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DEMOCRATS SPLIT ON LYNCHING BILL Whole Administration Pro- gram Faces Jam as Rival Elements Battle. (Continued From First Page.) yesterday when the motion to ad- journ was defeated. Immediately thereafter, a motion to. recess until tomorrow was adopted, 49 to 10. The effect of this maneuvering was to leave the Costigan motion to take up the anti-lynching bill pending be- fore the Senate when it resumes its session. Two courses are open to opponents of the anti-lynching bill, who are determined to prevent adoption of a motion which would make that meas- ure the unfinished business of the Senate. They may continue their filibuster, which has already been going on for several days, or they may permit a vote to take up the anti-lynching bill, relying on Senator Harrison then to move to take up| the soldiers’ bonus bill. If the Har-| rison motion should prevail, it would | have the effect of sending the anti-| lynching bill back to the calendar. Politics Is Involved. A tremendous amount of politics | is involved in this maneuvering over | the anti-lynching bill. The Repub- licans, who are demanding action on the bill, believe they can win back | to the party fold thousands of col-| ored voters who deserted the party| in the last two elections if they can| show the country the Democrats are| only half-hearted in their intention| of shoving this measure through. On the other hand, Democrats in| the North and West, and in border | States which have considerable popu- | lation, fear that if they permit the| Democrats of the South to shelve this | bill, they may have a hard time at the polls when they come up for re-elec- tion. Some of these Democrats are no more in sympathy with the anti-| lynching bill than their colleagues from the South, but they would hesi- tate to vote against it. The tie-up in the Senate, which threatens to delay, if not jeopardize entirely some of the administration | measures, is not causing the Repub-| licans any dismay. And. the delay is being caused by the Democratic op- position to the anti-lynching bill, they say. Had the motion to adjourn the Senate, instead of taking a recess,| prevailed yesterday, the motion to take up the anti-lynching bill would not have been pending, but would have had to be renewed tomorrow. Un-| der those circumstances, Harrison might have obtained recognition to move to take up the bonus bill, or the filibusterers, had they so desired, might have begun such a fight as that car- ried on back in 1922 by the late Sen- | ator Underwood of Alabama against & similar anti-lynching bill. Held Out Two Days. Underwood for two days never let the journal of the proceedings of the Senate be epproved, and the effort to take up the anti-lynching bill was laid aside, so the business of the Senate might proceed. Southern Democrats have waged | other historic battles in the Senate to prevent the passage of an anti-lynch- ing bill, particularly against the force bill which was championed by the late Senator Lodge, Republican, of Massachusett. All the earlier anti- lynching bills came from Republican hands, but the present measure has beer sponsored by two Democrats, ‘Wagner of New York and Costigan of | Colorado. When they insisted upon bringing the measure to the fore last week, they threw a monkey wrench into the mschinery. Efforts were made in the Senate yesterday tc untangle the legislative situation. Senator Connally, Demo- crat, of Texas, one of the irreconcil- ebles opposing the anti-lynching bill, sought to move to substitute the bonus | bill. That motion, however, the lead- ers say, would not be in order. Costi- | gan suggested that the Senate permit | the anti-lynching bill to be made the unfinished business and agreed fosay | it aside tempgrari'y until the bonus bill had been disposed of. Robinson put this suggestion in the form of a request for unanimous consent. However, Senator Smith of South Carolina promptly objected, after which Connally put forward a unanis mous consent request that the bonus bill be taken up immediately, leaving the Costigan motion hanging in the | air. To this the Republican leader, | Senator McNary of Oregon, emphatic- ally objected. Motion Beaten Easily. The Senate was restive, and when none of these proposals could be | agreed upon Robinson made .. motion to adjourn. A similar motion had been defeated by a single vote Friday. Yesterday the majority against ad- Journment was more impressive. The roll call by which it was defeated follows: To adjourn—28. Democrats: Adams, Bailey, Bank- | head, Bilbo, Black, Brown, Bulow, Byrnes, Caraway, Connally, Dieterich, Fletcher, Glass, Gore, Harrison, Hatch, King, Lonergan, Radcliffe, Robinson, Russell, Sheppard, Smith, Thomas (Oklahoma), Fhomas (Utah), Trammell—26. Republicans: