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THE REGISTER'S COST OF BANK Editor: What costing the depositors and stockholders of closed banks in Iowa to liquidate their assets under our system of state and federal receiverships? Banks been closing in unusual numbers Iowa for more than years, yet do not single instance where the receiver's in liquidation been published. expenses not the unfortunate depositors in Iowa banks entitled know how efficiently and what expense these banks are being liquidated? Perhaps little light on this question may be gathered from such report leased for publication early this month, Auditor Oscar Nelson of Illinois, the request Rushville, Times committee. The Bank Rushville closed 19, 1931, (Rushville, about the size Colfax. report detailed statement receipts expenditures made by ceiver Henry Ladewig up to Sept. 1932. According to this report, Mr. Ladewig's salary months been totaled $400 month. addition this salary he allowed "receiver's thus creasing his income from source than $450 per month. Other as listed by the receiver include attorneys' expenses, clerk expense, administrative miscellaneous expense, and other smaller items that need not Adding items together, ascertained that the expense tially this bank reaches astounding Results returns depositors: from ceivership liquidation, nothing; from funds by stockholders, under provisions Illinois law governing stockholders' liabilities this raised largely expense free by voluntary action stockholders), per cent distributed direct pense of total cost of Now, do these figures anything have the Gardner, 615 West Davis ave., Des Moines. CAMEO, brief but luminating, an outmoded actor realizing declasse, Conway Tearle's highlyhailed contribution the best before silent screen was life partially by talkies. Oddly, he trying stage and failing, stuffs cracks turns on the gas. TUG the theater is its quick portunity. More any other profesoffers constant exits from oblivion. my time observing the Rialto flow, learned to skeptical about predictions through, washed up. the past years, there definite was his way out. Yet today one the biggest attractions, only on the stage but on radio. MOST CONSPICUOUS course, beloved Marie They beginning whisper her past tense when she shipped Hollywood take any part, no was longer girlish. had her day. Or they will look! you great pressure to bear for very Sisley Huddleston, an American man abroad, who writes speaks hopefully of the disarmament ference: my business to attend the Disarmament Conference Geneva, and that disconcerting found much that enheartening. true there evasion, that the first stage the proceedings has closed complete ance results. driving this disarmament not undue delay will failure." things that forcing Europe take the situation seriously the amazing increase the modern weapNot only Europe spending for for many times both life and propMr. scarcely any compar- between the instruments which amassed and those which amassed decades Between 1914 and unprecedented development the weapons but there warfare; been greater developratio, of the ment, geometric weapons.' What armed group that possible recognizing will give another and that fully much anything forcing the If President-Elect Roosevelt door the economopen for full consideraconference of debts and reparations tariffs, and money the United States representat the world affairs feel about Davis feels,