Evening star., 1951-03-17
81 Are Seized
ByAfter-Hours
Club Raiders
Police Strike Again
After 65 Arrests in
Narcotics Cases

CoGoO1AollIl1CliG III LIE OUU DlOcK OF
columbia road NV, arresting 81
persons.
The raid came after the mar
cotics squad and Federal agents
had rounded up IS persons in a
series of raids intended to smash
the city's biggest dope ring. Ad-
dltional arrests will be made to-
day, 1t. H. H. Carper, narcotics
squad commander, said.
In the Columbia road raid
marijuana cigarettes were found
in the pockets of one of the
patrons. He was turned over to
the narcotics squad and will be
charged later today, 1t. Carper
said.
Other Charges Filed.
Vice Squad Capt. Roy Blick
said his men had had the Co.
lumbia road establishment under
observation for several days. Un-
dercover men were sent into the
club to buy whisky with marked
money, the officer said.
After the raid, police charged
Alvin Bonds. 40, colored, of the
1900 block of East Capitol street,
and Sarah J. Hardy, %, colored, of
the 1000 block of Ninth street NV.
with keeping and selling whisky
after hours. Another man, Carl
ton B. Long, %, colored, 700 block
OF Girard street NV, was charged
with operating a lottery and pos
sessing numbers slips.
Raiding detectives seized a
quantity of liquor, a revolver and
the cigarettes.
The others arrested at the ad-
dress, both white and colored,
were charged with disorderly con-
duct. Long was scheduled to ap-
pear later today before United
States Commissioner Cyril S.
Lawrence. Bonds and the Hardy
woman were to appear in Munic-
ipal Court.
Eight Months of Preparation.
| Eight months of undercover
work preceded the wholesale mar
cotic raids which began shortly
after dark last night and stretched
from Washington to Army camps
as far away as Fort Eustis, near
Newport News, Va.
! Boyd NJ Martin, District super
wiser of the Bureau of Narcotics
said the raids were designed to
capture "the vermin who have
been selling heroin and marijuana
to teen-agers and Army person
nell"
Mr.. Martin said he did not
mean to imply by his reference to
"teen-agers' that dope peddlers
have found customers among
Washington's hign school stu
dents. He was referring to juve-
nile delinquents and young
punks" who have quit school and
are establishing police records,
Mr.. Martin said.
Few Teen-Agers Addicted.
Federal Narcotics Commission
er H. j. Anslinger gave him a
special assignment last July to in
vestigate thoroughly reports of a
widespread traffic in narcotics in
Washington, Mr.. Martin said.
His investigation convinced him
that Washington's juvenile popu-
lation is remarkably free from
drug addiction, he said.
Enforcement of narcotic laws in
Washington is handicapped by the
delays and relatively light SEN
tences which peddlers receive in
local courts. Mr.. Martin said He
pointed out that the price of
heroin in Baltimore is one-third
higher than here because peddlers
there know they will receive
speedy trials and stiff prison SEN
tences if they are caught. Conse-
quently they demand higher pay
for the risks they take, he said.
Large quantities of cocaine and
Iheroin were seized by the raiders
and the high quality of the un-
diluted drugs convinced the Fed
eral agents they had struck the
supply sources of wholesale drug
peddlers.
Two Federal narcotic agents,
cooperating with military author
tiles, were inducted into the Army
last November and assigned to
Fort Eustis, Va, where they be-
came friendly with Pvt. James
Roberts, jr., colored, son of James
(Jim Yellow Roberts, convicted
narcotics violator.
Pvt. Roberts, drafted after his
father was sentenced to serve
from 5 to Is years in jail follow
ing conviction in District Court
here last summer, established con-
facts for the disguised undercover
agents with drug peddlers in
Washington, MI. Martin said.
Limited Only by Money.
Once contacts had been estab-
IliShed. the Federal agents and the
drug squad of the METROPOLITAN
police began gathering evidence.
The only limit on our opera
tions," Mr.. Martin said, was the
amount of money we had to spend
in making purchases of narcotics"
AS the purchases were made,
the investigators quietly began
obtaining United States commits
Sioners' warrants but made no
(See RAIDS, Page A-3.)