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, 1948-11-26
NOTICE OF SALE


+. Sealed bids, in triplcate, will be received at the Depart
fnent of Finance, Christianstd, v. /, until 1000 o'clock A. M.
December z, 1913, and then publicly opened, for the purchase
and removal Of the following property of the St. Croix Power
Authority, viz:
Located at the Frederiksted Power Plant
1 Studebaker III Ton Flat Truck, Serial No. MI54O3,
Engine No. 2M-403.
The property may be inspected at the location shown above.
Invitation, Bid and Acceptance forms may be procured
from the Finance Department, either at Christiansted or
Frederiksted.
Department OF Finance, Christiansted, ST. Croix, November
II, 1948.
L. E. CONRAD
Asst. Commissioner of Finance, ST. Croix
, 1948-11-26
C N

It is hereby brought to public notice that the Trademark
shown below which was registered in the United States Pa
tent Office, Washington, DC, January II, 1888, in the name of
FARBERGE INC, of New York, N. Y, corporation organic
Trademark certificate No. 3535522 issued therefor, has this
date been registered in the Office of the Government
Secretary of the Virgin Islands of the United States at St
Thomas in accordance with the provisions in the regulations
governing the registration Of Patents and Trademarks in the
Virgin Islands, approved April /, 1916.
, 1948-11-26

FOR SALE: Underwood No.
Standard Typewriter on steel
stand : completely recondi-
toned $65,00; Monitor Wash
ing Machine, almost new =
washes four pounds in six to
ten minutes $4,000 : Write
OWEN. P. o. Box AL /.
Christiansted
, 1948-11-26

Partly cloudy with scattered
showers today, tonight and Sat-
urday. For the coastal waters of
the Virgin Islands & Puerto Rico:
Cloudy today, tonight and Satur-
day. Moderate easterly to east
south easterly winds.
Maximum temperature 81
Minimum temperature 49,. rs
Precipitation
Last "a hours ending at midnight:
Total this month 49,. 2.41
Total since Jan. / 49,. 1919
Total Nov. 1947 ....... 3.57
Relative Humidity
at IL am. today .......... II
Wind direction and
velocity at ESE .......... 10
, 1948-11-26
PUBLICATION

1t is hereby brought to public notice that the Trademark
shown below which was registered in the United States Pa
tent Office, Washington Q. c, on August30, 1885, in the name
of FARBERG, INC, of New York, N. Y, a corporation organ
lied and existing under the Laws of the State Of New York,
and Trademark certificate No. 359,773, issued therefor, has
this date been registered in tn Office of the Government Sec
rotary Of the Virgin Islands of the United States at St. Thomas
in accordance with the provisions in the regulations govern
ing the registration of Patents and Trademarks in the Virgin
Islands, approved April ], 1916.
, 1948-11-26
UBLICATION

It is hereby brought to public notice that the Trademark
shown below which was registered in the United States Pa
tent Office, Washington DC, on July 6, 1913, il. the name of
SWIFT & COMPANY, of Chicago, Illinois, a corporation of
Illinois, and Trademark certificate No. 439, $50, issued there
for, has this date been registered in the Office of the Govern
nent Secretary of the Virgin Islands of the United States at
st. Thomas, in accordance with the provisions in the regu-
lations governing the registration of Patents and Trademarks
in the Virgin Islands, approved April /, 1916.
, 1948-11-26

Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States
Saint Thomas, VI.
September 80, 1948
NORRIS F. DE CASTRO
Government Secretary
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

the bankers. They bought the
entire bond issue. The result:
eta pays the highest interest in
the whole countrYI
FURTHERMORE, the bankers
make an additional profit, be-
cause they don't have to pay any
tax on income from public bonds.
But the bankers had to be sure
they'd continue to control CTA,
so they wrote the state enabling
act and the city ordinance very
carefully, sneaking many a joker
through with innocent-soundin
phrases.
They arranged that four di-
rectors of CTA should be APP
pointed by Mayor Kennedy, who
has Big Business interests too.
Three others were to be appoint
ed by Gov. Green, the Tribune's
puppet.
The result: a board CONSISTING
of three bankers. one wealthy
insurance broker. Morgan
utility man. a politician-engineer.
and the former president of the
street car lines.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

