Evening star., 1936-09-20
President RiggIes Of D. c.
Association Announces
List of Delegates.
BANK CLEARINGS SCORE
SHARP ADVANCE HERE
Rise 35.0 Per Cent Above Previous
Week, 21.5 Above Year Ago.
Store Sales Decline.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

writer's Association announced yes
terday that 80 delegates will represent
the association at the National Con-
vention of Life Underwriters which
opens in Boston Tuesday. The Wash
tngton delegation will include:
Winthrop G. Batchelder, Mifdin
Blackstone. Claude A. Cook, H. Law
rance Choate, John Dolph, Leopold
v. Freudberg. Richard w. Griswold,
Paul F. Grove, jr.; L. H. Hannah,
Ben A. Harlan, Wallace Hatch,
Charles I. Haycraft, Vernon W. Hol-
leman, Mrs. L. G. Johnston, Rowland
8. Marshall, J. E. McCombs, w. J..
McCausland, John L. McElfresh, Fred
erick v. McNair, A. r. Mead, G. Will
liam Merritt, Harry Middleton, Le-
roy ]. Myers, A. c. Norman, Laurence
C. Riggles, p. L. Rogers, William H.
Ross, Earle w. Sapp, John M. Strait.
James r. Troth, William G. Worth
1ngton and Theodore E. Gero.
J. =. McCombs, Berkshire Life, has
been made acting national committee
man for the convention. Vernon w.
Holleman, Home Life of New York,
reports that his agency led the whole
United States in q Nationwide con-
test, three Of his agents winning trips
to the Boston convention, the largest
number possible under the contest
rules for any one agency to receive.
Leopold v. Freudberg, Massachu-
sets Mutual, for the eighth consecu-
tive year qualified for the Million
Dollar Round Table" His record is
particularly interesting because of the
fact that some years ago he became
q life member Of this distinguished
body Of life insurance men.
Mfs. L. Cecilia Johnston, Equitable
Of New York, has likewise during the
year become member of the quar-
ter-of-a-million round table of the
women's section of the national asso-
citation. Mr.. Freudberg and Mrs.
Johnston will attend their respective
round table meetings on the day be-
fore the ofacial opening Of the con-
vention for the four-day- sessions,
when every subject vital to insurance
will be fully discussed.
d. C. Bank Clearing Jump.
Bank clearing in Washington dur
ing the last week increased 35.9 per
cent over the previous week and 21.5
per cent over the corresponding week
in 1885, the Department Of Commerce
reported yesterday, in survey COW
ering 81 leading cities in the United
States.
With warm weather retarding Fall
apparel purchases, department store
sales declined in Washington So per
cent from the previous week, while
comparing the last six-day week with
the previous f1ve-day week, sales
showed an increase of Z per cent.
For some unknown reason building
permits sagged to $191,500 from
1851, 500 in the previous week and
$604, 1884 in the corresponding week
year ago. Tourist activities, al
though not up to the level of the pre-
vious holiday week, fair gains were
noted at the Washington Monument
over the same week in 1895. Trade
was rather slow in the rest of the
Fifth Federal Reserve District. Sc
we're drought and hail damage cut
virginia's probable apple crop to an
estimated 5,503,oOo barrels.
Life Insurance Experts Meet.
The first monthly meeting of the
Fall session was held Friday night by
the D. @. Chapter Of Chartered Life
Underwriters, James A. DeForce, the
new president, presiding. The other
newly elected officers are Paul Sleeper,
vice president, and Frank Roach, Sec
retary and treasurer. Committees
named by the president for the year:
Educational-Joseph A. Mari, Earle
w. Sapp. Harold D. Kraft, J. Alan
Maphis. Program-Carl Smith Dow
and Lawrence Choate. Publicity
Russell Shelk and H. Cochran Fisher.
Announcement was made by the
American College Of Life Underwrit-
ers that $50 candidates took the ex-
aminations for chartered life under
writer in June, 1886. OF these, 90
received the designation c.. L. u, and
~ others passed all examinations and
will receive the designation when
proper field qualifications are estab-
lished. Among these Al were James
II. Benner and William B. Penn, both
Of Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co,
OF Washington.
The guest speaker of the evening
was Albert e. Rogers, headmaster of
Sidwell Friends School, who spoke
on Life Insurance and Character
Training for Children"
Institute Semester Opens.
President Paul ]. Seltzer and J.
Earle McGeary, educational chairman
Of Washington Chapter, American In
stitute Of Banking, expect . heavy
enrolment for the first semester,
class work opening tomorrow night at
headquarters In the Bond Building.
Tho courses offered and instructors
follow:
Banking I-Eliot H. Thomson,
Washington Loan 4 Trust Co.
Banking II-Edward Stone, Chief |
Project Analysis Division Resettlement |
Administration.
Law H-Raymond B. Dickey, mem
Der Of d. C. Bar.
Credits n James D. Cushman,
dean, School Of Accountancy Of Co.
lumbus University, instructor George.
Washington University.
Public speaking-Elmer Louis Kay |
yer, dean Of university students, |
George Washington University.
Current trends In banking. econom-
les and government-Edward Stone.
Directors Of the Security Storage |
60. have declared the quarterly divi-
dend Of $1.25 per share on the cap
tai stock, payable October 10 to.
Of record October 6.