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Lawyer Roberts, with Ohio's onetime Senator Atlee Pomerene, was special Government counsel to prosecute the Oil Scandals. Appointed by President Coolidge in 1924, confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 68-to-8, he succeeded in voiding the Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases as fraudulent, convicted Albert Bacon Fall of taking a $100,000 bribe from Edward Laurence Doheny. Important witnesses became fugitives in Europe. He failed to convict Doheny or Harry Ford Sinclair of conspiracy, though he did send Sinclair to jail for contempt of court. He was a harddriving, hard-working...
...charge against Doheny was that he had bribed Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior, in 1921, with $100,000 in cash, delivered by Doheny's son in a little black bag, in return for a lease on the Elk Hills Naval oil reserve in California. Five months ago, on practically the same evidence used against Doheny, Fall was convicted of receiving a bribe (TIME, Nov. 11). Admitted by the defense in both cases was the transfer of money, the leasing of Elk Hills. For each jury to decide was the intent behind the giving and the taking...
March 10-Trial of Edward Laurence Doheny for bribery in connection with the Elk Hills Oil lease; at Washington...
March 10?Trial of Edward Laurence Doheny; at Washington, D. C., on a bribery charge in connection with the Elk Hills oil lease...
Moon Explosion. Dwight Webster Longfellow, who manufactures concrete products at Elk River, Minn., offered an unorthodox theory to account for certain odd phenomena-the freezing of mastodons in Siberia with half eaten grass in their mouths, the sudden razing of forests whose fossils are found lying horizontally, the drifting of continents, the dislocation of Arctic, Temperate and Torrid Zones, the failure of the magnetic poles to coincide with the terrestrial poles. Mr. Longfellow's theory is that the moon in comparatively recent times popped out from where the Pacific now is and suddenly jerked the earth awry...