The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-08
Oklahoma Leader Alleged To Have Offered Votes To Defeat Harding WAS TO BECOME SEC'Y OF INTERIOR Signed Statement Is Given To Correspondent By Leonard
 Wood, Jr. BROOKHART COMMITTEE
 SUMMONS LONG LIST Ohio Publisher And Campaign Managers Are To Be Called
 For Hearing
SPECIAL TO THE AeE-HERALD

tCopyrirht. 1924 United States. Canada. Greet Britain. South America and Japan; by ihs ssSsn American Newspaper Alliance for The Age Hersio.] WASHINGTON. D. C., March 7.- That certain oil interests through the late Jake Hamon, republican national committeeman, of Oklahoma, offered votes of delegates to Gen. Leonard Wood when the latter was deadlocked in the lead of the republican conyen- tion at Chicago in 1920, if Wood would agree to appoint Hamon Secretary of the Interior, is the sensational allega- tion of Leonard Wood, Jr.
 His fathers rejection of this offer, young Wood claims, lost General Wood the nomination.
 Young Wood was subpoenaed today to appear before the Brookhart cominit- tee, to answer questions regarding his statement. He will appear next We'd nesday. This committee is the one in charge of the Daugherty investigation. Subpoenaes were issued also for num- Der of congressman, politicians and fi- nanciers in different parts of the coun- try.
 The Western Union and Postal Tele- graph companies were ordered to pro- duce telegrams from or to any of the persons involved. by Leonard Wood, Jr.
 Wheeler Thinks It's True
 'The story of Leonard Wood, Jr., is true beyond a question of doubt, said B. K. Wheeler, of Montana, a member of the Brookhart committee.
 q have subpoenaed him to come be- fore the committee. All the ramifica- tions of this investigation will be dili- gently followed"
 Others for whom subpoenas were is- sued were R. J. Wolf, owner of the Columbus, (Ohio) State Journal and Dispatch; former CongpessnaS Il Norman J. Gould. New York; Generi Woofs eastern campaig. nahacrr: ',a T. Gerrish of Colul. #. = .3. years WOlf's politioal- ,...-,>.., Hynicha, New York theair.cA. ,. Harry Mackenzie of Chicago, lii. Gilmore of Columbus, Ohio; Frank Hitchcock, who was General Wood'' campaign manager and who ia ns1s. ul recting Hiram Johnson's campaign.
 HamOn's Wife VerifieS Report
 Clara Smith Hamon, now Mrs. John W. German of Beverly Hills, Cal, who was charged with killing Hamon and subsequently, acquitted, when asked to comment on Leonard Wood, Jr.'s, statement, pronounced it undoubtedly true, claiming that Hamon had never kept any political secrets from her, she said that Hamon had told her that he had offered the nomination to Wood.
 When quotations from the statements of his son and the former Clara Smith Hamon were laid before General Wood, now governor general of the Phillipine Islands, in Manila yesterday by North American Newspaper Alliance corre- spondent, the general stated that he de- clined to discuss in any way at this time incidents of the 1920 campaign oe statements of Leonard Wood, Jr.
 The Statement ..
 Leonard Wood, Jr.s, signed state ment, made to Edgar 1Tels, special cor. respondent of the North American Newspaper Alliance and The Age Her. aid, follows:
 II have known ever since I at- tended the republican convention in 1920 that certain oil interests made an offer to my father, General Leonard Wood, which he refused flatly. This offer probably would have assured him the republican nomination for Presi- dent had he accepted. 1 am intensely proud that my father rejected a, prop0- sition which might have forced him to turn traitor to his country had he ac- cepted.
 Before relating events occurring during the convention itself, I must re- cite those which lead mp to the proffer of the nomination. I had been in serv- ice in France, having gone there from the New York World, on which I worked as reporter. During my ab- sence in the early fall of 1919, I am told, Jake Hamon, the Oklahoma oil man. some way or other obtained an in- troduction to my father. At any rate, when I returned from France. Hamon suggested to my father that might like to try my hand at something more ex- citing and lucrative than reporting. Hamon invited me to Texas and gave me a job.
 "'Travel with me- he said, and you'll be rich
 II went to work and, to be frank.
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