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15 DOPE FIENDS WLL BE RENDERED 3ESPERATE BY LAW Shutting Off of Supply .of Drugs May Cause Habitual Users to Rob Drug Stores, FEDERAL RULES IN CASE CONFESS TO Jewel Presented othy Hess and K'.len Anderion, & piano solo by1 Alfred Nygaard, a f violin solo by Katherine Davis, a, duet by Mrs. E. L. Sells and Mrs. W. O. Ash, and a song by eight girls of Miss fihinn'a third grade elass of Lents school. T. J.-:. Kreuder. W. A, Young, W. J". McNeil and J.' P. Lea discussed In formally the proposed good roads bond issue, but definite action was deferred until the meeting Of Multnomah Coun ty Pomona grango with Gresham grange Wednesday. The Lents grange, drill: team wilj assist in Installing Pomona officers "Wednesday, Chocolate Palace Draws Crowds firm .of San Francisco, which has given the same marked cttentlon to the in. terior of the structure as 'o the out side. . Aside from the pretty chocolate and cocoa room, where the beverages are served. Is a miniature reproduction of the great chocolate mills of the company,- - Here for the first time In a publio exposition the people will be given an opportunity Of seeing the process of turning the raw cocoa bean as it comes In sacks from the tropical plantation into the -finished food packages in which it Is sold to the pvblio. , it is said to be one of "the most Interesting attractions on the grounds: The exhibit Is open to the publio. Would Have History Conform With Facts i . -. -Owing to the fact that current his tories of Abraham Lincoln used in the schools (contain .several Inaccuracies regarding the martyred president. Pro fessor L. M. Pratt was appointed chairman of a committee, at the an nual meeting of the Lincoln Memorial society Friday night, to bring these inaccuracies to the notice of the pub. Ushers with the request that they be corrected. j Tb members also went on record as opposed to city officials and clvio or ganisations setting aside Lincoln's day for any secular purpose, as wa don here last! month, j It was also decided to appoint a program committee to plan for the university celebration of the. delivery of Lincoln's Gettysburg address In November. Officers elected are: Charles .T. Schnabel, president: Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, i-f-trst vice president; Father Kdward Cpnat necond vice president; Professor L. M. Pratt, third v Ice presi dent; Mrs. It. Downlng-Bartlett, re. cording secretary; Mrs. Junr Ordway, corresponding secretary, -and Linn L. Reist, treasurer. ! U. OF O. STUDENTS GIVE PLAY To Grange Deputy THREATENED ' I " . T. J. Krender is Honored at Ints; Addresses Given and .Discussions ' Held at Meeting. ; ilents. March 13.--f-County Deputy T. J. Kreuder, president of the Mas ters' and Lecturers association, was presented with a past master's jewel, set! with a diamond solitaire, by Mas ter W. A. Young, on behalf of ILerita grange, at Its regular monthly meet ing today in Orange hall. At the afternoon lecture hour Mrs. W. i J. Hawkins, Portland clubwoman, declared that nearlect in '.'ie training of .youth is resulting in sending out into the world young peoplo not fitted to accomplish anything and who waste much time in later life. Mrs. Iora C. Little discussed 'dome Sanitation." The remainder of the program, ar ranged by Mrs. Maud K. Darnall, leo- N JITNEY Clifford Stokes and Raymond Coomer Held on Serious Charge, DENY ATTEMPT TO ROB On the exposition grounds in San Francisco, in a location that at once commands the attention of the visitor. Is a building of a striking character. It is the exhibit palace of the D. Ghirardelll Co., th- great chocolate Becords of Character of Drag Used and Name of Patient Must Be Machine Gained High Speed on Mil wauxie Street and Turned Over When Caught in Bails. Rockvllle, Conri., will vote on new Kept for Inspection. jtuiier, consisted of recitations by Dor charter proposition. THE OREGON - SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 14. 1915- YOUTHS HAYING WOMAN I if -'it I PA ' , f . t ' i I L ' 7? Large cities of the Country are pre paring! for a crime wave as a result of j, the operation of the Harrison law cit . tin off the dope supply of drtJg fiends.