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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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.
 