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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-05-26

modern 12-lane establishment
is located off Route 81 and
Sharon Road. Owned and
operated by Lawrence Lon
cher, Sr., widely known men,
Der of Lodge 738, these maple
ways are the finest in the
eastern part of America.
Teams representing Lodges
domiciled in New Brighton,
Rochester, way, AM
bridge, Aliquippa and other
Beaver County centers will
start the tourney off Satur-
day afternoon, May 20, with
bowling scheduled to continue
throughout most of the even
ing.
Dancing in the recently
opened Sharon Inn Rose
Room will be the social high
light of the Saturday sched-
ule of events. Bud Taylor's
Darktown Strutters will pro-
vide the music for this gath
ering and all members and
friends of the Croatian Fra
ternal Union are invited to
attend and enjoy themselves.
st-Entries Desired
The tourney will resume at
noon on Sunday, May 80, with
squads from Canton, Ohio,
Etna, Farrell, Pittsburgh and
other distant centers slated
to see action.
Entertainment Sunday eve
ming, May 30, will include the
showing of the widely ac-
claimed und, technicolor
film "This Is Your Croatian
Fraternal Union!" Narrating
the film is Stephen F. Br-
kich, President of Beaver
ties" Lodge 738 and Editor
of the English Section of the
Zajednicar.
Monday, May 81, Memorial
Day, has been set aside for
all other team and individual
entries unable to roll earlier.
Many keglers are expected to
turn out that day and take
advantage of the Lodge 738
offer to accept entries at the
alleys from one and all who
care to participate in the
championships.
The decision to accept So
called "post-entries" wa
made over the past weekend
when it was determined that
many bowlers were experience
ing difficulty in making up
their minds whether or not tc
enter the tourney. This is not
unusual for a bowling event
making it's debut in the tour.
ney whirl.
AS a matter of fact, the
host Lodge tourney commit
tee foresaw as much weeks
ago, but held off announcing
the acceptance of "post-en'
tries" until this moment.
Tourney Chairman Michae
Spretnak and Secretary Mat
thew F. Loncher are prepared
to accept entries at the alley:
any one of the three days
Saturday, Sunday or Monday
May 29-3O-31. Simply show
up at the lanes and either viii
accommodate you.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-05-26

. Every invasion of free
dom Of thought and of speech
in our Country is a threat to
the peace. Every extension of
tyranny over the mind of
man, anywhere in the world,
is a danger to peace.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-05-26

Q
PM sharp.
Easily the most important
such gathering in the country,
this\Kolo Festival has attrac-
ted the attention of our peo-
pie from as far west as Cali
fornia and east to New York.
We have been notified that
guests are expected from
such distant points as San
Francisco, New York City,
Detroit, st. Louis and many
others.
Naturally it goes without
saying that the Kolo Aces,
your hosts for this years
event, will have warm hand
of welcome to all who cross
our threshold. Our scheduled
program is packed with inter-
esting highlights, one which
you will long remember and
cherish if you accept the in
vitation to be our guest.
Our lineup of artists for the
Festival shows the following
k olo groups participating.
Slavulj of Cleveland, the Am
bridge Kolo Club, Ambridge,
Pa, Bentleyville Kolo Group,
Bentleyville, Pa, the East
Pittsburgh ensemble, E a t
! , Pittsburgh, Pa, Slavulj of
Detroit, Mich, the North Side
Kolo Group, Pittsburgh, Pa,
and the Kolo Aces, Cleveland,
your hosts.
These stars will be assisted
in their performances by the
Sloboda Tamburitza Orches-
ira of East Pittsburgh, Pa.
Miss Roma Michaylo, of Am
bridge, Pa, will render a few
favorite accordion selections,
and Maria Tominac Procer,
Vice President of the Kolo
Aces, will lead our guests in
the National Anthem.
Ascending our speakers
rostrum at this auspicious
gathering will be bro. Albert
w. Lucich, President of the
Kolo Aces, who will give the
welcoming address, and bro,
John Badovinac, President OF
Pioneers" CFU Lodge 663
Acting in the capacity of mis-
tress of Ceremonies will be
none other than Charlene
Vukela, President of the Kolc
Federation.
Our dancers range in age
from five to thirty years but
regardless of age, each per-
forms with individual zest
and an inborn feeling anc
love for the music of his
ancestors.
Immediately following the
conclusion of the program,
delicious supper will be served
our guests for the nomina
fee of $1.30 per plate. Our ex'
pert cooks have practically
guaranteed a feast fit fol-
kings, with plenty of that
tempting strudel and other
favorite pastries on hand. OF
course, there will be suffi'
cient supply of cooling re-
freshments to be had also.
! For your pleasure in the
evening we have the Sloboda
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-05-26
Ohio And Pennsylvania ko|o Combines
Promise Memorable Festival On May 50
Slovenian Auditorium Should Be damned
For Greatest Event Of Type In America

