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New Transit Securities
Offered TEA Holders

Stockholders Of Trans CarIb.
bean Anyways have been issued
rights to subscribe for $4,000
shares Of d. c. Transit Sys-
TEN Of Delaware at $40 a share
it was announced last night.
Rights are on the basis OF
one new share of the Delaware
corporation for each three
shares of TEA Glass A stock
They will expire at $3.50 pm
on May %.
The Delaware corporation
owns all stock of D. C. Transit
System of the District of Co
lumbia, which operates transit
lines here. In turn, the Della.
ware corporation is owned By
TEA.
President o. Roy Chalk Of
all three firms planned orig
inally to split stock Of the
District corporation and Offer
it to the public, but ran into
opposition of the District Pub
lie Utilities Commission. After
the TEA offering the transit
securities will be publicly owned
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Washington listings on over-the-
counter markets furnished by the Ma
tional Association of Securities Dealers
as of l pm. Wednesday, April %:
Rid Aska ed
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on a proposed offering Of 1000
additional shares to present
holders at 5000 a share
The branch Office authorized
by the Controller of the Cur
rency is planned at 1901
Wheeler road Sc, but recon-
ing to commercial will be ne
cessary before construction can
start, he said. The necessary
application has been filed
Mr.. Offutt said the antici-
pated increase in business from
the new seventh office will re-
quire additional capital funds.
If stockholders approve the
stock offering, they will receive
rights to subscribe for one new
share for each three shares
new owned.
From proceeds of 5000 a
share, 500 will go to capital
stock account and 500 to sur
plus. The present capital stock
of 100000 and surplus of
100000 will be increased to
$500, 900 and 100000.
Fourth Stock Increase
II will be the banks fourth
stock increase in the eight
years in which Mr.. Offutt has
been president Of the institu-
ton. When he took office in
January. 1851. the bank had
capital stock of 100000 and
surplus of 100000.
Mr.. Offutt said the seventh
: Office location at the corner OF
Wheeler road and Barnaby
street has 1000 square feet
of ground area and will have
ample space for parking, a
drive-in window and other
modern banking facilities.
In addition to the main
bank Office at $3.50 South Cap
itol street, the bank has Offices
at 1000 Nichols avenue Sc,
2844 Alabama avenue Sc; the
Naval Research Laboratory
: Boiling Air Force Base and the
Naval Receiving Station.
.Ana costia National has
. shown steady growth since Mr.
Cffutt took the helm in jan
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gambling, following sound rules,
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Sovinqs Bond Speakers

James F. Stiles, jr., national
director. United States Savings
Bonds Division, and Mrs. Eliza
beth Ankers. women's chairman
for the District for savings
bonds, will speak at tomorrow's
Mayflower Hotel luncheon OF
the Treasury's Share-in-Amer-
lea Savings Bonds campaign in
the District. Barnum L. Cotton,
president, National Bank of
Washington, and Share-in-
America Bond chairman, will
preside.
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There are many ways TO in
vest small amounts regularly in
stocks; the NIP is only one
The basic point is that the little
fellow buying this type OF stock
in this manner is investing. not
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Whatever your objective, Harris, Upham & Co.
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seconds.
Subject to Federal taxes but not I
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uary, 1851. Assets totaled $27,.
100000 last March IL and de.
posts amounted to $25.447. 900
These totals .contrasted with
around $l3 million and $l2.E
million in 1861.
Hilbert A. Corley. who be-
came an officer Of the Nationa.
Bank Of Maryland at Silver
Spring last october, has re-
turned to Anacostia NationaI
Bank and has been reelected
assistant vice president. He
will resume his duties May 4.
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Variable Annuity Files
SEC Registration

AS a result of the Supreme
Court decision of March %,
the Variable Annuity Life In
surance Co., has just filed a
registration statement with a
preliminary prospectus with
the Securities & Exchange
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'' BUSINESS
Anocostio Bank Plans
9th Office, More Stock
BY DONALD b. HADLEY
Star Financial Editor

