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Show ALLEGED "DOPE" USERS ARE FINED Arrested March IR at the Hex hotel on a .barge of vagrancy V Courtney and John castros appeared for trial in the City cot,rt this morning Thr w-rre round fUUty and were each sentenced to a ?o0 fine or 30 days In jail The officers found two Improvised hv-l-cdermle needles, a small ouantltv of morphine, and other equipment ,,f drug user in the men's room, said Sergeant A II Stephens, Cpurtnej said In court this morning that he had been attached to the hospital hos-pital at Camp Lewis. As he was working work-ing among flu eases, he started taklne morphine having been told tnat thU was a preventive of Influenza Since then I. has not been able to break himself1 i the habit, he claimed Qastroa said )u had been "on th dope for about two months, but had merely taken a shot or two" occasion-1 allv t, be sorlnhl. During the time that the men were In an effort was made to smuggle "bln-dlca'' "bln-dlca'' .d mqrnhlni to them in doughnuts I This was tried on two occasions bnth attempts falling |