UNITED STATES OIL LEASES
CALIFORNIAN MAGNATE’S REVELATIONS - i INFLUENCE PURCHASED Washington, February 2. The country is aghast at the revelations of Edward L." Doheny, tho Californian oil magnate, in his great oil battles with the Rockefellers. The grizzled veteran seemed to delight in piling one sensation on another one® he was forced to talk. Besides . alleged payments to Mr. G. McAdoo, he stated t hat he had distributed thousands to other and lesser lights, including Colonel George Creel, who headed the Committee of Public ' Information during £hb war. Doheliy claims to have bought 1. is influence to. try to reverse the favouritism which the then Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Josephus Daniels, seemed to have for the Standard Oil Corporation in Los Angeles. ' Mr. McAdoo has issued a bitter denunciation of the coupling of his name with that of Doheny, claiming that he only advised the oil Croesus regarding Mexican affairs. —Sydney “Sun” Cables. [Edward L. Doheny, wlio.is 67 years of age, after prospecting for gold and silver for twenty years, in 1892 turned to the quest.of oil. He discovered several oil districts in California, and later in Mexico. He is president of several petroleum companies.]
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 113, 5 February 1924, Page 7
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