Evening star., 1927-11-29
SINCLAIR AND DAY
TO GET SUMMONS
New York Marshal Expected
to Serve Contempt Order
on Oil Men Today.

Harry f. Sinclair, oil millionaire,
and Henry Mason Day, his confiden-
tial associate and vice president of
the Sinclair Exploration Co., were to
be served with a contempt of court
order in the Sinclair Building in New
York tnoon today. United States
Attorney Peyton Gordon was inform
ed by long-distance telephone from
the United States marshal in that city
shortly before IL o'clock.
With the service of these two ac-
complished, the entire six respondents
to the contempt proceeding brought
by Maj. Gordon, ION the ground that
those named had attempted to tam
per with the Teapot Dome jury. will
have received Justice Siddons' rule
calling upon them to appear before
him next Monday morning and show
cause why they should not be cited in
contempt
Clark Is Served.
Sheldon Clark, another Sinclair as
sociate and vice president of the Sim
clair Refining Co., was served with
the courts order yesterday aboard a
train in Chicago that was about to
leave for New York. The remaining
three of the sextette-William J..
Burns, founder of the detective agency
bearing his name; w. Sherman Burns.
secretary. treasurer of the agency, and
Charles l.. Veitch. manager of the Bal
timore branch of the agency-were
served with the order yesterday morn
ing in the office of their attorney,
Charles A. Dauglas, in the Southern
Building.
Maj. Gordon's office early this after
noon had received no return from the
marshal who was to serve the order
on Sinclair and Day, but it was gen.
orally felt that the service would be
accomplished without delay. Shortly
before noon Maj. Gordon was advised
by the New York marsha's office that
he had arranged to meet Sinclair and
Day in the Sinclair Building at L
o'clock.
This information, together with
news from Chicago that Clark had
been served, lifted an atmosphere of
discomfort that had permeated the
United States attorneys Office for two
or three days owing to the lack of ad-
vices from the marshals in Chicago
and New York.
kidwell Makes Plea.
Justice Siddons today had before
him the petition of Edward ]. Kid
well, alleged talkative juror of the
Teapot Dome trial, requesting an or
der from the court that he be allowed
to become q party to the contempt
proceedings instituted against the six
respondents in order to clear his name
of the charges filed against him in
two affidavits at the. time q mistrial
was declared. No action on the pc.
tition was forecast today.
A new effort to ascertain the cir
cumstances surrounding the organiza-
ton of the Continental Trading Co.,
Ltd, of Canada, which figured so ex-
tensively in the naval oil lease cases,
is to be made in the Senate.
Chairman Norris of the Senate
judiciary committee announced today
that he would introduce a resolution
directing the public lands committee,
which acted as the Senate oil commit
tee, to resume it's investigation of the
whole naval oil lease situation with a
view to determining especially the
facts about the Continental Trading
Co. and the charge that part of it's
PA All tAC ouopC VI JULIUS
were sent to M. r. Everhart, son.in-
law of Albert b. Fall, former Interior
Secretary.
Counsel Have Failed.
The Governments oil counsel have
failed in their quest for this informa-
ton due to the refusal of Everhart
and Harry M. Blackmer, wealthy oil
operators now in Paris, to testify and
to inability to locate James E. O'Neil,
another wealthy American Oil oper-
ator, residing abroad.
Should the Senate adopt the Norris
resolution, Senator Walsh, Democrat,
Montana, again would be the prosecu-
tor of the inquiry. He persisted in
pushing the first investigation until
the disclosures affecting Fall. Sinclair.
Edward l.. Doheny and a host of
others were brought out.
Commenting upon dispatches from
Los Angeles that Mr.. Doheny would
ask Congress to reimburse him for the
$4,000 900 he was required to refund
to the Government under the Supreme
Court decision returning the Elk Hills,
Calf, naval oil reserves to the Gov
ernment, Senator Walsh said:
1T is my conviction that il 1t Is
made to appear to Congress that the
tanks are necessary, and it is the pur-
pose of the Navy to utilize them, the
Government ought to pay for them"