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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
PURPLE HEART ORDER
AWARDED LOCAL MAN
Citation Is Made by Secretary of
War to Mark E. Archer.

The medal of the Order of the
Purple Heart has been awarded to
Mark E. Archer, general counsel for
the Empire Life and Accident In
surance Company, in recognition of
wounds suffered in action in the
World war. The citation was made
by the secretary of war.
Archer. a second lieutenant of
Company E, One hundred nine
teenth infantry, twice was wounded
in action. Once he was wounded at
Bellecourt when the Hindenburg
line was broken and at st. BENIN,
France.
Archer, general counsel for the
Empire Life since 1928, is prominent
in social and political life here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03

secretary CLAUDE A.
Swanson called at
the White House
and urged t h e
n a al expansion
program be written
into the public
works bill.
President Roose-
welt is expected to
send the public
works bill to con-
gress within the
next ten days.
Bitterly condemn
ing Budget Direc-
tor Lewis w. Doug
las, Robinson said
not only would the
navy suffer. but the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
CE SHAKES FORTUNE OUT OF DEPRESSION REALTY
Neo0 Yorker; Undauzd by Buys Can and Profits Hugely

For all the economic stress of the last
three years few energetic business
men have succeeded in assembling for
tunes BY judicious MANAGEMENT or
lucky speculation. by careful purchas-
ing Of real estate and enterprises thev
have established secure positions for
themselves. while 90 per cent Of us
George Britt will tell in a series of
articles OF which this is the first. The
tale OF Benjamin Winter is that of a
man downed BY the depression who out
of his wreckage started building a new
nrosnerifV.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
BY GEORGE BRITT
Times Special Writer

DLACK FRIDAY-not mean
- ing any of the days so
called since October, 1929, but the
original Black Friday, Sept. "a.
1869-cost many business men
their shirts and some their lives
but Jay Gould came out about
$11,OO0,O00 or S12,o0O,OOO ahead.
During the panic of 1897, John
Jacob Aston went around with
ready cash buying up mortgages
and deprecated bonds, thereby
increasing to some $4,000. 900
that fortune which was the larg-
est in America when he died.
j. P. Morgan Sr. found profit
in the hard times of 1895. doing
well on an issue of government
bonds, and likewise in 1907, when
United States Steel, under cover
and threat of the crisis, was able
without legal interference to
swallow Tennessee Coal and Iron.
Nearly all the greater fortunes
have been founded or vastly in
creased in times of depression.
Their architects perceived oppor-
tunity while contemporaries were
bewailing the unmiXed disaster.
1t is true today, too, that some
of the rich are becoming richer
and few Of the poor are begin
ming to exhibit pleasantly hope
full and opulent manner.
In all the hard time periods
since 1893, j. Clarence Davies, the
Bronx real estate dealer, has
bought land. He remarked upon
it the other day, at the same time
pointing out that he has taken
advantage of the present situa-
ton to invade Manhattan, pick
ing up good buys in Seventh av-
enue and in Wall Street.
Colonel Jacob Rupert has &C
quired two Office buildings, thir-
ty-five and thirty-six stories re-
spectively, in Forty-fourth street.,
On any general recovery of bust
ness, these deals almost certainly
will appear as bargains of the
first class.
NTOW, if a fortune is to he
L made on real estate, one of
the most ardently hopeful bidders
in New York is Benjamin Winter,
that deceptive and ingratiating ex-
house painter, formerly accused of
driving the Astors and Wander
bits out of Fifth avenue"
He had a fortune once, before
his bank loans obliterated it. He
would be glad to make it back and
at present he at least is or his
way.
IF 1 liquidated today" he said.
smiling, in his Office, Il think 1
would have 100000 cash profit
made in the last two months. But
1 am not liquidating today"
The rise of Benjamin Winter is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
Negro Reports Stabbing