Cleveland, Ohio One of the most colorfu cultural
and entertaining exavagnzas of the year will to
Memorial Day. Sunday May 80 when the Koo Fedora
on of America undertakes to stage it's End Annual Koo
Festival the Slovenian Auditorium GAIT St. Clair Avenue
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1954-05-26
Host Lodqe 738 Tournament Committee
Agrees To Accept Last.Minute Entries
Dancing Saturday And Monday Will Help
Make First Annual Classic Pleasant One

West Bridgewater Pa - Everything is in readiness for
the running here Saturday. Sunday and Monday May 1880
81 of the LIST Annual "Beavees Lodge 738 Memorial Day
Weekend Mixed Duckpin Tournament
Scene of the holiday championships will be the Loncher
Bowling Lanes 144 Market Street. West Brdgewaer This
Evening star., 1954-05-02
Transit Salaries
And Fees Too Bio,
Probe Report Says

The Payne subcommittee took
filings at excessive" increases in
directors fees and top manage
ment salaries adopted under the
Wolfson control Of the Capital
Transit Co.
It said that Louis e. Wolfson's S
major interests we're elsewhere
and declared he had give no in
dication he, devotes sufficient
time to the c. T. c. to earn his
SAC. 900 salary.
In March Of last year the
C.T.C. boosted its directors fees
from $40 to $100 a meeting and
voted extra amounts to two from
Florida, 5000; one from New
York, $50: and one from New
Jersey, SIS. to cover their ex-
penses.
1t is apparent these are exor-
bitant, the subcommittee said,
since the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. pays its directors
$40 per meeting: and the Poto-
tmac Electric Power Co., $50.
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Firms Pension Stand
May Make Strike
Inevitable, Unit Says

