Show STARTED TO END LEASE LEASEL L COAST Oil fill lb ent Prosecutors t Fraud Frau and Conspiracy Con Con- Con I h by D Doheny heny Interests Inters Inter- Inter cds ests s and Fan Fall on Reserve s e OS s ANGELES 17 Sut Sult the lease of California I lands lands to tho Pan American and Transport company J 1 as ns as its accompanying agree- agree ar or construction and stocky stock- stock y th that t company of or naval oil ici t facilities at Pearl Harbor mg fifed fired by the govern- govern here hEe ere today 6 bill of complaint charges 4 entered into the mak- mak the agreements as well as fraud conspiracy and tile tile- as us in the case of the suit arch 13 at 13 at Cheyenne Wyo jf renca t to the Teapot Dome And contracts V In the Teapot suit the gov- gov eDtl t's ts special counsel Atlee in and Owen J. J Roberts i. i the United UnIte States district to Issue a temporary Inon in- in on stopping the production to appoint receivers to take taken n and control of the oil and to enter a final decree decreeing ring ing void and canceling the theand f and associated arrange arrange- C ALLEGED I Pan American Petroleum POrt company and its jr tho the Pan-American Pan Pe- Pe company were made de- de I J Mils its in the action and antI E. E L. L iy president lent of the oil comand com com- and aid Albert B. B Fall former iry ry n of the tho interior are erin the bill with conspiracy the United States for gain of said Fall and for whom said Do- Do acl acted r r the creation of certain rights the In-the de del Fall vas was to re- re ev certain fn rewards from oin m sal said eny jy the bill avers adding th that the pa payment ment to Fall Fan of oC 1 Oby by Dohe In November November 1021 r. r 1921 i that ce certain reward thereto thereto- thereto thereto-I promised NAMED 1 developing the conspiracy tho the I charges Fall ali and Do- Do ki eny Uy by false and untrue representations rep rep- rellO In induced President I Har Harding in good faith to sign an an j order authorizing the leasing Secretary Del Denby e by pt ot Of the I navy department it adds was likewise likewise like like- wise induced to proceed with th the transaction although the leasing I project in its entirety is declared to be without authority of ot law Proceeding under his understanding understand understand- ing with Doheny the tho complaint I continues s Fall all purporting to act acton acton acton on behalf of the United States invited proposals for royalty oil all accruing from tho the California naval oil reserves The proposals however how how- ever it ft adds were so drawn that no one but the defendant Pan- Pan American Petroleum urn and Transport company could or would bid thereon there there- on the object being to permit this corporation to make a bid not in competition with any other but butas butas butas as the basis of a special secret and noncompetitive contract with the United States Under this arrangement it Is charged leasing and arid other agreements agreements agree agree- ments meats were entered into covering oil lands rich in oil and gas gasP in inI I naval reserves No 1 and No o. o 2 i secretly and privately without competitive bidding FRAUD PERPETRATED The agreements it Js Is charged werd obtained by bribery the re resul resul result re- re sul sult of such unlawful conspiracy were and are a fraud upon the United States are illegal null and void and of of no force foroe and validity validity valid valid- it ity and should be delivered up to the United to be can can- The Pan-American Pan Petroleum and Transport corporation Is Is' Is said to have proceeded with the ac acquirement acquirement acquirement ac- ac of of ofa a all l the royalty oil due the United States while the subsidiary is said to have continued continued contin contin- drilling wells veils and extracting gas and oil from the leased reserve area The Tho removal of the oil is declared to be a continuing damage damage damage dam dam- age to the United States Of the arrangements the bill bili asserts asserts asserts as as- that the transaction under said agreements and said leases and the writing themselves form Corm but a single transaction and are aro areso areso so inextricably bound together that the plaintiff the United States cannot obtain full relief except by bythe bythe the joinder of both corporate defendants defendants de de- deJ I who are in fact and law law but but ono one d defendant I |