Los Angeles, Aug. 27 (A bill
ef complaint demanding an ac-
of $10,000,000 was filed in
the U. S&S. district court today
against Edward 1. Doheny and the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans-
po company. The bill, which
charges that e«tockholders of the
company lost this sum through 4l-
feged fraud on the part of Doheny
$m the famous Elk Hills ol! scandal,
was filed by a Los Angeles law
rm on behalf of Frank H. Kan-
el, attorney, of Cincinnati, who
b t the euit in the interests
of himself and other stockholders.
The bill declares that the $10,000,-
000 was lost by the stockholders
golely because Doheny acted frand-
wlently in connection with the leas-
from former Secretary of the
Anterior Albert B, Fall of the Elk
Hills naval oj] reserve, and through
farge sums spent in development
of the fields themselves, and else-
where in connection with the deal
Jt demands that an accounting b¢
made by Doheny and that such
as was expended in the al-
leged giving of a $100,000 bribe t
Fall, and in the development of th
fraudulently leased fields, be re
furned to the stockholders.
_ The complaint declares that neith.
er Kunkel nor the other stock
holders had any hand in the al

ery
money and that the board had don
pothing. He also demands tha
hen the accounting is rendered
court issue a decree and judg
againet Doheny com, pell ing
im personally to repay this mone:
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (7:
Continuing conferences with
republican campaign man-
agers in the east, Herbert
Hoover today was assembling
information upon which to
hase a decision as to the ex-
ent he will participate ,per-
tonally in the presidential

fight there.

William H. Hill chairman of the
New York state Hoover committee,
had an engagement with the republi-
can standard bearer to supplement
the advices given him yesterday by
Charlies D. Hilles national commit-
teeman for New York, and Danie! E.
Pomeroy, vice chairman of the New
Jersey committee. .

Reports received by Hoover since
his return from the West indicate
that the eastern situation is one re-
quiring attention and his advisers
are urging him to go into New York,
Massachusetts and New Jersey for
at least one speech for each state
nd more if time can be found for

m. |

After he has canvassed the eastern
situation, he will be in a position to
fairly well map out his campaign up
to election time. It is certain that
ne will take advantage of his swing
pack to his home in California to
vote for making a series of addresses.

Should Hoover decide to make a
wabcor day address next Monday, it

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| NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (@)
—With a brief speech of
‘thanks to the people of New
Jersey who hailed him so up-
roariously during his four day
|visit there, Governor Smith
has fired his first shot in his
fight for the presidency since
ihe was formally proclaimed
the democratic standard

bearer.

While impromptu and not on the
issues of the day, the address was
delivered amid atmosphere so un-
| mistakably political that it was gen-
‘erally accepted as having put the
‘nominee up to the front line
trenches for the battles to come.
pons for his speaking itinerary were
‘down for discussion at conferences
here today, and the governor will
leave tomorrow morning for Syra-
cuse to attend a dinner there tomor-
row night and the state fair the
‘next day.
| Governor Smith’s first speech,
‘made shortly before midnight from
‘a small decorated platform on the
city hall steps in Newark, surround-
ed by a howling, torch-bearing
crowd that flooded into the streets,
| surprised nearly everyone in his
party, as he had passed the word
that he intended to make no open
‘air speeches unless forced to do so.
| This evidently was a case where
‘he was forced, for the throngs that
greeted him during the late after-
noon and night as he made his way
by automobile up to New York
from Spring Lake, N. J., gave him
an ovation as tumultuous as that of
last Friday when he was en route to
the big democratic rally at Sea Girt.
- With difficulty the nominee el-
bowed his way through the crowd to
the steps then, with hat off and his
hands on the railing in front of him,
he his sorrow at having to
leave New Jersey and declared he had
never Seen a greater display of en-
thusiasm for a cause than that shown
for him in his neighbor state.

Just before leaving the stand to
fight his way back to his car, the gov-
ernor was greeted by another tre-
-mendous shout, led by Charlies P.
Gillan, a Newark city commissioner,
who had introduced him, g
“three cheers for the next president
of the United States.”

Coming slowly on through Jersey
City to the tune of freight trains,
drawbridge and small boat whistles,
the democratic nominee was given a
touch of local enthusiasm when he
‘reached the New York end of the
vehicular tunnel.
| “Hurrah for Al,” shouted*a group of
several hundred residents of the old
| Fifth ward who came to weicome him
back to his native city.
| Owing to the big send-off Gsvernor
‘Smith today was more convinced than
ever that New Jersey was safe for him
in November.

 

 
 