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...predicament of a "person whose papers are not in order." Mr. Blackmer is urgently wanted in the U. S. as a witness in the coming (October) trial of Albert B. Fall, onetime (1921-23) Secretary of the Interior, and Harry F. Sinclair, oil man, for conspiracy in the famed Teapot Dome scandal. Last May Mr. Blackmer refused to honor a subpoena to return and testify; the passport revocation followed, presumably with the intention of preventing Mr. Blackmer from leaving France for even more distant regions. Not but that he can get out of France without a passport, but he cannot...
...from the Mexia (oil) companies of Texas. It was claimed that the Canadian company, which made some millions of dollars on the transaction, was a "shadow" or "dummy," concern, and that Albert B. Fall received $230,000 in Liberty Bonds as his share of the profits. When the Teapot Dome case first came up before a Federal court in Cheyenne (TIME, March 23, 1925), Mr. Blackmer, along with one James E. O'Neil, president of the Prairie Oil Co., left for France. Mr. O'Neil has not been located since. Mr. Blackmer was found...
...knew so much about high explosives that he was often playful with them. One afternoon, while entertaining some friends at tea, he poured a few drops of liquid from the burner of the teapot into a vial, said: "Come out on the back porch and I will show you an experiment." Far out into the yard, he flung the vial. A terrific explosion ensued. In that vial, he explained to his friends, there was some nitro-glycerine...
...Back to the Navy Department the President gave the naval oil reserves, revoking the Executive order issued by President Harding under which Secretary of the Interior Fall negotiated the illegal leases with Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair. Only the Teapot Dome reserve remains to be returned...
Meanwhile, the Government's civil suit to recover the Teapot Dome oil reserves is now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court, while the criminal suit charging Messrs. Sinclair and Fall with fraud is floundering through vexing preliminaries in a lower court...