MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1963 g y
Attorney General Accuses Kansan of Worthless Oil Lease Sale
By CHARLES F. JUSTICE
United Press International
New York (UPD In the ex
treme and lonely southwest
corner of Kansas, the small
(pop. 13,813) city of Liberal
breeds a spirit of competition.
Thus, it can produce such
phenomena as the yearly pan
cake races between the house
wives of Liberal and those of
Olney, England, and such
citizens as James E. Lofland,
who thinks big.
Lofland is a 36 - year - old
onetime appliance salesman
from Liberal who traded the
dusty Kansas flatlands for the
concrete canyons of Manhat
tan a year ago and took to the
big town and its ways like a
big bass takes to the waters
of the Cimarron.
Lofland talked a lot about
big oil and big land deals.
Soon, he was rubbing elbows
with the rich and the famous
with a striking woman often
on his arm. Among them:
svelte and blonde Broadway
actress Dolores Gray ("Des
try Rides Again") and Jo
hanna Revson van Boythan,
Dutch-born former wife of
cosmetics czar Charles Rev
son. Next Thursday, Lofland
has another date - to under
go questioning by Louis J.
Lefkowitz, balding ' and en
ergetic attorney general of
the state of New York.
No Laws Broken
The attorney general has
not accused Lofland of vio
lating any laws or of any
criminal offense. But he has
charged the suavely hand
some and persuasive Kansan
with "an attempt to sell $3
million in worthless oil leases
to New York investors" and
obtained a court order barring
any more sales. Miss Gray,
Miss Van Boythan among
others, Lefkowitz said, un
wittingly aided Lofland by
introducing him to influential
people.
What Lofland did, accord
ing to Lefkowitz, was this: He
went to homesteaders in oil
rich Lea county, N. M., tell
ing them they had been
"wrongfully deprived" of
their mineral rights by the
federal government, which
collects $6 million yearly
from royalties.
Lofland bought portions of
the mineral rights from the
land owners, Lefkowitz said,
telling them he would have
federal legislation passed
which would allow them to
share in the royalties.
In 1960, the attorney gen
eral said, Lofland began sell
ing the deeds to the public,
contingent on the passage of
such legislation.
But says Lofland, it was not
fraud. "There was nothing
hidden in any way, shape or
form. Everybody was aware
that the sale of the oil leases
was contingent on legislation
that would give the rights
back to the homesteaders.
"As for the investors, they
were well-to-do people who
felt this was a good gamble.
As far as we're concerned,
it's still not dead and if any
of the investors are unhappy,
I'll take back their interests
if I have to borrow the money
to do it."
Lefkowitz, obtained a state
supreme court order requiring
Lofland, Miss Gray, Miss Van
Boythan, a former cabinet
member, a former congress
man, two sons of former U.S.
senators and four other per
sons to tell under oath what
they knew about the Kan
san's alleged scheme "to in
duce various individuals to
part with $200,000."
Lofland did this, the at
torney general claimed "by
falsely representing he was a
millionaire oil man who own
ed mineral rights on oil pro
ducing lands in New Mexico.
No investor has received any
return on his money."
The high flying Kansan,
who has vigorously denied any
attempt to defraud anyone,
liked to give parties in his
penthouse overlooking Cen
tral Park at Fifth Avenue in
the fashionable 70's.
He became engaged to Miss
Gray and they were photo
graphed at the Stork Club
last November smilingly hold
ing hands. On Dolores' third
finger, left hand, was a $55,
000 diamond.
Then, the following March
in Palm Beach, Jim Lofland
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met Johanna Revson van Boy
than, also known as Anky
("don't call me Anky in the
newspapers"). Johanna re
ceived a $2.5 million settle
ment when she was divorced
from Revson in 1960 after 20
years of marriage. Anky and
Jim became close friends.
Too close, according: to
Dolores, who twisted the 25
carat diamond from her third
finger, left hand, and gave it
to Anky. The engagement was
off.
Dolores has now sued Lof
land for $845,000, which she
breaks down into $55,000 for
"sentimental value" of the
ring and $790,000 for the
"pain and harm" inflicted
upon her when he allegedly
socked her in London's Gros
venor House. She also is suing
Anky for return of the dia
mond. Counter Suit
Lofland entered a general
denial to her suit and counter
sued for $22,500. She owes
him $10,000 for one reason
or another, he said, and owes
another $12,500 that he ad- '
vanced her to buy certain oil
interests in Lea county.
Back at the estate, in Rye,
N. Y, - which was another
part of her settlement from
Revson - Anky was uncon
cerned .about Dolores' suit
against her, but demanded
more accuracy on the Broad
way star's part.
"It's not a 25-carat ring,"
Anky said. "It is 21 carats. I
don't need a 25-carat ring. I
have a 24-carat ring of my
own. I don't need gifts from
Mr. Lofland like Miss Gray."
Anky said she and Jim did
not have any immediate mar
riage plans, but that she
would stick by him through
it all.
Federal Lobbyist
In 1960, Lofland registered
in Washington as a federal
lobbyist. His attorneys, he
said, were former Interior
Secretary Oscar L. Chapman,
former Massachusetts Repre
sentative Joseph E. Casey,
Dennis Chavez Jr., and James
E. Murray Jr., son of the late
senator from Montana.
Chavez, who has denied any
connection with Lofland, is
the son of the former senator
from New Mexico who in 1959
and 1961 introduced bills in
the Senate "to authorize the
granting of mineral rights to
certain homestead patentees
who were wrongfully de
prived of such rights." Both
bills failed to pass.
"I have never been asso
ciated with him (Lofland) in
htisiflfves in a Ificrnt rananlttf
i , -.. - a -
I or socially." Chavez said. Cha
vez declared he was merely
acquainted with Lofland and
considered him "quite an op
erator." Chapman, who voluntarily
appeared before Lefkowitz,
said he had acted for the
Kansan "only as an attorney
to investigate the legal as
pects of mineral rights he
claimed to have and of pos
sible legislation in that con
nection." But, said the cabi
net official in the Truman ad
ministration, he "terminated
our relationship many months
ago when I was told he had
misused my name" and be
cause he found that Lofland
didn t have what he thought
he had." Chapman said Lof
land paid him $13,500.
Casey said he still is look
ing into the matter "to see If
there is still some value" to
the Kansas entrepreneur's efforts.
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CORNER JACKSONVILLE HI WAY AND LOZIER LANE
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Record Volumes
Of Timber Sold
Portland-The national for
ests in Oregon and Washington
sold and harvested record
volumes of timber in fiscal
year 1963, U. S. forest ser
vice tabulations show.
A total of 3,509,027.380
board feet of timber was sold
and 4.539,801,560 board feet
of timber was cut during the
year, according to J. Herbert
Stone, regional forester. Pac
ific Northwest region.
The harvest comprises
about 40 per cent of the total
timber cut from all lands In
the two states.
Value of the timber sold
was $92,332,699.46 and value
of the timber harvested was
$80,239,759.18, final figurea
show. The previous year,
sales volume was 4,800,000,
000 board feet valued at $80,
667,000 and the harvest vol
ume was 4,157,000,000 board
feet valued at $78,643,000.
About 500.000,000 board
feet of the 1963 volume was
in pine stumps sold to Heyden
.Newport Chemical Corpora
tion for chemical extraction.
The large sale will result In
development of a new indus
try in south-central Oregon.
The Willamette National
forest of Oregon led the re
gion in volume of timber sold
anrl harvested. The Siuslaw
National forest, hardest hit
by the Columbus Day storm,
was next highest. Highest In
Washington was the Cifford
Plnchol National forest.