For many years the Chicago
Surface Lines tstreet cars) and
the Chicago Rapid Transit Co.
subway and TT had been in
bankruptcy. They couldn't make
a financial go of ii.
And for just as many years or
more there had been a clamof
for public ownership to provide
better transportation at lower
fares.
THE BANKERS got an idea.
They'd give the people the form
of public ownership, but actually
use it to maintain control of the
transit system and make record
profits out of it.
So they got their Republican
stooges in the state legislature
and their Democratic yes-men in
the City Council to pass two
measures.
One was a state enabling act,
which permitted the city to set
up an almost completely indie
pendent transit authority.
The other was city ordinance
which actually established the
Chicago Transit Authority.
e
AFTER many fits and starts,
SOS million in bonds were sold
to finance the purchase and oper-
ations of the lines, and on Oct.
1, 1947, CTA-under the tight
control of the bankers and their
political henchmen-took over.
To most people CTA meant
public ownership, thanks to the
propaganda in the daily news
papers. But the bankers knew
better. They knew that it meant
a soft touch for them.
The bankers had been in on it
from the beginning. They openly
decided what sort of bonds eta
should issue, and how much in
terest CTA should pay to them,
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

of SIS million per year. an in
crease in revenues of more than
$IS million per year will be
taken from our citizens.
IS. That the eta is now being
operated not for the benefit of
the public who are its titular
owners. but for the benefit of
the big bondholders who are
squeezing the system for their
own profit"
He claimed that the inflated
price paid for the CTA proper
ties last year and the interest
paid on CTA bonds-highest in
terest in the country-were re-
sponSible for any financial diff
culties which may confront CTA.
The way to keep fares low and
yet maintain a sound financial
basis for CTA is to attack these
high interest rates, he declared.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

TO MAKE sure that the peo-
pie would have no voice in what
CTA did, the bankers made it
almost entirely independent.
II can raise fares without even
a public hearing. II doesn't need
to give the public any reason for
raising fares. The result: two
fare increases in nine months.
another two-cent fare boost ex-
pected momentarilY!
CTA is not forced to answer for
its actions to the City Council,
the state legislature, the Illinois
Commerce Commission, the fed
eral Securities and Exchange
Commission, or any other regu-
latory bodies.
And CTA is here to stay for
so years. After that time, if the
public doesn't like what the
bankers have done with this
phony public ownership" set
up, they can vote it out of ex-
istence. But it doesn't have to
give up the ghost for five years
after such a vote!
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
How fares
have gone up:

Here is how street car fares
have risen in Chicago in the
last Is months:
April 20. ls47: From to 9
cents (under private owner
ship.
Oct. l. ls47: From 9 to 10
cents Con the very day that the
Chicago Transit A u h GRITTY
first took on operation Of the
lines.
May IL. 1913: From 10 to II
cents (under CTA).
June ?. ls4s: From IL to 10
cents proposed increase which
eta is expected to act upon
within the next few days.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

Question: When is public own
ership not public ownership?
Answer: When the state and
city officials turn over public
property to private monopolists.
And that, strange as it seems,
is the reason why Chicago strap
hangers Ire dy paying the
highest street car, elevated, and
subway fares in the entire U. S.
are facing further increase OF
two centsl
Mystifying, isn't it? But it
doesn't bewilder the investment
bankers of Wall Street and La
Sale Street.
WITH bipartisan sleight-of-
hand they're making millions
where once they made nothing.
In fact, they've managed to make
the public take the risk in their
investments, while they make an
assured profit. And they control
for private profit what the people
bought for the common good.
Here's how it was done:
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

adequate wages of the typical
UE member" it was pointed out.
Joseph Kehoe, president of the
streetcar mems union, was ex-
pected by the Board to justify
the fare boost in view of the
wage increase voted by the
Board on the previous day. How
ever, he declared:
Il am not speaking up for
fare increases"
WILLIAM Miller, State PIP Di-
rector, stated that the Progress
sives would support the transit
unions fight for additional wage
increases and for pension fund.
Garfield presented evidence:
81. That the eta had indi-
Gated IFS ability to pay Increased
wages without increasing fares
In calculations worked out
some time ago.
~. That for a wage increase
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Chicago fare
tops nation

