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March 14, 1924

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QUESTION ROOSEVELT ON TEAPOT EJECTION; Oil Committee Is Told He Acted on Fall's Request, Believing Harding Approved. IGNORING OF COURTS SCORED Walsh Infers Fall and Sinclair Didn't Want Lease Questioned -- Wood's Aids Called. QUESTION ROOSEVELT ON TEAPOT EJECTION

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, March 13. -- Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Acting Secretary of the Navy, described to the Senate oil investigating committee today the action ordered by him in using the marines to eject alleged trespassers from the Teapot Dome reserve in the Summer of 1922, some months after that property had been leased to Harry F. Sinclair.

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