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James River Bridge Banquet
Told Nation Has Shown
Basic Soundness.
By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va.. November 3 —
Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Re
construction Finance Corp.. said here
tonight that ‘‘definite progress is be
ing made, but we should not be too
impatient. Usually we come out of
depressions gradually,”
Speaking at a banquet following j
dedication of the new Robert E. Lee
Bridge across James River, built
wdth R. F. C. funds, Mr. Jones re
viewed the work of the organization i
he heads, asked support for President S
Roosevelt’s policies and assured his
hearers that the Government is both
willing and eager for private business
•to take back the reins of industry.
Mr. Jones mentioned Virginia's na- ;
tional. State and civic officials and 1
added that Senator Carter Glass "is |
a shining jewel among them all—
those of today, and those that have
gone before—a statesmen of rare in
tellect and matchless courage—a real
ly great American.
Compliment of President.
•‘President Roosevelt,” he added,
‘‘calls him. in affectionate terms, the
•unreconstructed rebel.‘ and I should :
like to ask who loves those words
better than a true Southerner?”
Turning to causes of the depression.
Mr. Jones said “we find ourselves
producing too much of everything
with too little effort, so our problem
is to distribute the products of labor
and agriculture so that all can have
a share.”
He told of what the R. F. C. has
done and said that practically all of
its loans to banks have been repaid
and that of R. F. C. loans of every
character, disbursed to the amount of
$3,727,000,000, repayment had been
made of $2,187,000,000, or 59 per cent.
"This record," he added, "is proof
positive that our country is basically
sound and that our main problem is |
that of unemployment. These repay
ments are also proof that banks could
have made most of the loans that the
R. F. C. has made, because our loans ‘
have all been made and repaid dur
ing the depression period.”
Lower Interest Aim.
Mr. Jones referred to President
Roosevelt’s recent announcement that
insured home loans should be at 5
per cent throughout the country and
said, "I know it to be his further pur
pose to do everything reasonably
within his power to get interest rates
at a lower level and to prevent as far
as possible excessive and usurious
rates.”
He said the Government is anxious
to have cities organize trust com
panies with ample capital to under
take a general mortgage business. The
greater part of Government lending
is being done by the R. F. C., Public
Works. Home Owners’ Loan and
Farm Credit Administration now. Mr.
Jones continued, but the President
has announced that the Government
will withdraw from the lending field
as private lending is prepared to and
actually takes its place.
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“SKUNK HUNTER” ISSUE
GIVES G. 0. P. HOPE
By the Associated Press.
PROVIDENCE. R. I.. November |
3.—The “skunk hunter” issue tonight |
had become a matter of no small
importance in the Rhode Island polit- j
ical fight.
Two weeks ago, State Senator Wil- j
liam J. Troy, Democrat, of Providence, j
said it was not just for "some skunk- j
hunter from West Greenwich (the j
State’s smallest town) to have a vote \
in the Senate equal to that of some j
good citizen from a larger city or
town."
Republicans seized on the remark
and said it would save the Senate for
them if nothing else. Some Demo
crats said, “Troy cost us 15,000 votes.”
Gov. Theodore Green has said his
‘‘work of the past 18 months” had
been overshadowed by the skunk epi
sode. Not only in West Greenwich,
but in all rural areas of the State, the
remark was accepted as a challenge.
Bridesmaids Selected for Mariana’s Wedding
Three of the bridesmaids announced for the wedding of Princess Mariana of Greece and Prince George
of England. Left to right: Lady Iris Mountbatten. daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Carisbrooke;
Princess Elizabeth of York, elder daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, and Princess Irene of Greece,
sister of the ex-King George of Greece. —Wide World Photos.
Sweepstakes Winners Usually
Disappear With Their Hauls
A Few Stay at Their Jobs, But Majority
Use Their New Fortunes to Change
Whole Mode of Life.
Winners of huge Sweepstake for
tunes have a habit of dropping from
sight. Soon after fortune has favored
them with fabulous sums in return
for a $1 or $2 lottery bet. many of
the lucky ones collect their sudden
.wealth and disappear.
Such is the record of Sweeps win
ners. as developed in an Investigation
prompted by the rich hauls made this
week by American holders of lucky
tickets in the Irish Sweepstakes on
the Cambridgeshire Handicap at New
market. England.
Former laborers and clerks, finding
themselves thrust by fate into the
position of capitalists, change their
addresses, friends, and entire mode of
life. Many are never heard from
again. Foreigners in many cases re
turn to their homeland, preferring to
spend the remainder of their lives
where they were born—at the same
time avoiding the necessity of paying
the United States Government a good
portion of their winnings in taxes.
