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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. VEW YORK. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1924. Oil Scandal a Secret Two Years Until Archie Roosevelt Acted Raid by Special Interests on U. S.

Navy Oil Reserves Known by Harding Administration, Coolidge and Congress, but Committee Could Not Nail Facts. La Follette- Issued Warning in April, 1922, but Ex-President's Son Opened Eyes of Nation to Scandal. Some of the Leading, Figures in the Famous Teapot Dome Scandal Here Is the Cast of Characters In the Famous Naval Oil Scandal ALBERT FALL: Former Secretary, of the Interior; anti-Conserva; tionist; leased the entire naval oil reserve of the United States before the end of 1922; came into President Harding's Cabi net "broke" and thereafter spent $186,000 in ranch A Kagle Bureau, SOI Colorado Bldg. was suspicious of Hany F. Sinclair's part in this deal and had EDWARD L.

DOHENY: Multi-millionaire oil operator; fellow-prospector of Fall back in 1885; lessor of 37,000 acres of California My HF.XIVY SCYDAM. ASHINGTO.V. Feb. 2 With naval oil reserve; loaned Fall $100,000 in November, 1922, the apportionment of blame for the transfer of naval oil while Fall was still in Mr. Harding's Cabinet.

HARRY F. SINCLAIR: Another oil king, who got the famous lease to as vice president of several of Sinclair's subsidiary- companies. From that moment, from 2 o'cIock on the afternoon of Jan. 21, Teapot Dome has been a national scandal. The Circle Completed.

On April 23, Edward L. Dohuiv appeared and admitted that he hud leaned Fall $100,000 in November, 1922. This established a connection reserves to private corporations there has come to light the extraordinary tact that on April 28. 1922, one week after the Teapot Dome lease had become public. Senator Robert M.

l.a Follette of Wisconsin exposed Teapot Dome for 9.000 acres of oil reserve; paid Fall $10,000 as expenses for trip to Russia in spring of 1923; loaned him $25,000 in May of that year. EDWIN DENBY: Secretary of the Navy, who assumes responsibility for these leases, but admitted that he didn't remember what they were all about. ARCHIBALD ROOSEVELT: Son of the ex-President; vice president of tetween Fall and Doheny, but the; Sinclair end of the case was still vague. Then came William Zcvcly, Washington lobbyist and counsel for Mr. Sinclair, and in an unguarded moment on the stand testified that Fall had received $25,000 from Sin-cteir In May of last The circle was complete.

These charges of fraud and corruption, being more dramatic and personal than any question of policy, have overshadowed a question of several Sinclair subsidiaries, who resigned when Sinclair left hastily for Europe and because of other suspicions of Sinclair's alleged relations with Fall. the entire deal to public attention. The change of policy thus entered upon has been known for 21 months, et nothing was done about it on the part of any Government official until charges of fraud and corruption were made last month. I -a Follcttc's Warning. Speaking lu the Upper House almost two years ago, on the very heels of Secretary Fall's deal with Harry F.

Sinclair, Follette sounded this prophetic note: "I say now, and I sound it as a tote of warning to my Republican colleagues, that we cannot nfford to permit a record to be. made here which will parallel the record of Jfr. Ballingor, Secretary of the In yT fwmmmNwpBHL fell SEN. THO MUSH 'fBg HUBERT 'nL HARRY DAUGHERTY: Attorney General of the United States, whose equal, if not greater, importance i nat. ot defiance of a long-cstabltslm resignation is demanded in resolution now pending in Senate.

At present in Miami, while President Coolidge chooses outside counsel for Government. policy of retaining underground tin vast naval oil reserves set asHe for i mure emergencies. This policy had RUSH HOLLAND: Assistant Attorney General, detailed by Mr. Coolidge "een enforced for 13 years or mon u.iuit every Admlistration, of natevor political connexion. to follow Teapot Dome hearings; described by Senator Walsh as the "political man of the Department of Justice, who is looking after the boys in the trenches." idem Harding's Executive Order G.

