New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1928, Page 2

- { The $5.00 a week job which Mr. Raskob held in 1900 was as sten- | ographer to the chief engineer of a R i e ST NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928, to the latter picture with a smile, and said: “You see, I had to make money.” He is said by newspapers to be ‘pump company in Lockport, N. Y., h:s home town. He heard thel several times a millionaire. Plrrrt S. Dupont, who owned the| | street railways in Lorain, O., needed a secretary. He wrote to him for e job asking a sala of $1,000 a lll 1900 He WIS Gemflg Fl“[;:ar Johnnsgs trlendr:'m Lockport {laughed about it when they heard DOllm [ w&ek 'the news. But he got the job. | — { Goes to Texas When Du Pont moved to Dallas, Tex., to take over the street rail- { ways he took his secretary with him. | New York, July 12 (P—In 1900 John J. Raskob, new chairman of the democratic national committee, was $5 a week clerk. In March, |A short time luter he and the other = i 1ts bought the powder com- 1828, a few optimistic words spoken DUPODts b 3 about the automobile industry by the [Pany at Wilmington, Del, and Ras- Eame man brought about the first| Kob was made assistant 4,600,000 share ma the New|At the age of 24 he treasurer. | was made | Sk Stocit Esthacee hafl over|treasurey when Mr. Dy Pont step- | sy ped up to the presidency of the firm. Father of 11 Children In 1913 he induced the Duponts| He is 49 years 01 of Alsatian and|t0 €0 in with him and buy 3,000 Irish descent, the father of 11 chil- Aren, an outspoken opponent of pro- | Motors corporation. The stock was evenly divided between wo warring factions and they discovered they held the balance of power. Raskob alled the two warring factions m., zether and arranged peace ferms. | Dupont was made chairman of the| woard of directors and his nnty'lm?i secretary a director. The value of their holdings in General Motors have a market value of $700,000,000 at the present time. He married Helena Springer | Green of Wilmington in 1906 and| they had 12 children ranging in age from 5 to 21 years. The second son. William F. Raskob, Jr., was Killed | in an automobile accident last week. Governor Smith dropped all cam- paign plans to g6 to the funeral, Although iisted as a republican Mr. Raskob said he had never been identified with either political party | and had voted both ways, twice for| Woodrow Wilson and once for Cal- vin Coolidge. He attended the dem- | ocratic national convention at Hous-| ton but only as an observer. He has always been an ardent churchman, his mest recent service being the pledge last February of | 181,000,000 for the advancement o%| the Roman Cathelic church in the | Wilmington diocese. For his serv- ices in the church Pope Plus XI |made him private chamberliin in the Papal household and bestowed upon him the honers of knight of J. J. RASKOB aibition and un intimate frnd Of (ne Order of St. Gregory the Great e ™ ihe fnancial genig, A1 Frand cross knight of the Orger Malta. 5 the General Motors corporation |®' "’"am,mmmm Notre oo dnjowie ‘prealyent of e B, L . hewon New Terk. oftce bot| Dupont and Nemours company. He | Kb | 18 a Catholic, & charter member of |S200(5 Wilmington h'lr’n:;:'?re :,:;: P o e K 1. 2 v 3 L:e G:::C;:;h;p!h:(:;’?" 1}.““‘_2‘3 two pictures hung in his office in Who" ue a republican. He is chair. | he General Motors building here. man of the American Olympic com- f:,:",l'rfi:,fif,“' Srliihe Btierer mittee. To a recent interviewer he pointed Recently when asked to ascribs the reason for his financial success, | SIS he said: "It may have bgen luck bu who knov What 1 do believe is that there is a divinity that shapes our ends. I'm positive that it has been so in my case.” I Against Prohibition When the pores are cluggleh and the He is against prohibition hecause|skin dry and parched. the face becomes Keep Your Face Young Looking he believes it breeds intolerance|“orm and )vaz\d‘ T: TEmONe the dis- ; : s skin and cleanse the pores, use “The menace of prohibition laws.” | 21" Jit. sepegelt he sald, “is the spirit of intolerance | wex absorbs aged, blotchy, solled underlying their adoption. and this ¥n, a little at a time, until freckles, ‘tan and bla nder skin hewds disappear and the ms forth clea (mh olized wax brings i¥ bound to result in rebellion.” He is a director of the Association!.nd vehvety Against the Prohibition Amendment. |t hidd To quickly rems He 18 not a drinking man, he said, Wrinkles and restore facial contour, us recently. but “that does not mean 1 R L e mokdored lepn shares of Will C. Durant’s General | ¢ |covered that liquor sald to | dock, LIQUOR BOARD WILL ENFORGE NEW RULING Seirure of Constgnments Values at Half Million in Canada is Suf- ficieat Proof Toronto, Ont., July 12 (P —Seizure of liquer consignments valued at $500,000 have evidence today that| the Ontario liquor control board | meant to enforce its recent ruling | against the storage surplus liquor ocks along the Lorder. c liquor stocks on the Carling athaniel docks at Wi l\Ol seized yesterday by Ins t tice of forwarding liquor into Ontario to be held at strategic | points in the hope of a possible port or perhaps illegal distribution in the province will have to cease if anything this board can do will |stop it,” Sir Henry Drayton, chair- man of the board, said after the |seizure. The recent rule of the board gov- | erning the amount of liquors that could be stored in the province was invoked when it was learned that the western provinces were flooding | Ontario with stocks far in e < of the needs of the province. The rule provided that thereafter liquor ship- ments must be routed through the province by the most direct way and that the export docks were not to be used for storage purposes except as a necessary movement in transporta- tion. Sir Henry sald it ad been dis- have been sold on one dock for export had been merely moved to another and that beverages aboard steamers for export had been returned. often .~ §Serve The Champagne 4 lite and 1 half pint witch hazel. At all never take a drink.” | drug and dept. sores. NOW IN Reductions value $7.95 $1.95 $2.75 Italian Pottery (Graffito ware.) 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