Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-15
ALLEGES OIL PLOT
AGAINST MEXICO
Witness Names Philadelphia
Among Those Working for
Intervention
FALL SHARPLY QUESTIONS

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BY the Associated Press
Washington, Sept. 15.-E. L. Do
heny, head of the Mexican Petroleum
Company, was named today by l.. j.
DeBekker, before the Senate committee
investigating the Mexican situation
as chief of the group he alleges is
attempting to bring about intervention
in Mexico.
DeBekker is a writer to whom pre-
vious witnesses attributed authorship
of a charge of q plot to bring about
intervention, He listed by I'M vir-
tually every oil company in Mexico as
party to the plot he says exists.
He mentioned also the names Of sew
eral men who he said were in ''the
plot" to force American Intervention in
Mexico. Among them were c., II.
Boynton, of the Association for the
Protection Of American Rights in
Mexico l. Jewell Williams, of Phila-
delphia Burton w. Wilson, a lawyer,
of New York Frank ]. Silsbee and
Harry w. Berbic, associated with Boyn-
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for the Protection of American Rights
in Mexico.
Twenty oil companies were listed by
DeBekker as the chief hackers of the
association.
DeBekker's bearing and to
questions caused Chairman Fall to
adopt a form of sharp cross-examina-
ton, but the witness affected a show
Of Indifference and softly hummed a
tune as the committee waited while he
hunted his portfolio for manuscripts and
data.
DeBekker quoted a paragraph from a
news dispatch saying President Wilson
was convinced that powerful interests
were at work TO bring about interven-
ton in Mexico.
Fall Prods Witness
Senator Falls cross-examination de-
veloped that the dispatch was undated
in articles DeBekker had written and
showed that it actually was published
March %, 1916, when the Pershing ex-
petition was in Mexico. The chairman
read to the witness the note the State
Department sent about the same time
to Mexico in which the American gov
eminent spoke in the frankest manner
of conditions in Mexico.
After reading the note, Chairman
Fall demanded to know if DeBekker hat
any evidence of any American going
further in his references to Intervention,
and demanded any real evidence that
Intervention was being planned. DeBek
ker replied that the papers are full Of
it,"
Now, Mr.. Witness" said Senator
Fall. you have made charges against
certain men. If you can make good
do So
DeBekker finally said he would Sub
scribe to q clipping bureau to get thu
committee the evidence it wished.
Denies Pay From Carrsnza
DeBekker denied he was receiving an,
remuneration from CarrLnza or the gov
rnmen of Mexico. Much of his in
formation from Mexico, he said, cam
from George +. Weeks, known here a
a press agent for Carranza.
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tanned from deBekker other than test
mony that he was author of most of tn
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