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' i'4S47" i - -- ' " Ar N mm? ‘ t rrnx&M 'aa f f vf w5 wxw- r - 4: s? vw v"xxr '7SWJ (m- X - tff JSL‘sggg Many furtive-face- d individuals yellow and white slipped into Mr Kadota’s modest little nd out again into the drift of the unshop derworld The picture above shows a section of San Francisco’s Chinatown r n outer band they found four tiny cellophane- wrapped packages one containing cocaine the others morphine In his effects they found some addresses and numbers One was a single name with a telephone prefix indicating Jim the Chinatown exchange 'W' - ‘ Z'"1 W when morning broke without his having his customary bracer of a “shot” He soon went into the agonizing throes of a uing ding which to the addict is something like the heeby-jeebiof the inebriate only worse Groveling before two sturdy police inspectors he told everything he knew A few hours later the officers broke into a room over a lottery joint and gathered in Guey Jim with an assortment of dope Not a great amount but enough to put the Chinese out pf circulation for a long ‘ San Francisco’s bird fanciers went to Mr Kadota J3 for advice But there were other and more sinister persons who went to his shop for different things and they-wertheories who finally got the little Japanese into serious trouble with United States narcotic aces b Smugglers wear bags sucfuas this to sneak narcotics into the"Umted States JBy Alfred t ' 4 7-- -" Prather True Storp-othe U S Customs Taken From Files b$ Special Permission f R KADOTA was thrifty He maintained his pet shop out on Geary street near Fillmore Clustered there is the Japanese colony where suki-yarestaurants attract g San Franciscans Mr Kadota’s collection of birds was the envy of other dealers and his knowledge of their habits diet and care was highly regarded ' by canary-lover- s The tinkling glass chimes which reported a visitor m the shop rang constantly during the day and often late in the evening for Mr Kadota did a thriving business individuals yellow and Many furtive-face- d white slipped into the modest little shop and out again to disappear in the flotsam of humanity that eddied in the drift of the underworld These d stone-eye- d individuals who so often called on Mr Kadota were known as dealers They purveyed to operators of Chinatown dens' to swanky apartments on" Nob Hill to dingy saloon habitues and patrons in night clubs They classified their merchandise in terms of the national colors “red” meant morphine “blue” cocaine and “white” the more deadly heroin Mr Kadota was distributor for a ring whose roots Undermined the Chinese province once called Manchuria now a puppet renamed by-itJapanese master :Manchukuo Its principal i food-lovin- ki hard-feature- s s nearly a century is Boiled poppy-juic- e ani dried it becomes opium and from 'opium morphine irdenved But chemistry has not stopped ted the latter with something To else produce 'the worst of all destroyers heroin : So powerful is this drug that it has' been smuggled to convicU through visitors - screens by 4 in t water" The "drug js string j i i reclaimed by soaking the 5---t Our govxrnment has prohibited its J Jut in Tientsin domination P HI A es i e it is sold openly along with opium and phine Cocaine too is easy to get there manufac-tu- r China now under many factories flourish Jap-ane- se and time nPHE fo-h- - e odd-looki- - dope-addic- ts under 25! The annual production of opium (and it is increasing) is estimated to be 25000 tons Medical and scientific needs are less than 4 Per cent Assuming that half the opium is con- overproduction of 12000 tons every year enough to provide 1200 tons or more than 17 million grains of morphine and heroin! Unitcd r°itljetHburden of IS Treasury Department enforcing national laws on the Bureau of Narcotics narcotics under the management of Commissioner' Harry J dealers within Anslinger the territorial pursues yZ con5n ef t! while the Guloro divi sion directed by Stephen B Gibbons assistant secretary of the Treasury deals with the smug' gling problem Thrifty Mr Kadota built his business strictly on business method He had Yery little over MiniiniiiniiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiraTnn ng Mr William Kadota now in San Quentin prison because his pet shop sold narcotics besides pets head and could afford ’to operate on a more reasonable margin of profit than competitors so his price on whitestuff was a mere $50 an ounce and he did not seek to cut into retail business His importations were coming in regularly and he had no difficulty in disposing of his merchandise without advertising how- ever he did use a neat card modestly printed: r William Kadota Dealer of All Kind s of Birds Animals and Supplies Wholesale and Retail 1610 Cc ary Steet San Francisco O g ? o ’ Now the state of California has enacted stringent laws of its owrn against the dope traffic and maintains a force oL narcotic agents directed by Chief William Walker But to get convicting evidence on a ’‘dealer” he must be caught in the act of selling otherwise he is tried on the milder charge of possession Therefore somebody must make a “buy” Narcotics officers had been watching Mr Kadota for some time but the little Oriental ' content to sell to a select few had cannily avoided opportunity to branch out He knew that in the business of