OIL SCANDALB.
LEASES CANCELLED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. The Supreme Court upheld the Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision cancelling the leases of the Elk Hills Naval Reserve on the grounds of fraud, and permanently depriving Edward L. Dohenv of valuable oil fields, and compelling him to pay the Government approximately ten million dollars for oil already taken from them. —A. and N.Z. cable. E. L. Dobeny, the late Harry M. Sinclair, oil kings, and Senator A. B. Fall, Secretary for the Interior, Edwin Denby, Secretary for the Navy, and Harry M. Dougherty, Attorney-Gen-eral, members of the Harding Cabinet, were concerned in the oil scandals arising out of the lease of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve in Utah and the Elk Hills Reserve in California. Legal proceedings followed a Senate inquiry, and_ have lasted up to the present time.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 79, 2 March 1927, Page 9
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