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BANK CLOSED Altoona, Feb. Mountain Trust Company closed today by order of the State Banking run on the resulted when the Union Bank private closed early this week.
Mountain City Trust Company (Altoona, PA)
Episode Information
- Episode UID
5752940691574- Episode Type
- Run → Suspension → Closure
- Bank Type
- trust
- Bank ID
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575294069hash - Start Date
- February 27, 1931
- Location
- Altoona, Pennsylvania (40.519, -78.395)
Metadata
- Model
- gpt-5-mini (chosen from majority vote of a three-model LLM ensemble)
- Short Digest
62e99568bb4f954b
Response Measures
None
Description
Closure ordered by State Banking Department after depositor run triggered by the prior closing of the Union Bank; receiver appointed and bank remained in liquidation.
Events (5)
1.
February 27, 1931
Run
- Cause
- Local Banks
- Cause Details
- Heavy withdrawals began after the nearby Union Bank (a private institution) closed earlier in the week, prompting depositor panic against Mountain City Trust.
- Measures
- Bank opened briefly but was unable to stem withdrawals; public appeals for confidence were made by local business leaders and banks.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- A run on the bank started when the Union Bank of Altoona, a private depository, closed early this week.
- Source
- newspapers
2.
February 27, 1931
Suspension
- Cause
- Government Action
- Cause Details
- State Banking Department ordered the bank closed after heavy withdrawals from the run; examiner/officials took charge and a receiver was appointed.
- Newspaper Excerpt
- The Mountain City Trust Company was closed today by order of the State Banking Department.
- Source
- newspapers
3.
February 28, 1931
Receivership
- Newspaper Excerpt
- George L. Taylor, special deputy of the state department of banking, appointed receiver for the Mountain City Trust company; will conduct appraisal and audit before deciding to reopen or liquidate.
- Source
- newspapers
4.
December 19, 1931
Other
- Newspaper Excerpt
- No time set for payments; state banking secretary and Mt. City Bank receiver refuse to make statements on when creditors will receive payments on their deposits; bank described as defunct and closed since February.
- Source
- newspapers
5.
January 6, 1933
Other
- Newspaper Excerpt
- Stockholders object to bank receiver's expenses in proceedings against George F. Taylor, receiver for the defunct Mountain City Trust Company.
- Source
- newspapers
Newspaper Articles (16)
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MOUSE AIDS IN FIVE ARRESTS Hole It Gnawed in Stolen Sack of Flour Gives Police a Clew. By the Associated Press. HAMMOND, Ind., Feb. 27.-A pilfering mouse was credited today with furnishing the clew that led to arrest of five Crown Point youths. The J. Baldwin feed store was robbed of flour, but a mouse had gnawed a hole in the corner of a flour sack. and when the sack disappeared later the police followed a train of flour to the home of George Goff. 18 years old. Deputy sheriffs arrested Goff. Clifford Rosenbaum, 18; Louis Lindsey, 26; Walter Steinbach, 25, and Edward Spencer, 17. Others are sought. Run Closes Altoona (Pa.) Bank. By the Associated Press. ALTOONA, Pa., Feb. 27.-The Mountain City Trust Co. was closed today by order of the State Banking Department. A run on the bank started when the Union Bank of Altoona, a private depository. closed early this week. In statement at the close of last year, the bank reported capital and surplus of and total resources of $2, Liabilities, including capital stock, totaled $162,-
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Father Follows Tip That Girl Is Captive Parent Of Virginia Brooks And Sheriff's Party To Search Arizona Mountains Yuma, Ariz., Feb. 27 (U.P)-Reports that Virginia Brooks, 10, missing San Diego schoolgirl. was captive in mountainous region of northern Yuma county, sent J. F. Brooks, the girl's father, and party of searchers into the district today. Brooks, acting on a "tip" that his daughter was held in cabin by "an old man," came from San Diego and went to the scene. He was accompanied by Sheriff Roberts, of Imperial county, California: Sheriff J. C. Hunter, of Yuma county, Arizona and newspaper men. Because the party will have to travel over the worst part of the Arisona desert, it was expected that no news would be received until late today. Another Altoona Bank Closes Altoona, Pa., Feb. 27 (/P)-The Mountain City Trust Company was 50c Week closed today by order of the State This Banking Department. A run on the ular fine price. 15-jewel watch Mesh Bulova pop. bank started when the Union Bank of attached. band Altoona, private institution, closed early this week. In statement at the Trade in your old watch close of last year the bank reported capital and surplus of $437,962.50 and total resources of $2,497,440.44. Liabilities. including capital stock, totaled $162,962.50.
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BANK IN ALTOONA CLOSES AFTER RUN ALTOONA, Feb. 27 (AP)-The Mountain City Trust was closed by order of the State Banking Department. A run on the bank started when the Union Bank of Altoona, a private institution, closed early this week. In statement at the close of last year. the bank reported capital surplus of $437,962.50 and total resources of $2,497,440.44 Liabilities, including capital stock, totaled $162,962.50.
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TEXT OF INDICTMENTS form mies of internationtext the indictment against fourteen Soviet economists charged against the Soviet regime was published here today. The indictment to words. Prepared the Soviet ORDER BANK CLOSED torney general. Krilenko. Altoona, Feb. 27 similar in to the indictment Mountain City Trust company the recent sensational counterclosed today order of the state revolutionary and sabotage trial department. run Professor Leonid and the which of institution. the interest of the world few closed early this week. months ago.
