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QUICK ACTION STOPPED RUN ON C. BANK
Governor of Federal Reserve Made Speech That Saved Day.
DEMANDS MET WITH THE CASH
Impending Run Turned Into Reception With Flowers and Smiles.
By the Associated Press. Kansas City, Nov. 15 "run" on the Park National Bank here today was turned into a public reception with flowers and smiles. The Park National, neighborhood bank, opened and found 200 depositors lined up to get their money. Everyone was paid and then at one end of the room a man stood on a chair. "I am W. J. Balley, he said. "I am governor of the Federal Reserve Bank. This bank member of the Federal Reserve system. The Federal Bank guarantees that depositors in this bank will not lose one cent." The assembled depositors cheered and Mr. Bailey shouted: "There are 200 million dollars behind that guarantee. Governor Bailey said officials and examiners of the Federal Reserve Bank had gone over the Park National Bank's "paper" yesterday and found the bank to be "in as good shape as any bank in Kansas City.' Officials said the "run" started as the result of rumors which circulated here Saturday following the closing of the Federal Trust Company and the Terminal Trust Company.