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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Oppose Pipeline Construction

Stockholders of Company That
Owns Mich. Consolidated Assail Plan

Stockholders of American Light
and Traction Co., owner of Mich-
igan Consolidated Gas Co., are
opposing the plans of Michigan
Consolidated for construction of
an $84,000,000 natural gas pipe
line system from the Southwest
to Michigan.
They are charging that a
scheme is in progress to "shove
down the throats" of such stock-
holders shares of stock in the
proposed pipe line company, in
the place of cash to which they
are entitled, as a process in the
dissolution of their company.
This challenge was flung to the
individuals comprising the man
agements of American Light and
Traction and of Michigan Con-
solidated during recent hearings
before the Securities and Ex-
change commission in Philadel-
phia. The stockholder spokesman
was Alfred A. Cook, New York
City attorney for Allied Chemical
• and Dye Corp., owner of 234,000
shares of preferred stock of
American Light and Traction Co.
Cook informed the federal body
that in all his experience he could
not recall "any situation ever
where a management boldly,
coldly, determines upon a specula.
tive venture such as this (Michi-
gan Consolidated pipe line proj•
ect), entailing an outlay before'
they get through of close to 100
million dollars, can go forward
and tell their beneficiaries, or
those who are in law their bene-
ficiaries, if not actually so by rea.
son of conduct."
"We will give you the equiva-
lent of pipe line securities for the
cash which the Commission says
should be yours because you are
not serving any more a useful
purpose and you must be liquid-
ated and dissolved.'"
American Light and Traction is
also the largest single holder of
the common stock of Detroit Ecli
son Co., but is being required by
the federal commission to dispose
of that ownership. The Commis-
sion has refused to permit the
stock to be sold, however, as the
means of financing Michigan Con-
solidated's pipe line project.
Under public utility holding
company act requirements, the
American Light and Traction is
facing dissolution. The stockhold-
er represented by Cook is resist-
ing the use of company funds for
the proposed pipe line construc-
tion, referring to it as of "an un-
tried or speculative nature".
"How can the Commission," he
asked, "take the responsibility of
determining whether, as years go
on, and those who have reached
quasi-maturity, such as myself,
pass on, that which has been built
is as good as the cash to which
the shareholders are entitled upon
distribution?"
Michigan Consolidated is oppos-
ing efforts of Panhandle Eastern
Pipe Lino Company to assure to
Detroit a permanent and adequate
natural gas supply, starting dur-
ing the present year.
Instead, it seeks federal per-
mission to construct its own pipe
line system, which could not be
completed before 1952.
The City of Detroit, however, is
asking federal approval of Pan-
handle Eastern's expansion pro-
gram.

Winokur Auxiliary
Elects Officers

The Ladles Auxiliary of the Lt.
Jack Winokur Post No. 268, Jew-
ish War Veterans of the United
States, held election of officers
July 19.
The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:
Sylvia Lipson, president; An-
nette Horwitz, senior vice-presi-
dent; Marilyn Heydt, junior vice-
president; Mollye Kazdan, treas.
urer; Laura Feldstein, corres-
ponding secretary; Dorothy Figo.
ten, chaplain; Diana Gordon, con.
ductress; Cell Beresh, judge ad-
vocate; Yetta Steinberg and Lil-
lian Soberman, trustees, and Glo-
ria Steinhart and Esther Coven-
sky, guard.
Installation of officers dinner
will be held at the Book Cadillac.
Tuesday, Sept. 10. Call Renee Fox,
TO. 6-3445, for reservations.
The next business meeting will
be held at JWV headquarters on
Wednesday, Sept. 4.

Jewish Youth Joins War on Famine Sentence Pogrom
Leaders to Death

Capital Letter

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to be a guarantee that freedom of
religious expression exists, at least
over American air waves.
A California man, who stated
his position as an atheist, asked
for time on three radio stations
so that he could state the case of
atheism and refute arguments
against atheism made by church-
men who, he felt, were given a
great deal, of air time in which tc
express their views. He coin.
plained that by refusing to grant
him time on the air the radio sta-
tions were not presenting all sides
of this very controversial issue of
"the existence or non-existence of
a divine being."
Although the Commission re-
fused to revoke the licenses of the
stations involved, the FCC me.
morandum supported the atheist's
position and pointed out that free.
dom to believe also meant free
dom to disbelieve.
It is dangerous, they said, that
the unsound be permitted to flour.
ish for want of criticism. "Im-
munity from criticism cannot be
granted to religion without, at the
same time, granting it to those
who use the guise of religion to
further their ends of personal
profit or power, to promote their
own particular political or eco.
nomic philosophies, or to give
vent to their personal frustrations
and hatred."

HERZOG, BIDAULT CONFER
PARIS (WNS) —Chief Rabbi
Isaac Herzog, of Palestine, who
arrived here last week from
Prague en route to London, con-
ferred with Premier Georges Bi-
dault on the question of admit-
ting Jewish refugees to France.
No statement was issued after
the conrence.

