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Show WHITE ATTACKS HIS CRITiGSAS 'LIARS' Police Chief Angered by Publicity Given Failure to Suppress Vice. DEMANDS PROTECTION Says He Is Being Maligned by People Who Have Axes to Grind. In an appeal to the city conunUsioD for protection from further publicity concerning conditions in Salt Lake under un-der his regimo as chief of police, J. Parley White declared yesterday that "the responsibility for future moral conditions in Salt Lake must rest with Tho Tribune, the Betterment union and other 'dishonest' persons.'' '"The Tribune lied," the chief said, "when it said that the police department depart-ment and I, as chief, had ignored the government's order to clear the town of vice. There never was an order from the government to clear the town nf vice until recently. Only a few days ago did I receiver su.'h an order. "When the president was empowered to issue orders for -suppression of viee and sale of liquor last May, we wrote to the secretary of war for information. We were referred to the commander of the western division. lie in turn pas?ed the buck to someone else and the someone some-one else to someone else, until we ultimately ulti-mately discovered that there had as yet been no order made." Chief White's appeal, in which he specifically asked the commission to do something to protect him. followed a clash between Commissioner Karl A. Scheid. head of the public safety department, de-partment, and Attorney ( '. F. Loofbou-row. Loofbou-row. counsel for E. H. Rich, proprietor of the Wavne hotel. Mr. Loorbourow asked that' Mr. .Rich, whose license for the hotel the commission refused la.ct Tuesday to renew after a public hearing, hear-ing, be' allowed a temporary license for six months as insurance against business busi-ness losses in unloading his iiivesrir.ent in the hotel. War Measure, Scheid Says. "Whatever weight your argument might have Tinder ordinary conditions." answered the public safety comnus-sioner, comnus-sioner, "it is not sufficient to stand under those that now obtain. The sooner soon-er that everyone in Salt Lake gets it through his "head that we are at war and that the effort to clean this city is a war measure, definitely ordered by the war department, the sooner wiil misunderstanding and waste of time be eliminated from uur carrying that order into effect. Justice is blind and takes cognizance of nothing other than the enforcement of the law."' 'But justice, though blind, is de-; de-; pendent for its results upon the courts land juries, which are not blind." conn-j conn-j tered the attomev, himself a former judge of the Third judicial district. "Again I repeat." said Commissioner ; Scheid. " we are dealing with war and Jhave Veen called upon to act for war. The question of any man's individual ; interest, financial or otherwise, has no ( place in our considerations, no more I than has the protest of a man before Is draft board that his being drafted 1 would interfere with bis business and 'cause htm to lose personal profit."' : Attacks The Tribune. j i hief White announced in beginning 1 bis attack en The Tribune and making I his plea for protection that the tine I had come lor placing responsibility for j ice conditions in the city. f ! ''Whn a newspaper proclaims tr.at a town is wide open." said the chief. I ' ' nothing can keep the disorderly characters char-acters from flocking to that town.' 1 Having declared that he had not rc-I rc-I reived siecit'ic instruction, directed to him personally, from the federal gov-, gov-, eminent, lie admitted receipt of a copv lot" a circular letter imposing the sup-' sup-' prcsston of vice within a radius of five miles of nnv military station. Tne let-' let-' tor, he CNplained, was such as was sent broadcast and was not specifically di-rcttsi di-rcttsi at conditions in Salt Lake." The chief submitted as evidence of the city's cleanliness that a report from the military authorities at Fort IMug- las showed a rc-uiarkablv low percentage percent-age of cases of "social diseases " among tho soldiers there. lie declared that ho had lost h-is first belief that the members of the Civic Betterment union are sincere but misguided persons and had become convinced that they have au ulterior uioth e. Axes to Grind. " Everyone of mv critics has n bjs to gTiml," said the chief. "How can the police department keep the citv clean it' persons keep on proclaiming that the city is w ide open ? ' Chief White explained to the commission, commis-sion, when the case of Mr. Kich of the Wavne hotel came up for consideration, that Mr. h'ich. P. C. Hunt, manager of the Touraine hotel, and Mrs. Kittv Sleater, manager of the A.'tec rooming house, were rested We.niesdav nig hi because thev had ignored his order to doMst. from taking in new- guests, which had been the condition upon winch thev were to be permitted until tl o'clock l.i-t night to close their establishments, lle dul not inform the commission that the arrests were made after a representative representa-tive of The Tribune- had called lus ,.,(. tention to the tact that the rooming houses were doing "business as usual'' and that the arrests follow,', hi bcui.. so informed. 1'oth hotels were o'lcii last night. ' Commissioner Scheid and Chief While addressed the lueinbeis ,f the police department at a siecial meeting .-tei.l-iv nl'lernooii, giving iiimiuc-tions iiimiuc-tions that the suppression ,' u gambling and boollcggmg !.,,,' to be the work of the moial ,s,u;i.i ;il,,iu, livery patrolman mut be re-pe-ei' sild., for the preservation f order and 1 lie enforcement of law oti his beat '' Mr. Scheid said. ' ' |