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Evening star., 1959-12-02

MIR. DE CAST brought
with him a book of working
drawings and a large map.
Ribbons of red and orange
painted on the map showed
the overpaSSes and under
passes of the highways that
will plat Southwest Wash
ington when the Southwest
freeway and the new ap-
proacheS over Washington
Channel to the two Four
teenth street trans-Potomac
bridges are completed.
A child who could work out
such an ingenious complex
in a Sandpile would have a
very high 10. 1t sure con-
fused the Rambler. But he
tried to understand it by
sticking to one simple thing,
the function of the Twelfth
street tunnel under the Mall.
This new highway system
for the District, S.W., Sc,
NE, and NV. is a $500
million job. No wonder its
complexities are puzzling.
After going over the
ground, here is the way it is
going to be as the Rambler
understands it. You are
going north into Washington
from Virginia on the new
(postwar) Fourteenth street
bridge, which is officially
known as the Rochambeau
Bridge. You will still be able
to go up Fourteenth street,
but you won't want to. That
old-fashioned artery is hard
ened by traffic lights and
cross streets.
You will swing a bit to the
right over Hains Point where
there are now tourist cabins
and tennis courts as you
leave the Potomac bridge.
You will cross Washington
Channel, where bridge piers
are now under construction,
and go over the Municipal
Fish Wharf about at the New
England Raw Bar. which is
the establishment on the
west end of that row of
buildings.
Evening star., 1959-12-02
The
Rambler
Reports on
The MoII Tunnel
By GEORGE KENNEDY

If the Rambler had any
true reportorial curiosity,
he would have checked on
this long ago.
For months he has noticed
a dissertation of turf and
trees in the Mall just east of
Twelfth street-or between
the Smithsonian Institution
buildings on independence
avenue and the one on
Constitution avenue.
Then the other day there
was an article in The Star
with a map explaining that
the work in progress was a
tunnel that would take
Twelfth street under the
Mall.
The Rambler sees no ne
cessity of tunneling under
the Mall at the cost of cut
ting down several splendid
elms, but he is afraid his
protest is a little late.
The trees are gone,
Twelfth street is shut off, and
they are really digging.
He called the Highway
Department of the District
government and he sure got
a VIP reception. OTIS weak
ened him, but it hasn't won
him over.) He was told that
all the digging and arboreal
destruction was to make it
easier for him to go north
through Washington from
his home in Virginia. And a
tall young development en-
gineer named Leonard De
Cast was assigned to guide
him on a field trip.
Evening star., 1959-11-23
Deaf Boy Uses Signs
ToTeII of Knife KiIIinq

OLATHE, Kans., Nov. %
(AP). - Thirteen year old
George Martens, q deaf boy,
used sign language and his un-
trained voice yesterday to tell
how he killed an 8-year-old
playmate.
Steven MoScoe pleaded for
= mercy before he died under a
rain of knife blows Saturday
: afternoon, George said.
Coroner John Johnson said
Stevens skull was fractured
and he was stabbed Al times
in the head, neck, back and
chest.
Young Martens told police
he lured Steven into a clump
Of timber on the pretext of
showing him a dead rabbit.
and killed him to get revenge.
Steven, he said, had run into
Georges bike repeatedly and
damaged it.
Steven was the son of Marine
Staff Sergt. Lawrence Moscoe
Of Newburgh, N. Y, who is
assigned to Olathe Naval Air
Station. The MoScoes have two
younger children.
Georges father, Henry Mar
tens, is an Olathe building
contractor. Olathe is on the
southwestern fringe Of Kansas
City's metropolitan area.
Steven left home Saturday
afternoon on his bike to play
at a Schoolground two blocks
away. A search was started
when he didn't return, and his
body was found early yesterday
about 200 yards from the near
est house.
Bicycle tracks in the field
led officers to question young
Martens.
At the Kansas School for the
Deaf, where he had been a day
student six years, the boy
readily admitted the killing to
DR.. Stanley D. Roth, school
superintendent. His parents
were present.
Young Martens showed off,
GERS his priced knife collection,
including the fatal weapon-a
pocketknife his father had given
him Friday.
He also dug out of the laun-
dry chute at his home the
blood-stained pants and shirt
he had worn Saturday.
At the scene of the Staying,
Evening star., 1959-11-23
Afghan AirIiner
Crash in Beirut
Kills 7 Americans