D. WAHLBERG: Private secretary to Harry F. Sinclair, who thinks May 31, 1921, transferring control of these reserves from tho Navy Do. partment to the Interior, was the first step in a complete upset of this that $68,000 sounds like "six or eight cows" and that "horse-farm" might sound like "Fall's farm." terior under the. Taft Administration." Continuing, Senator La Follette said: "All of the wealth deposited by the lavish hand of nature in the public domain belongs to the.

this Government, but it is raided by selfish special, interests through the Interior Department." IN" that speech Senator La Follette made practically every chargo which has since been proven by spe ineory and practice. tY THE end "of 1922 Albert 13 1J Fall had leased to private in THOMAS J. WALSH: Senator from Montana, whose driving ability and perseverance have brought out the facts. terests the entire naval oil reserves of the United States, consisting of THE AMERICAN PUBLIC: The people who lost the oil. live separate reservations.

cific evidence. The resolution whlcl: 1'ernaps nothing so well illus he Introduced called upon the Public trates public indifference to the vital Lands Committee to conduct an in needs of the Navy Department as vestigation into the Teapot Dom the fact that this action was taken Air Mail Service to Coast lease and any other leases of nava without provoking any protest other than that of Senator La Follette, reserves. It was referred to that committee and remained buried who, being a radical and a crusader, In 30 Hours Contingent on there until March 4, 1923, wher was regarded as tilting at Just one done without competitive bidding, is with Congress adjourning, the reso regarded us especially deplorable. more windmill. Tho specific defense of th'jse lution was extended so that hearings might be held during recess.

Appropriation of $3, 000, 000 OTHER words there are really two questions at issue in the leases is the charge that they were The fact of the Teapot Dome lease Doheny and Fall Prospected Together Many Years Before Paths Divided; Oil Man Retains Unpretentious Ways nnd the change of policy there cx imnlified been known since navah oil scandal. The first Involves the acceptance by Albert B. Fall of $100,000 from Edward L. Doheny while still in President April 21, 1923. The specific detail: Eagle Bureau 901 Colorado Building.

By JOHN BILLINGS JR. Washington, Feb. 2. The sum of in danger of drainage from outside wells in the neighborhood, operated under private control. Tho case for drainage has never been made to stand up, although there is some difference of opinion among geologists.

lave been known since the Public Harding's Cabinet, and the later ac f.Rnds Committee commenced its in $1,600,000 stands between the es ceptance ot $25,000 from Harry F. vestigation In October of last year tablishment of a 28-hour coast-to- Vet it was not until Edward B. Mc Sinclair, both nominal loans on unsecured notes, the former of which Lean early in January admitted to coast air mail service and the continuance of the present system of relaying letters forward by short aerial Jumps. The Appropriations Senator Walsh at Palm Beach tha at least has yet lo be produced. This aspect of the case muy lead to criminal I had never loaned Albert B.

Fal 1100,000 that the slightest interest By EDWARD V. KHS. Edward Laurence Doheny, Albert Bacon Fall's good friend who is reported to have loum-d him $1.00,000 without interest when Fall 'was Secretary of the Interior, following which ho acquired through Fall leases permitting hihi to exploit the from $5.85 per ton-mile to $2.60 a lon-mlle. Rail transportation is 11 cents per ton-mile. May Reduce Cost to 80c.

Ton-Mlle Mr. Henderson said that he already knew how to reduce the cost for air mall movement to about 60 cents a ton-mile. The trouble, he added, was that the planes now in use by the Department were not built to carry more than 600 pounds In bulk, though their strength waS enough for 2,000 pounds. "The planes are perfectly able to carry 2,000 pounds of mail," Henderson testified, "except for the fact that there Is not the cubical space in them. With the same gasoline and oil and the same gasoline all through, we could carry four or fivu times as much mail as we are now carrying.

we are using remodeled war airplanes. We get them from the Army for nothing. Fall and Donhy Ignored Congress. However that may be, what Congress cannot explain is why Albert B. Fall and Edwin Denby proceeded to sign away these great reserves without giving Congress any chance to take defensive action.

Secretary Denby has said that It Committee of the House reported out the Postofflce Department sup was taken tn this subject outside of ene or two men on the Investigating Validity of (he Leases. The. second issue, which will be ply bill this week with an allow committee, notably Senator Walsh or tried civilly, is the validity of the Montana. actual leases themselves. The Gov ance of $1,500,000 for the Air Mail Service.

Postal experts have told the committee that if this amount is doubled a new mail system will be was assumed that Congress would ernment's case here rests upon President Harding's lack of- author naugurated which will carry a let not make sufficient appropriations. If these reserves were menaced, it Harding Administration Knew About It. The Harding Administration nat ter from New York to San Francisco in less than 30 hours by air. ity to vest control of naval oil vc serves in the Secretary of the In rich oil fields of 'tho California re-servo, is the dominant figure in the ell fields of the West. Doheny spent many vain years prospecting for gold and silver and was past 4 0 when the tide of fortune turned for him and he became rich in oil.

