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0 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 10, 1920 TRIO ARRESTED DM LIQUOR PLOT CHARG E Ex-Mayor of Redondo, Cal. Taken Into Custody. MRS. WARBURTON NAMED Ex-Acting Prohibition Director Is fciocn Willi Suspect ; Murder of One by King Is Intimated. men under suspicion for violation of the prohibition laws has created a puzzling situation for the investi gators, who are working on the the ory that he was murdered. They are convinced that his death was encom passed by members of the bootleggers' ring, jbut there are two theories to account for the desire for his death. One of these theories is that Hand ley's acquaintance with the members of the ring antedated his appoint ment to the office of prohibition di rector and that his continuance of the acquaintance enabled him to ofctain information as to the methods of the ring. Another is that he had osten sibly become a party to the arrange ments illegally to withdraw liquor from bonded warehouses. U. S. DOZES, ALLIES GRAB, SAYS HARDING Britain Controls Petroleum Supply, Senator Warns. AMENDMENT IS DEFENDED WILSON POLICY BLAMED AntI - Vaccinationists tion of Measure Interpreta-Given. .SAN FRAN'CISCO. Oct. 9. (Spe eial.) The issuance of "Warrants to - . . i . n 1 .. 1 . i 1 day ior me arresi qi peop)e at tne coming election, ex-mayor or neaonao ana cnairmim of the republican county central com mittee, in I-os Angeles; Douglas N. Newton, manager of the United Taxi cab company, and Harry C. Murphy marked another step in the expose of an alleged coastwide bootlegging plot. The complaints were sworn ..i... -J. out by Assistarit United States Attorney Gels and charged Brolaski and the other two men with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. United States Commissioner Francis Krull Immediately drew up warrants for the arrest of the alleged leaders of the liquor ring. Deputy United States Marshal Grover took charge of serving the warrants. That Brolaski was the brains be hind the amazing plot by which liq uor has been removed from bonded warehouses by means of forged per mits and later distributed at enor mous profits in various sections of the state was the charge made yes terday by District Attorney Silva. Further Arrests Predicted. Although the arrest of the trio is expected to clear up important phases of the intricate web woven to defeat national prohibition enforcement in this section. Silva did not hesitate to predict further arrests within the next few days. The district attorney admitted that more than one federal official and more than one federal employe is under investigation as being involved in illegal removal of whisky from the warehouses. Federal officers today seized rec . ords and papers of C. J. Yourwgberg, 409 ' Washington street, a custom house and internal revenue broker, who was said to have been friendly with Brolaski. A blank liquor per mit was found among the records. This is being investigated. "There's nothing unusual about the permit," Youngberg said, when ques tioned by Prohibition Field Agent Rutter. "A man that does the busi ness that I do might easily have It in his possession." Liquor Dealings Denied. The broker denied that he had ever had any dealings involving liquor with Brolaski. With today's disclosures. Attorney Silvat renewed his efforts to locate A. C. DeValle, chauffeur of the auto mobile -in which ex-Director Handley met his death on September 20. It was said that DeValle had been seen in Sacramento Friday. Numerous reports that Handley was murdered by agents of a gigantic bootlegging ring have been made to SUva's office and are not being con sidered lightly, it was indicated. A significant ancle developed by these reports is the allegation that a $200,- 000 whisky deal was consummated the day before Handley's death. The owner of the "death car" which DeValle declared was forced from the road under suspicious circumstances is still unknown to the federal au thorities.! Silva said. He admitted that "jealousy" might have been the motive for Handley's murder, should it be proved that his death was not accidental. 