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. %
(AP).-Two Americans were
among "a persons killed in the
crash of an Afghanistan Ariana
Airways plane Saturday minutes
after taking of from Beirut
for Kabul. Only three aboard
survived.
One of the Americans killed
was DR.. Gordon Hay Clark, 4S,
medical director for a United
States contracting firm in
Kabul. His wife said in San
Mateo. Calf, that her husband
was on his way back to his
post after taking a patient
from Afghanistan to Los
Angeles.
The other American was
Frank William Shepherd, de-
scribed as an accountant at a
Beirut hotel where he stayed.
Both he and DR.. Clark had
given their residence as
Kandahar, Afghanistan.
All other passengers on the
airliner were Turks, Czechs and
Afghans. The pilot and copilot
were Indians and the rest of
the crew Afghans. Two mon
a woman were pulled from the
wreckage in critical condition
from burns and other injuries.
witnesses at Beirut airport
said two of the planes four
engines appeared to catch fire
Just before the airliner smashed
into the side of a mountain.
Evening star., 1959-11-23
GoIdo Meir Seen
Resigning Soon

JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector,
Nov. % (AP).-Political sources
said today there is a possibility
Mrs. Golda Meir may quit as
1Srael's foreign minister.
The former Milwaukee school
teacher moved from the Labor
= Ministry to Foreign Affairs in
June 1856. She is a member of
Premier David Ben-Gurion's
Mapai Qabor) Party.
Mrs. Meir said before the
November 8 election, which
strengthened Mapai's position
as the leading Israeli political
party, that she would retire.
Later she limited that she
was prepared to stay on the
job if certain conditions were
fulfilled. One of the conditions
was that the Defense Ministry
interfere less with her direc-
tives.
She had a special meeting
with Mr.. Ben-Gurion a few
days ago. No statement was is
sued afterward and, from this,
some observers concluded she
was not satisfied with the Pre-
mier's assurances.
Evening star., 1959-11-23
Tiniest Republics
Leader Is Given
Big Welcome

NEW YORK, Nov. % (AP)
-zaccaria @. Savoretti's ma
tion-San Marino-is the old
est and tiniest republic in the
world. But Mr.. Savoretti re-
ceived an unusually warm re-
ception here yesterday.
That's because the $50 Sam
marinesi who greeted him in
cluded many cousins and four
brothers who live here now.
Many of them helped elect
Mr.. Savoretti, a former chief
executive Of San Marino, to
the legislature of the little
nation last September, thereby
Evening star., 1959-11-23

defeating the Communists.
The American immigrants
voted by mail.
There are about 1000 SAM
marinesi families in this coun-
try-mostly in New York City,
Detroit and Sandusky, Ohio.
San Marino, just SO square
miles surrounded by Italy, has
only $4,000 people at home.
At a reception yesterday, Mr..
Savoretti thanked his hosts for
their election support. He also
thanked the United States for
s850,000 in foreign aid to help
build a water supply system in
San Marino.
Evening star., 1959-11-23

George demonstrated with up
and down motions Of his hand
how he repeatedly stabbed the
Moscoe boy.
Although young Martens has
voice, his words are unintel-
ligible to the average person.
An interpreter relayed officers
questions in sign language, and
told officers what the boy was
saying.
Young Martens was turned
over to juvenile authorities.
Children 16 and under can't be
prosecuted for murder in Kan
sas. But If the boy is ruled de-
linquent he can be confined to
reform school until he is 81.
Evening star., 1959-11-23
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Evening star., 1959-11-17
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Evening star., 1959-11-17

MONDAY THRU FRIpAV-ALL sTo
SATURDAY-7 STORES, 9 A.M.-6 ?
AV-NORTHEAST 4 ALEXAN
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SS9,26O,OOO

A CCORDING TO "The National Under
~ writer" there are only 35 fraternal Or
ganizations on the North American Con-
tinent with insurance in force of so or more
millions.
Heading the list is the Aid Association
for Lutherans, Appleton, Wise, with
81 ,434, ,628,219, whereas at the opposite
end - 35th - is the Catholic Family Life
Insurance, Milwaukee, Wisconsin with
S5O,248,621.
In 10Th place in this respect is the Cro-
attain Fraternal Union, with $89, 100000 in
surance in force as of JAN 1, 1859, and
inching toward the $1OO-million mark
Not bad for an organization which has
been on the American scene for only sixty
five years; a fraternal which back in 1894
had to levy a special assessment in order to
pay it's first death benefit Of mere $780,
So, the Croatian Fraternal Union is not
falling apart at the seams.
Nor is it in any foreseeable danger of
hitting the skids so long as it's Membership
Campaigns continue to follow the highly
successful pattern of the current such re-
cruiting drive.
In other words, the Croatian Fraternal
Union is definitely here to sta,'
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Versailles 14b Meets
Switched To SATURDAYS

