By Associated Praga.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28.—Edward
j La. Dohney and directors of the Pan
i American Petroleum and Transport
feompany, today faced a bill of com-
laine demanding an accouating of
; $10,000,000 stockholders allege they
‘toast inthe friudulent lease of the Eik
(HIG naval oil reserve.
i fhe complaint, filed in behalf of
| Frank TM. Kunkel, Cincinnati, and
other sharehulders, declares the loss
fresulted from the cancelation of the
lease by ai decision of the United
nlates supreme court after the eam-
pany had gpent several million dollars
‘in the devciopment of the field.
| The lease was negotiated for the
i government by Albert B. Fail, then
i secretary of the interior. .
; The $100,000 delivered to. Fall: by
/ BE. T. Dohney, Jr. in the mueh dis-
cussed “little black satchel” was de-
pelared in the suit to have been the
righitul property of the stockholders
Pand used asa bribe. ;
Kunkel in the complaint describes
| Dohney'’s conduct ef the dealas a
“fraud not only against the United
States but alsa against the Pan
(American company and its stock-
| holders.” :
~The complaint further declares that
“Dohney has disposed of his controll-
‘ing interert in the. company. tothe
Pan Anierionn Eastern Petroleum
company which is alleged to be con.
trolled naw by the Standard Oil com-
sony af indiang, :
The suit demands that Dohney per-
sonally-bo gompelled to reimbuse the
-Btockholdergs for the. alleged losses,
~» Dohney refuied to comment on the
conplaint, declaring he would: submit
it te his attorneys before making any
ceine rae : :

 

 

     

 

 

     
 
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
 