Slashed and stabbed in the face,
chest and on the hands and arms,
Robert Haynes, Negro, 1856 Manlove
avenue, lay all Monday night on
dump ground between Manlove and
Baltimore avenues. The attack was
reported Tuesday night to police. He
could not describe the assailant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03


my Office then and sat at my ell
bow"
The Winter story step by step
will be familiar to many a de-
preston victim. Soon it appeared
that one building after another
not only could not earn interest
on its bank loans, but could not
even support taxes and mortgage
interest. And the bankers man
at his elbow said to let the build
ings go.
Three were tossed back to the
mortgage holders. Four more,
we're marked down for the same
fate as a total loss.
DENJAMIN WINTER again
- went into conference with his
bankers. In daily sessions for
months they sought some alter
native to his own proposal, which
was this:
You take everything and let
me go. I can do nothing so long
as I am chained up like this. and
both parties of us are doomed to
financial suicide.
Give me a general release for
five years before 1 have to settle
up my debts to you. You take all
the assets and all the property
that has any value to you. Just
give me the bones that you are
going to throw away anyhow"
Such was Winters proposition.
He made it first in the summer of
1882, and in December the banks
accepted it. They took whatever
properties were earning money or
had promise of earning.
They gave him the "bones,"
which assuredly had paper value
of around 100000, but an actual
market value of nothing at all.
He walked out liberated for five
years from worry about his debts,
with unimpared acuteness for
values and with a good name in
the community, but he was finan-
cially broke.
Since then" he said today, not
without pride, "the pieces Of prop
erty the banks chose to keep,
they have lost. And the bones
they threw me have been we'll
supported"
kTONEY he must have, obvious
4V1 ly, if he were to become a
trader again. The bones" given
back had been picked bare. If
any money chung to them, it was
earmarked for rigidly fixed
charges.
But he was good at making
settlements and compromises. He
dickered.
Maybe $4,000, or at most .$15,-
000," he admitted today as to the
amount he was able to scrape to-
gether to prime the pump for a
new start.
But what is more important,
think, is that 1 imagine I can
convince a seller better than most
men that it is to his advantage to
! trade with me.
Sometimes they take back a
purchase money mortgage for
practically the whole amount of
cash due.
Il tell him, eff you are trying to
get the most money you can all
in a lump I am not your man.
But if you let me have this for a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03

army be reduced below the level
allowed Germany under the terms
of the Versailles treaty.
Robinson declared Douglas was a
young untried director, who is be-
ing permitted to experiment with
the budget to the detriment of the
nation"
Swanson revealed that navy train
ing stations throughout the nation
may be closed if the administration s
proposed naval economy plan is
carried out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
ARMY PLANES TO CITY
los Will Refuel at Municipal Air
port on May TO Maneuvers.

Arrangements for refueling 10S
army planes, which will land at mu-
nicipal airport between May Is and
81, with 5000 gallons of gasoline
have been made between Central
Aeronautical Corporation and army
officials.
The planes will be en- route from
Wright field TO maneuyers and bat
tie practice at Fl. Knox, Ky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
Burglar Vandal Is Hunted

Police today were seeking a
vandal burglar who damaged the
confectionery of Mrs. r. M Cuth-
ridge, 3037 Park avenue, Tuesday
night. A quantity of gum and
candy was stolen and candy strewn
over the floor and ground under the
intruder's heels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
State Forester Aid Named

Herschell Wood, FIT. Wayne, has
been appointed assistant stat
forester to succeed Joseph Kaylor,
INDIANAPOLIS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03

Elvin hotel, 665 East Forty-ninth
street, traded Ford fordor sedan
from a four-day swap ad costing
S148.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
Navy Economy Program
Hit By Arthur Robinson
By United Press


WASHINGTON, May 3Senator Arthur Robinson Ind,
Tuesday charged
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03
Ndzi Government Takes
Over Banking in Germany
By United Press


3.-After "harmonizng" throughout
Germany the Naz
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03

heels of the opening of the navy's
fight for $46.000.000 ship construc-
ton program, which began when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-03

Wages paid children have
reached the vanishing point" &C
cording to Mrs. Clara NJ. Boyer Of
the federal department of labor.
An independent survey by Mrs.
Boyer disclosed the average weekly
wage for children in Pennsylvania in
1926 was So Now it is So, with
many paid less than 81.
Scores Of sweat shops employ
working forces, more than half Of
whom are less than 18 years of age.
More than half the children in
Pennsylvania of l6 and II years left
school last year to work for miser-
ably low wages.
Thousands of these children, sole
support of their families, are work.
ing for less than the standard re-
lief grant doled out by the Ttate
and local welfare agencies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
.NEWSPAPERMAN
 GETS SIX MONTHS ] IN COUNTY JAIL
Dale Wallace of Hartford
 Tried to Work Hoax 5 in Kidnapping