Chicago's street car and 'L"
fares are the highest in the
country. Fares in Chicago
early this week-while a new
increase was pending - were
IL cents for street car and Is
cents for subway and 81"
lines.
A survey of 81 other large
U. S. cities shows that all have
lower fares, including such
representative cities as New
York 90 cents), Seattle 90
cents, New Orleans q cents.
A 10-cent fare is in effect in
Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland,
Detroit, Pittsburgh, and San
Francisco.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
You're paying the bankers

"The Chicago Transit Authority pay higher
of interest its bonds similar
part of the country, high official recently
admitted to The Star.
Byth & Co headed the group of investment banking
houses which wrote the the CTAs
issue, which they later handled
eta bonds bear interest ranging 3s4 o.
depending the length of time until eta
Most other municipal bonds issued today pay interest the
rate of less 49, Cys thigh"
on recent bond issue only 2A %.
The difference amounts to millions of dollars.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Who's on the Board?

The Chicago Transit Auhors 7man board of directors
three appointed by Gov Green and four Mayor Kennedy
is heavily weighted the side Big Business.
The board composed of three bankers big insurance
broker two wealthy politicians Zone of them also identified
with Morgan interests the former president of the Chi
Surface Lines from which eta bought the street
properties
Members of the board Philip Harrington, chairman;
McNai chairman; Irwin L. Porter treasurer Viii
liam w. McKenna, secretary; James r. Quinn; Philip w.
Collins, and Guy A. Richardson.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19
Transit Boord
forced to hear
strong protests
BY BILL CARR

Bitter protest Of an aroused
citizenry held up quick ap-
proval of a new streetcar and
81" fare increase here We'd
nesday night.
AS the Star went to press,
the Chicago Transit Board had
adjourned a meeting which was
expected to give easy approval
to the proposal to boost streetcar
fares to Is cents and 81" fares
to Is cents.
However, when the Board ar
rived for its meeting, at 166 w.
Van Buren,, close to $50 citizens,
many representing large organi-
cations, were on hand for an
unprecedented protest.
THE BOARD was compelled
to turn its meeting into an open
hearing. The Progressive Party
took the lead, in presenting a
documented case indicting the
Board for serving the big bond
holders and not the public"
PPI County Director Zalmon
Garfield. called upon Mayor
Kennedy and Governor Green
(who between them appoint the
entire seven-man board to in
vestigate the CTA's finances
and stop the fare increase.
Failing to anticipate the
stormy response to the fare
boost. the Board had earlier re-
leased statement to the press
declaring that the scheduled in
creases would definitely go into
effect on Monday.
HOWEVER, the Board was
forced to adjourn its meeting
until the following morning to
act on the boost.
The citizens overflowed two
large hearing rooms. Many were
trade union representatives
There was also a group of unaf-
filiated housewives. small bust
nessmen. professional people.
Some said that they had come
: after seeing a Progressive Party
Ieaflet urging public protest
against the boost.
THE BOARD heard testimony
from:
Dorothy Hayes, of the United
Office and Professional Work
ers; William H. Rosenberg, 7444
Euclid Pkwy., a small business
man; Leonard Karlin, 6552
Greenwood, an attorney; Alfred
Wagenknecht, 208 N. Wells, rep
resenting the Communist Party,
Aaron Bindman, of the Long
~shoremen and Warehousemea's
Union; Mrs. Esther Wiidberg, 534
Surf, housewife; Betty Ann
Kimmel, 1852 Albion, of the
American Youth for Democracy;
Jerome Tannenbaum, 1929 Tou-
ny, and Mel Krantzler, of the
United Electrical, Radio & Ma
chine Workers.
i
A STATEMENT by the UE
said that the fare hike is "a mat
ter of deep concern" among its
$4,000 members in Chicago.
The increase would take "$15
per year out of the already in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1948-06-19

PPI workers earlier had dis
tributed thousands Of leaflets
throughout the Loop, warning
the public that its pockets are
being picked"
Straphangers were urged to at
tend the open meeting of the
transit board and express their
views on the proposed increase.
On Tuesday, the Communist
Party sponsored a mass distribu-
ton Of leaflets which demanded
lid on transit fares. This could
be done "by cutting interest rates
Con CTA bonds to the LaSalle
Street bankers" the Communists
pointed out.
Gil Green, Communist state
chairman, said that his party
was modelling for a continuing
fight for low-cost public trans
portation.
Evening star., 1948-11-14
Pose Is

picture OF the Week at the National Gallery Of Art
IS :, The Mayor Of Memmineen," by StriaeI booth
1o'ect,on' 1t will be the subject Of brief talk at
the gallery. tomorrow through Saturday. at 80 and
z:3o P".. and next Sunday OF 2:3O ond 6 80 pm
Evening star., 1948-11-14

