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ary 8 were unchanged from last
year. For several weeks there has
been a tapering off in the increases
over last years sales.
In the Fifth District, sales for the
week were up / per cent, were / per
cent ahead of the previous week
this year and in the four week
period were up per cent.
January Air Records Broken.
Despite weather conditions which
caused cancellation of some flights
in and out of Washington, American
Airlines last month shattered all
previous January passenger and
Airfreight records for the Capital.
A total of 19,625 persons left the
National Airport during the month
aboard American Flagships, topping
by more than 5000 the previous
all-time January high set in 1946.
Eleven times as many pounds OF
airfreight were handled.
Seward Mott, executive director
of the Urban Land Institute, will
give an illustrated lecture before
Washington Chapter, Society OF
Residential Appraisers, at a dinner
meeting Tuesday evening at the
Burlington Hotel. His subject will
be Land Planning of Subdivisions
With Relation to Valuation" He
will be assisted by Max Werley.
League Leaders to Confer.
The Executive Committee of the
District of Columbia Building and
Loan League will meet at the May.
flower Hotel Tuesday noon at 1880.
A report from J. Hawley Smith
chairman of the Annual Banquet
Committee, will occupy an important
place on the agenda.
Two new courses have been added
to the program of Washington
Chapter, American Savings anc
Loan Institute, Raymond G. Will
liams, educational chairman, an
nounced yesterday. Customer Re.
lations and Office Procedure" vii.
be conducted by William E. Poul-
ton, treasurer of the Columbia Fed.
eral Savings g. Loan Association
and Statistical Guide to Manage.
ment" by Charles e. Torrance, Fed
eral Savings and Loan Insurance
Corp.
, National President to Speak.
Philip B. Hobbs, president Of the
National Association of Life Under
writer's, will address the District
Thursday noon, Febru-
ary ~, at the Shorehan1 Hotel, w.
Neal McCord, president, announced
yesterday. This is expected to be
the big luncheon Of the year, with
many leading Washington business
executives as special guests.
Joseph ]. Crowley of the Crowley
g. MARI Agency of the Penn Mutual
is attending the Life Insurance
Marketing Institute at Purdue Uni
Lafayette, Ind. The insti-
tute aims to aid individual under
writers and be of special service to
the big insurance companies.
The District Life Underwriters
has taken wide interest
in National Heart Week" which
ended yesterday. Heart disease re-
search Is commanding more and
more attention, 1873 life insurance
companies already having contribu-
uted $1,000 for this purpose.
The Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Co. recorded three new
records in 1916, the annual report
shows. Insurance in force passed
IS, ,000 100000, assets exceeded 81
600 900 900 and new business reached
a new high mark.
Financial District Comment.
Linwood P. Harrell, vice president
of the Union Trust Co., is passing
vacation in South Carolina.
Weeks final sales on the Wash
ington Stock Exchange included
transfers in Lanston Monotype, ex-
dividend, at 1874, and Garf1nckel
51k% preferred at 271a.
The Auditors Section Of the
District Bankers Association ex-
poets to have its first woman chair
man next year. Mrs. Margaret S
Mcclure, auditor of the City Bank
is now vice chairman and due for
advancement at the June election
Registrations for the second Sc
mester of Washington Chapter
American Institute of Banking, now
total about 140, Educational Chair
man Theodore P. Cowgirl reported
yesterday.