Couzens—1. Farmer-Labor: Shipstead—1. Against adjournment—37. Democrats: Ashurst, Bachman, Barkley, Bone, Bulkley, Burke, Cope- land, Costigan, Donahey, Hayden, Lewis, Logan, McCarran, Minton, Murphy, Murray, JVeely, O'Mahoney, Schwellenbach, Truman, Van Nuys, Walsh—22. Republicans: Austin, Borah, Cap- per, Frazier, Gibson, Hale, Hastings, Johnson, Keyes, McNary, Nye, Schall, Steiwer, Vandenberg, White—15. Paired: To adjourn, Reynolds, Mc- Kellar, Overton, Tydings, George, Duffy, Gerry, Byrd, Democrats; Nor- ris, Republican. Against adjourn- ment, Wagner, Moore, Clark, Guffey, Democrats; Barbour, Townsend, Carey, Metcalf, Republicans; La TFol- lette, Progressive. Only one Republican, Couzens, voted to adjourn, and only one Republican, Norris of Nebraska, was “paired” for adjournment. Reinforcements Expected. Opponents of the anti-lynching bill expect reinforcements in the Sen- ate tomorrow, among them Senators George of Georgia and Long of Louis- iana, who has made a reputation for himself in the past as a filibusterer. They count on from 12 to 15 Senators who are willing to go the limit to prevent a vote on the bill. They hope to stave off a vote until' the Senate turns to other business. With a Bible on his desk, Senator Bailey, Democrat, of North Carolina said he was prepared to read “the whole book of Deuteronomy” if that should become necessary to prevent 2 ~ote on the anti-lynching bill. A little earlier Minority Leader Rob- ure, charge Chu?::.fl. Houston, ‘ce dean of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. APRIL 28, 1935—PART ONE. * L4 i g J FIBUSTER SEN VNG BLDOON Senate Situation on Costi- gan-Wagner Measure Sim- ilar to That in 1922, By the Associated Press. Three days’ Senate discussion of a Federal curb on lynching have served | mainly to show, that while filibusters may come and go, the mere whisper of such an issue brings out the most unyielding of them all. Two or three Senators have been able in the past to delay action for weeks. bloc, such as the Southern group, can stall off a vote for months. It took such a bloc but two days in November, 1922, to show the then Republican leadership that it could | never hope to pass the Dyer anti-| lynching bill, already approved by the House. At the end of that period, the Republicans caucused and de- cided to"drop the issue. Southerners Organized. Then, as now, the Southerners were organized to fight off the anti-lynch- ing measure for an unlimited period. Oscar W. Underwood, famed Ala- baman, took the lead, drew up a | list of the Southerners and gave each a certain number of hours to kill. Pat Harrison of Mississippi drew the first shift. It was his responsi- | bility to ward off a vote for 18 hours. | He did it by playing parliamentary tricks with the journal of the pre- vious day’s proceedings. He demanded that the clerk read it in full, and then had a series of corrections to pro- pose. One was that the chaplain’s prayer should be included. He expatiated on the undesirability of future gen- erations reading the Senate’s journal and coming to the assumption that | the day did not begin with prayer. Record Vote ‘Demanded. Another was an objection to the fact that the journal did not specify at what hour Vice President Cool- idge ascended the rostrum to relieve a Senator then occupying the chair. He thought it “highly important” that this correction be made and on it, as on all others, demanded a record vote. Each roll call of the Senate killed 10 to 15 minutes of his 18 hours. And ifi between his proposals, Under- wood moved adjournment and there was an additional roll call. Senator Smith, Democrat, of South Carolina has assumed the leadership in the present fight against the Cos- tigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill. Like Underwood, he has a list, but the or- ganization has not proceded to the point of assigning time to each. Jaspar to Practice Law. After five vears as prime minister of Belgium, M. Henri Jaspar has re- turned to his practice at the bar. A legal colleague commented on his “re- turn to the hurly-burly” the other day. “Well,” replied M. Jaspar, “not every=- body has the good fortune of Cincin- natus to be the possessor of four acres and a plow. Still, I do a little agricultural labor on Sundays on some- body else’s land.” He was referring to the fact that he plays golf on that day. Howard University School of Law. Houston also saw in the circumstances an indication that President Roosevelt was giving the proponents of the measure no encouragement. “Now that the Democratic floor leader is openly organizing the fight against the bill in the Senate,” he wrote the President, “and leading tactical maneuvers to prevent its consideration, Negroes cam reach no other conclusion except that the fili- buster against the bill either has White House approval or else has lfiuhuned the White. House into silence.” A sizeable, though minority | 'N.R. A EXTENSION : ] {Borah Leads Attack, but Some See Hope of Short« ening Session in Move. By the Associated Press. Senate opponents of N. R. A. “cracked down" yesterday on the pro- posal to extend the present recovery law without change until the next ses- sion of Congress, but the move, never- theless, , gained strong headway among friendly Senators. Final decision on the issue rested with President Roosevelt, with whom Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee will consult dur- ing the week end. