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200,000 Chinese
Massing Below
38th Parallel
Prepare to Defend
Their Last Base
In South Korea
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, Mar. 17.—More than
200,000 Chinese Reds were massed
today in Central Korea south of
Chunchon—the base they must;
hold to stay below the 38th Paral
lel.
An Allied intelligence officer in
Seoul said there were signs the
hard-pressed foe may have to pull
back soon all the way to that
artificial boundary of North and
South Korea.
Rushing in fresh troops, the
Reds lashed back with ground
arms and artillery from good ridge
defenses below Chunchon. 8 miles
south of the 38th I-arallel. Their,
outposts drove off Allied patrols
probing the outer defenses.
May Withdraw Farther.
This was the first sign the Reds
had decided to end days of re
treat and try to hold along a new
defense line.
“However, there are indications
that the enemy feels he cannot
hold this line in view of our su-j
periority of equipment,” an Allied!
officer said, “and he may with
draw to the 38th Parallel.”
Allied warships, planes and
ground forces have combined to '
infiict heavy losses on the foe.
In the air. an F-80 Shooting
Star jet and a Russian-type MIG '
jet collided today and plunged to
the ground.
Both pilots were presumed dead.
The collision came during a dog
fight between three Shooting Stars
and three MIGs south of Namsi
in Northwest Korea.
Fifth Air Force planes flew 733
sorties by dusk, shooting up Com
munist transports and troops.
More than 170.000 Reds have
been killed or wounded in ground
action since the Allied offensive
began January 25. Thp 8th Army
claimed 950 for yesterday.
Barracks Bombarded.
A belated naval announcement
said 8,000 Reds were killed or
wounded Thursday by warship
bombardment of barracks near
Wonsan, on the northeast coast.;
That biggest single day's bag of,
the war by the Navy smashed a
base which feeds troops down to
the central front.
Allied planes last night bombed
five trains trying to sneak down
to the front. One 35-car train
loaded with vehicles was de-j
stroyed, pilots said. Six cars off
another 10-car train exploded.
The other three trains were
damaged and halted.
The attacking planes helped set
a new record yesterday of 1,123
sorties by the Far East Air Forces.
One component, the United States
5th Air Force flew a record 82S
sorties. Pilots claimed they killed
or wounded 650 Reds.
Patrols Beaten Back.
Allied patrols were beaten back
while trying to move north today
I from recaptured Hongchon in
Central Korea toward Chunchon.
a distance of 15 miles.
Hongchon was pinched off and
occupied Thursday. The last
pocket of Chinese in the Hong
chon area was wiped out yester
day.
The Reds fired their most in
tensive artillery barrage of the
Korean war in defense of Chung
chon. But Allied guns poured
back 50 shells for every one from
the Reds.
Associated Press War Corre
spondent Leif Erickson reported
from 8th Army headquarters that
four Chinese army corps were be
lieved to be deployed southwest
and southeast of Chungchon.
Another four were believed to
be in reserve to the north.
United Nations troops advanced
elsewhere. But the 8th Army
cloaked their positions in secrecy.
The Allies were believed to be
less than 20 miles from the 38th
Parallel at numerous points.
All was quiet in re-occupied
Seoul. South Koreans encoun
tered a small force of North Ko
reans north of the capital last
night but quickly dispersed it.
Rome Building Cave-in
Leaves 5 Dead, 9 Hurl
By the Associated Press
ROME, Mar. 17.—At least five
persons were killed and nine others
were injured today when a former
school building housing bombed
out families of World War II col
lapsed.
Authorities said about 20 fam
ilies were living in the building.
They expressed fear additional
victims of the cave-in would be
found in the debris.
The five bodies taken from the
wreckage were those of an aged
woman, two men, a 2-year-old
child and an infant.
Mayor Salvatore Rebecchini of
Rome was on the scene directing
the rescue squads.
Britain Buys Meat
LONDON, Mar. 17 (A5).—Britain
has bought 5.5 million pounds of
canned Mexican meat from the
United States to bolster 'her
meager ration, a Food Ministry
spokesman announced last night.
The spokesman did not specify
the price and said he did not
expect any similar purchases to
follow regularly.
Sons of Ireland Rise at Dawn
For Tribute to St. Patrick
Dublin's O'Connell Street Is Scene
Of Parades and Other Festivities
By the Associated Press
DUBLIN, Ireland, Mar. 17.—
Early rising sons of Ireland turned
out in force on Dublin’s famed
O'Connell street at dawn today to
pay tribute to St. Patrick, who
introduced Christianity to their
land 1,500 years ago.
