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ted to know about ‘opium x od Piercing | gray eyes drilled’ through me and for a moment I lost my. tongue. Fortunately, Mr. Brigham is & ‘great detective and it Aware hat necessary bit of me. “Well, sir, ever since. got a whiff of a bit of information that you possessed the wicked boiler.”
Didn't Object to Talking
MR. BRIGHAM had no real objections to talking .about the opium pipe. But he wanted me to under-
of narcotic work he has seen the terrible degra~ dation that follows the use ot narcotics indiscriminately. “It’s unbelievable what happens to a human being after becoming addicted,” warned Mr. Brig-
: E had to admit that my interest was purely academic. My address book didn’t have any names of opium peddlers and I told him he could inspect it if he doubted my word. A sense of vicarious wickedness swept over me when the agent lifted
“the opium pipe out of a glass case,
“w “This is the real article,” explained the agent. It looked real even to me. The bow! showed much use. The porcelain top was stained and the orange peel bottom was black. While the agent unlocked a ‘series of steel cases, 1 touched the bamboo stem and the black
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“rake a Whiff” he sald Placing the glob of black under my nose. Te say the odor was peculiar is not enough. Sort of sweet and sickening. Not pleasant to my nostrils. “Is that all there is to it?™ Ni Mr. Brigham laughed. To prépare, a pipe requires a good hour, he said. The crude opium 1s
with the long" needle the small round ball is placed] i directly over the tiny hole in bowl. A great deal! more trouble than smoking an ordinary pipe. Once the crude opium is prepared for smoking, the user lies down and places the pipe over a tiny flame, holding the opium in place with the needle, “That's where the term ‘lying on the hip’ comes from,” the agent explained. “A lot of work goes into smoking opium. We cracked an outfit once that had a special cook or chef prepare the stuff for them.” Scrapings from the bowl are called yenshee. Nothing is thrown away by addicts. Yenshee suey, a mixture of yenshee and wine or water, is taken internally. There is just enough morphine present to give the ‘addict the necessary kick when he’ runs out of opium. “How much would a nasty habit like that cost a man?” Mr, Brigham estimated about $30 a day. Staggering. Staggering in more ways than one.
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MR. BRIGHAM made it prettyq plain that the narcotic habit is the most degrading. He gave| several examples of its effects. With the high or low the result is the same, complete degradation, “An addict spreads addiction and association is the principal cause,” Mr. Brigham said. “Isn't your job rather lonely since most of it is undercover and secretive?” He didn’t think so. Every day of his 23 years of service has been different, No two cases are
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¢heerful place in the world. Too many forms, files and. too-much efficiency- around. Narrowing one of his eyes, Mr. Brigham answered cagily, “Not in Sunday sc hool. ’
Flood waters slashed angrily at the Lyndhurst Drive bridge off W, 10th St. as continued rains
Early today White River swept over the bottomlands on River sent streams over their banks. Debris piled dangerously against the flooring of the crossing.
Rd. to swirl about cottages and summer homes in the area.
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Tito’s Robot Press
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BEL GRADE, Yugoslavia, . Jan. 4—Judge a country by its newspapers and you'd find Yugoslavia as exciting as a lecture on Manchurian needle work. The heart of the Jug press belongs to Tito— just like Mary Martin's heart belongs to daddy. Daddy Tito—in good Communist form--insists that the press is strictly an instrument for “political education” (yawn). The fact that even In a police state the citizens go around raping, killing, stealing cars, committing suicide, holding dances, making love, having babies and dropping dead , . . this isn't recognized. } Nor does the press ever acknowledge a good
.. tap dancer, youngsters in the park, the cat who
gete stuck up a tree and must be liberated by the fire department, the latest gag, or a good traffic smash (for on occasion an oxcart runs wild in
- Belgrade).
Page One Captions GLIMMER these captions on page one of Borba and you'll see what I mean: Better organization means quicker buying -up of maize. Tannin G. factory at Belisce has completed annual plan. Pleasant working co-operatives compete with each other to honor Communist Party convention. New hydroelectric plant to start work. Finger the rest of this paper (or any other one) and the pace never shifts. Sports do steal a few paragraphs but even soccer has social significance. The teams are named: “Partisan Fighters’ and “Shock Workers ...” Absolutely absent is a Single item admitting
_Fracas Coming.
