Show SIN SINCLAIR lAIR TELLS nus j STORY OF f B BONDS Gave Continental Profits Profi to Own Company Ten Days Ago He Sa Says s By PAUL R. R MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON May 1 United Press Press Harry Harry F. F Sinclair told his withheld long story to the senate Teapot dome committee today He said he knew nothing about the mysterious Continental Trading company that he did get out of that strange company's oil all and that after atter his acquittal here ten days ago he turned his whole sum back to his Sinclair Crude Oil on Purchasing Purchasing Purchasing Pur Pur- chasing company with 3 per cent Interest amounting to some Sinclair said he put the in Continental Liberty bonds with a alot alot alot lot of ot other bonds he had and that was wiry why they were the bonds he gave to former Secretary of Interior Fall FaIl who leased him Teapot dome and to Will wm Hays former chairman of the Republican national committee commit commit- tee who used them to pay part of the 1920 Republican deficit lIe He claimed entire innocence of the organization of the Continental comp company ny and described his part In Inthe inthe inthe the deal as a mere effort to buy oil TURNED BACK MONEY Thus Sinclair revealed he acted just as did the other three oilmen n nin in involved in the 7 year old old ear deal Robert W. W Stewart chairman of the tire Standard Oil Company of ot In Indiana Indiana Indiana In- In diana testified last week he got of the profits proms and recently turned them back to his company and the other party H. H M. M Blackmer and James E. E ONeil O'Neil also returned their one-fourth one shares Sinclair was sparing of words in his testimony and once he was in informed informed informed in- in formed by Senator Walsh of Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana that thereafter h he could not ask his attorney Martin W. W Littleton Littleton Little Little- ton who sat beside him what a answers answers an an- he should maxe maice to questions The bonds were given to me as a commission for my company by Blackmer said I 1 dont don't know whether they are th the bonds I gave to Hays and M M. T T. T Everhart for Fall DIDN'T CLIP COUPONS I didn't know then and I dont don't know now that the the- bonds I gave them are the bonds I received from Blackmer Sinclair's whole testimony was designed to show that the tire Continental tal Trading company had not been formed by him to hide a a. politick fund fund but but that it was a straight business deal He admitted he had not clipped cUpped coupons from the Continental bonds He said Blackmer had asked him not to Blackmer told me he would prefer prefer pre pre- fer for that the contract be not mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- and that these bonds be beheld beheld beheld held Ire he said a queer kind of a conversation conversation conversation conver conver- Walsh commented Well VeIl he lie said he would prefer Continued on page 4 I SINCLAIR TELLS STORY OF BONDS Continued from page 1 that I s say ay nothing about his commission com corn mission Sinclair saidI saidI said Mid I did not ask him for a 3 reason But I might say ay I did not carry out his suggestion So far as you now see this matter matter matter mat mat- ter could have hate been been to the whole world 7 Yes But nut you did not tell your our board of ot directors about abou It Jt 1 No Xo not until recently Sinclair said he believed a record of the bonds bad had teen been been kept by his personal Hyva va corporation Walsh told him that books subpoenaed by bythe bythe bythe the committee had not shown purchase purchase pur pun chase of any Liberty bonds Well they bought ht worth orth the they ought to have a record I Sinclair said FROM PRIVATE VAULT He said the bonds bonds' he gave to Everhart and anti Hays were from Ms his private vault In his New York resi resI- dence No one else had access to that vault he added Senator If It you had not told me one these bonds bond were Continental bonds I would not have believed It It he told Walsh I always believed a 3 per cent Liberty bond was a 3 31 per cent Liberty bond and I Ineer never ne earmarked any of them There wele a lot of 3 33 per cent bonds there Sinclair said Hays had asked him to lend either to the national national national na na- na- na Republican committee or to someone else to to diminish tire the 1920 Republican campaign debt He lie said he w would uhl return part or orall orall orall all of ot It to me Sinclair testified I I 1 accommodated him In exactly the tile amount he asked for Some time afterward Hays re returned returned re- re turned to me securities amounting to He told me that I of of the fJ securities were were his that that others had put lUt up |