Decked out in their Sunday best
and adorned with the traditional
Irish Mark Day Here With Church;
Services and Merrymaking. Page A-20
shamrock in the lapel, they!
marched up and down the green-j
festooned street, then made fori
the best vantage spots to see the;
St. Patrick's parade later in the
day. More than 100 floats were to
take part in the procession, rep
resenting various phases of Irish
trade and culture.
Even the most contentious
seemed to forget for the day the;
subject on which all southern!
Irish are united—the need to end1
partition of their country.
Later today President Sean T.
O'Kelly and other government!
leaders will drive to the Pro Ca- ;
thedral for the traditional high
mass to be celebrated by Arch- I
bishop John Charles McQuaid.
Primate of Ireland.
For the first time the flag of i
New York was flown alongside
thp Irish colors over Mansion
House, official residence of Dub
lin’s Lord Mayor John Belton.
It was a problem for the Irish
to find liquid refreshment with
which to toast the shamrock in
i fitting style.
All Ireland’s pubs are closed on
St. Patrick's Day by a government
order of years’ standing to prevent
“unseemly tippling.”
There was no military parade
in Dublin this year, but each gar
rison had a church parade fol
lowed by the ceremonial presenta
tion of the shamrock.
In a St. Patrick's Day message
to the people of Ulster (North
ern Ireland) Prime Minister Sir
Basil Brooke said:
‘ Ulster people place the highest
value on British citizenship, and
they will not change their al
legiance for any man. They
have consciously and deliberately
chosen the British way of life.
They know that their well being
is individuals and as a community
s bound up with their continued
participation in the life of the
United Kingdom and the British
Commonwealth. . . . The Ulster
community throughout the world
ivill remain true to its ideals.”
MacArthur Pays Visit
To Front and Finds
Things 'Going Well'
Americans Throw Back
Red Attack on Central
Sector During Trip
By the Associated Press
TOKYO, Mar. 17.—Gen. Mac
Arthur paid a surprise visit to
the fighting front in Korea today!
and found “everything going;
well.”
The United Nations commander
jeeped to within 2.000 yards of
the battle line south of Chunchon.
He returned to Tokyo tonight.
Associated Press War Corre
spondent William C. Barnard re
ported from the central sector
that American forces northwest;
of Hongchon today threw back
a company-sized attack by Chi
nese Reds. This was near the
area visited by Gen. MacArthur. i
Called “Routine Trip.”
Gen. MacArthur said his visit
to Korea—the 13th of the war—
was "just a routine trip to eee my
old friends, the Marines.” He
added;
“I found them in splendid
shape, just as always. Every
thing on the front is going well.”;
Gen. MacArthur flew to Suwon,
air base 20 miles south of Seoul,
in his Constellation "SCAP.” He
and his party hopped to Wonju
in another plane, then jeeped over
rough roads to Hongchon.
In the jeep caravan were Lt.
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, com
mander of the United States 8th
Army; Lt. Gen. George E. Strate
meyer, commander of the United
States Far East Air Forces, and
Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy. com
mander of Far East Naval Forces.
The route led them through
“Massacre Valley” north of Hoeng-.
song where elements of the United
States 2d Division were ambused
last month.
A member of the party said con
siderable artillery fire was heard;
during the trip but the party did
mot approach within firing dis
tance of the fighting front.
The trip was without incident.
Marine MPs were spaced at 500
yard intervals along the road to;
insure the safety of the five-star
general.
As the caravan forded the
Hongchon River, Gen. MacAr
thur's jeep sailed near the north
bank. It was towed out and re
paired in minutes.
Crowds of Leathernecks crowd
ed around the jeep for a look at
the Allied commander. Many Ma
rines produced cameras and pho
tSee Mac ARTHUR, Page A-3.) j
Broadcaster Reports
Truman Deal With
Eisenhower for '52
Says General Told Him
He Would Be Recalled
If He Seeks to Run
P* the Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla., Mar. 17.—An NBC
radio commentator reported today
that Gen. Eisenhower will be re
called from Europe in mid-summer
of 1952 to be “available” for nom
ination for President.
“President Truman made a deal
with Gen. Eisenhower to make Ike
available for the presidential cam
paign of 1952,” the radio newsman,
Merrill Mueller, wrote in the Quill,
magazine published by Sigma
Delta Chi. national honorary
journalism fraternity.
