••,... ■■•■ THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE PAGE TEN IN THE FINANCIAL WORLD 41 o 0 PREFERRED STOCK Arctic Ice Cream Co. Ask for circular giving inter- eating details of this issue Watling, Lerchen & C Investment Bankers GRAND RAPIDS DETROIT DETROIT OFFICE 56 West Congress Street Ground Floor Telephone Cadillac 2302 Peoples State Bank Building iI MARKET REVIEW, BY LESSONS OF WAR O'HARA-FERRISS CO. BOOMING BONDS Demand for bonds, municipal and industrial, by both large and small investors in Detroit is almost un- precedented, according to houses specializing in that field. And this condition is attributed largely to the wide distribution of Liberty bonds, among millions of people during the war. These government securities going into the hands of people, who be- fore the war had no conception of the financial market and whose idea of a bond often was merely some- thing that frequently kept folks out of jail, has developed a new trade for bond houses. H. Vaughn Clarke, of Bonbright & Company, said Tues- day. Partial Payments Introduced. Consequently, efforts are being made not only in Detroit, but throughout the country, to educate the public to appreciate the invest- ment and savings possibilities of ad- vised bond-buying. These efforts include partial pay- ment plans, such as enabled thou- sands of people with little capital to buy Liberty bonds. The type of bond that has the great- 0 est appeal for the "little fellow," the man with $100, $200 or $1,000 to in- vest, is the industrial, Mr. Clarke said. Especially the bonds that have a convertible clause, offering a specu- lative inducement to the buyer. The American public always is inclined to take a chance, Mr. Clarke said, and as it is always looking for a large re- turn on its investment, bonds offer- Subject to Prior Sale State of Michigan Highway, 4 1/2's, 4.25% Basis 35% Basis City of Detroit 4 1/2 's, due 1948 4 Mansfield, Ohio 51/2 '.;, due Serially 4.75% Basis Mingo County, W. Va. 5's, due 4.85% Basis .. Serially 1 Douglas, Ariz. 6's, due Serially Clifton, Ariz. 6's, due Serially 5 5 00% Basis 20% Basis FIRST JEWISH PORTIA IN THE NORTHWEST MATTHEW FINN BANK E 82 Griswold Street, Ground Floor. Detroit, Mich. a I i 1 4llommiumwomminummonommimmummaimmumummaummonumommuommitomumommuommummi* Main 6104 C. M. DEAKIN & CO. Members Detroit Stock Exchange ANNOUNCE the establishment of direct wire connections with Clement Curtiss & Co. and Chicago Members New York Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Chicago Stock Exchange Through the above correspondents we are enabled to reach the principal cities of the United States and Canada by wire and give our clients the very best of brokerage service. 408 Grand Rapids Savings Bank Bldg. 801-2 Dime Bank Bldg. GRAND RAPIDS DETROIT Van Emburgh & Atterbury New York Members New York Stock Exchange • I MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.— Miss Eleanore Harriet Bresky, of Minne- apolis, Minn., has the distinction of being the first Jewess in Minnesota and the Northwest to be admitted to the liar to practice law in the State of Minnesota. She is a graduate of the Northwestern College of Law with the degree of L. L. B. Miss Bresky was a teacher in the local public schools, and she resigned from her position to take up the study of law. She is one of the best known Jewish women in Minneapolis, being connected with the work of various Jewish organizations for many years. She was superintendent of the Sab- bath school conducted at the Kenne- seth Israel Synagogue before the new edifice was erected, has actively in- terested herself in all phases of wel- fare and social work, and is an ardent suffragist. 11 0 0 most any other field. For several business generations this institution highly valued by our clients. For overseas trade or for domestic commercial and savings business, the quality of our service Is very much worth your careful Inquiry. Capital and Sur- plus $7,500,000. The securities owned and recommend- ed by us were purchased only atter a most thorough investigation. 1 11121BER FEDERAL RESERVE atNli 81 /4% with safety U 0 Stocks, yielding from 41/2% to 81/2%. We shall be pleased to carry any of our Further Service to the Investor, Office open Monday evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 Bonbright & Company Ground Floor, Union Trust Bldg. Cor. Congress and Griswold Sts. Detroit, Michigan Telephone—Cherry 4320 Timken-Detroit Axle Motor Products Corporation Hayes Wheel Co. We recommend that the stock of the above companies be bought at the present prices. Quotations and information on these and all other securities will be fur- nished on request. This work of viewing with impartiality the cold facts of a given problem is one of the very impor- tant branches of Certified Public Accounting. A. W. Wallace & Co. 4q6. (Members Detroit Stock Exchange) CertifiedPublicAccountant (New York) Dime Bank Bldg. Cherry 271 Woolworth Bldg., New York PENOBSCOT BUILDING Cherry 2800 LI 0 0 O'Hara, Ferriss & Co. Cherry 829 Your Passport to success is a bank-book. 