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Bank at Memphis Paying In Full
Memphis, Tenn., Jan 25-Dramatiteally attempting to halt run the bank, officials of the Bank of Commerce & Trust Co., opened for business today with the announcement that they have sufficient cash "to pay every penny of deposits its books. timid souls" were invited by E. McCadden. director and attorney for the bank, to get into line and withdraw their deposits if they wish. The announcement that the bank had sufficient cash pay depositors 100 cents on the dollar came at after worried bank directors and business men had met intermittently since Monday night to arrange for $13,000,000 loan from the Finance Corporation and an additional $2,500,000 loan among local business men. These two sums, added to the $4,000,000 the bank has hand, will be more than sufficient to pay the $16,000,000 to which the bank's deposits have dropped during the recent heavy run. executive committee of the bank was given authority to remain for 24 hours straight to every depositor to line up and withdraw his funds, if he wishes. Idle rumors are blamed for starting the run about two weeks this week the run was só intensified that long lines of cited depositors stood in the lobMost of the counts withdrawn yesterday, bank officials claim, were of small accounts. One excited woman hysterically demanded her money immediately. Her balance was found to be 40 cents.