Today he is the Croesus of the Far West, the Preparations are now being made urally knew about it; President torlnr. instead of the Secretary of had devoted over a period of years to his gold ventures. Start Climb In 18D2. He was a pioneer in the California Held, for tho Standard Oil Company had centered its attention on the Middle West. The knowledge that ho had gained through long years of prospecting and the study of rock formations was finally justified.

The oileamo gushing forth in a flood, oceans of It. That was in 1892, and from then on Dohony began to climb. Always Doheny's eye was on me future. Oil did not mean so much then as it did years later when the roads of the nations were filled with motorcars, but an uncanny sixth sense told him that the day was coming when the nation would be hungry for oil, so he did not rest content with his Los Angeles fields, but moved on In Fullertoii) In the same State. There also bis luck stayed with him.

He was now the undisputed monarch of the California oil regions, but his Coolidge knew about the Cabine to stage a fight on the floor of the House for this increased appropria- is argued that the United States Government could have afforded to spend millions of dollars In building offset wells of its own, or at least had a chance to express itself the Navy, where Congress had placed It. The authority of Mr. ton. It will probably prove the could not have failed to know something about it. Congress knew about high-light of interest in the whole Denby lo exchange this oil, or sell it, for huge construction in Hawaii it.

The public regarded it with in postofnee measure. on the wisdom of a general leasing May liaise Appropriation To policy. difference. And now, after all this has been public knowledge for more will also be challenged, as. well as the Navy Department's complete $3,000,000.

In the case of Mr. Doheny's lease There are indications now that the 1han a year, the entire Government in California, which is of lar greater House will see lit to raise this sum is In a furor over importance than that of Teapot failure to advertise for bids the case of either lease, as required by statute. third richest man In America. Persistence, which never flagged even in the days of poverty and adversity; a shrewd sense of land values gained principally through his knowledge of geology, a certain iu-atlnct for smelling out the most liko-ly locations in which to drive for cil and a faculty for seeing far ahead of his time raised Doheny to afriu-t nce. Today his fortune is estimated Here a circumstance which to $3,000,000 to permit of continu ous night flying tn the Air Mail Serv Dome, Fall and Denby arranged those who deal with public opinion for $102,000,000 worth of construc ice.

In case there is no Increase, the Postofnee Department is inclined tion dockage, dredging, tankage, think that the costal service by and the behavior of governments may well investigate. The President himself is reported to have remarked that it was not until charges of fraud air might as wen be discontinued Congressman Robert Clancy of etc. to be made at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to be paid for in royalty oil. Under this arrangement, for every three barrels, of oil taken from the restless spirit called further south at $100,000,000. But you would Detroit will make a motion on the floor of the Honse when this Item were made that the far more lm CDWARO lo Mexico, where, in spite of th never guess it to look at him.

Quiet, nortant subject of naval oil policy comes up for that the TO HOLD VALENTIN" PARTY. The Cameo Branch of the International Sunshine Society of Brooklyn will hold Us annual Valentine rai party and fashion show on Feb. 14 in the rest rooms on the fourth floor of Oppenheim, Collins Brooklyn. The fashion show will feature new Southern and advanced summer styles. Mrs.

E. C. Burgess of 640 Mc-Donough st. Is president of the society and chairman of the committee arranging the details for this affair. ground and accruing lo the Govern scoffing of the doubting Thomases his They cost us about $2,000 apiece to rebuild.

If the air mall service is ever going to amount to anything. It mustfio things: Possess itself of the right kind of airplanes get some sure-enough airplanes and light this airway properly from Chicago to Cheyenne and fly over it." Special Rates for New Service. If this extra allowance Is given the Department and the night air mail goes Into regular operation, special postal rates will be put Into use with the new service. The country will be divided into three zones, working out of New York Chicago the first zone, at 8 cents a letter; Cheyenne the second zone, at 11 cents a letter, and San Francisco the third zone; at 24 cents a letter. "If I could have $3,000,000 In the Air Mail Service," declared the Second Assistant Postmaster General In summing up his case, "in one year from now I promise that I will havo planes running day -and night tween New York and San on a 28 or 30-hour through' schedule.