importing bird-fee- d from across the Pacific he must have come under fCooyrlKht 1917 bv E very Week Maeaslnsi mmiiiiiirmiiiTiznminimiinmfrr- oak chair at the office Customs Mr Kadota fidgeted as he replied to questions of the sviper-- I the customary ”look-up- ” Customs men So hy visor and Special Agent Q-2- 9 ace of the when ingratiating strangers dropped in to talk smuggling division birds and gradually steered conversation to ’By the way Mr Kadota what was other things hinting that they knew somebody shipped in these things?” he asked “I see they who would pay well if Mr Kadota knew somecame from Japan” who body might get somebody to bring in a "Nippon? Oh yess I grad to inform you Jittle Mr Kadota’s unusual mustache would They-brinfood for gpldfish when sick” -wiggle over his most expansive VmiiTTrAVT-“Vou’re right Mr Kadota they were used bobbed and murmured : “Oh so sorry but to bring food for sick fish human fish who ” shouldn’t know anybody who wanted whitestuff Your friends on the ship One of Mr Kadota’s best customers was a Ii wore those things around their bodies under the moon-face- d Celestial Guey Jim who made his stomach-band- s when they brought morphine to in and Chinatown had a few headquarters Those bags are made and sold just for you salesmen white and yellow one thing— to smuggle whitestuff into this the latter a “Mr Johnson” who parOf country took of his own wares had the misfortune to “Now Mr Kadota we know you have more be picked up by police officers on suspicion' one " stuff hidden in the birdshop and I’m going to ' when he observed was evening to be “high with rip apart everything in the place” coke’ He pranced into his cell proclaiming “You not break things I fell” Mr Kadota that he was the uncrowned Emperor of China- - T said sadly town and that before another day’s sun a terThere was no ripping when Customs nien rific bombardment of the city by the Chinese quietly entered the birdstore and handed the take would result a detenhis of : navy place birdman’s wife a note She promptly took the tion He offered the night a diagents to the rear of the shop and revealed the in the Bank of Shanghai and a real rectorship cunningly concealed compartment packed with It was in the i$5 bill if the latter would bring Mr Johnson’s layers of cellophane packets hat He said the hat had been a present from base of the large birdcage the President of France and he never went to And it was worth a lot to Customs for it ' was the connecting link that cinched a consleep without "it being on or under his head When the prisoner actually fished a greenback spiracy charge against the individuals who used from his shoe the officers decided to look into their employment in the engine room of crack : the hat T liners to smuggle in dope when they came It was faded and battered and under the ashore at San Francisco uncomfortable INofanSupervisor of I n 3 hot-wat- er rs : that! x According to Dr W L Treadway assist-- 1 ant surgeon :U S Public Health Service half the are started by illegal peddlers are They constantly seeking new victims and their efforts are directed mainly at young people Some years ago the majority of users were over 40 years old now nearly 60 per cent are ' Police Captain John J Mannion of Chinatown detail had a fatherly tallc with Jim who confessed he had been buying wholesale from Mr Kadota in person Chief Walker of the State Narcotics Bureau discussed the matter with Customs and it was arranged to have another “Mr Johnson” carrying the okay of Guey Jim make a- couple of buys from Mr Kadota j The pseudo “Mr Johnson” found the Japanese very cordial and after a cup of tea came away with two ounces of morphine leaving behind a roll of soiled $10 bills A few days Five minutes after he later he went again left the glass chimes tinkled Mr Kadota emerged from his recess to face several Jarge gentlemen in plain clothes V‘ the low and and narcotics police High agents searched but no narcotics However they did run across some very affairs of oiled silk which resembled elongated bottles Each was 4 inches wide and 1 6 long and imprinted with a Japanese trademark mor- three white' furies are carried by unscrupulous whites across the International Bridge over the Haiho river by auto through r the French and the former Russian concessions xto Tsin-f- u railway station thence by train to Shanghai to be delivered to another “carrier” bound for America The Chinese National Government is fight- mg the dope traffic—--often swinging the sword through the necks of native opium peddlers — but the foreign devil has little to fear Chinese police are chary of searching his baggage can claim exemption to search through protection of certain international laws Whitestuff is worth about four times it: manufacturing cost when wholesaled at Tienl-si- n six times at Shanghai and 20 times when landed in the United States Retailed by ped-dleits price is all the traffic will bear running as high as $2 for a tiny “bindle” contain-- ’ ing a single grain and this is very frequently adulterated with flour or ordinary talcum 'It is actually worth its weight in gold and more for pure gold brings around $35 an ounce but whitestuff wholesale? in San Francisco for twice ONE was Mr Johnson’s exuberance - - cell-keep- T' er a iiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiuiiiiinioiiiiiicuiu |