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Gwen on Inaugural Committee;
British Change Royalty Status
BY BETTY BEALE

The Morris Cafritzes gave a
posh dinner the other night
that drew Washington lumi-
naries and produced an after
dinner speech on the inaugu-
raj by Inaugural Chairman
Bob Fleming.
The latter, by the way, has
made Gwen one of the vice
chairmen of the Hostess and
Hospitality Committee. which
is headed by Marie Coffin. This
definitely puts Gwen in the
Republican column.
The hostess received her
guests wearing a pink satin
Faith model, topped by her
choker of solitaire diamonds.
Marjorie Post arrived in a
lavender gown ornamented
with petals of violet velvet
which set off her bib" neck
lace Of amethysts and anne
thyst earrings.
Ranking guests were the Nor
wegian Ambassador and Nine.
Morgenstierne, Secretary of the
Air Force and Mrs. Quarles.
and Acting Assistant Secretary
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SPEAKING
Embassy Dinner Fetes
EgYpt's Foreign Minister

earlier in the day, asked for
a moratorium on questions.
The suave, soft-spoken gen.
tleman, frequently referred to
as a diplomats diplomat"
has been Foreign Minister for
four years, and before that was
stationed in many countries
throughout the world.
His own people call him The
japanese Philosopher" because
they claim that. during his
years of duty in Japan, he ac-
quired the japanese manner of
Speaking-even down to some
of the facial mannerisms.
Actually. he did get a degree
from a Japanese University and
speaks fluent Japanese; he also
earned a degree in Italian and
speaks, in addition, French,
English. Greek and his native
Arabic.
He and Nine. Fawzi are no
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By SELMA ROOSEVELT

It's easy to understand how
Egypt's Foreign Minister Fawzi
earned the nickname of The
Sphinx.
At least that's what reporters
have taken to calling him. He's
famous for being able to avoid
answering a difficult question,
or, in a charming way. make
you forget you we're asking one.
Last night he and Nine.
FaWzi were entertained at a
seated buffet dinner given by
the Egyptian Ambassador and
Nine. HuSsein.
There were a number of COL
umniSts and reporters among
the guests who naturally had
questions on their minds. But
the Foreign Minister, who had
just been through quite a grill
ing at the National Press Club
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|LQtin
Americans
Entertain

Latin Americans took the
lead on the service scene last
night with both Brazilians and
Argentinians entertaining for
the military.
More than 400 people came
out for the reception given by
the Military Attache of the
Argentine Embassy and SEN
ora de Taquini in honor Of
visiting officers from their
country.
Gen. Raul Tassi. chief of
the delegates of the Superior
War School and Technical
School Of the Argentine Army
was there as head of the mis- +
sion and an honor guest.
Ninety other honor guests
making up the visiting officer
contingent ranged in rank
from majors on upward.
Tomorrow, Gen. TaSsi will
be host at a party in the Ar
gentine Embassy in honor Of
the United States military
who made possible the trip
here to visit principal military
posts and industrial centerS
in thic country
Among the hundreds Of
guests last night were many
high-ranking officers of the
Pentagon and their wives, as
well as the military attaches
Army, Navy and Air-of all
the embassies.
Brazilian Anniversary
The Boiling Air Force Base
officers Club was the scene
Of the other large service party
celebrating the Goth anniver-
sary of Brazilian Navy Day.
Hosts at the black-tie buf-
fet dinner dance were Naval
Attache of the Brazilian En-
bassy and Nine. Luis Pinto da
Luz; Capt. Victorino S. Maia.
and Comdr. and Nine. Frank
r. A. LEVER.
Guests included all the ma
val attaches from the Diplo-
matte Corps with the eXcep-
ton of the Soviet, and many
officers and their wives from
the nter-American Defense
Board and the joint Brazil
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himself to some flattering
comments and a toast to the
hosts.
Next, she called on Mr..
Fleming, who reviewed inau-
gural plans and said funny
things were constantly hap
pening but that they couldn't
get into his hair because he
didn't have any.
Il only hope the day after
inaugural, Gwen and Morris
won't have to send flowers to
my funeral. and that can
continue to live in Washing
ton" finished Bob.
AS a final FLIP. the hostess
introduced Walter Lippmann,
noting first what a shame the
Hungarians can't read Walter
Lippmann." Walter, however,
couldn't be pried loose from
an of -the-cuf analysis of the
world situation. He simply
acknowledged her remarks.
A few of the guests fingered
later than the rest, and danced
and sang to Devron's music in
the "nightclub" downstairs in
the Cafritz' Foxhall road abode.
=
THE GRAPEVINE SAYS:
% That attractive, young
Najeeb Halaby, who used to
be deputy to the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Euro
pean Mutual Security Affairs
and left here to work for
Laurance Rockefeller's avia-
ton interests, is slated to be-
come chairman of Civil Aero
nauticS Authority. The post
has been vacant since the
death of Charles Lowen, who
succeeded Freddy Lee.
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And 90 that Belgian Foreign
Minister Henri Spaak will sue
coed Lord Ismay as Secretary
General of NATO in Paris.
y + + 4
BRITISH NEWSPAPERS
are having a restrained field
day with a decision of the
House of Lords this week that
makes half of the royalty of
Europe British subjects. while
at the same time voiding their
marriages and illegitimizing
their children.
If numerous lesser known
undesirable princes suddenly
demand domicile in England
now, they can do so. They can.
that is. if they are descend
ants of the Electress Sophia
of Hanover.
That's because good-looking
42-year-old German Prince
Ernest Augustus, present head
of the Royal House OF Han
over Che would be King Of
England if they had the Salic
Law, has now finally won his
claim to British nationality
under the law of succession
of Queen Anne. 1705.
.. be it enacted that
the said Princess (Sophia) -.
and the issue of her body,
and all persons lineally de-
scending from her shall
be deemed natural
born subjects of this King
dom. :" Roman Catholics
were excluded.
After $50 years, Sophia's de-
scendants number 1870, accord
ing to the princes climate;
Continued on Page BIZ, Col.
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strangers to Washington for
he was Minister here about 10
years ago. Since then they have
been to America for United
Nations meetings, which is the
Continued on Page B-7, Col.
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CHICAGO

