The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-25
Oil Magnate Admits He Loaned Money To Aid His Old Friend
 In Distress
MANY SENSATIONS
 ARE BROUGHT OUT
Denies Under Gruelling Cues tioning, Act Had Any Connec- :. tion With Teapot Dome Lease
DISAPPEARANCE OF NOTE
 FOR MONEY DEVELOPED
His Company Employed Men Formerly With Interior De-
 partment-Had Fall A Job

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 24.-The United States senatorial investigating committee would be asked to inquire into a lease granted by former Secretary of the Interior Fall on zinc and mining lands of the Quapaw Indians in Oklahoma under a resolution which Senator Courtland M. Feuquay of Chandler announced today he willintroduce in the upper house of the state leg islature tomorrow.
 The lease was given the Eagle- Picher Lead company and the reso- lution asks that an investigation be was approved at lesser price than those offered by other bidders.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-(By the Associated Press. )-Albert B. Fall. forA mer Secretary of the Inetrior. receiyedA a loan of $100,000 in cash on his per. sonal note from E. l.. Doheny, Cali- fornia oil magnate, Mir. Doheny testi- fled today before the Senate Teapot Dome Investigating committee. The date of the loan was given as December 30, 1921, or more than a year before Secretary Fall signed the contract leasing to Doheny in the California naval oil reserves, out of which com- mittee men reminded MT. Doheny he had testified he expects to make . profit of $100.000,00O.
 Mir. Doheny declared to the commit tee. however, that the loan had mo relation to any subsequent transac- tions;,' that it was made by him per sonally' and that lin connection with this loan there was no discussion be- tween MT. Fall and myself as to any contracts whatever.
 The transactions themselves in the order in which they occurred" MT. Doheny said, dispose of any conten- tion that they were influenced by my making a personal loan to a lifelong friend
 Planned Employing Fall s4s The oil magnate testified that, he had advanced the money to enable Mir. Fall to enlarge his new Mexico ranch holdings, and that he had fully intend ed to collect the loan if MT. Falls health remained good, and that if nec- essary he had planned to employ the former secretary to look after his Mex ico holdings so as to enable him to repay the debt.
 Responding to questions on cross-ex- animation, MT. Doheny said the note sent him by MT. Fall was unpaid that 1t bore no interest rate and that no interest had been paid on it. He said he had drawn a check for $1Oo.- GOO on a New York bank. and that his son had taken the cash from New York to Washington, receiving in return the note, which he thought was in Mir. Falls handwriting.
 The witness was unable to produce either the note or the cheek, although he said he had conducted a search for them before leaving Los Angeles. He declared they were not lost and pos sibly were in New York. He was ex- cused after three hours on the wit ness stand with the understanding that he would endeavor to find the note and check for the committee.
 Sensational Testimony
 Mr. Doheny's testimony proved sen- sation in what already has developed into one of the most remarkable in. vestigations conducted by a congress slonal committee in recent years. In view of it, Mir. Fall will be questioned next Monday regarding his statement of December P before the committee, in which he said:
 It should be needless for me to say that in the purchase of the Harris ranch or in any other purchase or ex- pendlture have never approached F.. l.. Doheny or anyone connected with him or any of his corporations, or Mir. Ii. F. Sinclair, or any one connected with him, or any of his corporations, nor have 1 ever received from either of said parties one cent on account of any oil lease or on any other account whatsoever
 At the same time Mir. Fall decla rcd in his statement to the committee that he had obtained the $100OOO used in enlarging his ranch from Edward R. Me Lean. Washington newspaper publisher. MT. Mclean telegraphed the committee from Florida to the same effect. but when examined at Palm Beach later by Senator Walsh. democrat. Montana, he declared he had given Mir. Fall checks for S100,000, but that they had been returned to him uncashed.
 Fall To Appear Monday
 Mr. Fall arrived in Washington late tonight from New Orleans. He was to have been examined tomorrow, but he telegraphed the committee in ad- vance of his arrival that his physical condition would not permit of his ap-
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