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, California, Aug.
28—Edward L. Doheny and direc-
tors of the Pan-American Petro-
leum and Transport Company fac-
ed a bill of complaint demand-
{ng an accounting of $10,000,000
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
shareholders, declared the loss re-
sulted from the cancellation of the
lease by a decision of the United
States Supreme court after the
company had spend several million
dolars in the development of the
field.

The least was negotiated for the
government by Albert F. Fall, then
Secretary of the interior.

The $100,000 delivered to Fall by
E. L. Doheny, Jr., in the much dis:
cussed “little black satchel” was de
elared in the suit to have been giv:
en by the stockholders and used as
a bribe. An accounting of this ex:
change also is asked.

‘Kunkel sets forth {In the com.
Plaint that neither he nor any of
the plaintiff stockholders had any
knowledge of the negotiations anc
describes Doheny’s conduct of the
deal as'a “fraud not. only against
the United States but also against
the Pan American company and it:
stockholders.” Doheny {s chargec
with dominating the affairs of the
company when the lease was sign
at.
 