A yeor-'round tovorite is the
sh'rtwoist dress. This version
with cuffed. broceIet-Ienqth
sleeves is especially good for
toll ond winter when mode in q
lightweight wooIen. Actress
Mortho Hyer models the dress.
Picture Pottern Of the Week
No. BOTS comes in sizes u, "a,
10. l8. 20. 40 and ~. Size
~ requires 4l2 yords Of 3D.
inch material.
The foil and winter issue of
SIYllST. containing O voriety
OF suggestions for the woman
who sews. oIso is ovoiIoble for
25c.
Evening star., 1948-04-15
Policeman KaIIio
To Face Trial Board

Pvt. r. Keith Kallio, a metropoli.
tan policeman for the last six years
and District Amateur Athletic Unior
weight-lifting champion, will face
police trial board tomorrow te
answer charges of efeigning illness
and disability" and making a false
statement to his commanding officer
The 29-year-old policeman was
suspended April 7 by his command.
ing officer, Capt. Archie Winfree o1
the sixth precinct. The move came
police said, after investigation al
legedly revealed Pvt. Kallic was
playing golf April 2 when he hao
been ordered to remain at his home
by a department physician.
According to department spokes-
man. Pvt. Kallio, who lives at 49l5
Forty first street NV, had taken
several sick leaves lately, complain
ing of sore back. The spokesman
said "rumors" that Pvt. Kallio was
playing golf during his absences
because Of sickness led to the in
vestigation.
The 220-pound policeman, who
served In the Navy during World
War II, will appear before a board
composed of a police inspector, a
police captain and a representative
of the corporation ccunsels sof1ce.
Evening star., 1948-04-15
Senate Vote on Veto
F0f Vendors Bill Near

The Senate is expected to vote
next week on overriding President
Truman's veto Of q bill to exclude
certain newspaper and magazine
vendors from the social security
program.
The House yesterday overrode the
veto BY an overwhelming 307-to-28
vote-S3 more than the necessary
two-thirds majority. A two-thirds
vote In the Senate to override would
make the bill law despite the veto.
The House brushed aside the
Presidents arguments that the bill
would open the social security struc.
ture ito piecemeal attack and to
slow undermining"
More than 100 Democrats de-
serted the President on the issue.
Voting to override were 101 Dem.
ocrats and 206 Republicans; sup.
porting the veto were only "a Dem.
ocrats, acknowledgements
tives Hull Of Wisconsin and Javits
Of New York-and the American.
Labor members from New York.
Representative Gearhart, Repub.
lican, Of California. author of the
vendors exclusion bill. said no def
mite figures are available, but hs
estimated the legislation afYects
fewer than 1000 street corner news
vendors In the whole country.
These vendors have not been GOV.
cred by old-age insurance and un.
employment benefits, but the legis.
lation was offered after q Califor.
mia Judge held that they were legally
entitled to coyerage,
Evening star., 1948-04-15
Congress in Brief
BY the Associofed Press

Senate:
Continues debate on Taft-El-
lender-Wagner long-range housing
bill.
Interior Subcommittee hears Sec
retary Of the Interior Krug and
others on statehood for Hawaii.
Republican Policy Committee
meets behind closed doors to dis
cuss displaced persons bill and other
legislation.
House:
Votes on new funds to expand
air defenses.
Armed Services Committee hears
atomic scientist, DR.. Vannevar Bush
on draft.
Expenditures Subc o m m t t c
probes Central Intelligence Agency
on Colombian revolt. s'
q, ,Un-Ameriean Activities Commit
tee considers bills to curb Conmu-
nists.
Evening star., 1948-04-15
Boqota
Continued From First Page.)