I shall have special postal rates and new airplanes, and I do not thimc the cost would exceed SO cents per ton -mile." Last year thi service' carried mail by air for 539,000 miles, with a f.chedule rci-oid tf 97 percent on time. assumed any significance efforts were again crowned with suc Air Mail Service be appropriated $3,000,000. In this move he will have strong Democratic backing, in ment as royalty two barrels are paid back to Sinclair and Doheny unobtrusive, soft of voice and manner, without presence, there fs nothing about him to mark him out from cess. TV for storage charges. 1 acres of Government naval oil cluding Congressman Joseph Byrns of Tennessee, ranking minority the crowd as one of the nation' This circumstance, added to the Forms Mexican Petroleum.

The timely development of the land was signed on April 7, 1922 wealthiest men. fact that both leases were secret and membe of the House Appropria tions Committee, who is deeply in The fact that this lease had actually motorcar industry at a moment when terested in the advancement of this h.en signed was not officially admit Xot At All Imposing. He wears black' pearls, large as he had a great deal of oil on his form of postal transportation. led until April 21. when Acting In hands, but little cash boomed his The Budget Bureau overrode' the was steady.

He became a United Stales Senator and finally a member of President Harding's Cabinet. For Secretary of State, President Harding thought of him as a likely candidate for Secretary of State, but his final choice fell upon Charles E. Hughes, who represented an element in the Republican party ho felt obliged to recognize, so Fall received the portfolio of Secretary of stock tremendously and he formed terior Secretary Finney nnd Navy Secretary Denby acknowledged it bi hazelnuts, as studs for his shirt; he affects a jeweled watch chain. But even in his fine raiment ho lacks departments request and allowed tt $1,600,000 for air mall activities. the Mexican Petroleum "Company which was destined to become the a letter in response to a Senate reso The majority of the Appropriations Committee sustained the action of lution introduced by Senator John that air of distinction popularly associated with the possession of a largest oil producing company in tile Kendrick of Wyoming, who was Silas H.

Strawn, Who Will Probe Oil Deals, One of Big Lawyers of the Middle West huge fortune. A who world. He secured British financial backing and later combined the Mex' has often seen him describes him as in unassuming man of medium ican oil fields with those in California. His wealth increased rapidly. height, with gray hair, a straggling gray mustache, heavy eyebrows and Now ho lives in Los Angeles.

He tne Bureau. The fight that Is now brewing will be directed toward doubling the budget figure. Xlght flying Practical Says P. O. Department.

The Postofflce Department believes that it has proved successfully by its flights of last summer that night flying is now a practical thing. Its officials declare that without the opportunity for continuous 24-hour air travel the service cannot take the next logical step forward In its development. The course between has one son, Edward L. Doheny Jr. small but piercing eyes.

By X. P. STEDMAX. the Interior. In the meantime the o.iiiet Doheny, his comrade of the trail, remained true to his first love and trod the canyons and the mountains in search of a "strike" which never materialized until he left tho lure of gold for the fields of oil.

Fall hud becom? a national figure when, Doheny was lie is modest and generous and it is Doheny and Fall were adventurers Great events bring forth new per sonalities and often a man becomes said he lives on a Juxurious scale, but makes no great display of his money. A BUDDING ROMAXCE. There was hardly even standing room in, the crowded tram, but a young woman wedged her way just inside the door. Each time the car made a sudden forward lurch she fell back, and together in the days of their youth, for -their friendship began halt' a century ago and the passing famous over night. Tha public then lie is a grandson of Michael wants to knof all about its new luminary and fiequently it learns to Doheny, who was one of the prominent figure-? in the Irish uprising of Chicago and Cheyenne has been its surprise that the new celebrity three times she landed in the arms of a portly man who was standing on the platform.

The tr.ird time it happened, he said quietly: is a man of great power and in laid out with pilot lights along the way to direct the postal, aviator hrough the dark. According tea. fluence. When this happens the pub lie wonders how it was that its new "Excuse me; but hadn you bet ter stay here?" Everybody's Maga light was kept under a bushel has ket for so long. Further inquiry re the first person to be sus-1 icious about Teapot Dome.

The actual Teapot Dome hearings were not begun until October 22, more than one year afterward. Meanwhile Mr. Fall had signed away to Edward L. Doheny the far greater r.aval oil reserves at Elk Hills, California, totally 37,000 acres. Charges of corruption and fraud were slow in coming to a head.

