FEDERALS NAB MARAHUANA IN OGDEN ARREST
First Ogdenite Arrested In Government Drive On 'Hay’ Smokes Twelve yellow "hay"-filled cigarets were in possession of United States agents today and Joe Pacheo, 41, of 167 Twenty fifth, was in jail as the first Ogden man to be prosecuted under the new anti-marahuana(sic) drive of the federal government.

Pacheo was arrested by Detectives D. B. Ballantyne and Henry G. Allred and his case immediately turned over to the federal anti-narcotics bureau. R. C. Belnap, Salt Lake City, arrived in Ogden to handle the prosecution.

MAN PASSED THROUGH"
Officers could not connect Pacheo to any "ring" nor identify him with any extensive merchandising of the drug.   He said he obtained the "hay" from "a man passing through."

In his possession, however, were a dozen of the paper-wrapped smokes which-for 25 cents each will produce any number of gratifying visions.   He had also a can of marihuana.   The material, which flourishes as a weed and is sometimes cultivated, looks' like crumbled sage when, dried, and-ready for smoking.

WIELDED BEET KNIFE
Pacheo was first arrested several days ago, after he had terrorized the residents of a Twenty-fifth street rooming house with a hooked beet knife.   Entirely sober, he was suspected by police of being under, drug influence, though, he carried no drugs: Today Allred and Ballantyne released him, then shadowed him to his room.   When he returned to "the street they re-arrested him and found the cigarets wrapped, in a blue Bandana in his pocket and the can in another pocket.

Belnap called Pacheo's a "perfect case" for prosecution under the new ruling which classifies marihuana-as a narcotic, punishable under the Harrison act.

[Marihuana Defense]
JUSTICE SPEEDS IN MARTIN CASE
Only Five Minutes Required To Send Girl Attacker To State Prison
Charles Martin, 27-year-old Ogden husband, was whisked to the state penitentiary near Salt Lake City Saturday to begin serving a rape sentence of not less than five years, following one of the speediest disposals earlier in the day of a felony case on record here.

Martin, appearing before District Judge Lester A. Wade, in a five-minute court session, blamed marihuana in explaining his attack on a 10-year-old West Ogden girl June 6.

Pleads Guilty
He pleaded guilty to a charge of rape, waived an offer of counsel and additional time for his arraignment and plea, and was sentenced to prison all within the short space of five minutes after his case was called.

He was arrested last Tuesday night by Detectives George Theobald and Leo W. Pack upon a description of his car furnished police by the girl, whom Martin allegedly attacked on a darkened roadway in Wilson after he had offered a ride home to her and her brother.

Police said Martin told them he did not remember the alleged attack on the 10-year-old girl, but that he admitted the rape of another 16-year-old girl, who recognized his picture in The Standard-Examiner.   The second girl did not figure in the complaint to which he pleaded guilty.

Wife Expectant
Martin was turned over to state prison officials soon after his sentence Saturday by Sheriff John R. Watson and Deputies Earl Thompson and Gailord Taylor, who took him to Salt Lake City.

Mrs. Martin, officers said, who has refused to see her husband since the night of his arrest has been taken to her relatives home in Uintah.   She is expected to have her first child next month, officers said they had been informed.

JOLIET, III., Aug. 1C (U.R)— The source of supply for marijuana smokers at Joliet penitentiary was plowed under today.   A 10 by_15 foot bed of the narcotic weed was found near the old prison quarry after guards discovered three convicts smoking marijuana ciganets.

MARIJUANA DOSE PROVES FATAL
CALDWELL, Idaho, March 28 —Authorities today awaited word from Denver, Colo., as to disposition of the body of Fred Kaiser, 30, found dead in a cell in the county jail here Sunday.

Kaiser, reportedly a marijuana addict, was arrested and jailed on charge of possession of the drug.   His death was believed due to an overdose of the narcotic.
His parents live in Denver.

Double Stabbing in Nephi Hospitalizes Californians
NEPHI, Utah (UPI)- Two Jarlsbad, Calif., motorists were hospitalized following a double stabbing here Sunday.   Juab County sheriff Duane Sperry said Martha G. Jones 24 suffered two stab wounds in the back.   Robert Davis, 27, was stabbed in the abdomen.

Trooper Rex Hall of the Utah Highway Patrol took the motorists to Nephi Saturday night after their small foreign car ran off U.S. 91 about 19 miles south of Levan.

Sheriff Sperry said they checked into a Nephi motel, where the stabbing reportedly occurred Sunday about 2 a.m.

The woman was reported in satisfactory condition at Juab county Hospital here.   Davis /as transported to Utah Valley Hospital, Provo, where he was listed at press time today in poor to fair" condition following surgery.

