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HARRY ANSLINGER'S GORE – MISSOURI
MISSOURI - TEMPORARY WEBSITE
– LOCATION OF FUTURE WEBSITE
Due to lack of material resources, at the present time we can only post this temporary website dealing with the STATE OF MISSOURI during the Reefer Madness Era. It is our hope to have a full website for the state running sometime in the future. But (again) due to lack of resources this will be a long while. For now we hope that this quickie, quickie will be of some help to researchers into the era.
MISSOURI
Fake meaning that it either did not happen or that the facts have been so twisted around as to be meaningless.
Name: - Location: - St. Louis - Date: - Jan/Feb 1935
What the Narc’s were claiming
A newspaper in St. Louis reported after an investigation this year that it had discovered marijuana “dens,” all frequented by children of high-school age. The same sort of story came from Missouri, Ohio, Louisiana, Colorado -- American Magazine “Marijuana, Assassin of Youth” By H.J Anslinger - July 1937NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
For example, a few years ago the startling discovery was made in St. Louis scores of youngsters of high school age had become victims of the weed. A St. Louis paper at the time quoted one gentleman of the byways as saying, "The worst thing about that loco weed is the way these kids go for them. Most of them, boys and girls, are just punks and when they get high on the stuff you can write your own ticket." ----- The story is told by the same newspaper of a young man who became an addict and had eventually to be confined in an institution for the mentally diseased. In referring to him, one of his friends told an investigating reporter that "he was a swell fellow until marihuana got him. Like the rest of us, he thought the weed wasn't habit-forming and had no idea of the possible consequences of smoking it. He smoked so many he couldn't quit. Finally he went crazy and his folks put him in a sanitarium." Further quotations from the St. Louis paper, which illustrate what occurred among the young people who became victim of this weed through the encouragement of the peddlers, who made claims of the weed's value as a "love potion" and as the means by which they could easily become "the life of the party", follow: Among these is the story of a girl student, still in her teens, who told a reporter she had seen some of her friends under the influence, and named a boy and a girl who had lost their senses so completely after smoking marihuana that they eloped and were married. -- INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL DIGEST – Sep, 1937
ST. LOUIS STAR TIMES:
[Proof exists that this newspaper knew that it was lying]
[e Jan. 17, 1935] "Latest Evil Here, The Dope Cigaret, Menacing Youth"
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg. 1] “Young slaves of dope Cigaret traffic pay tragic price for their folly”
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg. 1] "Asks Ban on Sate of Marijuana".
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg. 1] "Reporter Smokes Five marijuanas to Note Effects"
[e Jan. 21, 1935] "Large Quantity of Poisonous Weed Which Yields Deadly Marijuana Cultivated in and Near St. Louis".
[e Jan. 22, 1935] "33 States have laws prohibiting Marijuana Weed" By Julius Klein.
[e Jan. 24, 1935] "Military Order Bans Marijuana in Canal Zone" - -a smoking gun of lies.
[e Jan 24, 1935] "Dr. Gerling Urges Marijuana Ban to Protect Youths "
[e Jan. 25, 1935] "Only One Peddler of Marijuana Convicted"
[e Jan. 28, 1935] "Louisiana Banned Marijuana After Double Murder"
[e Jan 28 or 29, 1935] "U.S. Asks States For Laws to Ban Use of Marijuana"
[e Jan 31, 1935 (date may be off)] "Anti-Marijuana bill approved by house group"
[e Feb 1935 (may be Feb, 1 or 2)] "Unanimous House Vote Favors Marijuana Ban"
[e Feb. 4,1935] “Louisville Paper Finds Marijuana a Menace There”
[Key-finder - Case #F68]
Name: Oscar Ralph Ashworth - Location: St. Joseph, Missouri - Date: Sept. 1938
What the Narc’s were claiming
CAUTION -- A WORD OF WARNING:
Here is a good example of an incident that both DID and DID NOT happen.
