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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11

England has followed the same
policy of concentration. English
capital invested in all Mexican indus
try is approximately 377,614,199.00
pesos or $3.50 of the whole, with 1885,
76,199.00 pesos or $50 of this going
into the exploitation of oil, the re-
naming $20,838,000.00 or so being
left for mining and small industries.
Capital Invested In Oil.
Capital invested in oil in Mexico
amounts to $1,065.54s,110 pesos or
approximately 1870 of the total capt.
tai invested in industry in the Repub-
lie. Of these oil investments, Ameri-
can capital controls about 500 and
British capital about 34a6. North
American capitals interest in all min
ing activities averages about 800.
England about 1919; these countries
interest in all other varied Industrial
activities are approximately $50 for
North American capital and 40 for
British capital.
Over against oil and the mere hand
full of companies interested, there is
all Mexican commerce with hundreds
of importers and exporters Of all
nations involved. The present diff
ficulties between the United States
and Mexico arising out Of different
interpretations of the oil and land law
regulations and the resulting uncer-
tainty which the strained situation
draws in its wake depresses all
economic activities throughout the
Mexican Republican, only oil but
al commerce-and even with solu-
tion entirely in favor of the oil com
panies but few would benefit.
While, as matter of fact, under
the most strict legal enforcement of
the law, the Mexican legislation on oil
and land does not in any way menace
or endanger the existence of the big
oil companies, on the other hand,
smaller commercial activities in Mexi-
co stand to be ruined by the present
crisis provoked by and for the oil in
terests. The home governments of
these entrepreneurs which feel so
strongly the responsibility of pro-
tecting the few powerful companies
and talk loudly about acting in the
interests of their nationals abroad
permit the ways and means of the oil
companies to precipitate the ruin of
hundreds of manufacturing importers
and small holders caught in the mael-
strom but who are in no way inter-
ested in the outcome of the legal dis
cussion about the supposed menace
to the oil interests.
Government Trust Controlled.
American manufacturers who are
just beginning to work up an appre-
ciable import trade into Mexico can
not permit that the State Depart
p1ent at Washington consider the mat
ter as one concerning exclusively the
oilmen and the Mexican government.
By this attitude, they play directly
into the hands of few Americans in
terested in oil.
Mexico is only in the beginning of
the development of its small in
dustries. Even a cursory glance into
the history of the country will explain
the situation. Up to the time and
during the first part of Porfirio
Diaz' regime, foreign capital in any
appreciate amount was not encour-
aged and was not interested to come
to Mexico. With the discovery of oil
in 1901, the rush began. And, un-
fortunately, practically since the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11
American Oilnen in Mexico

country has been conscious Of the
vastness of its oil deposits, internal
political revolution has held Mexico
in its throes, harrassed one govern
ment after the other. Only under
the last two administrations, those of
General Obregon and President Gales
has there been opportunity to think
at all of economic development to
undo the wrongs the country has suf-
fered for four hundred years.
Helped Very Little.
And American and English capital
have really helped very little toward
the real commercial and economic de-
velopment Of Mexico the United
States giving today-over and above
her enormous investments in oil
only a scant so, of which go goes
into mining, and England only $50
to mining and varied small industries
which affect the daily life and stand
ard of living Of the Mexican people.
The distribution of all capital in
vested in industry in Mexico today is:
1870 oil exploitation with Mexican
capital proper having only 10. in this
1870; TO foodstuffs; 6qo textile in
dustry; 696 mining; and so other in
dustries. However, of all capital in
vested in foodstuffs, 500 is Mexican,
in the textile industry 1870 is Mexi-
can in mining $3.50 is Mexican and in
the various small industries $50 is
Mexican meaning that Mexi-
can capital is really invested in all
general industries from which the
public at large must live.
In imports into Mexico, the United
States leads, having imported during
the first half of 1925 about ITO of
all goods brought in--foodstuffs, live
stock, building material, machinery
and so forth-all figures for oil be-
ing excluded. Manufactured iron
goods, implements of all kinds, ma
chinery for which Mexico's need is
very great at present came from the
United States in the amount of 500
during that same period with notable
increase since. Motor-cars made in
the United States, and tires outrule,
all competition, the use of autos, auto
busses and tractors having increased
enormously. While during the first
six months of 1924, 1857 motor. cars
were imported into Mexico from the
United States, the figure covering the
same period for 1925 had risen to
11,544-some 30095. Here again
later increase has been at the same
rate. And while only few proofs of
the trend of the United States import
trade into Mexico are mentioned, the
premise is true for most every article
coming in. American business can ill
afford to allow to continue a crisis
which will loose for them this trade
or be responsible for turning the tide
toward European channels which are
each day pushing more and more into
Latin American markets.
There is at the present no military
problem in the republic aside from the
Yaqui uprising in the northern state
of Sonora and this situation is now
entirely controlled by the federal
army.
Some persons interested in oil are
making propaganda among fanatics
in order to stir up revolution with, it
is said and apparently with sufficient
truth, the backing of the State De-
partment at Washington and especial
ly of U. S. Secretary of State, Mr..
Kellogg.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-11

