Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1933, Page 11

BANKING INQUIRY SCOPE IS WIDENED Senate Committee Counsel Says Private Banks Will Be Among Those Probed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 16.—The Sen- ate’s banking inquiry will be extended immediately to the operations of pri- vate banks, investment houses and in- vestment trusts. Ferdinand Pecora, | counsel to the Investigating Committee, | #aid yesterday. Pecora disclosed in an interview that he had received directions rrum: Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, new chairman of the Banking and Cutrency | Committee, broadening the original stock market investigation of the last two years. Suggested by President. The widened scope of the inquiry is in | accordance with the suggestion of Presi- White House on Monday, to seek “all of | _“No the ramifications of bad banking, so that the Government will be able to| guard against their continuance and Prevent their return.” | ecora did not mention the names of | prospective witnesses, but said, in an- | swer to questions, that the classification | of private bankers to be questioned in- | cluded J. P. Morgan & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and others whom he defined as “private bankers who make their own rules and are not subject to examina- tion at the hands of any public au- | thority.” | Further Inquiry Deferred. | Meanwhile, further inquiry into com- | mercial banks will be deferred, he said. | “until the banking situation rumposesi itself.” . aides will gather evidence in private and that public hearings will not be sought until evidence for remedial legislation a8 been obtained. The private exami- | nations will be informal, the witnesses not aworn. Oldest Cedar for Cathedral. ‘With the gift to Liverpool Cathedral of an old house in Childrey is included by it stands church. About 300 years ago Edward | Pococke took seed from Aleppo and planted it near where the parish house | now stands. Savehdlf! ALL | wite of the Secretary of Commerce, be- Pecors explained that he and his|” | nine college degrees which are heid by WIFE OF COMMERCE SECRETARY FINDS HOME A VITAL ANCHOR Seven Children, All University . Graduates, Love Ties of Family Life. Mrs. Roper Long Has Been Familiar Member of Capi- tal Society. In this much-disturbed, tempest- tossed o'd world, Mrs. Daniel C. Roper, lieves that every one needs an anchor, and the very best kind she knows of | is a well-integrated background of fam- | 1y life, That is the anchorage she has given her seven children, all of whom ar: university graduates, and all of whom, despite the fact that they are, with one exception, away from home, be- lieve {hat the Roper home is just when a favorite plece of furniture was offcred her as a gift. “I'd rather come | homeand find it here.” That explains something of the feel- ing that the Roper sons and daugh- ters have for their home. It's a feeling crowded with happy memories—of picnics and games and tasks well done, but most of all with the years when once every week their father read aloud to the whole clan. Range of Books Read. “We began with ‘Mother Goose' and nursery tales and came right on down through ‘Swiss Family Robinson’ and Dickens. That is why Dickens lives for us all today,” Mrs. Croker ex- ains. 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"RIBBOY, DENTAL a whole, and 5o we sent them to dif- ferent colleges,” Mrs. Roper explained. 0% | 8o the list inciudes her own college at|Becn & ™. | Greensbo . G ! Macon, the University of Michigan, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C,. THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1933. Bowd olis and Duke Univers Mrs. r's idea of a thoroughly time is an evening spent in read- g_history or biography, or & morning in hnmlrfien, For the most part she has bad luck with movies, though she believes there must be ned,” she explains, so reads 5 Being a cabinet hostess lnanu only one new nrg:flenu for Mrs. Roper. S8he has never before had the privilege of entertaining s President of the United States while he was in office, though she has OWn many personally. that will add a little note of formalit; and responsibility to at least one din- ner a year. Aside from that the cabi- net appointment of her husband will mean little change to this g:pulnr Washington host because she has lived in Washington for many years. ng these busy years her family, in spite of what she says, has not con- sumed all her interest, for Mrs. Roper her share of er family cir- has found time to carry responsibility in that la cle, the commi ere she soclety. Most women can tell you just when and where it was that they first met their husbands. But not Mrs. Roper. “Why, I've always known him,” she explains, for there never seems to have ime when he wasn't in her MRS. DANIEL C. ROPER. ro, N. C.; Vassar, Rani - 3 oI~ | (Copyright, 1933, by North American News- Baver Alliance. Inc.) The lowest priced fine tea you can buy s 15° PATY 23‘ SALADA" TEA SALADA BROWN LABEL Makes FIVE cups for ONE CENT SALADA RED LABEL America’s Finest Tea ¢ ES, SAVE half . . . a full half! And really save it! 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