- Thai, some fiends "on fire" from lack of it may attempt robbery of a drug Btore pr bo is probable, but otherwise , Portland, police official declare, will escape the problem of handling many maddened victims driven desperate by deprivation of their usual dosage. And the reason for this Is een in the operation of the state and city laws directed against, the traffickers find titer of morphine, cocaine, heroin nd other insidious druses, j v ThH r dlsppnsfrs have been frlght (nit of business largely by the vigilant watch kept on them in Oregon and the severe penalties dealt out by, the courts. And now that Uncle Ham lias put his foot dbwn on the terrible traffic, the work of eradicating It will be more thorough and ultimately, it is confi dently asserted, tens of thousand --of dope slaves will be freed from their thralhioin to live again as normal men and women and riot on the zlg zaj? iino of extreme exaltation and alternating depression produced by the use of rnlnd destroying chemicals, i The pew federal law is even mora f stringent than the city ordinances and mate aw, and its . operation will close the last loop boles through Which dope leaked to; the users. rederal Law in Case. Its enforcement is in the "hands of the internal revenue department and J50.0t)o Itaa been appropriated to en- force ht. And In Oregon it will be lived tip to to til letter, according to for tlie Lincoln high school cholar MUton Miller, collector of internal r-. i ship fund, was held, in the sctiool au- enije. Already licenses are being issued to-pnyisicians, veterinary surgeons and dntiatn. There are 3700 suchxin Ore gon add 2000 have secured their right to handle the various drugs under the limitations imposed by th,a govern ment..! v!' Thesie Insist for one thing oq a com plete fjecord being kept of the amount and character of drugs used with the tianie 'jjf.-the patient and time admin istered): These records ar open for inspection by government officials. Drug: tores must sell.it only on pre scription and must fill the prescrip tion ohly once. Hospitals are com pelled to keep a complete record and manufacturers must report the quanti ty solo" to those entitled to purchase. hjla jhort. a complete system of cheeky on its use is in force. While the dofce victims are bound to experi ence the temporary tortures they suf fer without it, the authorities are plan uiog. qsoperative effort to cure them na, 'government will continue the great iwork jf stamping out the evil that baa sapped the. life from hundreds of itueands-and. created an ulcer that only, heroic means can remove. - ' r Sentences Are Given. A dozen druggists and others -who aeted las dispensers were before Mu nicipal Judge Stevenson last summer and received sentences that ran as thigh &s three months in jail. -A, veritable nest of distributers was unearthed last summer, and indirectly n , wis xouna that scores of drug I Jler-dsi Vere paying tribute to them. j ThCSfi D t'O I i1 P h :i V nnt ornna ,.W I lTttA lllCtn At- (J 1 . ( ietl ipe ciiy. so close has been the watchl or the police upon their ac tivities; . consequenoe, the prosecutions have become quite rare. Judge Stev- enson sixth a,iu yesieroay tnat not one is many of these cases mm bforei him now as formerly. Where drug j fiends were before the court Jn, droves &ix and seven every day or: soj now ii Is unusual if two or three la nior-lh are up for trial I Both tli e city and the state have rigid Haws for ,the suppression of the contraband drug traffic. A fjine. of ?10 to $200 pr 90 days' i.mpcisonment, is provided for one who maintains a resort for drug users or an opium joint. Under the city ordinance, even the carrying of a hy podermic syringe Is sufficient for the infliction of the heavy penalty. One third of the fine goes to the informer in" there cases. Pipes, layouts or other avpurtances of the drug user are confiscated and destroyed under city ordinance. f City Ordinances. I " As jfor the user of 4 rugs, under city ordinance, any person even bargaining for the drug, ' when not successful in making the purchase, is liable to a The modern conception of a bank is the one that empha sizes the spirit of friendly in terest in the progress of ita de positors.: This bank strives to enter heartily into this spirit of co-operation, and to assure its depositors of something more in their association here than a convenient way of fak ing care of money. The Northwestern National. Bank mm IfM-v IHrth an Wnwl... at. J)K aeries of entertaln- mc"ts given by the June. M6. ' the Lincoln high si hool to rais class of se money ditor'iuni last night when the Univer sity of Oregon Dramatic elass pre sented two comedies. They were gicen under the, personal direction of Pro fessor A. V. Reddie, of tho University of Oregon. The first playlet was the two act comedy, "The Newly Married Couple," with Fred Hardest-, taking the part of Axel Hargaut and Miss Beulali Stebno taking the part of Laura Hargaut, his wife. Archibald F. Reddle, took the part of her . father and Catherine Cogs well Thome, her mother. Marion Tut t!e had the part of Mathilde, Mr. Har gaut's friend. "Rosalind," a one act .comedy was presented by Josephine Mourhead, Janet Young and Archibald