New Britain herald., 1925-07-01
DQHFNY GIVES
 0U7 STATEMENT
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tContlnued from First Page) relied upon, He told me that in an attack upon this country of ours by q navy in the Pacific defeat was sure 10 come to our fleet unless there was an adequate naval oil reserve ir | Hawaii.
 Story of Alliance He said that every responsible of. llcer of the navy in Washington had received confidential bulletins which disclosed that the oil reserves of a great naval power in the Pacific were adequate for war. He called my attention to the fact that there still existed well knoWn alliance between this great Pacific nation and the most powerful naval nation of the world"
 Mir. Dohcmy said that everyone who had been informed of this sitn- ation had been warned of it's highly confidential and secret character be- cause of fear that the arms confer enco, then in session at Washington might be wrecked ny revelation of plans for a naval base in Hawaii.
 Was DcnbyS Plan
 Mir. Dohcny further diSciosrS. the
 Times says, that tEc famous cNccu tive .ordcr of President Harding which gave to the interior dcr,rt- mcnt, under Mir. Fall, admnistra- tive powers involving the naval oil reserves, was suggested not by Mr I'all but by the then secretary of the navy Denby; that the war fears ot naval officers had been conmuni- Cat"d to Secretary Denby who brought up th" matter of joint control in cabinet meeting.
 Mir. Dohcny was forbidden hy counsel 10 discuss the $l00,00O loan he made to Secretary Fall and tho letter signed hy Mir. Fall in which the latter wrote that the loan had been obtained from Edward F. Me- Loan, publisher of the Washington Post.
 Says Fall nCmurrCd
 The Times states it has learned that prominent member of the rc. publican national rOmnittee of I991 brought the letter 10 Mr. Fall in its completed form and urged the sec. rctary to sign it. Mr. Fall strongly demurred, the newspaper says, but the committeeman argued that all election was coming on and those who conceived the idea of having Mr. Mclean pose as the lender oi the $100.o0o thought that tho let ter, if signed and made public be- fore the senate committee, would clear the political atmosphere.
 Hints At Framcup
 Mr. Fall. the newspaper asserts. signed the letter, but not mailing il, he returned it to the man who brought it 10 him. A few hours la- ter il was in the hands of senator Icnroot, chairman of the senate in vestigating committee, and shortly thereafter it was read into the rec ord of the committee and given to the press. Counsel for Mr.. Dohcny declared that the Mclean letter episode is the one incident in his long friendship with Nr. Fall that MT. Dohony cannot excuse.
 In the interview Mr. Dohony that tolegrams had diSap- pcarnd mysteriouSly from the files oi the interior department after the files had been rausaCkcd ny purSorH in the employ of the senate invcSti gating committee. He said thrs" tclecrams Wou'd have disclosed tnI; Fall had no part in making contract. with the Dohcny il ercsts, but flat these contracts were supervised hy Assistant Secretary of the Interior I7inney. Secretary Dcnby and Ad- miral Robison.
 Mir. Doheny road the t"lrErane during the seven hour interview. II said they had been unearlhed by h7 counsel in the office Of the con general attached 10 bills fo' the telegraph tolls.