Tlu investigating committee spent many dreary hours in building up a great background of fact, to which, as it tame dribbling out day after I'obody paid much attention. Suspicion Against Fall from first. There was from the firs; a sus-I icion against Mr. ail, but actual evidence was lacking. The committee knew that he had male extcnsr'c improvements, totally a-su; 4186,000 un his New Mexico rane.i, ijt vei-c xinabie to discover the of tf.ese sums.

Finally Edwin B. McLean, Washington publisher, engaged A. Mitchell Palmer, former A'torney General, to act for him. and Mr. Palmer Iransmitted to the investigating committee a statement that Mr.

McLean had loaned 100.000 to Fall in 1922. zine. timony given the committee, jhe sum of $200,000 will be needed to complete this lighting project. Extra money will also be needed to pay for the actual illumination used over the nirht routo fellow and iess the prosecutor, like Jim Reed. Mr.

Strawn is retained by many large corporations as counsel and he knows big business from A to Z. As attorney for the Chicago and Alton Railroad and the Chicago Stock Yards and as director of the First National Bank in Chicago, Mr. Strawn is closely identified with the big interests of Chicago. His more famous former law partner. John Barton Payne, has figured more prominently on the national stage and has made a reputation for himself in politics, having once been Mr.

Wilson's Secretary of the Interior. But it is doubtful if Mr. Payne wields the political power of his less famous former partner. Mr. Strawn is personally known to the prominent Republicans of Lie Middle West nnd most of them value his advice.

He belongs to the clubs where they congregate and he figures in political pow-wows listigated by his close frnd. Senator Medill Me-Cormlek of Illinois. Republican politicians and celebrities passing through Chicago "drop in on Sfrawn" and those who like gulf have a game wilh the former president of American Golf Asso veals that the overnight celebrity had remained in, the background of 184S and by the same token he is a rabid Irish patriot. The grandfather was associated with the Irish patriots. Jon Mitchel, Smith O'Brien, Gavan Duffy and others.

He fled to America, settled In the West with his son, and his grandson, Edward Laurence Doheny, the subject of this sketch was born in Fond du Lac, in 1850. He has been a heavy contributor to the Democratic campaign fund and is a power in California politics. Ho is a great friend of William G. BUT DID ME BUY SEVERAL? Bill Did Dan kill the fatted calf national events because of timidity The remainder of the $1,600,000 would be employed In "the develop- when his prodigal son came home? or modosty or a refinement hostile Sam He was goin to but the boy iiitrui ui proper airplane. According to the testimnnv nf to publicity.

let him; he took the ani- Just such a man is Silas Hardy Second Assistant Postmaster General cal to tn fHate fair and won a hat. Strawn, Chicago lawyer, chosen by full of ribbons 4b3 sold him fe? rau Henderson recently before the years firmly cemented the bond. A kindred spirit led them into the wild mountainous nylons of the Southwest and, pack on back, llko many other young men of frontier times, they tramped the rough trails of New Mexico prospecting for gold. They met with niany vicissitudes, but struck little "pay dirt." Often Went lluiiyr.v. Often they wont hungry; often they began a new prospect in high hopes, only to be disillusioned.

It was a hard life, and when their paths diverged they were richer In experience but tlnU was all. It was Fall who left trail for tile quiet pursuit! of the law, which least premised a steady return Mo established himself, in New Mexico, acquired a ranch and buried himself in his law books. lb? took his examinations, was admitted to the and practiced to such good purpose that ho was chosen toy fli! a vacancy on the Supreme Court bench. Thereafter his upward climb still prospecting, just one of the great army of obscure delvers in the In later life their positions were reversed by one pf those queer twists of fate which make life a constant engima. Positions Reversed.

Fall became broken in health and met with financial difficulties and Duheny roseon the crest of a sudden wave to the overlordship o.f tho California oil fields and the richest oil fields in the world near Tampieo, Mexico. Some subtle inner sense turned the son of an Irish -immigrant from the pursuit of gold to that of oil and just as soon as he diverted bis attention luck was with him. lie reasoned that there must be oil in Southern California and went there and nosed about. Down near Los Angeles iio found traces of it in Hie rocky shale. That was his cue.