the President resigned The fu-
neral was postponed.
Mr.. Gaitan's fatal shooting last
Friday touched off a Colombian re-
bellion that ravaged this capital
and interrupted the Pan-Americar
Conference here.
That meeting-the Ninth Inter-
national Conference of American
States - resumed yesterday ano
swiftly split over a name for q
pan-American regional organiza-
ton, with the United States on the
Losing side. It chose Organization
Of American States"
In the Bogota .rioting, officials
have estimated that 300 were killed
and 1000 hurt. but many persons
believe other dead lie in the ruins
OF looted and burned buildings.
Over the Government radio last
night, Finance Minister Jose Maria
Bernal announced that the United
States Export Import Bank has
offered and Colombia will accept a
s10,0O0,G00 reconstruction loan. A
plane arrived yesterday with $4,000
worth of American Red Cross
medical supplies.
Mrs. Gaitan made her statement
to correspondents, United States
Army officers and Uruguayan
diplomats. She told the Uruguayans
"the people do not want" her hus-
band buried while Mr.. Ospina
Perez holds Office.
Each of Party Truce Feared.
The President has set up a
Liberal Conservative cabinet and
claims to have put down what he
and others call "a Communist in
surrection." But many fear a
public funeral for Mr.. Gaitan may
undo the party truce.
The government tentatively identi-
fed Mr.. Gaitans slayer as 26-year-
old juan Roa Sierra, son of a
butcher, but there was no lnforma-
ton as to his party aff1liation or
motive for the killing.
Bogota still is uneasy. Shippers
exchanged fire with soldiers and
sailors on patrol in tanks, trucks
and automobiles.
The name for the Pan American
organization was picked by the con-
ference Steering Committee. made
up of the 81 chief delegates, The
Reorganization Of American States"
was approved, II to 10.
The United States and nine 9TH
ers had held out for Organization
of American Nations" Argentina,
in the ma ajority, had fought to keep
out the word union" which she
said sounded too much like a
super state
Economic Talks Put Of.
The Steering Committee, working
on pact for the organization, ap-
proved provisions tagging it a reg
ional organism within the United
Nations and giving its aims as
peace. solidarity. collaboration and
defense.
The committee omitted economic
cooperation from a program of
work for the conference. Delegates
said they were giving up efforts to
work out a treaty on this.
The Colombian capital, where the
conference convened March 80, was
pillaged in last Fridays rioting
Yesterdays meeting was three miles
away, in q classroom of suburban
preparatory school called the Gim-
nasio Moderno.
Evening star., 1948-04-15
Lowmoker Back From Bogoto.
Fears Communist Revolt Here
Jackson Says Curbs
On Reds Must Be
Enforced at Once

Representative Jackson, Republi
can, of California, warned today tha
the bloody revolt at Bogota, Colon
bia, will be repeated in an Ameri'
can city" unless this Nation take!
immediate steps to halt Communis'
activity in this country.
Congressional observer at the Par
American Conference at Bogota, Mr.
Jackson arrived at National Air
port just before noon to make g
hurried report to the House this
afternoon on the revolt and prog
ress of the conference.
The 38-year- legislator, Maj
or with the End Marine Division dur
ing the war, told reporters there is
no question" that Communists
organized and controlled the revolt
which broke out in the Colombian
capital last Friday.
He urged that the Communist
Party be outlawed in this country
as "the first step" toward preventing
a similar occurrence here.
Immediate Steps Urged.
"Unless the people of this coun-
try want to see a repetition OF
Bogota in Washington, New York
or Chicago" he declared, they had
better take immediate steps to rout
out and destroy the ability OF
Communists in this country to Or
ganize for destruction and chaos"
Mr.. Jackson said he always has
opposed moves to outlaw the Com-
rfiunistsu here. 'tBut I have come
back here with the conviction that
that is the first practical step to
take" he said.
Mr.. Jackson said he had no way
of knowing whether Communists
initiated the assassination Friday
Of Liberal Leader Jorge Gaitan.
But at least, they took immedi-
ate advantage Of the opportunity to
step into command Of the situation"
he declared. II don't know whether
this was planned in advance, but
there is no doubt that Communists
are we'll organized in Colombia.
House Majority Leader Halleck
said Mr.. Jackson will deliver his oral
report to the House after the close
of business this afternoon. The
legislator plans to return to the Co.
lombian capital by plane tomorrow.
Nh. Jackson told reporters Bogota
was perfectly tranquil before the
sudden outbreak of the revolution.
He said he was at the Capitolio
Friday afternoon when the mob
stormed that building.
Describes Attack on Building.
eve were having lunch when the
first attack came" he declared.
when we saw the mob massing for
another attack, we went out the
back door and made our way to the