Evening star., 1941-10-17
le periods in 1910, follow:
/ n. c. Insurance Sales Jump.

Life insurance sales in the Dis
trict of Columbia in September
showed marked Improvement, the
total of s5.247,0O0 being 10 per cent
shead of last year, when sales
reached s4659 900.
Sales in the first nine months OF
this year amounted to S50.704 900
en increase of 5 per cent over the
ike period in 1940 when the total
new policies written in the Capital
mounted to SAT 7,6810 900,
September sales in Maryland to-
tailed S8.962 900, up Is per cent; Vir-
ginia business amounted TO $685.
600. a jump of 20 per cent over the
same month year ago, while the
was per cent better than year
ago.
Sales in September in the whole
United States totaled s58l 1880 a
i5 per cent gain, and in the nine
months moved to $3.50 ,526, 900, an
increase of S per cent over last year.
Policies written in the South At
tr-ilIAS al CObCllCO OO1 IL OOO III DC
tember. a substantial increase of 16
per cent. and in the nine months
reached s524,488, 900, an advance of
6 per cent over last year, today S
report from Hartford, Conn, states.
Washington's September gain was
Just the same as the 10 per cent
rise in August, which followed a
SlIIrf1YN NJ Y nor TiIly-
School Savings, $4,000, 900.
The American Bankers AsSocia-
ton reports that school savings &C
counts as of June so totaled S34,4l7,-
238, held by 2239.OOO pupils in 8,193
schools in 81 States.
School children deposited S12,772.-
474 in their school savings accounts
during the year but Withdrawals
totaled s3,57l, ,5O4, the report says
In 20 Of the 81 States deposits in
creased.
Maryland and West Virginia are
among the States specially men,
tFoned as having notable gains in
school savings during the past year.
Traders Rush to BOardrOoms.
sFollowing Yesterdays wild grain
tSarkets, New York Stock Exchange
rTces in the financial district were
veil filled for today's opening of all
irarkets. Early attention centered
u Chicago grain. wheat coming
rack cents a bushel just after the
daening.
sOpening of the big board showed
more gains than losses following
Yesterdays downturn. During the
FIST hour the ticker carried the re-
}Sort that a United States destroyer
had been torpedoed off Iceland, The
iews was read aloud to the patrons,
kHlt seemed to cause little excite
Jpent. Very soon came further news
tbat the destroyer was proceeding
under its own power, The news was
ret reflected in the quotations on
tls ticker.
Mergenthaler in Demand.
2Mergenthaler Linotype was in
IFeIy demand on the Washington
s sock Exchange today. reminding
Gle of the sessions of 10 years ago.
Y he stock registered three 100-share
sales, one for so shares and a 10
share lot, all at 26. close to the high
for the year.
The company'S annual report is
cue shortly and is expected to make
2 far better showing than a year
ago.
Washington Gas common came
out at 1885, on 30 and 25 share sales
and Capital Traction IS moved
et l05.
In the first eight months of l94l
the Pennsylvania Railroad earned
s2.l8 on the common against Sl.58
per share a year ago.
Financial District Comment.
DR.. Eliot H. Thomson OF the
Washington Loan & Trust Co. re-
turned to his home today after be-
ing confined to the Washington
Sanitarium at Takoma Park for
more than two months. during
which time he underwent an opera
ton. He will remain at home for
treatment pending complete re-
COvery.
Washington again is listed by
Forbes Magazine as one OF the best
places in the United States for con-
Centrating sales activities. for COL
lections and other business activ-
tiles. The magazine considers bust
ness in this general territory 1876 per
cent ahead of last year.
Mortgage Clinic Program Out.
Roy R. Marquardt, Chicago bank
or: DR.. Ernest NJ Fisher, director OF
research in mortgage and real estate
finance. A. B. A: C. Barton Brew
ster, Philadelphia banker, and W W.
Slocum, a Detroit banker, will be
among the chief speakers at the
Real Estate Mortgage Clinic IN
Philadelphia the last of this month
Banks in four States ana the Dis
t'ict Of Colombia will sond delegates
IL ell, ti,c"c 60 1875 banks in The
nrea