Evening star. [volume], March 28, 1924, Page 15, Image 15

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'SINCLAIR CONTEMPT
TESTIMONY IS TAKEN
<h»nd Jury Told of Eefusal to
Answer Questions at Oil
Inquiry.
p*
i The grand Jury today heard testl
ony connection with the con
nipt charges brought by the Senate
against Harry P. Sinclair, millionaire
... Oil magnate, for refusal to answer
■\ Questions at the oil hearing.’ Action
by the grand jury is expected Mon
«fay, either in the shape of an indict
ment or an exoneration of Mr. Sin
clair.
Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Rob
erts, special counsel selected by Pres
ident Cool id ge to prosecute the oil I
lease cases, were sworn In this morn
ing by Morgan H. Reach, clerk of the I
• r,< ‘t Supreme Court, as special as- i
mi slants to I'nited States Attorney I
Jiuraon, under an appointment from
Department of Justice.
This new position for the spe
counsel was necessary that they
night attend the sessions of the
KTand jury and participate with Gor
don in the presentation of the Sin
clair incident to the jirand jurors.
Among the witnesses summoned
tiiis morning was Ernest U. Hill, as
sistant clerk of the committee on puh-
Jtc lands. Mr. Hill was acting as clerk
the questions were propounded
to Mr. Sinclair, and has a record of
the refusal of the oil man to reply.
LANGLEY MAKES BOND
OF $5,000 FOR TRIAL j
(Continued from First Page.f
April 15, 1921, met at the House office
building in Washington; May 4. 1921,
l* an Eley met West at the office of the
commissioner of internal revenue; West
and Mortimer. May fi, 1921, met at the
office of the commissioner of internal
revenue, and May 7. 1921, Langley and
West conferred with John F. Kramer
V and Elias H. Mortimer at the office of
the commissioner of internal revenue
and caused Kramer to prepare cer
tain letters.
May 7, 1331, Mortimer went from
■Washington In furtherance of the al
leged conspiracy, it is set out, to
Pittsburgh, where he met Arthur Mc-
Kean the next day. On the following
day Mortimer and Moses met together
at Pittsburgh and McKean. Kramer,
West and Mortimer met in the pro- I
hibition office in Washington,
May 24. 1921, Kramer- sent a tele
gram authorizing the Upson Drug
Company to purchase 4.000 cases of
whisky from the PenwicK Distilling
\ Company. May 25 Kramer stmt an
other telegram authooMZihg the re
moval of the whisky. '
May 26 Arthur McKean, federal pro
hibition agent at Pittsburgh, caused
to bo issued a permit to purchase the
4.000 cases of whisky in favor of the
Union Drug (Company.
The indictment sets forth that In
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addition to those indicted there were
involved In the alleged conspiracy
John F. Kramer, Arthur McKean,
Ralph E. Clepper, Elias H. Mortimer,
Herman Oeltzeiler and Donald J. De-
Uancey, who by reason of testifying
before the grand jury, are not in
dicted.
Three Acts Specified.
The indictment in which Mr. Lang
ley is alone mentioned, sets out three
alleged overt acts. The first chargf
that on April 18. I*2l, he met EUaV
H. Mortimer at the House Office build
ing. Mortimer and Langley, May 7.
1921. conferred with Prohibition Com
missioner John F. Kramer and caused
the latter to write to Arthur McKean,
prohibition director at Pittsburgh,
authorizing the withdrawal of 4,000
cases of whisky from the Penwick
Distilling Company at Cheswick. Pa.
Mortimer went from Washington to
Pittsburgh and May 26. 1921, Langley
and Mortimer are said to have caused
4.000 cases of whisky to be trans
ported from the distillery to the
Union Drug Company in Pittsburgh.
The indictment mentions Elias H.
Mortimer, Herman J. Geltzeiler, Don
i aid J. De Lancey and others were
j engaged in procuring large quantl
) ties Os whisky for clients and Tom
I Finn, Walter Carey and M. E. Huth
, were desirous of selling whisky for
i beverage purposes which was de
posited in the Belle of Anderson Dis
tillery, near Louisville, Ky„ which
could not he withdrawn under the
national prohibition act without spe
cial permit.
The alleged conspirators with those
wishing to purchase the whisky agreed
to pay to Elias H. Mortimer large sums
of money, part of which, the amount
not being stated, was paid over to Lang
ley to induce Langley to use his influ
ence with the prohibition officials and
by promises of promotion to connive at
md permit the withdrawal from the
Louisville distillery to the store of the
Union Drug Company in Pittsburgh.
