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Show I wer of a cheaper quality and Inferior grade. Antony the recent captures of drug made by the Denver officers they have been found concealed In walnuts, in h Slow doors and niches In the wall fifteen or twenty feet deep, from which a sack, with pieces of Iron fastened to it, containing the dope, is retrieved with a magnet on the end of a string. JAIL SENDS DETEH III -llfllES- Federal Official Says Illicit Drug Business Shows Decrease De-crease in Intermountain Region. The walnuts, Mr. Williamson said, hfd been prepared for concealing the dope by a special machine, which broke them without crushing the shell. The meat was then removed and the shell fastened together again with sealing wax. after the dope had been placed inside. The sides of the door where the hinges were fastened was drilled with several hol9 large enough for a cylindrical bottle containing con-taining the dope to be slipped in. The cork was then varnished the color of the door, making nearly a perfect camouflage, said Mr. Williamson. Mr. Williamson, accompanied Henry Hen-ry A. larson of Denver, supervisor of federal prohibition enforcement in I'tah, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, is in Salt Lake. Both men will remain several days inspecting the field forces of this territory. STIFF jail sentences are doing more to help clean tip the intermountain count ry of narcotics nar-cotics and narcotic peddlera than any other feature of the prevention preven-tion work, said II. V. Williamson of Dener, head of the narcotic division of the prohibition enforcement forces of this dtttiict, who is in Salt Lake, j The activities alonr this line n the past few months have resulted in uncovering un-covering sever.il places where cfrugs wfe stored ard placing in eon!n-m-nt tinny f the leading offenders, Mr. WtMams4-n srid. "ne of tn- largest Inland distributer distrib-uter k point a tr the country wa l,n-ro l,n-ro ered recen'ly at Kansas City, M.v, by 1 Oliver if icers. assisted by those from Salt X,Tke." said Mr. William-si. William-si. ii. "The capture resulted In the breaking up of a million-dollar dope ring, extending from Salt Lake to New York City, and the arrest of three men. Ben Newman and Ieo Swartx. who are being held In bond of 92A.AOO. and Iave Stein, held In $10,000. About $60,000 worth of narcotics nar-cotics and other drugs were taken at the ame time MORAL EFFECT. 'Heavy Jail sentences are having the greatest moral effect in stamping out the traffic. Five sentences for I violation of various parts of the Har-i Har-i nson act. ranging from ten years to one year and one day, were obtained ' at the last session of federal court Lin lnver. There are at present four-! four-! teen cases awaiting the next term of I court. . This is one reason which has I kept Denver from being a distributive distribut-ive point of dope for the intermoun- I tun region. "The. narcotic officers in Denver are cooperating with the police in locating land a-prehending criminals who oper-1 oper-1 a ted recklessly in the recent crime wave. It ia generally found that the mst serious crimes are committed by 1 usrs of dope, most of whom are I known to the narcotic officers." FOREIGN PRODUCT. . i Mr, Williamson declared that mot of the drugs commonly used by. "fiends' are being manufactured in , fi.te'jrn countries and smuggled Into this country. He stated that drugs captured by the officers In the past few months have proved to be not the kind which are manufactured In this countnr. In most cases. ha said, they |