The Hip Sing Tong is a business, social and fraternal secret organization of American-Chinese whose several thousand members usually get themselves into the papers only by periodic squabblings with their rivals, the On Leongs. Last week, the Hip Sing Tong made news in another way entirely. Simultaneously one night 50 agents of the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used...
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