F. Reddle. During the intermission Miss Isabel Steele gave a number of violin se lections. Candy was sold by Misses Gertrude Moore, Gladys Metcalf, Jesa mine Harding, Olive Coipitts, Dorothy Duniway, Ruth; Pearson and My Bur- goyne. , sentence of from $10 tg 5i or. im prisonment for 20 days. The excep tion in this instance is where the pur chase is made on prescription. The commonest prosecution under the city ordinance is fo'r having of tha drugs- in possession. Defendants in cases of this kind are urged to tell where they procured the drug, but thev searcelv ever do so. Thev feel that their existence depends upon the concealment of their base of supplies, and they will accept long jail sen- --. wafhnw .Hot, 'noaVi i 1 1 i: .Occasionally the police will actually catch a man buying the drug. In that event, the punishment of both parties to the transaction is s,evere. The city ordinance provides that for opium smoking, and this vice is con fined mostly to the Chinese, the de fendant may be fined from $10 to $100 or sentenced to 20 days in jail. Despite all pleadings, the unswerv ing policy of Judge Stevenson with respect to the punishment of drug sellers has been a Jil sentence. De spite all pleadings of counsel, urg ing upon the court the eminently high standing in the community of the drugglstsi who have been sellers, Judge Stevenson has persisted in the Infliction of the maxium penalties, and his judgments have been affirmed in the higher courts. People Seld as Victims. But the policy with regard to the users Is different. These people are regarded as victims and the court's policy has been that of the humanitar ian. The judge at first tried send ing those who were willing to the state insane hospital for treatment. This was unsuccessful, and the more "logical policy of committing the pa- t.entfc to jail for a long term and having Dr. Fred Ziegler, city physi cian, treat them has worked out quite satisfactorily. By far the majority of drug fiends realize their condition and are glad of a chance to rid themselves I of it. and a number have come to the judge asking him to act. Only last Thursday, a maii was sent to jail for 100 days; at the request of his par ents to receive the treatment. Under the state law, drugs cannot be sold except on the written order or prescription of a physician, dentist or veterinary suigeon, and the drugs can only Xrs had in possession when the owner has a state license. The pre scription caa be used but once, and then must be put on file fof examina tion whenever demanded by the police. Thi ti'fcrcefaent ot this law is In the hands of the stale board of pharmacy. For a first vijatloh, the fine is $100 to $250: for the second, $200 to $500, and the third offense is a felony, punishable by a. penitentiary sentence of from one to five years. Annual Missionary Convention Planned Gresham, Or. March 13- The annual convention of tha Women's Home Mis sionary society of tha Salem district of the Methodist church will be held April 1 and . 2 at Gresham Methodist church. Over SO . delegates are ex pected to attend the sessions. Mrs. George W. Stapleton, chairman, Mrs. George W. Kinney and Mrs. J. N. Clanahan have been appointed by Mrs. C. M. Zimmerman, president, as the local reception ' committee. The com mittee of arrangements eonsists of Mrs. A. Hevel, chairman, Mrs. Maxwell Schneider. Mrs. Karl A. Miller. Mrs. James Sterling and Mrs. R. R. Carlson. The refreshments committee Is com posed of Mrs. Emmet H. Kelly.- Mrs. C. The frt of a - I v " -mmdmlt Top, Left to Right Miss Marion Tuttle, as "Mathilda";! Miss Beu lah Stebno, as "Laura Hargaut." Middle, Left to Right Miss Jose phine Moorehead, as "Dame Quickley"; Mrs. Catherine Cogs well Thorne as Mother of Laura. Bottom Fred Hardesty, as "Axel. Hargaut." E. Rusher, Mrs. Arthur Dowsett, Mrs. L. L. Kidder and Mrs. R. H. Todd. Musical numbers by local talent are being arranged. Arrangements for thev convention were made at the meeting of the local society Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Benjamin Cameron. "The Red Man and Hia White Neighbor" was the topio discussed. , "Substance" will be the subjectst tomorrow morning's Christian Science services. Presiding Elder To Deliver Sermon St. Johns, Or., March 13. Rev. C. C. Poling, presiding elder of the Port land district, will preach at the fourth quarterly meeting of the conference year at the United Evangelical church tomorrow morning. . The business ses sion of the conference was conducted Thursday night by Rev. Mr. Poling. Ray Turrell, lay delegate, and Rev. J. A. Goode, pastor, will ask the gen eral church extension committee at the annual Oregon conference at Cor- vallis, April 1, for assistance In the