: STATEMENT ON LIQUOR GIVEN I Former Commissioner Jones Says Most Intoxicants Went to Flu Patients Eclitor Standard-Examiner: As there hns been considerable said through the press about the reported ) disappearance of liquor from the po- lice station prior to January 5, I think i Jn justice to Chief Browning and his " lyl !, associated the citizens of Ogden city ; should know the truth of the matter j-' and then they can judge for them-t selves. I ' ' 5 j During the epidemic of the flu, (J. : 3 . Officer .Mr. Price and his associ- I Kle Cle upon Chief Browning and Tviyself and requested us to furnish the , p Hospitals, Logan, Malad and other cities cit-ies in this part of the state,-with what liquor we had on hand and he said ,. j Jhat if our supply should run out to , . ;totify him at Salt Lake and he would f 2Lond up what we needed, as it was, 4jio policy of the government to as- ist in the relief of the sick. . Malad City and Logan both received liquor from the police station as did, ; -also the hospitals. And when a call was made in case of emergency byi physicians, distribution was made! through the health department. There I iare a groat many people in Ogden ftity that can testify as to having re-1 j "3eiVed liquor in this way and they. I I -Tvere not requested to sign for it as ! i 1 .tTvc deemed a request from their phy-; j Xiciah sufficient. In one instance I Xhere was a small quantity stolen be-' ! '.fore it was placed in the property j 1 J j oom, this occurred on the night of, i i jhe fire at the Ice house when all the j ! ' Regular officers were on duty, so we . i' jvere not able to find out Just who. I ;was responsible for its disappearance, i I am firmly of the opinion that wej I ;did right in giving it to those who had; faith that it would help them and in! nany cases no doubt it did. As an! illustration, one day I was detained at my office a little late and a good re-j liable citizen, whom 1 have known for; many years, came in and asked me to" get him a small boitle of brandy ori whisky, as his little girl was very sick' with pneumonia. The health depart-1 inent officials had all gone and I hesi-! (ated for a moment but upon second 'consideration I thought that this was a case worthy of attention and I called up the property clerk, who was then at his home and he came down and t X gave the man a small bottle. A day Ur so after this the little girl died andj had I refused assistance in this case L would always have condemned my-' .self. I want to say in behalf of Chief' Drowning and his associates that, through the so-called and much talked i ;pf nvcstlgation, they did not connect xhem with any wrong doing, notwith-i Standing their enemies were in con-j trol of the, investigation. A few min- utes perusal of the report will be suf- ficient to satisfy any honest, fair minded person as to these facts. ! I regret very much that matters of i this kind should arise, but when they, do then the citizens are entitled to the truth and they can judge for themselves, them-selves, j M. L. JONES.