The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-21
SINCLAIR TO JOIN
 IN HAYS' STORY
 OF G. Q. P. FUNDS
Subpoena Issued For Ap- pearance Of Oil Mag
 nate Today
AL JENNINGS LISTED
 FOR CONTRIBUTION
Once Famous Train Rob- Der Said To Have Been
 Friend Of HamOn

WASHINGTON, March 20. - A succession of thrills is looked for to- morrow by the oil committee with the appearance before it of Harry F. Sin clair, upon whom a subpoena was served today at New York.
 The Senate investigators are pre-, pared to question Sinclair on a wide range of subjects, some of which have been gone into rather exhaustive ly through other witnesses, and others of which have not yet been touched upon.
 Among the new phases is story that the New York oil magnate turned over u large batch of securities to Will H. Hays, former Postmaster General, and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty to wipe out the deficit of the republican committee incurred in the 1920 campaign.
 Wahlberg Absent.
 The committee had hoped to go into this rumor today, but G. D. Wahlberg, former private secretary to Sinclair, who was to be questioned about it, failed to. respond when his name was called. Later committeeman learned that he had been ordered to Havanna, Cuba, by his physician, because of ill health.
 A subpoena for Will H. Hays has been issued by the committee, and he is expected to be here Saturday. Car. mi A. Thompson of Cleveland, Ohio also is summoned for that. day to tell what he knows, if anything, about rumOrs of ''oil deals' at the republican national committee at Chicago in 1920
 In connection with the Chicago gos sip, the committee today issued a sub. poena for Al Jennings, at Los Angeles once famous train robber of Oklahoma It will not be possible for him to reach Washington before next week.
 Was Friend of Hamon,
 Information reaching Senator Walsh of Montana, the committee "prose cutor," is that Jennings was a close friend of Jake Hamon, former repub hcan national committeeman from Ok lahoma, who was alleged to have offer ed his support to Major Genera Leonard Wood at Chicago, in return for appointment as Secretary of tho Interior.
 In the absence of Wahlberg, the oi committee held only brief session to days and it proved one of the mos coiorless of the now six months old in vestigation. Former Representativ, Thomas Jefferson Ryan of New York appeared voluntarily to deny un der oath that he ever had dealt in ani oil stocks. He asked for an apology from the committee for bringing hi, name into the inquiry.
 Apology Unnecessary.
 Senator Walsh told him that ar apology" was unnecessary; that il was case of mistaken identity. ant that personally he regretted that the mistake had been made. Ryan then said he had no doubt that it was ''au honest mistake" on the part of the committees auditor, Louis F. Bond.
 Recalled to the stand, Bond explain. ed how he had reached the erroneous conclusion that the account with w $. Hlbbs and Company in the name ot T. J. Ryan, was the former repre. sentative, and asserted that primarily the fault for the error was chargeable to Hibbs and Company for withholdinp facts in the matters.
 betore leaving the stand and thus bringing the committee session to q close, Bond read into the record de. tailed account of the oil stock transac. tions of Jess W. Smith, confidant of Attorney General Daugherty, which were carried on under the entry of s.VV w. Spaid, number B." Spaid is q member of the Hibbs firm.
 This account showed purchase of 1,7OO shares of Sinclair and other oil stocks in 1922, the sale of 800 shares at a profit of $1,531, and 900 shares remaining Tong" in the account at the end of 1922. '"'
 Have Several Questions
 Aside from questioning Sinclair about the rumors of gift of securities to make up the republican national con- mlttee deficit, the oil investigators are prepared to question him specifically about three or four major subjects in the investigation as we'll as many others.
 The committee wants to know par ticularly about the circumstances sur rounding his loan of $25,0OO to Albert B. Fall within four months after the latter left the cabinet; the agreement to pay $1,000.000 to J. Leo Stack and Frederick G. Bonfiels for alleged claims in Teapot Dome, and the payment of $1 100000 to the Pioneer and Belgo Oil companies for their claims in the Wyoming naval reserve
 Philadelphia Lead
 Another new line of investigation may be gone into next week as result of developments yesterday in magistrate s court in Philadelphia. Subpoenas for the principals in the court matter were issued today and will be dispatched to Philadelphia tomorrow. They will require the appearance here of Martin J. Powers, a lawyer, and Charles F. Oelschlager, an architect.
 According to information reaching Senator Walsh, Oelschlager swore in an affidavit that Powers had told him that through his connection with At tOrney General Daugherty and James G. aDrden, who testified before the oil committee yesterday, he was able to get in on the ground floor of the Tea pot Dome matter.
 The committee still has to act up- on the nomination of Samuel Knight of San Francisco, to be counsel for the governments to the suits to be filed for the recovery of Sections 16 and SC in California, which were granted to that state as school lands when Califor' nia uyas adp1itfod ta Aba ,,O;O,,