Almost 18 months after the first startling disclosures made in the Senate investigation of Naval reserve oil leases, the Government got its first material satisfaction. Last week, the first of the suits instituted because of those disclosures was decideddecided not finally, but at least in the Government's favor. Judge McCormick of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles, who heard the argument in the case last October and November, read the decision.
The Circumstances. Briefly, Edward L. Doheny made a "loan" of $100,000 to Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall in November, 1921....
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