~ WASHINGTON, J Jan. 4 This is a “good time for us Prohibitionists, bright. of eye, firm of step and suffering no hangovers, to consider the demon rum. We've got him on the run. Only question is, which way? IT never did sign the pledge myself. Or put a white ribbon in my buttonhole. But I did drink many a cranberry and pineapple juice cocktail fn my younger days when my employer (a hard by the name of Akers, Merton T.) assign to ¢over for. the papers the doings of the WCTU in Evanston, IIL * This wholesome beverage and its yériations. one of which included persimmon jdice, never quite hit the spot. It was my custony when leaving the ladies to drop in at one of thé spots owned
by A. Capone in Chicago's Loop gnd there have
a dollop of something strong while considering how best to write about devglopments in the world of tempérandce. /
The Washington Scené
THE YEARS PASSED. Came repeal and here I was in Washington where, on that memorable night, the- flusfered waitresses at Child's Restaurant on -Pennsylvanig’' Avenue served brandy in pint-sized snifters, which they filled to the brim. This struck me as better than cranberry juice. Prohibition then began creeping up on me again in the form of taxes. The cost of whisky stayed. about the same, but the price of taxes
“soared until ‘today a quart jug of first-class’
bourbon costs §7. In Chicago at a drugstore on Clark Street during prohibition days I could buy a quart of the finest medicinal whisky,.doctor’s préscription included, for the same price. Only I seldom had the $7 then.
The Quiz Master
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By | Fred Sparks
“that the people “hereabouts | are "individuals and not robots come off a Communist assembly line. (Or are they? If this patter keeps chattering at them for another 10 years anything is possible). Back in 1932 Alex Woollcott said it when he wrote that nothing ever made the Russian press that didn’t concern a million people.
Politicians Glorified
POLITICIANS are forever glorified and their after revolution speeches printed by the bore-full. They are pictured as remote demigods without any resemblance to human beings, which might be correct.
But here Tito makes his most crashing boner. Any tabloid teacher could tell him John D. Rock-'" efeller won more lovers by giving away thin dimes thax by giving millions to ‘involved foundations. H. LaGuardia was practically re-elected New ed mayor on the comic-strip ticket—he read the funriies, on the radio Sundays. And “Fala” didn’t do Franklin Roosevelt a bit harm. The newspapers: certainly do bt reflect the ‘ average Yugoslav. They are they/most laughing & 2
people I've seen in Europe—thoufh they have as . : y much to laugh about as the fesidents of Sing After being pulled from a ditch on State Rd. 34 west of Speedway, this tractor-trailer slowly crawled over the highway.
Frank R&bbins, 6930 Ralston Ave. Ravenswood, paddled his canoe from home to high ground and his parked car. Many persons were stranded by the high water and were unable to get to work,
Sing’s death house. / Personally, I'll be gleeful/to return to a world where you can get some Amashing fine individual publicity for just bumping off one person, preferably with an ax. / I will blubber with joy when I again see a streamer head shrieking “Lashed her th his dancing pump then chained her to the/deep freeze.’ And a snap, y cheesecake shot to {illustrate same. /
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_ By/Frederick C. Othman
Nef 1} 1 today. 1 am , priced out of the market. I amy’an involuntary prohibitionist. Now comes Sen. William Langer (R. 8. D.), wiio chews his cigars with the cellophane still ground 'em, with a bill to send all concerned to jail if they advertise whisky for sale. The Evanston ladies are girding on their orchids to appear here next week before the Commerce Committee In favor of this idea. The gentlemen of
examples to brandish under the senatorial noses.
