Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 31, 1921, Page 1

ONFISCATION OF OIL LAND IS PREVENTED Decision Handed Down by Unanimous Vote of Court in Behalf of Texas Com- pany May Establish Precedent for the Handling of Claims MEXICO CITY, Aug. Officials of the Mexican try have been enjoined by the 31.—(By The Associated Press.) —. department of commerce and indus- supreme court from denounc- tg rights to oil lands held by the Texas company prior to May 1, 1917. This decision, unanimous vote of the court, the court’s action in dealing with nearly 150 eases calling into question the effect of Article 27 of the Mexican constitution. The Texas company appealed to the court for an amparo, or preliminary If the other oil companies which haye brought similar actions are victorious, it is generally believed that the decisions will constitute the court's definition of Article 27, and its interpretation of that article as be- ing non-retroactive in its effect, and that claims to oll lands held before May 1, 1917, cannot be questioned. Justice Adolfo Arias prepared the decision, in which his colleagues con- curred. When court opened yesterday and discussions were begun, Justice Arias was the first to speak and he emphatically championed the Texas company’s contentions, asserting that denouncement in question was in direct violation of Article 14 of the Meérican constitution. This article states that “no law shall be given retroactive effect to the prejudice of any person whatsoever.” He also was emphatie in stating that the nation- alization of petroleum deposits under Article 27 of the constitution must not be made retroactive so that it would apply to lands legally acquired under the mining law ag it stood previous t May 1, 1917. ‘Tins law declared that oil was a part of th soil wherever found. Arguments, by the justices during Position. Newspapers here generally believe the decision handed down last night is of far-reaching importance and virtu- ally establishes a ruling by Mexico’ highest judicial tribunal az to the non- retroactivity of Article 27. Sveral lo cal ofl men declared they would with- hold their operations until careful reading disclosed the exact phrase- ology of the court's decision sub-soil rights on lands held in fee by lease. appeal for injunction in s. case to that brought by the Texas y¥ was taken up by the court , the Mexican Gulf Oil company being the plaintiff in the action. Heads of American oil companies who are conferring with the govern- ment officials-here declined last night to comment on the decision. President Obregon stated last night that his conversation with the oil men was brief and extremely cordial. The suit decided yesterday was brought by the Texas company in 1919 following the denouncement of rights held by that company on a par- cel of Jand at Zacamixtla, south of Tampico. Orders for such dehounce- ment had been issued untier the pro- viytons of a decree fisued by Presi- dent Carranza om Aug. 8, 1918 which cued upon oil companies to manifest their holdings. Tho Texas company failed to make such a manifest and the land was declared forfeited. MISS. AMERICA MAKING OVER 76 MILES A HOUR DETROIT, Aug. 31.—(By The As- sociated America I, driven by “Gar” Wood, in her trial for the-one-mile speedboat champion- ship of North America~here today, registered an average of 74.87 miles an hour, in six one-mile dashes, three upstream and three down. Her reo- ord made last year is 76.65. Hér fast- est mile today was 76.676 made in her second dash down stream. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Tho rs-Lasky thé day-were mainly in support of this | St. cuacee=t LOST IN BLAZE probably sets a precedent for! wecatariesw ! zeit naan! ‘Washington At ~ New York 021 o3— and O'Neill; Sothoron Dauss, Holling and Bassler, Woodall. ¥-#:000 000 050— 5 14 1 046 021 OOF— 7°18 0 Direct. Action Filed in Court HH. J. (Red) Ramsey and P. J. House, Who were arrested last week charged with robbing John Sicroski, refinery worker, of $150 in a confidence same which had presumably been arranged between the two men, will stand triai ‘n district court here next week, di- rect information in the case having been filed by the county attorney's of- fice this morning. L. Collis, dope fiend and alleged po- lice character, will also appear in this session of the district court according to action taken by M. W. Purcell, county attorney, today. Collis is charged with appropriating suits of clothing, shirts and automobile tires and other property from William Bur- bridge with intent to steal the same. Previous to this he was arrvsted and fined for robting the Richards and Vunningham store, Bonus Law Is Held Unconstitutional; | Newlyweds Killed ALBANY, N, Y., Aug. 31.