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In the work of organizing business associations, dis- solving partnerships, or in interesting outside capi- tal, the impersonal per- spective of judgment is invaluable in arriving at an equitable agreement. Information which we have regarding Im- pending developments In PAIGE, PACKARD and CONTINENTAL stamp these securities as the best purchases at the present time. Your Inquiries solicited. Union Trust Building, Detroit O regular income and a ready market. to 0 O They combine safety of principal, a 41/2% 00=0=10=0===locio====o== =0n0 U Detroit, Mich. Fill out this slip and we will tell you all about 7% mortgages: Gentlemen:— all about your 7% mortgages. Kindly N tell Name Address Investors Reorganizations and Dissolutions • Second Floor, Dime Bank Bldg. O FIRSVOLD DETROIT NATIONAL BASK • Limburg. Members Detroit Stock Exchange has been closely Interwoven with ev- ery advance in the business develop- ment of our section. Its co-operation and guidance are, therefore, naturally The Millidn Dollar Housing Corporation Main 2530 143 Griswold St. TIMELY BUYS o O XPERIENCE teaches—a maxim perhaps truer In the wide ramifi- cations of modern finance than in al- Bankers Land and Investment Corporation 101=0.==0=0. 01=01=0=01=0= 0 === O E Why receive only 6% when we will place your money on the best grade of Detroit real estate„ with new houses on, In best residentkil districts and net you seven (7) per cent, payable semi-annually, with principal and Interest collected and guaranteed by us. You pay more for your living expenses—why not get more for your Interest money? JUST SEND YOUR MONEY IN. Seven Per Cent Interest and Absolute Safety Call or Write Us About Safe Investments Bond Department C. M. DEAKIN & CO. ANNOUNCE OPENING OF GD. RAPIDS OFFICE Jewish residents of Pittsfield, Mass., members of the Congregation B'nai Sholom, dedicated their first syna- gogue last month. The synagogue ac- commodates 300 persons. 0=0,==0,===0=0=0,=0=w ri O 7% FIRST MORTGAGES ON HIGH GRADE IMPROVED PROPERTY Great activity in Continental Mo- tors featured the past week of trad- ing on the Detroit Stock ExcIiange. Persistent rumors regarding a Gen- eral Motors merger are responsible for the increased trading. l'ackard and Ford of Canada have also dis- played strength. The reduction of the par value of the former, and the stock dividends, possibilities of each have served to male them both very attractive. The remainder of the inoto'ri field firm and sold in good quantity. Noble' Oil advanced materially and appears strong at the higher level. Among the industrials Wolverine showed the greatest strength, with a full point gain. An improved factory and increasing earnings seem to augur prosperous conditions for the Company next year. Market sentiment is very optimis- tic regarding all the leading issues. The Supreme Court decision relative to taxability of stock dividends is ex- pected during the current month, and should produce great activity among the high priced issues. C. M. Deakin & Co. in announcing the opening of an office in Grand Rap- ids, report satisfactory business. They also report that their New York stock department is now under the personal management, with direct wire connection, of Mr. Doyle Kel- logg, who has had over ten years' ex- perience with several stock exchange and sane interest return firms in various capacities, including sa fe ing a have been slighted by the great buy- representation on the stock exchange g public in the past. But the Lib- floor. ing erty loan issues have shown that this type of investment is much the same as placing money in the batik, al- Many Charitable Bequests though the interest return is mostly In Mrs. Lehman's Will always greater, and a result bond- buying has increased, he says. New York—The will of Mrs. Babette Detroit Has Much Money. Lehman, mother of Supreme Court Jus- Detroit apparently has more money tice Irving Lehman, disposes of an now than it knows what to do with estate of more than $500,000 and gives according to Mr. Clarke. Ile said many bequests to charity. Gifts of shop girls, stenographers and clerks $5000 each are left to the United He- are now numerous as bond-holders. brew Charities, Montefiore Home, As an example of the easiness of Young Men's Hebrew Association, He- money in Detroit, he cited the recent brew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum, sale of $1,000,000 seven per cent cum- Hebrew Technical Institute, Home for ulative participating preferred stock Aged and Infirm Hebrews, Educational in the Detroit Seamless Steel Tube Alliance, Jewish Protective Aid So- company. It was all gone in six ciety and Crippled Children's East Side hours and the buyers were not ex- Free School. clusively those of large blocks. Many he will gives $2500 each to the He- $100, $200 and $500 lots were sold. brew Technical School for Girls, Beth Mr. Clarke was of the opinion that Israel Hospital, Home for Hebrew In - the demand of the public for high- fants and St. Vincent's and Presbyterian class bonds is growing so rapidly that Hospitals. Mount Sinai Hospital gets it will not be long before banks will $7500. be forced to establish departments Justice Lehman gets $50,000 and all for the sale of them along the same the personal effects are divided among lines that Liberty issues were handled. him and his brothers, Sigmund, Arthur, While industrial bonds of a con- and Herbert H. Lehman. Seven grand- vertible nature are the most popular children get $10,000 each. The resid- variety among the small buyers, the uary estate is divided among the broth- municipals are attracting the large ers and their sisters, Harriet L. Good- investors. hart, Settie L. Fatman and Clara L. We Own and Offer due 1934 I g4 41 a