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‘nor A. G. Sorlie of North Dakota
|died at the executive mansion here
at 3:45 o'clock this morning.

Death came after an illness of

more than a month with heart dis-
| ease,
Walter Maddock of Plaza, who
‘succeeds Governor Sorlie as_ the
|state’s chief executive, will arrive in
the state capital today to assume
his duties.

Gov. Sorlie’s death brings to the
executive's chair a real dirt farmer,
rated a self made man. He was ed-
ucated in the common schools and
business college. Later he studied
law and civil engineering, taking
mail courses in those subjects.

Since 1906 he has operated a farm
near Plaza and has been active in
forming several farmer cooperative
associations. He was elected lieu-
tenant governor in recognition of his
services to the non-partisan league
as a member of the legislature and
his experience as a laws maker.

Arthur Gustav Sorlie was born
April 26. a near Albert. § Lea,
Minn. His patents were natives of
Norway. When he was 19 years old
he came to North Dakota, worked in
a bank, operated a general store and
then became a traveling salesman.

In 1907 he launched in the fuel.
seed and feed business at Grand
Yorks. The enterprise was success-
ful and was the basis for a consid-
erable fortune which he later ac-
cumulated in other business endeayv- |

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Los Angeles—(AP)—Edward L.
Doheny and directors of the Pan-
American Petroleum and Transport
company today faced a bill of com-
plaint demanding an accounting of
$10,000,000 which 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, declared the loss
resulted from the cancellation of the
lease by a decision of the United
States supreme court. after the com-
pany had _ spent” several million
dollars in development of the field.

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

The $190,000 delivered to Fall by
E. L. Doheny, Jr., in the much dis-
cussed “little black satchel,” was de-
clared in the suit to have been given
by the stockholders and used as a
bribe. An accounting of this ex-
change also is asked.

Kunkel sets forth in the complaint
that neither he nor any of the
plaintiff stockholders had any know!l-
edge of the negotiations and de-
scribes Doheny’s conduct of the deal
as a “fraud not only against the
United States but also against the
l'an-American company and its
stockholders.” Doheny is charged
with dominating the affairs of the
‘company when the lease was signed.
 