—The new York state soldier bonus law is uncon- stitutional, according to a decision of the court.of appeals, handed here today. down The opinion, written by Judge An- FILM CORPORATION TAKES STRANGLE HOLD ON TRADE Weather Forecast Generally fair tonight and Thursday, continued warm. | VOLUME V | CASPER, WYO., ites and Sinn NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—Dirigible balloon D-6 and its hangar were de. stroyed by fire at the Rockaway Point naval air station today. An explo- sion of gasoline tanks within — the hangar caused the firs, There were no casualties. ns Great tanks containing thousands of cubic feet of hydrogen were lo: cated’ near the hangar and the fire- men played tons of water upon them to prevent possible explosions. The D-6 was 198 feot } carried ® crew of four and had a speed of 60 miles an hour, She was used to pa- trol the coast. Secretary Denby recently ordered all activities at the air station to cease tomorrow. It was understood the D-6 was being prepared for trans- portation to the new hangar at Lake- hurst, N. J., built to receive the i!l- fated ZR-2 recently destroyed in Eng- land. Oil Worker Heid For Blackmailing of Police Gelston concerning city’s citizens. hope street area. glasses being used by the snipe Fierce revolver fighting bet tinued here this morning, scenes of the wildest excitement in fares. Another man was killed at 8 the present nine, The staffs in the hospitals have for those wounded rioting. in last the elty protection SURESH fierce rioting and fighting in progress. LONG BEACH, Cal, Aug. 31.—Al- bert B. Pickard, an oil worker of Moonshine Hill, Texas, who {s held in the city jail here in default of. $10,- 000 bail on a charge that he extorted $20,000 from 1, M. Bradley under a threat of death, will be given a pre- liminary’ hearing September: 8,it was announced todny > t Bradley is an operater of Ti and, Long Beach. Plokard, itis. allesed | demanded $100,000 from Bradley, as! serting BreGley had “broken up his home.” still proceeding in some areas tween the Ulster loyalists and Sinn Feiners, the total death roll since have been wounded, put number js not known. ‘The rioting and outlawry yesterday culminated at 9 the exact of a men armed with ‘who Stanhope street, positions-on~ the ground and opened a hot fire. Pedestrians stam- peded from the fusillade. Many who THERM KNICKERS FOR MILADY GENERALLY ADVOGATED CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—One of Chi- cago’s largest wholesale clothing firms for men today extensively ad- vertises for women for general wear. The advertise- ment points out the desirabliity of knickers for women for business and street wear. Sugar | Refiners Announce Cuts After Ambushing tempt to Murder (Special to THERMOPOLIS, Wyo., A Price was shot to death and bootleggers ambushed a posse The battle was fought at the heart by Mellendure, who lives at Meeteetsee. A tip had been received from Mee- teetsee by the sherif's office here early ‘Tuesday evening that a car running booze was travelling toward this city. Sheriff Harry Holdredge, Deputy Sher- iff Ted Price and Jack Palmer took the Indian Pass road which the boot- legger’s car was supposed to have used. As a precaution the turn off from the Ilo road was marked by the sher- iff. so that a car passing would leave tracks. Futile search on the Indian Pass road ended in a return to Ilo road where it was discovered a car had_ passed. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31.—A cut of 10 cents a hundred pounds for re- fined granulate cane sugar was an- nounced today for refiners. The new price is $6.30 to wholesalers. Recon h ee As Train Hits Car CLEVELAND, Aug. 31.—The honey- moon trip of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Simp- ‘son, each 22, of Cleveland, was ended abruptly yesterday when their auto- mobiie was demolished and both were killed by an interurban ‘car near Chippewa lake. Pursuit began and 10 minutes later the two cars were close together. For eight miles the sheriff and his dep- uties raced after the bootleggers, giv- ing them every opportunity to sur- render. At one place the pursued drew to one side to let the sheriff pass, Both cars stopped, Palmer jumping out to arrest the suspects. ‘This mova gave the first car a chance to get started again and the pursuit was.taken up by authorities. Just before the turn is made to ford i COAST BALLOON Fierce Revolver Fighting Between Ulster. it Ulster loyalists and Sinn Feiners con- causing some of the city’s main thorough- O'clock, making the total dead up to been strained to the utmost caring night's ‘The military, {t was announced at mid-day, will assume control of Bel- fast within an hour as a result of representations by the lord mayor as to the urgent necessity of affording in view of the By mid-afternoon, with the fighting be- Monday night had reached 14. Scores m. in the appear: | mortally wounded in a gun duel at 12 o’clock last night when Grass Creek road northwest of here. jting Price in the left arm, giancing JAY, AUGUST 31, 1921. Fein Followers; Military Is Ordered BELFAST, Aug. 31.