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THE EMPORIA DAILY GAZETTE EtnporU, KUMU, Friday, April 1943 THE EMPORIA GAZETTE V. dttet daljj SHDOI.T. Lroc Ccuntr City of fcr.pon» at la KM. for traosnlsBoB Uxroccb tf wcoad clfcM mkUer. Ttonm eiulverod cwnu to tst it ceru wxk.

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Manbw at Friu Ttt AMOclated press is exclusively tliled to tie use for publication al credited lo It or not otherwise credited to UU paper aad also local All ritnti of rtpubliutlon of "reel hereto are also reserved. NATIONAL Twenty Years Ago APRIL 10, 19I3. The Neosho Valley experiencing one the worst floods since 1903. The river out of Its banks and many acres of lira land are Hooded. Nights In a Bar Room" will appear In Emporla ior one perlormnnce April IT In a mammoth tent sealing 2,000 people.

Mus Emily Dewey will return evening Iron Kansas City, where she ha: born vlsltlnf with relatives. w. H. Kerr to Neodeiha Thursday to Judge a high school debate. W.

S. Cooley, of Vlnlta, li rltltlnc with her Hater, Mrs. Emma L. Randolph. laboratory equipment for Newman Memorial County hospital has arrived and Is bring Installed.

Lance C. Hill, of the Mid-West Research laboratory, irlll be In charge of the department. Miss Mabel Copple has returned from Kansu City, where she has been visiting with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs.

Dortle Ingwerson arc moving to Topeka this week. Mr. Inew eon, who has been a mechanist In the Eanta. Pe shops here for several years, baa been transferred to the Topeka shops. A missionary society wns organized by the women of the Arundrl Avenue Presbyterian church Friday.

The following of- Slcers were elected: President, Mrs. T. J. rice president. Mrs.

P. D. Rus- Mll; secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Ernest Wfaldden; secretary literature.

Mrs. J. Tt. Kelshelmer. Mlu Lillian Dudley vis elected prenl dent of the state Association University Women last week at Us annual meet ing In City.

College Democratic Club Starts Work The Collegiate of Em- porla State College have launched their political activity for the year by holding their first meeting. Frank Karnes; president of the club, outlined future activities of the club. A motion to endorse Randolph Carpenter, ol Marlon, as the Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate was passed unanlmouslv by the club.

Harold Schroeder, Emporla State student who is president of the Kansas Collegiate Democratic clubs, said chapters at the University Kansas, Kansas State College. Wichita universiy, Washburn, Hays, Plttsburg and possibly other Kansas colleges, would endorse Mr. Carpenter in early meetings. BY JOHN HARVEY FURBAY PH.D WOMEN ARE NOT MORE DELICATE THAN MEN The idea that woman is the "weaker sex" has no evidence from science. From the very beginning of life, girl babies show a lower mortality rate than hoy babies.

In fact, it is much more difficult, according to life insurance companies, to rear a boy than a girl, from The standpoint of health. A Study si the death rats from tuberculosis between 1900 and by the Prudential Life Insurance Company showed that women are much more resisetant to this dis- than are men. AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY Homer J. Ball Pott No. 5 Meet 2nd 4tb Tuewiayi CJub Eoomn 7MH CoraT BATAAX.

The United States armed forces have met a major defeat, the most terrible and humiliating that has come to them In the history of this Republic. Bataan is a blow to our pride. It will tpell sorrow in our memory for a hundred years. Who is to blame? Is it the President? He did all he could to keep the peace. Even while the Japanese ships were sailing toward Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt made a personal appeal to the Emperor lor peace.

Our State Department for five years has been trying to keep the peace by diplomatic compromise. We have appeased imperial Japan to our own her scrap iron and oil, buying Japanese goods by the ship load to help Japan arm herself to overcome our own soldiers. We cannot blame the administration. Was it Congress? For 20 years Congress has been struggling with the defense problem of the Pacific. Way back In Hardlng's day when the disarmament conference was called in Washington, we tried to curb the military party of Japan by treaty, which scrapped some of our own battleships.

Par-seeing leaders in Congress have tried to increase the defenses of the Pacific. But by treaty we agreed not to fortify Guam. Japan agreed not to iortify her mandated islands but broke the agreement. If the Congress had tried to make an appropriation for the maintenance of an army of two hundred thousand men in the Philippines, the American people would have risen up In rage. We did not have more than tt hundred thousand trained and well equipped men under anns in this country.

