Show Drive rive on Reefer ee er erRing Ring Is s Getting Ama Amazing mating ng Results Large Army of Marijuana Addicts Spurs Officials To Fight Gang CHICAGO Faced with an ever ever- Increasing army of marijuana addicts ad ad- addicts U U. S. S narcotic authorities have launched a wide nation-wide drive against the crime inciting assassin of ol youth and immediate results have been spectacular In New York a federal grand Jury has indicted six persons three of them women as members of a nationwide nationwide nationwide na na- na- na wide tion-wide reefer ring with a 1 1 year a turnover says the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Herald In Beverly Beverl Hills aristocratic Los Angles suburb police swooped down on a midnight apartment party confiscated confiscated confiscated con con- enough reefers or marijuana marijuana marijuana mari mari- juana to put 20 people in a trance and arrested a Hollywood stunt actor and a young oung movie starlet starlet starlet star star- let guest Later they picked up a 19 year 19 year year- old dentists dentist's assistant a dance band drummer and girl singer all on charges of dalliance with the dream weed A grand jury inquiry was launched after the dentists dentist's assistant assistant assistant assist assist- ant Miss Norma Jean Graybeal 19 told of using a year old high school boy as her aid in peddling reefers to teen-age teen addicts Declaring that the vice is rampant j I among adolescents Miss Graybeal said I Most of the kids start using the stuff about the same way I did They get thrill crazy and they start jitterbugging and staying out nights Pretty soon some kid in the crowd brings some of the smokes and then youre you're off i How Dow They Work It I I If you dont don't smoke some of it the other kids think youre you're oure a jerk I You buy it from the person in your our own crowd who is your our contact In every juvenile crowd theres there's at least one person who knows where to buy the stuff Ive seen two people go so crazy from marijuana they had to be locked up One a boy 19 years old is in a hospital for the insane now and the other a man of 28 28 Is in jail i In recognition of her aid to authorities authorities authorities au au- au- au Miss Graybeal was let off with 90 days in jail fy OJ possession of narcotics Also taken into custody and questioned questioned questioned ques ques- in the drive were Ruel Taylor Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor stunt actor Lorna Gray screen starlet Ila Ina Ellen Tims 25 professional professional professional singer and Robert Paul Hughes dance band drummer Miss Gray was released after Taylor Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor had assumed responsibility forthe for forthe forthe the reefers in his apartment In the course of the inquiry police discovered marijuana growing growing growing grow grow- ing in the Victory garden of a public school Shows Increase According to Elmer L. L Ire Irey coordinator coordinator coordinator co co- of U. U S. S tr treasury enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment agencies marijuana addiction showed a considerable increase during during dur dur- during ing 1944 The focal point of the traffic he declared seems to be New York City No sooner is one gang there stamped out than another springs up The conspirators conspirators con con- I spira tors he added are well financed r rand and apparently have national and j international a affiliations a Hons Meanwhile federal agents continued continued continued contin contin- seeking a man said to be the master mind of the wide nation-wide j syndicate whose alleged members are arc under indictment in New York City I N Information obtained in the fives investigation investigation by U. U S. S Attorney John F F. X I McGohey's office in New York points to a well organized ring of reefer I peddlers operating in large cities clUes The main supply of the drug Is believe be be- I lieve to have hwe been cut of off oU through the discovery of a farm near I Chaffee Mo There according to I McGohey Robert Williams and his I wife Elda grew the weed for tor diStribution distribution distribution dis dis- by others of the syndicate diS |