Los Angeles, Aug. 28 (AP) —

A suit against E. L. Doheny and
the directors of the Pan-American
Petroleum Transport company by
etockholders of the latter corpor-
ation who allege that the share-
holders were the real losers in
the Elk Hills naval oil reserve
leasing scandal, was on file here
today.

The complaint, filed yesterday
in behalf of Frank H. Kunkel of
Cincinnati, and other sharehold-
ers, declares that the stockhold-
ers lost $10,000,000 as the result
of the cancellation of the fraud-
ulent lease. It asks that Doheny
and the board of directors be com-
pelled to render an accounting.

The $100,000 which was de-
livered to Albert B_ Fall, former
secretary of the interior, by E. L.
Doheny. jr., in the much discus-
sed “little black satchel,’’ was de-
clared in the suit to have been
the rightful property of the stock-
holders. An -aceounting of this
exchange, which the complaint
branded as a bribe, was demand-
ed,

The lease, which was negotiat-
ed in behalf of the government by
Fall, was cancelled by a decision
of the United States supreme
court after the Pan-American had
spent several million dollars to-
ward developing the Elk Hills,
Calif., oil reserve and on the
building of oil storage tanks at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Kunkel’s complaint sets forth
that neither he nor any of the
plaintiff stockholders had = any
hand in the leasing negotiations.
Some time ago, aceording to the
suit, demand was made upon the
board of directors of the company
for the accounting but nothing
was done about it.

The suit demands that Doheny
personally be compelled to reim-
burse the stockholders for the al-
leged losses.
 
Jerney City, N J March 6
Climbing through cold blue skies
more than five and one half miles
over Jersey and Manhattan, Miss
Ruth Nichols. New York society
aviatrix who holds comat to coast
speed marks. vet an unofficial altt-
tude recerd for women today

The altimeter on her speedy
monoplane #howed nearly 30.04
feet The sealed barograph placed
in the plane by the National!
Aeronautic amoctation was im
mediately shipped to Waghington
for examination Tf {t shows 28 (174
feet or more, Miss Nichola will be
awarded the record now heki by
Elinor Smith, young Long Island
flier

Miae Nichola waa informed that
to attain recognition aw the record
holder she must beat Mier Smiths
mark of 27418 feet by more than
ON) fowt

She took off from Jersey City air-
port at 12.33 po m and waa aloft
*) minutes There was a 3) mile
wind blowing when whe circied the
city, #wung over Manhattan and
wtarted the long climb

“Everything went fine,’ she maid

The engine worked perfectly. I
did net suffer any discomfort”

She wore a flying #ult lined with
reindeer wkin and the cockpit of
her plane was heate! from the
motor exhaust She used oxygen ap-
paratus and had no diffleulty in
breathing even in the thin. cold air
at high altitudes. The temperature
at the top of her climb was est!-
mated at ™ degrees below zero
by Clarence Chamberlain, who
coached Mise Nichola for the at-

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