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iCHTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. THE OIL SCANDAL. OIL MAGNATE’S REVELATIONS. WASHINGTON. Fob. 3. The country is aghast at the revelations made by Air Doiieny, the oil magnate, in connection with his great oil battles with the Roekfellors. The grizzled veteran seemed to delight in piling one sensation on another once he was forced to talk. lie alleged payments were made to Air AlcAdo and stated that he had distributed thousands to other lesser lights, including Colonel George Creel, who headed the Committee of Public Information tin ring the war. Doheny claims he brought his inlluence to try to reverse the favouritism which the then Secretary of the Navy seemed to have for the Standard Oil Corporation. Air AlvAdop, wlm is in Los Angeles, issued a bitter denunciation of coupling his name with Dobeny's, claiming that he was only the advised oil Croesus regarding Mexican affairs.
BURIAL PLACE NOT DECIDED,
WASHINGTON. Feld -3. The funeral services will be held on Wednesday and will probably be private in a sense that there "ill la* no great State ceremony. A number ol friends and former associates will be designated active ami honorary pall hearers. The place of iimd burial is not yet determined but tbe body may rest for a time, at least, in the great National Cathedral now rising on .Mount St. Albans, overlooking the city, where it is planned to have a place of sepulchre for the nation s great dead, similar to Westminister Abbey in London.
THIRTY DAYS’ OFFICIAL AIOFRNING. 'Received this dav at. 8.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Immediately after Afr A\ ilson’s death was announced, (lags on Government Buildings everywhere were half-masted. .A thirty days’ period of official mourning lia.s been ordered. Congress adjourned io-tlav and the Executive Departments have been ordered to close. Social activities were abandoned. Air Wilson’s last words of sustained meaning, spoken on Friday, were: ‘T am readv.” From that time on ho lived out his fast fleeting life with the full knowledge that he was on the threshold of Ihe Great Beyond.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1924, Page 2
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