The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-04-18
Son-in-Law Says He Was
Sent to Cleveland to
Get Testimony.
WILL HAYS is VISITOR
EXC. O. P. Chief Was Call
er at Time Ex-SeCretary
Was Dodging Stand.
BY PAUL MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 18.-Under
severe questioning, G. G. Chase,
son-in-law and agent of former
Secretary of Interior FALL revealed
the following facts to the Senate
Teapot Dome committee today.
Fall sent Chase here in 1924 to
arrange for telling a story that
would stop the Teapot Dome investi-
cation.
Chase went to Cleveland to get
Price Mckinney, friend of Fall, to
testify that Mckinney would have
given 100000 or more to Fall at any
time and that he and Fall hoped
such testimony would stop the in
veStigation.
Will Hays, former chairman of the
Republican national committee,
came to see Fall several times here
when Fall was lodging the witness
stand before the committee in 1924
but Chase believed they were social
and not business calls.
Harry Sinclair, indicted oil mag
nate; Col. Robert w. Stewart,
chairman of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana, and Harry M.
Blackmer, missing oil witness, Wis
tied Fall in New Mexico in 1922.
The testimony, while lacking in
sensation, was considered vital to
the legal case now being tried
against Sinclair on a charge of
conspiracy to defraud the Govern
ment, and arrangements were made
to subpoena Chase as a trial wit
ness Immediately.
Doubts if All Is Told
Chairman Nye Uniformed Chase
before he left the stand: IT think
I speak for the whole committee
when I suggest you have not told
us all the instructions you received
from Mr.. Fall at the time you came
here to- testify"
"Well, my instructions were very
meager," Chase replied.
Chase's testimony developed more
facts about the mysterious mem
orandum discovered in the COM
mittee files in December, 1928.
In 1923 Fall consulted in New
York E. L. Doheny, California oil
producer, to whom he leased the
Elk Hills naval reserve, Chase said.
There Fall found that Doheny had
mutilated the note recording Do
heny's loan to Fall, Chase said.
Fall went to Doheny's home in
New York, Chase said. He also saw
Sinclair and Sinclair'S right-hand
man, Colonel Zevely. At that time,
Chase said, the numerous witnesses
we're testifying before the commit
tee concerning Falls sudden af-
huence.
Blackmer visited Fall
Chase revealed that H. M. Black
mer, missing oil witness, went to see
Fall in New Mexico in January, 1922,
before he fled to Europe. Colonel
Stewart went there about the same
time, once with Blackmer, Chase
said. Sinclair was also there about
the same time.
''I don't know what the occasion
of the visits were," Chase said.
Chairman Nye asked if Chase
knew anything about a Mr.. Alb
bolt of Ell Paso having $4,000 Lib
erty bond claim on the Citizens
Trust Company of Sullivan, Ind,
home town of Hays, who obtained a
100000 campaign contribution from
Sinclair.
Chase said he knew w. S. Alb
bott in Three Rivers, N. M, but that
he was man of no means and could
not have been involved in the Sui
Ivan bank matter. Abbott, who
ran a store for Falls cattle COM
panies, is dead.
Tells of Hays Visits
Chase said Hays went to see Fall
two or three times at Wardman
Park Hotel here early in 1924 when
Fall was here to testifying before
the Teapot Dome Committee. He
said he did not believe they dis
cussed the naval reserve leases, but
thought Hays "just dropped in te
pay his respects"
Senator Curtis, Republican floor
leader and now presidential candi-
date, was among Falls callers at
the Hotel here around Christmas
1924, Chase said.
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