[Marihuana Defense]
JURY CONVICTS YOUNG ROBBER
Court Sets Monday as Date for Sentence; One Charge Pending.
OGDEN.   —Virgil Thomas, 21, who has been in court a number of times within the past eighteen months, was convicted on a second degree burglary charge in Judge Geohce B. Barker's division of the Second district court Friday afternoon.   The jury deliberated twenty minutes.   Thomas was charged with robbing a service station at Twenty-third street and Grant avenue on the night of January 5. He was ordered to appear for sentence Monday.   Thomas testified in court that he was under the influence of marihuana at the time remembers nothing until he was struck over the head with a gun.

Thomas is still to be tried on a charge of robbery for the alleged holding up of J. T. Alsop the same night.

Some weeks ago Thomas was acquitted on a charge of robbing Thomas Williams, an ex-service man, of $5 in tabernacle square park on the night of October 17.

[Marihuana Defense]
SUSPECT ADMITS SLAYING.
Special to The Tribune.- FARMJNGTON.   —Nicholas Diaz, on trial in the Second district court pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree for the slaying of Juan Martinez early in the summer.   Diaz threw himself on the mercy of the Jury his plea being that he was under the influence of the narcotic marihuana at the time and did not know what he was doing.   The court probably will give the case to the jury Saturday morning.

[Marihuana Defense]
DETECTIVE FILES CHARGE AGAINST ALLEGED KNIFER
Victim Identifies Suspect; Blames Marihuana Sale for Quarrel.
A complaint charging Antone Gonzales, 27, of Blum, Utah, with assault with intent to commit murder, was filed with the county attorney and signed by Detective J. J. Ferrin, Thursday, in connection with a knife attack early Wednesday on Dario Marques.

Gonzales.   arrested at the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad station by Detective Chief David H: -Clayton early Thursday, was held in the city all until filing of the complaint and then transferred to the county jail.

The suspect was Identified, according to the police, by Marques as his assailant.   The wounded man was reported recovering at the Salt Lake County General hospital Thursday night.

The fight, which culminated in stabbing of Marques in the body, followed an argument over the sale of marihuana, said the police.   The stabbing occurred near Fourth West and second South streets.

[Marihuana Defense]
PARDONS BOARD SAVES SLAYER
Commutes Nicholas Diaz's Death Penalty to Life Imprisonment.
The state board of pardons, meeting Monday in the office of Warden R. E. Davis at the state penitentiary, commuted the sentence of Nicholas Diaz, convicted slayer, from the death penalty to life Imprisonment.   Execution of Dlas had been set November 8.

This board based Its action upon the fact that Diaz is only 20 years old, the strong probability that he was under the influence of marihuana and whisky when the crime was committed and upon the recommendation of the prosecuting attorney and the arresting officer.

On September 5, 1929, Diaz was convicted in Farmington of having slain Juan Martinez, a fellow railroad worker, near Kaysville on May 10 1929.   He had fled to California and was apprehended In San Francisco.   During his trial he admitted the slaying.   Because the jury failed to recommend leniency, 'the sentence to death was mandatory.

The case was appealed to the supreme court, which upheld the action of the Second district court.

At the regular meeting of the board of pardons on October 18, the Diaz case occupied the major portion of the time spent in considering pardons appeals.   The board reached no decision at that time, and again on October 20 the board deliberated for almost three hours without deciding the case.   Again Monday the board spent almost four hours in executive session before finally commuting the sentence to life imprisonment.

[Marihuana Defense]
Marijuana Blamed In Assault Case
POCATELLO, Idaho—Lester Thompson, 25, blamed marijuana clgarets for his assault with intent to rob a local store proprietor when he was sentenced in district court here Wednesday.

Thompson said be found the cigarets and did not remember having entered the store recently nor his attack upon Walter Kuhn with a lead pipe, for which he was convicted.   He pleaded guilty before Judge Jay L.. Downing and was sentenced to from five to fifteen years in the state penitentiary.

Hospital Guards Baby With Parents in Jail
The 9-month-old baby of Augustin and Bellan Amador was being cared for Thursday night at the Salt Lake county general hospital while the parents are in jail facing trial on charges of possession of marihuana The child was taken to the hospital for custodial care after Mr. and Mrs. Amador had pleaded not guilty before Judge Daniel Harrington Preliminary hearing of the couple was set for Monday.   Mrs. Amador carried the child into the courtroom.
[S]- SaltLakeTribune1932-03-29p14- “Nurses Keep Baby; Mother Goes to jail” Nurses Keep Baby; Mother Goes to Jail Pedro Amactor, one month old, was still in the care of the nurses at the Salt Lake general hospital Monday night after his mother, Bellan Amador, had been consigned to the county jail on charges of possession of marijuana.

Augustin Amador, father of the baby boy, was acquitted of the same charge by Judge Daniel Harrington, but late Monday night had failed to call for young Pedro.

The Amadors were charged with having the drug at 576 West Fourth South street on March 21.   Mrs. Amador failed to obtain the $1000 bail fixed for her appearance before the district court and was remanded to jail.

