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...Including Harry M. Blackmer and James E. O'Neill, both of whom fled the U. S. in 1924 when the Continental Co.'s affairs were first questioned, and both of whom refuse to return to the U.S. to testify...
...Blackmer's Bonds. For refusing to return to the U. S. from France to testify in the Fall-Sinclair trial, Harry M. Blackmer, one of the main Sinclair vice presidents, was pronounced in contempt of court by Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, Mr. Sinclair's latest judge. Last fortnight a U. S. Marshall called at a Washington bank and attached for the U. S. $100,000 in Liberty Bonds deposited there in Mr. Blackmer's name. Mr. Blackmer's attorney promised to fight the U. S. for return of this price of silence by testing the constitutionality...
...Springboard. If ever critics by dozens are found foully murdered in their beds the police will logically detain Sidney Blackmer as the first suspect. Mr. Blackmer, who has played some parts excellently, is subject to an almost annual avalanche of freezing abuse. This year, he deserves it. He is employed as a devastating lover. He marries the girl. He continues devastation, elsewhere. She sues for divorce. He repents. She repents. Curtain...
Should Mr. Blackmer's stay in France be prolonged beyond the date of the Fall-Sinclair trial, set to open in the District of Columbia Supreme Court on Oct. 17, his absence may cost him $100,000. For in 1925 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, head of the Senatorial investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty...
...Blackmer's presence has been considered essential to the Government's case by special attorneys onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, in charge of the oil trials. Mr. Blackmer was onetime (1922) an official of the Prairie Oil Co., which, along with Sinclair oil companies, bought from a Canadian oil company 33,333,000 barrels of oil. The Canadian company had bought this oil from the Mexia (oil) companies of Texas. It was claimed that the Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy...