WASHINGTON (UPI) — The federal
government says it has spent nearly $2
million improving President Nixon's
homes in Florida and California, all of it
relating to “security.” The expenses
ranged from fire sprinklers to golf carts
for the Secret Service.

The White House also disclosed that
businessman Robert H. Abplanalp, who
helped the President buy his San Clemen-
te, Calif., retreat, has been getting some
money back in the form of rent associated
with Nixon's Key Biscayne, Fla., place.

A month ago the White House had listed
$39,000 in federal funds for improving the
Western White House at San Clemente
since Nixon bought it in 1969.

Last week, after a further search of
record, it raised this figure to $460,302.

On Thursday, General Services
Administration (GSA), the government's
housekeeping agency, said a still more
extensive audit put the total federal ex-
penditure at San Clemente at $703.367 over
four fiscal years beginning July 1, 1969.
This included only the residence there, not
the White House office space.

GSA listed for the first time the federal
expenditure for improvements, equip-
ment, operation and maintenance at the
White House complex at Key Biscayne,
including both residence and office
space-— $1,180,522. -pread over five fiscal
years beginning July ', 1968

Included in the Key Biscayne figure
was $161,463 for renting two heuses in the
complex for the Secret Service and White
House communications staff.

The White House said one of these
houses is owned by Abplanalp and the
other is owned in the name of Edwin H.
Underwood, trustee for the Indiana
National Bank, Indianapolis.

The White House said all of the tax-
payers’ money spent in San Clemente and
Key Biscayne was for security-related
improvements and that all work was done
at the request of the Secret Service, not the
President.
 
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LOS ANGELES, California, Aug.
28—Edward L. Doheny and direc-
tors of the Pan-American Petro-
leum and Transport Company fac-
ed a bill of complaint demand-
{ng an accounting of $10,000,000
stockholders allege they lost in the

fraudulent lease of the Elk Hills
naval oil reserve,

The complaint, filed in behalf of
Frank H. Kunkel, Cincinnati, and
shareholders, declared the loss re-
sulted from the cancellation of the
lease by a decision of the United
States Supreme court after the
company had spend several million
dolars in the development of the
field.

The least was negotiated for the
government by Albert F. Fall, then
Secretary of the interior.

The $100,000 delivered to Fall by
E. L. Doheny, Jr., in the much dis:
cussed “little black satchel” was de
elared in the suit to have been giv:
en by the stockholders and used as
a bribe. An accounting of this ex:
change also is asked.

‘Kunkel sets forth {In the com.
Plaint that neither he nor any of
the plaintiff stockholders had any
knowledge of the negotiations anc
describes Doheny’s conduct of the
deal as'a “fraud not. only against
the United States but also against
the Pan American company and it:
stockholders.” Doheny {s chargec
with dominating the affairs of the
company when the lease was sign
at.
 