Anacostia National Bank has received permission for
establishment Of seventh ONCE southeast washington and
plans an increase in capital and surplus to SIG million from
its present ST. million
President A. Scott outt announced today that stock
holders have been called to special meeting May
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
WEDNESDAY, MARCH II, 1859
Historic No. |

T HE PUBLIC observance Sunday, March
] Is, 1859, Of the 65th Anniversary of N.
S. Pittsburgh "All Saints" Lodge should
attract sell-out crowd to the Lodge Hall
at 1916 East Ohio Street
If the walls of the Lodge Hall could
speak out March Is during the Banquet to
be held in conjunction with this celebration,
they would narrate the earliest history of
what is today the Croatian F'raternal Union
and hammer home the fact that the Society
came perilously close 64 years ago to 60
ing out of business on these same grounds
in North Side Pittsburgh.
Then church property, the Lodge Hall
of today was the scene in 1895 of the End
Convention of the original Hrvatska Zajed-
MICA, considered by CFU historians to be the
do-or-die year in the annals of our people
in the United States.
There seemed to be no future ahead
for the Hrvatska Zajednica when the End
Convention of that Society was called to
order 64 years ago in the Church Hail.
There had been no stampede during the
infant stages of the organization to join it's
membership ranks On the contrary, there
were many going around casting grave sus-
picion upon it's fraternal waters and demor-
alizing the then recent Croat newcomers to
the United States.
1t took all the thunder in President Ivan
Ljubic to convince the Delegates to the 1895
Convention that the Hrvatska Zajednica
was worth fighting for as representing the
only hope for the Croats living in America
at the time.
He was right, of course. Furthermore,
he had succeeded in saving the 1895 Con-
vention Delegates from themselves = no
small accomplishment in those "anti-hun-
kie" days.
So, the name of President Ivan Liubic
and the Lodge 1 Hall at 1916 East Ohio
Street, North Side Pittsburgh, are not just
two more pen entries in the historical led
gers of the Society of today
In fact, there would be no celebration in
the Lodge 1 Hall on Sunday, March Is,
1859, had President Ljubic been a weak
leader during the course of that stormy
Convention of 1895, the year they separa-
ted the men from the boys.
He was THE difference
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
Is This The End?

T MAY WE'LL be that the staging March
! 14-15, 1859, in Steelton, Penna., of the
Societys 10Th Annual Basketball Tourna-
ment will decide the future of these once
popular hardwood classics
We say as much because the time has
come to take an agonizing appraisal Of
what is about to transpire in Steelton
The pure and simple facts of life are
that only four (4 teams are entered in
this years Senior Division of play and but
six (6) in the Junior Division to prove =
if nothing else - that organized basketball
interest within the Croatian Fraternal Uni
on is as dead as the proverbial dodo
The decline of basketball as a major
CFU sport has been gradual and can be
attributed in the main to the high cost of
flooring a Lodge or Nest team.
Few Lodges - even fewer Junior Order
Nests - are in financial position to out
fit a basketball team, see it through organ
lied seasonal play, and send it to tourna-
ment many miles and dollars removed from
it's home surroundings.
But this is by no means peculiar to the
Croatian Fraternal Union alone.
No. The days Of independent basketball
in America are done. Fan interest in the
sport has been taken over lock, stock and
barrel by high school, college and profess
sional teams
So it is that there are no longer in ex-
istence CFU Basketball Leagues: nor any
semblance of a request in recent years for
the Home Office to bring about the organ
ization of such circuits
So it is that interest in the Society's An
nual Natl CD Basketball Tournaments is
now at, to put it mildly rock bottom.
So it follows that the Delegates to the
Tournament Meeting in Steelton this week.
end should think twice before they throw
this editorial over their shoulder and de-
eide to carry on in spite of the growing odds
against them
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
Alcros On Rise