1 Friend of BrolitHkl Called. William M. Dean. 423 Twenty-, seventh avenue, known to be a close friend of Brolaski, was summoned to Silva's office and closely questioned relative to information he might have concerning the alleged ring. Today's rapid fire developments convinced federal authorities that the ring, which is believed to have been headed by Brolaski, is only the master ring. Other rings working in con nection with the leaders are believed to in existence. Operatives of these smaller "rings" are known to have'been "headquar ters" in the . lobby of a downtown hotel and it was here that whisky prices were made today. Later these agents of the rings would consum mate he sales in a "dummy office" in the Crocker building. That there may be some women well known along San Francisco's white way in volved in the workings of the com plicated bootlegging' plot is consid ered possible by federal officials. Woman Officeholder' Mentioned. That Mrs. Glad Kimball Warburton, ex-acting director of probations, whose dismissal was made known Friday, was on friendly terms with Brolaski was another startling report reaching the federal building. It was' said that Mrs. Warburton has been seen on several occasions during the last week with the alleged "master mind" of the traffic and she attended the Scotti grand opera under, his es cort, j Harry Brolaski was arrested in the office of his attorney; Hugo K. Asher, by Isaac Grover, deputy United States marshal, and James Doyle of the in ternal revenue department at 5:45 o'clock tonight. Brolaski was ar raigned before Commissioner Krull on a charge that Brolaski and others, in August. 1920, conspired to with draw from a United States bonded warehouse 20 barrels of whisky for beverage purposes. Brolaski was re leased on S10.000 bonds furnished by Attorney Asher. r Statement la lannrd. He made the following statement: "I had intended to make a state ment, but on account of my attorney I can say nothing except that politics and nothing else is at the bottom of this. When the time comes. I will show my hand in a nice, surprising manner. That is all I have got to say." PORTLAND, Oct. 9. (To -the Edi tor.) Recently there have appeared in the public press articles emanating from the public health authorities at tacking the proposed anti-compulsory vaccination amendment to the state constitution to be voted on by the Novem ber 2. The healtn authorities, in those articles, attempt to misconstrue the scope of this amendment and its op eration, and thus to mislead the pub lic, and with this object in view sought and obtained an opinion from a deputy city attorney that seems to fit in with the desires of the oppo nents of this measure. The .undersigned deems it his duty at this time, inasmuch as he prepared the initiative petition incorporating this amendment for the Public School Protective league of Oregon, to defend thisamendment against these unjust attacks. There can be found nothing in the amendment tha can possibly warrant the impression being spread broad cast by the health officers that it will abolish the present laws or prevent the passage of any legislation in the future covering reasonable quaran tine and sanitary practices by the health authorities. Most of the peo ple rightly believe in quarantine and sanitary measures. Here is the proposed anti-compulsory' vaccination amendment, which reads as follows: No form of vaccination, inocula tion or other medication shall be made condition in this state for admis sion to or attendance in any public school, college, university or other ed ucational institution: or for the e pioyment of any person in any ca pacity, or for the exercise of any right, the performance of any duty, or the enjoyment of any privilege." There is nothing in trhis amendment that can warrant any assumption that it will prevent quarantine of con taglous diseases and the enforcement of sanitary measures. Quarantine is not vaccination, inoculation or medi cation. The only words that the opponents of this amendment can possibly se lect to misconstrue is the phrase or other medication" in the clause "no form of vaccination, inoculation or other medication." They might con tend that this phrase, being general. includes all kirds of medical treat ment. If so, then our legal friends In the city hall apparently have failed to apply the elementary rules of stat utory construction in making their "analysis" of this amendment for the health bureau. That this amendment will abolish all the health activities of the public authorities, result in increased epi demics and deaths, increase the popu lation of the underworld, that so- called social disease, and handling of foodstuffs cannot be controlled as they are now, etc., are highly imag inative assertions, for which no basis whatever can be found in this amend ment if-the legal rules of construc tion are applied. It is an elementary principle of statutory construction, long estab lished and recognized everywhere, and supported by a mass of precedents, that "when there are genral w.rds following particular and specific words, the former must be confined to things of the same