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Show I DRUG SMUGGLING INTO THE ' UNITED STATES FROM MEXICO. The raids made recently in Ogden r and Salt Lake by federal officers -were. - pnly part of a great movement being "Undertaken by Uncle Sam's agents to "'curb tho growing drug evil. It has ,,b,een pretty well established that much "Of the contraband narcotics are beln? smuggled into tho United States from ''Mexico and that a giant conspiracy ex-t ex-t fets to sell drugs to the victims. - Newspaper men and peace officers recall that five or sis years ago there Ver6 many drug victims in Ogden and the jails usually held two or three at Then a few years ago the Harrison -v-Hnti-narcotic act was passed and the .;;drastic provisions of this law closed .many sources to the drug victims and "many unscrupulous persons lost their "profitable "dope" selling business. The effects of this law wens notice-.CSble notice-.CSble here for almost overnight tho '-dope "fiends" disappeared. They went to the few. places in the country where there were "leaks", and drugs were But now the Harrison act is powerless power-less in the case of the quantities of drug smuggled Into the country and -iederal officers say the number of drug victims Is Increasing. There Js the problem of stopping the traffic "und reclaiming the thousands of victims vic-tims to be considered. |