The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-02

Start Movement Extension of Sheridan Road Northuar
.DOHENY LIFTS LID
FROM OIL SCANDALS
Disregards Counsel Advice and Talks
Freely About Very Inside of
the Whole Deal.

New YORK City, , The New York
terview in which Edward l.. Doheny,
giving his own story of the naval oil
leases, discioses what ne indicates has
been regarded hitherto as great
military secret.
Speaking at Los Angeles to q staff
correspondent against the advice of
counsel, the Times says, Mr.. Doheny
declared that there never would have
been an Elk Hills lease nor would his
company have undertaken the con-
struction of the Pearl Harbor naval oil
base had not Rear Admiral John K.
Robinson, chief of the naval bureau
of engineering in Washington, von-
WINGED him that great war in the
Pacific threatened the United States
in 1921 and that the proposed Ha-
waiian oil base was the one link in the
national defensive chain on which de-
pended victory or defeat for the United
States.
Mr.. Doheny will go to trial in Wash
ington in October on a charge of Grim
inal conspiracy with Albert B. Fall,
former secretary of the interior in
connection with the Elk Hills oil lease
with the government in the Los An
geles federal court has succeesed in
invalidating
Naval Fear of Pacific War.
The story of naval officers fears
of war in the Pacific Mr.. Doheny
said, was contained in deposition by
Admiral Robson put in evidence in
the trials of the suits to annul the
Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases, but
the portion relating to the military
secret was stricken out.
Robson called to my mind the
horrors of the invasion of Belgium"
Mr. Doheny said, with force shall
never forget, he asked me to visualize
the results of even temporary orr
entail Invasion of the Pacific coast Of
the United States He dwelt on how
much worse, how much more horrible,
how much more TO be dreaded was an
oriental invasion than even the worst
horrors of the German invasion,
"Ee even startled me with informa-
tion regarding orders which had been
given to foreign war vessels and even
to merchant ships in the Pacific for
their mobilization on incredibly short
notice"
Mr.. Doheny said that everyone who
had been informed of this circulation
had been warned of its highly con-
fidential and secret character because
of fear that the arms conference then
in session at Washington, might he
wrecked by revelation of plans for a
naval base in Hawaii.
Mr.. Doheny further discloses, the
Times says, that the famous execu-
tive order of President Harding gave
to the interior department, under Mr.
Fall, administrative powers involving
the naval oil reserves, was suggested
not by Mr.. Fall, but by the then sec
rotary of the navy DENLY, that the
war fears of naval officers had been
communicated to Secretary DENLY.
who brought up the matter of joint
control in a cabinet meeting.
kilograms MysteriousIy Disappear.
In the interview Mr.. Doheny charg-
ed that kilograms had disappeared
nlystariously from the files of the in
terror department. after the files had
been ransacked by persons in the en-
ploy of the senate investigating COM
mittee. He said these kilograms dis,
closed that Fall had no part in MAX
ing contracts with the noheny inter
ests but that these contracts were SUI
-,-rvised by Assistant Secretary of the
Interior Finney, Secretary Denby and
Admiral Robson.
Mr.. Doheny read the kilograms dur
ing the seven hour interview, he said
they had been unearthed by his coun-
sci in the office of the controller gen
eral attached to bills for the telegraph
tolls.