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Show RATS STAGE DOPE ORGY: U. S. AGENTS GET CUSY : Rodents Eat Narcotics Stored in Building at Mew Orleans. .New Orleans.- Sleuths of the narcotic nar-cotic en foreenient division, whoso duties, among oilier things, Include the running down of "dope" peddlers, have directed their nttenilou to some-blng some-blng new - Ihe rodent "dope" liend. Until a few months ago, It seems, the rats which Infest Hie federal building were nice, genih', home-loving rod'-nls, hut recently noiicm hing Imp pencil. Slowly 11 wave of destlUellon swept through the building, unices were found In turmoil, Keeords wei'y gnawed In scraps. (Yowded desks were swept clean of papers and hooks. Shiny desli surfaces revealed countless rat trucks, mule lesll ny of midnight mid-night orgies. W. I1'. Ferguson, assistant cmilodhin, urged to acllou b) Hemes of com plaints, purchased loll traps and baited bait-ed llii'm with the smelliest cheese obtainable, crisp bacon ami even chunks of porterhouse .steak. Only one oniig and lucxpcrlcn I rat was imiglil. Kegiilar rat f I uad lost Its I m e. Narcotic sleuths recalled c 1 1 1 1 ( It was about the lime they had llisl stored iiiarljuna, commonly Known as "mug gles," In their ollires, that the nil devl nut l eness began. Also ihe.v recalled re-called Mint a large ipianllly of "niiig-gles" "niiig-gles" had disappeared. The agenls examined their stores id' eonliscaled cocaine and morphine. Packages tiji 1 1 been gnawed open and the linprlnl of ral noses found In Ihe open boxes. "I lope" worth thousands' of dollars was gone. The rats, they siigi;esli'd, apparent ly had llrsl become be-come enmeshed In Ihe tentacles of the "dope" monster when Ihoy chewed on the "lunggles," shuttered norws forced them to the cocaine and then to the morphine. Large steel boxes were purchase, to hold flic stores of the narcoi 1,-s. j Special traps were ordered bit It. ,.,M when these are read they will be balled Willi morphine and coralce. , Ferguson said. I The possibility of nils spivadiMg ! - I "I'M'e" habit Is to be ln e -.! : 1 ,-, '. j olllcers of the Fnl'ed S'aie, pu'.i: ' health service, It w us uld. |