Show Marquis ai uis Chi Childs Ids No Break Breal for forThe forThe The Taxpayer W V A ASH S H I N G T TO 0 N Never N Never give e a sucker n It break That I was as the way one of oC the ni night nightclub ht w. w club queens of oC Y N k N the I roaring tt twenties t wen tIe s t d N I greeted h her hert e r rN customers In 1 fj i t t this his present era of roaring roaring roar roar- m ing prosperity A fed by g go o 0 v vt v- v WL r i 1 t r ei b fr I lions laid on w wi with i t l h a fire Mr Childs hose it sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times seems as though that greeting could be paraphrased d Never N give gi the taxpayer a break Here is another molher example of the curiously close relationship between the commercial air tir airlines airlines lines Jines h he heavily e a v i l 1 y subsidized through h the present system of oC mail mall pay and the Civil Chil Aeronautics Aeronautics Aero Aero- Aeronautics Board which was as created created cre ere to regulate the industry It H is increasingly difficult to tell whether the C CAB A B works for the public or the air lines Although no official cial information information tion was put out about it news stories have told recently about C CABs CAB's A Bs B's investigation into Colonial Colonial Co Co- Co lonial Airlines and its president president president dent Sigmund Janas Sr and andone andone andone one of its vice presidents A.M. A. A M. M Hudson These stories were obviously b based on the leak of oC a bill of particulars prepared prepared pre pre- prepared pared by C CAB A B after a lengthy investigation into the affairs of Colonial Bought Rought Groceries This document tells an extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary ex ex- story of oC how the funds of the company were used in a variety of oC ways by Janas allegedly for his own personal profit It details the use of funds to pay for jewelry groceries and clothing in connection connection connection con con- with Janas' Janas luxury apartments in New York and Washington ton and his palatial home in Bermuda Bermud l Colonial Colon tl funds total totaling n more than 50 were used to speculate in Canadian dollars and kickbacks were reported from advertising a agencies and others performing perform perform- ing services for the line Altogether CAB C A B accountants are reported to have been unable unable unable un un- un- un able to trace through normal normal accounting procedures nearly If the funds had been contributed by stockholders ers to a private firm this might not be noteworthy But it happens that Colonial gets the second hi highest hest mail pay rate of any air line Record Subsidy This means that its subsidy from the Federal Government is proportionately larger than that of oC any ny other line and amI consequently consequently consequently con con- a considerable part of the money alleged to have been diverted to company officers officers officers of of- was furnished by the tax tax- payer What That the news stories did not show how was t as that the C CAB A B apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap entered into a deal with Janas under which he would plead nolo contendere no contest to charges brought in federal court in New York based on the thc bill of lars He would resi resign n as president president president dent of the company the direction direction direction di di- of oC which would be betaken betaken betaken taken over by an executive committee of oC three and a new president Alfons Landa a partner partner part part- ner in one of oC the bi big law firms that Janas lanas retained This is the firm of Davies Beebe Landa and Richardson in which former Senator Millard Mil Mil- lard Tydings of Maryland 1 has become a partner Janas would pay into the company immediately immediately immediately imme imme- and sign a note for to be paid over five years a position only as lS consultant to the executive executive executive tive committee U Real Kcal al Authority But knowledgeable observers who have studied this setup believe be be- lieve that Janas would continue continue con con- to exert the real authority ty in the company Landa is inexperienced in air line tion One member of the proposed proposed pro pro- proposed posed executive committee is a time long-time associate of oC Janas Another member L. L Orville Cameron was up until June 1 I an air transport examiner with the Civil Aeronautics Board Senator Paul Douglas D D. D Df Ill is holding holdin a series of hearings hearings hear hear- ings on ethics in government The Senate subcommittee of oC which Douglas is chairman is considering n R resolution by Senator J. J William Villiam Fulbright D D. D Ark on the need for appointing appointing appointing ap ap- ap- ap pointing a commission of distinguished distinguished distinguished dis dis- dis- dis citizens to review the whole problem of influence pull puB favoritism in relation to government loans and handouts hand hand- ou outs ts i 1 If the Douglas committee wants a case history that has just about everything here it is It all adds dds up to a pretty penny penn And it is John Q Taxpayer Taxpayer Tax Tax- p payer yer ti who ho picks up the tab in season and out |