80 out Of 100 chicoeoons ore within 3
blocks Of tronsit-but whot kind7
Wages and other costs soor and riders
Disappear; more surveys ore needed,
but tronsit won't build them; tox-reIief
bog is about empty; fares ore uni
form 20 cents; tronsit officioIs wonder
where to 90 from here.
The Chicago Transit Authority has
been variously described as the best
Of its kind in the United States and q
hydra -headed monster" with too many
chiefs and too few Indians. Both de-
scriptions have an element of truth.
Transit people. public and private,
long have been trying to serve this
tremendous city Of 3.5 million people.
They have had only lukewarm success at
best. One Of the predecessor companies
of CTA set bankruptcy record by stay
ing in receivership for 81 years. BY
1880, almost all Chicagos surface lines
were broke. The Chicago Rapid Transit
Co. was not much better off, and the
only solvent operation in the city was
an extra-fare bus company serving the
plusher sections.
BY 1945 things were so bad that the
Illinois Legislature passed q law Great
ing the Chicago Transit Authority as
political subdivision, body polite and
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TORONTO

Oldest yet newest tronsit authority mokes
no pretense of being self-sustoinine;
direct Gosh subsidy from taxes this yeor
will amount to s. million. but toxpoyers
do not seem to mind; system is we'll run
and gives almost too much service;
managers and riders ore welded to q
l0-cent fore and think there is no such
thing as divorce.
Toronto has had public operation
since 1921, but its transit authority was
re-created in an entirely new form only
last year. Formerly a three-man city
board known as the Toronto Transpor-
tation Commission, it is now flve-man
authority with the same initials, but a
slightly different name: Toronto Transit
Commission.
Financial considerations had nothing
to do with this recent change. An ex-
pansion from city to metropolitan
operation caused it.
TIC is not self-Supporting Though
the Ontario statute creating the COM
mission says 1t should be-, and TIC
makes no bones about operating at
loss. In 1854, the system ran $23 million
in the red, but had some funds left
over from fatter years to take care of
this. Last year the deficit was $25 mil
lion, and with no money in the kitty,
TIC asked for and got an outright grant
from the Metropolitan Toronto Council.
This year, costs will be up $500,000
and revenues are expected to in
crease only about 100000, so TIC will
ask for and get about So million. This
subsidy comes out of general tax reve-
nues, so the people Of the Toronto area
are helping to pay for public transit
whether they use it or not.
Two Couses Of Loss
Two causes contribute to this red-ink
situation:
/. TICS absolute adherance to an
artificially low fare Of 10 cents fiat with
free transfers. Higher zone fares exist
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Lowest fore in United Stotes" is eIoimed,
but this is misleading; vounted new
ropid transit line hosn't caught on es
predicted; county will spend S32 million
in tax money so the subway con come
to town; vitol statistics ore conceded.
but rising costs ore plenty outstrippine
revenues; outright city subsidy is con-
csded to be on eventual possibility.
The Cleveland Transit System was the
child Of q private transit mess dating
from depression times. The franchise of
the Cleveland Railway Co. expired in
1885, and the city set about trying to
take over the ill-equipped property.
Almost seven years later, on April 20,
1s42, the city took over the company's
properties.
The deal cost the city $14.5 million,
which was obtained through q SITS
million issue Of 81 per cent, 2o-year
mortgage revenue bonds marketed to
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such animal Cleveland, Chicago and
Toronto all are subsidized rather
heavily In the two United States cities,
the subsidy takes the form of sub
stantial tax relief-meaning that the
taxpayers make up to the city treasury
what the transit authority does not pay
in taxes. In Toronto. the subsidy is in
the form of an outright grant of cash
by the municipal government to defray
transit's annual deficit.
O When public operation comes, rapid
transit is normally not far behind. One
of the Nations top public operators says
transit executive he. never mentioned
subways, but that when he entered pub
lie service he Immediately started
Pumping for high-speed. off-street rail
lines.
Q When rapid transit comes to town.
the public authority is willing to operate
it. but loath to pay for 1t. In all three
cities, rapid transit expansion is con-
tingent on public construction of lines
out Of general tax revenues.
OPublic authorities insist on complete
authority to regulate fares and services,
with no veto power by any other govern
ment agency. This is not just a per-
sonality quirk of public operators-it
Is something that lenders insist on
before they will buy bonds, because the
only real backing for the securities is
the money dropped in the fare box by
passengers. Even the United States
Government, in the person OF the old
Reconstruction Finance Corp, insisted
on transit board autonomy.
o Public operation does not necessarily
mean improved service or cheaper serv-
ice than q community can get under
private operation. Except for the speed
Of rapid transit, the service in Cleve-
land and Chicago is no better than
Capital Transit Co. offers in Washing
