Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1930, Page 28

HEAD OF CLOSED BANK ENDS LIFE Nashville Man Is Found Strangled by Shoe Lace in Hotel Room. By the Assoclated Pre: NASHVILLE, Tenn., November 28.— Withes shoe lace drawn around his neck, e oody of R. E. Dennell, 63, president of the closed Liberty Bank & Trust Co.. an institution which he organized, was found in a hotel room here early y. Search for Mr. Donnell had been made for several hours before it” was that he had registered at the Repeated telephone calls to the room went answered and the door was opened. M. D. Johnson, assistant cashier of the bank, identified the body. An envelope on which was written “To Ridley E. Donnell, Jr., From Daddy” and contained his watch and chain, was found in his vest pocket. The lace from his left shoe had been removed and \‘.led lround his neck over a handker- Polloa said Mr. Donnell had com- mitted suicide and that no inquest was necessary. Since the bank clcsed the night of Mussolini’s Aide Ttalian political circles expect that Count Costanzo Giano (above), minister of communications, soon will be named vice premier by Premier Mussolini, thus | Indicating a successor should the Italian | dictator pass from the political scene for any reason. one of about a dozen banks in Tennes- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930. MRS. ROSS IS NAMED AS CATHEDRAL AIDE Former Governor of Wyoming Hon- orary Vice President of National Committee of Women. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, former Gov- ernor of Wyoming, has been named one of the honorary vice chairmen of the National Women's Committee for Wash- ington Cathedral, an organization of ‘women now engaged in arousing Nation- wide interest in the edifice being built on umnm St. Alban, it was announced Thg immediate objective of the com- mittee, which plans to enroll 15,000 men and women as donors of small an- nual amounts for building and mainte- nance, is the provision of funds for the building of the porch of the north transept as the gift of American woman- hood. Cathedral authorities are hope. ful that the north and south m:lu“‘pll. arms of the cruciform structure, be completed by 1932. Mrs. Herbert Hoover is _hohorary chairman of the committee. Plans call for organization of committees in im- portant communities throughout the country. eaaEe g Columbia University is the largest in- stitution of learning in the world. “I Don’t KnowWhat Makes Me Tired..l” November 13, friends of the banker said | he had worked almost ceaselessly in an | effort to reopen it and as a result had been under a constant nervous strain. statement of the bank, Donnell said, at the time of the closing showed resources of approximately $1,000,000. He expressed the opinion that with administration of the in- | 880 stitution’s affairs the depcsitors would — be paid in full. The State superintend- ‘was named receiver. 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It was the second to fail in Nashville, its clos- ing following by a week that of the Bank of Tennessee, a subsidiary of the investment banking house of Caldwell & Co., now in receivership. The Peo- ple’s Bank & Trust Co., a colored in- stitution in Nashville, closed a week Profits from official dances of the University of Texas last year totaled '.l'he Liberty Bank & Trust Co. was | $9,381. She Never Knew Fatigue Could Come From Shoes That FEEL Comfortable. Shoes don’t have to hurt to cause fatigue. Nature tough- ens feet to accept almest any abuse. But—you CAN'T avoid the tense, strenuous muscle strain—the titing tortuous abuse wrong shoes inflict on the rest of the body. Try & pair of FLEXIBLE ARCH Cantilevers. No rigid steel shank to ruin your arches—throw your leg muscles out of line and leave you walking on tender nerves. No crippling last. 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