CoEARHEADED BY the recruiting ef
y forts in 1858 Of bro. William ]. Zivitz,
who has his heart set on winning a 1860
trip to Yugoslavia, the members of cal
eros" Lodge 720, Aliquippa, Pa, now rep
resent the Society's second largest English
Speaking Lodge in Western Pennsylvania.
The "Alcros" passed the 2OO-mark in
membership on Feb. /, 1859, and are now
second only to Liberty Lodge 234, Pitts
burgh, with 258 members, on the CFU's
West Penn E.S.L. scene.
Our congratulations to the members of
"Alcros" Lodge 720 on this near miracu-
lous - for these times - achievement; and
to bro Zivitz our sincerest best wishes for
continued good campaign hunting" in
1859 and the realization of his fond dream
of visiting Yugoslavia in 1860.
oOf the many such units of long stand
ing in this area, only 10 Western Pennsyl-
vania CFU English Speaking Lodges can
point today to memberships of 100 or more.
They are as follows:
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IVI Croats had left Rome
and moved to Paris because
Italy had become less and less
propitious to their political
activities. A general meeting
was held in Paris at the Ho-
tel Madison, where it was de-
cided on April 80, 1915, to
form a Yugoslav Committee,
instead of Croatian, with
Trumbic as President.
On May 6, Mr.. Declasse re-
ceived a delegation of this
Committee who had brought
a Memorandum listing nation
al territories of the Southern
Slavs in the following order:
(a) Serbia and Montenegro;
(b) Bosnia and Herzegovina;
(c) Dalmatia with all islands;
'(d) Croatia and Slavonia
with Rijeka and Medjumurje;
(e) Southern part of Hungary
in the River Drava valley,
formerly Vojvodina, Backa
and Banat; e. Istria with is
lands and Trieste; (g) Carni-.
ola and Gorizzia; and CHI
Southern Carinthia and the
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
=1894-1959:
IOJF"IJCJ---~-
T. r. u
Goth Anniversary
BY Stephen F. Brkich
- English Editor -
Fourth Convention

. The 4th Convention of
the Hrvatska Zajednica, to-
day the multi-million dollar
Croatian Fraternal Union of
America, was held June 21-3O,
1897, in Wagner Hall, Nc
Keesport, Penna.
There were Is officers and
81 delegates present as Ivan
Ljubic opened the Convention
with the hope that the ses-
sions would be harmonious
and productive" In the end,
it took all Of nine days to
bring this Convention to a
close.
After the usual prelimina-
ries, President Ljubic asked
for a report on the strength
Of the organization.
Treasurer Josip Buneta re-
ported to the delegates that
the Society's cash on hand a.
mounted to $3,229.58. How
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
BY V. 1. Mandich
Supreme President

ventiOn will be held in De-
trOit. The Supreme Board
has already entered into an
agreement with the Statler
Hotel, calling for the open
ing of the convention on
Monday, September 21st.
The agreement covers that
whole week. 1t Is anticipa-
ted that the convention will
adjourn the following Sat-
urday afternoon, Septem-
ber 26th.
In so far as the Supreme
Board and the Executive
Board are concerned, an Or
der of business and rules of
order will be prepared, calling
for the completion of the con-
vention's work in six days. If
something unforeseen delays
the order Of business, the con-
vention will have to hold eve
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
Philadelphia Conc|ave Cost cFU s175,q5b33
Detroit Next Convention Ctv
THE TIME is drawing near

HE llME Id drawing near
] when, over the signatures
of the Supreme President and
the Supreme Secretary of the
Croatian Fraternal Union, a
call will be issued for the con-
vening of the tenth regular
convention.
In recent weeks we have re-
ceived several letters from
our members, requesting in
TO r m a ii o n concerning the
next convention. I do not
think it will be a1niss to set
out some of these answers
for the information of those
who are interested.
For example, members en-
ployed in mines and mills are
asking when the convention
will be held and it's approx
mate duration, to enable them
to make arrangements for
their vacations at their places
Of employment.
BY decision of the Ninth
Convention, the tenth con-
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11

nlng sessions.
May Keep Cost Down
The question of convention
expenses paid by the Society
will have to be considered.
From the last convention to
date, we have deposited in a
special account the sum Of
$4,000 annually from the
general administration fund,
and $4,000 from the Junior
Order administration fund,
to cover the expenses of the
tenth convention. With ac-
crued interest, the Convention
account now totals $147,772.-
81.
T h e Eighth Convention,
which was held in Los Ange-
les in 1851, cost the Society
S167, 1924. Per diems paid
the delegates for time spent
travelling were $40 and for at
tending the convention, $40.
The Ninth Convention, held
Detroit = p. 1O)
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
BY Stjepan Gazi
Member, Lodge 20