He wrote that Gen. Eisenhower
himself told him of the arrange
ment.
“The Chief Executive told Ike
that one Harry Truman did not
want to be accused of exiling a
potential powerful contender for
the honors of the White House.
Private Meeting in Denver.
“Ike told me this during a pri
vate meeting in Denver last De
cember. None of our talk was
off the record, but some of it must
still be restricted at this time be
cause of the general’s foreign
commitments.
“Ike also told me—in contra
diction to his written reply to
my letters over the past five years
—that he would run in 1952 if
drafted by one of the political
parties,” Mr. Mueller continued.
“About the same time, President
Truman told friends around him
in Washington—several of whom
I have talked with since—that Ike
could have the presidency if he:
wanted it.”
Mr. Mueller, a former foreign;
correspondent now stationed by;
the National Broadcasting Co. in;
San Francisco, declared that,]
“Republicans are staking most of!
their hopes on the general . . .
but they are overlooking an obvi
ous threat,.that Ike could just as’
easily become the Democratic
candidate!”
Proposes to Keep Silent.
The text of his article was
released here by John T. Bills,;
managing editor of the Quill and’
radio news editor for the Miami1
Herald and radio station WQAM.
Mr. Mueller wrote that the Su
preme Commander of the Allied
Powers in Europe “proposes to
keep completely silent.”
“The first and foremost reason
for Ike’s silence is to let Euro
peans know that his work in re- j
organizing their defenses under j
(See EISENHOWER, Page A-3.P
AF Designing Radio Unit
To Locate Plane Crashes
By the Associated Press
DAYTON, Ohio, Mar. 17.—An
automatic radio transmitter—
ready to work after it is cata-i
pulted out of a crashing airplane
—is being developed at Air Ma
terial Command, Wright- Patter-;
son Air Force base.
It’s called a crash rescue lo-i
cator beacon and is housed in an1
aluminum cylinder, l\'z inches in!
diameter and 2 feet high.
Here’s how it will w'ork:
If a plane crashes the cylinder,!
carried near the tail section, will!
be thrown out.
A trigger device will release!
four to six telescoping legs that
will right the container. A 20-foot!
antenna will shoot up and the'
transmitter will start sending dis
tress signals hundreds of miles;
in all directions over a fixed fre
quency for 24 hours.
When an air rescue service ra-|
dio station picks up the signals it!
can determine where the plane
went down. The locator beacon, \
which will weight about 501
pounds, will operate even if it is
submerged in water. *
Catholics Expel
All Who Helped
Banish Beran
Priests and Prelates
Appointed by Czech
Regime Included
By the Associated Press
VATICAN CITY. Mar. 17.—The
Catholic church today excommuni
cated all persons who had a part
in the banishment of Archbishop
Josef Beran of Prague and who
participated in other acts against
the church in Czechoslovakia.
The excommunication. an
nounced today in a declaration of
the Consistorial Congregation, also
included priests and prelates who
were appointed to church positions
by the Czechoslovak government.
Presumably this includes the Rev.
Antonin Stehlik, the parish priest
appointed as Archbishop Beran’s
interim successor last Saturday.
Similar to Hungarian Action.
The declaration declared that
recently in Czechoslovakia many
bishops have been impeded in
their ministry and many priests
have been jailed or deported. It
specifically mentioned the action
against Archbishop Beran. All
who had a part in these acts, it
said, are excommunicated and
cannot be absolved except by the
Pope. Excommunication bars:
Catholics from the sacraments of,
their church.
The action by the Congregation,
one of 11 bodies that govern Cath
olic church affairs, was similar
to that taken February 12, 1949,
against all who had z part in the
arrest, trial and sentence of Josef
Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary.
Called "Most Grave.”
Following the declaration of
excommunication at that time
Pope Pius held an extraordinary
secret consistory m which he de
livered an allocution dealing with
the treason triai.
The declaration made public to
day referred to the action against
Msgr. Beran as “most grave.”
Relations between the Vatican
and the Czechoslovak Communist
regime have been deteriorating as
the government moved steadily to!
curb the power of the church and
its administrations.
Australia to Dissolve
Parliament, Vote Set
By the Associated Press
CANBERRA. Australia, Mar.
17.—Prime Minister Robert G.
