Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1924, Page 6

—s for aign ng rdet Prise Nov 1924 ctiv Trot at 1 dw » 8a, ces igho ant ned p by rica nt » Cr ting Sme non. onal du ng | El nts 000 eevatverest sersrer soeenreneennerts PAGE SIx ALLIN WALLSTREET “Curb” Broker Who Rode to Prosperity and Riches on Many Stock Booms, Now Bankrupt and. Tells Story. a big ‘bull’ at *bull’ in Wall “It's better to be home than a little Street.” This is an inside tip from Blas Vucurevich who in the past few years has made hundreds of thou- sands of dollars in Casper by trad- ing in local oil stocks, buc who has lost all and more than all on the New York Curb. For an iron moulder originally from Serbia to reap riches on Cen- ter street and to come back smiling after each annual Waterloo in Wall Street, has been a sideshow that has given natives perennial hysteria. Five times’ Blas has been flattened out on the Curb after gaily prepar- ing himself for the slaughter that was to come, by gormandizing be- forehand on local stocks. And four times Blas has “‘re-stocked"” with never a cent for a starter. He is now pgiming himself for his big winter "drive; he is as “broke” as Shelby, Mont., and he is bankrupt. If you were to go searching for Blas with the idea in mind that he was a well dressed foreigner of dis: tinguished appearance, you would never find him. Rather, he strikes those who’ know him as a character of inconsiderable financial rating, as one whose countenance does not broadcast brilliance. There is, how- ever, something concealed in that Slavic consciousness that permits him to perform wonders while other more ostentatious traders flare up and collapse on penny-ante trans- and $10. This single feat netted Blas a small fortune. An attack on Kinney that made the trading qimb and fall gvith rapidity around 3 cents a share, brought him another lump. to sweeten the pot. Burke Oil was his meek little mouse. This stock he Pawed in at close to 20 cents ana then killed it at $2.35. Atlas Crude he gathered in sheaves at 2 cents a share, forcing it to nearly par at $1 a share. There was an anti- climax to -his particular deal.” One person held 500,000 shares and these he dumped pell-mell into the mar- ket, breaking it and handing Blas a loss that approximated $60,000. By surrounding Jupiter, Blas cor- nered his last stock. He came out ahead in Casper; 1917 was his ban- rer year on Center street. Several months later, or in October, the Austrians made a rush in Burope that caused a panic in Wall Street. Then and there Blas lost his little old million on Mex-Petroleum, Mid- west Refining and Texas company stocks. Not only did he lose all in the grand crash but he found hint self loaded with a debt of $20,000. Always Comes Back. whitewashing represents Blas’ bitter raspberry from Wall Street toward the close of ‘17. Add to this another of his losses in other years after cleanings had been piled up on Center street. Each time he went completely under. How did he manage to re- This actions. In every time of pienty| peutedly climb back into the run- Blas has stuck to his sombre|ning so that he could again attack feathers without killing the fatted|the Gotham monster? Here's how: ealf or rolling around in Rolls “When I lost, I lost—never had a Royce cars by way of telling the world about it. To judge, there- fore, by his clothes*and manner that he"was flat or flush, has. been ew S em 0 impossible. When he was just 15 years old Blas left his home in Serbia alreac equipped with the fron mould- er's trade, and made for Lead, 8..D., U. 8, A, There he went to work for the Homestake Mining company. To plig.along through life on a payroll was not according to George 0 Blas took estate. Event- pally he for the retall butcher business, ending his career in Lead as the proprietor of a dance hall-saloon. Joys With Stocks. With a sort of fascinated angling Blas dabbled gently in Wall Street raters during that time and man- aged in the end to declare himself ahead of the game by a fair margin. His soul had been stirred. No longer was he to deal with molten iron, town lots, pork roasts, or bartending. In 1915 Blas quietly coasted into Casper and it’s a safe bet that no one here then dreamed that he was to wield a whip'that would make numerous .Wyoming oll stocks per- form pretty tricks for him. It was in those days that Casper was be- coming the gusher-town of the Rocky Mountain region. Though he whacked off many thousands of dollars, nothing sensa- tional resulted from his plays until 1917 when he closed his season at home with a mammoth bank roll. nt year he began gathering in some of the local stoc On Glen- rock Petroleum he threw a lariat | Geciaed to try them. 