: Hartford, Conn, Dec 6.-(UP)-
 ' Dale Wallace, 39, a free lance local < newspaperman who tried to perpe-
 trate a Kidnapping hoax. to-day, was sentenced to serve six months in
 1. the county jail when he pleaded
 < guilty to charge of disturbing the \ peace. Wallace was brought before
 Judge John Bailey, Tn police court.
 !. Tho charge was read and Wallace
 < entered his plea. There was no
 testimony and no defense was off, ] fered.
 Wallace sought to place himself in a hero's role Monday night when < he reported overhearing two men
 \ plotting to kidnap the nine-year- old < daughter of Mayor J. Watson Beach unless they were paid $5,000.
 i. Wallace notified police and later
 ! pointed out a car in which he said ! the suspected were riding.
 Suspicious of the story, police questioned Wallace. Late yesterday
 ] he confessed he had faked the en-
 tire story.
 Police said he admitted it was he ] who telephoned the Beach home, { making the Kidnapping threat and : demanding the money.
 Police said they did not believe \ Wallace intended to carry out his
 threat. Beach was scheduled to be inaugurated mayor of Hartford
 yesterday, and they say Wallace : saw a chance to get favorable pub ' licity by turning up the purported
 Kidnapping plot. As it was, Ann, the child, went to school accompanied { by detectives, and later saw her ' father sworn in, still with a detec- ] tive at her side.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06

Melbourne, Australia, (UP)-An air race from London to Melbourne for a prize of approximately $75,- 900, planned as 0 feature of next years exposition celebrating Mel bourne's tooth birthday, promises to become one of the most spec tacular aviation races ever staged.
 Due to the attractive prize money, an unprecedented number of well known aviators in both England and Australia are seeking planes to, enter in the race.
 Air Commodore Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Australia's most famous aviator, believes the flight will be made in three days. Kings ford Smith recently set 8 new record of seven, days for the long hazardous hop from London to Australia. If he can obtain 8 plane capable of cruising 200 miles an hour, Kingsford Smith said he would participate in the race.
 Sir MacPherson Robertson, Mel bourne resident, who personally advanced the prize money for the race, has intimated he will have racing plane specially constructed for Kingsford Smith to pilot in the race.
 As the capital of Australia ap- breaches it's centenary, controversy has again arisen as to who was the real founder of Melbourne. The question has never been settled. The honor will be shared during the centennial celebration next year between John Batman and John PascOe Fawkner.
 It was Batman who rowed up the Yarra River from it's mouth to where the city now stands. and wrote in his diary: "This will be a good place for a village" The "village' now has more than 800,- 900 inhabitants.
 OficiaIs of the commonwealth are hopeful the Prince of Wales will be able to accept an invita- tion to attend the exposition, plans for which have been laid out on an extensive scale. The government has appropriated funds for an ad- vertisiong campaign in the United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
COMPANIES JOIN
 IN SEA SURVEY
All Intent on Common Aim Many Routes Being
 Considered

New York-(UP)-Progress on the transatlantic air survey, sponsored by leading operating companies of five nations, is reach ing the final stage, according to latest reports from aviation in- terests.
 In the last few weeks interest in overseas routes has reached a high pitch as result of Lind- bergh's north Atlantic survey and the governments interest in sea- drome way-stations and an ele- vated airport over the New York docks on the Hudson river.
 American, British, Dutch, Ger man and French companies, co- operating toward 8 common aim, are expecting early reports from field parties whose work is about completed.
 More than half dozen routes now are under consideration. Col lection of data on the western side of the Atlantic is largely in the Hands of Pan-American Airways' Imperial Airways, Lufthansa, Air France and KIM of Holland are completing surveys in the eastern part of the Atlantic. Pan-Amertcan is awaiting a full report from Lind- bergh on his survey.
 According to a pre-arranged plan all bodies now cooperatinng in the Atlantic survey will exchange data. From the information, tke individ- ual operators will be able to de- eide on the most favorable route. ana extension of their respective lines across the Atlantic is ex- pected' to follow shortly after.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
FRENCH URGING
 NEW AIR FIELDS
Private AirdrOmes Get En- cOuragement From
 Government
BY SAMUEL DASHIELL United Press Staff Correspondent