Menzies announced today that]
both houses of Australia’s Parlia-i
ment will be dissolved Monday!
and new elections held April 28.1
Mr. Menzies delivered to Gov.i
Gen. William J. McKell yesterday!
written reasons to support his
request for dissolution of Parlia
ment. Authoritative sources said!
Mr. McKell apparently took the;
position that he had to accept the;
coalition government’s advice in1
the matter.
Mr. Menzies is reported to have;
felt that Parliament is unwork
able because the Labor majority
in the Senate has consistently
battled the House of Representa
tives.
A coalition of Liberals and the
Country Party won a majority in
the House in the last general elec
tion, but the Labor Party, which
the coalition defeated, retained a
majority in the Senate through
holdover members.
Issues involved in the coming
election would include steps to
deal with Communism in Aus
tralia.
Mr. Menzies declared last week
that the High Court’s recent re
jection of the act dissolving the
Communist Party marks only the
beginning of the fight against
Communism in this country.
Never Heard of War II
MOMBASA, Kenya, Mar. 17 (/Pi.
—Explorer F. A. Mitchell Hedges
has arrived here from a four
months cruise among the more
remote groups of the Seychelle
Islands, in the Indian ocean, and
reported that he found there na
tives who never had heard oft
World War II.;
Airman's Comedy of Errors
Ends Bank Holdup Attempt
By the Associated Pres*
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 17.—
A love-sick and frightened Air
Force corporal tried to rob a bank
—but succeeded only in creating
a comedy of errors.
Still frightened, Corpl. James H.
Wheelock, was in the city jail last
night charged with suspicion of
robbery, suspicion of kidnaping
and with the routine booking
charges of “en route to United
States marshal” and “en route to
United States Air Force.”
Wheelock tried to hold up a
branch of the Bank of America.
The job went all wrong. A girl
clerk saw his .38 revolver. She
told the manager and the manager
called police.
The police already were on the1
way when Wheelock came out the J
door, using Joseph Rogers, a bank'
teller, as a hostage. Wheelock
abandoned his hostage and ran to
his car, which he had locked. In
his hurry he couldn’t get the door
open.
Frantically, the youth left his
own car and jumped into one
occupied by Rod Nelson.
“Drive off,” ordered Wheelock.
“Sorry, no wheels,” replied Mr.
Nelson. The car was on blocks.
Nelson was in the midst of chang
ing a broken axle.
Another car drove up and
Wheelock jumped into that—right
beside Police Officer Alfred Thor
ington, who was answering a radio
call that the bank was being
robbed.
As policeman and corporal
grappled the police car nearly ran
down Motorcycle Patrolman James
Mahoney, who also was answer
ing the robbery call. Mr. Ma
honey pressed his pistol against
Wheelock’s back and the youth
gave up.
In his pockets were 50 revolver
cartridges and $2,100 he had ob
tained at the bank.
His explanation:
“I was flat broke and needed
money so I could get married. I’ll
never tell who my girl was.”
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Dutch Premier Bares
Austerity Program
To Spur Rearming
Defense Budget Raised,
Conscription Period Is
Increased to 18 Months
By the Aisocioted Press
THE HAGUE. The Netherlands,
Mar. 17.—Premier Willem Drees
unfolded to Parliament and the
nation today his new cabinet pro
gram of more guns and less but
ter.
His announcement that the re
duction of subsidies and price in
creases of sugar, cereals, bread,
fats and other commodities will go
into effect immediately brought
home to the 10 million Dutchmen
the period of austerity that lies
before them.
Conscription Increased.
The Laborite Premier, his words
carried by radio from the govern
ment bench in Parliament, out
lined the following expansion of
The Netherlands’ defense pro
gram:
1. Conscription will be increased
from 12 to 18 months to provide
units under arms for the North
Atlantic forces.
2. For the next four years the
defense budget will be set at 1.5
billion guilders ($400 million) an
nually, instead of 1 billion guild
ers ($263 million), as planned.
3. Efforts will be made to build
up the defense production for do
mestic needs and for The Nether
lands’ North Atlantic partners.
The extra 500 million guilders
annually for defense will be raised
half from taxes and half from
loans. Dr. Drees said.
Higher Taxes Scheduled.
To pay for the extra defense
efforts and to close the gap In the
Netherlands’ international pay
ments balance, the Premier out
lined a national belt-tightening
program including the following
measures:
1. Higher taxes on corporation
profits, personal incomes and
turnovers, especially of luxury
items, and a study of the “pos
sibility” on an excess profits tax.
