Evening star., 1952-02-11
Drug Addiction
Is on Decline,
AnsIingerS Says
But Milituy Camps 1;
Still Are Problem,
He Tells House GFoul
By Charles G. Brooks.

( Narcotic addiction In the United
States is dropping but there stin
remains an alarming problem
around the Nations military
camps, Harry J. Anslinger, Feds
|eral commissioner Of narcotics,
told the House Committee on Ape
preparations in testimony revealed
today.
Addiction in the District may b
rampant, Mr.. Anslinger declared.
but the State narcotics laws q
Maryland and Virginia have heer
g definite force in driving dope
lpeddlers from Baltimore and parts
OF Virginia to Washington. :As}
Mr.. Anslinger pointed out that
narcotics raids in Baltimore made
I In conjunction with . Nation.
wide drive against Illicit dope
ltraftic. resulted in absolutely no
leases in the city Of Baltimore early
last month. &
Except for a number Of peddlefS
picked up around military campo
lin Virginia, the State Is clean 81
the Illicit narcotics trafiic In major
cities, Mr.. Anslinger continued.
Addiction Controlled. 80
onicials here have admitted that
although addiction has been o.
least partially contained, the re-
naming dope peddlerS which
number up to 80 known dealers~
are . threat to the Capitals
youth as long as the police me-
unable to touch them.
The No. / reason many ped
dlers are difficult to prosecute
Under the Federal and District
narcotics laws Is the Supreme
Courts Interpretation Of the con-
stitutionality Of search and1seizure
laws here, Mr.. Anslinger said. -,
|. The District is unusual In 70.
lspect to search and seizure laws,
Ihe continued, because rigid Fed-
Ieral concept Of individual rights
limits police powers Of arrest,
while in the States the courts cls-
ltomarily accept arrests made with.
lout rigid adherence to search and
Seizure laws.
Mr.. Anslinger pointed out that
most Of the illicit narcotics comes
from foreign countries. 1--WE hAve
Inow three agents working in Eu.
Irope on the large snlugglers." !" hH
!, continued. "The agent In Italy ID
there to expose the large heroip
trafic, the herein being diverted
dfrom Italian plants" -,
4 Red China Il Source.
3 Red China is another source Of
opiates, Mr.. Anslinger said. I'VE
, are getting a lot Of heroin out OF
; Communist China. It comes
!. through Hong Kong"
But when Mr.. Anslinger brought
this to the attention Of the Rus
; sian delegate to the United Ma
tions and asked him to colmmnni-
cate with the Chinese to see i
they could suppress the trame.
) the Russians only replied:
! "They wanted one Of these Chi
nese Communists to sit at tho
table. just told them" Mr..
Anslinger informed the commute
tee, "You can tell them Just -
well as I can.
"You are in communicative
with them and we are not
Speaking Of narcotics arrests IN
Virginia Mr.. Anslingers declared
that in the past year agents made
Is narcotics and Is marijuane
, arrests. Other than that, Viz
.1ginia is ''clean," he stated. fhs
arrests made represent caaes
!, around Army camps In Virginia" ."
Speaking specifically Of the pisr
, trict, Mr.. Anslinger declared thes
, "it is far more Important u 11olate
} the drug addict than II - 40 To-
late victims OF SnaAIt pox q @ktoS
contagious diseases.
30 ut GallingeR.
'Iast year" he pointed out.
l"Gallinger had about 90 cases fof
drug addictS). Or. Williams At
, Freedmen's Hospital is doing, ?
lime job in trying to cure young
addicts. I think he had l45 cases.
and he has tried to keep UP With
them" II. .,
u Mr.. Anslinger told the coEn-
mittee there is . great need In
II the District Of Columbia for
! isolating the addicts without .
criminal record, putting them
where they will not be q menace
Ito the health Of the community" !"
Appealing for further funds
from Congress 10 carry on the
/ bureaus war against dope, Mr..
) lAnslinger said that even the M.
!. tional defense effort has resulted
sim increased workloads for tho
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