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LOS ANGELES, AUE. 28,—Kdw ard
L. Doheny and directors of the Pan
American Petroleum and Transport
Company, today faced a bill of core-
plaint demanding an accounting of
$10,000,000 stockholders allege they
lost in the fraudulent lease of the
Elks Hills naval oil reserve.

The complaint, fied in behalf of
Frank H. Kinkel, Cincinnati, and
other stockholders, declares the
loss resulted from the cancollation
of the lease by a decision of the
United States supreme court after
the ‘company had spent several mil-
lion dollars in the development of
the field..

The $100,000 deliveted to Fall by
E. L. Dohney, jr., in the much dis-
cussed “Little black satchel” was
declared in the suit to have been
given by the stockholders and used
as:‘a bribe.

Kinkel ip the complaint describes
Dohney’s conduct of the deal as a
“fraud not only-against the United
States but also against the Pan
American company and its stock-
h@iders.”

The complaint further declares
that Dohney has disposed of his
controlling interest in the cowgpany
to the Pan American Eastern Pe-
troleum Company which is alleged
to be controlled now by the Stand-
ard Of] Company of Indian2.

_ The suit demands that ‘Dohney

personally be compelled to reim-
burse. the stockholders for the at-
leged losses.
_ Dohney refused to comment on
the complaint, declaring he woule
Submit it to his attorrfeys before
making. any announcement.
 
Bismarck, N. D., Aug. 28.-—(A.
P.)—Gov. A. G. Sorlie of North Da-
kota died here this morning, Death
was caused by heart disease from
which the governor has been crit-
ically ill for the past three days.

Arthur Gustave Sorlie was born
April 26, 1974, near Albert La,
Minn. His parents were lver and
Mary Sorlie, natives of Norway.
‘When he was 19 he came to North
Dakota where he worked in # battk,
operated a general store and later
became a@ traveling saleaman.

In 1907 he entered the fuel, seed
and feed business at Grand Forks.
‘The enterprise was the basia for a
considerable fortune which he later
accumulated in other businesa en-
deavors.

The Non-Partisan League eelect-
ed him as its standard bearer in
1924 and he won the gubernatorial
election after @ hot fight with R. A.
Nestos, the Republican incumbent.
He was re-elected in 1926, but did
hot seek renomination this year,
saying he desired to retire to pri-
vate life.

Gov. Sorlle’s death brings to the
executive's chair Walter Maddock,
the iHeutenant governor, who is a
real dirt farmer, and is rated a se.f
made man. He was educated in
the conimon schools and business
college. ‘Later he studied inw ant
clvjl engineering, taking mail
courses tn those subjects.

Since 1916 he hag operated 4
farm near Plaza and has been ac

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