Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1946 — Page 2

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young hunters and “treed” in Washington park, taken possession of the front porch him.” swing at 3315 Nicholas st.

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“TO SEE EXECUTIONS The action was taken after Hugh

BERLIN, Sept. 30 (U. P.).~The | Baillie, president of the United allied control council today agreed Press associations, had telegraphed} correspondents witness | Gen. Joseph T. ‘McNarney, Ameri x of Nuernberg war can representative ‘Gn the council” | urging the admission of correspond. The council agreed to allow two! ents to the execution of “Nuern-

to let news

BOYS FIND ‘CAPTURED’, forth in the owiiig and endears | saturday, flushed the game. which NEWSMEN GET 0. K. or occupying nations to witness :

‘himself to, his new owners, Bert | they thought was a rabbit until it and Mark Quakenbush, ages 12 and took to a tree, When they came up ‘A small, gray monkey, Which two 110, respectively, who “just don’t to its perch it ‘jumped to their dogs know what they will do without 'shoulders seeking protection from | has ‘Ike’ if his owner shows up to claim the dogs, They took it home andthe execution | the monkey adopted the swing | trial defendants. The boys, out walking with their| where it keeps the family enterAll day long he glides back and | Irish setters in Washingion. park tained With its antics,

the executions,

correspondents from each of ‘the | berg v war criminals.

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By SHERLEY UHL Some drugs are dynamite. Used in cum sufficient quantities, they're mur-

opus enforcement of federal and state laws designed to prevent their amisuse was negligible in Indianapwolis. prior to the current anti-dope ‘campaign. ww Previous to the past two weeks “there was but one federal narcotics agent assigned to the entire Indiana | district. And that single agent, Bernard Peterson, was himself indicted and arrested on charges of complicity in the narcotics racket. | No Trained Narcotic Squad The state food and drug division | has but one inspector detailed full- | time to checking thbusands of drug | outlets in Indiana. | Neither city nor state police have | anything resembling a trained nar- | cotics squad, although both are empowered to enforce the Indiana unifor drug act. (When the local dope | market was cracked, however, city | police did the job). Drug deaths here have been increasing steadily for the past five] years, according to County Coroner | Roy B. Storms. But it took a ma-| Jor crime upheaval to alarm the community into clamping down on its bootleg drug traffic. Other Drugs Risky Dope is only one phase of the problem. Certain other drugs, not | classified as narcotics, are extreme. | ly risky, too. Chief among these are barbituric “acid concoctions, better known among habitual users as “goof balls.” The “goof ball” family includes phenolbarbitol, amitol, veronal and | seconal, the latter sometimes re- | ferred to as “red devils” in the il- | Heit drug market. Prescribed legitimately, these lit- | tle pills are sold as sedatives or| depressants. But consumeq,- with | ‘liquor chasers, they haVe the effect | of wafting thrill seekers into a bil- || lowy numb state of utter indif- | ference where inhibitions are evap- | orated. {

Used as Hangover Cure

Some persons take barbiturates to soothe hangovers. This can be overdone—usually only once per individual. After that the individual! frequently is no longer an individual | but a subject for the margue. \ While “goof bah* jags are hy ho) means a general problem lochlly, they do crdp up in isolated cases, as records in the coroner's office will | attest. Recently, the number of | accidental deaths and suicides from | barbiturates has swelled to record proportions here, says Coroner Storms. Es

Barbiturfe acid derivatives are on the state food and drug danger list | and are supposed to be retailed on | prescription only. However, a few | unscrupulous druggists have been | selling “goof balls” at their own discretion. Generally speaking, their actions are motivated not by | criminality, but by sheer careless- | ness. And the state's enforcement | staff just isn’t big enough to put its finger on these reckless sources. Potent Stimulant Benzedrine, a potent stimulant, ! also can be obtained without pre-| scription in Indianapolis by those who know the ropes and the right |

In the field of narcotics, unscrup- | ulous druggists work hand in. glove with unscrupulous physicians. Both | types of offenders, of course, are much the minority in their rei professions. The over-! whelming majority of doctors and | pharmacists are scrupulously law- | abiding. But, as is the case in every | , there's a shadowy, illlicit

Only a portion of the bootleg morphine, codeine and other opium derivatives flowing into Indianapolis! » during the' past five years, was sup-| - plied through physicians and drug-| gists.

Bootleg Market Develops Some of the “junk” (dope) mar-| * keted here while the town was! “open” to addicts, was contraband, smuggled into the nation and packaged: by illegitimate, fly-by-night operators. Some of it was stolen | from pharmacies and hospitals. { Some was obtained through forged | % prescriptions. |

Some was diverted from registered | “sanitariums.” An appreciable amount came from | # U. 8B. army sources which, during | i the war, necessarily handled huge stockpiles. Naturally these stock- ' piles leaked, Whatever the outlets, an extensive bootleg market developed here. Morphine tablets selling on pre- | scription for five cents apiece, | vy 50 cents each when sold to!

—_—: with the enforcement “heat” trated on the city, these tablets are marketed for as as $3 apiece.

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