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FEDERALBUREAUOFINVESTIGATION This Case Originated At: NEW YORK CITY K.C. File #65-7 Report Made At Date When Made Perjod For Report Made By Which Made KANSAS CITY, MO. 7/1/41 5/16 - 6/18/41 HD Title: Character of Case with aliases ESPIONAGE - G. SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: SILAS M. NEwTON is president of Kansas Western Pipe- line Compeny, Denver, Colorado, which is a small oil company with three small. producing oil wells but no pipeline. NewroN receives on average about $200 per month from this corporation. NEwTON reportedly drilling, oil well near Los Angeles, California, at present time. NewroN believed formerly to have received financial backing from OJ. H. CARPENTER, New York City. NEWTON renortedl Yalso associated in business with b7C to NEwrON reportedly has made no Odisloyal or un-American statements in or near XMcCracken, Kansas. NEwroN maintains no personal bank account at Citizens State Bank, McCracken. The Newton Development Company, of which SILAs M. NEwroN is head official, maintains account at Union National Bank, Wichita, Kansas, but nothing. of a suspicious nature appcars concerning this account. P. Approved and Special Agont Forwarded in Charge cooas 5 - Bureau 2 - New York 2 -- Denver 2 - Los Angeles 2 - Kansas City