| Show I GREEN BEEN GIVES CIVES AGENTS LIQUOR Suspended Dry Administrator Administrator Says He Doesn't Drink Drink Alone Alone I Is s SAN CISCO July 24 24 By The Associated A Press Press i series of ot conferences wr held Saturday by federal officials and Col NedI Ned I M 31 Green depo deposed ed pro pro- prohibition prohibition administrator for north north- northern ern Im em California and Nevada as a the final preliminaries to a federal fed grand rant jury Investigation atlon which will be Invoked Monday Into Col Greens Groen's administration of office TO INDICT U S Attorney George hatfield has said ho he will seek to Indict Green for Or misappropriating liquor seized by the government and with misconduct In Ln office Col Green ha has answered he lie will welcome art an Indictment and trial In tile United States district court because It it- it will establish he ho has no been In possession of f governmentally go con con- controlled controlled con controlled trolled liquor has not been boen guilty of misconduct and that his In- In nt al and trIal will ft a had bad light Green was suspended from of office of- of office fice lice on orders from Washington Ills His office has IU been taken over O overby overby by Col Sam I Johnson Co Col Greens Green's chief aide GIVES GI AGENTS AGE LIQUOR Agents Arents from the special Intel Intel- IntelI i j licence department of ot the revenue bureau visited Green Colonel Colonel Colonel- Green In his room room at the he Hot Hotel Hotd Whitcomb They said thy wanted the liquor which was In his Isis pos poe pos possession 8 session Colonel Green Groen smiling admitted them and said You can take tako anything In the room you want He lie then turned o oer over er to the agents a no varied assortment of liquors which almost tilted filled a bu- bu bureau bureau bu bureau reau drawer Some Somo of that hat stuff may be pre pee stuff and some of It may not no but what what'S the tho difference Its It's not against the law to have In your home or to offer It to a guest WONT WON'T DRINK I have had liquor In my iny room Colonel Green said ald but It Ii has been sent to me ma by persons Un- Un un unknown known kno 0 to me I find liquor which has been cn left 1 In my room and In my offices Friends who have havo called on IT ITIn mo mu In my room at the hotel have accepted my Invitation In to drink M 01 friends know that I drink very cry seldom and I wont won't drink alone alone If It visIt visIt- ors ore or call cali on me I offer them u is drink I wont won't be a death head and I join them In the drink eun esell If It gags caps me I have havo nothing toft-ar toft to tear ar or to be bo ashamed of In this tempest tempes ERS OFFE S I In his loom at the Hotel Whit Whit- Whit comb comb crowded crowded throughout the day Y with reporters and camera campra men men- men Col Ned M 21 Green suspended chief chief today reveR revealed ed for forthe forthe forthe the first time the terms under he accepted the office ot of prohibition director for tor northern California and Nevada When n named for th place Colonel Green Gren said he told Colonel Andrews In charge charGo ot of o na- na national na national prohibition enforcement that he hI would not go snooping Around mak grandstand raids His lBs ration h hi he was as the th tort rort In keeping with mill mili dignity common sense and Iho he will of ot a II community In which there were were more wets than drys drs They accepted me om thes terms I told them thorn I would nobe not be a a a policeman n and break into Inlo peoples people's homes and hot hotels ls and embarrass a lot of Innocent people to catch a few fow petty offenders I have havo given glnn a business adminis admInis- admInistration administration administration We got at the source Ye We hero destroyed more still stilli Nt NO 1 WILD P Referring to his lI con conduct con con- conduct duct duet Grout Green denied with with military vehemence that he ever was as host at wild parties given In hi his hotel rooms Parties sure suro I haJ hai dinner served In m my rooms several times he said Women present yes wives ot of army officers and others Liquor Sure Sura But drinks ata at ata a party do not turn It 11 Into a I wild orgy In answer to a II question front from one of the reporters keeping liquor In his room Colonel Green pulled out a dresser drawer and showed a dozen assorted bottles I had two million dollars worth of o liquor In my charge lie ho said and ond If anone anyone wants to investigate how I got sot these bottles In my room I will welcome It it They were gifts girts Any of you hero here hereIn heroIn In the room goons who want a drink are oro invited d to have ha one now Not one reporter moved toward the bureau drawers Have Havo you a right to offer It was the next question Sure I have a legal right I r P T nl Any way That's hospitality Cut But If It you dont don't believe In enforcement have you OU any busi bust business busIness ness In the prohibition office NO XO PETTY pEm May be I do believe belle In en- en enforcement en enforcement I In the big sense But Dut you cant can't get any here with sith 1111 this petty stuff I was never a wing In grower They knew It when they sent me out here They had my army record my record as head ot of the American military police pollee In Paris 1 during the world war This J job b Isn't one I 1 sought Any man who takes it Is just jut a target for attack But they cant can't break me Im I'm In the clear And with another oCr to the themen themen men In the room to help them them- themselves themselves selves to a drink Green Grep Gre n closed the tho Interview and left for Mo Mo- Mo Modesto Io- Io desto for a week-end week trip I 1 was going anyway be said 00 00 |