—Early today Sir William Cowles, the lord mayor, made strong representations to General Carter- Campbell, commanding the British troops in Ulster, and Chief the need for protection*of the Last night Ulster ial constabul y fi a night Ulate pple abulary, nearly all former Sniping ts carried out on the most approved lines, field Were near enough to see the men do- ing the shooting declared the rifies they carried were new. It was the most audacious incident of the fight- ing since it broke out on Monday. The exchange of shots between the euntending parties began early in the morning and gradually spread over an extensive area with increasing in- tensit Outside of detachments in armored cars, the military forces of the gov- ernment have not interfered in the rioting. Victoria barracks, where the troops are housed, was within the zone of yosterday's disorders and the walls of the building were hit fre quently by bullets, Tramears raced through the riot district of Queen street and Old Lodge road with the pass&ngers lying flat to escape tho bullets. An English- man on his honeymoon was severely wounded. Snipers began last night's chief fighting with an attack on~ Crook street at Royal avenue. A party of Sinn Feiners ‘began firing on the crowd which started to run along Royal avenue in wild stampede. Many were. trampled down, Later Sinn Feiners fired front Sia. hope street into Lime street and Old Leder, Armored. cars _ quelled the although throughout the night occasional shots were heard and the night was deciared to be the * RE CHA, _ATON, W. V., Aug. 31— together ut the mountains near Blair, DINGS ULTIMATUM DELIVERED TO MINERS Che Casper Daily Crihiune DETAIL LACKING, CLASH BETWEEN MILITIA-MINERS Technical State of Martial Law Invoked Although Actual Declaration Has Not CITY | EDITION NUMBER 2, a + Said to Be Spreading BULLET ee. forces and an armed band came ran county, thi io . ng to Gispatchen received at the office of Governor Morgans Ee nd the jement that there had been firing from both si vernc > announced there were no details.” 7s ai een he LOGAN, Ww. Va., Aug. 31.—Airplanes today distributed copies of President Harding’s proclamation throughout this district. Thousands were printed here last night. Friend and foe alike received the pamphlets containing the presi- dent’s command that all persons engaged in “insurrectionary proceedings” disperse and return to their homes at or before noon Thursday, September 1. Flying eastward, the planes cross Ww NORTH DAKOTA GRAND FORKS, N. D., Aug, 31— Mayor William Stranger and State's Attorney Grimson of Langdon, N. D., arrived in Larimore early today to con fer with leaders of a gang of several hundred I. W. W.'s. camped there and threatening to leave for Langdon on a freight train leaving at 9:30 this morning. The 1. W. W's. are reported gath ering in Larimore for the purpose. of going to Langdon to release several At dawn the Spruce Fork §uard reported “all well.” There no fighting during the night: no at members of the organization held pris-[tMP Was made to scale the east oner there. The Langdon officials this|""Gharmies, Blair, Jeffery and Cloth morning warned the I. W. "Wis. thatli¢e where men were reported gather-| it they attempt to go to Langdon in a} ing for an ae body they would meet with troub! The officials informed the men, how- ever, that if wanted to send a delegation to Langdon to confer with city officials and everything possible would be done to discuss matters fairly, ping the circulars communication sie Logan county the night w MEDF . Aug. 31.—Mrs great activity, Conferences between | 70M Koscileny, wife of a farmer of state officials and county authorities | Roosevelt, in Taylor county, has con were held; rifles were cleaned and|fe%sed to putting her three children stacked in the courthouse corridors % ©¥Y 4nd two girls, 8, 12 and 13 years and a thousand “defenders” held |T@spectively, to bed in a hay barn and themselves in readiness to march. |etling fire to it, according to infor- Many of them were former eol- ™ation given out by L. diers. Women served coffee and food.y district attorney of Taylor unty. In the meantime dozens of motorcars|The children were burned to death. surrounded the courthouse, drivers at|The mother said that she had intend- the wheels awaiting a call from the|ed throwing herself into the fire but telegraph D, ~ Se Body Identified As Business Man watch across county. But the call did] had lost her courage, according to the A not come. district attorney. A quarrel with her PUEBLO, Colo., Aug. 31.—-The hody| Sheriff Chafin this morning an a 98 catlewed: to: have: Kean ene of the man found murdered near | Hounced that overtures for the release € Bacsact;. be te. balggs hala Virielandon the Santa Fe trail east of |Of prisoners) now held in Mingo coun-|at the county jail here. hore has been identified as thar-of U.