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BROOKLYN EAGLE, WED JUNE 13, 1951 x- Ad i A id Victims Group Like A. A. Helps Shake Off Dope's Shackles Politics and People (Second In a series on the sociological approach to drug By HAROLD H. HARRIS addiction.) By PAUL BLAUVfSLT 'St former drug addicts told Fear McDonald Probe May Hurt Dems; Leavirt Maneuvered as Leader in Deal BACK KIKE Nome politico tear that Difttrlct Attorney last night how their mutual help had enabled them to avoid SPOTS can hardly be avoided by BUT they can be prevented on your suits! narcotics for the past year. Little more than a month ago that paragraph led off a brief McDonald's Investigation will boomerang against the Democratic Council Pirxidi iicy candidate next Fall.

At the height of the cam pa Ik the Brooklyn prosecutor will be In the midst news story telling, of tne ob ot the trial of liner Magistrate John Mint ago and the cops accused of receiving bookie graft. The Mui'tagh case could servance of the first anniversary of the founding of Narcotics Anonymous, a voluntary organization patterned after the become an airing of alleged whitewashes during the O'Dwyer administration. now-famous and successful Al coholics Anonymous. The meeting was open the Any organization Brooklyn Democrat, whether he be Borough President Cash more or Acting Council President Joe Kliarkey, will have a tough time trying to disassociate himself from the O'Dwyer regime. Sharkey teamed up with O'Dwyer in the move to oust Cash more as the Brooklyn Democratic leader last Summer.

And there are many statements on record In which Cashmore sang the praises of the Bohola Boy, even first session nor. held behind locked doors. It marked, in effect, a new era, one in which the ancient superstition that there was a shame attached to addiction may be wiped out. i-lth ul In his haflr 111 tit ahi.iiM Hiiiviil on sTr I I At least, that what Carl the, Colodne. secretary to the Com damaging campaign ammunition for Rudolph Halley, Liberal party's hopeful.

mittee for Socio-Medieal Treatment of Drug Addicts, and a co-founder of hopes SMOOTH TALK One of the quietest and most successful political coups was enginereed to have th ailing Jack Gratia "Narcotic addiction is usually LITTLE FRIEND Tokiko Matsudaira, six -year -old daughter of Koto Matsudaira of the Japanese Foreign Office, 'shown on arrival in San Francisco with Pan-American Airline hostess Leona Reiff. Tokiko is bound for Manhattan, where she will live with family of Murray Sprung, who was prosecuting attorney in Japanese war criminal trials, attend American school and become, her father hopes, "apostle of international friendship." associated with sin, rice, morals and crime: as with leprosy, this is due historically In a hangover of misconceptions. Quoted Prom Report The quote comes from the opening paragraph of a report on a two-year study of the problem by Colodne. Even today. resign as Brownsville Democratic leader and line up Deputy Markets Commissioner Al Leavitt as his successor.

Only a handful of the district captains were aware of the moves, which were O.K.'d by Representative Emanuel Celler in Washington still the behind-the-scenes district boss No opposition is expected when Leavitt is formally elected leader Friday night The Republicans have decided to make the Democrats fidget by stalling their selection of a I'mmnit Pi'ncilnnt Qniliflato he adds, "the idea that a victim of lerosv is morallv 'un A) Si ii ii ii .1 $300 in Dope Sold Daily at H. S. Here Continued from Page 1 clean' persists, obliging an authority to declare publicly recently that such unfortunates are 'not moral Colodne. a religious man. its a 1Y1 i nt Inn in his ho, that those with thpitheir (lol)e supplies light ill the chool.

the 17-yerr-old bookie "hahit" might be recognized as victims of a sickness that can NiDerr rv. t-eavirr The Dems were waiting for the declared. be cured rather than as crim-l A frightening portrait of a A frightening inals, did much of his research Brooklyn neighborhood where in medical libraries. j'most of the youths 16 to 21" But some of it was directjaie confirmed heroin users and G. O.

P. to act first before coming up with their prize We stopped In to see Mayor Impy at City Hall t'other day and he looked like a worried man, beset with many municipal headaches Insiders say Impy isn't helping Sharkey get the loo. He spoke with addicts In i where at least four boys have Dem Council nod Resnick, Mayor of Sutter will various stages of the clutches of died of dope addiction was also be feted tomorrow night. narcotics. He visited institu-painted before the hearing.

Uions and jails to see them.l fharees that hisrh school ad CAR THIKVKS Two Brooklyn legalities, Ed Levlne and lr- I I .1 nearu irom meir own it is ct havo ippii turner au-av Abe Kroflskj, are out gunning tor tneir -ai, lormer uomes- 0f the agonies they suffer when from hospitals when seeking tic Relations Judge Hyman Barshay. The trio, long-time they are deprived of drugs, and; treatment and that dope has friends, who served as Assistant District Attorneys, went to- of the driving urge that makesiheen smuggled into some hos gether last weekend In Barshay's car to the annual District! them commit petty crimes to pjtals and sold to users who i.L. nn Rturriav. Rai-shav enough money to buy re- were supposedly taking treat- ment for drug-addiction were Tvriwr 5V I to rush home, so he left his car and came down via The following day Levine and Brodsky were acootlng along! Danny Joins Crusade also made at the hearing. rNU "iiepei-u-1 lzeu 1 Br.