We R S ALL ES, Pa. =
Members of Lodge LAG will
please note that the time has
come to change over to our
u m m e r monthly meeting
schedule.
Henceforth, meetings will
be held the third Saturday Of
the month instead of the third
Sunday and start at 1880 pm.
Daylight Time
The next meeting will be
held Saturday, May 16, and
we will nominate Candidates
for Delegates to the 10th
CFU Convention.
Following this, meetings
will be held June 20, July 18,
Aug. Is, and Sept. 20.
Joseph Zalac, Recorder
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Four-Stafe Meet
For 5. 5. Agents
COnferees Weigh
Old Age Program

PITTSBURGH - Eliza
beth B. Fennell, Hazel D
Matter, and Bryan E. Keller,
field representatives in the
East Liberty Social Security
Office, have just returned
from a two-day conference at
Pocono Manor, Pennsylvania
The conference, attended
by 134 field representatives
from Social Security offices
in the states Of Pennsylvania,
New York, New Jersey, and
Delaware, was held under the
direction of the Bureau of
Old-Age and Survivors In
surance officials from the Re-
gional Office in New York and
the Bureaus headquarters
in Baltimore.
The meeting was ar
ranged as part of the Social
Security Administrations
continuing effort to i'm
prove it's service to the pub
lie.
Conferees analyzed pro.
gram operations and recent
changes with emphasis or
streamlining the payment OF
claims for old-age, survivors
and disability insurance.
They also discussed better
ways Of keeping the public in
formed through the coopera
ton of fraternal and othel
newspapers, radio and televi
sion stations and through
speaking engagements before
clubs and other organizations
These field representatives
many of whom will advance
into supervisor or manager
ial positions, also received
training for further respon
sibility as the future admins
traitors of the social security
program.
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JOhnstOWn No. s.

CPEAKING OF memorabilia, there will be
- no dearth of it Sunday May II, when
the members of "St. Rochus" Lodge 5,
Johnstown, Pa, celebrate the 65th Ami
versary of their Lodge and that of the
Croatian Fraternal Union itself.
Significantly "St. Rochus' Lodge S
came into existence May 13, 1894, whereas
the Hrvatska Zajednica - later the Ma
rodna Hrvatska Zajednica, and finally the
Croatian Fraternal Union was not or
ganized until September of that year.
&c. the history of Lodge and our peo-
pie in Johnstown is that of the Croatian
Fraternal Union, a history which is as much
a part Of Americana as that of any other
nationality group which forged the great
ness of this country.
The great and near great will turn
out Sunday, May II, for this huge celebra-
: ton and many will be the oratorical bou-
quets thrown in the direction Of the host
Lodge and the Society proper.
Heading the parade of dignitaries, from
the standpoint of the CFUs Home Office,
will be Supreme President V. I. Mandich,
with United States Congressman, the
Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Rep
resentatives, an international Representa-
tive Of the United SteelWorkers of Amer
ica, Cambria County Judges and others, in
the line of march
Which is as it should be on so truly a
momentous fraternal occasion.
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Mcdonald Trio Ready
FOR Visit To Europe

MCDONALD, o. - Three
CFU members will leave for
a three month trip to Yugo-
slavia on the 25th of May.
Nick Gajdek, a member OF
Lodge &c, spent his childhood
in Busevac; John Koprivnjak,
of Lodge 598, is from Hrasce;
and Jim Krumpak, also of
598, spent his younger days
in Rakitovac.
If anyone wishes to have
any Of these three members
get in touch with relatives in
any of the above mentioned
villages, please contact Nick
Gajdek at 214 Adams Ave-,
Mcdonald, or call Ii. 5-5948.
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the twenty-five year HIS
tory of the classic.
Entered are 109 Mems
t e a m s, 50 Women's
teams, and Is Junior
teams.
The bowlers will hail
from 9 states and repre-
sent 20 communities dur
ing the four-day firing
for the Senior Division
Scratch and Handicap
Championships.
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Big Day May 17m For
East Pitt 141 Members

