Evening star., 1936-12-19
Headline Folk
and What
They Do
David Milton's $4,000
Brings Control of
S218,OOO,OOO Trust.
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON.

TINE career of David M Milton
would have made fine subject
for one Of those old Beadle and
Adams nickel novels, best Of all
haymow literature of that day or since.
In 1924 he was young lawyers clerk.
polite, reserved and circumspect in an
old-fashioned, Silk-stocking law Of
flee, with a premature touch of gray
in his hair making him look even more
solvent and dependable. Today there
is disclosed Mr.. Milton's mastery of a
$218, 900, 900 investment trust. through
an original investment Of $4,000. It
is not his first coup d'epee, all fast
tierce and riposte in the Beadle and
Adams tradition of the well-behaved
young man on the up-take.
In 1925 he married Miss Abby
Rockefeller, daughter of John D.
Rockefeller, jr. 1t was made known
that Mr.. Milton was starting from
scratch and that Mrs. Milton would
do her own houSeWork. Furthermore,
they used borrowed car, since both
were Of the pay-aS-you-go school.
But picayune installment borrowing
was one thing, and constructive busi-
ness borrowing was something else. So
young Mr.. Milton borrowed 81 ,00O, 900
from his father-in-law, built the ele-
CANT cooperative apartment house,
Beekman place, with a little niche of
his own, consisting of Sl00, 900 pent-
house with 18 rooms and baths.
This and other real estate ventures
were successful, in spite of the 1929
crash, and Mr.. Milton moved on to
1888, when he picked up the s2,O0o,-
600 Missouri State Life Insurance Co.
The business and financial community
is now aware Of the fact that young
Mr.. Milton is travelling under his
own steam and that Mrs. Abby Rocke-
feller Milton no longer does her own
housework
His father died when he was Is,
and. like Whittier's lad, he early
learned to pay his cheerful Self-re-
liant way" He was graduated from
Williams College and Columbia Law
Scool.
Gov Paul V. McNutt OF Indiana,
who wants to be Secretary of War.
is the man who. it will be remem-
bered, was built up four years ago
as the first American strong man"
The papers tagged him Americas
first dictator" this being due to O
sweeping extension of the Governors
power granted by the Indiana LegiS.
lature
He looked the part. but he didn't
do much debating. Like other Gov
ernors. he got the best break possible
on Washington relief funds, and
somehow fooled the State through the
depression badlands and did no vio-
lence TO cherished institutions He
denounced the onslaught on Earl
Browder in Terre Haute as dis
grace to the State" That's what 1t
came to-"America's first dictator"
being the first Governor to defend .
Communists right of free speech.
He is a former national commander
of the American Legion. and former
dean of the law school of the Univer-
sity of Indiana. II he got time and Q
! AAoiA 4OA ONCA WOAhs AAC DC 4AO4As
He once made 365 speeches in 365 con.
secutive days.
Tall, dark, handsome, with a shock
of iron gray hair and a statesman's
black hat, he is being watched as Q
1910 Democratic possibility. The kick
back from Dillinger's wooden gun, used
by his enemies as political issue, en-
barrsssed him only temporarily He
was the first Democratic Governor in
Indiana since 1916. His term expires
January /.