The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-02-08
TOLD OIL KING
TO BARE ALL
OF 1921 DEAL
RoCkefelIer'S Letters Made
Public by Walsh, Leader
in Dome Quiz.
BURNS DECISION TODAY
Judge to Rule on Request
to Dismiss Sinclair
Contempt Case.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
United Press Staff Correspondent


United Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., persuaded Col Rob-
ert w. Stewart of the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana to return from
Cuba, to appear before the Senate
Teapot Dome committee and is
sorry" now that Stewart did not
answer all the questions of the COM
nlittee.
These facts were developed today
when Senator Walsh of Montana
made public a series of letters and
kilograms
The correspondence disclosed that
Rockefeller. who owns most of the
Indiana company, of which Stewart
is chairman of the board, directed
Stewart to tell all he knew about
the mysterious deal of oil men in
1921 by which a $3,000,000 fund was
Secreted in the Continental Trad
ing Company of Canada.
Stewart was arrested on a Sen
ate warrant last week for refusing
to answer committee questions and
the issue thus raised now is await
ing decision in the District Supreme
Court.
The correspondence also revealed
that Stewart told his side of the
story-the same he told on the wit
ness Stand-to Rockefeller several
years ago when political suspicion
was first cast on the deal.
Should Have Told AlI'
After Stewart had testified he
personally made nothing from the
Continental deal but refused to
answer questions about whether he
knew who got the money, Walsh
called Rockefeller's attention to
"how we'll your admonition to Mr.
Stewart was observed by that gen.
tIeman."
Rockefeller then wrote as follows
in a letter to Walsh dated Feb. 2:
Colonel Stewards testimony be-
fore the Senate committee as re-
ported by today's newspapers COW
cred all the information given me
and confirmed his statement to me.
previously referred to, that he did
rot personally profit by the transac-
tons in questions. ~ ..
Il have not felt that Colonel
Stewart failed in his duty to his
stockholders, but I am sorry that he
did not answer all your questions,
for the situation calls for the fullest
disclosure of the facts. -.
You are, of course, to use our
correspondence in any way that will
serve the public interest"
How Rockefeller asked Stewart to
testify was revealed in a letter he
sent Stewart, Jan. "a, the substance
of which he telegraphed to Stewart
two days later when he discovered
Stewart was in Havana. Rockefeller
said:
THE situation has reached such
a stage that nothing short Of the
fullest and most complete statement
of all the facts relating to the
Continental Trading Company can
clear the skirts of those. who, like
yourself. had no improper connec-
ton with the transactions in ques-
ton and remove the cloud of Sus-
picion which hangs over the entire
oil industry.
Burns Ruling Today
"You owe it to yourself and to
your assistants in the management
of your company, to your stockhold-
ers and to the public to help bring
those transactions into the fullest
light that can be thrown upon
them.
mo desire, however praise worthy,
to protect those who may have been
guilty of wrong doing, justifies the
withholding of any slightest fact
that will help clear up the sit
uation."
Walsh first wrote Rockefeller,
Jan. 16, asking him to help the COM
mittee fathom the mysterious deal
in which some of the officials in
the Rockefeller concerns were in
Volved.
Justice Siddons, sitting in the
Sinclair Burns contempt case, said
today he expected to announce his
decision on the defense motion for
dismissal this afternoon. Granting
of the motion would end the case,
now in its ninth week.
Wayne O'Neil, son of James E
O'Nen, missing oil witness has not
been located by Federal subpoena
servers in a three-day search, it de-
veloped today at the Senate Tea
pot Dome hearing.