Evening star., 1952-10-19
| |Donohue Continues
His Attack Concerning
Nixon S Two Funds

Us
Senator Nixon's finances drew
further fire from District Commits
sioner F.. Joseph Donohue last
night but the Republican vice
presidential nominee ignored him
in an attack on President Truman
The Senator's press secretary
James Bassett, earlier yesterday
called Mr.. Donohue "a little heck
ler from way back" He told re-
porters on the Nixon train in
upper New York State that Mr.
Donohue made an untrue and
inconsequential" statement in i'm
plying that Mr.. Nixon used a po-
litical fund in addition to the
$4,000 fund already publicized.
Mr.. Donohue, in his weekly "Re-
port to the People" broadcast over
Station WWDC last night, said
he made his charges concerning
two Nixon funds ION proof Dana
Smith drew checks to pay Nixon's
financial obligations on two Sepa.
rate accounts"
Curious About Property Here.
He contended that Senator
Nixon's public accounting of the
$4,000 fund failed to answer how
much he actually obtained, from
what sources it came and to what
use it was put. He declared alse
that Senator Nixon should have
filed photostatic copies of his in.
come tax returns, as Gov. Ada
E. Stevenson did.
The Commissioner disclosed
that he was curious about the
Senator's property holdings in the
District. He learned, he said, thai
Mr.. Nixon. who bought a $41,OO
home here and presumably pur.
chased furnishings, was lone OF
many" who failed to file a personal
property tax statement by the July
deadline.
He explained that Senator Nixon
may not be required to pay such
a tax if he formally signifies in
tention to pay it in California and
asks for an exemption. A letter
was sent to Senator Nixon about
a week ago by District officials
calling attention to his failure to
file but no answer has yet been re-
ceived, Mr.. Donohue added.
Should Be Smoked Out.
"The matter may be closed as
far as he is concerned" Mr.. Dono-
hue said, "but the American people
won't be satisfied until he gives a
detailed accounting with proof. u
AS to the second Nixon fund
he has questioned, Mr.. Donohue
said he did not mean to imply
that it was obtained illegally OF
used improperly. But it ought to
be smoked out" as was the first
one, he said.
Senator Nixon had nothing tt
say about the Donohue comments
But in Utica IN. " speech last
night he asserted that Harry
Truman's latest smear attack or
Dwight Eisenhower gives striking
evidence that the President i.
suffering from a guilt complex.
Emphasizing again that, in his
opinion, Communism is the great
issue of the 1852 campaign, Mr.
Nixon declared:
"The buried record will show
that Mr.. Truman and his asso.
ciates, either through stupidity
or political expediency, were pri.
marily responsible for the unim.
peded growth of the Communist
conspiracy within the United
States" z
| Evidence Of Guilt Compiler.
In that speech and in earlier
ones yesterday in Geneva, Auburn
and Watertown, N. Y. he assailee
the Truman Administrations for.
eign policy. He contended it wa!
responsible for losing allies anc
bringing on imitation. He ridiculee
the PRESIDENTS claim that tn,
Administration had done an eff
cient job in roofing out Commu.
nists at home and in hating thu
Communist spread abroad.
''Mr. Truman's frantic attack
on Dwight Eisenhower" he said
give striking evidence that tn
President is suffering from a gull
complex"
| Mr.. Bassett was asked by re.
porters to arrange a news confer.
ence with Mr.. Nixon, primarily or
tthe Donohue statement.
"Of course there were twt
funds" Mr.. Donohue said. 'Dans
Smith trustee Of the $4,000 fund
knows and I know and severa
other people know that Smith
drew checks for the benefit o.
Nixon on at least two funds. On.
was the trust fund which I hav'
reason to believe was the one au'
dited. But he drew another ac'
count. termed the special account
for the benefit of Senator Nixon
Mr. Bassett replied: "Of course
there were two funds. The frs
$11 900 was a campaign fund ad'
ministered through the Repub.
1ican Finance Committee of Cali.
fornia. 1t was not part of the
$4,000 fund on which Nixon re.
ported fully to the people. The