Samoans' drug
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sensation
Probably not for generations has lynch fever run so high in West ern Samoa as it did in July when the arrest of four American yachtees, two men and two women, after drugs had been found in their stranded yacht Nomad, sparked off a sensation which only simmered down when three of them were gaoled.
They were the country’s first drug offenders, which was sensa tion enough for the Samoans, but what caused the fever was that one of the yachtees, John Frederick Ford, 24, of 881 Holyglen, Long Beach, California, who was gaoled for three terms of four years each concurrent, had given some of the drugs to two young Samoan boys.
Ford was also fined $4OO. Samuel Clark Buell, 30, of Lahaina, Maui got 12 months and fined $lOO.
Kathleen Cook, 23, of Portland, Oregon, was gaoled for six months and fined $lOO. Adella Ann Garza, 21, of Monterey Park, California, had the charges against her with drawn. The judge recommended deportation for the convicted three as soon as possible, even if the sen tences had not been served.