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.
 
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
President Richard Nixon and
Soviet leader Leonid 1. Brezh-
ney pledged today to avoid mili-
lary confrontations and (ireals
of farce thal might lead to nu-
clear war belween their two
nations,

in a policy dectaration, the
leaders of (he two nuclear
superpowers agreed lo “im-
udiately cnter inta urgent

 
 vonsullations with each other”
should the risk af a nuclear
vonflict arise.

Nixon and Brezhnev signed
the agreement —lhe eighth
since the start of their summil
talks —in a ceremony in the
East Ream of the White House
a few hours before their
scheduled departure aboard the
presidential jetliner for San
Clemente, Calif., far the conclu-
sion of their week-long con-
ference.

In the agreement, the two
Jeaders promised that the
United Slates and the Soviet
Union ‘will act in such a
manner as to prevent (he
development of situalious capa-
ble of causing a dangerous
exacerbation af their relations,
as fo avoid military confronta-
lions, and to exclude the
outbreak af nuclear war he-
tween them and belween either
bf the parties and other
countries."

The accord also calls for the
signalories to proceed from the
premise thal each will refrain
“from the threal ar use of force
against the other parly, against
the allies of the other party,
and against other countries, in
circumsiances which may en-
danger international peace and
security.”

In advance of the signing,
Nixon briefed congressional
Ieaders af both parties an the
declaration, which is a state.
ment of policy —nat a treaty —
and therefore dees not require
Senate ralifieatian.

Presidential adviser Henry A.
Kissinger said the intent af the
doctrine was “ta prevent the
outbreak of nuclear war.”

The decision af the twr
leaders ta hold a third summil
conference in as many year:
was announced at a Savish
banquet at the Soviel Embassy
In a jovial atmosphere, Nixor
and Brezhnev dined and Loastet
each other after signing pact:
earlier in the day

 

 

 

 

  

  

 
 