Southern Styria with ada
cent part of southwestern
Hungary.
Russian Says "Nyet''
The Committees President
Trumbic in an interview with
the Russian Ambassador L.
volski explained to the latter
the Committees plan to unite
the Croats and Slovenes with
Serbia.
Izvolski declared that such
a plan was contrary to the
Russian policy which would
not admit the mingling Of
peoples belonging to the Or
thodox faith with adherents
of other creeds and that,
therefore, Russia would never
allow a union between Catho-
lie Croats and Slovenes with
Orthodox Serbs.
He WAS even more expi-
cit to H. .Wiclkham Steed
some days later on the sub
ject insisting that the
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young CFU students in the United States
and Canada.
This will mark the first time since the
chartering June u, 1858, of the Founda-
ton that a Lodge of the Society has done
as much in behalf of what we dubbed
months ago as Operation Education CF'U'
and have since been selling with all the
editorial forces at our command.
. We are already on record Feb. 18,
1852 with editorial recognition of what the
members of Versailles Lodge 146 are about
to do in behalf of the CF'U Scholarship
Foundation Inc We are no less grateful to
them at this time.
We are equally as grateful to Burgess
Zolton Fazekas for his civic gesture, for
in issuing his proclamation he has brought
the Foundation to the attention of every
citizen of the Borough of Versailles.
That he might have done so because he
happens to be a member of Versailles CFU
Lodge 146 is of no great Importance.
After ALL a man doesn't have to be
member of the CFU to do good deed.
What matters is that Burgess Fazekas is
interested in educating young people to
such an extent that he was perfectly will
ing to issue proclamation calling attention
to the Scholarship Foundation.
Thank you very much bro. Fazekas.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
Russia Opposed Union Of CroaiaM and Sebans
Yuqosfavia In World History

Croats must remain by
themselves.
On May 8, 1915, the men,
bers of the Committee settled
in London. They had scarcely
done so when they addressed
a Manifest of the Yugoslav
Committee, similar to the one
of Paris, to the British Nation
and the Parliament on May
IL.
Paste Assures Italy
The political activities Of
the Yugoslav Committee were
directed towards the follow
ing goals:
1. - Liberation of the
Southern Slavs from Austria
Hungary through dissolution
of the Habsburg Monarchy.
2. = 10 prevent Articles 4
and 5 of the London Treaty,
which conceded Croatian and
Slovenian lands to Italy, from
being applied.
3. - To bring about the
union of Austrian Southern
Slavs, Serbia, and Montenegro
(Seven Point p. III
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
Salute TOCFU

BECAUSE HE IS sincerely interested in
d the undertaking, Burgess zolton Faze-
kas of that community has seen fit to pro-
claim Saturday, March IA, 1859, as Gro
attain Fraternal Union Scholarship Founda-
ton Day" in Versailles, Penna.
The proclamation, executed several
weeks ago, appears on page Z of this issue
and comes on the eve of the Versailles
Lodge 146 Banquet to be held Saturday
evening, March IA, in honor Of all members
of Lodge 146 who have been affiliated with
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There's Nothing Quite Like Letting Off Steam
Detroit Cleveland Correspondents Let Their Hair Down

