anaheim-gazette 1952-01-24

Masters of America’s Narcotics Slaves Are Underworld Peddlers (Editor's Note: This is the third of four stories on "America's slave-world of narcotics.") BY DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON UP—The masters of America’s narcotics slaves are the underworld figures who control the supply of smuggled “lope” which brings them fantastic profits from the 50,000 addicts in this country. They are responsible for a traffic that is destroying the bodies and minds of men, women and children who become prisoners of the habit. They are the men hunted day and night by U. S. narcotic agents. “Jim Yellow” was one of the hunted. Agents tracked him down in his plush Washington apartment two years ago. “Jim Yellow” Roberts, a 200-pound, light-skinned Negro, drove a Cadillac and lived in luxury with his brown-haired young white wife, “Tinky.” Federal agents had been on Roberts’ trail for years. They suspected he was a big-shot in the New York-Washington narcotics traffic, and that he was one of the big hidden sources supplying dope to street peddlers who passed it on to addicts. They caught him in 1945 with 44 ounces of heroin in his possession and sent him to prison. The Treasury department announced after his arrest at that time the “east’s largest dope ring has been cracked.” But Jim Yellow spent only two and a half years behind bars. Then he came back to Washington and soon the agents were on his trail again. The files of the U. S. Narcotics Bureau give this story: One October day two strangers came to town driving a flashy Cadillac convertible with Michigan license plates. One of the men was a Negro, Jim Watson, who had known Roberts years before in Detroit. His white companion was narcotics agent Howard W. Chappell, masquerading under the name “Lonnie.” They made discreet inquiries and then drove to Roberts’ apartment house. This was the beginning of a tense 72 hours—with success or failure depending on whether they could gain the confidence of Jim Yellow. At the apartment house, Watson left agent Chappell in the car. He walked into the building and knocked on Roberts’ apartment door. The big Negro peered out, recognized an old friend—and the informer stepped into Roberts’ apartment with its thick carpets, expensive furniture and a $3,000 television set, built into a Chinese cabinet. “Are you alone?” Roberts asked. The informer replied: “No. I’m running with a white boy, but he’s all right.” This was a crucial moment. The whole carefully laid plan would collapse if Roberts’ became suspicious. But then Jim Yellow said: “That doesn’t make any difference. I have a white wife. 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He discreet inquiries love to Roberts' apartment. This was the beginntenance 72 hours—with failure depending on you could gain the conjim Yellow. Department house, Wattat Chappell in the car, into the building and Robert's apartment big Negro peered out, an old friend—and the pepped into Roberts' with its thick carpets, furniture and a $3,000 built into a Chinese alone?" Roberts asked. Ner replied: "No. I'm a white boy, but he's a crucial moment. The fully laid plan would Robert's' became susthen Jim Yellow said: 'tt make any differa white wife. Bring led Chappell into the to meet Roberts. erself at home," Jim Yellow told his visitors. Then he asked Watson what kind of car he was driving. "A 1948 Cadillac convertible," the informer replied casually. Jim Yellow was impressed. "Man, you're doing all right, too," he said. Then Roberts, the host, became expansive and boastful to prove to his guests that he was a big man around town. "Don't you worry about any-thing while you are in town," he said. If there was any trouble with police, he said, just call him and he would see that the cops were fired. Finally the talk got around to marijuana and Watson asked Roberts if he had any "pot." Jim Yellow went into a bedroom and came out with three or four ounces of marijuana in a hat-box lid. "Help yourself," he said. Watson rolled some marijuana cigarettes and agent Chappell simulated smoking one. "This is good stuff," Watson said. Chappell said: "It must have come from around Lexington, Ky." Roberts replied that it was a fact that marijuana had come from Kentucky. Meanwhile, Roberts' wife, Tinky, came into the room with a girl friend. Both began chain-smoking "reefers." "I don't see why you smoke that stuff." Jim Yellow said. "I've tried it and I don't feel anything." Tinky said: "You'd be better off smoking these than drinking whiskey." The Robertses and their visitors were now on friendly terms. They had dinner and visited a night club and before they went home Jim Yellow gave them a supply of marijuana cigarettes as a gesture of hospitality. Next day Chappell and Watson returned to Roberts' apartment to watch a baseball game on television. And then Watson made his pitch . . . "I've got to get my nose cleaned," he told Jim Yellow —meaning he needed a shot of heroin. Jim Yellow picked up a telephone, dialed a number, and told someone: "When you come over, bring ten of those things and come over right away." Later, a Negro brought a sack full of money into the apartment, and he handed a little brown envelope to Roberts. Jim Yellow passed the envelope to Watson—an envelope containing 10 capsules of heroin. Watson gave Jim Yellow $30—the usual price of $3 a cap which junkies pay to Washington peddlers. And the agents had their evidence. But they wanted a bigger haul of heroin if they could get it. 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