Show DEFENDS POISON IN U S So ALCOHOL Mills Replies to Charges Male l After Sixteen Deaths NEW KEW EW YORK yom Dec Dee By 28 By y The rhe AssocIated Press Press-Chargee Pre Press Charges s-Charges Charges that some ot of o the 16 18 alcoholic poisoning holi- holi holidays lion day deaths over the Christmas days were caused by poisons put lut rutin In alcohol by the Ute government go Mon Mon- Monday Monday day brought broucht a defense of ot govern govern- government government ment nt denaturing from front Chester P Mills federal prohibition administrator administrator Chief Medical Examiner Norris commenting on the 16 deaths said The government knows it Is not nOl stopping drinking by putting poi poi- poison poi poison son sort In alcohol It knows what bOOtleggers are doing with It and yet It continues Its poisoning pro processes ceases Jno Knotting Ing this to be bo true the government must be charged with the deaths death that poisoned I liquor quor causes Assistant Medical Examiner Gon- Gon Gonsales Gonzales sales zales said that autopsies on seven of the dead revealed the cause of death to have been excessive drink drink in In Sag an and not poisoning Tho denaturing Mills said was dono in order that users of ot alco alco- alcohol alco- alco alcohol alcohol hol for non purposes might avoid payment of tho high hll ll lac on grain alcohol and there ti-at ti wi 1 wino no intent on the part of o the he gov government to risk the lives of ot citi citizens zens The denaturing had been goIng on since sinco 1906 Mills said The denaturing denaturing he said also helps the domestic dealers daters meet foreign on a nearly equal basis Eight additional alcoholic pol poison on cases were admitted at Bellevue Belle durIng the da day |