If we had tried to fortify Wake and our other Pacific Islands, the American people would have overthrown Congress. The people believed in the unconquerable army of sheer righteousness in international relations. Are the people then to blame for Bataan? The people of the United States believed Wilson when he lea them to the war to end all wars. They thought, and the world was full of evidence to back them up, that humanity had come so fnr up In its evolutionary Jcrurney that mankind was ready to settle International differences by arbitration. We were philosophical pacifists.

We believed In kindness. Our national policy bolls down to the thesis that it pays to be decent. We tried it on the world. It has failed. We were to blame, if there is blame trying to be kind and square, even generous to our neighbors and our rivals.

If to adopt In so far as it is practicable In human relations at home and abroad some fair approximate of the Christian philosophy of mutual kindness as a rule of that brings blame, we citizens of the United States are deeply and profoundly to blame. But alas, when me time comes, we shall do it again and again and again. We shall try with all our hearts and with all our might to live in the world under some kind of an international Golden Rule. It may fall and fail and fall ngain. We may even again pay the price In bitter shame and deep humiliation.

Bataan may come over and over. But finally our children's children's children will see among nations the establishment of human relations, national and International, which has made life In this republic endurable and In most areas Just and fine and beautiful. We mourn Batann today. Bataan with its humiliation and anguish Is a sign that we tried to live in a world that was not ready for our philosophy. Our 36,000 soldiers are saying the price of our international neighborly policy.

We, the people of the United States, arc to blame, of course; not the Congress, not, President Roosevelt, not our State Department; of all things not those brave soldiers who are facing death or worse than death in Bataan. So let Americans mourn today in sorrow. Let us grieve but without remorse. For we, the people of the United States, we are to blame. And God helping us and cherishing us, we shall always be to blame for holding In crur hearts a faith and a moving hope that taken by and large nnd on the whole, In the long run of the centuries, it pays to be kind.

We are still Christian nation. VOICE ACROSS THE WORLD. A few weeks ago an agent of the British Broadcasting company came to Emporia- with a record- making machine and took a 15- mlnutes phonograph record interview from the editor of The Empor- la Gazette, for distribution over the British Broadcasting company In England and the British empire. Whereupon, everyone around the office promptly forgot it. Today a letter dropped into the office from the Church House, Cambridge, England.

The letter was signed by Gladys Whitworth Mackennal, wile of the Archdeacon of Ely. Gladys Whitworth lived out on Sixth avenue, 44 years ago. The Whitworths, John and Marian, father and mother of Gladys and five other children, are burled in Emporia. The two sisters are alive. Mrs.

Mackennal writes that her brother, John, began hli education in the State Normal, proceeded to Oxford University, England and afterward won the D. S. O. and was killed in the offensive which began March 25th, Her younger brother, Walter, was also killed in that war. His son, John, "is a wing commander in the R.

A. who has won the D. S. D. F.

C. and the Bar. He was one of the nine airmen sent by the British government to the United States more than a year ago and he made a point of flying over Emporia where his grandparents were buried and where his father grew up as a boy." And all this had root in that day in February when the phonograph record of The Gazette editor's voice was made, to be sent to England by air mail to be distributed over England and so over the world. The miracles that men are doing in the earth moke one thing rather either man has got to control these vast and superhuman machines benevolently and not greedily or this century will see a catastrophe in civilization that will wipe out the gains of two centuries. But If we do take the right.

turning, go the right way, follow the divine wisdom In our hearts, then humanity may wake up in the lives of our children into a veritable mlllenium. We have the tools to make an amazing and a lovely life, a brave new world, if only we would train our minds and hearts to use these tools as we have trained our heads and hands to make these mechanized miracles. This miracle of the voice recorded here in The Gazette office seeing out the ears of a woman who was a little girl in Emporia is one of those wonders which has in it the destiny of man, good or evil. That flying machine which took a grandson from England across this town to look down upon the graves of his grandparents lying in our graveyard, was another thing, so strange in the long tens of thousands of years that man has been on this planet that our generation, rushed into all these wonders, Is baffled, bewildered, and may be misguided. Only God knows! Men Still Tote Guns San Angelo, Texas, April 10 Don't get the idea that west Texas' era of two-gun men Is gone.

