Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 14

u SIX SHOT IN BATTLE IN CROWDED STREET Four Policemen and Two Alleged Auto Bandits Wounded as Latter Try to Escape. ™ ONE OF ACCUSED MEN MAY DIE Detective, Seeing Pair Running, Ends Flight With Bnllet'l. By the Avsociated Press. : LOUISVILLE, Ky. February 19i— Six men, two of them suspected #uto- mobile bandits and alleged: éscaped convicts, and four eity policemen, nursed bullet wounds teday as a re- sult of a desperate bid for freedom by the gunmen which Included a run- ning pistol fAght through traMo thronged streets in the heart of the downtown district here. The pistol battle was initiated late Yesterday by Lee Wallace, twenty- three, Franklin, Ind.; and Rex Stacey, alias Harry Miller, twenty-three, St. Lot » When they suddenly drew wounded : four policemen who were guarding them, leaped from an automobile patrol as the machine approached police headquarters and darted away.’ Crowds Watch Purwuit. Tolice and detectives Jolned in pur- suit and’ hundreds of persons; pedes- trians, occupants of street cars and antomoblles and workers In office buildings, attracted by the sounds of firing, witnessed the spectacular chase : Flight of the gunmen was cut short by bullets from the service® pistol of Detective W. J. Diehl, who was par- ticipating in & liquor rald when he hieard shots and saw the two men run- ning in his drection. Neither Wallace nor any one of the policemen was wounded serious Tospital reports, however, were that Stacey's condition was -critfeal. His most dangerous wound was caused by @ bullet that plerced his back and ledged in his stomach. Girls With Two Men. The men had been arrested at a Farage a short distance from police headquarters when they calied for an automobile police sald was stalen from Indianapolis. Wallace, officers said, told them he and Staeey escaped from the atate reformatory at Pendleton, Ind., last month. Two young women, Eva Smith, who £aid her home was in Effingham, Til., and Dorothy Conrad, Waverly, Ky., ad- mitted, according to police, that they had accompanied the gunmen to Louls. Ville from Evansville, Ind., adding that | fi the party was en route to Florida. BELIEVE MEN FLED PRISON. Pair Shot in Louisville $ald to Be Indiana Convicts. INDIANAPOLIS, February 19.—Two automoblle bandits wonded Tn o Tevolver battle with Louisville police last night are believed to = have escaped from thé Indiana state re- formatory at Pendleton, Ind., January 13, Although they gave thelr names 1o the Louisville police as Lee Wal- lace of Franklln, Ind., and Harry iller of St. Louls, Mo., they are Louls Wallace of Frankiin and Rex Stacey, according to local police, Wallace wus committed to the re- formatory after having been convicted In Marion county of robbing an In- dlanapolls jewelry store, while Btacey was sentenced from Marion county for vehicle taking. Both were trusties at the reforma- tory and escaped while outside the prison walls. INDIA SPURNS BLAME | FOR OPIUM IN U. S. Representative at Geneva Confer- ence Says Shipments Are Care- fully Guarded. t 8 CHINA IS GREATEST SOURCE|, e Smuggling Possible Only When |, _Governments Are Dishonest, By the Asaocltted Press. LONDON, February - 19.—Charges 'made In certaln quarters that the &overnments of Great Britain and of British India are ultimately re- sponsible for the abuse of narcotigs In Amerlca because oplum and simi- lar drugs are produced in, and ex- vorted from, Britain's eastern do- minion, are answered by John Camp- bell, representative of the Indla gov- ernment at’ the Geneva opium con- jférence of August, 1923, who con- tributes an article in the current| Asiatic Review on “The Opium Ques. tion and America. Mr. Campbell makes the categorical Statement that “India does not export loplum to the United States, and only the most trifiing quantitfes, irregular intervals, to countries o the American continent; neither does ! Indla export oplum to England or to! any other country for eventual re-, export to the American continent. r “Moreover, no Indlan oplum finds its way to America by any channel what- Quantities as may be smuggled by the | crews of ships trading between far| eastern ports and ports In the Unit- ed States. India does not mow, nor! |has she at any time, exported dan- &erous drugs to America either direct- | iy _or mdnrecuj-." The writer declares that the Indla |government has for years steadily pursued the policy of selling oplum ' as far us possible direct to' govern- ments of other countries, and, so far from pressing its opium on any country, Indla requires as a condition preccdent to export that the import- {ng government must satiafy ftsel? | | that the quantity asked for is reason- jable; that the importing government must certify that the oplum is re- quired for legitimate purposes and that it must assume the administra- tive and moral responsibility of see. ing that the opfum imported is not lemployed for purposes of abuse. As & result, Indla now sells roughly three-fourths of her opium exports direct to responaible governmenty, and has refused to allow exports in eanes where it was thoroughly satis- that the certificates produced were unreliable. Hard to Smuxxle. He continues: “Opium smuggling ean only exlst in virtue of excesstve | demands made on India by dishonest or i{ncupable governments; demands which the India government cannot reasonably reduce until it is in | position to satisfy itself on clear juvidence that the quantities asked for jare unduly large.” Pointing out the impossibility of control in a country where the raw | material is_grown, the writer says that it is the factories where drugs are made that should be placed under adequate supervision. A real menace to the world Mr. Campbell sees in the “wholly illegai and uncontrolled production of opium | s China, where more than 80 per cent of the total crop of opium is| grown."” A man never realizes how weak he is until he tries to quit smoking or meets @ feminine book agent. named Kettlor Bay masens tionalist organizations directed by Gen. 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