erection 'of a $6000 brick or concrete church on the present 100x100 foot site at Ivanhoe and John's street. Plans will be drawn, estimates will be made and a campaign for a building fund will be started at once, but the church will not be erected for some time. Rev. Mr. Poling also will carry the message of the need Of a new church to the annual conference. The United Evangelical church, or ganized" In 1888, is now out of debt. The Boys' Booster class is campaign ing for the erection of a separate two story Sunday school and athletic building. High Chief Ranger Will Visit Portland Thomas H. Cannon, high chief ranger of the Catholic Order of Foresters, will be in this .city at 2:40 tomorrow afternoon; arriving from Puget sound, where he is now visiting courts of the order. A special committee of the officers of each court In Portland has been called by M. J". Malley, grand ciuei ranger or regon to. meet in Cathedral hall. Fifteenth and Davis streets, at 10 o'clock this morning to make arrangements for his reception. Meanwhile Professor P. McDonald, a prominent member in Portland, has been detailed as a committee of . one to attend to the preliminary work. The eminent fraternalist gave his. first no tice of his Intended visit by telegraph Tiaay arternoon, and therefore ar rangements have - not been made. It is proposed that he be given a. trin around the city, a banquet and a re- J ceptlon, the latter on Tuesday even ing, March 16. Mr. Cannon is from Chicago, i-ad is noted as ne of tbe active organisers and now , president of the National Fraternal Congress, an association of all the fraternities in the United States issuing life pro tective membership certificates. Clifford Stokes, 1185 East Ash streejt, and Raymond Comer, of East Thirty third and Alder streets, jitney , bus drivers, are In the city jail today on charges of attempted criminal assault and reckless driving, the result of the automobile wreck at Milwaukie and Center streets Friday night. j Both youths have confessed, to Dep uty District Attorney Richard Deicb and the police that they attempted to assault Mrs. Cecil Marshall, of Wil liams avenue and Russell street, who boarded Stokes' Belmont jitney t the west end of the Morrison bridge, as a passenger, to be carried to Grand av enue end Morrison streets. j Formal complaints charging the young men with the crimes wefe lodged yesterday by Mr. Diech arid signed by Mrs. Marshall. Stokes la held in the sum, of $750 bail, of which $500 is for the attempted assault and $250 on the reckless driving charge. Young Stokes was found athishonie by Patrolmen Miller and Wellbrook about noon yesterday,' and accompa nied by Coomer wa brought to tha station. Woman lodges Complaint. At about the same time Mrs. Mar shall, sufficiently recovered from her Injuries to be about, appeared at nolica headquarters to lodge complaint. . The young men, in a statement to Captain jMoore and the reporters, said the wo- ' 1 1 da b. passenger at Milwaukie. and Holgate streets, while the bus was making a special trip to Sellwood. No untoward incidents hap pened, they assorted, until the wrecks caused By the automobile skidding on the streetcar tracks, at Milwaukie and Center streets. They denied robbing or insulting the woman. Then Mrs. Marshall told her story; "I had been living at the Victor ho tel, on the west side, since separating froro my husband," she narrated, "and last night I stepped out to buy some apples and get some fresh air. "I had Just purchased the apples In the confectionary store at the west end of the bridge and decided to go over and see some friends at Grand avenue and Oak streets. It was then about, 8:16. "The Jitney came along and I climbed In. I told them I wanted off at Grand avenue and Belmont, but they said they did not stop there.' Then 1 asked them where jjhey were going to take me, and they said for a little ride about the city. . "While one of the men held me In the car, the other took turns in going down, and getting drinks in the saloon at Grand avenue and Morrison street; Both bad been drinking heavily. i Xrfng Walk Threatened, "After a while we started out Mil waukie street. The two men had been , in ront, but the other boy (meaning i Loomerj ciimoea bacic with me and i began making insulting remarks, and ' taking hold or me. ! "We went to the nd of the pav ; ing, and they said that if I did not as- i spnt tn th.ir wlgh9 tViov Ti7 nnl mot,. me walk back.. I fought them, how ever, and then they let me come back. I insisted on riding in the front seat; "The machine ran so fast that Coom ers asked Stokes to go slower.' I saw the streetcar coming behind and told Stokes to get out of the way. but oe aaid that no streetcar could pass