When Goodfcllow Field, Air Corps training center, held open house Army day guards at the gates warned visitors: "Park your shooting' irons at the door!" The and single- barreled shotguns, a repeating rifle and several pistols and holsters. Wants Steady Work Hartford, April 10 temporary job for Edmund Williams, who is 84, for a Job In a Bridgeport war production factory. The applicant made it plain that he was Interested only in a permanent position. One look satisfied the interviewer that Williams was made of durable stuff, and he got a job as ft trade he has followed for 63 years. Red lights arc far more difficult for enemy airmen to see than blue lights, according to the War department.

Gazette Classified Ads cost as little as 25c for two Insertions. THE WAR TODAY. Everything Possible Was Done To Help Americans on Bataan BY DEWITT MACKENZIE. (Wide World Aailyst) Now that the blow of Bataan has 'alien It may bo there a feeling that aid ought to have been sent to our beleaguered forces emphasize that there has been no possible way of relieving them. That fact long has been patent.

iut there has been a general too much reluc- discuss such an unhap- situation In detail. For one thing such talk lends comfort and aid to the enemy. Then too, there always has been the faint hope that the defense might holrl out until some fortuitous circumstance gave our forces a break. I raise the subject now because I have been getting indications that a lot of folk haven't understood the position. It may case minds to know that everything apparently has been done which could be done, since the outbreak of the war.

Couldn't Get Through. Tlie Japs have controlled the sea and air about the Philippines. We have lacked the striking power to break through that blockade at such a vast distance from our home bases, for it would nave required great naval and air forces which weren't available. It's true that recently we hove established considerable flghtlnp strength in Australia, and that this strength Is being augmented. But it's equally true that we couldn't have utllfced this base if the Nipponese had controlled the air and water about Australia as they do about the Philippines.

In short, we haven't sent to Australia anything which could have been into the hands of our men on Bataan they wrote nn indelible chapter of glory In American history. Offensive Lonf Way Off. While we ara on the subject of (Comlnurd on Pane Elf htv Auto i-urmiure Phoenix Finance Co. Eccleston Son FUNERAL DIRECTORS Phone 376 Colored Officers To Get Chance W. L.

White Writes Story on Training: Negro in Army W. L. White Is the author of an article, 'Negro Officers: 1917 and Now" which appears in the April issue of Survey Graphic, a magazine of social interpretation. Mr. White wrote the article after making a survey of training schools, where he saw a new chapter In army history being written by colored candidates lor commissions.

The article follows: In 1918. all Negro officers were trained in a special camp at Des Moines, but today Negro officer- candidates are in training in the army schools at Fort Bennlng. Camp Lee, Fort Sill, Camp Davis, N. Aberdeen, and Carlisle Barracks, Pa. These have replaced the officers' training camps of the first World war.

Let's take a look at a typical platoon in one such school. Here are 24 boys who hope soon to be officers. Three are Negroes. All sleep in rows of cots in the barracks and eat together at pine tables in the big mess hall. The only trace of segregation Is that the Negroes usually sit at an end mess table and, when they have time for a movie, attend a theater reserved for a Negro regiment stationed in the same camp.

The 24 boys come from all over the country. Many from the deep South. Officers in charge say there is no difference between the behavior of the Negroes and that of the whites. Stand Above Averate. In ratings, the Negroes stand slightly above the platoon average.

The officer in charge of the platoon rates the candidates' fitness as officer material, numbering them from one to twenty-four. In addition, each candidate rates the 23 others. They are warned that they mustn't play favorites. One important qualification of an officer Is to judge men fairly; hence, If a man's report rates his friends high regardless of real merit, this will be held against him. Those In charge say there Is little difference between the way the officer rates the man and the way the men rate each other.

In this platoon of 24 the Negroes rate eight, eleventh and thirteenth. In the unit are two white boys of nationally known families; one of them rates above and the other below the Negroes. Platoon mates' comments on the Negro who placed thirteenth' included the following: "Forceful, alert, shows initiative." "Level headed, enthusiastic." "Intelligent, cooperative, instills confidence in men." The platoon leader Judged him: "Courteous, quick-witted, neat, determined, Initiates action speedily, performs duties excellently, would make an excellent officer." If we can judge by this platoon, the old army belief that the Negro was unfit to command seems to be going with the wind. Men Are Well-treated. Negro officer-candidates say that they find it "surprisingly fair here at the school:" that when they arrived the major told them he hoped there would be no troube, but told them not to take anything, and if happened, Just come to him.