”1938 - St. Joseph, Missouri - M 37 Smoked 2 marihuana cigarettes, then raped his 7-year old daughter. Death in Gas -- Article by James C. Munch; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS:
1938 - 0. Ashworth, - St.Joseph, Missouri. - 37 - Smoked 2 marihuana cigarettes, then raped his 7-yr. daughter. Trial: Guilty. - Death, gas chamber -- 6th conference report - INEOA 1965
The MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM
[Nov. 20, 1940 pp1] "Stark commutes Ashworth's Death Sentence to Life" THE OSHKOSH NORTHWESTERN
[Sept. 2, 1938 pp7] "Ashworth is Sentenced to Die in Gas Chamber"
[Nov. 4, 1938 pp5] "Life of Ashworth Prolonged for at Least Ten Months"
LINCOLN STATE JOURNAL
[Nov. 6, 1938 pp12] "Longer life for Ashworth"
SHEBOYGAN PRESS
[Aug. 30, 1938 pp1] "Man Held at Bay Wanted for Assault"
[Nov. 5, 1938 pp 10] "Declare Condemned Convict Charged With Wrong Crime"
STEVENS POINT DAILY JOURNAL
[Oct. 25, 1940 pp 3] "Ashworth Granted Stay of Execution:
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED:
While the incident really did take place, NONE of the numerous newspaper accounts that we have been able to obtain, make any mention of Oscar Ashworth as a Medical Marihuana addict. Given the date [at the very height of the Reefer Madness campaign] it can be assumed that such a factor would NOT have gone unnoticed by the news media. In addition the museum has been able to locate the following statement--taken from the book "DESIGNS IN SCARLET By Courtney Ryley Cooper 1939
SMOKING GUN:As a technical note, Courtney Ryley Cooper was Harry Anslinger [American's first drug czar and originator of the Federal anti-Medical Marihuana laws], own personal ghost-writer, and as such had personal knowledge of and total access to all Official Gore File Cases.
In a case at St. Joseph, Missouri, where a man was convicted of a murderous rape attack upon a young girl, a newspaper made the statement that he was a marihuana fiend and that he had committed his crime while under the influence of the drug. Federal sources reported that as far as could be learned, the whole story originated in the mind of a cub reporter who asked the sex-murderer after he had been sentenced: "Why didn't you tell the court that you smoked marihuana cigarettes?" ---- DESIGNS IN SCARLET By Courtney Ryley Cooper 1939
In other words, the narc's knew [right from the get-go] that the case was bogus, but still continued to tout it as an example of a Medical Marihuana caused crime. It fact, as the following quotation shows, it was still being officially used by the narc's all the way up until the late 1960's.
"Through the kindness of Commissioners Anslinger and Giordano of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics, an opportunity was afforded to review various authenticated Case Reports in the files of the Bureau as typical of the relationships of various crimes committed by individuals after use and while under the influence of marihuana (usually smoked). As representative, table 3* reports details on 69 such cases. This objective evidence [Ha Ha] supports published statements of the association between the use of marihuana and various types of crime." -- article by James C. MUNCH ; "UN Bulletin on Narcotics"-1966 Issue 2
[Key-finder - Case #F74B]
MISSOURI'S
UNSOLVED GORE FILE CASES
POSSESSION
MISSOURI- Kansas City On January 12, 1936, Marley Martinez, Hermn Augustus Tally and Frederick Paris Harrington were arrested at Kansas City charged with possession of 23 marihuana cigarettes. Each defendant was fined $250.00 --- ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN MARIHUANA - aka Gore File
ROBBERY
Kansas City, Mo., Dec 24, 1967----A 20-year old man and a juvenile worked to-together in an armed robbery of a local tavern. When arrested, both suspects stated they never would have committed the crime except that they had been smoking marihuana. -- Congressional Record -- April 4, 1968
MUSEUM NEWSPAPER INDEX:
NO, this index of (what may or may not be) Reefer Madness Newspaper articles is NOT COMPLETE and in fact is anything but. At best it should be thought of as a starting point for historical scholars doing research into the origin of the anti-Medical Cannabis laws.
Sikeston Herald - Sikeston, Missouri
[S]- Aug 1, 1940 pg.10] “Public Enemy Doubled” short [N.W.R.]
