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...Elks should attend an annual convention, the convention city would be badly crowded. Though 10,000 Elks dropped out or died in the past year, there are still more than 800,000 of them, in all walks of life.* Cincinnati felt comfortably full last week with some 5,000 of the 800,000 on hand?marching, singing, trapshooting, eating "burgoo" (Kentucky stew), watching fireworks. Purple, the Elk's color, hung everywhere. "Hello, Bill! Are you an Elk?"* was the phrase of the week...
Last February, indeed, even the courts appeared to have finished with the Elk Hills half of the scandal. By a unanimous decision of the U. S. Supreme Court (Feb. 28, 1927) the Doheny lease on the Elk Hills naval oil reserve was declared invalid and the property was restored to the U. S. Government. This decision settled the Government's civil suit to recover the lands leased by Mr. Fall. Meanwhile, on Dec. 16, 1926, the Government's criminal prosecution of Messrs. Fall and Doheny had failed when a jury in the District of Columbia Supreme Court aquitted...
...last week the Elk Hills half of the combination suddenly took on new life; the Hills-Dome half-brothers became paired again. For though Messrs. Fall and Doheny had been acquitted on a charge of conspiracy, there still remained against them indictments for bribery. Fall-Doheny attorneys had attacked the validity of these indictments after the U. S. Supreme Court's civil suit decision that the transfer of the Elk Hills lease from the Navy Department to the Department of the Interior (1921) had been illegal. The lawyers claimed that, assuming that this transfer was illegal, Mr. Fall...
Last week, however, Justice William Hitz of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the bribery indictments were valid. Justice Hitz ruled that the Harding order transferring the Elk Hills reserve to the Department of the Interior "had the force of law until revoked or declared invalid." He said that "an official act need not be a lawful act to render the official liable but need only be official in form and done under the color of his office." Therefore the bribery indictments held good and Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have to stand trial under them...
Thus it appeared that the entire Elk Hills business would be dredged up again and that the familiar "little brown bag" in which Edward L. Doheny Jr. took to Mr. Fall the $100,000 which Mr. Doheny calls a loan and Government attorneys call a bribe would once more be inspected by a jury. Shocked, irate, lawyers for the defendants protested that Messrs. Fall and Doheny were being tried twice for the same offense. They argued that U. S. Justice had come to a lamentable state when the Government, having failed to get a conviction for conspiracy, could change...