This hasn't been necessary; the white boys were perhaps a little slow in warming up, but they treat the colored boys fine, now. Of course not all all on well. Danriy. a cocky little Negro, had a chip on his shoulder and put his mouth Into everything. The white boys, the platoon officer, and the colored boys nil rated him low.

so Danny isn't with them any more. No doubt these boys are honest with each other because they respect good work in their fellows, because they are working so hard and earnestly for commissions, and hoping for fairness for themselves, they see the value of being fair to others. The Negro student officer agrees that he's getting exactly the same training and unpredjudiced rating the white boys get. Yet he will probably point out that of the 1.200 boys admitted to this particular school, only little over one per Negroes. Proud of Own Officers.

Here the Intelligent white boys accept the officer-candidate, but how about after he gets those two gold shoulder-bars and walks out in front of a Negro wlU they respect him? When you ask him that, he grins. There couldn't be any trouble, he assures you, because colored boys are proud of Negro officers. Look at the two who were, recently graduated and joined the 48th Negro Quartermasters Regiment: the colored soldiers there, tremendously proud, are breaking their necks to help put them over. And when he himself left his Negro company at Fort Devens to come to officers school, the boys came down to the train to wave him off. "When you get your bars," they told him.

"come on back to your old all get back of you and work like hell to make you a success for nil of us Negroes will tell you, however, that the Negro officer Mrioui problems. An officer is auppowd to uphold the dignity of bit uniform by eating only in first-elus restaurants, but in the South Negro officers are barred from white restaurants. Every army post has a club for commissioned but the Negro is definitely given the Idea that he's not expected there. Hare Military Tradition. American Negroes will fight; nobody could deny that, for their military tradition is older than the Republic.

It began with black Peter Salem who distinguished himself at Bunker Hill. The bravery of Negro troops, AS the British bullets whistled over them in the battle of New Orleans, won the praise ot General Andrew Jackson. Several hundred thousand colored men fought in the Civil war, and congress authorized four regular army Negro regiments, such regiments won laurels in Cuba in 1898, and twenty years later in France. All right, they can fight, but can a Negro lead? Until recently our army would have answered, No. It must be remembered that the peace-time strength of the army's four Negro regiments was largely drawn from sections of the South where opportunities for education were poor compared with the schools for white children.

White officers' praise for their Negro troops was sometimes rather patronizing. Negro enlisted men, their white officers would point out proudly, didn't know fatigue, never counted hours or grumbled as white soldiers do. Some army men have said that maybe you shouldn't give Negroes anything to do which calls for in- lative or analysis; but that if they trust your leadership they will follow it blindly and fearlessly in battle. As holding troops they are unsurpassed. Put them to guarding anything and stick until the last one is kflled.

They follow orders to the letter. Never instruct a Negro guard to shoot unless you mean it, goes the ancient army advice. Maybe that is why a Negro regiment was given the honor oi guarding the White House in 1917. Overcome Old Ideas, Of course, the army used to point out, if you command Negro troops you must give orders in words of one syllable; you must be dignified familiarity would ruin a Negro non-com: you must ignore the intrigues that Negro soldiers love to build up and deal out justice as a father does to his children. Give the Negro soldier his own area and amusements and he will be he wants it that way.

But Negro officers, the army once was deeply convinced, wouldn't do; it held that the Negro soldier had no respect for them. Hence, until recently, you could count on the fingers of one hand the number of commissioned Negro officers in the regular of whom were chaplains, since the Negro was presumed to have respect of other Negroes only in spiritual matters. The Negro officer couldn't command respect, the army said, partly because he knew that his Negro troops had no confidence in him; therefore he often lacked confidence in himself. The first World war had proved it, the claim went; the 92nd Division was an all Negro outfit except for officers above he grade of major; some of its colored officers had been regular army sergeants with practical experience, but most were graduates of the Negro Officers School at Des Moines who lacked experience; there was constant friction and the division itself into some bad messes. Boniht Their Own Medals.