him. I His rear wheel fastened in the track. and wnen he finally guided to the left hand side, the wheel broke off, we struck the curb and the car turned over." In the smashup, Mrs. Marshall and Stokes were pinned, under the machine and were rescued by people from the street car, who also extinguished the fire that started from the lights. Mrs. Marshall was taken to the drug store at Grand avenue and Hawthorne, where her injuries were dressed, and she was then taken to the home of her former husband at 309 Russell street. Then one at a time, Stokes and Coomer were brought before Mr. Deich i and Harry P. Coffin, secretary of tbe public safety commission. Stokes Breaks Sown First. When told of Mrs. Marshall's state ment Stokes first was defiant, hesi tated, then broke down completely and saia tnat tne racts in substance, -were correct, although he denied robbing her of her purse, which contained $6. "Now do you still want to stick to your story of picking that woman, VP at Holgate- street," queried Mr. DeiCh of Raymond Coomer, who was brought in next. i "Well, I want to do anything he does. I'll say what he says," Coomer mum bled hesitatingly. i "Well, he says that he picked up the woman at the west end of the Morrison bridge," Deich fired back. "I guess he's right then, thait'a where we did get her," Coomer replied. . The confession from the youth came easy after that. He admitted every thing even to Intimate details of his conversation and actions with Mrs. Marshall, whom he asserted was a woman of bad character. f Removed Jitney Sign. , 1 "I knew we were going for a Joy ride, so I took down tbe jitney sJgn when we got out on Milwaukie street," he confessed. ; The two young men were immedi ately locked in jail. H. Stokes, father of the driver of the car, anxious : to make a statement before his son's last confession, had nothing to say after wards. . : It Vas - learned later in the after noon that the two young men framed up their story in the pool room at Grand avenue and Morrison streets, and this was the story first told: by young Stokes. Mrs. Marshall, while on her. way to the station yesterday morning, met them at Grand avenue, and they asked her what she was go ing to do about it, she asserted. i j The automobile was reduced j to wreckage and hauled away, Mrs. Mar shall's coat was torn from her in the accident, and she sustained a sprained knee. Her face is a mass of bruises, and both - eyes are blackened. 1 1 I An examination by Mr. Coffin di vulged the fact that the car swung to the west side Of the street, just oerore xne acciaeni. Italy -devotes 22,000 acres to 1 to. mato culture, producing about 385,. 000 tons of fruit yearly, exporting about 20.000.000 pounds in cans to the United States. : I ! :-" - - ' " - -: . : W. : '";:" ;" :.H '1 ' : ' -' -- :- . . - - - - - - DO YOU KNOW Do you know that iu minutes ot ISroadway and Washington b t., from $100 to $6007 And on terms as low as fifty dollars down and ten dollars a. month. Do you knowrthe streets are hard-surfaced; that the gas, water, sewer and carline are already there? r, Do you know that this is one of the finest automobile rides in America', and that you should take the ride today? ' I Do you know that you can reach this property from j almost any part of the west side by automobile in from five to ten minutes ? Do you know that we have reduced the prices on these splendid building sites from 40 to 80, and tflat the total reduction amounts to more than three hundred thousand dollars? ! Do you know that there, is a' sign on every building site, with the former price and the sale price plainly marked ? -. .; Dealers in Heights Property THE SALE BEGINS MONDAY MORNING AT you can have your choice etE, of 400 Building Sites on Do you know that this is a most unusual opportunity for you to secure a homesite, that you can secure a home here very reasonable on terms satisfactory to you? . : :f : . .. - Do you know that 'this is the most beautiful resi dence section of Portland? Unrivaled location, com manding one of the most superb views in the world. : Close to the business district, yet reinote from all un pleasant features of commerce. Easy df access, free from noise, fog and dust ot the Iovver levels. Good car service, hard-surfaced streets arid all modern im provements. Beautiful winding streets and boule vards, with sightly homesites and villa plots, offering : splendid opportunities for individuality in landscap ing arid architecture. - I ; , All building sites are sold subject to taxes and street iiupiuvcijieiiis. ev Sk Cm, Second Floor, Chamber of 9 O'CLOCK? the west side, within Commerce Building l - - ' : riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu,,,,!,,,,,,,,