ton. Toronto has superb service on all
nnes-and operates at a $25-million-a-
year loss.
Q Public transit authorities tend to
branch out into subsidiary endeavors,
such as parking-lot operation These
frequently compete not only with private
enterprise, but also with other munich
pal facilities.
0 Transit riding is falling of in public
authority cities just as 1t is here. Only
in Toronto are riders increasing in.
number, and there the rise is only one
third of per cent over last year
0 And finally, there is the danger that
when public authority gains auton-
omy, 1t becomes no more responsive to
public demand than does q private
corporation.
Here, In more detail. Is what The
Star found in each Of the three cities:
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of 80 per cent of Chicago's homes The
authority makes no claim for the excel
lence of all of its service, however.
Quality varies from superb to practi-
cally nonresident, and In many cases
at night and on Sundays, to completely
non-exiStent.
Mokine Ends Meet
Faced with rising costs and declining
traffic, eta has had to scratch to make
ends meet. A direct subsidy Being Illegal,
the alternative has been economy. These
things have been done:
1. Change much of the surface equip
ment from oman to Imam operation.
Except for a couple of streetcar lines,
this project has been completed.
2. Remodel rapid transit equipment
so as to cut maximum operating crews
from eight men to two. Most of this
has been done.
3. Eliminate streetcars so as to free
eta from street paving and mainte-
nance costs. Only three rail trolley lines
remain.
4. Save capital outlay by drastically
remodeling former streetcars for use on
rapid transit lines. The bulk of this
work Is completed.
S. Alter service drastically at off-peak
hours without actually eliminating
routes. This has about reached the
vanishing point
20 hoc
now reached the stage where the tax
relief bag Is about empty. eta officials
estimate that with the newest exemp-
ton, from State motor fuel taxes, the
system escapes payment Of about IS
million in levies each year.
Costs Have Been Cut
So effective have been these economies
that eta officials say II they were
operating today on the same basis as in
1947, costs would be about $35 million q
year higher than they are.
eta is convinced rapid transit is the
cheapest and most effective way Of NOV
ing people, and the authority wants to
expand rapid transit services. But eta
does not intend to absorb the cost Of
building subways and other rights Of
way-and on future rapid transit lines
is unwilling to pay even for the track
age and signal equipment.
Up to now, all CTA's securities have
been retired on schedule or In advance,
including SIT million worth of equip
ment trusts. What will happen If costs
go up or revenues decrease further?
eta is not sure, but while there is no
loud talk about city or State subsidies.
it is evident that CTA officials fear con-
ditions may some day come to that.
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municipal corporation" with authority
to do virtually everything city may do
except levy taxes. In 1947 the authority
bought the surface and rapid transit
lines for $87 million, Of which $24 mil
lion was represented by cash or new
equipment bought by the predecessor
companies during negotiations. This
was about the only new equipment in
town.
Later eta bought out the solvent
Chicago Motor Coach Co., and with
minor exceptions thereby gained q
monopoly on mass transportation within
the city.
$l05 Million Bond Issue
Initial purchase was made by means
Of SOS million in bonds secured only by
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was not pledged as security.
First O city department and then
three-man board answerable to the
Mayor, CTS became q completely au-
tonomous flve-man authority in 1949
The changeover was required by the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. before
RFC would lend $295 million. RFC did
not want politicians veto power hang
ing over the fare-setting functions Of
CTS.
$24,500 for Manager
The systems five members are ap-
pointed by the Mayor for staggered
fve-year terms, one term expiring each
year The chairman receives $4,000 a
year, other members, $500 each. OPP
erations are under the general manager,
Donald C. Hyde, who frequently comes
to Washington as public transporta-
ton consultant. He receives $24,500 q
year, which is second only to the
Mayors $4,000 among governmental
salaries in Cleveland.
CTS employs labor force of about
$500, all under civil service-type merit
system administered exclusively by the
transit board and entirely separate
from the city civil service.
About 2.1OO CTS employees are opera
tors, organized under the same AFT
union that has a contract in Washing
ton. The top rate for operators is 50 an
hour, the same as in Washington. This
contract will expire July l.
CTS and the union have an arbitra-
ton agreement, since workers are for
hidden by State law to strike against
public utilities. The last award, made
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fare = box rev.
enueS without
either p u bile
credit or eta
property being
pledged. These
securities, tax
free munich
pals like Cleve-
lands, paid in
terest at 3A to
3A per cent
an d matured
between 1858
and 1878. 4
New equip
ment has since
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THE SUNDAY STAR AIT
Washington, D. C.
SUNDAY, JANUARY Is, 1855

