i (Associated Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. (P)—
Continuing conferences with Re-
publican campaign managers in the
east, Herbert Hoover tudiay was age
sembting information upon whieh
to hase a decisian as to the extent
the will particpiate personally in
the presidential! ficht there,
William H. Hill, chairman of the
‘New York state Hoover comumittec,
‘had an engagement with the Re-
publican stundard bearer to sup-
plement the ailvices given him{ves-
jterday by Charles D. Tliles, na-
tonal cammitteeman, for New
York? and Daniel FE. Pomeroy, vier
chairman of the New Jersey com-
Inittee,
East Needs Attention
Reports received by Hoover
isinec his return from the west in-
dicate that the eastern situation is
fone requiring attention and his ad-
sare urging him to ga. into
fassachugetts and New
Jersey for at least on speech for
ench state and more of time can
be found for them, .
After he has canvassed — the
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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.
 