Last week the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously answered a four-year-old question: Was there fraud in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve to Edward L. Doheny? The answer was "Yes."
This answer ends the Government's civil action against Mr. Doheny. His leases are canceled; he will not be repaid the $12,000,000 which he spent in building a naval oil depot at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Supreme Court went further. It said flatly that the whole transaction between Mr. Doheny and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall was tainted...
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