E. PITTSBURGH, Pa. =
The members of "Hrvatska
Villa" CFU Lodge 141 are re-
quested to attend the regular
monthly meeting, scheduled
for Sunday, May II, at the
South Slavic Workers Hall,
corner of Electric and North
Ave., at 1:30 pm.
In addition to the regular
business, nomination Of can
didates for Delegates to the
10th CFU Convention will be
in order.
Matthew Mlinarich, Secy.
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in Russia and the great war.
But there is no wonder in him
about the strength of the
Croatian people. He said:
For centuries under other
domination. and most partic-
ularly under German domina-
ton and the old principle of
divide and rule we were
taught to hate the Serbs, and
a wedge was driven between
us. That is something that
our people cannot forget.
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l.
] teristics Of a Croatian
Singing Society have also
been expressed by "Prerado-
vic" on several important oc-
casions in the political life of
the Croatian people.
Thus "Preradovic" had z.
I. Kerhin as a delegate at the
First Yugoslav Congress in
Chicago, held in March, 1918,
during the first world war.
Before that ''Preradovic"
was working together with
the local branch of the Gro
atian League. Later on, when
the leader of the Croatian
Peasant Party, Stjepan Radio
died from assassin's bullets
in the Belgrade Parliament,
"Preradovic" joined other
Croatian societies in honor
ing his memory at a requiem
mass in the local Croatian
Church.
Birth OF Federation
The year of 1949 is a men,
orable one, for during the
two day celebration of the
35th Anniversary of "Prera-
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dovic", with numerous glee
clubs and their representa-
tives participating, the birth
of the American Croatian
Singers Federation took place,
and z. 1. Kerhin was elected
president which title he holds
at the present time.
September of the same
year witnessed the first gi-
gantic Music Festival of
the Singers Federation,
held in Pittsburgh in con-
junction with the 55th An
niversary of the Croatian
Fraternal Union, with
whose aid and moral sup
port the Singers Federation
developed from q dream to
. reality!
In 1852 a group Of "Prera-
dovic" members travelled to
Yugoslavia with the Du-
quesne Tamburitzans, where
they met and made personal
contacts with the cultural
men of Croatian renown, a.
mong whom were: Rudolph
Matz, Slavko Jankovic, DR..
Vinko Zganac, DR.. Josip An
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Happy Birthday

TODAY, MAY 13, 1859, is significant
day in the life of bro " l. Mandich,
now serving his third consecutive term as
the Supreme President of the Croatian Fra
ternal Union of America
1t is his 62nd birthday.
In wishing the Society's Chief Execu-
tive happy birthday we would call the
attention of our fellow members to fea-
ture story on this page = "a Symbol of
Croatian Ideals" - which appeared in re-
cent editions of the Pittsburgh "Sun-Tele-
graph as that Hearst papers tribute to the
Croatian Fraternal Union of America and
it's Supreme President.
But this is not the only public recogni-
tion to befall bro. Mandich in recent
months.
As millions of Americans know, the
City of Pittsburgh is this year celebrating
it's Bicentennial
Published in connection with the cele-
bration is a 618-page book entitled "The
Bicentennial History of Pittsburgh and AL
legheny County" an engrossing work chro-
nicling the backgrounds and activities of
prominent families and personages with
emphasis on their accomplishments in max
ing Pittsburgh one of Americas greatest
cities.
Forever honored on the pages of this
book are the leading citizens - and organ
izations - of Pittsburgh and Allegheny
County whose standing on the community
level has been SO outstanding through the
years as to merit praise on high.
Cited on page 341 of the book is the
Croatian Fraternal Union of America; on
page 342 v. l. Mandich, the Supreme Presi-
dent of the 65-year-old Society.
In the eyes of the authors of the book:
"The Supreme President of the Croatian
Fraternal Union, Mr.. v. Ivan Mandich, is
one of the progressive citizens that Yugo-
slavia has given to the United States, and
through his efforts the welfare of his coun-
trymen in America has been advanced and
promoted. Since his removal to Pittsburgh
in 1947 he has given much of his time and
talent to civic affairs and he is regarded
as one of the leaders of Allegheny County"
One does not buy such recognition. He
either merits it or else.
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Represented statewise will be Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Michigan Illinois, Indiana,
New York, Missouri, Wisconsin and West
Virginia
Pennsylvania, with cities and towns,
will have the largest community represen-
tation at the tourney; Ohio, 6, the next lar
gest. Following in this respect will be, Illi-
nois 4; Indiana, 3; New York, Wisconsin,
and West Virginia. 2 each; and Michigan
and Missouri 1 each.
Many should be the highlights which
promise to make this Silver Anniversary
Tournament lone for the books"
Certainly one of these pauses that re-
fresh will come to pass during the Victory
Banquet to be held Sunday evening, May
II, in the Eagles Building, Youngstown
when three men are asked to stand and take
a bow for having participated in every sim
gle one of the Croatian Fraternal Unions
twenty-five such annual pinfests.
They are Joseph B. Rady, Hammond,
Ind, Lodge 358, for many years the Sec
retary of the Natl Tournament Committee,
SldIlcS MdIl1lCS, dlSO VI IldlIlIllOlu AOOSC
358, and George ]. Stiscak East Chicago,
Ind, Lodge 154,
The Home Office of the Croatian Fra
ternal Union will remember BROS Rady, Ma
rince and Stiscak in a most appropriate
manner during the May II Banquet for
their devotion to the Society and the count
less sacrifices they had to make to partici-
pate in twenty-five consecutive tenpin clas-
sizes staged over the years from as far west
as St. Louis to Buffalo in the east
Yes, memories are made of this.
Memories which will clash head-on May
14-17 in Youngstown, Ohio, when the vet
Grams of the Societys twenty-five tenpin
wars check in for its Silver Anniversary
Tournament and renew auld acquaintance.
Now, on with 'The Big Show"
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"The Croatian people are
nationalists, not Communists.
For this reason we all have
ties with the peoples Of Yu-
goslavia. We know Yugosla-
via has internally all that is
needed for greatness. Her re-
sources are enough to make
her economically powerful.
Even the bauxite in her
mountains are second to
none - not even in Chile in
pittsburgh p. 1O)
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dric, Bozo Krnic, Stjepan Ste
panof, Two Tijardovic, Jakov
Gotovac and Krsto Odak.
The two months summer
sojourn of the "Preradovic"
members in the land of their
heritage enabled them to
bring back a wealth Of music
and literature, making this
the most beneficial trip ever
made and thereby swelling the
archives of Croatian culture
here for the benefit of all the
Croatian organizations in
America.
In Many Festivals
In 1854 "Preradovic" parti-
cipated in the Goth Anniver-
sary of the Croatian Frater-
nal Union in Pittsburgh. Pa.
The glee club also partici-
pated in the Music Festivals
of the "Zupa Mihanovic", one
held under the auspices of the
Singing Society "Vila', in St.
Louis, Mo-; the other under
the auspices of the Singing
Society 'Preradovic", in Ga
(Gary Gleo - p. III
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The BIG Show

