JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6.—
(*)-—Climbing through cold blue
skies more than five and one-half
miles over Jersey and Manhattan
today, Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y.,
flyer, who holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofficial alti-
tude record for women.

The altimeter on her speedy
Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
nearly 30,050 feet. The sealed
barograph placed in the plane by
the National Aeronautic association

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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.

 
 