| Los Angeles, Aug. 28.—(AP)—2id-
ward L. Doheny and directors of the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans-
port company, today faced a bill of
complaint demanding an accounting of
$10,000,000 stockholders allege they
lost in the fradulent lease of the Elk
(Hills Nava! Oil Reserve.

‘The complaint, filed in behalf of
Prank H. Kunkel, Cineinnati, and oth-
er shareholders, declares the loss re-
‘sulted from the cancellation of the
lease by a decision of the United
|States supreme court after the com.
/pany had spent several million dollar:
‘in the development of the field.

| The lease was negotiated for thi
'government by Albert B. Fall, ther
‘secretary of the interior.

The $100,000 delivered to Tall by FE
'I., Doheny, Jr., in the much discussec
little black satchel,” was declared ii
the suit to have been given by th
stockholders and used as a bribe. Al
accounting of his exchange also i
asked,

Kunkel sets forth in the complain
that neither he nor-any of the plain
tiff stockholders had anv knowledge o
the negotiations and describes Dohe
ry’s conduct of the deal as a “frau
not only against the United State
but also against the Pan- Americat
;company and its stockholders.” Do
iheny is charged with dominating th
| niintyuneiste come y when the leas
was signed.

 

 
 
By Associated Pree

Jersey Clty, N. J. March 6—
Cimhing through cold blue ekier
more than five and one-half miles
over Jersey and Manhattan today,
Miss Ruth ‘Nichols, Rye, N. ¥.
flyer, who holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofflcin al.
titude record for women.

The altimeter on her apredy
Lockheed-Vegu monoplane showei
neatly 80,054 feet. The sealed
barograph placed in the plane by
the Matlonal Acronuutical Associa-
fon Immediately wus shipped to
Washington for examination
Moskews 29.00% fect, qr more, Misr
Nichols will ‘be awarded tbe rec-
ord now heid by Elinor Smith,
young Long Island flyer,

Miss Nichols was informed that
to attaln recogr! th as the record
holder whe must tea! Biss Smili's

 

 

    

 

 
 