= VERIFYING is in readiness for the
l. staging May IA through May II IN
Youngstown, Ohio, of the Croatian Frater-
nal Unions 25th Annual, or Silver Annlver-
sary, Natl Tenpin Tournament,
Poised for the championships, to be
hosted by the members of 'Ljudevit GAY
Lodge 100, are 176 adult and junior teams
to make this the fourth largest gathering IN
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Pittsburgh Sun. Telegraph Sa|utes Y. l. handch
A Symbol Of Croatian Ideals
BY Marilyn Ferguson

". l. MANDICH is supreme
v president of the Croatian
Fraternal Union of America.
He also is past president of
the Pennsylvania Fraternal
Congress. They are impress
sive titles.
He holds forth in an office
filled with impressively beau
tiful furniture at 3441 Forbes
Ave-, Oakland. 1t was made
in Yugoslavia and sent as a
thank-you gesture by those
people who benefited from the
gifts of miracle drugs and
clothing sent by Croatians in
the u. S.
You might even say that
Mandich is expressive, but
more correctly, he is Ev-
eryman's S Grandfather;
taking pride in his work,
in his friends and in his
American citizenship.
There were years, in his
youth, when Mandich was not
quite so friendly and BEAM
ing. Those were the years he
served in the Austro-Hunga-
rian Army. He was drafted
in 1914. He became Russian
! prisoner.
Into Exile Or Prison
In the spring of 1916, he
volunteered for service in the
corps of Serbian, Croatian
and Slovenian troops to fight
Germany and Italy against
the Allies.
He was fighting, he said,
for the country of his birth,
Yugoslavia, and when his
homeland was partitioned af-
i ter World War I, he had no
home.
! He said: II had a choice of
: going into exile or going to
prison. After all, Italy was
awarded Fiume (now Rijeka
and part of Yugoslavia AGAIN.
and l had a choice. Very few
of my friends came home
alive.
| During the war, was
fighting for the freedom of
Croatia as part of Yugo-
slavia. When the fighting
was accomplished, my part
was finished. BY the treaty
of Rappallo, my home was
given to Italy.
"Of the 81 in my class at
F! t h e Commercial Academy
: near Fiume, l am the only
one alive. Sometimes it seems
to me a wonder that 1 have
lived so long"
Taught To Hate Serbs
Mandich wonders that he
, lived thrOu0h two revolutions