The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
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 happy to see me there. Mir. wahlbers stated that he himself was extremely unhappy with MT. Sinclair. I asked him If he thought that Mir. Sinclair had bribed Secretary Fall. MT. Walhbere hesit fted and said I think somebody may have loaned Mir. Fall money
 Worried About Payment -Then I asked him why he thought He saia, shaking his head, that it must be of course. because of the findings of Senator Walsh in his trip to Florida Mir. Wahlberg told, me he was afraid that he would be forced to explain cer tam things That one of the things he was worried about was a paymen, which was made to foreman of Mir FalI ;, that that payment was S6S 900 and that he had the cancelled checks.
 @It took my breath away, Roosevelt went on. Il telephoned Friday after noon to my brother Ted. and wrc te { letter in which told him the whole thing as I have outlined it to you. Ht came on to New York and I talked with him. He insisted that I come back
 
 out I got Mir. Wahlberg in Baltimore this morning and told him what I was going to say. While in an ordinary case l would not appear with nothing except hearsay evidence present the matter to the committee so that it can find out what the facts are
 The statement made to the commit tee by Archie Roosevelt was sub. stantiated by wahlberg with the ex. eeptlon of the statement about S6S. .OOO having bene paid to Falls ranch fore. man.
 Announcing that he had rendered his resignation and would be off the Sin clair payroll tonight, Wahlberg insisted that he had been misunderstood in that particular ;ethat what h, had said was that Sinclair had given six or eight cattle to the foreman of the ranch. He denfed that he knew of any money hay ing been paid the foreman, and asserted that so far as he knew Sinclair had never given anything of any value to Fall directly or indirectly.
 The committee closely examined Wahlberg. and while they freely com. mented on his inability to remember various transactions, they did not shake his deelaration about the payment of S6S, 900 to the Fall ranch foreman in talking with Archie Roosevelt. So far as concerned the telephone conversation at 30 o'clock this morning he said there had evidently been confusion be- cause of a poor telephone connection.
 Listened In On Phone
 Assistant Secretary Roosevelt on be- ing called by the committee explained how he had listened in upon the tele- phon conversation between his brother and Wahlberg and Insisted that the lat ter had fully confirmed his brother s understanding of what had occurred, including the cancelled checks for SbS.O00 Colonel Roosevelt asserted that at the end of the conversation Wahlberg had confirmed the entire statement.
 Archie Roosevelt was then recalled and said that in his telephone conver. satlen with Wahlberg he had stated his understanding of their conversation in New York just as he had given it to the committee, including his recollec. tIan about the cancelled cheeks. He added that in their 1 30 o'clock tele. phone conversation -Wahlberg may have misunderstood that part of the state. ment in which reference was made to the cancelled checks statement during | their I 30 o'clock talk, Al hie said adeing that he did not rem mber ever having said anything of the kind.
 Replying to a question from Repre sentative Lenroot. republican. Roose welt said Il am sure that he said thai he would not like to have to explair about the cancelled checks he had fo, S6S.0o0- l was so impressed with il at the time that wrote it down. I have always been impressed with Mir. WabI berg through my dealings with him. do not see how 1t was possible for mt to have misunderstood him, but from what he said I may have been." ! Wahlberg told the committee that his advice to Archie Roosevelt to resign was not based upon any other consider atlon than this apprehension of what t might come to him in the way of em barrassment through his connection with the Sinclair Russian corporation Mr. Roosevelt had interpreted his sug gestlon, Wahlbers added. as that h, ! should resign from the Sinclair Con solidated Oil corporation.
 Employees SubpOenaed
 Wahlberg disclosed to the committe, that Harry F. Sinclair had loaned stock in his corporation and Libert, bonds to w. NJ. Beverly. Sinclair's per sonal counsel. The stock, at least, wa sold but what use was made of tn money or of the bonds. the witness sait he did not know. The committee q that point directed subpOenaes to b. issued for Sinclair employees to appea with records and books that may shet | light upon the transaction.
 | According to Wahlberg, he had. b! direction of Sinclair, placed subject t, the order of Beverly. $500 shares O { the Sinclair Consolidated company stocI and S25,O00 worth of Liberty bonds The transfer took place in October O November, 1922, the witness said, ex plaIning that the transaction hat seemed to him suspicious"
 Chairman LenrOOt pressed the wit ness as to whether there was anythin; in -'the back of your mind'' on tn matter, but the latter said there wa nothing that was based on facts.
 Upon order of Colonel Beverly, h. continued, the stock had been sold, fo what price he did not know. Zeverl. had given him, the witness said, nt memorandum or receipt for the none, obtained through the sale of the stocl nor for the Liberty bonds. Senate Walsh estimated that the stock ha, brought about $S0,00O, to which tn witness made no comment.
 Brokers Named
 Lyman E. Smith X Co. of New YOrl were named by the witness as tn brokers who sold the stock loaned t Beverly but he said he could not re member whether their check had beer turned over to Beverly or whether h. had been given cash.
 ] WahlbeEg said he had been require, to handle innamerable private" mat
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