2. A cut of 150 million guilders
in the government budget.
3. Measures to conserve scarce
raw materials and to introduce
substitutes wherever possible.
4. Cuts in public and private
investments.
5. Reduction in food subsidies
with the effect that prices will rise
effective immediately.
6. Controls on wages that will
keep them from rising as fast as
prices.
British Reported Near
A-Bomb Completion
By the Associated Press
LONDON. Mar. 17.—-The Lon
don Evening News reported today
that British scientists “now are
believed to be reaching the final
stages in their assembly of the
atom bomb.” Official sources re
fused to make any comment on
the story.
The report said it was hoped
that “Britain will be able to test
the first bomb within the next 12
months.”
Last week, Minister of Supply
George Strauss, under whose de
partment atom projects are de
veloped in Britain, told the House
of Commons that Britain has the
technical knowledge to make the
bomb.
The Evening News said while
component parts of the bomb are
being manufactured in different
parts of the country, the actual
test would not be held here, owing
“to the limited space available in
Britain.”
It added that two possible test
places are the rocket range at
Woomera, Australia, or the Nevada
idesert in the United States.
Crash of 3-29 Reported
On Frenco-Spanish Border
By the Associated Press
PARIS, Mar. 17.—The French
.news agency said today a plane
believed to be an American B-29
was reported to have crashed in
the Pyrenees Mountains on the
border of France and Spain.
Fulbrighi Shuns Offer
Of $20,0-00 More lo
Push RFC Inquiry
Says Probe Should Cover
Other Fields, Be Handled
By Another Group
By Robert K. Walsh
An offer by the Senate Banking
I Committee to give a subcommittee
$20,000 for more hearings on Re
construction Finance Corp. “cases”
iwent unclaimed today.
Subcommittee Chairman Ful
bright indicated it wasn’t the
money but the principle of the
thing, as he declared “there cer
tainly is need for a broader in
quiry, but there’s no point in
going on only with RFC.”
Another Democratic member of
the subcommittee, Senator Frear
of Delaware, contended that dis
closures at the hearings have left
so much “cloudiness” that fur
ther witnesses should be called.
But he added he would go along
with whatever decision Senator
Fulbright made on whether that
subcommittee should do the clear
ing up.
Offered by Maybank.
| Senator Maybank, Democrat, of
South Carolina, who heads the
banking Committee and also serves
ion the subcommittee, offered the
subcommittee $20,000 of the com
mittee’s current $25,000 allow
ance. The investigation should
not be stopped now. “with some
!persons still under fire,” he said.
“But I'm not going to impose
my will on Senator Fulbright,” he
added. “He has done an excel
lent job and a difficult one. If
'he wants the money for continu
jation of his subcommittee’s job,
all he has to do is ask for it.”
When reporters sought Senator
Fulbright’s reaction, he laughingly
replied: “I am so embarrassed by
being offered $20,000 that I just
i can’t comment.”
He left no doubt, however, that
he does not intend to ask for the
additional expense money and
(See RFC, Page A-3.)
Trumsn Appointment
Of New Wsge Board
Expected in 2 Weeks
18-Man Agency Would Be
Twice as Big as One
Labor Walked Out On
By the Associated Press
The Government today was re
i ported preparing to create a new
18-man Wage Stabilization Board
even without a formal agreement
between labor and management as
to the board's powers.
, Some officials expect the action
| to be announced by President
!Truman within a week or two,
possibly before the end of the
coming week, in an effort to head
off a meat-packing strike March
26.
One of the first tasks of such
a board Would be to consider
whether to relax wage controls to
permit a wage raise for meat
workers.
The President will return here
Thursday from Key West, Fla.
Limited Powers Reported.
The new board, twice as big as
the one that was crippled a month
ago when the labor members
walked out, uauld reportedly have
limited powers to settle defense
plant disputes—along the lines
proposed by Economic Stabilizer
Eric Johnston.
Neither management nor labor
has approved those terms, and
may not formally approve them.
But management groups have said
they w-ould at least participate on
such a board, and some labor
leaders have indicated that labor
would also participate if the board
were created.
The defense mobilization pic
ture seemed brighter along with
reports that munitions con
(See MOBILIZATION, Pg. A-2.)
Vandenberg's Condition
Reported 'Not So Good'
By the Associated Press
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Mar.
