Evening star., 1935-05-19
DEWNy IS ELECTED
TO PRESIDENCY BY
D. c. ACCOUNTANTS
Professor at Catholic Uni
versity to Guide Dis
trict Chapter.
HOUSING EXPERT NAMED
BANK SESSION SPEAKER
Gilchrist Added to Capital Con-
vention Program-Safe De-
posit Section to Meet.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

RAOANSOA
accounting at Catholic University, wa'
elected president OF washington
Chapter, National Association of Cos
Accountants, succeeding William H
Churchill, controller of Peoples Drug
Stores, Inc, at the annual election
held at the May meeting In TIT
Carlton Hotel.
C. William Clark, Farm Credit Ad'
ministration, and Walter F. Raymond
Griffith Consumers Co., were electee
vice presidents, while j. M. Mcleod
Standard Engineering Co. was choser
treasurer and J. F. Mitchell, Shannon
&, Luchs Co., secretary.
Directors elected were Harold E
Burton, Southern Diaries, Inc; o. D
Crock. Judd g. Detwiler; George E
Davis, Fruit Growers Express Co.; j
D. Faber, American Security & Trus
Co.: B. E. Hunsinger, Benjamin
Franklin University; O'Neal M. John
son. International Association of 1c'
Cream Manufacturers. and Harry S
Mover, Agricultural Adjustment Ad;
miniStration.
Prizes to captains making the nigh
est scores for activity during TIT
wear were awe ~ded to Oscar D. Crock
ett. ]. Dan Faoer and James E. Black
Members receiving awards for hlghes
individual scores were William M
Deviny. A. B. GunnerSon and Walter
F. Raymond.
officials of the Chesapeake & Po-
tomac Telephone Co. and heads OF
Government statistical bureaus were
guests of the chapter at the closing
meeting of the year. The speaker
was Seymour L. Andrew, chief Satlstl-
clan of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Co.. who discussed Stats
tics as an Aid to Business Manage.
ment." Entertainment was furnished
by the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele-
phone Glee Club, R. H. Davidson di-
rector.
officers of the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co. present were
Lloyd B. Wilson, president; Marshall
b. Sedan, vice president; Walter B
Clarkson, vice president; R. A. Van
brsdale, general counsel; Harry c.
Gietz, general auditor; w. w. Wheeler
assistant vice president, and Irving
II. Moore, manager, Western Elec-
tric Co.
Among the Government statisticians
attending were William F. Callander
chief, Bureau of Crop and Live Stock
Estimates; Alexander Usland, Federal
Communications Division; William
Aicher, Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration; M. j. Fox, Federal De-
post Insurance Corp; Philip L. Sui
livan, Bureau of Labor Statistics; A.
r. Coleman, Farm Credit Administra-
ton, and Fred J. Hughes, Bureau OF
Agricultural Economics.
Gilchrist to Address Bankers.
Hilleary G. Hoskinson, general chair
man of the Seventeenth Annual Con-
vention Committee of the District OF
Columbia Bankers Association, an
nounced yesterday selection of j. K
Gilchrist, special assistant to the ad-
ministrator of the Federal Housing
Administration, as one of the prin-
eipal speakers at the coming meeting.
His subject will be Federal Housing
Administration Insured Loans"
Mr.. Gilchrist was educated in the
public schools of Ohio and at Prince
ton University. He has had broad
experience in sales promotion work
and has been a thorough student of
houses and housing for many years.
He had been identified with the Fed
eral administration since August, 1884,
acting in an advisory capacity with
the washington Better Housing Com
mittee in the modernization campaign.
He was appointed director of the Dis
trict of Columbia on Titles I, II and
III in December, 1884, and served in
this capacity until recently, when ad-
vanced to his present position.
Trading Quiet on Exchange.
Riggs National Bank common stock
changed hands on the Washington
Stock Exchange yesterday at 212la
for a five-share lot. Bid and askei
prices on other stocks were practically
unchanged. There is still a larger
demand for some high-priced issues
than can be filled at present quota
tons. Washington Railway & Electric
common. at 300, remains the highest
priced stock on the board. During
the week the bid on Bank of Com
merce & Savings stock moved from
$50 to ITS, but nobody sold any stock
even at the new figure
Plans are completed for the annual
convention of the Association of Re-
serve City Bankers, to be held June
10 to II at Manchester, VT. The dele
CATION from Washington will include
Robert v. Fleming, Avon M. Nevius
Sidney F. Taliaferro, Riggs National;
Joshua Evans and Wilmer j. Waller
Hamilton National, and Frederick p
H. Siddons from the American Sc
curity & Trust Co.
It was announced yesterday that
the May meeting of the safe deposit
section of the District Bankers Asso.
citation will be held next wednesday
evening in the board room of thu
American Security & Trust Co., wher
the Nominating Committee will pre-.
sent names for candidates for thc
executive council for next year. Tht
election takes place in June. Mem.
bers planning to attend the Nationa
Safe Deposit Advisory Council con-
vention at Asbury Park, June and
are expected to turn in their names
w. w. Spaid, president of the AS
sociated Stock Exchange, and Eugene
E. Thompson, executive vice president
and secretary, left washington yester'
day to attend the ninth annual con-
vention in st. Louis.
Members of the Washington Bono
Club will entertain quite delegation
from the Baltimore Bond Club at the
annual outing next Friday afternoon
and evening at the Burning Tret
Country Club. Guests from severa
other cities are also expected, record
attendance being expected by Presi'
dent James p. Nolan.