He borrowed $400 from a friend, acquired a lease covering certain acres and luegun to dig witli the same enthusiasm' that he President Coolidge to help investi committee, the cost of mail trans-1 enough to buy several fatted portation by air has been reduced I Farm Life. the Doheny-Sinclair-Fall oil scandal, tiiknown in toe East until MeAdoo, who has been his legal ad a few days ago when the President's visor in many matters. perseverance and an In-ilomitable will carried Edward Do mention of him made. Mi. Strawn an overnight notable, he is today hailed to tho pinnacle of success and as one ot America's foremost law made him one of America's richest ciation and the man who has done yers.

And with justice, for few men. But you would never imagine lawyers have had greater experience Farly in January Senator Walsh it or guess the many years of hard or won greater victories than Mr. rather without warning, made a trip ship that came before wealth if you as much as any other to make that game popular with business men. Silent Power In His Party. Strawn is much like Colonel House, a silent power in his party.

Of course. Colonel House didn't nl- saw him quietly and unobstrusivcly Strawn. Well Built. Athletic and Affable. Mr.

Strawn is 57 years old. but he NOW ON SALE THE PENAL LAW STATE OF NEW YORK making his way about the streets ot Los Angeles. docs not look more than 50. He is ways remain a silent power because his work became national nnd International in character. Hut Strawn, it is figured, can no loniter remain a BROOKLYNITES IN LONDON silent Republican force because he has been called to clean up the most sensational national scandal in the history of the Government and if he succeeds he will win fame and a WITH 1923 AMENDMENTS London, Jan.

23 Among the many visttorp now staying at the Savoy Hotel, London, are Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Jenkins and P.

Mclncrncy of Brooklyn. N. Y. gieut'name, and his influence will be infinitely greater. to Palm Beach, put Mr.

McLean tinder oath, and secured from him fiat admission that he had given Fall checks for $100,000 which had never been cashed. Fall, in a note, Kdmltted that he had never had any money from McLean. lack of frankness impressed the committee, and especially Senator Wahh, as indicating circumstances which would not beat iavestigation, but the truth is they trere nt their wits' end how to obtain this evidence. nator Waish has said that sometimes it r.eemed lo hiiii that "the hand of the Almighty" was In this fc.fTr.ir. Just when Mr.

Walsh was tt the end rope, auil It seemed as if Fall mysterious 1100.000 would never b-t xplaincd. Archie appeared CO urine and that tif i President Coolidge, a shrewd man 1022. Commenting on tile summons Mr. UiiBcrlcidor "We opened our Washington offices in November, 1921, and all 1 can say is that w1. enjoyed a very nice trade at.

that otTlce. Jaiiies Sloan Jr. has been in charge of our affairs there since the ollicn was opened. He telephoned me that he had been summoned to appear In the Congressiona Inquiry today. I leave Sunday night for Washington and will appear before the committee Monday in response to the summons.

"Mr. Sloan was 20 years in the White House, and was a close friend nf Presidents Taft, Wilson and Harding. He lert the White House to serve as chief clerk of the Shin- very athletic, being especially fond of golf. H'j Is smooth-shaven, with a fair, complexion, a trifle bald, and wears rimless spectacles. In stature he is very well-built.

He is the ordinary type of successful business man or lawyer, but without any par ticular distinction in his appearance. The most notable feature of Strawn is his affability. He Is good humored, not without wit. and rather approachable to all comers. Not at all the harsh, shrewd prosecuting attorney sort of man.

In his prosecution of the Government's case he will, like Senator WaUh of Montana, impress people witli his extreme fairness. Lawyer for Bi(C Interests. Perhaps the fact that Mr. Strawn ail his life been devoted to makes him more of a good CALL CLEVELAND BROKER IN OIL LEASE PROBE Cleveland, Feb. 2 Samuel I'nger-leider.

Cleveland broker, with a Washington branch ollicc, was sub-penued this to testify before the Teapot Dome inquiry in Washington. The summons bears the signature of Irvine I. Lenroot, chairman of tho Committee on Public Lands and Surveys and was served tb rough the United States Marshal's office. The summons to appear directs t'nsei'leider to bring all records, books and accounts of all transactions through the Fngerleiiler bouse between Dec. 1, 1921, and Dec.

1, HARMO.W HOYS CHARTERED. and a keen judge of the best in his party, in, choosing Strawn has picked a man who typifies the best ideals of Mid-Western Republicans. Mr. Strawn is friendly to big business, but unwilling to have it flagrantly exploit the public; lie is a sportsman, a good fellow, untainted by public scandal, a good churchman. PRICE 50 CENTS By Mail, 55 Cent.

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