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, led the attack on the proposal to extend the present law with = statement that it would bring “stu- pendous” damage to let the act con- tinue without change for nine more | months. Short Session Hope. Administration leaders, however, were sympathetic to the proposal. be- lieving it might shorten the session if they could get a simple continuing resolution through without much argu- ment. It was a paradoxical situation, with the proposal advanced by Senator Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, one of the most open critics of N. R. A., find- ing suppo:t among N. R. A's friends. Clark suggested in the Finance Com- mittee that Congress should not at- tempt to revise the recovery law until the Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the present law was available. He proposed a nine- month extension of the act, which would give Congress three months after meeting next session to work out a new law. Members of the committee said the proposal met with a generally favor- able response, but that no one com- mitted himself to it. Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michigan, who has been considered one of N. R. A's friends, said flatly yesterday outside the committee that he favored the plan. Others were fearful, however, that the temporary extension would leave the Recovery Administration up in the air, with little power to enforce its rulings, and that the result would be generally a breaking down of en- forcement. They predicted President Roosevelt would not accede to the plan. General Agreement Need. Harrison said even if the Chief Ex- ecutive agreed to the plan he would not push it unless there was general agreement among both friends and foes of N. R. A, which would permit the action to be taken without a fight. In view of Harrison’s position, the opposition of Borah and other N. R. A. critics was significant, because it in- dicated the committee chairman would not be able to get the general agreement he held necessary. “I don't feel I could consent to certain things remaining in N. R. A. for another nine months,” Borah said. “The amount of damage in that time would be stupendous. There are certain changes that should be made in the interest of business and recov- ery, and it would be a mistake to let them go along without changing them.” . Senators Nye, Republican, of North Dakota, and McCarran, Democrat, of Nevada, other N. R. A. critics, were also skeptical of the plan. Nye said he absolutely would not commit him- self to prevent his seeking changes in the law, while McCarran expressed the view that N. R. A, was retarding recovery and that to continue it would only project this gffect. PROPOSAL GAINS Modern Pioneers Sail for “Promised Land” Bound for Alaska, where they will take up homesteading in the twentieth century manner, 120, single men are shown in the upper picture aboard the motorship North Star at San Francisco just before the modern Mayflower deparjed. This group is the vanguard of a unit of 1,000 farmers to be taken from poverty-stricken Midwest areas and given a new chance to set up farms, Inset: Capt. S. T. L. ‘Whitlam, commander of the North Star. Lower: A typical family that will join the modern pilgrimage to fer- tile Matanuska Valley. This fam- ily, the Clyde Cooks of Walker, Minn.,, descends from American pioneers. —A. P. Photos. EWISH APPEAL to Organize Volunteers Tomorrow Evening. MALLYISPLAVED ‘Leaders of Men’s Division | SHRINERS 10 SEE FAMOUS HORSES White Arabian Stallions Will Appear in Spec- tacular Parade. Some famous horses will be seen at the Shrine convention here in June, it was announced last night by Robert P. Smith, director general of the Shrine Committee. A troupe of white Arabian stallions from Aby Bekr Temple, Sjoux City, Towa, will appear in one of the spec- Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. tacular parades, while horses from |- Fort Myer will be used in a notable “Army day” exhibition. Many other features of the forthcom- ing convention are taking shape under direction of the” General Committee. A total of 62 temples already have been listed for