The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1919-12-19
BREAK WITH MEXICO
IS DRAWING CLOSER
SHARP MgsoAoG % GIVEN TO
SENIOR soNiLlAs ~ sEcRE-
TARY LANSING
ANOTHER AMERICAN KILLED
Word Of Death Of Still Another Amer
lean Received, He Being Tortured
bv eandjts-Mexico Refuses 20
Release jenkins From Jail

Release jenkins From Jail
San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 29.-Mex-
lean Consul De La Mata, stationed
here. last night received q telegram
from Jose Marcias. president OF the
National University Of Mexico, that
passports had been refused to Mrs.
Eugenia Torres Melendes. and Miss
Hermanilla Galindo. delegates to the
Pan-American round table conference.
which meets here next week.
Washington. Nov. %. - Another
American murdered in Mexico, close on
the imprisonment Of Consular Agent
Jenkins. coupled with reports of rev
olution in Mexico City with Carranza
in flight to Queretaro, added complex
tiles yesterday which seemed to force
the already tense Mexican situation
toward the long expected breaking
point. There were no official pro
nouncements for the guidance Of pub
lie opinion as to what action II any
the American government might be
contemplating.
Administration officials, however.
by indication. were willing to show
that the government is taking firm
position. considering the eventualtties,
and is prepared to deal with them
once a course is chosen.
Another Of the last straws." as one
official put it. was laid on yesterday
with the official report of the murder
Of w. NJ. Wallace, an American oil
man. by a Carranza soldier. near Tam
pico on Wednesday. The state depart
ment summarized its advices in this
formal statement:
James Wallace. an American EN-
plOye Of an American oil company.
near Tampico. was murdered by "a
Mexican federal soldier Mt POrtrern
del Llano on Wednesday, November
26. The murderer was not taken into
custody.
According to the departments ad-
vices the officer in charge OF troops
camped in the vicinity claimed that
Wallace had provoked the murder
The department has been Informed ax
a result of an investigation. that Il
the place of his employment SHE'D at
a machine gun which IT was passing
| overturning the gun. The soldier i'm.
mediately shot Wallace. the bullet
| striking him in the neck and killing
him instantly"
The Wallace referred to is believed
here to be w. NJ. Wallace, an employee
of the Gulf Refining company. famil-
! iarly known to his associates as "Jim".
Wallace recently went to Tampice
after having been in Colombia for the
Gulf company. He was about ~
years old.
The Mexican American Amha ssadOr
| IgnaciO Bonillas. called on Secretary
Lansing Mt the state department yes
terday and they not only went over
the Jenkins case hut Mr.. Lansing also
laid before the Mexican envoy the re-
port on the killing of Wallace. which
had just been received. Their coDfer
| ence was, of course. confidential. biz;
it is understood the secretary convey
ed to President CarranZa's representa-
| tive message more forceful and di-
diplomatic note.
Mr.. BOnillas was informed that the
department placed no credence 10 the
charges on which jenkins is held il,
Jail at Puebla. in which the Mexicau
government declines to intervene. anu
1t Is understood that Mr.. Lansing fnr
Their outlined to the ambassador til.
murders and molestatiOns OF Amer.
cans probably more pontedly than WAS
done in the governments note Of hast
July.
About the same time word came Ut
the death Of another American IA the
result of brutal treatment by bandit.
who held him for ransom. He was
OTTO Lund. of Swedish birth. n nat
uralized American. who died of blood
poisoning after being held for ransom.
five months in the state Of Mawrit.
His captors chopped off one OF his
fingers with Il foul weapon AMI
wrapped it with their written demand
for ransom money. which they sent IN
his friends In Topic. Blood poisonin.
and gangrene killed the man. viii.
his wife. an American woman, nm.
their child are reported in want in
Topic,
Investigation and seport on the new
phases Of the Jenkins case. raised in
the Mexican note refusing to meet this
governments demand for the consu.a,
agents immediate release. already ure
under way.