The Capital Transit Com
pany's refusal to submit to ar
bitration a dispute with its
union employees over the COM
pany's pension plan, may make
a strike inevitable" the Payne
subcommittee warned in a sec
ton of its huge investigation
report.
1t said it found the language
of the company-union agree
mentor arbitration when the
two sides failed in voluntary
agreement to be explicitly
clear"
The Payne Subcommittee also
denounced in strong terms the
failure of the company to hire
Negroes as platform operators.
This discriminatory hiring
policy, the subcommittee noted
bars the company from using the
free facilities of the United
States Employment Service and
makes it necessary for the COM
pany to conduct extensive oper-
ator recruiting programs here
and in States including North
Carolina and Pennsylvania.
The company. the Payne group
said, is allowing it's hiring poll
cies to be dictated by threat
of a possible wildcat strike" but
that it has taken no action in
the past 10 years to determine
whether this threat is real or
imaginary.
1t is obviously inconsistent"
the subcommittee concluded. for
the company to refuse to change
it's hiring policy because of a
questionable threat of a wildcat
strike" when its refusal to SUBJ
NIT the pension dispute to ar
bitration is in the face of "the
serious threat of a full-scale
strike"
The report added: "The Capt.
tai Transit Co. follows that
course of action which best suits
the interests of it's controlling
group, irrespective of the public
interest"
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st. Johns River Shipbuilding Co.
and in suits by the Maritime
Commission, Navy Department
and War Assets Administration.
"These matters" the report
said, Should have raised such
questions about the suitability OF
the WolfSon group as purchasers
of controlling interest in the
Capital Transit Co. as at least to
have made it incumbent on the
ICC to have investigated such
suitability further.
"As 1t was, Division accepted
at face value the. carefully quail
fed statements made by Wolf
son and his associates in papers
filed with the ICC."
And. the report continued,
with all due respect for the
distinguished members of the
ICC who composed Division 4 at
the time this decision was made
on September 2. 1949, the spe-
cial subcommittee believe that
in this instance they treated, in
simply routine manner, the
purchase of a common carrier by
a group about whom serious
questions had been raised, and
not answered, as to their suita-
bility to enter the public trans
portation field"
Management Was Local.
Discussing ownership of c. T. C..
by the North American Company.
the report said, "the actual di-
rection and management of the
company were largely local"
The report added that "the
low dividend paid by the COM
pany, however, tended to depress
the market value of its stock to
an abnormally low level" al
though the company was enabled
to build up cash reserves and
buy new equipment.
From an investor point Of
view" the report said. "a tram
sit company could hardly be con-
sidered an attractive long-range
investment. Capital Transit.
however. had certain speculative
potentiality because Of its large
cash reserves"
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limits of the law, in spite OF
anything - including Congress
and the Public Utilities Commis-
sion.
Another was a letter from j.
A. B. Broadwater, company
president, January 2, telling the
subcommittee: the day IS
fast approaching when private
ownership will have to give seri-
Gus consideration as to whether
it wants to continue operations
or whether it will be more pru-
dent to surrender its franchise
and liquidate its investment"
Public Ownership Rejected.
The subcommittee rejected
public ownership of the District
transit companies serving Wash
ington as neither necessary nor
desirable" at this time.
1t, therefore, quickly discarded
the suggestion made by Louis E.
Wolfson for possible creation of
an operating regional transit
authority to take over city and
suburban transit firms.
Mr.. Wolfson, it is recalled.
submitted his plan for consid-
Grafton but specified that he was
advocating it's adoption. It was
based on the assumption that it
might be possible to return to a
15-cent cash fare, with inter-
company transfers. 1t entailed
suggestions for the issuance by
the proposed regional authority
of $50 million worth of 30-year,
5 per cent, tax exempt revenue
bonds. These would be exchanged
for present transit stock at the
current book value.
Authority Proposal.
The Senate provided a fund of
$4,000 for the transit inquiry
last July and work was begun
the next Monday. The subcom-
mittee engaged the nationally
known accounting and manage
ment firm of Ernst & Ernst to
do the technical inquiries. Also
employed was Albert E. Conradis,
| Montgomery County and WASH
ington lawyer, as special counsel.
Active also were Robert c.
Albrook, clerk. and William P.
Gulledge. assistant counsel of
the Senate District Committee,
as we'll as other staff assistants.
Evening star., 1954-05-02

posts, any of these officials from
representing before their former
agencies any case. claim or 9TH
er major issue by the regulated
business.
A bill amended to this effect
already has been reported favor
ably by the Commerce 'Subcom-
mittee of the Senate District
Committee.
There was sharp contrast
however, in the subcommittee
general comments about the
present membership of the utili-
ties commission and that OF
earlier years.
Commission Praised.
The subcommittee specifically
commended the excellent job
they said was being done by
present commission membership
- Chairman Robert E. Nc
Laughlin. appointed May 10
1858: Robert M. Weston, serv-
ing since last August 6; and
Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss
the engineer commissioner, serv-
ing since January 2, 1858.
The subcommittee said: "Their
efforts to safeguard the public
interest and to increase the use
of mass transit in the District
are to be commended"
It added: 1.-THE current regu-
latory attitude is in marked con-
trast with that of the commission
prior to 1858. The previous
commissioners construed their
duties primarily as those of a
judicial body to pass upon COM
panv requests.
"The present commissioners
feel that the need for a mass
transit system in the District
is such that it is incumbent upon
them to do everything in theil
power to assure the continued
successful operation of the COM
panies they regulate, plus giving
full consideration to the public
interest"
In this regard, the subcom.
mittee noted the commission.
investigation over the c. T. c
move to retire $3.9 million o1
its outstanding bonds, now before
the courts in connection with
dividend and loan maneuvers
and the commissions employ
ment of traffic engineer, Leslie
Williams, to recommend mean!
of speeding mass transportation
! services.
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Flanagan Is Called 'Unwise'
For Accepting Company Post
Payne Unit Backs
Integrity Of Former
Commission Head