kind. This is known as the rule' or doctrine of eius- dem generis." (Sutherland on Statu tory Construction. Vol. 2, Sec. 422.) In the case of Nichols vs. Statg, 127 Ind. 406. the rule. Is clearly stated: Cheering Throngs Pack Streets lor Many Blocks When Nominee Invades Oklahoma City. The rule i thatwhere words of particular aescripiion in a statute are followed by general , words that are not so specific and limited, unless there be a clear manifestation of contrary purpose, the general words are to be construed as applicable to persons or things or cases of like kind to those designated by the par ticular words. To illustrate: In a statute are the woras " warenousemen, wharfingers and other persons." The words "othel persons the court holds "must be un- devtood to refer to the other persona ejusdem generis" (same general char acter), "viz.. those who conduct the business of warehousemen or wharf ingers with some other pursuit, such as shipping, grinding or manufactur ing. (Bucher vs. Commonwealth, 103 P. Sa. 555.) Many illustrations from adjudicated cases could be given n space permuted. Applying tnis- principle to our amendment, t: ; words "or other med lcation must be understood to refer to any medication of the same gen eral nature or character as described by the words' that precede the word medication, that is, any process of injecting infectious matter into the blood and body of the individual. It is not the purpose of this amend ment to prevent anyone voluntarily suDmuting to vaccination or to pre vent any physician vaccinating any one who requests it. - But-it is clear ly the purpose and substance of the amendment to prevent vaccination be ing iorcea Dy compulsory measures upon those who do not believe in the so-called efficiency of vaccination and who wish and should have the right to protect themselves from its dele terious and often disastrous and fa iai ciiei-is. Aumenuc statistics are aDundant, notwithstanding the "statis tcs or the doctors to the contrary, that inoculation is dangerous, causes r.iuch sicKness and some deaths, and plants the seeds of future diseases in the human system. y . JUNIUS,. V. OH MART. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Oct. 9. Again thrusting at the foreign policy of the Wilson administration. Senator Harding told voters of democratic Oklahoma tonight that while the American government was beguiling them with idealistic notions of a new social era, " the other nations had reached out to dominate commerce and industry through control of the petroleum supply. British interests, he declared, had put their hands on petroleum re sources in many quarters, foreseeing day when oil would become the mainspring of material progress. He said it was high tjme the United States also gave attention to ma terial wellbeing and stood behind American promoters. Wuestiontng whether other powers have "taken very seriously" the "self abnegating aims which the Washing ton government has been proclaim ing," the senator assailed again the league of nations and said he wanted no voter to be in doubt about his de termination to stay out of the covenant. Fair Crowd Hears , Senator. Senator Harding's night speech, last of his mid-western trip, was de livered at the state fair grounds. Earlier he had made several platform speeches on his way across Kansas and Oklahoma. Cheering crowds greeted the nom inee at all of his stops and at Okla homa City his train was met by i throng which packed the streets for more than a block. At Ponca City. Okla-, when a farm er handed up a printed circular quot ing him as advocating dollar wheat, the candidate characterized the state ment as a "miserable, silly old lie,' and, crumpling up the paper, tossed it back into the crowd. He said the story started from his having re marked in the senate once, that tie could remember when in normal times dollar wheat was very desirable. Why, if you wanted to refer back to Bryan's day," he continued, while the crowd yelled again, "you would have shouted your heads off to get a dollar a bushel. But that does not apply now." City Termed Petrol Center. Praising American genius and en terprise in its development of Ameri can petroleum reseiorces. the senator termed Oklahoma City the "world's metropolis of petroleum." But the star of petroleums em pire travels always from the exhaust ed fields to newly opened territory," he continued. "New fields must be opened and before many years we will be compelled to draw upon other countries. We must turn again now. after an excursion of some eight years into the realm of lofty and no doubt most en nobling idealism, to a national