[S]- Feb 1, 1945 pg. 10] “Marijuana Menace Growing More Serious”
[S]- Feb 8, 1945 pg. 1] “Chaffee Couple Face Dope Charge”
[S]- April 26, 1945 pg. 1] “Pleads Guilty to Growing dope”
[S]- May 24, 1945 pg. 4] “A Travesty of Justice”
[S]- Dec 30, 1948 pg. 10] short – [N.W.R.]
[S]- Feb 9, 1950 pg. 10] “five years ago” [N.W.R.]
[S]- Apr 27, 1950 pg.10] “”Five years ago today” [N.W.R.]
Chillicothe Constitution - Chillicothe, Missouri
[S]- Aug. 20, 1907.pg.4] “War On Mexico Weed”
[S]- Jan. 20, 1923] “Movie Cleanup May Be Result of Wally Reid’s ruin” Film – [N.W.R.]
[S]- Feb 10, 1923 ] “Mechanical Burro Invented by German” (Anslinger)
[S]- Dec 8, 1924 pg. 2] “Drug Victim Confesses Murder, other Crimes”
[S]- Aug 1, 1930 pg. 6] “No title”
[S]- Aug. 7, 1937 pg. 2] “Nature’s Wonders Too Great” – [N.W.R.]
[S]- Nov. 10, 1937pg. 4] “Marihuana War Is On” short [N.W.R.]
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM - Maryville, Missouri
[S]- June 27, 1940.pg.2] “To Review Extension Work in County and Plan for next year” - [N.W.R.]
[S]- July 09, 1940.pg 2] “Police and Public to Fight Marihuana”
[S]- Aug. 2, 1941 pg6] Cartoon – This Curious World”
[S]- Oct 26, 1942 pg.4 ] “Murder on the Campus (a serial novel)
[S]- Feb 25, 1943 pg. 1] “Says Novelist Gave Information Leading To Narcotic Arrests”
[S]- April 24, 1943 pg. 6] “Dan Dunn – Secret Operative 48” A marijuana dope story (cartoon)
[S]- July 2, 1943 pg. 1] “Gene Krupa Sentence”
[S]- Aug 12, 1943 pg. 1] “Nature Lover” [NWR]
[S]- May 6, 1948 pg. 2A] (WCTU meeting)
[S]- Sept. 02, 1948 pg. 1] “Studios Imply Noted Attorney for Bob Mitchum”
[S]- Sept. 03, 1948.pg.1] “Prosecutor Asks Grand Jury Probe of Mitchum Case”
[S]- Sept. 18, 1948 pg. 10] “3 Men Plead Guilty to Possessing Marijuana”
[S]- Sept. 29, 1948 pg. 1] “Mitchum Pleads Innocent to a Narcotics Charge”
[S]- Jan. 10, 1949 pg. 1] “Actor Robert Mitchum is Found Guilty of narcotics Charge”
[ ]- Feb. 09, 1949.pg. 1] “Film Hero Gets 60-Day Jail Term”
[S]- July 12, 1954 pg. 6] “Cheated Out of Jail” – [N.W.R.]
JOPLIN GLOBE - Joplin, Missouri
[S]- April 26, 1945 pg. 7] “4 persons Plead Guilty in Marijuana conspiracy” river
[S]- May 24, 1945 pg. 2] “Four Are Sentenced on Marijuana charge”
[S]- Jan. 29, 1948 pg. B8] Film
[S]- Sep 18, 1948].”3 Men Plead Guilty to Possessing Marijuana”
[S]- Sunday, Sept. 26, 1948.pg. B9] “ “Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood”
[S]- Sept. 30, 1948 pgA3] “Narcotics Count Denied By Mitchum”
[S]- Sep. 4, 1949 pg. 4B] “Big Financial Deals and Love Triangle Slaying Mark Treasury’ s 160 Years” November 12, 1949...to spinning too fast he'd puff on a MARIJUANA cigarette to slow them down..
[S]- Jan 20, 1950] “Girl Charged with Murder on Stand”
[S]- Sep. 29, 1950 pg.7A] short [N.W.R.].
