New Britain herald., 1924-03-17
FALL AND DOHENY
 AGAIN ARRAIGNED Called ConspiratorS in Govt.
 Action to Annul Cal. Lease StOO,000 BRIBE MENTIONED
As in Teapot Suit. Government Com- sel Asks Appointment of Receiver and Temporary Injunction stopping Further Work.

Los Angeles, March 1..-suit to cancel the lease of California Naval Oil lands to the Pan American Pc troleum and Transport company as well as it's accompanying agreement tor construction and stocking by that company Of naval oil storage facii- ties at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was Elod by the government here today.
 Bribery l. Charged
 The bill of complaint charges that bribery entered into the making of the agreements, as well as alleging fraud, conspiracy and illegality. as in the Case of the suit filed March 13 at Cheyenne, Wyo.. with reference to the Teapot Dome lease and contracts.
 As in the Teapot suit, the goveru- ment's special counsel, Atlee Pom creme and owen ]. Roberts, asked the United States district court to issue a temporary injunction stopping the production of oil, appoint receivers to take possession and control Of the oil lands, and to enter a final decree declaring void and caneelling the lease and associated arrangements.
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 The Pan-American Petroleum com pany and its subsidiary, the Pan-Am- erican Petroleum company, were made defendants in the action, and F, l.. Doheny, president of the oil com pany and Albert E. Fall, former sec retary of the interior, are chargeda in the bill with conspiracy to de- fraud the United States flor the pri- vate gain of said Fall. and of de- fendants, for whom said Doheny act cd"
 For the creation of certain rights in the defendants Fall was to re- ceive certain rewards from said Do- heny," the bill ayers. adding that the payment to Fall of sioo,00o, by Do- hcny in November 1921 was that certain reward heretofore prom ised."
 In developing the conspiacy, the complaint charges, Fall and Doheny, by false. fraudulent, and untrue" representations induced President Harding in good faith to sign an eS- ecutiNe orders authorizing the leasing. Secretary Denby of the navy depart uentl it adds. was likewise Induced to proceed with the transaction, al- though the leasing project in its enc tirety is declared to be without nu- thority of law"
 No Real Competition
 Proceeding under his understand ing with Doheny, the complaint con tinies. Fall "purporting 10 act on t.. fRs proposals for royalty oil accruing trom the California naval oil reserves. The proposals. however, it adds, were "so drawn that no one but the de- fendant American Petroleum and Transport company could or would bid thereon" the object being 10 per init this corporation ito make bid not in competition with any other but as the basis of a special, secret. and non-compctitive contract with the United States
 Under this arrangement ii is charged, leasing and other agree ments were entered into. covering oil lands rich in oil and gas in navy re- serves number one and number two secretly and privately without com- pctitive bidding.
 The agreements, it is charged, were "obtained by bribery, the result Of said unlawful conspiracy, were and are a fraud upon the United states, are illegal. null and void. and Of no force or validity, and should be de- livered up to the United states to be cancelled"
 Tho American Petroleum and Transport corporation is said 10 have proceeded with the requirement of all the royalty oil due the United States. while the subsidiary is said 10 have continued drilling wells and ex- tracing gas and oil from the leased reserve area. The removal Of the oil Is declared to be continuing damage to the United States.
 Of the arrangem the bill as- serts that the transactions under said agreements and said lease and the writing themselves form but a single transaction and arc so inex- tricably bound together that the plaintiff (the United Statcsr can not obtain full relief except by tho join der of both corporate defendants. who