attendance, and it is possible this may be increased to 80. Air Demonstration. Both Army and Navy have agreed to put on an air demonstration. The Entertainment Committee, of which John C. Koons is chairman, has ar- ranged for a trip to Quantico, where the Marines have agreed to serve a typical Marine luncheon. Contracts for the decorations of Pennsylvania avenue have been let to Washington firms and the work of placing the poles for the huge arches will be started this week. The jeweled colored banners and the “golden lights” selected by the Decorations Committee, under the chairmanship of Howard P. Foley, promise to sur-' pass any scheme of decoration here- tofore seen in Washington Chairman Stanley D. Willis of the Hotel and Housing Committee can still use a large number of rooms in pri- vate homes, it was emphasized. “I am afraid that people are wait- ing until the time of the convention to list their gooms, without realizing that we are getting hundreds of re- quests for rooms daily, and are as- Willis said yesterday. “We can use homes right away, and I hope that everybody in Washington who can possibly spare- space during Shrine week will get in communication with the Hotel and Housing Committee at once.” Pageant Plans. Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, chairman of the Pageant Committee, and Col. Harry S. Kimberly, vice chairman, are making rapid progress with plans for the pageant that will be a feature of Leaders of the Men's Division of the United Jewish Appeal yesterday announced the first rally of volunteer held tomorrow evening at the Ambas- sador Hotel, with Edward C. Ostrow, | cochairman with Dr. Ivy A. Pelzman | of the division, presiding. The goal of the three-week drive for funds, which will start May 8, is $35,000, and efforts will be made to- morrow night to organize 100 or more men workers to participate in the | canvass. The local campaign is part |of a Nation-wide Jewish appecal for $3,250,000 for the relief of destitute Jews of Eastern Europe and toward the settlement of German Jewish refugees in Palestine. Organization of a Women's Divi- sion from the ranks of the Hadassah, the Council of Jewish Women and the sisterhoods of the Eighth Street Temple and the Sixth Street Syna- | gogue will be started within the next few days. according to Louis E. Spiegler, drive director. Preparations are going rapidly ahead for launching the drive, with a staff of women volunteers at the Jewish Community Center preparing lists of prospective contributors and | mailing out literature concerning the |aims of the appeal. workers’ units are being organized in | various local organizations, including the Poale Zion Society, with Samuel | A. Golden as chairman, and the Pio- | neer Women of Zion group, headed by Mrs. Samuel Bugatch. Drive Chairmen Isidore Hershfield |and Edmund I. Kaufmann expressed | more than $22.000, with donatfons | received from close to 1,800 contrib- | utors. 1,287 HIT TRAINS |T. C. C. Also Reports 3,322 Grade Crossing Accidents. train during 1934. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion also said yesterday there were 3,322 highway grade crossing acci- | dents resulting in the death of 287 persons and injuries to 1,865 during the year. Of the auto-train crashes 856 were at crossings, unprotected except for 8] BYRD SHIPS .IN ATLANTIC/ Vessels Leave Colon for Norfolk and Washington. COLON, Panama, April 27 (P).— The flagship of the Byrd Antarctic expedition and the Bear of Oakland, supply ship, sailed today for Norfolk, Va. From Norfolk the Bear will pro- ceed to Washington, where President Roosevelt will welcome the explorers. RUGS REPAIRED A SURE WAY TO-ECONOMIZE is to have your old rugs re- paired here whenever neces« sary, instead of replacing them with new ones. House- wives who have -‘used our service are enthusiastic in their praise of it. Floor cover- ings flllt. are torn or other« wise un- sightly are recon- ditioned by us at a very mod- erate cost. CALL MR. PYLE 3257-3291-2036 workers in the relief drive will be | Meanwhile, | Thursday night, June 13. Sketches of | some sets to be used in this spectacle ! have aiready been accepted, and the | committee is working both on con- | struction and the training of per- sonnel for the presentation. The Grandstand Seat Construction | Committee, of which William A. Mil- | ler is chairman, is planning for 60,000 seats along the Avenue, and if the | number of reservations received from {outside can be taken as a criterion, | all will be needed. 'CONFIDENCES VOTED | JUDGES HIT BY LONG | JI.o\risi:m Bar' Association Says It Believes in Honesty of Men Senator Attacked. By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, La. April 27.