The resignation last year of
James H. Flanagan as chairman
of the Public Utilities Commits
sion to become a $16.0O0-a-year
vice president of the Capital
Transit Co. was one of the
reasons why the Senate ordered
its investigation of transit
problems.
The report of the Payne SUBJ
committee took this as one basis
for proposing corrective legisla-
tion-but it made only mildly
critical comments on Mr.. Flana-
gan'S shift from public to private
employment in it's summation.
Expected to Lose Post.
Mr.. Flanagan after about two
years service on the P. U. c.
accepted the c. T. c. offer for
two stated reasons. First was
that he had not expected to re-
ceive reappointment to his
$11,800 District post after the
change in the administration
January 20, 1858.
Secondly, he said he thought
the time had come when he
should consider his own future
and the financial security of his
family
The record shows he received
an overture November 10, 1852,
from Louis E. Wolfson, chairman
of the Capital Transit's Board of
Directors, and resigned from his
city post at the end of February.
What he did meantime as to
transit issues "as subjected to
close examination by the Payne
subcommittee, the report yester-
day revealed.
During that interim period.
the subcommittee found, the
commission considered only rou-
tine C.T.C. matters such as the
handling of schedule changes
and bus stops.
No Question of Integrity.
It summed it up like this: cal
though Mr.. Flanagan did not
disassociate himself in any way
from discussion of these routine
Capital Transit Co. matters, the
subcommittee believes there is no
question whatsoever about Mr..
Flanagan's personal honesty and
integrity.
"The subcommittee believes,
however, that Mr.. Flanagan
acted unwisely in accepting a po-
sition with the Capital Transit
Co., particularly a position which
brought him in frequent contact
with the Public Utilities Com
mission and its employees"
AS "a guide" for such cases in
the future, the subcommittee rec
commended enactment of a So
called conflict of interest" bill
applicable to members of the
utilities commission and some
other city regulatory officials.
The others would include the
members and employees of the Al
coholic Beverage Control Board,
the superintendent of insurance
and his deputy and the corpora
ton counsel.
This would prevent, within
two years after leaving such city
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Bus Firms Payment
Of High Rent 10 Big
Stockholders Is Hit

Bus compnies should not be
allowed to make unreasonable
rent payments to the persons who
own them. a report by Senate
transit investigators declared
yesterday.
Washington, Virginia and
Maryland Coach Co., Inc, the
report said, was in an ex-
tremely weak position Gas to
capital structure). particularly
IN view of the fact that its net
assets included $356,000 Of in
tangibles.'
"Its deficit increased from
$500 to $4,000 between 1910
and 1852, while during the same
period the company paid in ex-
cess of $500,00O rental on its
terminal property" at TOT N.
Randolph street, Arlington.
Ownership Is Dual.
"The individuals who own the
company's stock also own the
terminal property" the report
added. identifying them as the
estate of Joseph L. Arnold, Mrs.
Antoinette M. Arnold, Manuel
j. Davis, Mrs. Irene c. Arnold
and Bernard Wahle.
"The point here is that the
company's financial condition
suggests that the regulatory
body ought to have the authority
not only to disallow as operating
expenses any such unreasonable
payments, but also to prohibit
the company's making such pay
ments when it is apparent that
its capital (and thus it's ability
to render service) is thereby
being impaired"
A. b. e. w. Position "SOund.
The report declared the Alex
andria, Bancroft and WASH
ington Transit Co. was in a
very sound financial position,
as was Capital Transit. w. M.
and AS position was better than
it appears on the surface, since
a substantials part of it's bor-
rowingS were owed to it's owners,
and could thus be put almost
in the same class with equity"
A. B. and w. was described
as having rented buildings at
Four Mile Run from R. L. May,
chairman of the board and prin-
cipal owner.
The w. M. and A. Transit Co..
owned by Leslie L. Altman, also
rented land and a shop building
from the Altmanns, who ar
ranged for the financing and
construction of a new garage and
office building, transferred to the
company in 1945, the report said.
Evening star., 1954-05-02
Transit Recommendations
Senate Probers' Suggestions Range
From Bus Operation to Bookkeeping

