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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Don't miss this chance to get standard made clothes at prices far below those neces
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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 '
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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.
Handley's known association with
fri-- '-iirn irrMn
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. Old Jewelry
AT VERY MODERATE COST
j Coos Bay, Or.', $125,000; ColumBia
river below Vancouver and lower
' Willamette rivers, 12-26,000; Wil
lamette river above Portland. the
Yamhill 'river $21,000: Lewis river in
Washington $6000; Cowlitz river' in
(Washington $5000.-
The war , department iv announced
today the religious affiliation of all
the recently appointed regular army
chaplains, instituting- the following
from Oregon:
Berton F. Bronzson, 831 OverlookJ
boulevard. Portland, Baptist: Edward
E'-lne, Eugene. Disciples; Cornelius
A. Maher, Astoria; Roman Catholic.
Edward Conyers. first lieutenant,
has been discharged honorably from
the army at Vancouver, barracks,
Washington, his services being no
longer required.
Has it occurred, to .you that, without going to much expense,
you might have your old-style jewelry remodeled into new,
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The workmanship too, is of the very highest standard.
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deavor will permit.'
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