(v M. -w Jt The vivid picture of teen-age In his travels he met Danny. the highway in Barshay'a car with the Impressive N'YC-7 license tag. Suddenly they were stopped near Hudson by State troopers and held as car thieves. When he got home Barshay, it 1 1 SJL, JL JLJL Jt V-T JL rayon siiiniiier suits are an ex-addlct, who Had been uui'c treated at the Federal hospital Brooklyn was presented drain' Lexington.

Ky. Danny a reVon from a of the existence of a Narcotic131'0014'11 welfare agency in the Anonvmous unit at the institu- words of one who should know tlon and of his desire to ex-l a 15-year-old described only tend Its work outside. as "J0- Colodne agreed to work with' Most of his friends, Jojo told him. Together. they spread welfare agency's interword and the first chapter of viewers, were so far gone on N.A.

outside the hospital wasthe road to complete addiction formed. that they considered mari- "Many hare left vs. Sir (reefer) smokers as kids been with a year, free ojbecause there isn't as much drugs. Fire others who came "jolt" in smoking as in taking later are still free. Ten inrrneroin, either by "sniffing or or by using hypo- slipped, that we knoin of.

We dermics. a chronic practical jokester, reported that his car had been stolen! NO TIP-OKFAttorney General Goldstein is playing his trump card close to the vest in his crime and narcotic probes. We queried the State official whether he plans to call Brooklyn's notorious "Mr. as a witness in either hearing. "Does Gimbel tell Macy," he shot back Has Murray Pearlman been promised a magistracy as a consolation prize for losing the Municipal Court Add name of Inspector Herbert O'Brien to list of possibilities for the Police Commissioner's appointment.

O'Briens related to Mrs. Impy The Liberals are expected to reply to the G. O. P. challenge to dump Rudolph Halley for Council President at their annual Commodore dinner tonight.

Halley may launch his campaign with a blood-and-thunder speech at ths feed All the Meadow Brook polo games this season will be for charities. 01)1)8 AXD KXDS A Vnlted States Senator, who has been crying for a political revolution to clean. ap Government, may have to answer some embarrassing questions himself about a suppressed report on a bankrupt railroad It's a girl for the Councilman Tom Mirabiles Lix Rich, Chicago Tribune correspondent, gets her law degree from St. John's today Attorney General Xat Goldstein had School Superintendent William Jansen sweating on the witness stand in the State narcotics Probe West Point grad, Lt. Charles Satuloff, and Elaine hare no record of the That was Danny's, report at the anniversary meeting on the approximately 100 who nave appeared at one time or another at N.A.

meetings. It isn't much; 'Main-Line Shooters' The hypo users, Jojo said, are Known as "main-line shooters." Jojo said drugs are plentiful and easilv obtainable in his Colodne admits that, even with neighborhood etro trnuteri, $9.50 I i ii in vr, Lmmmmmmmm ms opum sue auiume. Admitting he was a reefer Tell of Their Struggles smoker, Jojo claimed he didn't But its progress. Its six who uke because he was apparently have conquered a afl-aid t0. He said he knew dread ailment that without con- four bovg in nis neighborhood slant vigilance can recapture its wno had died of drugs and one released victim at any tnne.

hou i And it's five more who are well arm, was sent to the hospital and came back paralvzed." on the wav to A lot A No longer need you depair when water, oft drinkt or een roffee, among other things, pills on jour fuit. "Repel-O-Tizcd" hORTHCOOL puts an end to penetrating, messy spots Come in loilav anil see with our own crg I he amazing "Hcpcl-tJ-'lizcd" lest that proves, without a iloulil. that this famous ravon Slimmer suit, that is now 3l't rooler. is the most startling rcvelalion in hot weather rlothest ISew patterns and colors to choose from! Goldsmith, both Brooklynites, blend this weekend lljom of locals were plugging for Federal Judge Harold Kennedy toj )a'nnv an(j the other fjveas get upped to the Circuit Court so that they could bid for his Alcoholics Anonymous, only Federal berth. first names are used told of their struggle on their own.

Jojo's testimony was presented by James R. Dumpson, a consultant on correction and delinquency for the New York City Welfare Council, a group mjuiali rimu nepons irom me Mexico uy siesia seijto break away from the habit: composed of 315 public and pri are. that Bill O's Sloan is playing the bigtime in the South of of the countless tries, the back vate agencies. sliding, and the final apparent Dumpson said the Brooklyn victory, rney told how they had gency which interviewed Jojo given to others the moral sup the Border society whirl, running parties in opposition to those held by the blueblood Mrs. Winston Guest The pressure Department is now rolling into action for James J.