Friday, Aug. 2, 1946

Joining with representatives of
17-youth-serving agencies in a
national conference on the role
that American youth will play in
alleviating the worldwide famine,
two delegates representing the
National Jewish Welfare Board
(JWB) are shown conferring with
Dr. Dennis A. Fitzgerald, secre-
tary general of the International

BUDAPEST, (JTA)—Three per -
sons were sentenced to death and
three received life terms after be.
ing convicted of having instigat.
ed the pogrom at Kunmadaras on
May 26, during which three Jews
were killed and more than 20 in.
jured.
Two other defendants were sen-
tenced to 15 years Imprisonment
at hard labor, confiscation of
their property and expulsion from
Kunmadaras; a policeman who
took part in the outbreak re-
ceived six years and four youths
were sentenced to long terms in
reform schools. Several other de-
fendants were acquitted.
Laszlo Sebeystyen, a Jew who
obtained "Aryan" identity papers
during the Nazi occupation, .was
sentenced to 10 years this week
for having joined the S.S.
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Emergency Food Council, follow-
ing a White House session ad-
Apartments
GOVERNMENT REPORT
dressed by President Truman.
Highest living costs, lowest rents In
25 years.
The two JWB delegates are Selma
units. All 3 rms. tiled baths,
Singer of the Jewish Educational 20
showers, new stoves, new refrig.
Alliance, Baltimore, and Isaac Al-
Absurd rents $9,000. Near proposed
cabes of the Jewish Settlement Lodge expressway. $96,000 bldg. Job.
House of the East Side in New Liquidate Corp. only $50,000,
50 units. Nr. expanding Wayne TM.
York.
Almurd rents $21,000. 8185,000 bldg.

Sale

job, only $125,000. Terms $50,000 to
new mtge. Wonderful buy.
Near Burns-Vernor. Big 19 apt. at-
tractive 4-6 rms. $125,000 bldg. job
Only $56,000. Terms $25,000 to our
new $30,000 mtge. 4 1,9%.
13 units. Beauty No. sect. all 3 rms.
Now tabletops, new refrig, fine cond.
Absurd rent $6,000. Only $41,500.
Terms $16,500 to our new 4SS%
mtge.
$25,000 dnn. buys 100 rm. hotel.
Was rented 812,000 opA says $28,-
000. Terms only $800 mo. Future
bonanza money here.
0 elegant terrace houses. n.w. sect.
Solid brk. All 2 bdrms. full tiled
baths, showers, open fireplaces, 1928
bldg. cost $66,000 Snap $45,500. Only
$15,000 cash to our now $30,000
mtge. Call Mr. Bedford.

Plain Talk

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the Jews and betrayed his teach- ity each owes to- all his people; to
ing as a Jew. For his offense tell them that a Jewish wrong-
against the laws, he will be ad- doer hurts many more than him-
equately punished, it is to be self in that he hurts all of us; to
hoped, but for his sin against the teach him that every Jew must
Jews he never can get fully what's live by a higher standard of mor.
coming to him; since, in accord- al conduct than is required of any
ance with the way of men all other individual, since he carries
Jews are made to carry the bur- not only responsibility for himself
den- of his sinning.
but for all his people.
In acknowledging to Mr. Bill!.
The scarcity of Jewish wrong.
kopf receipt of the copy of his doers, as discovered by Dr. Billi-
letter to Mr. Kraft I said that 1 kopf, serves only to emphasize the
hoped that our rabbis would cease great guilt of the few. To para-
long enough from their function phrase Churchill in another mat-
as international statesmen to ter, never have so few been so
preach to all Jews the responsibil. gravely responsible to so many.

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$ 122,000,000 CS FOR
THE GENERAL WELFARE"

Through the ten years ending with 1945, The Detroit Edison Company paid
taxes totaling more than $122,000,000. Those taxes were collected from us,
under the authority of the Constitution, to "provide for the common defence
and promote the general welfare."
More than $55,000,000 of that amount was paid to LOCAL units of government.
That means it went to the cities, counties, villages and townships right here at
home, in the territory which The Detroit Edison Company serves.
The tiniest village has Edison taxes in its treasury. The little red schoolhouse
got its share of the $55,000,000. Edison tax payments were a major contribution
to the funds necessary to meet the ever-growing governmental obligations of the
City of Detroit.
In 1945, Detroit Edison's local taxes passed $6,000,000, for a new high, higher
than our Federal taxes for the first time since 1940.
There is no intent either to boast or to complain about this record of tax payments.
The Detroit Edison Company prizes its position as a private citizen, and with that
position goes the obligation to be a tax payer rather than a tax consumer.
Let it also be made crystal-clear that you, the buyers of Edison power and light,
paid that $122,000,000.
It was a part of your electric bill, but it was not a charge for electricity. It WAS a
part of your cost of government.

THE' DETROIT

EDISON

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