The Connecticut labor news., 1924-11-08
DAWES FAMILY PROFITED LARGELY FROM BIG OIL DEAL, OF WHICH
 SECRETARY FALL GOT S9OOOO

JULIUS, u io SIdlIiieU were Q1Str1DuCeQ to stockholders or to holders of stock warrants" as dividends.
 $90,00O of Bonds in Falls Possession. ! The aff1davits al1ege in this connec- tion:
 That on or about June Is, 1922, $90,000 of said bonds certified by their numbers were III possession of the said Albert B. Fall, the person alleged in this case to have conspired with said Sinclair to defraud the United States in the matter of said lease, which said lease was executed in the month of April, 1922"
 So much for the governments story of the $2000000 easy money and the turning over of $eO,OOO of it to Fall. It IS not amiss to point out here that the oil purchasing public must have absorbed the profit in higher prices and so paid for ContinentaTs profit Continental. by the way, went out of business early this year, all of it's records, books and papers being de stroyed The Congressional invesfiga- tions were getting near the Jackpot"
 Now for evidence connecting the name of Dawes with share in the. s2,000,000 profit.
 Charles C. Dawes (Helen Maria) has three brothers, all of whom are interested in banking Beman Gates Dawes, one of the brothers, Is presi- dent of the. Pure Oil Company
 One Brother, Heads Pure Oil
 Before a subcommittee iof the Com n1ittee on Manufacturers of the United States Senate, headed by eSnator La Toilette, Be1aan Gates Dawes testified on February l, 1923, that the Pure Oil Company owns 24.38 per cent of the Humphreys Oil Company, which was one of the companies that prohted from the Continental S2,000,000 jack bot" Col. A. E. Humphreys of the Humphreys Oil Company and men toned as the seller of the oil in the contracts negotiated by Continental, is a director in the Pure Oil Company according to Dawes testimony It IS apparent that Pure Oil Company and the Humphreys Il interests are lclosely connected and that anything that benefited Col Humphrey must also have benefited the Pure Oil Com pany and Beman Gates Dawes
 But the Dawes family Is still further connected with the Pure Oil Company land Humphreys through it's interest in Dawes Bros. Inc, a Chicago banking house, of which Henry May Dawes and Rufus Cutler Dawes, also brothers of Helen Maria" Dawes, are executives. In passing, Ii might be mentioned that the Dave family is strongly represent ed on the government pay roll, as Rufus Cutler is in Germany with the Preparations Commission and Henry May Is controller of the currency un- der Secretary Mellon.
 Dawes Bros. Own Humphreys Stock.
 According to the testimony of Be- man Gates Dawes, Dawes Bros, Inc, own large interest in the Humphreys Oil Company, so 1t IS apparent the Dawes family must have profted by money made in the Continental lease transaction. While Helen Maria" is not on record, so far as has been as- certained, as being a member of Dawes Bros, Inc, there is little doubt that he has more than platonic in terest in the affairs of the banking in stitution. The Dawes brothers stick to- gether and 1t Is almost inconceivab1e that Helen Maria" did not have a share of the $2,O00,OO0 pie" Ills profits may have been derived from the sale of the oil by Humphreys and so have been strictly legitimate but there is the possibility that he also may have been among those who, like Fall, are alleged to have been given a slice of the S2,0O0,O00 profit
 Other sharers in the $2,000O00 . jackpot" may be revealed when the government prosecutors examine wit nesses who are now resisting efforts to get information from them. The afidavits telling of the $2,000006 profit were filed at Toronto to meet requirements of Canadian law and the earliest date that a hearing can be held Is January 6. Until then 1t Is hardly probable that the witnesses whose testimony is sought by the government will unburden themselves. Pure Oil Company Dawes Concern.
 It is perhaps not generally realized that members of the Dawes family are heavily interested in the Pure Oil Co,,,r,ar,r one of the Ia aroeSt nil co11a= |