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Show ARE GIVEN LECTURE AND SENT TO PRISON California Judge Discusses Value of Trees in Sentencing Two Counterfeiters. SAN FRANCISCO Dee 18. Two eonweted counterfeiters, in whose possession pos-session were found alleged derisive past era reading Do not dme copper nails or tacks in fruit trees or grape vines it hurts them while Ford and Soar are in jail, were told today by Judge Maunee T Doohng, in the United Stages district court that one good I fruit tree was more talnable to Call forma than any man or set of men who attempted to destroy them Judge Doobng then sentenced the two lira. Jean Bennett and Clarence Farlin of Portland, Ore. to two years each in San Qnentin penitentiary Both were said by federal authorities to have taken part in note by Industrial Work era of Hhe World at Portland 'Claude Lawless of Sacramento Cat. tried with the two was given a like sentence Governor Hiram Johnson issued a proclamation some time ago denouncing what he said was an organized Indus trial Workers campaign for the destruction de-struction of property and referred to the distribution of the pasters as part of it Mrs Bennett admitted the pasters were found in her room but said she did not know bow thev got there Herman Ford and Richard Suhr are serving penitentiary terms for murder in the Wheatland hop riots of 1913 in which four men were killed. Governor Johnson refused to interfere with the punishment of the men |