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Bismarek, N. 0, Aug. vs.— CP)
Governor A. G. Serle ef North La-
kota, died here this mourning,

Death was “caused by heart di-

sease from which the governor bas
ceen ‘critically ill for the past three
i days.
( <Arthur Sorlie was born April 20,
USt4 near Albert Lea, Minn. His
parents were Iver und Mary Sorlie,
wits of Norway. When he was
nineteen years old he came to North
Dakota where he worked in a bank,
operated a general store and later be-
came a traveling salesman.

In 1907 he entered the fuel, seed
and “feed business at Grand Forks as
A. G,. Sorlie and Company. The énter-
prise was successful and was the basis
for a considerable fortune which he
later aecumulated in other business
endeavors.

Despite his extensive interests, the
Non-Partisan League selected him as
its standard bearer in 1924 and he
won the gubernatorial election after
a hot fight with R. A. Nestos, the
Republican incumbent. He was re-
elected ‘in 1926, but did not seek re-
nomination this yenr.

Governor Sorlie’s death brings to
)the executive's chair Walter Maddock,
the lientenant governor, who is a real
dirt farmer, and is rated a self-made
man,

‘Since 1906 he has operated a farm
near Plaza and has heen actiye in
forming several farmer cooperative as-
sociations. He was chairman ct the
North Dakota delezation to the last
Republican national convention.
 
ae ANGELES, Cal.—(4)—Ed ward
L. Doheny and directors of the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans-
port company Tuesday faced a bill of
complaint 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 dol-
lars in the development of the field.

The lease was negotiated for the
government by Albert F. Fall, then
secretary of the Interior.

The $100,000 delivered to Fall by
I. L. Doheny. Jr... in the much dis-
cussed ‘‘little black satchel,”’ was de-
clare in the suit to have been given
by the stockholders and used as a
bribe. An accounting of the exchange
also is asked.

Kunkel sets forth in the complaint
that neither he nor any of the plain-
tiff stockholders had knowledge of
the negotiations and describes Do-
heny’s conduct of the deal as a
“frand not only against the United
States but also against the Pan-
American company and {ts stockhold-
ers.”

Doheny fis charged with dominating
the affairs of the company when the
lease was signed.

 
 