|t¥ in return for the freedom of four oe ca bt Uong,.a restaurant owner of Fowler, | Loean spansy stices Lay ee oe Ss mn Culo, Long formerly 0 “Inigg {armed bands on the Boone sido of the] S 1 an Pee ee, Obie eed in Vinita |e order, had, been rads ‘to him, the ugar Securities Long-left Fowler “Monday in an|terms being ten prisontr#> far one deputy. It was not thought such an agreement would be entered into by the Logan authorities. ‘automobile and some persons saw two men leave with him. It is believed that these men killed Long and stole Recovered Again worst in the city’s history. CHICAGO, s of th Aug. his automobile. 1.—-Stolen secur- DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED BY OPOLIS BOOT | \Whiskey Runner Is Mortally Wounded, Official Party; At- Sheriff Fails; Gun) Jams as He Starts to Shoot : The Tribune.) ug. 31.—Deputy Sheriff Ted Ed Mollendure, his murderer, headed by Sheriff Holdredge. Cotténwood Crossing on the Price was shot through leave. the road. While their car was still moving, Mellendure leaped out and ran be- hind one of three large cottonwood trees that stand on the north side of the creek at the crossing. So rapidly were the pursuers trav- eling that they were within 15 feet of the standing car when they came to a stop, Deputy Price was watch- ing the right side cf the road and saw Mellendure. He wheeled around with his rife up contmanding him: to surrender. Mellendure shot the bul- let from his .22 high power rifle, hit- directly through his heart. Palmer jumped from a car and ran around the car ahead to get Mellen- dure who was trying desperately to fire at Sheriff Holdredge. Holdredge was covering C. R. Powers who had remained seated in the suspected car. M-lendure had ejected five shells m the gun /n an attempt to get it to w.rk when he was shot by Dep- uty Sheriff Palmer. Meliendure was mortally wounded and is dying today at Hopewell hospital. Cc. R. Powers was arrested and brought back to the county jail here. Nothing is known of Powers here, Cottonwood creek ther: is a sharp turn. This afforded the bootlesgers Alfred 8. Black, as president of the | of the lights, on the sheriff's car and Black New England Theaters, Inc., or the Stanley x A Famous ad fur one. changed in the end got what he wanted. @ired “' advertising doesn’t pay.” w! be now? Put up your signal and keep it discouraging circumstances. ship will come in surely. an opportunity to pass out of focus|dure operated a pool hall at Mee One of the most persistent advertisers in the history of success was Robinson Crusoe. He knew what he wanted—a ship—and he put up an He flung a shirt on @ pole at the top of his island; that in the language of the sea was plain to every seafaring man. The circulation was small—there was no other medium—but Crusoe kept ‘at it, despite the fact that he got no inquiries for a long time. jis copy—as one garment after another was fraye? out—and Suppose Crusoe had taken down that signal after a time’ and de- You have a sure thing—it is only necessary to have the patience, persistence and pluck of Robinson Crusoe—and the good ship “Better Business” will soon tie up alongside your pier. Be a Casper Robinson Crusoe. Fly your sail in the Tribune. Your while it is understosd that Mellen. (Continued on Page Four.) Advertiser He here, where would he und his atory there. Crusce advertised under very LEGGER EUBAN WILL B United States ar Mar CHARGE 0a TROOPS. ufacturers’ association of New York, valued at thousands of dollars nave CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 31 “W. E. Eubanks of Welch, McDo' county, former officer in the been traced to the French-Worthing- ton group of alleged swindlers, accocd ing Henry H. Rollapp, presidént of thy commissioned yester¢ 4 ¢ ‘ was commis! association, Mr. Rollopp is hors con- . F. Morgan as a colonel tn the]? 5 erring with John Y. Clinnin, assist- ational guard. He is 3 - j West Virginia national g' ant United States district attoruev. stationed at Logan and will be the at we aks ranking officer there, the governor said M fore a Uns tha covmrnor an: | Wes oreburen nounced that Adjutant General John Ss i Charnock left on a special train early ROAD REP ORT tee: qecnal cpouniva ta Tasos ecures Divorce leharge of defense of Logan county | + ts against invaders from Boone and Kan Grant Highway—Nebraska line to) wwha counties, who are gathering Shawnee very good except atydetour) 1+ Various points along the border.” at Keeline. Shawnee to Orin, fair. , Kan., Aug. 31.