JERSEY CITY, N. J., Mareh %.
(P.—Climbing through cold blue
skies more than five and one-half
miles over Jersey and Manhattan
‘today, Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N-
Y.. flier, whe holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofficial al-
titude recard for women.

The altimeter on her speedy
_Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
nearly 30,054 feet. The sealed
-barograph’ placéd’ inthe plane by
the National Aeronautic associa-
tion immediately was shipped tc
Washingion for examination.
If it shows 28,074 feet, or more,
Miss Nichols will be awarded the
‘record now held by Elino> Smith,
young Long Island flier.

Miss Nichols was informed that
te attain recognition as the rec-
ord holder, she must beat Miss
Smith’s wark by more than 600
feet.

She took off from Jersey City
airport at 12°35 p. M.. and was
aloft 90 minutes. There was &
30-mile wind blowing when she cir-
cled the city, swung cver Manhat-
tan and started the long climb.

“Everything went fine,” she
said. “the engine worked perfect-
ity. I did not suffer any discom-

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| fort.
| The plane was equipped with 2
'650-horsepower, Supe r-charged,
rine-cylinder air-cooled motor. It
is the same ship in which she set
| east to west and west te east
aes ae ee ee
 
' Los Angeles, Calif.—)—Edward L.
‘Doheny and directors of the Pan-
American Petroteunt and Transport
Scompany, Monday faced a bill of com-

' ptaint demanding an accounting of

| $39,000,000 stockholders alegre they

fast in the fraudulent tease of the Eik
. Hills Naval Oil reserve.
The complaint, filed im behail of

Frank H. Kunkel, Cincinnss:, ant
other sbharehniders, declared the toss
!resulted from the caaceliation of the

lease by a decision of the Umited
States Supreme court after the com
; pany had spent several miliion dollans
In the development of the field. The
‘lease was negotiated far the govecn-
‘ment by Albert FL Fall. theo secretary
fof the interior.

The $196,500 delivernd to Fall by E.

L. Doheny Jr. in the much diss
ttle black satchel” was deciar
the suit to have been given by the
holders and used as a bribe. An
-accomntngs of the exchange also cs
asked,
Kunkel sets forsh in the complaint
that nether he nor any of the piain-
dM stockholders had any knawiedse
of the negotiations and desermbes Do-
heny’a conduct of the deat as a “fraud
not oniy against the United States but
aiso against the Pan-American com.
pany and its stockholders” Doheny is
charged with dominating the affairs
of the company when the lease was
mignesd],

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 
 