make sure authority hos sole power to
set rates; get concessions from city
before you get rid of streeteors.
You can find about as many ideas on
how to run transit system as there are
experts in the field Of transit. Cleve-
lands General Manager Hyde says
streetcars are obsolete and should be
junked. Dr.. Harold Mayer, University Of
Chicago transit expert, says II streetcars
are not vital now, they would be essen
tial should war come and rubber and gas
tighten up. Toronto's Chairman Lam
port says fatty he will not eliminate q
single streetcar line until the city
makes him deal-either keep private
cars OF certain streets, give him a lane
for exclusive use Of buses, or ban curb
side parking entirely.
Points Of Agreement
These are just examples of variations
In thinking about publicly operated
transit But there are few points on
which all seem to agree.
First Is that the transit authority
must be kept out Of politics. This Is
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WASHINGTON

Avoid politics and poy the operating heed
well, transit men odvise. Stick to
business methods If you won't to ovoid
seondol. says one expert. Don't bor
possibility Of direct Gosh subsidy, soys
another. Further advice is to get an
oir-tight monopoly throughout oreo;
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P1VAN mVe-
tors. As O "mu-
nicipal" issue,
these bonds
were tax free,
but the faith
nd ere di t
(taxing power
Of Cleveland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
ABOUT THE MAPS

The inset maps on this page indicate
the relative areas Of the cities under
discussion. They are drawn to the same
scale: IL miles to the inch,
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hedged by the admis-
sion that there Is
something political in
everything public, but
aldermen must be de-
MED the right to act
as kibitzers. No tram
sit expert is sure
whether Washington'S
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$l05 Million Bond Issue

