Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 December 1939 — Page 27
FRIDAY. DFC. 1.
FRIDAY, DEC. 1, 1939
OIL WORKERS IN MEXICO DEMAND SEVERANGE PAY
Lawyers Work Up Litigation And Counter-Claims in Expropriation Cases.
(Fourth of a Series)
By WALKER STONE Times Special Writer MEXICO CITY, Dec 1.—"It would take a hundred lawyers a hundred years to settle these oil cases.” The words are those of an official of the United States Embassy here, who would like nothing better than to see the cases settled, and by someone else. But he believes a settlement can be reached only by diplomatic negotiations or by arbitration. When it comes to litigation, the celebrated “Philadelphia lawyer” has nothing on the more expert pieaders of the legal profession in Mexico. They know their way around through a maze of jurisprudence running back to the laws of Spain and the customs of the native Indian inhabitants, capped by the revolutionary postulates of the latest Mexican constitution.
Work Up Counter Claims
Anticipating the day when there will be some kind of setlement whereby Mexico will agree to pay some amount of money for properties expropriated from American and British oil companies, Mexican lawvers are busy working up coun-ter-claims and instigating litigation. They fully intend to see to it that few settlement pesos ever got out; of this country and that the foreign | oil companies wind up with little
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world markets,
Storage tanks in Houston, Tex, are full of oil from expropriated wells that Mexico cannot sell in the Shown are the Eastern States Petroleum Co. property and some of the tanks, in which are stored a reported 1.500.000 barrels of gasoline on which Mexico is paying storage charges.
The Gallup Poll Shows—
By DR. GEORGE GALLUP
American Institute of Publie Opinion
PRINCETON, N. J, Dec. 1. —Evidence that the symbol of business continues to be linked
Director,
prosperity | more with
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change of opinion among the rank] and file of Republican Among Democrats, on the other
hand, sentiment has changed con- | lof the two parties follows:
siderably since last summer. Fewer Democrats are willing to
the Republican Party aqmit that business would be any
e e ) r thei xcept experience to show for their) than with the Democratic Party in|more prosperous under a Republi-
activities in Mexico. One counter-claim is for 30,000,000
pesos allegedly due the members of |
the oil workers’ union for wages which the companies did not pay while the workers were on strike—
the strike which led up to the ex- |
Under Mexican for if later
propriatory decree, law workers must be paid time they are out on strike
the courts rule against the employer | happened in the
—which is what oil companies’ labor dispute.
Severance Pay Sought
The workers also have a counterclaim for 140,400,000 pesos’ severance pay. They collectively severed their relations with the “rebellious companies,” and with a straight face they claim severance pay Just] as if they had been fired. But that is small potatoes com- | pared to the litigation already in or | on its way to the courts. Charges of bribery and even murder are made against the oil companies’ | agents who obtained leases and | drilling concessions, and countless suits have been instituted challenging the titles of oil rights, suits involving many hundreds of millions of pesos. Mexico is noted for the cloudiness of titles to land and other property, and this has been made an especially fertile field for litigation because of the destruction of court records and deeds in the course of sporadic revolutionary warfare of the past, Whatever—if any—amount of money the government finally pays to the oil companies for seized properties probably will be divided many ways. Mexico's lawyers will see to that
Next: Gentle le Josephus, sador of good will, COFFIN HANDLES IN LOOT FT. WORTH, Tex. Dec. 1 (U. P). —Two hundred fifty coffin handles] were discovered by police here w here | they evidently had been abandoned | by a thief—who discovered his loot] was worthless.
Ambas-
the |
the minds of many voters is revealed in a survey of public opinion
can, but many more now take the] {point of view that the election of] |a Republican administration would |
just completed by | make no difference in business con-
stitute, The largest] single group voters polled the study presses the view that business conditions would be more prosper-
AMERICAN INSTI E
PUBLIC OPINION
ous if there were a Republican ad- }| {ministration jin Washington
The linking of prosperity Republicans thus continues to be one of the strongest campaign ap- | | peals available to Republican | strategists. However, the Institute's study also | {shows that the upturn in business | {during the past few months has | caused some change of sentiment! on the issue, for fewer voters now | think the Republicans would bring prosperity than thought so last] | June, { In today’s survey, and in a simi- | lar study last June, the following issue was put to a cross-section of voters in every state: “Do you think business would | he more prosperous, or less prosperous, if we had a Republican | President in the White House?" | The comparative results follow: | Today June | More Prosperous 41% 50% | Less Prosperous ...... Rn 26 Would Make No Difference 24 The replies to the question, the study found, vary sharply accord-| {ing to the political party preference | [of the individual There has been
relatively little |
ENLISTS IN MARINES Paul Mason Wellborn, New | Augusta, Ind, has enlisted in the | U. S. Marines and has been trans- | ferred to the Marine Barracks at
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the American In-| ditions.
of per ;m perity is not dependent upon their eX- | party or its fate at the polls.
Last summer only about
| one- fourth of the Democrats polled |
thought this; cent feel
today as many as 40 that business pros-
The
41 Per Cent of Voters Believe Business Would Improve Under G. O.P. President
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Mexico Uses Houston Storage Tanks
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EGG PERMITS BOOST SALE FOR STORES
The Egg Law sponsored by the Indiana Farm Bureau and passed by the General Assembly this year has increased the sale of eggs more than 200 per cent in some stores, Farm Bureau officials said today. The statute requires all groceries which advertise any eggs as fresh to have a state permit. The fees go to the Purdue University Agricultural Extension Division and is used to pay inspectors who see that the law is observed by grocers. The Farm Bureau reports that since one chain store company has obtained permits for its stores the volume of eggs sold has increased from 400 cases a week (approximately a carload) to 1400 cases a week. Officials said that while the total consumption of eggs may not have increased, it is evident that permit holders are receiving more and more of the business.
Newest
Mr. Beery
grow older.
Carol Anne Names Phyllis
old Phyllis Anne, second adopted daughter of the screen actor. Anne, 8, right, Beery's other child, selected her new sister's name.
DEBATERS’ PARLEY OPENS AT PURDUE
Timea Special LAFAYETTE, Ind, Dec. 1—The {10th annual Indiana High School { Debaters’ Conference opens here today, with more than 800 high [school pupils expected to particle pate. | The conference will last through tomorrow. Six debate pupils from | washington High Schoo! at Indian- | apelis, 11 fromh Shortridge, seven from Ben Davis High School and
| Central will ate
|five from Warren tend. ol | This afternoon, teams from Pur- @% |du and Indiana Universities will wisisd | debate on “Resolved, That the Federal Government Should Own and Operate the Railroads.” Purdue 1 |will be represented by Maurice | Karnowski of Rensselaer and Donald Paarlberg of Crown Point. | Marvin Miller of Bedford and | William Spray of Lebanon will de= bate for Indiana.
face in the Wallace Beery household is that of 7-month-Caro
said he intended to adopt more children as these two
anit
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largest group of Democrats, how- |
voters. | ever—50 per cent—think prosperity
'would decline if their party lost. The vote among the rank and file
Today
Repub- Demo- |
crats 10% 50 40
licans 79% 2
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More Prosperous... Less Prosperous ... No Difference Last June Kepub- Demolicans crats 85% 29% 3 42 12 29
More Prosperous... Less Prosperous ... No Difference
with | |
Paris Island, S. C. for training. Mr. | |
Wellborn is the son of Mrs. Charles lo. Wellborn, New Augusta.
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