 Paris, (UP)-The French gov- ernment is encouraging the devel- 4opment of private airdromes, both on land and water, and tho decree setting forth the requirements has just been published.
 Approved by the ministry of air, tho regulations provide that any Individual possessing a suitable landing field. or an expanse of wa ter, may. on proper application to the prefect of police, use the air. drome for private uses, or for friends.
 The owners must present at the prefecture @ regulation plan of the terrain, or basin, and evidences of ownership of the property and in- dications as to how it is to be used. Within ten days the prefect will au- thorize the use of the property as an airdrome, or reject the proposal. The proprietors of private air. dromes must keep a complete reg ister of arrivals and departures of planes, and their property must at all times be open to visit and in- spection by accredited representa- tives of the government. The decree also stipulates that official signals must be established by which navigators can be sig naled, or can signal to those below. It is noted that because certain aerial evolutions assume the nature of @ public spectacle, certain air. dromes may be opened for period not exceeding three days for spec tacle purposes providing the enter prise conforms to certain regula- tions established by the ministry of interior,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
TOX0ID ARRIVES
 TO END SCOU!RGE
M. D. Drives 50 Miles Through Snow and Ice
 to Aid Children

Winnipegosis Village. Man, Dec 6-(UP)-Traveling against icy winds and over snow-choked will derness trails, Dr M. B. Medd, reachead an isolated diphtheria scourged settlement 50 miles from here with toxoid to immunize 6O children.
 pr Medd and Miss D. Ring, pub lie health nurse, set out on the dangerous journey by snowmobile when word reached here yesterday that one child was dead and more were dying of diphtheria in the set- clement at Duck Bay.
 News of the outbreak reached the outside world when a dis traught father placed his stricken son, William Campbell, 5, on a dog sled and took him 16 miles through bitter cold to the Pine river Indian reservation.
 Campbell notified Dr Medd who reached the reservation only in time to see the child die. A little girl, Lydia Anderson, was the other victim of the scourge.
 Anti-toxin carried by Medd did not arrive soon enough to save the two young lives, but has been ad- ministered to the other children Medd reported to authorities today
 Toxoid, which has a more last ing effect than the apti-toxin, was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
PRETZEL ORIGIN
 PROVES PUZZLE
Penn Internal Affairs Dept Seeks Solution to | Mystery

Harrisburg, Pa, (UP)--The origin of the twisted delicacy-- inc pretzel-has been the source of considerable comment among officials of the Pennsylvania De- partment of Internal Affairs. The Keystone State, with an annual production of the delicacy
 valued at between $3,000,000 and s4.OOO.0OO is believed the greatest producing state in the United
 States. Last year this state pro- duced more than 22,000,000 pounds
 since the return of beer> and the increase in popularity of the pretzel, numerous queries have come to the department from other staets regarding its origin
 which apparently still remains somewhat of a mystery. According to one story, the pretzel originated in Germany. It was supposedly developed by some German monks, who called l 1t the prayer cake" because its hsape represented arms folded as in prayer.
 Another story gives credit to the Romans for. its origin. According to this version, the Romans trans formed the word "annus" into "annulus" meaning "year ring, and the pretzel as they developed it represents the year, with the smokes running from the center representing the four seasons. State officials estimated that the production in 1883 would reach a new high.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
RUM ROW BEGINS
 FRESH ACTIVITIES
Suitable Weather Awaited to Run in COntraband
 Liquors

New London, Conn.,, Dec. 6 = (UP)-Renewed activity by rum runners now lying off the Atlantic coast, was indicated today.
 At Coast Guard headquarters here 1t was said radio messages, passing between the rum boats and their land bases, had been in- tercepted. The messages indicated the runners would try to run their wares in as soon as the weather was suitable.
 Coast Guard officials expressed the view that repeal would not mean the end of rum smuggling. The import duties charged on for eign liquor still will make it profit able to run the stuff in illegally when possible, they said. The big boats carry loads on which the duty, if paid. would amount to around $75,000. they said.
 There are now about six of the big boats lying outside the 12 mile limit, according to advices re- ceive dat the base here. Dark cloudy weather will be the signal for the start of activities. with the small speedy boats taking their loads from the big boats.
 The base here has nearly two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06

