Evening star., 1934-12-09
j. s. SEXES 574
|NDOPE CLEANUP
Eight Arrested in Capital;
100000 Stock Taken
in Seattle.
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East, Ruppel took command in Chi
cago. He few back this afternoon.
The campaign began with this mes
sage sent to all division officers by
headquarters here earlier in the week:
Believing Nationwide drive
against narcotics violators will have a
salutary effect on the criminal element
this bureau orders your entire per-
sonnel to devote every effort to clean
ing up your district between Friday
night and Saturday night, Decem-
Der g."
While eight persons were held in
Baltimore formal charges of violation
Of the Harrison anti-narcotic act was
made only against Louis Oppleman,
operator of the hotel where the raid
was staged. Florence Oppleman, his
wife, and Daniel j. Phelan, room clerk,
also were accused The other five were
minor employees of the hostelry.
Attorneys for Opleman and his wife
tonight raised the $4,000 bond re-
quired of each for appearance at a
preliminary hearing December 10 be-
James K. Cullen.
Mrs. Oppleman, the agents said,
was smoking an opium pipe when the
raiders forced their way into her
room.
Hotel Guests Startled.
The raid was staged with dra-
matte suddenness, which left many
of the approximately SO guests of the
hotel aghast
Sit still and keep your hands out
OF your pockets" Boyd Martin, chief
of the Baltimore narcotic division, said
to those who were in the lobby as the
raiding party entered. The agents,
who were assisted by local police, i'm
mediately put guard at every exit
and began search of each room.
All guests were questioned but
none held on narcotic charges. The
police, however, took into custody
50-year-old woman after she had
broken her leg jumping from sec
ond-story window. The Baltimore
officers said that the search of the
hotel apparently had revealed the
headquarters of a shop-lifting ring
as well as a narcotic business.
Acrobat Is Indignant.
Humor was added to the situation
by the frantic protests of team of
Spanish acrobats, playing at local
theater. They could not understand
much the agents We're saying nor what
the raid was all about One screamed
his objections when the agents post
poned his visit to tailOr'S shop
where, he yelled, he had to have his
trousers pressed.
Baltimore police expressed disap-
pointment that one find they hoped
for had not materialized. They had
received information that they would
find Robert Mais and Walter Legenza,
convicted murdererS who shot their
way out of a Richmond Jail just be-
fore they were scheduled to be taken
to the Virginia death house to await
execution.
In Seattle man and his wife were
arrested and their 10-day-old baby
addicted to morphine by prenatal
absorption of the drug. was sent to
a hospital for a reduction treatment
Ruppel explained that the child
could not live if suddenly deprived
of the narcotic, which is to be ad-
ministered in progressively smaller
quantities until its use may be stopped
In Cleveland, a ring was turned up
~ ~, oGE ,o1r
tempting to entice school children
into drug addiction for the sake of
increasing their market for mar
cotics.
Postal Violation Charged.
Brooklyn saw the arrest of three
the postal laws, in connection with
the Baltimore mail order" enterprise
The closest thing to casualty that
was reported on connection with the
days drive was the case of Agent V. c.
Mccullough, bitten by a dog at Dallas
Tex.
Anslinger and Ruppel were i'm
pressed by the number of those ar
rested who were former convicts and
AL oOlIlC SdsoCS OuG Oli pdlOlc.
Postal inspectors, too. joined in the
raid, in view of the use of the mails
The chief of the Baltimore Narcotic
Bureau, it was disclosed, had made
many purchases by mail.
Drive Held Only Start.
In Cleveland, narcotics officials
described the days activities as lust
a start" The tale of Turing school
children to try dope-taking aroused
the agents to redoubled efforts.
With that angle of the case they
connected woman known only as
Jane" and said to be the wife of a
prominent Cleveland business man.
She, so the agents story went,
named Tony Sam Testa, manager of
the boxer Babe Triscaro. as having
offered to furnish her with narcotics
free of charge if she would entice
pupils of the Addison Junior High
School into becoming addicts
Testa was arrested, together with
his brother James; Chinese, Jim
Hong, chef at the Elite Social Club,
and seven others. including three
women, Helen Davis, Ethel Blagdon
and Jean Wood.