Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-10-26 | Page 2 | Bootleggers' Rum Used to Cure Flu

BOOTLEGGERS' HUM USED MURE FLU State Custodian Cires Out Seized Liquor for Medicinal Medi-cinal Use. DENVER. Oct. . Whisky taken from bootl.ft,ers by members of the state constabulary la being put to good use these daya. Several noepltaia. unable un-able to obtain whlaky In sufficient quantities quickly, have been provided I with all the whisky needed by Colonel Frank Adaraa, head of tha ataia department de-partment of aafety. Whl.ky and aspirin are the chief medicines which, according to phyai-clans. phyai-clans. havs beneficial efferta upon persons per-sons stricken with Hpanleh -flu." Ko great waa the demand at taw hospitals for whisky that the supply aa band a-as soon exhausted. With nearly lu.ooe galaaaa ef whisky In his custody. Colonel Adama waa In a position to help those hoepttale In need. Indirectly the bootlegaera, aayj ths physicians, have been the mean, of aavlng many Uvea during aha Last two or three weeka. J