Lok ANKCICD, Aug. 28-—(A.P)-—A DI
of complaint demanding an accaunt-
Way of $19,000,000 was filed on the U.
B District court Monday against
Edward L. Doheney and the Pan-
Ameriran Petroleun and Transpurt
company. The bili which charges that
stockholders of (he company lost this
swum through alleged fraud on the
part of Doheney i the lamous Elk-
hilly off acnndul, was (led by a Las
Angeles faw finn on behalf of Frank
Hi. Kukkel. attorney, of Cineinnan.
‘ho brought the vil m the tnterest
of tumself and other Mockbalders.

The bill declares that the $10,000,-
008 wax lust by (he stackitolders solely
because Daheney acted fraudulently
in connection with the leasing from
foriner secretary ot (he interior Albert
B. Fall of the Blk Neva! Oil
Reserve. and th large sums
spent in development’ of the Melda
themselves, and aisewhere in con-
nection iwih the deal Tt demands
that an accounting be made ty
Doheny and thet such money as wa

expenced in the alleged giving of a
$100.00 bribe to Fal, amd in the de-
velopment of the frmudulently leased
fletds, ba returned to the stockholders.

  

 

 
 
Tos Angelos, Ang. 38 (€) -— A suit
against KE. T, Doheny and the directors
of the Pan-American Petrolewn
Transport Cb, by stockholders af the
Intter corporation who allege that the
sharcholders ‘were the real Tosors in
thé" Rik Hills naval of? reerve lensing
seandn), was on filo herve foday,

The complaint, flled yesterday in
behalf of Frank Eh Kunkel of Cincin-
nati and other shareholders, declares
that the stockholders lost $10,006,006
as the result of the cancollation of the
fraudulent lease, It asks that Doheny
and the board of directors be com-
pelled ta render an necounting.

The $100,000 which waa delivered
ta Albort B. Fall, former secretary of
the interior, by E. &. Doheny, Jr., In
the much discussed little black
natchol,” was declaréd in the sult to
have been the righttul property of the
slockholders und used as a bribe. An
accounting of this exchange, which
the complaint brands as a bribe, fe
demanded,

DISCLAIM RESPONSIBILITY *

The Jense, which was negotiated Ir
behalf of the government by Fall, was
eanceled by 0 decision of the United
States supreme court after the Pan-

 
 The Jense, which was negotiated In
peohnlf of the government by Fall, was
ennceled by n decision of the United
States supreme court after the Pan-
Amorican had spent several million
dollars toward developing the Elk
‘Jlls, Cullt,, olf reserve and on the
 