New-York tribune., 1922-07-01
Eight Indicted
In Sl,0OO,0OO
Opium Traffic
Trail i'll Alleged Conspiracy
to Defraud Government
of SO, 400 Duty Leads to
Several Local Politicians
Cuban Druggists Named
Charge Importers Struggled
Dope From Storage and
Shipped Bricks Abroad


jury to Judge Mayer yesterday in an
alleged s1,00o,0oo conspiracy 20 de-
fraud the United States of Ss,400 duty
on $500 pounds of opium. Invessiga-
tion of the case was said by Assistant
United States District Attorney Her
man L. Falk to have revealed the fact
that several New York politicians are
engaged in the opium traffic. Mr. Falk
said that he hoped to indict the poll
ticians with others. Indictments were
returned against the following:
The Anchor Warehouse, corpora
tion and government bonded drug
repository, at 231 East Forty-seventh
Street; Morris De Lucca, president of
the Anchor Warehouse Company;
Isaac J. Eltinger, United States Gus
toms storekeeper at the warehouse;
Themis Parlou, wealthy embroidery
manufacturer and importer of opium,
with Offices in West Thirty-fourth
Street. whose concern has connections
in Salonca. Greece; William J. Sar
dou, with a residence in Havana. Cuba,
and apartments on Riverside Drive;
Nicholas Karaca, owner of the Adel-
phi Hotel. in Twentythird Street;
Steve Valliadis and Bernardo and
Gregario Uriarte. brothers, who con
duct . wholesale drug business in
Havana. Cuba. A second indictment
was returned against Themis Parlou,
who is charged with conspiracy to
eniracv "a sell onium in illegal traffic.
Jury on Case Two Weeks
Mr. Falk said this case had been be-
fore the grand jury every day for two
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GrrCstcd those indicted. and they WI!
be arrAlEncd some day next week. IN
INVESTIGATING the case 1T was learned
rCCpr an 20 CfaIEPS, CndI the CON-
'13fator5 IRON time 10 tifne "lIndre"
rom BOND OPIUM imported nom greece
lY Parlou on the pTetense that tne
drug vas to be imported TO Mexico VIA
lVana, but when the exported cases
we're opened at havana they were louho
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+ 1921 parlou. who was arrested some
r7b7tbi aro and released on $4,000
hcr4 Ead innorted from Salonica. on
tte steamship Port Nicholson, eight
cases Of onium. and on July 5, 1921, he
Imported from the same place twelve
C-5es Of oniilr. on the steamship king
Alexander. The twenty cases were
H+ored "a .bo A,chor uerebonse on
+o tbot +bc,. woro - he
cvnor+ed to Noxiro via Havana later
tt,a iyd,ctwo,1t cbaroos +bn dofendante
disnosod of 100 mounds of tho druo IN
leerers Of opium resorts in and near
Chinatown for $50 a pourd.
"On April 6. 1922. four men were ar
rested in front of 7 Mott Street il is
charged. while negotiating a sale Of
opium. Two of these men we're Nicho-
las Karaca. Of the Adclphia Hotel and
steve Valliadis who we viii shaw wers
e,nploved as agents IN find nurchasars
for +ha onirn
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the consnirators i is cboraod ~ 49,.
possession Of what ,en,a ained eT' W 49, ev.
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