Motions in 64 cases will be heard Friday in the short calendar ses- sion to be held before Judge Newell Jennings. The calendar is one of the heaviest in years, due to the fact that there was no short calen- dar session last Friday owing to Thanksgiving.
 Included in the motions to be heard are matters in eight receiv- erships, five divorces, 15 foreclos- ures an dthree motions asking the setting aside of defendants yer diets.
 Important motions will be heard in the Marchents Trust Co. receiv- ership, in which there are 10 mo- tions listed. One of them asks in. structions relative to the sale or Home Owners Loan Corp. bonds to depositors for their deposits in the closed bank. The receiver has talk en in over $100,000 worth of these bonds through liquidation of mort gages. The receiver proposes selling these bonds to depositors Tor the1r deposits at small discount.
 Another motion asks the court to fix the status of the claim or the Waterbury National bank, receiver for the Sanditz 6 Traurig bank. The latter bank has 8 $40,00O cer- tificate of deposit in the Merchants Trust Co.,, upon which Judge Jen- nings recently ruled. The court is asked to determine whether the certificate is a commehcial or say ings account or whether 1t should be listed among "other liabilities as a common claim.
 The. divorces to be heard are those of Florence Kurtz Chapin against Charles A. Chapin, Alice Riggles Hurst against Ernest Q. Hurst, Martha Breux against Ovide Breaux, Myrtle G. Holmes against Forrest K. Holmes and Concetta
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
LATE REALTY NEWS

The following real estate trans actions have been filed at the office of the town clerk:
 Mortgage Deeds Mamie WenZel Pierce to the Home Owners Loan Corp. property at 22 Arch street, $5,750.
 Mortgage Releases Marie A. Geryais to Grace Bacon Tucker. Louis Oedell to John and Augusta WenZel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
Marriage Intentions

The following marriage inten- tions have been filed at the town clerks office:
 Walter r. Ryan of Welch street, and Helen B. Ouellette of 181 Bald win avenue.
 Thomas Flynn of 40 Prospect street and Katheryn Spencer of 50 Johnson street.
 Gene A. Rosselli of 148 Alder street and Marie F. Long of 60 Giles street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
DELEGATES FROM
 AMERICA WATCH

Montevideo. Uruguay, Dec G. '(UP)-United States delegates to the Pan American conference were on the defensive to-day, watching efforts of Latin American dele gates to inject the debt and tariff problems into discussions. At each committee of the conference, the problems bobbed up.
 Cordull Hull, chief United States delegate, was expected to-day to see the Brazilian chief delegate, Foreign Minister Afranio De Mello Franco to ascertain his views on the statements made by other dele gates regarding debt and tariff questions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
GET s5 TONS OF LITERATURE

San Francisco = (UP) Thirty five. tons of literature, costing San Francisco's taxpayers $10,000 in postage alone, went to registered voters for the Nov. election, Reg istrar Collins announced recently. Each voter was required to read 76,S00 words about the various candidates and propositions, Col lins stated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
DISCOVERY DATE DELAYS
 PLANS

Montreal = (U.P.) - Plans for celebrating the Tooth anniversary of the discovery of Canada are be- ing delayed because of a group of citizens are not sure when the country will be 400-years-old. Some members of the committee in charge of the celebration insist that the event should be held in 1884. others are equally sure that 1t should be held in 1885.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-06
Heavy Docket Set
 For Short Session
54 Motions to Be Heard By Judge Jennings Friday
 10 Bank Actions Are Scheduled

Gimelli against Gesuelle Gimelli.
 The motions asking the setting aside of verdicts are listed in the cases of Francesca Aprile and Rose Rubino,, against the Colonial Trust Co.,, trustee for the Elisha Leaven- worth Foundation, Inc, and Joseph Marcinkus against Albert A. Rice. Superior court juries returned ver- diets in favor of the defendants in all three cases. The motions are those of the plaintiffs.