Evening star., 1936-03-29
w. w. Spaid Is Vice Chair
man of important General
Convention Group.
new QUARTERS TAKEN
BY WINTHROP, MITCHELL
Offices on Street Level in Securi-
ties Building Will Be Ready
! for Tomorrow's Opening.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

District Bankers Association and
first vice president of the Washing
ton Loan & Trust Co.. has appointed
the General Convention Committee,
which will have charge of arrange
mentS for the associations annual
conclave, which takes place this year
at White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
Following recent appointment Of
Ord Preston, president of the Union
Trust Co., as general chairman, he
completed selection of the committee
yesterday and named w. w. Spaid
partner in w. B. Hibbs & Co., as
vice chairman. Mr.. Spaid is a for
mer president of the association.
The importance of the committee
Is revealed by the fact that the other
members include all the bank presi-
dents in the city and other high Off
cials. The completed committee fol-
lows:
Henry H. Mckee, National Capital
Bank; Harry G. Meem, Washington
Loan g. Trust Co.; Robert v. Flem-
ing, Riggs National Bank; Corcoran
Thorn, American Security & Trust
Co.; J. Frank Campbell, Anacostia
Bank; Maurice D. Rosenberg, Bank
Of Commerce & Savings; c. F. Bur-
ton, City Bank of washington; Frank
j. Stryker, Columbia National; S.
Wilson Earnshaw, East Washington
Savings; Edwin c. Graham, Hamil-
ton National; Michael F. Calnan, Lib
Arxx Mo
coin National; Lanier P. McLachlen,
McLachlen Banking Corp; George L.
Starkey, National Bank Of Washing
ton; George w. White, National Met
ropolitan; H. Prescott Galley, Ma
tional Savings & Trust Co.; John A.
Reilly. Second National; Francis G.
Addison, jr, Security Savings & Com
mercial; C. H. Pope, executive vice
president, Munsey Trust Co., and
Willard G. Barker, executive vice
president, Morris Plan Bank.
The convention will be held on May
1881, necessitating absence from the
city for only two business days, but
giving the delegates the usual four
day meeting, which has been tradi-
tional since the first gathering held
in 1919 at Deer Park.
Preparations are now being made
by the committee just appointed to
make the coming convention one Of
outstanding interest and Importance
to the member banks of the associa-
ton and an unusually large attend
ance is anticipated as result of the
dates selected.
Brokers Take New Quarters.
Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., veteran
New York Stock Exchange firm which
has maintained a Washington office
for many years in the Woodward
Building, is to open new Office on
the street level in the Securities Build
ing at 729 Fifteenth street tomorrow,
it was announced in the financial dis
trict yesterday.
The new brokerage offices are in the
location occupied by Hartman & Co.,
before that firm combined forces with
another exchange house. Winthrop,
Mitchell & Co. is taking the whole
ground floor and will have new stock
quotation board ready for business at
tomorrow's opening.
The new board runs across the rear
OF the Offices so that both the translux
and the board quotations are visible to
customers as they enter the board
room. Special arrangements for ven-
tilation have been made. The Offices
for the manager, order clerks, book
keepers, telegraphers and others have
also been most conveniently arranged.
In addition to the stock board, a
special bond board and curb boards
will be operated. The bond board is
to be different from most boards. BY
a series of folded papers it is pos
sible to look under the latest quotation
and see the last previous sale, high
and low for the year, etc. The firm
has membership in the important
commodity exchanges as well as the
stock exchanges.
Joseph F. Dowdall is manager of
the office here His staff includes Will
liam v. Freeman, Burdett S. Warden
and William r. Boyer, all financial
men who have been active in the
brokerage district for the past IL or
Is years.
Dulin Announces Essay Topic.
James G. Dulin, jr., treasurer
American Security g. Trust Co., and
chairman of the Essay Contest Com
mittee of Washington Chapter, Ameri-
can Institute of Banking, has an
nounced the subject of this years
contest, "The Advantages and Dis
advantages to Banks of the Trend To-
ward Amortized Loans" The contest
will close May 10 and all papers
must be in the hands of the committee
by that date.
All chapter members who are en-
ployed by member banks Of the Dis
;rict Of Columbia Bankers Associa-
tion will be eligible to participate
The three winning papers will en-
title their writers to trips to the
District of Columbia Bankers Associ-
alton Convention at White Sulphur
Springs.
Assisting Mr.. Dulin on the COM
tnittee are: Robert H. Lacey, cashier,
Columbia National Bank, and Barnum
l.. Cotton, real estate officer, National
Savings g. Trust Co.