Evening star., 1937-04-26
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Committee Selects List of
Candidates for Coming
Institute Election.
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

BY EDWARD C. STONE.
William H. Laughlin, Washington
Loan & Trust Co., has been nominated
for the presidency of Washington
Chapter, American Institute of Bank
ing, and Joseph r. Fitzpatrick, Second
National Bank, has been named for
first vice president, the Nominating
Committee announces. At the same
meeting the following institute men,
bers were placed in nomination for the
other offices:
Second vice president-George B.
Earnshaw, National Metropolitan, and
Francis E. Robey, Bank of Commerce
& Savings.
Treasurer-G. Crawford Turnbull,
Morris Plan Bank, and Edward M.
Blaiklock, Washington Loan & Trust
Co.
Chief consul-John M. Christie,
Riggs National, and George NJ. Rowzee,
jr., Lincoln National.
Secretary-Margaret P. Hayden,
Columbia National.
Assistant secretary-Frances E.
Nagel, Riggs National, and Margaret
A. Berckmann. National Metropolitan.
Beard of governors-Aubrey o.
Dooley, Hamilton National; Robert H.
Lacey, Columbia National; T. Hunton
Leith, Security Savings & Com
mercial; Richard A. Norris, Lincoln
National; Frank M. Perley, American
Security g. Trust Co., and Stuart S.
Ogilvie, Second National.
May Attend Convention.
The following delegates to the ma
tional convention were elected at the
same meeting: Paul j. Seltzer, Frank
M Perley, James C. Dulin, jr., Ameri-
can Security & Trust Co.; Francis E.
Robey, Bank of Commerce & Savings
William F. Russ City Bank; Margaret
p. Hayden, Columbia National; Aubrey
o. Dooley, Hamilton National; ]. Earle
McGeary, w. B. Hibbs & Co.; Myrtle
P. Lewis, Liberty National; George
Galleher, Joseph Turner, Lincoln Ma
tional Bank George B. Earnshaw,
National Metropolitan; G. Crawford
Turnbuu Morris Plan John M.
Christie, I. j. Roberts. Riggs National;
Joseph Fitzpatrick, Stuart S. Ogilvie,
Second National; T. Hunton Leith,
Security Savings & Commercial Bank;
G. Elmer Flather, Union Trust Co.;
William H. Laughlin, Edward NJ.
Blaiklock, Washington Loan g. Trust
Co.; Robert G. Whitton, First National
Alexandria, Va.
Bankers Attend Conclave.
Five Washington bankers are at
tending the annual convention of the
Association of Reserve City Bankers,
which opened today at White Sulphur,
w. Va. They are Robert " Fleming,
Sidney F.. Taliaferro Riggs National;
Joshua Evans, jr., and William J.
Waller, Hamilton National, and Fred
erick P. H. Siddons, American Sc
curity & Trust Co. This is nearly 100
per cent attendance.
Messrs Fleming, Talaferro and
Waller have just returned from the
Executive Council meeting of the
American Bankers Association at
Hot Springs, Ark. Several other A. B.
A. members at that meeting will be
at the Greenbrier Hotel and present
new banking IDEAS advanced at that
meeting.
Association Officials Home.
Officers of the District Bankers As
eociation and committee chairmen for
the nineteenth annual convention of
the association returned from White
Sulphur Springs today after a busy
week end completing arrangements for
the annual banking conclave. All
members predicted one of the asso-
ciation's most successful conventions.
Those making the trip included
Thomas ]. Groom, acting president of
the association; General Chairman A.
M. McIachlen, Vice President H. G..
Hoskinson and Charles H. Doing, T..
Stanley Holland, Robert H. Lacey, A.
Scott Ofutt, John A. Reilly, Sidney F.
Taliaferro and Wilmer ]. Waller.
B.&O. Net Gains $685., ,22O.
Net railway operating income of
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in
March totaled $3,241 ,532, compared
with $349,3 $3.50 in March, 1886, a sur
prising gain of 1892 202, according to
the monthly report made thi. noon.
Freight traffic showed an increase of
S38l5,035, reaching $14,219,168. Pas
senger traffic was up more than s74,O0O
over March, 1886. Railway operating
expenses revealed an increase of over
$945 900.
In the first quarter of 1887 net rail-
way operating income reached the sum
OF $7,06l ,954, against s4526928 in the
like three months last year. an increase
of $685. ,026, the report says. Freight
revenues totaled s38,376,2O2, gain of
s5,723,926. Passenger traffic gained
$74,980. Railway operating expenses
at $31 ,693, 1856 showed an increase of
$2,227,867 over the like 1885 period.
Delegates Leave Capital.
Delegates to the Eastern Regional
Conference Of the National Assoeia-
tion of Bank Auditors and Controllers
left the Capital yesterday, following
the closing dinner Saturday night at
the Wardman Park Hotel at which
about 300 were present. The guest
speaker was Edward Stone, an econo-
mist, and an official in the Govern
ment's Resettlement Administration.
He presented clear, carefully pre-
pared and very interesting analysis of
the present economic situation, espe-
cially as it relates to banking. Strick-
land Gillian, noted humorist, was at
his best, as toastmaster. That's say
ing lot.
Brokers Move Clocks Forward.
Many brokerage Offices in the city
moved their clocks forward an hour
today as the Summer daylight saving
schedule went into effect Many trad