JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6.—
Climbing thraugh cold biue skies
More than five and one-half miles
over Jersey and Manhattan today,
Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y.
‘Qiter, who holds ccast to coast
speed marks, set an unofficlal alti-
tude record for women.

The altimeter on her speedy
Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
nearly 30,054 feet. The sealed baro-
graph placed in the plane by the
National Aeronautic association im-
mediately was shipped to Washing~-
ton for examination. Hf it shows
| 28,074 fect. or more, Miss Nichols
; will be awarded the record now
held by Elinor Smith, young Long

Tstand Mier,

Miss Nichols was informed that
te attain recognition as the record
holder, she must beat Miss Smith's

mark by more than 600 feet.

She took off from Jersey City alr-
‘port at 12:33 p. m., and was aloft

80 minutes. There was a 30-mile
‘wind blowing when she circled the
elty, swung over Manhattan anc
Started the long climb.

“Everything went fine," she sald
“The engine worked perfectly.
‘did not suffer any discomfort.”
 
Tos Angelos, Ang. 38 (€) -— A suit
against KE. T, Doheny and the directors
of the Pan-American Petrolewn
Transport Cb, by stockholders af the
Intter corporation who allege that the
sharcholders ‘were the real Tosors in
thé" Rik Hills naval of? reerve lensing
seandn), was on filo herve foday,

The complaint, flled yesterday in
behalf of Frank Eh Kunkel of Cincin-
nati and other shareholders, declares
that the stockholders lost $10,006,006
as the result of the cancollation of the
fraudulent lease, It asks that Doheny
and the board of directors be com-
pelled ta render an necounting.

The $100,000 which waa delivered
ta Albort B. Fall, former secretary of
the interior, by E. &. Doheny, Jr., In
the much discussed little black
natchol,” was declaréd in the sult to
have been the righttul property of the
slockholders und used as a bribe. An
accounting of this exchange, which
the complaint brands as a bribe, fe
demanded,

DISCLAIM RESPONSIBILITY *

The Jense, which was negotiated Ir
behalf of the government by Fall, was
eanceled by 0 decision of the United
States supreme court after the Pan-

 
 The Jense, which was negotiated In
peohnlf of the government by Fall, was
ennceled by n decision of the United
States supreme court after the Pan-
Amorican had spent several million
dollars toward developing the Elk
‘Jlls, Cullt,, olf reserve and on the
 