New Britain herald., 1928-02-08
SENATE ADJ0URNS TEAPOT HEARINGS Fails to Gain Any Definite
 Knowledge of Oil Deals TO HUNT FOR WITNESS
All Efforts To Find Out About Con- tinental Oil Bonds Through Cross- Examination By Senator Walsh Prove Futile,

Washington, Feb. s R)-Balked at nearly every turn in it's efforts to disclose the ultimate disposition of the profits of the short-lived Con- tinental Trading company, of Can ada, the senate Teapot Dome com mittee adjourned it's hearings today subject to the call of the chairman, after fruitless examination of three witnesses.
 Resume Next Week
 The committee hopes to resume hearings next week, and efforts in the meantime will be made to lo- cate Wayne ONeil, son of James E. O'Neil, who went to Europe after the oil scandal broke, and who now is listed as a missing witness in the oil cases.
 Today the committee called on Earl w. Sinclair, brother of Harry F. Sinclair, Clark H. Kountz, vice. president of the Prairie Pipe Line ! company. and c. E. Crawley, vice. president of the Sinclair Consolidat- ed company for information about the bonds, but without material re- suit.
 Kountz went into the story of O'Neil's return of $S00.000 of the bonds to the Prairie Oil and Gas company, of which he was president and told the committee the securi- ties were in the hands of the oil m n's Snn af nna time
 No Positive Answer. To the vital question: What, If anything, do you know about the bonds purchased by the Continen- tal?" asked by Senator Walsh, dem- ocrat, Montana, the committee pro- secutor, there was no positive an- swer.
 These bonds, garnered by the Continental after 1t had engineered deal to buy American oil for $1.5O barrel and sell it back to Amerj- can companies for &1.75, are alleg- ed by the government to have figur- ed in the lease of Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair. but the commit tee has so far failed to uncover what disposition was made of the entire lot. Robert w. Stewart, chairman of the board of the Stand ard Oil company of Indiana. is fac. ing contempt charges for refusing to testify on the subject. Was Private Secretary O'Neil Is missing witness in the oil cases but he formerly was president of the Prairie. Clark H. Kountz, vice-president of the Prai- rife Pipe Line company, testified that O'Neil summoned him to Mon treal in May. 1925, at which time the missing witness made restitu- ton to the Prairie Oil and Gas com rany of the sS0o,000 in profits he had made out of the Continental transactions in buying oil from the late A. F. Humphreys. of Denver. and selling it to the Prairie Oil company and the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing company
 The witness testified that he was private secretary to O'Neil for a number of years and it was on this account that the oil man gave him the order for the bonds which then were in the possession of O'Neil's son, Wayne O'Neil.
 Where did you actually get tho bonds?" inquired Senator Walsh, democrat. Montana. the committeo prosecutor.
 "Out at his home at Garden City, L. l.. kountz replied.
 Where did he get the bonds?
 "Out of some bank there"
 Kountz explained that O'Neil. in telling w. g. Fitzpatrick, chairman of the board of the Prairie Oil com. pany, that he wanted that company to have the bonds. had requested that none of the coupons be cash ed as long as Harry F. Sinclair was in difficulties with the federal gov- ernment as result of the Teapot
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