Z OREIGN publicity during the
L last few months quotes Ameri-
can capital investment in Mexico as
follows: Mining, approximately
$3O0,000,000 American dollars; Oil in
dustry and oil lands, approximately
S478, 100000 American dollars while
the entire amount of American in
vestments in Mexico is quoted at
some one and one half billion Ameri-
can dollars or three billion Mexican
pesos.
These figures are circulated abroad,
not in Mexico. They are given unof-
;icially and no attempt is made to
prove them. They are meant to
strengthen the fallacy prevailing III
oreign countries that all commercial
.ctivities in Mexico find their basis
n American capital and that once hav-
ng dealt with oil and mining in
.ustries all is said and done with that
,ountry's commercial activities. These
figures are not only borne out but
are absolutely denied by the official
igures Of the National Statistical
offices Of the Mexican government.
Amount OF Capital.
The figures of the National Stats
.ical Bureau show the full amount of
capital (including Mexican owned
;apitaD invested in all the industries
ii the country at $1,447, O43, $4,000
pesos. Of this amount 1870 is
American, high figure indeed when
it is considered that only one nation
is involved but not, however, the pre-
ponderant percentage which the lay
man is led to believe because of the
influence these American investors in
Mexico have due to their small mum
GER and their concentration in one
particular field-that of oil.
American capital in Mexico divides
IS 46,4eo of the whole amount ap-
fortunately in this wise: Oil s2@s,
mining So and various small in
ustries go. $614, 487 ,263.OO pesos of
he entire amount of the $671 &c.,
$500 pesos which are North Ameri-
IAN capitals interest in all industries
n Mexico is devoted to oil exploita-
ton.
And according to the records Of the
Department of Industry, Commerce
nd Labor of the Mexican govern
cent, only twenty American oil COM
anies are interested in Mexico. The
complete figures for all companies
and private individuals exploiting oil
fields in Mexico foreign and Mexi-
CAM amounts to 120. Some half doz-
IN of the twenty American companies
are subsidiaries of the Standard Oil
company thereby reducing the num-
Der ultimately interested to about
fourteen. It is the high concentra-
ton of this compact nucleus and their
utility therefore to act practically as
/ single unit which makes for their
power with the State Department at
Washington and gives them the pos
sibility Of standing out against the
Avs passed by the Mexican govern
neat for the best regulation of Next
,o's oil industry for all concerned.
The American State Department in
pressing its policy of protection for
American interests abroad is actually
n the present difference with Mexico
olighting the interests of the whole
American people against their neigh
oors for the benefit of twenty com
panies at the most.
Evening star., 1927-11-23
MISS {. M. COLFORD DIES;
WAS MEMBER OF THE BAR
Graduate of George Washington
and Law College Sue
cumbs Suddenly.

