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Show C APT A IN W. F. BEEK, who had a prominent i part in last night's lively I colloquy in city commission I meeting. ' " " i v " i siy 4 i , t " - - . s,v CAPTAIN DEED' IN WRATHFUL MGOD Tells Mayor Somebody Lied About Milk Controversy; Defends Soldiers. Looking straight into the eyes of Mayor W. Mont Perry at last night's city commission meeting, Captain K . V. Beer of the medical reserve corps of the L'niteri States army gave the lio to any person willing to admit authorship of an unsigned communication "with which he faced the mayor. The letter was delivered by Mayor Ferry to the adjutant of the Fort Douglas prison camp, the camp commander com-mander being absent at the time. This Mayor Ferry admitted, but he did not say who wrote the letter. The communication was not read, but Mayor Ferry admitted later that it was in answer to Captain Beer's charge ot delay on the part of the city health department, in affording a test report on milk being used at the prison camp. That Captain Beer had threatened members of the city health department with internment in the war prison if the mill; test were not soon made and a report submitted was one of the statements state-ments in the communication according to Maor Feiry. Information of the making of such a threat was given him by one of the inspectors of the health department, says the mayor. Mayor Ferry said last night that the comniunication to the war prison commandant com-mandant was compiled by himself and Bt. C. J. Albaugh, city health commissioner. commis-sioner. Asked why the communication was not signed, he said there "was no necessity for its being signed, he having hav-ing delivered it himself in person. Captain Beer's challenge was his second sec-ond dramatic breaking into the proceedings proceed-ings of the commission meeting. The first was occasioned by his hearing the soldiers brought into the general discussion dis-cussion of moral conditions in the c-ity. Thrs discussion was launched when a delegation from the Betterment league undertook to give the commission an unexpurirated report on alleged negligence negli-gence of the police department as to enforcement of the laws. Members of the delegation had charged that vice, the sale of liquor and j other forms of license were but little I hampered by anv activity on the part of police. ,T. Parley "White was an-Lowering an-Lowering the charges of the delegation 'members. In his defensive remarks, the police chief charged much of the moral delinquency complained of by the Betterment league representatives to , the presence of soldiers in the com- J nuinity The chief's arraignment of1 the soldiers was prefaced with the an-nouncomeut an-nouncomeut that what lie was about to ;a uas not for publication. Present ' in pursuit of an interview-wit interview-wit h the mavor on the matter of the communication. Captain Beer requested to say something on the question raised by the chief. li Until recen tly, '"' said the captain, ' 1 a large per ceni of the soldiers now i at t lie fort were members of the ci-; ci-; vilian community upon which rhev are! now charged by the chief of police" with having an exaggerated immoral effect. They are our boys now just as much as when in civilian clothes, and are no worse since they donned the uniforms that set them a parr from their companions com-panions of yesterday, who, remaining in civilian clothes, are not so much : lit-ld up to inspection a a class. "The difference is ihiu these you UK mon are more afesunrded now i han before I entering the M-rvue. on at least some ! point?. Since they weie not charseahle. I before they became soldiery, with responsibility respon-sibility for ; lie moral condition? of the . community, it is nor consistent thn.t the burden of complaint should be y hunted upon thm now. Loss railing at the soldiers sol-diers and more care on the oarL of those responsible for the saresruardin;- of pirlj would heln so:rip not in projecting, them from soldiers especially, but in proiet-iucr proiet-iucr them from conditions that rivalled here before any soldiers were stationed at the fort." Another sensation was injected into ;he proceedins of the evrmns: when Commissioner Commis-sioner S;ephen H. Xevvman pointodly chahenwed a statement made by Oryon II. Hewlett of the lietterment ieacue de)p;r;i-tion de)p;r;i-tion to the effect that mmhers of the commission were known to have said ti;ev favored an open town. Commissioner Newman demanded that the name of the commissioner he tiven. Mr. Hewlett de- (Ccntinucd on Page Fifteen.) CAPI1 BEER 15 STIRRED TO WRATH (Continued from Page One.) murred. Mr, Newman insisted and Mr. Hewlett explained that such, at least, was the rumor. Mr. Newman closed with the answer that he was interested in facts and not rumors. J. H. Evans, one of the members of the delegation, denied that a grand jury investigation in-vestigation was contemplated by the league and said that he 1 did not know where the report had originated. His statement was made in response to the mayor's assertion that, 'since a published report had announced a proceeding of the sort as. imminent, perhaps It would be as well to have It carried through. Chief "White faced Mr. Evans with a demand as to why lie had nol made use of his police badge to arrest some offenders, offen-ders, since he claimed knowledge of offenses of-fenses of various kinds.' Evans retorted that he and the' others of the league were not undertaking to do the work for which the policemen are paid. At the conclusion of the discussion of the problem of the alleged maladministration maladminis-tration of tlie a ffairs of the police depart de-part ment. Commissioner "Wells offere'd a motion that it be tlie sense of tlie com- mission that tlie most effective enforce- j ment possible of all laws was expected of the police. With tlie departure of the delegation. Dr. Beer claimed the attention of the mayor as he sat at the commission table and the other commissioners were auditors audi-tors to what parsed between the army captain and the city's chief executive. Captain B'eer charged that his requests : for a test of the milk used at the prison camp and a report, which he filed with his i colonel had been ignored by the health 1 department. He said, before he had j finished, that Dr. Albaugh, city health , commissioner, had been responsible for j thia because of personal prejudice against ' him. ! Mayor Ferry retorted that the report 1 might have had quicker attention had the request been made to him as head of the department. Captain Beer said that if the city would not afford the information in-formation asked as to the quality of the milk being furnished at the prison, camp it would be necessary to request such information of the state health officials. 1 It was at this Juncture that Captain Beer took from his pocket and showed the letter which he said contained lies authorized by some one who- had failed to sign his name. He stated that the letter was delivered at the fort by the mayor, who admitted the correctness of the statement. "No matter 'who wrote this," &aid the captain, holding tlie gaze of the mayor as he stood over him, "there are statements state-ments in it that are absolute lies." Mayor Ferry showed no change of countenance, a.sking a moment later if Captain Beer still desired the test and report on the milk and being informed that tlie captain had meant to convey the impression that he did. |