Few Can Afford It
WHAT I CAN'T understand, is why? With taxes the way they are, few people can afford to drink the stuff. anyhow, The moonshiners are springing up all over and the T-men are knocking off mere stills in the hills than since the noble experiment ended. I understand that the bootleggers in ‘Oklahoma, where a state prohibition law remains, even are pasting labels on the bottles of their products, so that there will be no mistakes in the consumers’ minds. As far as I am concerned, prohibition is here. I read the hr TD Ae viet Spitits Tyndall Towne looked like this at daybreak. Families were evacuated during the night as flood Institute, charge that the dry ladies and. gents Waters menaced. aren't so much interested in stopping the liquor
dvertis fn bri back hibiti G Pp $ i a b d Jaws. Eo theyre rounding anal gio gig fo eorge u nam, X= us a. cluding . hotfle makers, advertising agents, fam Of A li E h t Di t d, I told, . fell ho feel st 1 veel Thal Tig. to dri wats wer ere” meiia £arnary, vies She Disappeared in Ocean Flight Two
This should be an elegant fracas and I'll be Years After Marriage to Publisher
there, but I still claim it is much ado about someTRONA, Cal, Jan. 4 (UP)—George Palmer Putnam, 63, re-
thing already done. If I could afford it I think I'd go out, even as I did in the good old days, and publisher and author and former husband of Aviatrix Amelia Earhart, died today at the Trona Hospital.
have a drink. Boy, bring me a small Papaya Juice. tired Cause of death was not announced, but Mr. Putham had heen! ??? Test Your Skill 27? under treatment for internal hemorrhages and uremic poisoning. Miss Earhart was the second wife of Mr. Putnam. He married
Big Eagle Creek at W. 10th lapped over levees to surround homes. This area is hit hard with evety flood. *
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Q-—-What is the Norse legend concerning the mistletoe? A—According to Norse legend, the plant is sacred and must not touch the earth, hence our custom of hanging it high at Christmas. The monks of the monasteries termed it “The Wood of the, Cross” and attributed to it sapernatural Powers, - . oo Ces Q- Does ‘Uruguay require U. 8, 8. &tizens to-ob= tain visas?
A—United States citizens visiting Uruguay as
~ temporary visitors no longer are obliged to obtiXin
visas to enter that country. A passenger's passport now is sufficient. * > ¢
QS What is the oldest tree? A—The oldest tree is probahly one of the giant sequolas In California, variously estimated to be between 3000 and 4000 years old. The “Dragon of the Canary Islands, which was blown 1868, was estimated to have been as old ' Great Pyramid Cheops in Egypt—about years old. . ‘ -
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“the cities of Lombardy and settled In othér large nam Sons, book publishers of birds.
Dorothy Binney in 1911 and paping to Nazi s ympathizers and Q—How successful are sheltérbelt plantirigs in they had ‘two sons before their sald they were angry iid he
the Prairie States? divorce in 1928. published the _ anti-Nazi novel.
A—Those plantings are generally successful. He married. Miss Earhart in The Kern County grand jury disThey directly affect the agricultural welfare of the 1931. Two years after she dis- agreed and refused to investigate region, They reduce excessive evaporation and the appeared on a flight across the the case. blowing of soil, and are a protective screen against Pacific in the summer of 1937 he! Edited Newspaper the burning winds of pn av and freezing winds married Mrs. Jean-Marie Con-| His eareer included editing his of winter. signy James, Beverly Hills social- own newspaper at Bend, Ore., and
® * * |ite, They were divorced in 1944. a term as mayor of -the town | He “married Miss Margaret I.from 1912 to 1013.
od Why “are bankers sométimes called Lom- De Haviland, 36, in 1045. She was! He also gained fame as in exbards? at his bedside when he dled. /plorer, Me took a ¢ruise to Cen A~The principal bankers of the Middle Ages Two Famous Books tral and South America in 1937 were Italian merchants ‘who came mainly from The former head of G. P. Put- to collect animals, reptiles and
European cities. Lombard Street in London be- New York and London, had two He led a jeep expedition 14,200 came a great banking center and the namé Lom- famous books to his credit. He feet up White Mountain in Calibard came to be a synonym for money lender or pasa Charles Lindbergh $100,000 fornia in September, 1948. The banker, for rights to “We.” trip set a new auto climbing rec-
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