—The Louisiana Bar Association. in annual convention here today, adopted reso- lutions expressing “full confidence in | the honesty and integrity” of three Justices of the State Supreme Court whom Senator Huey P. Long threat- | ened to impeach by legislative action. The justices are Chief Justice | Charles "A. O'Neill. and Associate Justices Wynne G. Rogers and Fred M. Odom | Long threatened before & legisl tive committee two weeks ago to have | the three justices put out of office | because, he said, they were incon- sistent in their decisions. He made | confidence today this year's drive will | 8 general charge of “crooked juris- | | be successful. Last year's drive netted | prudence” and said it would have | | to stop in Louisian The resolution expressing dence in the justices was offered by John R. Hunter, of Alexandria, it Pioneer Flyer Killed. | SCHENECTADY, N. Y. April 27 | () —Lawrenc> J. Wiecznski, 38, a | Schenectady coal dealer and one of 0 feet over the Schenectady Air- port. AILL columns, fantastic pedestals, multi-|* Shrine headquarters, 1315 K street, at | confi- | FASHION SHOP CLOSED MONDAY A SENSATIONAL STORY 15 ABOUT TO BREAK WATCH THE ‘STAR MONDAY AND TUESDAY '“HELP WANTED: MALE Experienced clothing and haberdashery sales- amen and tailors apply to Mr. Schoenberg at the:9th & E Fashion Shop Mondl{ o at '8 o'clock’ for. immediate emp! signing them as fast as they arrive,” | an additional 5,000 rooms in private | {HOWARD KILLED IVAR, U. S. SAILOR TELLS AUTHORITIES (Continued From First Page.) there. I went into the kitchen and | |jumped out a window. Then I bummed my way back to San Pedro and stayed with friends.” | The sailor said he did not know {Ivar or Howard until last Sunday | when they “picked me up when I was on my way from San Pedro to Los Angeles.” McDermitt said he then stayed at | Howard's house. On one occasion the | sailor said Howard told him “that |if Peul thought he could beat him ,out of the $75 he owed him (Howard) | for salary, hed find he was the | wrong guy to beat.” il | The sailor said he saw a revolver at Howard's house, buf @id not know | he carried it to Ivar's dinner Thurs- day night. | At Ivar's, McDermitt said, Howard | went out to buy the food for dinner. | “I think he must have talked to | Paul about money matters,” the sailor | continued, “because Paul told me ‘I | have a check coming to me for $1,800 | and T'll straighten everything up with | i McDermitt said “everything was O. K" at dinner, up to the time! Howard asked him to wait outside the apartment. After seeing his name in the news- | paper stories of the tragedy, McDer- | mitt said he changed hurriedly from civilian clothes to his uniform and re- turned to his ship, the U. S. S. Penn- | | sylvania, late yesterday. | Aboard ship he told his story to Comdr. E. W.'McKee. The latter noti- | fled county authorities, who came aboard and obtained the statement. Had Penchant for Perfumes.. Still more of Ivar's peculiarities, | | which included a penchant for per- | fumes and cosmetics, were disclosed when some of his clients reported he was fond of claiming to be half Chi- nese. Aileen Pringle, film actress who or- | dered some clothes from him, de- | clared he told her, “ ‘Connie Bennett and I had an awful row when she | found “out I was Chinese. Drivers of 1287 automobiles ran | the city's pioreer flyers, was killed And Mrs. Samson Raphaelson, wife | their cars into the side of a railroad | tonight when his plane crashed from | of a New York playwright, said he 20 | frequently mentioned being of Chinese blood. *“‘My aunt was Mata Hari, the morning yment. . The Countess Rina de Liguoro, concert pianist and film actress, whose name was brought into the investigation of the Hollywood slayings when a note referring to her was found among the effects of one of the victims. Police questioned and released her. spy.'” Mrs. Raphaelson said he told her. In a statement given the countv probation office last year, following his arrest on a charge of having stolen a diamond ring from a wealthy Holly- wood woman, the designer gave his true name as Ivandorfl Moransky. Further investigation of the murder apartment exploded another possible mystery when fingerprint experts said the print on a cocktail glass, used at the last dinner, was left by a man's hand, not a woman's, as originally believed. ARCHITECTS URGE MARKER FOR MILLS Association Seeks Tablet Grave of Designer of Monument, for The Association of Federal Archi- tects proposed yesterday that an ap- propriate sculptured marker or tablet for the grave of the architect of the ‘Washington Monument, Robert Mills, in Congressional Cemetery. be allo- cated as one of the projects under the new $4880,000000 work relief fund. The association, in a letter to Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples, director of pro- curement, pointed out that the grave of this man, “famous