Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1933, Page 26

EJEVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ., WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1933. TBANKS TO FACE “LIFE” |second-dogre muer for the shooting M”"JAI_ BANKERS | IN OFFICER'S SLAYING Bunks maicea wit et muspand on 5 HOLD SYSTEM BEST | By the Associated Press. court house vault of about 10,000 bal- $10,000,000,000 Deposits Represented at National Conference. By the Associated Press SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., May 24.—The | mutual principle of banking was lauded | as “the soundest known to this or any | other country,” at the opening of the! thirteenth annual conference of the| National Association of Mutual Sav-/! ings Bank here today. i The bankers attending the confer- | ence came from 18 States and repre- sented 13,000,000 depositors and about $10,000,600.000 in deposits. i Myron F. Converse, president of the Bavings Banks' Association of Massa- | chusetts and head of the Worcester | Five Cents Savings Bank, welcomed the visiting bankers. g he said in a pre- . “mutual savings banks ve first demonstrated during the past 13 years that the mutual principle in banking is the soundest known to this or_any other country.” He estimated that mutual savings banks, in the 13 years from 1920 to 1933, had grown from $5,058,282,000 in deposits to almost $10,000,000,000. “We live in a period of experimen he said, “when every institution is sul jected to the fever for change, not excepting—the good American dollar. Therefore_ the mutu:l savings banks | may take special satisfaction in the fact | that they have changed little. I think | rticularly of the savings bank dol- | r, which continues to we worth 100 cents.” Wilson G. Wing, president of the national association, pointed to the record of mutual savings banks as the high light “of the deflationary period. In a prepared speech Wing sal “The entry in a savings bank passbook is one val that had not declined. . * * * Today the mutual savings banks | hold the strongest position in more than | a century of existence. CHILDREN'S NEED FOR CARE INCREASES| hrist Child Scciety Home Reports 867 Free Cases, Against 766 for March. An increased meed for free care. of convalescent childrém.was reflected in a report yesterday by the Christ Child Society Convalescent Home, at Rock- | ville, During April this home,"which receives children of .6 years and over, gave 867 days of free care, as against 766 in March and 772 in April of 1933. An increase also was shown in the nurber of persons taking part in ac- tivities at the Christ Child Society Settlement, at 608 Massachusetts ave- nue northeast. The total attendance in organized groups for April was 8,678, as compared with 7,536 in March. The activities include basket ball, base ball and other games, wrestling, boxing and instruction in arts and crafts, needle- work, sewing, religious subjects, story telling and home-making. Providence Hospital, at Second and D streets southeast, ‘reported to ‘the | Community Chest still further increases in the demand upon its clinics and “out patient” departments. In April these ents served 1,512 patients, as against 1,424 in March. INQUIRY IS ORDERED IN SHIRT INDUSTRY Labor Secretary Declares Reports State Conditions Have Be- come Chaotic. By the Associated Press. ) Secretary Prances Perkins yesterday ordered an investigation of “chaotic” conditions in the men's shirt industry. ‘The Secretary of Labor, in directing | 8 speedy inquiry by three bureaus of her department, said - information reaching her was to the effect that “the conditions in the men’s shirt in- dustry have become so chaotic that the term ‘sweated industry’ is applicable. “The industry is so widespread and the matter of such importance that I desire to make an immediate ‘investi- gation, particularly of wages, hours, working conditions and emplcyment of children in this industry,” she told newspaper men. The Secretary said that while most of the reports of disturbed conditions came from the East, the working con- ditions throughout the Nation would be included. STRIKE OVER PAY BOOST Textile Employes Charge Wm-ki Has Been Increased. GREENVILLE, S. C., May 24 (®). wages had been increased 10 per cent, work had been increased 25 per cent.| ‘There was no disorder. | ‘The mill emnloys about 1,200 workers in all departments, but only the weavers walked out. When the weavers arrived at their places today tbey pulled electric switches and walked from the plant. Spokesmen said the recent wage in- crease did not warrant additional work and that where they had been working 30 looms under the old wage, they now were forcad to work 40 looms under the increased wag. ‘Woman, 70, Drives 70 an Hour. Seventy-year-old Dame Ethel Locke: King mace 70 miles an hour in her au tomobile on the Brooklands, England. | track recently. She is the proprietor of | Brooklands, and her drive was to open | the new bridge wbich carries the motor | track over the River Wey. 1 | | | | What a pleasure it is to know your EYES are properly taken care of by Licensed Specialists in an exclusive optometrist’s of- fice (ground floor). You can avoid the risk and know that your glasses are made of dependable prescription ma- terials by coming to Rose Optical Co. 907 G St. N.W. Pay as Low as ~ $1.00 a Week first-degree murder charge, was acquit- blisher Con-|fed. The jury deliberated 2215 hours. Former Newspaper Publisher Con-| /ry o S0 Medford editor, storm victed—Wife Acquitted of gonle{ of a polltluldhlurmou in I:‘!ach'm unty, was indicted, among others, for Murder Charge. -|1¢¢ex complicity in the theft from the EUGENE, Oreg., May 24.—Convicted | l0ts just prior to a recount. Prescott of slaying s constable who came to ar-| was attempting to serve the warrant. rest him, Llewellyn A. Banks, former R newspaper publisher, will seck a new| Necktle patterns are “mertal prop- trial. Conviction makes a life prison |erty” in Garmany, where an association sentence mandatory | of necktie makers plans to prosecute A jury Sunday found him guilty of ' pattern stealers. ““SALLY, THESE OLD PORCH CHAIRS LOOK ALMOST HOPE- LESS. 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