Miss Ethel NJ. Colford, 3543 Six
teenth street, who was engaged in the
practice Of law here for number of
Years, died while visiting at the home
of her uncle. Jed Cuttings, Bethesda.
Md, yesterday. Although she had not
been well for long while, her death
was sudden.
Miss Colf0rd was graduate of the
Washington College of Law and of
George Washington University. She
was a member of the bar of the SUI
preme Court of the United States:
Prior to engaging in the practice OF
law she was employed in the United
States Patent Office.
Besides her uncle, she leaves her
father. Edward NJ. Colford. and three
sisters. Miss Florence A. Colford Miss
Cora V. Colford and Mrs. Ruth v.
Byrne. all Of this city. Her mother
was the late Mrs. Ida NJ. Colford.
Brief services will he conducted at
the Sixteenth street residence Friday
morning, at $50 o'clock. and thence
at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church
at am. Interment viii be in Mount
OliYet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1927-11-23
LEGISLATORS TO TEST
SPECIAL SESSION LAW
Oklahoma Governor Refuses t
Convene House-Probe Of
State Affairs Demanded.
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, November 23.-
The first test Of the Oklahoma law
authorizing the House Of Representa-
tives to meet in special session pro-
vided an emergency exists and two
thirds OF the members make such a
demand was in prospect today fol-
lowing refusal Of Gov, Henry s. John
ston 70 call the session.
Gov Johnston, in refusing to con-
vene the legislators for the announced
purpose OF investigating his admins
tration. declared no valid constitu-
1ional or lawful authority exists for
a self-conyened session.
II. Tom kight, spokesman for the
four Representatives who demanded
the special session. insisted they have
more than two-thirds Of the names Of
lower house members on q petition to
convene December s.
Is ght and his collea gues repeatedly
have charged irregularities in State
affairs, including the allegation that
Mrs. o. 0. Hamm0nds, private secre.
tary TO the Governor, dictates to
heads If departments. A resolution
demanding her resignation. which
va. tabled by the last Legislature,
cnnte0dcd Mr.. Johnston was Governor
in name only and referred to Mrs
JammOnds as 'the woman governor" !"
Evening star., 1927-11-23
Finds "Foul" Weather.
JUNKERs PLANE DELAYED.

HORTA, ISLAND OF FAYAL,
Azores, November % P).-Undeterred
by their failure to make Il successful
getaway on transatlantic flight to
the United States yesterday. the crew
Of the Junkers D-1230 came back to
Horta planning another hop-oH to-
night if favorable weather conditions
should prevail.
Lii Dilenz. Vienese actress and pas
senger aboard the D-1230. although
expressing disgust with the long delay
in the flight Of the plane and with
yesterdays failure to complete the
.600-mile hop to Newfoundland. is
still full Of determination to make
the fight and thus become the first
woman to span the Atlantic by air.
The failure Of the plane TO continue
on the flight last night after taking
off at o'clock was due partly to the
heavy weight of the fuel carried in
addition to the crew and their woman
passenger, as we'll as atmospheric con-
ditons which made 1t extremely diff
ficult to continue.
Evening star., 1927-11-23

MRS. Gfayson is spending most Of
hcf waking hours in the chartroom
"iih Commodore Herbert Hartley.
Just as IN going to Europe she spent
nfr time on the Majestic with Capt
ia.,'l1i' =, ,,,1Ile' studying navigation and
learning ocean lore from those experi.
enced in the ways of the Atlantic.
Iier ambition besides being the first
woman TO fly the Atlantic is to make
me hrst crossing in Winter, she told
me Associated Press correspondent.
| am not going to die before my time
comes anyway" she said, "and a Win.
ter night would be real contribution
To the store of knowledge about trans.
oceanic flying"
Her conferences with aviation Off.
Gals in Europe were to obtain advice,
information and cooperation for a
Winter flight. The French officials
were optimistic about her chances,
but the British did not encourage her.
Evening star., 1927-11-23
Battlefield Markings Shown. .