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Marihuana has been called the "killer drug."

In California, a man under its influence, killed his best friend, and then, coming out of the drug's effects, was as horrified as anyone else over what he had done.

In Colorado a man, whom, authorities had made arrangements with for a purchase of stolen cocaine, ran amok the night before the purchase was to be made, attempted to shoot his wife, but mortally wounded his grandmother, and, after shooting it out with police officers, killed himself.   He was a known marihuana addict.

In Florida, a youth who had become addicted to the drug, seized an ax and killed his father, mother, two brothers and a sister, the entire family.   In a fit of frenzy, he then ran to the porch shrieking madly that a number of people were trying to cut off his arms and legs.

Inasmuch as the harmful effects of marihuana are daily being more widely known and since it has been classed as a narcotic by the statutory laws of 18 American states, England and Mexico, the United States government will unquestionably be compelled to adopt a more consistent attitude toward it.

Harry J. Anslinger, chief of the federal bureau of narcotics, believes the states are primarily responsible for suppressing the vice.   They can act under the police powers.   The federal government has no such freedom.   The constitution limits its police authority

Narcotic Addicts Hopeless, California Officer Asserts
The arrest of a transient for trying to obtain morphine on a forged prescription the other day in Salt Lake City recalls allegations recently made that certain members of the medical fraternity were once suspected of laxity or complicity in dispensing opiates to addicts.   Presumably they have been expelled.

It is not often one hears of morphine as a menace since the hempen product of marijuana has become "a drug on the market."   This inanimate public enemy is held directly responsible for many of the most bestial crimes, including murder, torture, rape and arson.   It causes insanity and leads to suicide.   Many of its addicts are swaggering youths who seek therein a temporary reprieve from their inferiority complex.   Under its influence they feel able to conquer foes, overcome opposition and achieve wonders with no moral restraint of which they are cognizant.

Big racketeers do not handle marijuana because competition is too keen.   The weed is easily cultivated and may be grown on any vacant lot.   Of course, it is cultivated by depraved wretches who seek to make a living off the misfortune of their fellow creatures.   One Asiatic was arrested in Davis county some time ago for tending his patch of hemp with care and caution.

While 180 tons of marijuana were seized by federal agents in 1935 and 386 tons in 1936, it was not until October 1, 1937, that the plant and its product were listed in the narcotics act.   At that time it was made possible for action to be taken against every person, whether licensed to produce or sell the drug or not, caught disposing of it in any form or manner without a regular prescription.

The habit, once formed, is not easily cured.   Some contend that it undermines the will and moral sense to such a degree that the craving is almost ineradicable.   William Walker, chief of the California narcotics division, recently recommended to Governor-elect Culbert L. Olson that hospitals or narcotic patients be abolished, since "addiction is incurable."   Basing his opinion on the study of hundreds of cases and scores of alleged cures, he reached the conclusion that maintenance of such institutions is a waste of money.

In lieu of hospitalization he suggested that all addicts be registered, fingerprinted, given a physical examination and that the minimum amount of narcotics required by each addict be administered by duly designated physicians acting under federal authority.

"The solution to the narcotics problem," Walker said, "is control, not punishment."   He regards the detention and forcible treatment of these victims of habit hallucination as futile castigation rather than reformation.

According to his judgment, based on long experience, this plan, besides giving addicts a chance to lead an otherwise normal life, would largely remove the market for illegal traffic, eliminate venders and simplify enforcement of narcotics laws.

One of two most serious charges pending before the tribunal of civilization against Japan, alleging an offense more vicious and unpardonable than the burning of homes, the seizure of lands, the slaughter of noncombatants, the starvation of mothers and Children and the massacre of helpless captives is the production of narcotics with which it is trying to debauch the Chinese, whose government long treated it as a capital offense, and which Japanese are now dispensing through emissaries to all the world.

Laws have been enacted to put kidnapers in the same category with murderers.   Dope producers and peddlers belong in the same classification of malefactors.   No man caught in this traffic should ever be given a chance to get back into it.   He is worse than a murderer, just as imbecility and lasting disgrace are worse than death.

[Marihuana Defense]
Ex-Felon Will Be Deported
Nicholas Diaz, who on September 14, 1929, was sentenced to die for the murder of Juan Martinez, a fellow section hand, shortly will be returned to his native Mexico to spend the rest of his life.   The Utah state board of pardons Wednesday terminated his life sentence.

Prison officials informed the board that Diaz was in an unbalanced mental state, and that if he were to remain in the custody of the prison he might have to be transferred to the Utah State hospital.

Diaz shot his sleeping victim in the top of the head.   The defendant testified that he was so under the influence of marijuana that he did not remember the shooting.   District Judge George S. Barker sentenced Diaz to die on November 8 1929, but 12 days before the execution date the board of pardons commuted the sentence to a life term Diaz is 30 years of age.