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...contra bonos mores" was committed, two and a half years after the first indictments were made, two old men went on criminal trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court last week. They are charged with a conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in California. Everyone has seen their names and their pictures; they both have drooping, pale grey mustaches; they both look as harmless and as worn-out as 70-year-old, double-entry bookkeepers. Their romance has had its fling; their future remains an inglorious struggle...
...Doheny, potent head of the Mexican Petroleum Co. The money was delivered to Secretary Fall in cash in a satchel by Mr. Doheny's son. With it Secretary Fall purchased the finest ranch in New Mexico. On Dec. 11, 1922, Mr. Doheny's company leased the Elk Hills oil reserve from the Government. On March 4, 1923, Secretary Fall resigned his Cabinet post...
...near that city, rose again and fell again financially. Then he got himself a horse and set out to explore Mexico. Rich oil fields met his eye; he organized the Mexican Petroleum Co. Now, he has accumulated a fortune of some $100,000,000. Perhaps, he regards his Elk Hills leases as Doheny was a bribe, or at least just another successful bit of pio neering...
...There was then delay, during which the whole affair slumbered, only to be brought into the limelight again by the Senate Investigating Committee. A civil case was first tried, deciding that the lease of the Elk, Hills Reservation should be cancelled due to fraud. The case was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the decision, and the matter is now appendine in the Supreme Court. Later the courts refused to cancel the Teapot Dome lease...
...years ago Samuel Gompers died on the Mexican Border. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise performed the ceremony for the dead at the Elks Club in Manhattan. Then they buried him in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, at Tarrytown, N. Y., where the Very Rev. Oscar F. R. Treder, dean of the Cathedral of the Incarnation, at Garden City, L. I., draped his coffin with the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned...