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Show CHINESE IS GIVEN 30 DAYS IN PRISON In sentencing 13. Foon, a Chinese, to thirty days In the stato prison for having yen slice In his possession. Judge M. L. Ritchie of the criminal division of the ! district court remarked vesterday that he did not believe the law making tho possession of drugs a felony was meant rs a means of persecuting those unfortunates unfor-tunates who arc hopeless victims of tho habit. Thirty days is the minimum sentence sen-tence that can be pronounced in such cases. Foon pleaded guilty to tho charge, but declared that ho did not know it was against tho law to havo the drug on hand, nnd vowed he kept It only for his own ufeo and not for sale. |