SPECIAL Dispatch TO The Star.
FREBERICK, Md, November IS
City engineers completed a p.aC show
ing the topography Of the Nonocacy
battlefield at Frederick junction yes
terdav and forwarded a copy 70 Rep
resentatiye Frederick y. Zihiman OF
tho sixth Maryland district and chair
man of the House District commit
tee, who recently promised assistance
to the local committee in securing bet
ter markings for the Civil War bat,
tlofields. Mr.. Zihlman plans 20 bring
the matter before the National Par@
Commission
Evening star., 1927-11-23

Continued from First Pagel
This would have the effect Of reliev-
ing from the courts shoulders all
possibility and effort With respect
10 initiating, contempt proceedings
which Justice ~iddons started when
10 appointed special committee TO
inquire if contempt had been com
mi,tcd.
Naj. Gordon was named on this
committee along with John Il. Laskey.
former United States attorney here,
and James $ Ia asby-Smith. both lead
ing members Of the District bar. Mai
Gordon resigned from the committee
ar3 his letter of resignation brought
<orth several tart letters between JUS
tice Sidduns and the United States
attorney.
Evening star., 1927-11-23
Mrs. Crayson, Planning Winter Flight
Over Sea, Returns From European Study
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
S. S. LEVIATHAN, November %.
Firm in the belief that she had al
ready established one record for
American women travelling in Europe,
Mrs. Frances Grayson, who unsuccess-
fully tried to establish a transatlan-
tic flight record, was headed for home
today. She visited France. Germany
and England without spending single
minute shopping.
The only newly acquired articles
that Mrs. Grayson brought aboard the
Leviathan at Southampton were a
pair of fur-l.ncd flying boots and
furlined helmet for use if she tried
10 fly across the Atlantic in the Win
Evening star., 1927-11-23
TAX SUITS AUTHORIZED.
Potomac, Va, Delinquents Listed
for Prosecution. !
.acinI n .n.tnh 10 Tho Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
POTOMAC. va, November 23.-Cor-
poration Attorney Walter L. Varney
has been instructed by the Town
Council Of Potomac to institute legal
suit against all property owners who
are delinquent in their taxes Of $50
or over.
The Council also instructed Varney
10 institute injunction proceedings
against the residents Of Mount Ida
who have allowed sewage 10 flow into
IN open stream within the town
limits.
The vacancy caused by the dis
missal Of John ". Mehrung, special
officer, viii be filled by Walter ".
Wright, who was appointed to fill that
post by the Town Council last night.
1t was pointed out that Nehrling all
lowed students Of George Mason HiGh
school 10 direct traffic, loauing them
his badge and transferring his au-
thority 10 them. All bids submitted
to the Council for the construction Of
sewers We're rejected.
Evening star., 1927-11-23

they are disfranchised entirely. Many
persons who live for short tune IN
Washington and return to Maryland
do not vote here because they resent
the requirement that they make a
declaration in court.
This situation is affecting more
and more people in Maryland near
Washington every year, You have
only to take an automobile ride
through Montgomery and Prince
Georges County to see how rapidly
MARYLAND is growing in the direction
Of Washington.
This proposed amendment, in my
opinion. is one of the greatest ques-
tons that has come before Congress
in recent years. 1t will have an eff
feet upon the whole Nation. It Will
arouse new interest everywhere in
popular government,
No Personal Gain Involved.
"Whatever I do in this movement
I shall do in the public interest, and
that will he true of the other mem
hers Of our organization. We will
have nothing to gain personally by
the adoption Of this amendment, but
we will feel that we have done some
thing for the people of Washington
and the country at large. | think the
amendment should he pressed this
Winter in Congress, which has had
long enough time to consider il. 1T is
urgent. | intend to write to each of
Marylands Representatives in the
House and to Senators and ask them
to vote for the resolution.
"1f Congress approves it this Win
ter we will consider it at the next
meeting of the Maryland LEGISLATURE
in 1929. My personal opinion is that
it will be gladly ratified. We have
taken a stand in Maryland against
further amendment to the Constitu-
ton, but this is clearly an exception,
and does not come under the ban Of
our general policy in the State.
1T is only a matter of getting
this subject clearly before Congress
and the people of the country. When
that is done l am sure the amend
ment win be adopted | am sure that
the people Of the whole Nation Will
praise the amendment when il be-
comes a part Of the Constitution"
Evening star., 1927-11-23
MISS FAzENDA TO WE'D.
Will Marry Hal Wallis on Thanks
giving Day.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, November %
N).-Thanksgiving day turkey din.
ner will be a wedding breakfast for
Louise Fazenda, motion picture come.
dienne. and Hal Wallis, studio pub
liclty man, who yesterday announced
Thursday noon as the time for their
marriage. The couple obtained a
marriage license several weeks ago
saying that the wedding and honey
moon must await the opportunity
which might come between the
making of pictures.
Evening star., 1927-11-23
President to Attend
Services at Keith
With Mrs. Coolidge