[S]- Nov. 01, 1950 pg.6] “Board to Consider Parole for Kidnaper”
[S]- Oct. 25, 1951 pg.1] “Negro is Seized By Narcotics Agents”
[ ]--Mar. 8, 1952 pg.1] “Three Springfield men fact narcotics Charges”
[S]- May 15, 1953 pg. aaA] “Four Held at Miami in Marijuana Hunt”
[S]- Feb. 10, 1954 pg. 8B] “Pitching Horseshoes” by Billy Rose
SEDALIA DEMOCRAT - Sedalia, Missouri
[S]- Sep. 1, 1949 pg. 12] “Marihuana Cigareties No Just Catnip”
[S]- Sept. 04, 1949...short about an arrest
[S]- Jan. 3, 1950 pg. 2] - [N.W.R.]
[S]- Jan. 18, 1950.pg.6] “..With Narcotics Sale Charges of selling MARIJUANA, a narcotic, were filed in the.....that of either selling or handling of MARIJUANA,
[S]- Jan. 20, 1950 pg.10] “Doesn’t Know Whether She Was Killer”
[S]- Jan. 24, 1950 pg12] “Disturbed On Drug Addiction”
[S]- Jan 27, 1950 pg. 4] “Held for Higher Court” [N.W.R.]
[S]- June 2, 1950 pg.2 ] “Inside a Junior Gang: A War Councilor, Lots of Hoodlums and a Few Criminals”
[S]- June 07, 1950.pg.1] “Marijuana With His Barbecue”
ST. LOUIS STAR TIMES
Note, we have the proof that this newspaper was lying and they know they were not telling the truth.
[e Jan. 17, 1935] "Latest Evil Here, The Dope Cigaret, Menacing Youth"
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg.1] “Young slaves of dope Cigaret traffic pay tragic price for their folly”
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg.1] "Asks Ban on Sate of Marijuana".
[e Jan. 18, 1935 pg.1] "Reporter Smokes Five marijuanas to Note Effects"
[e Jan. 21, 1935] "Large Quantity of Poisonous Weed Which Yields Deadly Marijuana Cultivated in and Near St. Louis".
[e Jan. 22, 1935] "33 States have laws prohibiting Marijuana Weed" By Julius Klein.
[e Jan. 24, 1935] "Military Order Bans Marijuana in Canal Zone" - -a smoking gun of lies.
[e Jan 24, 1935] "Dr. Gerling Urges Marijuana Ban to Protect Youths "
[e Jan. 25, 1935] "Only One Peddler of Marijuana Convicted"
[e Jan. 28, 1935] "Louisiana Banned Marijuana After Double Murder"
[e Jan 28 or 29, 1935] "U.S. Asks States For Laws to Ban Use of Marijuana"
[e Jan 31, 1935 (date may be off)] "Anti-Marijuana bill approved by house group"
[e Feb 1935 (may be Feb, 1 or 2)] "Unanimous House Vote Favors Marijuana Ban"
[e Feb. 4,1935] “Louisville Paper Finds Marijuana a Menace There”
[Wanted]-- Feb 8, 1935 pg. 10] "Marijuana bill passes house by unanimous vote".
[Wanted]-- Feb. 19, 1935 - article
ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH
[S]-- April 8, 1934]- “A Drug Menace at the University of Kansas” By M.W. Childs. - Sunday Section
[Wanted]-- Feb 9, 1938 pg.12C] "Detective Gives Girl's Story of Bus Killing" -AP
[e]- Feb. 10, 1938 pg.5B] "Girl on Stand Admits Bus Holdup Killing" -AP
[Wanted]-- Feb. 11, 1938 pg.3A] "Parents support Girl's Insanity Plea" -AP
A PROPER WEBSITE FOR THE STATE OF MISSOURI IS COMING -- ONE OF THESE DAYS:
We wish that we had the ability to run a complete website on this state, but due to limited resources, this is not a possibility at this time. For now, we hope that this partial material will be of some help to students of the Reefer Madness Era. ---- (Hint) if you make a financial donation to the museum it might help to speed things up a bit.
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