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...come to light. The investigation has wandered far afield digging up new tidbits to set scandalous tongues wagging for another day, after which a new name or new names were discovered to be be-oiled. Last week's 'daily contributions included: ¶ The discovery that Edward B. McLean (TIME, March 10), owner of the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, is a special agent of the Department of Justice, at a salary of $1 a year. McLean's connection with the oil scandal is that he gave tentative assent to Mr. Fall's attempt to make...
...telegrams made one thing clear- Mr. McLean wished to avoid being questioned in detail about his "loan" to Mr. Fall. There was also a curious phrase in one of the telegrams suggesting that the installation of the private wire to Palm Beach would afford "easy access to the White House." There was evidence that a telegraph operator at the White House had been employed after hours to operate the Washington end of the McLean wire...
Then The New York World discovered that four of the messages were in a code used by the Department of Justice, or at least a code formerly so used. The deciphered messages did not reveal much except what was already known-that McLean's employees were keeping him informed on the progress of the oil investigation, and sending him tips as to whether or not he would be required to testify. In one of the telegrams Wm. J. Burns, Chief of the Secret Service, was mentioned, thereby adding his name to the list of those implicated...
...once the Committee began to summon everyone mentioned in the telegrams. A. Mitchell Palmer testified that he had acted temporarily for Mr. McLean, while the latter's regular attorney was out of town. He declared that he had made no attempts to pull wires for the publisher, and denied connection with anyone else mentioned in the case...
Some of Mr. McLean's employees were questioned, but without startling results. Mr. McLean himself was placed on the schedule of those to be examined. Thus, from one attempt to avoid unpleasant testimony, Mr. McLean has apparently got himself into an even more unpleasant situation, where more testimony-accompanied by more publicity-will be required...