Moore, Brooklyn's candidate for the city's price control boss Abraham Grayer, Surrogate's Court attache, receives his A.B. degree from Brooklyn College tomorrow. He's 56 Street port they themselves found in X.A., and how it at the same time held them. Thev told how A WHISK AND A WIK AND YOUt WOltmtS Will STOP WW. Wife te Iwt to ifep A MO TOUR SUIT STARTS CATCMMO EVHY 0IO warned us name Kept upnre-vealed because it is "still working on the case." Yesterday, the session was highlighted by the dramatic story of a 16-year-old girl.

The tape-recorded confession jit is possible to lick addiction scene: An ossified derelict without a care in the world singing! Rolw of yr(OPy Cool, washable, rolorfast "NORTHCORU" SUITS $25.50 Woen villi unci Arelale Ravon. thf whole mil riiliii hut 32 ounres ft lliift wrinklp-rpilant fhrir tia auiaiiift trrnglli and Hearing iiialily. Hanil-nmrly ftjlrd in rii li, rolnr! in ironi. or Aicononcs Anonymous neauquaners on nui St. District Attorney McDonald's cops-bookie probe must've iuf of the girl, who ended her re- prompted one or me jok.

lines in me nu-musicai, uujj anui speaking was former with the fervent hoDe "1 mi Dolls." In one scene a -police lieutenant is told by a Broadway weight champion Barney Ross, will not go back to using dope character that a floating crap game was called off. "The heat'sj whose victory over addictionjany more." was one of the dra-on, as you must know, because you're now living on your probably did as much as anyjmatic highlights of the day's saary' I other single thing to help break! session, overshadowing in its down the barrier that a mis-dramatic impact a long after- taken moral value has built up noon of squabbling between the drug habit. torney General Nathaniel Gld- "POLITICS AND PEOPLE" Appear Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday in the BROOKLYN EAGLE. ALSO hile 'IiivrHn Cnl, 127. SO Tuxedo Tmusers, $10.75 Sport Coals, 125 5 1 The occasion was his release, stein and Dr.

William Jansen. from the Lexington hospital; Superintendent of Schools, over after four months of "taking! whether the school svstem was the cure" voluntarily. Ross had 'doing its share in trying to acquired the habit from heav.VCombat the evil, doses of morphine given him' Whether Goidstein would use when he was wounded and con- any more "unseen witnesses" tracted malaria while not known, but the effect with the Marines on Guadalca-of the flat voice emanating from nal. jloudspeakers on the audience in The sad part of the Ross case, the State Building room was so Third Trial of 'Trenton Six' Goes to Hands of Jury Today Trenton, June J.1 (U.R) The for a mass death sentence in a third sensational murder tiialjfive-hour summation in which of six Negroes charged with thejhe sought to discredit the de-pop bottle slaying of an agedjfendants' alibis, furniture dealer three years ago! Each of the defendants Col-was scheduled to go to a jury ilis English, 25: Ralph Cooper, AV as wen as an me otners lnvoiv-jnoticeaole he was expected to ing treatment at the nation's produte more- such testimony only fully equipped institution from time to time to pinpoint for addicts, lay in what to over-all problem, lodne is a significant prelude toj IB 25; McKinley Forrest, 37: John totlay. admission.

OHtf McKenzie, 26; James Thorpe, 26, and Horace Wilson, 39 have been in jail three and one-half years since their arrest one month after Horner was killed. Colodne says, "of the criminal stigma that is attached to addiction under our present social approach to it. Under our Submitted to Arrest Ross gave himself up to Fed eral narcotics agents, explain- Thev were found guilty at ing he wanted to be cured be- laws il is technically impossible Now in its 93th day, the case which has enraged left-wing groups from Manhattan to Moscow was to be put in the jurors' hands by Judge Ralph J. Smalley. The "Trenton six" were accused of bludgeoning William Horner, 72, during a Jan.

27, 1318, holdup at his furniture store, where $.15 was taken from a rash register. Prosecutor Mario H. Vnlpe, State's Attornely in each of the the end of their stormy first 'fore "I got in too deep." for anyone addicted to the use trial Aug. 6, 1948, and sentenced I But before he could be ad-if drugs to receive proper treat-to death, but the New Jersey mitt ed to the hospital, agents 'ment without in the legal sense Supreme Court ordered a newregretfully and reluctantly in-jbecoming a criminal, even if he trial on a technicality. Their formed him, he would have to'has not before ever displayed second trial was cut short when Jsuhmit to a technical arrest on any tendency toward criminal-Volpe suffered an attack of ap-ja charge of illegal possession of it more serious than jaywalk- BROOKLYN: COI KT AT KEMSKN ST.

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open Thursday 'til 9 7lh Ave. at 32 (Hold Staller) open Thur. 'til 9 137 42n.l Si. open eveningn 'lil 9 P.M. Brnndwny al ley Street ArtdtfM til msil.

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ins i three trials, made his final plea declared. "This is a perfect TomoiTow: The Living Hefl..

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