Evening star., 1935-05-12
Captains Named to Guide
400 Agents in Annual
Sales Drive Here.
CAPITAL LEADS WORLD
IN TELEPHONE DENSITY
Many Cups Offered in Sports Pro-
gram for Bank Farley at Vir-
ginia Resort.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Life Insurance week in Washington
will open with a rush tomorrow morn
ing when more than 400 agents will
breakfast at the Willard Hotel and
then start out on the trail for bright
prospects. Their leaders, all members
of the District Life Underwriters
Association, hope that all previous six
day sales records will be smashed.
This army of insurance experts
will be placed in charge Of teams
who will direct their activities during
the week. The various captains, ap-
pointed yesterday by General Chair
man Winthrop G. Batchelder. include
J. Hicks Baldwin, Northwestern Mu-
tual; Ralph Benner, Union Central;
George T. Black. Sun Life; Loren
Cluster, New York Life; Claude A.
Cook. Equitable, New York; Gordon
Edmonds, State Mutual; John A Ed
wards, Mutual Life. New York; Philip
Fletcher, Metropolitan; R. c. Gilmore,
Bankers Life; Paul Hammock, Pru-
dental; E. L. Hardisty, Berkshire
Life; c. D. Harrison, Guardian Life;
w. Ford Harvey. Pennsylvania Mu-
tual; c. I. Haycraft, Equitable. New
York; Sidney Karr. New England
Mutual; Harold Kraft Equitable, New
York; Fred Laise, Home Life; John
p. Lynch, New York Life; William
j. McCausland, Acacia; Robert
Nichols, Equitable, District of Colum-
bia; Lester D. O'Flaherty, Northwest
ern Mutual; Warner Peirce, Pacific
Mutual; N. E. Rogers. Equitable, Dis
trict Of Columbia, and F. Stricklin,
Aetna.
That the District underwriters stand
a good chance of establishing a new
record during the drive is indicated
by the fact that insurance written
in Washington so far this year is
we'll ahead of the corresponding period
last year. In the first quarter of
1885 business done here was 13 per
cent better than last year, while in
March sales were up II per cent over
March, 1884. No doubt the gen.
eral business pickup in the Capital
will be reflected in the weeks results.
d. c. Holds World Phone Mark.
Telephone development in the
United States continues to lead the
world with more than 13 telephones
for each 100 people. Canada, second
in development with Ills telephones
for each 100 of its population, last
year held 214 telephone conversations
per capita as compared with 191 in
the United States, according to Tele-
phone and Telegraph Statistics of the
World, just issued by the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
Washington, with 1881 telephones
for each 100 people, is the best devel-
oped city from a telephone standpoint
of all the large cities of the world. 1t
is closely followed in telephone density
by San Francisco with 35 telephones
for each 100 people and Stockholm
with 31.95. Vancouver. British Co.
lumbfa, has 27.51 telephones per 100
population. In this country there
are So cities with more than 100000
Inhabitants. Here is found an aver
age development of more than 19 tele-
phones for each 100 people.
OF the 32,495,855 telephones re-
ported in the world, over 81 per cent
were in the United States. About 35
per cent were in Europe and 31a
per cent in Canada. The remaining
10 per cent of telephones were widely
distributed throughout the world.
Countries where telephone service
Is operated wholly or predominately
by governmental agencies reported an
average of 1.99 telephones for each
100 of their combined populations,
whereas the countries with privately
operated telephone services had an
average of 5.65 telephones for each
100 population or nearly three times
as many as those operated by the gov
ernments.
In communities with less than
10000 inhabitants the United States
averaged 9.76 telephones for each 100
population, indicating more extensive
telephone development in the smaller
communities of this country than pre-
walls in other countries.
Bankers Offered Many Cups.
Chairman Hilleary G. Hoskinson of
the District of Columbia Bankers
Associations Seventeenth Annual
Convention Committee, announces
complete program of sports for both
the men and women attending the
convention at Hot Springs, Va, May
80 to June 2, inclusive.
Four golf tournaments have been
planned for the men with the Hatton
Cup, Pop Fleming Cup, Hibbs Cup,
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