White officers recall with a grin that some Negro personnel of the 92nd bought themselves decorations for bravery at French pawnshops, all of which had to be removed from their tunics when they landed In New York. (Many medals were won by the Negro 369th regiment, however, and some Negro enlisted men and officers in the 92nd und 93rd divisions were decorated for exceptional gallantry.) There were always exceptions. Last year one division had five Negro National Guard officers on maneuvers. Though four of them showed an attitude of indifference perhaps born of a conviction that since they were Negroes they couldn't get promotion no matter how hard they worked, the fifth threw imself into the spirit of the consequently is slated for promotion. Another exception, the army conceded, was the late Col.

Charles R. Young, one of. West Point's few Negro graduates. He had to pass nut only the academic hurdles, but also an ordeal known as the "silence cure" which West Point undergraduates reserved for Negro aspirants. All during the first year, nobody spoke to you or looked at you; if you could take this without leaving the academy with a nervous breakdown.

West Point would relent and concede that regardless of color you were fit to be an oflfcer. Colonel Young's former classmates had for him a feeling of friendliness, admiration and respect. Yet Negroes would argue that even Colonel Young's ability was not enough to overcome his color. When the United States entered the first World war Colonel Young's seniority would have entitled him to become a brigadier general, but he was pronounced physically unfit for active duty in France although he Special Showing Fine New Snltlnfs Made-to-Order MR. BOB W.

KLAAS FROM THE OF INDIANAPOLIS Will Be Our Store SATURDAY Be Measured IVbile Tic is Were, Immediate or Delivery E. E. ANDERSON ComT Men's Tailor "Step up to Style" Our restrictions on extra and cuffs, go into effect May 30th rode honeback from Ohio to Washington in order to diiprove the charge. Huaiiy he ww ordered to Liberia to train the constabulary, and died there of tropical fever after the war. Other Since then the army has made three other exceptions to ita old unwritten rule that no Negro can be a satisfactory officer in the regular army.

Brigadier-General Benjamin O. Davis now occupies the highest post ever accorded a Negro in the American army, and even his last promotion came in the heat of the 1940 Presidential campaign when the Negro vote swaying in the balance, no white officer will say that General Davis hadn't earned those stars on merit. Until the present war, the only other Negro officers in the regular from a few his Captain Benjamin O. Davis, and Lieutenant Colonel 'John E. Oreen, now retired, who rose from the to command.

The former, after graduating from West Point in 1936, ranking thirty-fifth in a class of 278, served with the Negro 24th Infantry at Fort Ben- nlng as its only Negro officer. His commanding officer says that young Davis had the complete respect of his fellow officers and of the Negro soldiers under him. Tusketee In Wartime. The peacetime strength of the army included only four Negro 24th and the 25th Infantry and the 9th and 10th Cavalry, all of whose officers, with the exception of Captain Davis, were white. But in October, 1940, it was, announced that Negroes would be inducted into service in proportion to their numbers in the 10 per cent.

Four additional all-Negro units of the New York National Guard were placed in the 369th, an artillery and anti-aircraft regiment; Chicago Negro guard units became the nucleus of the 184th Field Artillery; the 372nd Infantry was organized with Negro National Guard companies from Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois; and a Negro anti-tank battalion is now being formed. Tht-ie units are led by Negro officers who received their commissions through National Guard or from Reserve Officers Training Camps. At the end of 1941 almost 100,000 Negroes, comprising about twenty regiments, were in uniform and in 1942 the army plans to call up 175,000 more. The Navy and Marine Corps offer the Negro only cooks' and stewards' jobs. How far can he go in the new army? The air corps opened a new door in July 1941, by establishing, at Tuskegee, a school for Negro combat pilots.

To get on the waiting list for this school, candidates must have had I at least two years of college or pass an equivalent examination, must pass a stiff physical examination, and must present several letters recommendation. Are Learning to Fly. At Tuskegee, Negro boys are learning to down, as they, soar, upon their people clucking skinny mules over the red soil of cotton and peanut farms, and upon the stately white columns of old southern mansions which survived the Civil war. Candidates have the same type of planes, equipment, and barracks as do white trainees at other fields. Their instructors are, if anything, better than the average.

