Show fAMOUS TEAPOT DOME DOM OIl CASE TO CliMAX Arguments in Elk Hills Suit Close to End in Supreme SuPreme Supreme Su Su- preme preme Court Precedent By HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON V ASHINGTON Oct 5 The Tho The clImax climax clI- clI max of the famous Teapot Dome episode neared today Arguments in the Ellk EllIe Hills lulls naval oil lea lease e an annulment n umen t suit sui t will be con concluded before the tho United States supreme court by nightfall The decision expected after a few v months Is expected to 0 set a precedent precedent precedent prece prece- dent un under er which the similar Teapot Teapot Teapot Tea Tea- pot Dome Dom rasp as will be decided and to sus sustain o or refute the fraud charges cl ur ler er which tho tho lease I principals Albert Albert Abert B B. Fall E E. E L L. Doheny Doheny Doheny Do- Do heny and Harry F. F Sinclair may Sinclair-may may may maybe be sentenced to long Ions prison terms The go governments government's case caso will be presented till afternoon after artel Frederick Frederick Frederick Fred Fred- erick r Kello g finishes the defense of the Doheny Pan-American Pan Petroleum Petroleum Petroleum Pe Pe- and Pan American Transport Transport Transport Trans Trans- port and an Petroleum companies against the tha governments government's plea for fOl cancellation f their title to oil from the valuable Kern county California Califor Califor- nia na holdin holdings s leased to them in 1921 The government won this case twice in lower lowel courts and oilmen are asking not only for validation of the lea lean but also for tor cancellation cancellation cancella cancella- tion of lower court orders directing them to pay for worth Qt of oil taken from the lands The oilmen claim this oil was paid for forby forby forby by their construction of the Pearl Harbor Hawaii oil stor storage ge tanks tants for the na navy Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. J Roberts special government counsel counsel counsel coun coun- sel will reiterate the grounds upon which th the lower courts canceled the leases leases fraud fraud and lack of authority of Secretaries Denby and Fall 1 to lease away th the navys navy's oil It was on the same grounds that the St. St Louis circuit court of ap appeals appeals ap- ap peals la last t week canceled the Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- clair calr Mammoth Oil company's lease on the great Teapot DO Dome e reserve In Wyoming Fall Doheny and Sinclair stand Indicted ted on charges of criminal conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy con con- to defraud the government The Tho defense of the oilmen may maybe maybe maybe be sum summarized as follows 1 With regard to the fraud charges the leases were made by Secretary Denby Admiral Robison and his associates with the tho oil companies and Secretary Fall who had been invested In with power to lease 2 With regard to the lack of authority charge the leases were made un under er proper authority of the 1920 leasing act passed by congress as a result result-of of Secretary of Navy Daniels' Daniels request that the navy be Tse given power to provide for Its prop prop- erty The navy received fair compensation compensation com com- for Its Its' oil |