in the aesthetic history of America, is unmarked by any adequate shaft, tablet or symbol.” Howard C. Sullivan, president, and F. J. Ritler, secretary of the associa- tion, declared Mills “wields a potent influence upon the American people.” “Those who have not seen the great | shaft,” they added in the letter, “re- ceive its message through pictures of it, and its bold and gigantic simplicity have made it as firm a piece of America’s patriotic symbolism as the eagle and the Capitol dome.” The architects recommended that if possible one of the sculptors of ade- quate taient, who may be employed or commissioned by the Government under the relief bill be assigned to the task as a project, of producing a sculp- | tured marker or tablet for the grave. A Bank MOTHER EXPECTS CLUE IN LETTER Mrs. Howard Hopeful That’ Note Will Clear Son in Shooting. Suspense at least until tomorrow morning will be the lot of Mr. and ~ Mrs. Edgar L. Howard, 3654 Park place, parents of Willlam McCauley Howard, central figure and one of the two victims in a triple shooting in Hollywood, Calif., last Thursday night. For it is the firm °-lief of Mrs. Howard that a letter from her dead son, always faithful in life in his correspondence to her, is somewhere in the malis between here and Cali- fornia. Accustomed to hearing from her son at least once each week, Mrs. Howard expected a letter yesterday, but it failed to arrive. “He always posted his letters air mail,” she said last night, “but there was no_delivery yesterday afternoon, s0 anything that came in during the day would be held until Monday. I still expect to hear from him.” Mystery Unexplained. In the letter, Mrs. Howard hopes for some word which might help clear the mystery of the shooting in which Paul Ivar Wharton, Hollywood dress designer, and Howard lost their lives,” and Henry E. Bolte, 39-year-old law | professor ~ was seriously wounded. | California police thus far have be- lieved Howard shot both of the others | and then turned the gun on himseif: | Meanwhile, it developed that Boite | also has been a resident of this sec- | tion. In Leesburg, Va. vesterday it | was learned that a Henry E. Bolte, then a law student, had married & Miss Virginia Webb of that town. Later they lived at Riverdale, Md. Washington Girl Mentioned. Association of the mame of Webb {in the case first came when Mrs. Bolte told California police that she | knew Howard slightly and that he | used to keep company with a Mar- | garet Webb of Washington. At the University of Maryland, of- | ficials were unable to confirm a re- port that he once had given a series of legal lectures there. Records did | not show that he ever had been at- | tached to the faculty. While hopeful of receiving a letter from their son, the Howards last night also were awaiting word from Wilbur K. Baker, uncle of the dead’ man, who is a resident of Los Ange- les and who was to have taken charge of the body and make arrangements for its transfer east. . PROTECTION ASKED Black Moves to Prevent Holding Companies From Getting Benefits. By the Associated Press. Amendments to the ship subsidy bill designed to prevent holding com- panies and other agencies from “draining the life blood out of the operating companies” to be given Government aid, were introduced yes- terday by Senator Black, Democrat, of Alabama. | It the Government is going to grant subsidies to ship operators and ! ship builders,” the Senator said, “I want to see to it that good modern | ships are built and that the operation is not aimed at enriching a few in- dividuals.” One amendment would require operating companies to dissociate | themselves from any holding compa- {nies or any subsidiaries, such as stevedoring, wharfage, towing, or me- chanical service companies. A second amendment proposed to limit earnings to not more than 6 per cent a year, and ‘third limited salaries of any official of a subsidized |firm to $17,500 a year for full-time | service. “There have been instances,” Black | said, “where officials of companies have drawn salaries of $500,000 a year.” | ‘ ELECTRICAL REPAIRS | Commercial Motors | Repairs—Rewinding | MEEREIRRIG for the INDIVIDUAL We believe the success of this institu- tion as well as the splendid records made by other Morris Plan banks are traceable to the honesty and the stability of the rank and file of American people who appre- ciate our sincere efforts to be constructively helpful. Through good times and bad, this bank has not only continued to safeguard its deposits in every possible way, but it has also made available bank credit to thousands of Washingtonians whose needs, character and earnings have justified that credit. We have prospered with our customers and are eternally grateful to them. 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