AMERICAN OIL SCANDAL
INVESTIGATION RESUMED. INTERESTING EVIDENCE. (Press Association—B- Telegraph —Oopynght I WASHINGTON, January 24. After a silence of three years, Milton Everhart, son-in-law of A. B. Fall (formerly Secretary of the Interior) admitted having transported to the latter 304,000 dollars in cash and Liberty Bonds, which were given to him by Sinclair for the lease of the Teapot Dome naval reserve in 1922. The explanation at that time was that Sinclair purchased a third interest in Fall’s cattle ranches. Everhart to-day appeared as a witness before the Senate Committee which is resuming the oil investigation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 9
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96AMERICAN OIL SCANDAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 20317, 27 January 1928, Page 9
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