16834. Reading National Bank & Trust Company (Reading, PA)

Bank Information

Episode Type
Suspension โ†’ Closure
Bank Type
national
Bank ID
4887
Charter Number
4887
Start Date
May 31, 1934
Location
Reading, Pennsylvania (40.336, -75.927)

Metadata

Model
gpt-5-mini
Short Digest
4193ff511a986334

Response Measures

None

Receivership Details

Depositor recovery rate
40.0%
Date receivership started
1934-10-27
Share of assets assessed as good
26.9%
Share of assets assessed as doubtful
49.1%
Share of assets assessed as worthless
24.1%

Description

Articles indicate the Reading National Bank and Trust Company was under conservatorship (RFC loan to the bank 'conservator' in May 1934) and by December 1934 had receivers with petitions pending โ€” consistent with a suspension followed by permanent closure/receivership. No article describes a depositor run; events appear driven by insolvency and regulatory intervention (conservator/receiver). Dates are taken from article context (RFC report for May 1934 and Reading Times item dated 1934-12-24).

Events (4)

1. March 11, 1893 Chartered
Source
historical_nic
2. May 31, 1934 Suspension
Cause
Government Action
Cause Details
Bank was under a conservator; RFC authorized a loan of $1,972,000 to aid reorganization/liquidation of closed institutions, indicating regulatory intervention and suspension of normal operations.
Newspaper Excerpt
the Reading National Bank and Trust Company, Reading Penn., conservator, $1,972,000
Source
newspapers
3. October 27, 1934 Receivership
Source
historical_nic
4. December 24, 1934 Receivership
Newspaper Excerpt
attorneys for the receivers for the Reading National Bank and Trust company ... petitions by bank receivers for permission to exchange mortgages on dwellings for Home Owners Loan corporation bonds ... heard Saturday by Judge Frederick A. Marx (1934-12-24).
Source
newspapers

Newspaper Articles (2)

Article from Florence Morning News, August 12, 1934

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Article Text

Advances in May By RFC Aggregate Over $168,000,000 Money Lent to Pay Back Taxes Saves Homes and Aids Local Government The Reconstruction Finance Corporation reported today that it authorized advances in May aggregating $168,644,166 The report showed that loans authorized to banks and other financial institutions at 4 per cent interest totaled $57,512,410. Other large advances authorized included $41,820,000. Other large advances authorized included $41,820,000 for subscription to preferred stocks in banks $45,000,000 for the Home Owners' Loan Corporation: $5,455.500 in loans to drainage and irrigation projects. The balance was for relief and other government purposes. Banks Get Bulk Of the $57,512,410 authorized in loans, $32,698,236 went to banks and trust companies, including $28.615,330 to aid in the reorganization or liquidation of closed institutions and $22,048.883 to mortgage loan companies. Among some of the larger loans authorized to banks were: United States Savings Bank, receiver Washington, D. C., $1,080,000; North-Western Trust and Savings Bank, receiver, Chicago, $2,500,000 West Side Trust and Savings Bank, receiver. Chicago, $1,500,000; Calcasieu National Bank, Lake Charles, Louisiana, $1,965,480; Commercial National Bank of Philadelphia conservator, $2,540,000; Farmers National Bank and Trust Company 650,000; Penn National Bank and Trust Company, Reading, Penna. conservator, $1,190,000; and the Reading National Bank and Trust Company, Reading Penn., conservator, $1,972,000 Of the loans authorized to mort gage loan companies. $10,000,000 was for the Electric Home and Farm Authority at Chattanooga Tenn.: $2,382,493 to the Santa Ana Mortgage Investment Company, Santa Ana. Calif., and $1,000,000 to the Textile Industry Mortgage Company in New York City. Preferred Stock Subscriptions Authority for a loan of $2,5000.000 at 4 per cent interest to the board of deposits of Wisconsin at Madison was granted but no part of this sum had been disbursed up to May 31. Subscriptions on preferred stocks in banks included: The First National Bank and Trust Company, Bridgeport, Conn. $1,000,000 Fidelity Union Trust Company, Newark, N. J., $7,000.000 Central United National Bank. Cleveland. Ohio, $8,000,000 and the City National Bank and Trust Company, Columbus, Ohio, $1,000.000. The corporation also authorized a purchase of $1,500,000 in debentures. of the Mississippi Valley Trust Company, St. Louis, and 9 loan of $3,500,000 on the Globe and Rutgers Fire Insurance Company to. the Globe Rehabilitation Company, Ltd. New York, none of which had been disbursed up to May 31.


Article from Reading Times, December 24, 1934

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Article Text

HOLC BONDS SOUGHT BY BANK RECEIVERS Would Exchange Mortgages for Securities Judge Frederick A. Marx heard petitions Saturday by bank receivers for permission to exchange mortgages on dwellings for Home Owners Loan corporation bonds paying 2% percent interest. The petitions were presented by C. Weidner, attorney for the receiver of Farmers National Bank and Trust company and William McKee Rutter and George B Balmer, attorneys for the receivers for the Reading National Bank and Trust company and for the Penn National Bank and Trust company. The mortgages, more than 100 in number, involved more than $200.000 in the case of each banking institution. The petitions, which were unopposed, were hold under