics traffic federal federal federal fed fed- eral agents today staged simultaneous simultaneous simul simul- drives at strategic centers Centera cen tera in the east middle west and southwest Nearly peddler and addicts were taken Into custody cus cus' custody tody and drugs valued at thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of dollars were seized The campaign against the narcotic narcotic nar nan cotic colic syndicates syndicates' extended from New York to 10 San Francisco CLEVELAND Dec Dee 8 A Jf-A A nar narcotic narcotic cotic i ring rig preying upon upon boys and girls gitl in a high school school here nere re was w-as exposed ex cx posed today as federal agents arrested ar as- rested res sev seven n men and three women vo en enin in a series eries of at f swift w ft raids Tearful pleas from mc mothers hers ot stu students dents in Addison junior to save our children hildren helped to precipitate the roundup which Ralph II H. Oyler Oler district narcotic superintendent t said is is just th the start While deputies were leading the thein raids in Cleveland Oyler started out outon outon on an a similar campaign in Detroit his agents here said Raids also were begun in other parts of the countr country A s scheme to lure young boys bos and 1 girls particularly girls into becoming becom becom- ing jag narcotic addicts addict waS was unearthed I by the Cleveland officers I Federal officers said id one wom woman n. n whom they described only as as Jane named today Sam Testa 30 manager of the boxer Babe as aman a aman aman man who proposed to furnish narcotics narcotics nar nar- to her free if it she would lure girls and bo boys s 's of or Addison school into bc becoming oming addicts I IJane Jane the officers said is the estranged wife wile of at a prominent prominent prominent-Cleve- Cleve Cleveland land business man Testa and his brother James 27 were among those arrested Others Other were Jim Hong 41 Chin Chinese e chef cher at atthe atthe the Elite Elile Social club Charles Kennedy Ken nedy Samuel F. F Carter Arthur Ta Taj lor br Edward Lynch Jean Wood Helen Davis and Ethel Blagdon BALTIMORE Dec 8 Federal jP-Federal F Federal officers t today day raided the headquarters tars of or what United States commissioner commis commis- sinner of narcotics said was a nationwide nation nation- wide mail order business in narcotics Eight persons were vere arrested and a supply of opium opium heroin and morphine mor phine phine said said to be by far the largest ever found in Baltimore was Baltimore was seized The raiding squad descended on a hotel during the day searched all rooms and questioned the more than 50 guests and present Harry J. J Ar J vr Who vho dir directed the theraid raid saM said narcotics w were shipped from tram the hotel according to the charge by mail Others he said came in code code code-a a call for one white dress being an order for heroin o one c black black- dress for opium Federal agents taking part pait in theraid the theraid theraid raid said it was part a of a nationwide drive SAN FRANCISCO Dec Dee 8 W-In W T In what officers said was the first move I in a statewide drive against the narcotics narcotics nar nar- traffic 45 men and five fhe wom women n Continued d on Page Pace Two T U. U S. S DOPE RING IS SHATTERED Many Arrested in NationWide NationWide Nation Nation- Naton- Naton Wide Swoops by Fed Fed- eral Agents Continued horn from Pace Paie PAe One On were rounded up here today loday an and booked at the city prison prin at 1000 vagrants and addicts addIct Police declared d all al were known t te tobe to tobe I be e addicts KANSAS CITY CIT Dec De 8 P P Wi Wi S. S Wood division supervisor of ot fed fe- fe cral eral narcotics agents agent here herc announce announced today that 75 alleged narcotics pc pede ped in Missouri Kansas Kansa Arkansas and Oklahoma had been arrested i inthe in inthe the thc last 24 hours as a part of ot a nationwide nation nationwide wide drive to stamp out the traffic CHICAGO Dec 8 P Eleven J-Eleven Eleven IP-Eleven Eleven Ch Chi Chi- lese pese were seized today as federal ait au au and police pressed their thel campaign in several large cities cles against narcotics peddlers The Thc a arrests ar ar- rests boosted the total taken into cu cus cus- tody ody In the thc Chicago drive to more mor than han Police raiders acting In I ion tion with wih the United States Stales bureau o ol of narcotics swooped down on Chicago's Chicago Chinatown and rounded up the 1 11 1 as suspected dealers and addicts addict Six others were arrested later i in inthe the he drive to lo break up a syndicate which federal officials estimated ha has been doing a business annually annually an an- ers with wilh wih Chicago is its OMAHA Dec 8 Twenty four J Twenty Twenty-fou persons were held In jail jai as a result resul of a drive by Mrs Elizabeth Elzabeth Bass who has charge of the Chicago federal federal fed lcd eral narcotics office to smash th the midwestern narcotic traffic Add Addi- Additional Addi- Addi lonal tonal raids were planned during th the week DES MOINES Iowa Dec 8 UP UP- UP Federal narcotic ag agents today oday said sale that hat 34 persons were held in jail her here hereafter hereafter after raids had been made through through- out the city db last night A score of o ohe of the he suspected smugglers were to b be questioned In recent robberies ATLANTA Dec 8 ff A JA A wholesale whole whole- whole sale ale roundup directed by federal narcotic nar nar- otic cotic agents here last night nigh and carl early today oday resulted In 15 arrests City police assisted the federal men in the roundup DENVER Dec 8 Denver W-Denver Denver off oW- oW daIs of the federal narcotic bureau announced today they will wi participate pate ale in a nationwide cleanup o of narcotic peddlers Orders were received re- re re here today to arrest every known cnown narcotic peddler and addict addIt Joseph A. A Manning government nar nar otic cotic ag agent nt in charge said id that 12 suspects s were taken Into custody this morning and nd more more arrests arret are expected expect ed d tonight and tomorrow |