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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 24, 1962

Page

3

The Murders-8 Narcotics Agents Go Underground to Break Gangs

U S Commissioner of Narcotics Harry J Ansligner and Will Ourlsler recount how undercover agents risk danger to dismantle drug networks. An agent in Seattle uses an informant from Hip Sing Tong to infiltrate drug rings, traveling to Butte New York Pittsburgh and other cities. The piece details undercover procedures including posing with forged identities, oath rituals, staged arrests and prison work, plus the moral hazards of withholding informants' identities.

Hip Sing Tong Butte Chin Jo Hip Montana Chin Joe Hip Mr. Wilson Chin Joe Wilson New York City White Alias White Mr. X Hip Sings New York Pittsburgh Hip Sing America Hip Sing Brotherhood

Needlecraft Pattern Sale Promotes 1962 Catalog

The ad offers 200 needlecraft designs including knit crochet sew and quilt patterns. It highlights pattern 7225 featuring a rooster pocket apron and colorful trims. Send 35 cents per pattern plus 10 cents for first class mail to Alice Brooks Winchester Evening Star New York.

Alice Brooks Winchester Evening Star Needlecraft Dept P. O Old Chelsea Station New York N.Y

Four-Footed Agents Better Than Men

Excerpt discusses why a district attorney pursued information on narcotics pushers and had a grand jury imprison an agent. White was released that night with contempt actions dropped amid reports of threats. note appears in condensed form from The Murderers.

Sion George White White U. S Supreme Court Harry J. Anslinger Will Oursler Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc

Masked man urges police claim of medical taping

A Pueblo grocer phoned police after spotting a masked man with a tale that a doctor taped him to heal a broken nose.

Pueblo Colo

King Mahendra Narrowly Escapes Bomb Attempt in Nepal

King Mahendra of Nepal escaped a bomb attack at Janakpur while touring southeastern Nepal. Nepalese officials report armed bands oppose his rule, targeting police posts and tax collectors as supporters of former Premier B P Koirala push to restore representative government.

New Delhi India Mahendra Nepal Janakpur Katmandu B.P. Koirala

South Africa Braces as Smallpox Fear Spreads

In Johannesburg crowds of whites queued for vaccination after reports that Africans outside town might have smallpox. Across Nigeria in Onitsha thirty cases were reported with mass vaccination of thirty thousand residents, while Lagos started preventive shots.

Johannesburg South Africa Lagos Nigeria Onitsha Niger River

Indian Sign Sacaton Planting Advice From Elder Farmer

In Sacaton Arizona near the Gila River Reservation an old Indian farmer advises Samuel H. Thomas on cotton planting. He says to rise early and sit on the ground and not plant if it is cold.

Sacaton Ariz Gila River Reservation Arizona Samuel H. Thomas

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