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This advertisement contributed men of Casper desirous of a continued efficient administration of the County Clerk’s office, by business —Political Advertisement. fhe Casper Sunday Cribune HE MADE A FORTUNE IN CASPER BUT IT'S NOW; 'BLAS ADMITS “Pm Thru With New York Trading,” Says Vucurevich. “I believe in being a bull. bear, but very, very seldom. body is boosting for population ai prosperity, the easiest way to along is‘to be a bull; in fact, makes you yourself feel better be pishing up instead of pulli: down.” Will Live Forever. After his successive ‘annual would yell renunciation stocks, but nothing to it. “There's no game like trading of it as long as I live. am 135 years old, My father Serbia lived to the age of 112, I feel that I won't have to ‘buy on che hereafter until 2020." Mister Vucurevich, if you will, BLAS VUCUREVICH cent and never borrowed a cent to make a now start with. Then I would pace thé floor and plan out a program for the comeback. By|of them Leing tn high school. He watching all market indications} is a member of the Episcopal church carefully I kept in touch with what|and has nothing to do with tobacco was doing. When the right time|or hard ilquor. He believes in Cas- came I would buy local stocks out of town. By the time they were delivered to me here they had gone up. Not once have I missed on these bets with time and distance. per, even to the extent of an pensive funers! for himself, whi would result were he and drop den PITCAIR WATER SPAR ww Would your floors ‘ stand this test? HE chances are that your home will never be inundated. But every wet shoe that leaves its mark on * the floors, every drop ofliquid that ig spilled on them produces the same effect in a minor way. Pitcairn WATER SPAR 4 is your protection. You can sce visible proof in our window—a Watersparred panel submerged in water for months at a time. Water can have no effect on the surface. Waterspar is water- proof. 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Ni York is too far a .] cially valuable in the council in de-| fon ‘his-election would mean a say, I made ne in Casper out Bers termining the value of contract jobs| ing of thousands of dollars annua. in tho wilds of Wyoming, and it’s| to be let by the city._In their opin-| ly to Casper all in Wall Street now.” So Blas has filpped over a new leaf and is sworn to being a bull buried in Casper maintain: 4 Blas owns nelther home nor auto- mobile. He did buy a home in 1918 for’ $11,000. In 1920 he was offered $18,000 for It and sold. Less than 15 minutes after the money was in his hands he lost it all on Stude- baker stock. 5 Not long ago “he got his Jatest burns from Wall Street back-firing. Counting on making a half million dollars on Haskell's Southern States Oil compa: he started buying in until he was 900 shares long... Then, without warning, the ‘stock was booted out of the New York ex- change, leaviug him in debt for about $30,000. “ Because of this re- cent disaster Blas is bankrupt. It ids his belief that he was deliberately “double-crossed" on a block of this stock. Out of five times flat this ix the first time bankruptcy has come into Bias’ trading existence. There's a reason, he declares, and a darn g00d one, too, Goodbye, Wall Street. By cerrespondence course, it might he said, Blas has learned one ‘big lesson. He is letting the world know that he has learned it well at a slaggering cost. With the wis- dom of an oracle, he has this to say about it: I'm through wita Wall Street and I advise every friend in the world to leave it alone. When you play in New York you piay the other fellow's game, but ‘here at home you are playing yo at any cost, he LE. BLANCHARD SEEKS. FLECTION 0 COUNCIL FROM THE FIRST WARD Among the'candidates for council- man of the first ward is L. E. Blanchard who hag been a resident of Casper for the past 10 years. Mr. Blanchard {s 9 taxpayer and prop- erty owner and a man who hag made a success of his business. Though he is a generag contractor, he would be barred, if elected to of- fice, by state statutes, from accept. ing contracts from the city while serving ft as councilman. .On the other hand. Mr. Blanchard’ supporters maintain that hig experi- ence as a contractor would be espe- - ee ‘CEORGEE. KINDLER Fy “US. Senator On the LaFollette Ticket _ nd it to ing re- all in in 50 in’ is The right of the working man to organize and bargain collectively should no longer be a debatable question. The principle is based on justice. So with the eight hour day. ..In- junction proceedings against labor, in many instances is nothing short of government usur- pation of power. For a federal judge to act as prosecutor, judge and jury, in any case, merits the strongest condemnation and should be speedily corrected. Also our standards of living demand good ‘wages for all wage earners. I am in favor of maintaining the American standard of liv- ing and a wage scale commensurate with that standard, for that great mass of working men who must live under our modern industrial system, and are subject to prices much as are the farmers. A bare living is not sufficient for the working man any more than it is for the farmer. It interferes with individual de- velopment and prevents labor from making its just contribution to the social welfare of the nation. ‘ ex: iéh . ‘ —Po'itical Adtvertiseabnt . TRAIN SCHEDULE CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN sb VOTE FOR © A. E. CHANDLER COUNCILMAN Ward3 SS 1:50 p. m. 6:00 p. m, 4:00 p. m. [ 8:35 p, m. "Moa. m. 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