Further, I have questioned
whether we are actually
growing as our campaigns
would indicate - or are these
merely paper figures which
a careful analysis could blow
up.
According to brother Bel
las Feb. II, 1859, article, the
latter is true. We then have
a problem before us which we
should attempt to solve, since
we do not build the Zajednica
if on the one hand we sign up
twenty new members, and on
the other we lose 10 or 21
through cash surrenders or
expulsions.
1 know from the exper-
fence of the past year in
my own Lodge that we
have lost untold numbers of
members through cash sur
re n d ers who, perhaps,
might have been saved to
the organization.
This is a job each Lodge
official must work on day and
night, not only how to sign
up new members, but most
important, how to keep those
we have signed up into men,
bership.
I see I have prattled on
long enough, but I intend to
write again on this subject.
I just wanted to let you
know that not only as a cam
paigner for the CFU but as
a longtime Lodge official
and, I think, a faithful work
er for the CFU, I am inter-
ested that the members be
told the truth about our oper-
ations.
If something is wrong, we
should be told about it, rather
than be constantly busted
with the Pollyanna powder OF
= "everything is rosy and won
derful' only to wake up some
morning and find that the
huge organization is no longer
there.
Sincerely,
Mariana Relich
! Member, Lodge 351
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11

While l realize that some of
our older members, who like
to see more in the Croatian
Section, might have been put
out by all the space taken by
the English Section, I think
that occasionally it is a good
idea to put some of our acti-
vities in the English Section
since the day is not too far
off when, of necessity, our
work will be carried on in
that language.
AS an old (not in age, but
in experience) campaigner, ]
was particularly gratified at
your listing all of the per-
sons who are signing up peo-
pie in the CF'U.
However, at the same
time, 1 was a bit shocked at
the other information. For
some time now l have been
curious about the actual
net success of our men,
bership campaigns.
For instance, / have felt
very strongly about campaign
trip prizes being given out be-
fore the new members sc
signed have been in member
ship for at least six months
This, as you will recall, oc.
Cured in the last Yugoslavia
campaign, where the trip was
taken the same year as the
campaign took place.
BY the time some of the
campaigners took the trip
some of the people they hac
signed into me m b e r s h i p
merely to ensure them the
right to make the trip, hac
long ceased to be members OF
the CFU. This is morally anc
economically wrong for us tc
dOi
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11

the Croatian Fraternal
Union for As or more
years.
Sign fl c a n IT, y, the
members of Lodge 146
will turn over the net
proceeds of the March IA
festivities to the Direc-
tors of the Croatian Fra
ternal Union Scholarship
Foundation, Inc, for use
in conjunction with their
ambitious program of ed
,,oo@;on poopy decarvinp q
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11

In addition to being the only double
century E.S.L. units in Western Pennsylva-
MIA, the members of Pittsburgh Lodge 234
and Aliquippa Lodge 720 are also assured
of electing their own Delegate to the CFUs
10th Natl Quadrennial Convention, to be
held at Detroit next September
We would say that the other Lodges
in the above group can do likewise.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1959-03-11
Dear bro. Brkich:
5O14 Oaks Rd.
Brecksville, Ohio

Dear bro. Brkich:
To be frank with you, those
behind the recently organized
Cleveland Junior Tamburitza
Orchestra are depending a lot
on you for your cooperation
in publicizing our new organi-
zation.
AS large as Cleveland is,
our people are so disorgan-
lied when it comes to cultural
activities and it has affected
our bowling leagues, too, for
we have no organized mems
teams.
We are a young group of
parents of different lodges
trying hard to succeed in
spite of all the pickering of
our senior members here.
Because we are of the age
bracket when earning a living
and raising our young chill
dren are our main concern, we
don't have time to look in the
past to find out why our lod-
ges here don't get along; all
we want is to teach our chill
dren here our Croatian songs
and dances and, of course,
the tambura.
I played one for 10 years
in McKeesport, Pennsylvania,
and I know from experience
what an exciting social life
the children can have.
Thank you for taking time
out to hear one "Crow" who
just won't be discouraged.
We have 19 children signed
in already; not bad for two
IllOHllIlS.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Helen Kleps
Member, Lodge 80
X
165 Colorado
Highland Park 8, Mich.
Dear bro. Brkich:
May I take a few moments
of your time to commend you
on the English Section of the
Zajednicar for the week of
Eohyu,ovry II 1OSO