Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-11
SINCLAIR Mobiles
ARMY Of LAWYERS
To SAVE HIS LEASE
Millionaire and His Legal
Forces Go to Wyoming to
Resist Governments Re-
covey Of Teapot Dome

| ISOLATED Press. )-Harry f.. Sinclair
! and a battery of six attorneys depart
ed today for Cheyenne, Wyo., to
| contest the government action to
| cancel the Teapot Dome oil leases
| and expressed confidence of ultimate
victory and vindicatiOn.
| Mr.. Sinclair was accompanied by
Colonel J. w. Zevely, his chief legal
| counsel, and five other attorneys,
who are prepared to oppose the gov.
ernment's action, which, it is under.
stood, will start Thursday in Chey-
| enne with the filing of bill for an
oil from Teapot.
Although refusing to make a
statement, declaring he proposed to
| try his case in the courts and not
in the newspapers, Mr.. Sinclair indi-
Gated that he and his attorneys fully
expected success in the courts.
EVIDENCE OF CONVENTION
CONSPIRACY is SOUGHT
WASHINGTON, March 10.-The
new week of the oil inquiry found
the senate investigating committee
still digging into the pile of tele-
grams it has subpoenaed, but plan
ming soon to breach new supplies
of evidence. These include the find
| ings of auditors assigned to study
Of 70 DO.
termine the extent of dealing by of
| ficials in oil stocks before and after
| the leasing of the naval reserves and
! the report that oil interests sought
to influence the Republican presi-
Dental nomination in 1920.
In addition, the new week marks
the initiation of court proceedings
growing out OF the inquiry pre-
liminary hearing Thursday in the
federal district court at Cheyenne,
Wyo., on an application by the gov
ernment's special counsel for tenn
porary injunction to restrain the
Mammoth Oil company from further
extraction of oil in the Teapot Dome
reserve. This company was formed
by Harry +. Sinclair to take over
the lease negotiated with him by
Albert B. Fall as secretary of the
interior, and signed by Edwin Den
by as secretary of the navy. Like
action is to follow in southern Cali
fornia against the Pan-American Pc
troleum company, for which F.. l..
Doheny obtained the lease on Naval
Reserve No. in that state.
New Counsel Considered
The oil committee also has before
il the nomination of Samuel Knight.
of San Francisco, to act as special
counsel for the government in pro
ceedings to cover two sections of the
Elk Hills reserve, which are being
operated by the Standard Oil COM
pany of California, having been
granted to that state as non-mineral
school lands upon its admission to
statehood. Mr.. Knights nomination
was considered by the committee
last week, but no action was taken.
Some objection to his appointment
has been raised because his en-
ployment as counsel in California
by the Equitable Trust company of
New York, which has been described
as a Rockefeller bank"
The public hearings will not be
resumed until tomorrow, but the
committees orders to telegraph com
pany officials here and ut Ialm
Beach, New Orleans and Three Riv-
| ers, n. NJ, Falls home, are produc-
ing steady stream of kilograms
sent to or by Edward B. Mclean,
tall, Sinclair, Doheny, II. F. Black
mer of the Midwest Refining COM
pany Robert Stewart, of the
Standard Oil company of Indiana,
and J. w. Zevely, personal counsel
for Sinclair.
Mclean to Talk Tuesday
McLean''s presence at the hearing
is expected to be required tomorrow,
but the committee plans to question
several more of his employees before
calling him to the stand
Afterwards, the committee plans
to so into the reports of its auditors
Vention matter, which was brought
to its attention last week through
u published statement bV Leonard
Wood, Jr, that his father Major
General Wood, was offered support
at critical time for the nomination
IN 1920 on condition that he agree
to appoint Jake Hamon. millionaire
'oll man. and until his death some
time afterwards. Republican national
committeeman from Oklahoma. sec
rotary of the interior. if he should
be elected president.
Owen j Roberts and Atlee
Pomerene, special counsel for the
government in prosecution of the oil
suits, will leave Washington late
today for Wyoming to put before the
federal court their application for a
temporary restraining order against
the Mammoth company. They will
go to California afterward to bring
similar action against the Pan-Ameri-
can Petroleum company.
In both cases the attorneys ex-
pect the court to grant the applica-
tons and hold the leases in allowance
While the government continues its
efforts 10 cancel them entirely.
New Senate Outburst
Certain subsidized Republican
newspaper" were charged today in
the senate by Senator Hefiin. Demo
crat. Alabama, with attempting to
/ 'discredit and destroy" every sena.
tor who has sought TO expose tn.
oil scandal.
These brazen agents of the cor
Irupt interests" Senator Hef1in said.
ARE trying to debauch and bebase
every senator and every public man
who refuses to turn his back upon
his country, to surrender his convic.