Show Age Dope Addi ts 1 n 1 legion C Meet flee Tol Told JORK 1 RK June 18 w ClAn toft-ClAn An I pI of teen age addiction cs cs is raging in the na na- II gest cities a United plic lie lic health official says the menace is gravest ark Tork City where there a city r r puts the annual t h f do P a sold illicitly Y at I r r. r Bo 0 statements were made madeLa madea 1 La a three day American w rf j crisis confer confer- conCer 1 hart a war ar on dope bye by 1 e s posts e n a tion T The h e n meeting i get in g Iday day 1 ge e Addiction Gains for tor H. H Vogel of theS the'S the S 'S tes Public Health Serven Sen age sen-age en age dope addiction I has increased sharply in the last three years He said slid 52 youths were admitted admitted admitted ad ad- to the federal hospital for narcotics at Lexington K Ky in 1948 1918 He lie list listed d 10 admissions in 1949 1919 and in 1950 He said the estimated 1951 total was about This drop Dr Vogel said might indicate a downward donward trend but also might reflect the fact that state institutions now are accepting young dope addicts a practice started only this year yeal N. N Y 1 Situation Grave Grayc New York C City t supplies 50 of the youngsters entering the Lexington hospital he added with 25 coming from Chicago I Dr Vogel is the medical officer 1 I in charge of the Lexington j hospital and another at Fort Worth Texas with a total capacity ca ca- j of 2400 beds for lor narcotics patients It was announced Saturday that beds are arc to be added atthe at atI atthe I the Fort Worth hospital Irving Manhattan assistant assistant assistant as as- district attorney told the Legion conference that a two- two year probe of oi ille illegal al dope sales showed that worth of narcotics a year fear was peddled illicitly here The estimate appl applied ed to the past two years |