President and Mrs. Coolidge.
with their house guests. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of B0N-
ton. will attend the Thanks
giving services Of the First Con
gregational Church. which will
be held at III o'clock tomorrow
morning at krith's Theater
Rev. DIR. Jason Noble Pierce.
the pastor. will preach on Real
Thanksgiving"
4 chorus choir will sing and
an orchestra will furnish the
music.
Evening star., 1927-11-23

gridiron at Catholic University Sta
dunn in the afternoon and at Ameri-
can League Park the Northcrns ana
the Wintons will strive for the mas
terry. Numerous golf events are being
arranged.
The Post Office Department viii
make no deliveries by carriers tomor-
row, although special delivery service
will be maintained All stations will
be closed but the main Post Office, al
North Capitol street and Massachu
setts avenue. will be open all day for
business. In the business sections Of
the city letter-boX collections will be
taken up a and 1915 pm. while Il
the more thickly populated residential
sections the collection hours win he
4 and $50 pm. and in the outlying
districts one collection at pm.
Evening star., 1927-11-23
CHICAGO IS WINNER
IN WATER FIGHT
Hughes Holds Diversion Per-
nit Is Valid, With u. S.
Controlling Problem.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Chicago today won before Special
Master Charles Evans Hughes it's
h4ht to divert water from Lake
Michigan into it's drainage canal
The former Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court held that the
permit Of March 3. 1875, for such di-
version lis valid ana effective, ac
cording to lis terms. the entire con-
troll of tho diversion remaining with
Congress-"
Must Have United states Consent.
This was one OF six conclusions
by Mr Hughes. The others were.
"That the compliments wisconsin
ana other take StatcSl present Il juSt-
fable controversy
Must Have L. :. Consent.
"That the State Of Illinois ana the
sanitary district of Chicago have no
authority to make or continue the di-
version in question without the con
Scnt OF the United states.
That Congress has power 10 regu-
late the diversion; that is, to deter
mine whether and to what extent it
should be permitted.
"That Congress has not directly au-
thurized the diversion in question.
Secretary Has Authority.
THAT Congress has conferred au-
thoritY upon the Secretary Of War 10
regulate the diversion, provided he
acts in reasonable relation to the pur-
pose Of his delegated authority and
not arbitrarily"
The sixth and final conclusion was:
'That the permit of March 3, 1873.
IS valid aud effective according TO its
terms. the entire control Of the Ill
version remaining with Congress.
Evening star., 1927-11-23
MRS. Rabbit DIES.
Native Of Wisconsin, but Resided
Here Many Years.

Mrs. Amy Joyce Rabbit. ST years
old, wife OF Charles J. Rabbit OF
Washington Grove, Md, and dau@h-
ter of Hiram Kibbey Of 1907 u street
northeast. died in Garfield Hospital
Monday after a short illness.
Mrs. Rabbit was native Of Wis
cousin. but resided in this city for
many years until her marriage about
10 years ago. She was q melaber
ot Bethlehem Chapter. order OF The
Eastern Star.
She is survived by her husband,
father and three sisters. Miss Emma
). kibbey, Miss Frances .. Kibbey
and Mrs. Phoebe Leman.
Funeral services We're conducted at
the home Of her father this afternoon.
with interment in Rock creek
Cemetery.