Show WITNESS CITES HARDING ORDER I ON NAVAL VAl Oil Transfer Made 2 Months I After Fall Had Obtained I Early Information Upon i Taking Interior Place I LOS ANGELES Oct 25 With With hostilities suspended over the II week-end week due to the usual Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- I day court recess opposing counsel in the governments government's suit to cancel Elk Hills naval oil reserve leases held b by Doheny interests today were organizing their forces for resumption of the legal battle inI In federal court next Monday I Edward C. C Finney assistant secretary secretary sec sec- sec sec- of jI the interior was on tIe the Fot when the first we week k I of the lease cancellation trial was wasI I concluded late yesterday and his examination cross by defense counsel counsel counsel coun coun- sel Is expected to furnish the feature feature fea fea- I ture of Mondays Monday's session It was but a fortnight after Al Albert Albert Al- Al bert B. B Fall took tool office as secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of the interior in March 1921 that h hy called specifically for de detailed detailed de- de tailed information on naval oil oi lands Finney testified yesterday Two Tw mouths months later President H Harding Harding Hard Hard- ing signed UHl an executive order r control of naval oil reserves from the navy department t tto to the department of If the interior and a t few months after that the disputed i Elk Eik Hills leases and contracts contracts con con- con I tracts were awarded J to E. E L. L Doheny's Doheny's Doheny's Do- Do I henys heny's Pan American petrOl Petroleum and Tran Transport port company Ar important share of the the the- lc lenses t. t es it was brought out in Kip Kip- reys ney's s 's imon was authorize by I I Tall raIl on the eve of his depa e ture for hs lanch anch at Three ver Ix N. N M. M with a a. loan obtained from flom E. E L. L This h s 1000 O. O according to previous testimony was drawn from a New ew York bank I anT ami turned over to to Fall just be before before ie- ie fore he left for for- NeW v e v Mexico PrIor to the questioning of Finney Fin Fin- re ney res Dolie y explanation of the th transaction n a as ns given ghen to the senata enat on Investigation committee committee com corn t t January was read Into the r rd by Owen J. J Roberts gove go oat nt counsel This was to the feet that Doheny and Fall V v lifelong friends and that t the loan to Fall was only onn OUR of Jf man many loans made by the oil ol magnate under similar conditions |