Evening star., 1924-01-22

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Of the testimony wiIinh .4rcttfe Roose-
Welt would give. Assistant NttorIev
;l'encral Holland was present as the
personal representative suf ATTORNEY
/ teTeneral Daugherty. REPRESENTATIVES,
L.ungworth nf Ohio and Garrett of
/; Tennessee, the republican und demo-
l'crattr laaders in ftile Huuse, followed
the Testimony. MIR. Lungwurth WAS
accompanied by his wife, the former
Alice Eousevelt.
Archie lsposevelt testified that he
mad resigned as vice president OF the
Union Petroleum Company. the
branch oc the Sinclair Consolidated
Oil Corporation in charge of the ex-
port business, after having been con
nected with the Sinclair company
since August /, 1919
Yesterday afternoon I handed in
| my resignation to the Sinclair Con
s0ildated OH Corporation" he said.
i did this because | felt that could
not giving the loyalty to my employer;
which he was entitled 10, should l
remain with him. The reasons are:
ffrst, the amazing testimony which
mas been developed by your commit
tee: secondly, because / learned some
things which, while not proven facts
BIS yet, at leas: corroborated certain
suspicious l entertain; thirdly,
noticed that two OF the people most
concerned with the naval oil leases
had left the United States in Il great
hurry. ] gave to my brother all my
various suspicious and Information,
and he saiG that I should come here
and Tell you what ! know.
ION Sunday. January 13, read Sen
ator WalshS Investigations in Florida.
and that finally Convinced ME / Was in
the wrong place. On Monday Mr.. Sin
clair called me into his office and asked
me to get him q ticket on the steam
ship fRris. sailing Wednesday,, FOR Eu-
rope. He wanted a ticket ON the next
Wednesday Afr. Sinclair sailed. on
Thursday Senator C'araway'e speech
game out, end ! read II with great in
eeFest, because il clearly showed me
received a call from my friend Mr
Or. ID. Wahfbsrg, who Is Mr.. Sinctair's
Secretary.
Interrupted by a ,mcraber OF the COM
nttes MIR. Reoseveit >exniatned that
AIR. Sinclair had asked him not TO have
his name put on the psssenser list, nud
not to mention to aHy ono that he in
tended 10 lsaVe the country.
Got aacaxcf q,hvsss,h Rrothsr.
':AIy brother Kermit is connected with
"a steamship company. and ] got the
ticket through him Mr.. Roosevelt
stated. "Thsre is absolutely ro reason
requiring the presence of Mi Harry t.
Sinclair tn Europe at this time. make
that statement from thc knowledge i
have of the affairs % the COMPANY. he
ing connected with its foreign feparr-
ment. ] understand that AIr. Do.reny
has gone, and MIR. zeveiy sailed Sat-
uTriay, ] Was Informed
Describing hts visit TO wahlberg. the
they had been cioseted heiifnd closed
doors WAhfberg said 1hxt he had some
advice which he desired 10 give
He said that he wished i would
iresign from the campany," Mr. Roose
Welt added. THAT ! had a name and
a reputation which ! should guard
very 3ealously- that he personally
was unhappy to see me thew AIR.
W,ahlberg stated that he himself Uas
extremely unhappy with Mr.. Sinclair.
II asked him if he Thought that Mr..
Sinclair had bribed Secretary Fail
Mr. WahIberg hesiteted and said, I
think somebody may have loaned Air.
Fall money
Then i asked him why he thought
Mr.. Sinclair was leaving the coun-
try. He said, Shaking his head, that
findings uf senator walsh ism in his ol trie 59e
to Florida. MIR. WahIberg told me
that he WAS afraid that he would be
forced TO explain certain things, and
that he would undoubtedly be ex-
That one Of the things he was wor-
ried about Was a payment which was
made 10 foreman of Mr.. Fail: that
that payment was S6S.000. and that
he had the Cancelled checks :,
|It took my breath away" Roose-
velt went on. Il telephpned Friday
afternoon to my brother Ted, and
wrote letter in which / told him
1T to YOU. He came on to New York
and j talked with him. He insisted
that ] come back In order to get the
thing Strengthened out. ] got Mr.
and told him what ! was going TO
say. While in an ordinary case /
would not appear with nothing Hx-
Cept hearSay evidence, / present the
matter to the committee so that it
Wahibers Also Resigns.
Announcing that he had rendered
his resignation and would be off the
Sinclair pay roll last night. wahl-
berg insisted that he had been mis-
understood in that particular: that
what he had said was that Sinclair
had given six or eight cattle to the
foreman of the ranch. He denied
that he knew of any money having
been paid the foreman and assertsd
that SO far as he knew Sinclair had
never given anything of value to Fall
directly Or indirectly.
The committee closely examined
Wahfherg and. while il freely comment
ed upon his inability to remember va
rfous transactions into which II sought
to make inquiry, il did not shake his
declaration that he had been r1isunder-
stood about any payment OF SSS, 900 TO
the Fall ranch foreman in talking with
Archie Roosevelt. So far as con.
cerned the telephone conversation at
1880 O'Clock in the morning. he said
there had evidently been confusion
tion.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, on
being called by the committee, ex-t
planned how he had listened in upon
his brother and wahlberg and insist =
ed that the latter had fully confirmed
his brothers understanding of what
had occurred. fnclnding the cancelled
checks for s6s.8oo. Col. Roosevelt
asserted that at thu end OF the con-
versation Wahlherg had confirmed the
entire statement.
Archie Roosevelt then was recalled
and said that in his telephone con-
versatfon with WahlberE ne had
stated his understanding Of their con-
versation in New York just as he had
given it to the committee, including
his recollection about the canceied
checks. He added that in their 1870
o clock telephone conversation Wahi-
berg may have misunderstood that
part of the statement in which refer
ence was made to the Cancelled
checks.
OBJECTS 70 Check Statement.
wahFbers had taken exception to
the Cancelled checks statement during
their 7.3o O'Clock talk, Archie said,
declaring, that he did not remember,
ever having said anything of the
kind.