JAIL FOR CHEMIST
Sale Of Narcotic Pills From Japan ' (Received Moy 16, 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Muy 16. Sentencing Murray Steir, chemist, to imprisonment not exceeding throe years for selling more titan 50.000 sleep-produc-ing pills without a prescription, Judge Hachenburg said that the Japanese Government had flooded the United States with these pills—habit-forming capsules known to chemists as sodium pento-bar-b* Judge Hachenburg added : “I have said it before, and say it again, that the Japanese Government smuggled the capsules into the United States. When I said it a long time ago I was told to keen quiet.” ... , A health inspector said that the Pills which the users say induce beautiful dreams arc worse than heroin. The department has received many complaints conccrninp? the wide uso of tho pills from hospitals and the Narcotic Bureau.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 7
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134JAIL FOR CHEMIST Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 7
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