MYSTERIOUS FUND
FOUR MILLION DOLLARS CONNECTED WITH OIL DEALS A NEWSPAPER DISCOVERY. •<v n* Hut- press association— copybight Received 10.15 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, March 12. The “Evening World,” in a copyright storv, 'States that a mysterious new fund of over four million do-lars has been discovered here. It states that the fane was accumulated and distributed between July, 1921. and December, 1922, at a time when the naval oil leases were made in California and Wyoming. “Although this fund is not direct-lv linked with the Teapot Dome scandal,” the newspaper says, “there ins, evidence indicating a direct connection with oil deals.” The fund is said to have been deposited through a brokerage house in the Dominion Rank of Canada, and converted into three and a half per cent. Liberty bonds. The article suggests that this fund may prove to be the source of the Liberty bonds which the Senate Committee has been unable to connect with the Continental Company.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 13 March 1928, Page 5
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