The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-02-25
SWEARS
KELLOGG LYING
ABOUT MEXICO
Doheny Hired Bandit to
Steal Oil Land


WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-The lie
direct was again given Secretary Of
State Kellogg when Walter N. Lig-
gett, a writer who has been making
a special study of Mexican American
relations, testified before sena-
torial committee that Kellogg's latest
statement as to the number Of Amer
lean oil companies refusing to accept
the Mexican law was false; that in
fact 127 out of lat companies ac-
cepted the law, and that Andrew
Mellon, Harry Sinclair and Y. l.. Do
heny control S2fo Of the acreage Of
the 20 companies defying the Mex
lean government He wound up by
describing how Doheny got most Of
his oil lands through buying up prop
critics that his paid bandit, Pelaez,
had promised to destroy, thereby
forcing the owners to sell for almost
nothing.
VIII DOheny Confess?
Liggett dared Willis to bring Do
heny to confess as to how he got his
Mexican lands, and why Standard
Oil of Indiana refuses to continue
payments on its purchase Of his
claims.
Liggett started things going by
saying Kellogg's statement that the
Gales regime is on trial before the
world was an insult to the sovereign
ty Of the Mexican people. Willis in
terrupted him to say that Kellogg
was not the issue in this hearing.
Liggett retorted that Kellogg, by his
hostile statements and his "gas at
tack" through his former law part
ner, Assistant Secretary Robert Olds,
had made himself the issue. Liggett
reminded Willis that the committee
had not summoned newspaper men
and Odds to testify on the "Bolshe-
visit hegemony" propaganda incident
to "see who is lying"
Resolution Against Invasion.
The investigation was in the VIII
lis-Shipstead subcommittee of the
foreign relations committee Of the
senate. The debate turned on the
Frazier resolution instructing Presi-
dent Coolidge not to make war on
Mexico while congress was not in ses-
sion.
Willis finally declared the resolu-
ton to be an insult" to the presi-
dent. Frazier, who was present, re-
piled that he sought merely to pro-
teet the right Of the American peo-
pie to determine when they were to
be put into war.
Crusading for Justice.
Rev. Hubert C. Herring, secretary
Of the social relations commission of
the congregational churches in the
United States, who recently led
goodwill delegation of some go
American clergy and church press
representatives on a visit to Mexico
City, declared the Mexican people are
solving their own problems. He said
the Kellogg policy of ill-will now
threatens the best administration
Mexico has ever had-the admin
stration Of President Gales"
He testified that he found the
Mexican people in the mood of a cru
SADIE for social justice, growing out
Of the injustices Of 400 years of op-
preston. IN his opinion the United
States should meet this situation
with care and sympathy, since no
peaceful relations can exist be-
tween our two peoples unless we
meet the Mexicans halfway"
Mexicans Aiming.
Miss Carnelia n. Woods, for the
Society Of Friends, who was a men,
Der of the church mission to Mexico,
said the Mexican nation is alarmed
and afraid of the United States be-
cause Of the aggressive attitude of
Kellogg. The poems Of Mexico, she
found, care determined to assert
their rights as human beings-to
break through the upper crust of So
ciety which has held them down in
servitude, and to work out their own
salvation.
Benjamin C. Marsh, executive SEC
rotary of the Peoples Reconstruction
League, which staged the hearing,
warned the senators that the armed
forces Of the United States had al
ready seized Nicaragua, and that the
next step would be Mexico, which
is far richer prize.
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