17.—The condition of Senator
Vandenberg is “not as good” as it
was yesterday, and is still serious,
his personal physician said today.
Dr. A. B. Smith reported “the
slight alleviation of symptoms in
the Senator's condition yesterday
is not manifest today.” Senator
Vandenberg was reported to have
spent his “most comfortable day
of the week” yesterday.
The Michigan Republican, known
as the Senate’s foremost advocate
of a bi-partisan foreign policy,
'suffered a relapse February 26
Iwhile recuperating from a series
'of operations.
Loudoun Teacher Shortage Met
By Hiring Three Preachers
Special Dispatch to The Star
LEESBURG. Va„ Mar. 17.—A
severe teacher shortage has forced
Loudoun County school officials
to hire three ministers at the com
bined Leesburg High and Ele
mentary School until permanent
replacements can be found.
The action, believed without
precedent in the county, was re
vealed today by Charles F. Monroe,
school principal.
Two of the ministers, the Rev.
Bruce Griffith and the Rev. D. R.
Fowler, have been pressed into
service as substitutes. The third,
the Rev. Ben S. Price, will take
over April 1 in place of a mathe
matics teacher who has been given
maternity leave. All three are
Baptists.
When at full strength, the
school’s faculty consists of 23
teachers. It has an enrollment of
675 students.
Describing the teacher shortage
as the worst since he became
Iprincipal 18 years ago. Mr. Monroe
said:
“We’ve lost so many teachers
we are desperate. There were
three resignations in just the last
six weeks. Two resigned to have
babies and the third left to take
a job as postmaster here.”
Mr. Monroe added a fourth
teacher has been ill since last De
cember.
“If we didn’t have these min
isters to fill in,” he said, “we just
wouldn’t have any teachers to
take the places of those who
leave.”
He attributed the difficulty in
getting teachers to the low salary
scale. He pointed out that while
Loudoun is about 40 miles from
Washington, it still has to com
pete in salaries with school sys
tems in the Washington area.
The Loudoun teacher salary
scale starts at $2,200 a year for
those with a bachelor’s degree and
goes up to $2,650. Teachers hav
ing masters’ degrees receive $50
more.
31 Are Seized
By After-Hours
Club Raiders
Police Strike Again
After 65 Arrests in
Narcotics Cases
Vice Squad detectives last night
raided an after-hours drinking
establishment in the 600 block of
Columbia road N.W., arresting 31
persons.
The raid came after the nar
cotics squad and Federal agents
had rounded up 65 persons in a
series of raids intended to smash
the city’s biggest dope ring. Ad
ditional arrests will be made to
day, Lt. H. H. Carper, narcotics
squad commander, said.
In the Columbia road raid
marijuana cigarettes were found
in the pockets of one of the
patrons. He was turned over to
the narcotics squad and will be
charged later today, Lt. Carper
said.
Other Charges Filed.
Vice Squad Capt. Roy Blick
said his men had had the Co
lumbia road establishment under
observation for several days. Un
dercover men were sent into the
club to buy w'hisky with marked
money, the officer said.
After the raid, police charged
Alvin Bonds, 40, colored, of the
4900 block of Ea$t Capitol street,
and Sarah J. Hardy, 28, colored, of
the 2000 block of Ninth street N.W.
I with keeping and selling whisky
after hours. Another man, Carl
ton B. Long, 23, colored, 700 block
of Girard street N.W., 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. Bends and the Hardy
woman were to appear in Munic
| ipal Court.
Eight Months of Preparation,
i Eight months of undercover
work preceded the wholesale nar
i cotic raids which began shortly
j after dark last night and stretched
from Washington to Army camps
jas far away as Port Eustis, near
| Newport News, Va.
Boyd M. Martin, District super
visee 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
nel.”
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
heroin 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,
co-operating with military author -
i ities, were inducted into the Army
last November and assigned to
Fort Eustis, Va., where they be
jcame friendly with Pvt. James
|Roberts, jr„ colored, son of James
! (Jim Yellow) Roberts, convicted
j narcotics violator.
Pvt. Roberts, drafted after his
father was sentenced to serve
.from 5 to 15 years in jail follow
I ing conviction ' in District Court
here last summer, established con
tacts for the disguised undercover
agents with drug peddlers in
Washington, Mr. Marlin said.
Limited Only by Money.
Once contacts had been estab
lished, 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 commis
sioners’ warrants but made no
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