TWO INDICTED BEFORE.
| By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. Pa.. March 28.
; Benjamin L. Moses and Harry Saltier,
indicted by a federal grand jury’ yes
terday at Washington with Repre
sentative John W. Langley of Ken
tucky and others upon charges of
conspiracy to obtain the removal of
4.000 cases of whisky from tho Pen
wick Distilling Company at Ches
wick, this county, were indicted in
the federal court here in 1920
charged with unlawful possession
and transportation of whisky after a
shipment had been seized by Depart
ment of Justice agents.
Moses and SatUer formerly con
ducted the Union Drug Company'
here, but that business was discon
tinued. according to Saltier, who now
conducts a stationery store, while
Moses is employed in another drug
store. Saltier declined comment
when informed that an indictment
had been returned against him at
Washington.
Arthur McKean of Beaver, named
in the indictment, but not among
those indicted, is a former state pro
hibition director, and Ralph E. Clep
per was chief clerk during his ad
ministration. Russell M. Sackett was
formerly an inspector in the Pitts
burgh prohibition office.
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1924.
Indicted
Representative John W. Langley
(upperl nnd Millard K. Went, former
deputy commissioner of internnl reve
nue. who were yesterday Indicted hy
a federal grand jnry ns conspirators
to withdraw whisky- from n distillery
warehouse.
WEST DENIES CHARGE.
- Millard F. West, former United
States deputy commissioner of inter-
Inal revenue, who was indicted with
Repre«ent*tlve Langley and lour I
others on conspiracy charges, issued
a statement today in which he de
clared he was ■‘shocked" by the ac
tion of the grand Jury. j
Defending his connection with the
application of the Union Drug Com
pany for the withdrawal of liquor as
"an open book,” Mr. West professed
himself at a loss to understand why
the Department of Justice recom
mended such action “unless it was to
shield a real criminal," by besmirch
ing “the character of an innocent
man.’*
Continuing, Mr. West said:
Ml»r*fW( station Is Charged*
"The application of the Union Drug
Company for such withdrawals was
presented to me In May, 1921, while
1 was acting commissioner of In
ternal revenue, by Mr. Mortimer, who
represented himself as agent for the
Union Drug Company. He had a
letter of introduction, signed by Mr.
Langley. He represented his client
as being a large, reliable wholesale
drug house, and I advised him that
if the facts were as represented and
the company’s application was sub
stantially reduced, and if Mr. Kramer,
the prohibition commissioner, approv
ed the application for withdrawal, I
saw no objection thereto. I advised
Mr. Kramer of my attitude, and later
was advised by Mr. Kramer that an
authorisation had been made. Within
a few days thereafter I was further
advised by Mr. Kramer that an in
vestigation disclosed the fact that the
situation was not as represented by
the applicant, and its agent. Mr.
Mortimer, and that the authorization
had been rescinded. •
“I was amazed when advised sub."»e
quently by Mr. Kramer that no basic
permit on the Union Drug Company
was on file, for no legal application
for withdrawal could be approved
unless a basic permit had been Issued.
After the investigation by Mr. Kra
mer I ordered that no basic permit
should he issued to the Union Drug
Company and Mr. Kramer was ad
vised of this ruling Ho far as my
acts are concerned, the situation was
then a close hook and I never
thereafter authorized the Issuance of
a basic permit or directed the prohi- j
bitton commissioner or any one to
permit the Union Drug Company to
withdraw any quantity of spirits.
Any such withdrawal was made with
out my knowledge and contrary to
my orders as acting commissioner.
"I had no conferences with any one
with respect to this case except at
the office of commissioner of internal
revenue. Not an Improper word or
suggestion was made in my presence
at any of these conferences, and it
was not until several weeks after I
ceased to bo acting commissioner
that I learned of ugly rumors and
charges respecting the improper
securing of a permit by said company
from the prohibition commissioner for
the withdrawal of said spirits, but my
official acts were not involved in any
such rumors, so far tus I knew.
"The Department of Justice knows
these facts, and the linking of my
name with that of Mr. Mortimer in
this transaction Is an act that I can
not explain. I am staggered by it.
Certainly this act of the Department
of Justice is a miscarriage of justice.”
Up to 100 portable theaters will be
established in the United Hiates to
bring entertainment to ail parts of
the country, according to a Kuropean
who is planning this method of enter
tainment.
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17c , 3 for 50t Shaving Cream
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