The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-15
GRAND JURY
ENTERS THE
OIL DRAMA
Sinclair Indictment for
Contempt Coming Up
ltspeeIaI to The palIy w0rIerl

WASHINGTON, April a.
The grand jury here Wednesday
will consider criminal cases
against principals in the oil
scandal; the contempt indict-
ment against Harry F. Sinclair
will come up during the week
for disposition by the court on
a demurrer and the senate COM
mittee will continue tomorrow
on the trail of testimony con-
corning the republican national
convention "oiI DEAF story.
This was the program of sem
ate and legal investigators out
lined today for the week.
Grand Jury at Work.
The Grand Jury was summoned to
hear the evidence which prosecutors
Pomerene and Roberts have drawn up
against at least five men prominent
in the investigation. Indictments for
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment will be sought.
The government will file an answer
TO the demurrer of Harry F. Sinclair,
who was indicted for contempt when
he refused to answer questions of the
investigating committee and then at
tackled the coflstitutionality of the
powers of all congressional investigat-
ing committees. A day for argument
of the legal points involved will be
set as soon as possible. Either ways
the decision of the court goes, the
question will be fought to the United
States Supreme Court.
Proctor Backed Wood.
William Cooper Proctor, Cincinnati
soap manufacturer, and friend of Gen.
Leonard Wood, has been subpoenaed
as the first witness BEFORE the investi-
eating committee tomorrow.
He furnished money for the Wood
presidential campaign in 1920 and is
supposed to have some information
regarding the reported efforts of the
late Jake Hamon to swing an oil re-
serve deal at the convention.
(Ry The Federated Press)
WASHINGTON, April IA James
Sloan, for 16 years detailed by the
secret service to guard the president,
told the senate public lands commit
tee that when he became the mana
ger of the Washington branch of the
brokerage house of Ungeleider & Co.,
of Cleveland, o., in October, 1921, his
salary was set at $1,000 month. He
had been drawing So day, with 81
maintenance allowance, when he pro-
tected Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.
Ungeleider was a friend of the
Daugherty crowd in Ohio politics. In
picking manager for his Washing
ton branch he did not get trained
stockbroker or investment expert. He
got man who knew everyone who
went to the white house. Sloan had
to be given several weeks training
at Cleveland and New York, in order
that he might know how to sell
stocks. But Ungeleider had met him
with Harding, and knew that Jimmy"
had been employed from the morning
after the nomination of Harding. to
guard the candidate during the 1920
campaign and to be at his service
and at the service Of the Republican
National committee until June IS,
1921. In other words. Sloan knew
everybody who associated with Hard
ing during the entire campaign and
for several months after his inaugural
ton.
Sloan testified that no public off,
cial dealt in stocks thru his office Eek
cept as your experts examination OF
our books disclosed" and that no off,
cial traded thru his firm under any
other name than the clients own.
After President Harding's death,
the Ungeleider firm sold out to a New
York concern, and Sloan joined the
unemployed.
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