  

BISMARCK, Noo Aug
Gov. A. G. Horlie, of North Dakota
died here today.

Death was caused by heart dis
lease from whirh the governor hed

been erltieally ill for the past three

 

     

 

Sorlie was born April fA. ists.
near Alderta Gea, Mian. When 1
he came te North Dukota where
he worked in a hank, aperated +
keneral store and buer beetme a
travellne salesman

In 1947, he enteres the fuel,
and feed b mess at trand Ber’
A. G. Sorlie and voumpany. The en
lerprise was surcess( tl and was the
asic for a considerable fortune
whith he later accumulated in other
business endeavors.

Despite his extensls+ interests, the
Non-Partisan leasne selected hina its
its standard-hearer in 124. and he
won the Gubernatericl election after
a hot fight w
publican incumbent. Ue wa
Elector In 1928, but did sot seek
nomination this wear, saying he dl
sired wo retire te private life at th
end of his term.

The first important art of office
came to Sorlie when in h th
term he appointed ‘era ,
to the United Stare s
ceed Senator E. KF. Land, w
In office.

Sartie's death brings to the exacts
tive’s chair Waller MLaidileck,
tenant 2novernor.

 

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| Los Angeles, Aug. 28.—(AP)—2id-
ward L. Doheny and directors of the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans-
port company, today faced a bill of
complaint demanding an accounting of
$10,000,000 stockholders allege they
lost in the fradulent lease of the Elk
(Hills Nava! Oil Reserve.

‘The complaint, filed in behalf of
Prank H. Kunkel, Cineinnati, and oth-
er shareholders, declares the loss re-
‘sulted from the cancellation of the
lease by a decision of the United
|States supreme court after the com.
/pany had spent several million dollar:
‘in the development of the field.

| The lease was negotiated for thi
'government by Albert B. Fall, ther
‘secretary of the interior.

The $100,000 delivered to Tall by FE
'I., Doheny, Jr., in the much discussec
little black satchel,” was declared ii
the suit to have been given by th
stockholders and used as a bribe. Al
accounting of his exchange also i
asked,

Kunkel sets forth in the complain
that neither he nor-any of the plain
tiff stockholders had anv knowledge o
the negotiations and describes Dohe
ry’s conduct of the deal as a “frau
not only against the United State
but also against the Pan- Americat
;company and its stockholders.” Do
iheny is charged with dominating th
| niintyuneiste come y when the leas
was signed.

 

 
 