consid eration of some very plain practicali ties of life. The plain fact is that while our government has been attempting to organize a model state of society. other great states have been looking about for the means to dominate pe troleum .production, because they might find the power to control the commerce, trade. Industry of the world. Britain Sway tMt Per cent. "Our forehanded British comeptitors have been at the front in seeking to control the future production of min eral oil. An eminent British authority recently declared that the British em pire controls more than 90 per cent of the world's known supplies. we nave seen Mesopotamia ana Baku, Trinidad and Royal Dutch, the the Kast Indies. Persia, Colombia and Mexico all falling into the hands or under the influence of British oil interests. It has been freely charged, and never seriously denied, that some European governments have secured preferential agreements with certain countries, giving to European oil op erators great, and in some cases sub stantially exclusive, privileges on oil development. So far has this gone, that there is' real danger that Ameri cans, who gave this industry to the world, may presently find themselves shut out from equal opportunities. "The truth ls'that undes the pres ent administration there has been such an intense engrossment with certain idealistic notions' about international relaions. that the plain work-a-day phases of our dealings with the world have been sadfy neglected. We need to get back to the practicalities of life to make sure that Americans shall be guaranteed equal privileges and opportunities with the citizens of every other country in the business and industrial activities of the world." Before his speech. Senator Harding rode at the head of an. old-fashioned torchlight parade. At the pavilion where he spoke the nominee and Mrs. Harding were cheered for more than five minutes. . Before4te was present ed a civil war fife and drum corps whooped, it up for five minutes under the lead of a grizzled drum major. Mrs. Abbey- Hilleman,- a . republican nominee for presidential elector for this state, presented the ""minee. Our Exceptional Values ake Waiting Unnecessary - - -fc'!ra'.a:;iT 'v f IVat ArWV ' 0011 wm P i mm,:v. j.w.it irrvifitfisWif i HOUSANDS of people all over the country are waiting patiently for the market to "break." Whether it will do so or not is difficult to tell. In any case, there's no need for you to wait any further. Our exceptional values make that unnecessary. For instance, we have just received a brand new shipment of wonderful suits, coats and raincoats that our buyer bought at greatly reduced prices. These we are selling at v fj$3Q $35 ig-4 Don't miss this chance to get standard made clothes at prices far below those neces sarily charged by the ordinary kind of store. Soils Overcoats LOW (jT AS NO HIGHER THAN Raincoats Alterations Free Satisfaction or Your Money Back Fit Guaranteed Raleigh Building, Sixth .. FAHEY-BROCKMAN BUILDINQ and Washington, Portland AND ARCADE BUILDING, SEATTLE Up-stairs Clothiers & nil JUJ Buy lip-stairs asd save $10 Zone Protested. , vAfSTdTWr, I . ZZZZ, 1 Frontier "Dry MEXICO CITY, Oct. 9. Protests against the proposed federal measure establishnir a "dry" zone alon the United States frontier were laii be fore Provisional President de la Huevta. by two delegations from Juarez yesterday ' I. My Spe ciaX $50 and $100 Diamond itings Have No Equal iiiiiimiiiimiiiu.' PORT FUNDS ALLOTTED !l Coos Bay G;ls $125,000, Columbia and "Willamette $226,000. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, C onvict on that Wen A. Handley, Funds for the river and harbor ex-federal prohibition enforcement improvements . appropriated in a tl t liXuL v!rt,uaI1y ha8 -lump sum at the last session of con- Imff Vhe m"?ds of fed- i sress have been allotted for the north eral authorities, who are tnvestieat- ! . . InR the various ramifications of the Rlfrantic bootlegging ring that makes its headquarters in San Francisco. Further, it is the belief that Handley was robbed either before or after his death of J40.000 he is understood to have had in his possession. I. oh Anergics Home Robbed. A few hours after news of Hand ley's death had become public, his home In I.os Angeles was robbed, the circumstances indicating that -documents that might be of a nature to incriminate others were the object of the search. Records that should have been found in Handley's office also are missing and it is the belief that the office was looted by the same parties responsible for the robbery of his home. 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