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Run on Dublin Bank Ends as $800,000 Arrives From Macon
MACON, Ga., Oct. 12.-(P)-Delivery of approximately $800,000 in currency to the First National Bank of Dublin, Ga., from three Macon banks, stopped run the Dublin institution which began Saturday and continued Monday morning. The First National bank appealed to the federal reserve bank in Atlanta for immediate aid, which pas granted, but the problem was to get the money to Dublin. The Fourth National bank, Macon National bank and The Citizens and Southern bank, of this city, were authorized to supply the money the federal reserve bank to ship an equal amount here to replace it.
Two Macon motor cycle officers the in which the accompanied car money was carried to Dublin. MALICIOUS RUMOR BLAMED BY DUBLIN BANK OFFICERS DUBLIN, Ga.. Oct. 2.-(P)-Members of the Dublin company, One Hundred and Twenty infantry, carried $800,000 through lane of people at the First National bank here Monday, people who were lined up to withdraw their deposits. Within 30 minutes after the huge pile of currency was piled up at the tellers' windows, the crowd melted away. The run on the bank started Sat. urday morning because malicious rumor, it is reported. Officers of the Dublin bank have offered $500 reward for the arrest of the person said to have started the rumor. All depositors were paid during Saturday, as fast as the money could be counted out. On Sunday morning F. G. Corker, president, and A. W. Garrett. vice presid nt, con. ferred with federal reserve officials in The reserve bank placed $1,000,000 the disposal of the bank and authorized the banks in Macon to deliver $800.000 on Monday morning, the federal reserve bank to replace the money.