BAALALUIE BERLE EER AAW ALE LATROBE O
JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6

(Pj—Climbing through cold blue
skies more than five and one-
half miles over Jersey and Man-
hattan today, Miss Huth Nich-
ols, Rye, N. Y., flier, who holds
coast-to-coast speed marks, set
un unofficial altitude record for
women,

‘The altimeter on her speedy Lock-
heed-Veza monoplane showed near-
ly 30,054 feet. The sealed barograph
placed in the plane by the National
Acronautic Association, was imme-
diately shipped to Washington for
examination, If it shows 28,074 feet
or more, Miss Nichols will be award-
ed the record now held by Elinor
Smith, young Long Island filer.

Miss Nichols was informed that
to attain recognition as the record
holder, she must beat Miss Smith's
mark of 27,418 feet by more than
600 feet.

She took off frorn Jersey City air-
port at 12.33 p, m., and was uloft 90
minutes, . There-was.a 30 mile wind
blowing when she circled the city,
swung over Manhattan and started
the long climb.

“Everything went fine.” she sald,
“The engine worked perfectly. I
did not suffer any discomfort.”

She wore a flying suit lined witt
reindeer skin and the cockpit of her
plane was heated from the motor ex-
haust. She used oxygen apparatus
and had no difficulty In breathing
even in the thin, cold air at high at-
titudes, The temperature at the top
of her climb, was estimated at 50
degrees below zero by Clarence
Chamberlain, who coached Miss
Nichols for the attempt.

The plane was equipped with a
650-horsepower, super-charged nine-
eylinder air cooled motor, It is the
same ship in which she set cast-to-
west and west-to-cast transcontinen-
tal records,
 
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.—(4)—
A bill of complaint, demanding an
accounting of $10,000,000, Was filed
tn the U. S. district court today
against Edward L. Doheny and the
Pan-American Petroleum and
Transport company. The  obill,
which charges that stockholders of
the company jost their sum through
alleged fraud on the part of Doheny
wal the beget Elk dar pe acan-

was y wy a shi ,
aw ‘firm on Sar oven
Kunkel, attorney, of Cincinnati,
who brought the evit tn the tnter-
ests of himself and other stock-
holders.

The bili declares that the
$10,000,000 was lost by the stock-
holders solely because Doheny act-
ed fraudulently in connection with
the leasing from former Secretary
of the Interior Albert B. Fall of the
Elk Hills paval oli reserve, and
through large eums spent in de-
velopment of the fields themselves,
and elsewhere in connection with
the deal. It demands that an ac-
counting be made by Doheny and
that such money as was expended
in the alleged giving of a $100,000
bribe to Fall, and in the develop-
ment of the fraudulently leased
fields, be returned to the stock-
holders.

The complaint declares _ that
neither Kunkel nor the other stock-
holders had any hand in the al-
leged fraud whereby the money
was lost.

   
 
 
 
   
 
 
  
 