The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-20
Against Vendors of Certain
Drugs and instruments.
DRAG net REACHES KANSAS
Arrests Are Made in Wichita
and in Topeka.
Officials Have Been Gathering
Evidence a Long Time.

Washington, Nov. 20.-Postoffice in
spectors and United States marshals
in 72 leading cities of the country
began today practically simultaneous
raids for the arrest of 173 persons
charged with using the mails to pro-
mote criminal and medical practices
or the sale of drugs and instrume ents
used for illegal purposes.
The number of arrests to be made
in the respective cities follow: New
York, 2; Buffalo, 8; Pittsburg, 7; In
dianapelis. 8; Chicago, 8; st. Paul
8; Fort Worth, 4; St. Louis. 3; Oma-
ha, 4; Oklahoma City, 5; Portland
Ore, 8; Denver. 5; Seattle, 8; Spokane.
5; San Francisco, Z; Oakland. Cal,
8; Los Angeles, 3; San Jose, 3; Mobile,
3; Marietta, O., 3; Dallas, 8.
Two each in Albany, Washington,
Memphis. Birmingham, Cleveland.
SteubenvilIe, o.; Duluth, Winona,
Mimi; San Antonio, Houston, New
Orleans. Kansas City, Topeka, Ala
media Cal.
one each in Atlanta, Cincinnati, To-
ledo, Minneapolis, Galveston, Salt
Lake City, Ithaca and Elmira, N. Y;
East Orange, N. j.; Lancaster ana
Pine Bank, Pa; Cumberland, Md;
CharIestown and Columbia, S. C.;
Jacksonville Fla; Columbus, Spring
field, Mt. Vernon, Dayton and Con-
vey, O.: Fort Wayne and Terre
Haute, Ind; Peoria, Ill; kalamazoo
and Iron River, Mich; Holden, MO-;
Muskogee, Ok; Wichita, Kan; Coun-
ell Bluffs, Ia; Bellingham, Crescent
and Tacoma, Wash; Sacramento
Petaluma. Fresno and Glendale, Cal.
Ten Arrests in Chicago.
Chicago, Nov. 20.-Ten arrests were
made here today by postal inspectors
in a nation wide movement against
doctors and persons advertising meth
DDS conducive to race suicide. 1t was
declared that raids were being made
simultaneously all over the country
The specific charge against the per-
sons arrested is using the mails In
connection with advertisements under
ban of the government.
Many Prominent Persons.
This concerted official action COW
cred the United States from the At
Iautic to the Pacific and from the
Lakes to the Gulf. Many OF the per-
sons to be arrested are prominent
comm mercially and socially in their
communities. Some are leading phys
icians, others are rich and influential
business men; yet others are men VINO
live by their wits and are little known
without their own small coterle OF as
sociates. One is a Chinaman who is
alleged to have practiced his calling
on women of his own race and upon
those of the lower strata of society.
All of the arrests are to be made
the penal code of the United States,
which bars from the mails any vile
or obscene matter whether sealed or
unSealed; any advertisement letter OF
circular proposing or suggesting GRIM
inaI practices; or any packet contain
ing any substance, drug or thing in
tended to be used for immoral or un- !
lawful purposes.
Chief inspector Robert Sharp of
the postOtfice department and many
of his force of $50 inspectors have
been working upon the cases for many
months. The development of. the
plans which eliminated today is the
most extensive in the history OF any
department of the government.
Strict enforcement of municipal and
state laws in the east is said by the
postal authorities to account for the
comparatively few arrests in the large
cities of that part of the country but
if is said by the pOstOffice inspectors
that a hotbed of this sort of criminal
ity is in the Pacific coast states. ON
the coast they had comparatively little
difficulty in obtaining a mass of evil /
dence against accused persons. In San
Francisco a fictitious name was used
by several well known physicians who |
employed a woman to do the neces-
sary advertising and clerical work.
Cases were solicited by correspond /
once and by printed circulars sent
through the mails. Scores of COM !
plants have been received by the de- !
DaTtm m6nt from I6SpeCldDl6 WOIIlGlls
com planning of the receipt of this class /
of matter.
Two in Wichita.
Kansas City, Nov. 2O.-Dr. ]. |
Valentine Studor of this city was ar
rested today by postal authorities /
charged with criminal medical prac- |
tees The arrests of A. b. Chatfield, I
ir and James J. Harrison, members 7
of a remedy company in Wichita, /
Kan. and of Mack Hobart, a drug /
gist in Topeka, Kan, on charges of /
advertising means COntributory to race /
suicide were reported to local postal |
inspectors All four men previously /
had been indicted by federal grand |
juries-
Edward Andruss, prominent church /
worker and director of the CONNER !
ciaI club of that town in connection /
with the postoffice department raid |
was reported to local inspectors this |
afternoon.
Woman Arrested in st. Louis.
st. Louis, Nov. 20.-Three persons /
We're indicted in st. Louis in the gov
ernment's movement against alleged /
criminal medical practices Mrs
Hulda Koch, proprietor of a mater
nifty home, was arrested today. 1t |
was charged that the mails were mis- |
used. \ warrant was issued against
Gustave F. Jacobs, manager of a drug |
company, and deputy United States !
Another indictment was returned |
against a woman, who died before the |
warrant could be served.