Initial purchase was made by means
Of $105 million in bonds secured only by
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-11-15
Conference On Family
Life This Weekend

Needs and problems of family
life will be presented at Family
Life Conference of the Cleveland
Church Federation on Saturday
and Sunday afternoons, November
18th and 18th, at First Methodist
Church, by the Department of
Christian Education. Preparation
for marriage, families on the
move, senior citizens, the contri-
button of each member Of the
family will be some of the group
subjects to be discussed.
Dean Percy F. Rex will deliver
the keynote address at 200 pm.
Saturday. Some of the leaders
are: Mrs. Byron Jackson of the
Maternal Health Association, Mrs.
Katherine Williamson of the Cleve-
land Community Council, Mrs.
Mildred Carson of the Ohio Aid
for Aged, Mrs. Lucia Irons Of the
Cleveland Guidance Center, and
Miss Anne Father of Cleveland
Health Association.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-11-15
Grade School
Basketball
Starts Dec. |

Bows in Grades Five through
Eight are being invited to sign up
for the Board of Education's Sat-
urday Basketball season, which be-
gins its second year on Saturday,
December 1st and runs through
March End, 1857.
Supervising the program which
is expected TO have over 300 par
ticipants are Louis Chulick and
Nick Coso of the w. H. Kirk
Junior High School coaching staff;
Thomas Meinhardt, Elementary
School Physical Education instruc-
tor, and Don Drebus and Grant
Kibbel of Shaw High School coach
ing staff. Mr.. Kibbel will head the
Two periods of basketball play
will be held each Saturday: a
morning session from 10 to -
noon; and an afternoon session
from 100 to $3.50 p. m.
Mr.. Meinhardt believes the
Fifth Sixth enrolment will far
exceed the 129 boys signed up last
year. A similar report from Mr..
Chulick indicates the Seventh
grade enrolment will exceed its
1874 of last year.
In recommending approval of
the program by the Board OF Edu-
cation at the November meeting
held Monday evening, DR.. o. J..
Korb, superintendent Of schools
said the Saturday basketball prof.
ect provides instruction in the
fundamentals Of the game, and a
fine intramural program under an
able staff, and keeps more than
300 boys off the streets on Satur-
day.
Estimated cost Of the 12-day
schedule is $4,000, including the
cost of personnel and the usual
insurance coverage for boys while
engaged in sponsored school
activity.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-11-15
RaiIroaders Hold
A Mass For Peace

The sixth Annual Mass for
World Peace, sponsored by the
Railroaders' Mass Guild of Cleve-
land. will be observed at st. Johns
Cathedral, Saturday, November "a,
at 500 3. m. with Monsignor Rich
ard P. Walsh, Cathedral Rector,
as celebrant.
Guild members are employees
and pensioners of Cleveland rail
roads.
The public Is cordially invited to
attend the mass and offer this
sacrifice in the cause of World
Peace and Justice.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-11-15

melodrama by Marcelle Maurette
is a house in Berlin, where an
exiled Russian prince and two
shady associates have been selling
stock in a scheme to find Anas-
tasia, the lost daughter of the
Car ,heiress to a fortune deposited
by the Car in European banks.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-11-15
Guest Speaker

"Ohio Women Of Distinction"
will be the subject Of a talk by
Mary C. Quinn, of Cleveland, pub
lie relations supervisor for the
Ohio Bell Telephone Company be-
fore members of the Mothers Club
at North Branch Library, 1481
Hayden ave-, Wednesday, Novem-
Der 21st at 1920 a. m.
She will discuss the influence of
women in Ohio from the states
beginning, particularly women in
industry, including the telephone
business.
Miss Quinn Is a graduate Of
Western Reserve University and
did graduate work at Northwest
ern University. She has been with
the Ohio Bell ten years, holding
previous positions Of selection in
terviewer in women's employment
and staff assistant in the general
traffic office.
East Cleveland leader. [volume] (East Cleveland, Ohio) 1942-1970, 1956-11-15

ANASTASIA
"Anastasia," an exciting and
extraordinary story of interna-
tional intrigue, spins its web of
suspense and mystery at the Drury
Theatre of the Play House, open
ing Wednesday, November 21st.
The setting for this rOusing