Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1923, Page 10

PAGE TEN. SCORES LINE UP FOR BANK CLAIM FILING Depositors in Hibernia Trust Must Wait to Get Their Percentage. DENVER, Colo., Aug. 18.— Scores of depositors were in line today when the doors of the Hibernia Bank and Trust company opened for the pur- pose of receiving claims. After filing these, it was announced, it will be some time before depositors will know just how much they will realize from the assets of the closed institution. Efforts now are under way for the reorganization of the bank, it was announced. Maurice Mandell, Denver broker, accused of having benefitted from the misuse of bank's funds by Leo P. Floyd, former secretary, and John Harrington, teller, now serving pent- tentiary sentences, did not enter a plea today when arraigned in district court. Instead Mandell’s attorneys led motions for reduction of the 250,000 bond, in default of which ndell !s held in jail and to dis- ality Judge George F. Dunklee, be- lo whom Mandell is to be tried. tes for arguing the motions were et. Defictencies in the resources of the Hibernia Bank and Trust company, pf Denver, which closed its doors $465,427.47, accord- 1 report of B. W. Pfeiffer, special deputy state bank commissioner, who examined the ac- counts of the bank. The report was made public today. Comparison of the condition of the bank when it was surrendered to the state bank commissioner after its dl- rectors discovered shortages amount- ing to more than $200,000 in the ac- counts of Leo P. Floyd, secretary, and John Harrington, teller, with a statement of the condition of the in- stitution June 80, the last state bank call, are as follows: Loans and discounts, as found by the bank commissioner in his special examination amount to $529,446.61, as against $429,077.03 as reported by the bank June 40. Individual deposits as shown by the bank commissioner’s statement amount to $570,812.66, as against .30 credited to the depositors lune 80 account. Bavings accounts amounted to $756,867.82 according to the state ex- aminer. The June 80 report credited only $573,088.03 to saving depositors. FORMER CASPERITE 15 SPEAKER AT LUNCHEON OF KIWANS MEMBERS Judge A. C. Campbell, formerly of ‘Casper, but now a resident of Chey- enna, addressed the Kiwanis club at its weekly meeting today on the sub- ject of careful preservation of our ex- isting form of government, Judge Campbell, who was one of the men who drew up the Wyoming state con- stitution, made a particularly good talk and emphasized the necessity of standing by the tenets of American democracy, Mr. Campbell also stressed the fact that Americans should see to it that our railroads are given a square deal. He mentioned the fact that every time raflroad bonds are forced down in value through over taxation or oth- er unfair measures, that all the bond holders suffer financially, L. A. Reed spoke for the Chautau- qua which opens this week and W. J. Chamberlain gave interesting side- lghts on the furniture business, Hoe also told of his recent trip to Atlanta, Ga., to the national convention of the Elks and of his visit to Havana, Cuba. ————— Send “Spark your Plug” automobile news -Car3 Tribune. to The Lasvin Coo noon before Mr. Coolidge was informed of the death of Mr. Harding. Mr. anu President and His Wife age sittng Rae on the porch SHORE STATIONS ON PACIFIC ‘ WILLBE DEVELOPED BY NAVY | (s ST LINE DEFENSE, or Convention PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 13.—Two thousand visitors have arrived as the vanguerd of 25,000 expected to trek here within the next two days to attend the Imperial Palace conven- |tlon of the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. from all TO MAKE FIR WIASHINGTON, Aug. 13— Recog- nition of the strategic importance of the Pacific was seen today in the ap- Proval of the navy department of rec- ommendations of a nayal board for development o¢ American shore sta tions. More than 67 per cent of all appro- priations for bases and naval depots and air stations during the next 20 years will go to the erection of first and second lines of support for the Pacific under the provisions of the repdrt, which through the aignature of Acting Secretary Roosevelt, came the basic policy of the depart- ment. The board of experts which per pared the plan was headed by Cap- tain W. L. Willard, and was ordered to lay down a definite program which would carry out the precept enun- ciated by the Rodman board in 1 Among the important projects to which the board and the department have given furmal approval went: Wavat base, Honolulu, naval base San Francisco, naval base Puget Sound, naval base Canal Zone $1,8) naval base San Diego $17,101.000. These projects covering the western coast approaches, contemplate the ex- Penditure of alput $111,000,000 of the 755,486,000 aggregate of the entire program. Restrained by the five-pow- er naval treaty from further develop: ment in the Philappines, Guam and S0/1cw, the board allotted only a small suth to these points for necessary re- pair work and recommended the con- ‘vntration of defensive preparations in the Pacific to Hawall, with the im. mediate focus of development at Pear) Harbor, The experts agreed that com- pletion of the program for Pearl Har- ber was the most greasing now in vigw and set aside $2,000,000 for this one’ development. ‘The program for naval air stations outlined in @ supplemental report, called for expenciture of an additional .The Progress-of Flying Perfection of the above scheme of refueling an airplane while it ts in flight may mean that some day one plane will fly around the earth without stopping. Lieutenants Hine and Biefert in the upper plane pass fuel and food to Captain Lowel Smith and Lieutenant Richter in the Jower plane in a recent endurance flight at Coronado, Cal, b be~, $16,458,000 to be provided in 20 equal annual installments. This report also! has been difinitely approved. by the| department. It gave prominént place to alr depots in the Hawaiian group, recdmmending the department ari for $266.000 in the next appropri- ation bill ay the firs: installment. The when the work would be completed. Gloria Swanson Knights of the Coolidge family home in Plymouth, Vt., the after- 2,000 Visitors Visit Portland Hawai! main project would be given fun-making branch of the Knights of Trimmed, black $2,062,000 in the next budget and an- Pythias, only. Former price nual allotments of about $3,000,000 for ELSES ST $12. 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One Lot Ladies’ Dresses, Skirts, NEW YORK, Aug. yderwent an operation for the hospital in three weeks, made necessary by a brea! sulting from overwork. — AIX LA CHAPELLE, and forty wounded when use in British Malaya, 260 ‘Recovers From Her Operation Swanson, moving picture actress un- trouble at a private hospital here last ;| Monday it became known t was said she would be able to leave The operation, it was stated, was Aug. 13—Four Germans were killed today fired on a crowd of several thousand that gathered before the po\'co headquarters demanding that the city authorities do something to relleve the shortage of potatoes. — Three thousand motorcyles are in Closing Out High Grade Clothing, Shoes and Furnishings at Radical Reductions WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—The gov- ernment’s policy in the southern Pac- ific Central separation case will be announced tonight after a conference on the subject between President Coolidge and Attorney General Daugherty. Tomorrow is the last day on which notice of an appeal can be filed in the district court at St. Paul where a decision recently was handed down, 18—Gloria intestinal oday, It LONDON, Aug. 13—Sanguinary fighting between communists and the militla occurred today in Seltz, Sax- ony, according to a Central News dis- patch from Berlin, __A large body of communists stormed the town hall, occupied by the soldiers and there was considerable fighting in the streets. The bodes of nine communists were recovered. Thirty were injured and many of the troops were wounded, the message adds, —— kdown re- Germany, the police Send your automobile news to “Spark Plug'—Care Tribune. South Center St. SAMPLE COAT & SUIT CO. | Sweater Suits and Waists — Values up to $15 — Brok- en lines — Big as- sortment—Go at.... $9.90 LADIES’ SUITS Strictly tailored, braided and fur-trim- med, silk lined. New Fall models. For- mer price, $35.00. 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