Two Stay on Jobs.
Two attractive young women shared
a ticket that won $35,000 in the Irish
Sweeps last March. Today they are
still at their old jobs here, operating
tabulating machines for the Interna
tional Business Machines Co. Ruth
Marshall and Eleanor Cabaret in
vested their money, took a short vaca
tion, then settled down to their usual
routine of life.
"Sweepstakes winners should live
like they always have," Miss Marshall
said. "They should not change their
lives just because they have suddenly
come into a lot of money. My win
ning last Winter certainly has made
me happy, but I haven't changed my
life one bit. Of course, all the money
we won has been a blessing, but we
haven't abused it. That's what win
ners of these prizes have to be afraid
of. They have to be careful. They're
not used to all that wealth and it can
easily ruin their entire lives.”
In June, 1933, Miss Louise M. Popp,
employed by the New York Telephone
Co., won $119,000 in the Irish Sweeps.
Today Miss Popp is still an employe
of the company at the Hempstead
(Long Island) office She is a super
vising instructor, she has worked
steadily ever since she won the prize,
with the exception of her annual
vacation, which she is taking now.
"Same Girl,” Says Brother.
At her home, in Rockville Center,
Miss Popp's brother Arthur said his
sister always had a good position, and
winning the lottery hadn’t changed
her life in the least.
"Louise left for Nassau a week ago,”
her brother said, "and will be back
next week. She's the same girl she '
was before she won all that money.
And she has invested it wisely.”
Two years ago a Greek bootblack.
Steve Boursoukes, with a shop near
Third avenue, on Forty-second street,
won $108,000, which he divided with
three of his countrymen. They went
to Ireland to get their winnings, then
! to Greece, where they are reported to
have settled on a palatial estate over
looking the Aegean feea.
One of Steve's former friends, a
coffee pot proprietor, remarked: "That
Steve, he a fine fellow, but he no
write me. I heard he found gold on
his place in Greece. He never come
back, now, I bet.”
At the Fairchild Aviation Co. offices
it was recalled that a former em
ploye, A. O. Russel, won $75,000 in a
lottery last June. But he had sold
a half interest in his ticket for $7,500.
“Russel was a conservative guy,” an
official said, "and he put his money
safely away so he could live on the
interest. I hear he has taken his wife
and child and gone to London."
What a Policeman Did.
Thomas Hamill, a policeman em
| ployed in the Holland Tunnel, won
$152,000 in June. Before the race he
sold a half share in his ticket for j
$6,500. He remained on the job until
October 8, when he resigned and re
tired to his home at Irvington, N. J.
Fred Krakenberg. Astoria mailman. !
won $152,000 in June. He said in the
news reels that he had been walking
the mails for so long his first desire
was to take his money and have his
“feet fixed." After that he was going
to get married. Today Fred's sister
said that Fred had moved to Flushing
and had kept his job as a mailman. J
His feet are "fixed.” he's been married
and he has just bought a car.
It is estimated that more than half J
the winners of big sweepstakes prizes
have dropped out of sight. Neighbors !
tell of winners moving away to better j
neighborhoods, better homes, or re- J
turning to Europe. None of them, so
far as can be learned, has come to '
any harm, or has got Into trouble.
Lady Luck seems to have kept a
kindly and protecting eye on them.
Peculiarly enough, none of the for
mer sweepstakes winners encountered
by this reporter has bought a sweeps
ticket since his or her big haul!
(Copyright 1934. by the North American 1
Newspaper Alliance Inc.)
LETICIA AGREEMENT
APPROVED BY PERU
Congress Action Follows Two
Weeks' Secret Discussion of
2-Year Controversy.
By tlfp Associated Press.
LIMA, Peru, November 3.—A treaty
for settlement of the Leticia contro
versy between Peru and Colombia
was approved today by the Peruvian
Congress.
The vote ended, in so far as Peru
was concerned, the conflict initiated
September 1, 1932, when Peruvian
civilians seized the border town of
Leticia.
It climaxed two weeks of secret dis
cussion in Congress, where the affair,
which seriously jeopardized the peace
of South America, was heatedly dis
cussed.
Alfredo Herrera, deputy from Lima
and one of the last speakers in de
fense of the protocol signed at Rio
de Janeiro, said that agreement did
not embody the solution he personally
would have desired for the Leticia
incident, but the world pressure
brought to bear left possible only a
peaceful solution.
He added that the protocol conse
crated an honorable peace and meant
triumph for the essentials of the
Peruvian viewpoint.
The final vote was taken at a public
session of the Congress.
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