If this experiment should fall, nobody can say the Negro didn't have every chance. The students know this, point out with pride that every one of their officers volunteered for this task; it wasn't a question of culls of the air corps being ordered to instruct a Jim Crow flying school The field's officers Include a few Negroes, one of whom is modest young Captain Ben Davis. It is expected that at least 50, per cent of the candidates will come through and receive their pilot's I wings in March. This is about the average survival among white pilots. White Officers Interested.

The White officers at Tuskegee Field are milltantly proud of their charges, and insist that there are no Important differences between these boys and white candidates. The Negro boys, feeling that so much depends on the first experimental school, not only for themselves but for the whole Negro race, are somewhat tense. The officers try to relax them and reduce this tension. At first, the trainees are too conscious of their Instructors and work too hard at pleasing them Instead of concentrating on the plane. So the instructors tell them sternly, "You can't please an doesn't care about you." The trainees are quick to catch the Idea and concentrate on the task.

Instructors say they must be gantli to criticising these Negro A sardonic jibe can crush a colored trainee so completely that ha is A white boy takes it more casually; he wants to be a pilot, of course, yet if he fails the bottom won't fall out of his world. And it should be remembered, say the instructors, that most Negro candidates have never touched an airplane, whereas many white candidates have flown as passengers or have had jobs around airports. Other Fields Probable. Until lately the school was regarded as an experiment that might be abandoned r.t any time. Recently, however, the War department authorized the establishment of second squadron at Tuskegee.

Later, other air corps train- Ing fields for Negroes may be set up. All over this part of the South, every Negro knows about the school, and whenever a plane comes over, they are sure the pilot is one of 'their boys." So when you look down, you can see the Negroes who have stopped work in the cotton fields; their black faces peer up at your plane. One of "their boys" Is in it, they are thinking, and they proudly wave up to him to cheer him on. It sort of gets you, the young white instructors say. British Sink Four More Axis.

Ships London, April 10 submarines, in one case defying a convoy's destroyer escort, have sunk four more Axis schooners and two supply the Mediterranean, the admiralty announced today. One of the schooners, a communi- que said, was laden with sugar and other stores bound for Tripoli, the Axis' chief supply port in Libya. Both supply ships were reported sent down by a submarine commanded by P. 6. Francis, which slipped up on a convoy despite its warship protection, ramming home two torpedoes on one large supply ship and also sinking another, of medium size hi the same attack.

Help your husband Defense Bonds and Stamps. City Living Within Budget, According To Treasurer's Report With 25 per cent of the budget year gone, most city department budgets are less than 25 per cent expended, according to the monthly report on city finances prepared by R. I. Anderson, city treasurer. The city's airport account shows the heaviest percentage of expenditure, as 61.4 per cent of the budget for the year gone.

The only other department funds more than 2S per cent expended are the auditorium fund in which 35.3 per cent has been expended and the sewer maintenance fund, now 28 3 expended. With the season approaching for work of various sorts, on the various department budgets expected to show up in later reports. So far no part of the weed control fund has been expended, but this work will soon be getting under way. Only 9 per cent of the park fund has been expended. -Expenditure from this fund will mount with the coming of summer.

The various city funds and the amounts budgeted for each are: Band, Engineering, Fire, General. Library, Light. Park. Police, Sanitation, Sewer malntenanet. Street.

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6th Phone America's Coffee Sensation "Processed with fnfra-Red Rays" It comes to you in perfect canning (Your Mason or Kerr Jar Lids Fit Fleming Jan) Condensed Official Statement of The Emporia State Bank EMPORIA, KANSAS at the Close of Business, April 4, 1942 RESOURCES LIABILITIES Cash $309,942.16 U. S. Bonds 139,200.00 Kansas Municipal Bonds 27,600.00 Total Cash and Bonds $476,742.16 Loans and Discounts 264,257.86 Overdrafts 516.61 Bank Furniture and Real Estate 44,172.77 Total $785,689.40 Deposits $681,611.46 Capital 50,000.00 Surplus and Profits 64,077.94 Total $785,689.40 OFFICERS and DIRECTORS L. WAYMAN, President H. A.

WAYMAN, Vice Pres. and Cashier E. W. EBERLE, Assistant Cashier FRANK FONCANNON A. S..