LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28.—()—
Edward L. Doheny and directors
of the Pan American Petroleum
and Transport Company, today
faced a bill of complaint demand-
ing an accounting of $10,000,000
stockholders allege they lost in
the fraudulent lease of the Elk
Hills Naval Oil reserve,

The complaint, filed in behalf of
Frank H. Kunkel, Cincinnati, and
other shareholders, declares the
loss resulted from the cancella-
tion of the lease by a decision of
the United States supreme court
after the company had spent sev-
eral million dollars in the devel-
opment of the field.

The lease was negotiated for the
government by Albert B. Fall,
then secretary of the interior.

The $100,000 delivered to Fall
by E. L. Doheny, Jr.. in the much
discussed “‘little black satchel’ was
declared in the siut to have been
the rightful property of the stock-
holders and used as a bribe. An
accounting of this exchange also is
asked.
| Kunkel sets forth in the com-
plaint that neither he nor any of
the plaintiff stockholders had any
knowledge of the negotiations and
describes Doheny’s conduct of the
deal as a “fraud not only against
the United States but also against
the Pan American company and its
stockholders.” Doheny is charged
with dominating the affairs of the
company when the lease was sign-
ed.
 
Wagiington, Aug. 28.—(AP)—Con-
tinuing conferences with republican
campaign managers in the east, Her-
bert Hoover today as assemblying
information upon which to base a
decision as to the extent he will par-
ticipate personally in the presidential
| fight there.

William WH. Hill, chairman, of the
New York state standard bearer to
supplement the advices given him
yesterday by Charles D. Hilles, nat-
jonal committeeman for New York,
‘and ‘Daniel FE. Pomeroy, vice chair-
man of the New Jersey committee.
| Reports received by Hoover since
{his return from the west indicate
i that the eastern situation is one re-
| quiring attention and his advisers
lare urging him to go into New York,
Massachusetts and New Jersey for at
least one speech for each state and
more if time can be found for them.

Before mapping out his campaign
ihe very probably will go into the
middle west, speaking at Chicago and
some other cities, and also into the
i border states, but these addresses
are likely to follow those in the east.
Some of hig advisers think he should
| Speak in New York and nearby states
{not later than early October.

i Should Hoover decide to make a

Labor Day address next Monday, it
| will be in Washington, with a radio
i hookup, it was stated today at his
office. However, the candidate thinks

the time is too short for the prepara-
| tion of an address,

 

 
 