—Mrs. rch today was granted a divorce in district court here from r ain carried @ carload of arms eae 3 Yellowstone Highway—Platte coun- fae sceuduitian: Arthur C. Burch, jointly charged y line to Douglas fair to good. Doug-|“ army rifles | ttt: Bars- delynne Obenchain ot | More than 100 cases of army rifles] ine a = . to Glenrock, fair to good.” Glen A the murder. of J. Belton Kennedy at 3H 5 0 3 5-| owned by the state police, alloted to} roy Angeles, rock to Caspet, fair. Casper west to} peg nen free “ t to! this state by the war department in sat dts ae Shoshoni and Bonneville good. Cars —_ | distribution of surplus war materials, in proper condition and not overload ed’have no trouble over the Birdseye| 27° 1" the shipment Pass route between Bonneville and = E Thermopolis.. Thermopolis to the| MILITARY park is generally good | TO. VIRGINL Shoshoni-Lander Road—Good except] WASHID somewhat rought between Riverton| structions were given by Secretary] BERLIN, Aug. 31.— (By The As- and Hudson | Weeks today to Brig. Gen. H. H. Band-| sociated Press.)—Tho monster demon- Casper-Sheridan Road—Casper to-20|holtz, who has been ordered by the|stration In favor of the maintenance miles north, rough, then good to Salt} war department to the West Virginialof the German republic was carried cri Salt Creek to Johnson coun-|coal fields to observe the response nly, and_no‘untoward ty line fair. (Continued on Page Four.) ANARCHY SWEEPS WORLD JAZZ, SHOWING REVOLT Germany Wants Hun Republic in — tojout today peace [incident occurred. CINCINNATI, Aug. 31. — Revolt, of still greater significance to the wel-| re nst Mr. egaindtitradition..abd authority has sare of "civilization jg | the complete 3s ¢ multt subversiveness during the world war) plicity s does to de sprung up not only against the politi) (¢ nearly ali the international laws|velop a law-abiding sp! A race of cal state, but in music, art, poetry | which have been built up. This fierce | individuals relu when and commerce until the age war of extermination has put u ki they obey laws they re come “pre-eminently one of nd; temporarily let. us hope—a thou-|gard as u or vexatious counterfeit,” James M. Be citor| Stand ye Nearly ‘all! w eihsnabeeee ait general of the United States, declared) “w-pye morale of our industrial ‘ci¢il-| involuntary smug: They deny before the American Bar association has been shattered. Work for|the authority of ti to impose a today. He spoke on “The Spirit of the most glorious priv-|t na Paquin gown. The ‘s de Lawlessni faculties, has gon y and rejaxity in) admi ation “The statistics of our criminal} +p the great evil A spirit of contempt and toe an n to take the | courts in recent years she un-| of the world today. The whole his oints precedented growth in Mr./of the mechanical era persist Beck said. ‘But this revolt against/ struggle for more shorter hours} authority is not confined to the politi-| and today it has culminated in world cal state. In music its fundamental! wide ruin. In my judgment the eco- canons have been thrown aside and| nomic catastrophe of 1921 is great @iscord has replaced harmony. Its cul-jer than the politicomilitary catastro- mination—jazz, is a musical crime. | phe of 1014.” ; 07 vi e indisposition tc % astic arts, the eriteria of}, Accompanying thi Eero ced swept aside by the} Work, the solicitor general continued, futurists, cubists, vorticists and other|has been a “mad desire for pleasure aesthetic Bolsheviki. In poetry, beauty] Such as has not been seen within the or rythm and nobility of thought have|™emory of living man. « ced erge of aitation of the gro-| “Mon has danced upon the vers been replaed by exaltation of the SF.) social abyss, and even the dancing_ 3 } has reverted to the primitive forms of stitution of the United fates. About ait CORRERATOS uncivilized conditions,” Mr. Beck de- the individual, the constitution draw4 against purity of standards aiid the) cared, the solemn circle of its protection. 14 integrity of Lusiness morals. Who 4M) syoaking of newspapers he deplored defends the integrity of the human n unduly pessimistic,” jd in cone! . “and I t no remedy, but there aré ves for the evils I have To rekindle in men the xf work for work’s sake and the of discipline would do much ta he problem. The law and our profession can defend the spirit of in Iu » tende of group that the law should this spirit of individual the noblest expression is the con spiri solve is one ot the revolt is one question that this is pre-eminently the} +h. increase in the “ephemeral and | soul age of sham and counterfel trivial" saying that pages were de-| ‘Tho constitution was our fathers “Two of the oldest empires in the|yoted to sport “while literature, art| ‘vision.’ That vision still worl@—China and Russia—are in ajand-mucical reviews ‘and scientific| with the American qwolter of anarchy,” the solititor gen-| discussions are omitted or given little| have not yet lost fa: eral said, ‘and in even the most stable! space.” governments, the underground rumb- Undoubtedly the lings of revolution may be heard. But] tributing causes to. this Ww: nterpreters and g at in to spired vision of the fathers."* ‘© many con-|t rid-wide us lies ead 4 &