Evening star., 1941-02-02
Big Delegation
ToAttendA.B.A.
Trust Farley
Il Capital Bankers
Will Go to New York
For Sessions
By EDWARD C. STONE.

twenty-five Washington bankers
are planning to attend the Ameri-
can Bankers Associations Mid
Winter Trust Conference, which
opens in New York Tuesday, it was
announced yesterday. This is said
to be the largest delegation from
the Capital that has yet attended
one of these meetings. The list in
cludes:
T. Stanley Holland, Frank M.
Perley, American Security Trust
Co; Wilmer ]. Waller, Erskine Cor
don, Hamilton National; William ".
Simmons, Liberty National; j.
Frank Rice, Lincoln National; j.
Frank White, Ralph G. Wilson,
National Bank of Washington;
Stanley D. Willis. National Metro
politan; Bruce Baird, William B.
Willard, j. Fontaine Hall. National
Savings g. Trust Co.; Robert v.
Fleming, George o. VasS, Riggs
National; John A. Reilly. Edward
F. Colladay, William B. Wolf, Sec
ond National; S. William Miller,
Willard G. McGraw, j. Wesley
Clampitt, jr., Union Trust Co.; Leo
nald Marbury, Vincent A. Sheehy,
Washington Loan g. Trust Co.
TIE program includes some of the
ablest speakers in the country on
trust problems as they relate to
banks.
Home Financing Up Sharply.
Home financing in the District of
Columbia by all types of mortgage
lenders In 1910 amounted to S66,-
100000. with 1852 mortgages on
homes being recorded. the Federal
Loan Bank Board announced yes
terday. These figures compare with
1891 mortgages amounting to s58,-
679 900 in 1889
In 1910 building and loan asso-
Citations made $500 loans, amount
ing to S28,889 900; insurance COM
panies 882, amounting to S5,846 900;
banks and trust companies 1922.
totaling $7427 900: individuals, 1857
for $40, ,476,0 900; others, 3,001 for s13,-
464 900.
Building and loan associations in
Maryland made 5.186 loans on
homes for s18,26O, 100 during 1910,
against 1884 amounting to S11 1,935.-
$50 in 1889, and Virginia building
associations granted 4,494 for SILL
COL TAO, against 3271 totaling s8,4O8,-
378 in 1899, the report said.
Real Estate Bonds Higher.
During January the average price
of real estate bonds in Eastern cities
increased IA per cent. according to
the Amott Baker averages, an upturn
for the seventh successive month.
The average price per $1,000 bond
is now S285 compared with 1921 at
the close of 1940
Several Washington real estate
bonds are included in the list of 200
on which the averages are founded.
Advances were shown in each of the
cities in the averages, the report
says. Pittsburgh did particularly
well.
Apartment hotel issues improved
most during the month with rise
of 45 per cent.
insurance Leaders H0n0red.
Recording new business gains for
January. the Washington agency Of
Mutual Benefit Life of New Jersey,
paid special honors to two staff
members yesterday at luncheon
at the University Club.
DR.. William R. Ward, medical
director. presented the emblem of
the Mutual Benefit Veterans Club
to Dwight T. Scott and General
Agent H. Lawrence Choate, both
chartered life underwriters.
DR.. Ward recalled the chartering
of the company on January 80, l845
and the fact that a Washington
Office was opened the same year,
said to be the first life insurance
Office in the District. The Wash
ington agency now has S28,000,000
insurance in force. DR.. Ward an
nounced the company made sub
stantial gains during 1910.
Cook Names Banquet Aides.
Martin A. Cook, general chairman
of the District Building and Loan
Leagues Banquet Committee, OF
which Rudolph w. Santelmann is
vice chairman, yesterday completed
the membership by adding the fol-
lowing associates:
Edward C. Baltz, Chaplin B. Bau-
man, Carl J. Bergman, Arthur G..
Bishop, Wilfred H. Blanz, Robert
E. Buckley, F. Wilson Camp, E. j.
Carlson, William H. Dyer, Carl H.
Ellingson, George M. Emmerich,
Joseph D. Fitzgerald, Arch Nc
Lachlen, C. Clinton James, Edward
K. Jones, Clarence E. Kefauver,
Edward L. McAleer. G. Hayward
Marshall, William N. Payne, jr.;
Fred A. Smith, J. Hawley Smith,
Odell Smith, Schuyler S. Symons,
James w. Woodward, Howard S.
Gott and w. S. Hartman. The
dinner takes place March 8 at the
Mayhower Hotel.
Bank Teller Enters Service.
Edmund H. Graham, vice pres
ident and manager of the Southwest
Branch. National Bank of Wash
ington, was host Friday evening at
a dinner to employees of the branch
in honor of 1t. Francis c. Strizzi,
a teller of the branch, who will go
on active duty with. the Head
quarters and Service Company, 12lst
Engineers, District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard.
Members of Washington Chapter,
American Institute of Banking at
tending the annual dinner OF New
York Chapter last night, included
Edward M. Blaiklock, John M.
Christie, Kenneth Birgfeld, Richard
A. Norris, Paul J. Seltzer and
Joseph r. Fitzpatrick.