cision to exclude cash working
capital from the rate base. .
If funds are needed in the busi-
ness, then a reasonable return
should be allowed the people
who supply the funds. If they
are not needed in the business,
then there is no reason to re-
strict the payment of dividends. "
3. The Public Utilities Corpora
ton consider, in fixing the rate
of return on investment, the fact
that even if the same overall
rate of return is allowed on the
rate base when the company has
no debt as when it has debt, the
cost to the public is higher when
there is no debt because of in
come taxes"
4. That the Public Utilities
Corporation exclude from the
rate base any items not used
and useful" The report pointed
out that in 1851 the company
had 106 streetcars listed as mac
tive but still being paid for in
fares by the riders. Further
more" the report said, "the
Commission continued to allow
depreciation on these streetcars,
which were carried in the books
at a cost in excess of $4,000
At the rate of 40 per cent used
in accruing depreciation in 1851,
the annual depreciation expense
would be approximately $64. .000."
IS. "The companies should be
discouraged, or if necessary re-
strained, from dissipating their
working capital unless they can
satisfy the regulatory authorities
that through sound debt financ-
ing or otherwise they will be able
to provide the necessary funds
for replacement of equipment at
inflated costs, and to meet the
capital requirements inherent in
undermining and improving serv-
ice."
6. c. T. c. operators and in
spectors report license numbers
or names of automobile or truck
operators who violate parking
regulations and thus slow up
transit vehicles.
Z. C. T. C. combine its sched-
uling and traffic departments
into one to cut down on staff.
8. Annual Identification cards
with pictures be issued to pupils
using the Scent school fares.
9. Transfers identify the "area
of origin" to cut down transfer
abuses.
10. Automatic "treadles on the
center doors of vehicles should
be eliminated as our studies show
that they are the source of de-
lays, annoyances to passengers,
probably increase alighting acci-
dents and are expensive to main
tain."
IL. Consideration be given to
abandoning some or all of the
owl runs.
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Probers Hit ICC Approval
Of Capital Transit Purchase

Members of the Interstate
Commerce. Commission were
sharply criticized yesterday in a
report by Senate transit ipvesti-
gators on the ICC approval of
Louis E. Wolfson's purchase of
controlling interest in Capital
Transit Co. in 1949.
! The report also said perhaps
sheer lethargy" was the reason
mo local group came forward in
the period from September, 1947,
to June, 1949, when North Amer
ican (the company which pre-
viously controlled C. T. c. was
open to offers"
Other reasons for the failure,
the report said the Senate SUBJ
committee had concluded, were
"the conservatism of the local
financial community" and "a be-
lief that the company was not
an attractive long-range invest
ment."
Sales History Reviewed.
Reviewing the history of c. T.
C.'s change of ownership, the
report recalled that the sale had
been arranged by H. Grady Gore,
Washington Maryland real es-
tate man and unsuccessful can
didate for United States Sem
ator from Maryland in 1852.
Mr.. Gore "acted as a broker,
ultimately receiving $32, 1897 40
as a commission from the North
American Co. when the sale was
completed, and was sold 5000
shares of Capital Transit stock in
November 1850, by Louis E.
Wolfson at $40 per share, which
was some $14 per share below
the then current market price.
"Gore thus profited to the ex-
tent of an additional $44, 900.
This sale was pursuant to a
gentleman's agreement that Gore
would be allowed to purchase
10000 shares at $40 a share
either on the open market or
from Wolfson."
Opposed by Examiner.
Of ICC approval of the pur-
chase, the report recalled it had
been opposed by Trial Examiner
Vernon Baker. He was over
ruled on September 2, 1949, by
Division 4 of the ICC, composed
Of Commissioners Charles D.
| Mahaff1e, John L. Rogers and
William j. Patterson.
"The manner in which the
! trial examiners serious reserva-
tions and some of the recon-
mendations of the ICC-Board of
Review were overruled by Divi-
sion 4 indicates that the appli-
cation was considered in a rou-
tine manner.
"On the basis of the record
and information before Division
4, it is difficult for the special
subcommittee to understand how
purchase of the controlling in
terest by the Wolfson group
could be considered consistent
| with the public interest without
further investigation"
Federal Suits Cited.
The report cited Mr.. Wolfson's
involvement in liquidation Of the
Tampa Shipbuilding Co. and the
Evening star., 1954-05-02

Senate transit investigators
made scores of recommendations
in their report yesterday, from
how to run buses to bookkeeping
methods. Among them were sug-
gestions that:
/. The Capital Transit Com
pany use the Interstate Com
merce Commission system Of rev.
enue and expense accounts to
facilitate comparison with other
companies.
2. The D. c. Public Utilities
Commission reconsider its de-
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Evening star., 1954-05-02
Drop in Cotton Crop Seen

MEMPHIS, Tenn, May l (P)
The Cotton Trade Journal to-
day forecast a 1854 cotton crop
of II ,949 900 bales compared with
last years 16,437,000.
Evening star., 1954-05-02
Thievery in High Gear

BALTIMORE. May 1 R.-
Somebody stole Detective 1t.
Edward Dunn's car last night
while he was out looking for
stolen cars.