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Rock Island May Reduce Dividend The probability is that the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Railway will declare a dividend of $1.25 on common stock at the meeting of directors next Wednesday It likely the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway will declare dividend of $1 on common at their meeting on the same day. Rock Island has been on $7 annual basis and St. Louis-San Francisco on an $8 basis. Investment Trusts Gardner GenATank GenAsphalt Bronze Net Net Stock Low Close. Stock High. 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Payable Stock Payregular Stock. rate. Highs and Lows when carried earned. Paid this close. year; ExDividend Ex Rights deducted from net change. previous DAILY MARKET MOVEMENT ReynoldsTB Richfield Cement Do cash Pac Combust Rio Gr CannonM Combn Ritter-D IntHarvst Rossia 100 42% 200 IntMatch 63 Safeway 62 IntNickCa StJosephLd New Haven Buying Holding Co. Stock New Haven Railroad has been gradually buying in percent cumulative preferred of Boston Railroad Holding Company through which it holds its investment in Boston & Maine, but there is no evidence the commitment in Boston & Maine stocks has been recently New Haven now owns 247,630 shares of the holding company preferred. or slightly less than 91 percent and all the 31,065 common stock There are only 25,309 shares of preferred in hands of the pub- ON N. Y. STOCK EXCHANGE The following table shows the number of advances, declines and the issues unchanged, together with new 1931 highs and lows: Un- New New Gain Loss changed Total High Low Feb. 26 390 204 130 724 154 187 449 104 740 108 236 115 742 306 (S)394 630 160 680 189 Bid and Asked Quotations Asked Paper StL&SF pf Southw 389 689 SavageArm 681 Schulte Strs (S)181 Seabd SeagraveC SearsRoe DS 261 Sec Nat Inv Investors Nat Seneca Cop 102 Jewel Servel Inc ChiMSP&P 1900 Sharp Shp&D 78 ShattFG 35 KanCitySo Shell Un Kayser Shubert Thea (S) 489 Simmons Simms Pet 611 Sinclair 599 Kelvinator Skelly Oil Kennecott 685 Snider Pack 618 104 618 Cal 1500 KresgeCo 267 103 554 93 Kreu&T Cal Ed 2600 98 679 209 29% South SPortRS 118 104 607 83 18 So Pac 100 284 210 139 633 2 851/4 18% tion of holding company it guaranConsolidated Gas ColGraph tes $100 share for preferr The Lehman present market is 70 to 75 and in Lehn&Fink New Issues Trading past it has sold considerably lower. The New York Produce Exchange TRUST COMPANY CLOSED has admitted to trading on a Altoona, Pa., Feb. 27 (AP). The issued' basis $5 Mountain City Trust Company was preferred stock and 41/2 percent declosed today by order of the State bentures or Consolidated Gas ComCom&S Loew Loft pany of New York Cong Banking Department. A run on the bank started when the Union Bank Lorillard NOT BUYING CADUM SOAP of Altoona, a private institution, 'Contrary to reports, we are not closed early this week 1/4 buying the Cadum Soap Company Lou&Nash 109 109 In a statement at the close of of France.' said Charles S. Pearce. 18% Ludlum Stl 1/4 last year the bank reported capital president of the Colgate-Palmoliveand surplus of $437,962.50 and total Peet Company. McCallCor McKsptTP including capital stock, k, totaled STOCKS BOND OFFERINGS DOWN $162,962.50. New bond offerings this week toMck&R taled $19,951 .000 against $50,537,500 Since the end of 1929 New Haven PROCTER GAMBLE EXPANDS Mack last week and $65,485,000 in the like has purchased nearly 1,000 shares The Procter & Gamble Company 1930 week. of the holding company preferred has about completed negotiations Cop when obtained at satisfactory prices for acquisition of Portsmouth Cot- O. K. GENERAL BAKING PLAN Mallinson and acquisitions since 1925 are over ton Oil Refining Company. Pur- Stockholders of General Baking Mandel Bro 2,600 shares. New Haven guaran- chase will mark the first step that Corporation have approved the MG tees the percent dividend and the & G. has made to increase its capital readjustment plan and the more stock it acquires the less will sales outlet for its cottonseed cook- committee has declared the plan Shirt 200 3% Maracaibo 200 be its-liability. In event of liquida- ing oil division.
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ALTOONA BANK CLOSED BY STATE BANKING DEPT. Mountain Trust closed today order of the State Banking run the bank started when the Union Bank toona, private closed statement at the close the capital and surplus and total sources $2,497,440.44. capital stock totaled $162,962.50.
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Altoona Bank Is Closed By State Feb 28 Mountain City Trust company was closed Friday by order of the state banking department. A run on the bank started when the Union bank of Altoona closed early this week. In a statement at the close of last year. the bank reported capital and surplus of $437,963.50 and total resources of $2,497,400.44. Liabilities including capital stock, $162,-
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POLICE GUARD HOMES AFTER RUN ON BANK ALTOONA Feb. 27 Unprecedented heavy withdrawals from all Altoona banks were caused today by the closing the Mountain City Trust ceinpany following run. D. Swigart. chief examiner of the state banking department. later reported the closed institution Because of the danger of holdups and burglaries. due depositors' taking the money to their homes, Major Lynn Adams of the state police dispatched eighteen aid the city police and to patrol highways.
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WITHDRAWALS FORCE MT. BANK CLOSE State Takes Charge of Institution One Hour After Open= ing for Business IS APPOINTED Will Conduct Appraisal, Audit Before Deciding to Reopen or Liquidate Unable to stem the tide of heavy withdrawals of funds by depositors. the doors of the Mountain City Trust company closed yesterday morning. one hour after opening for George L. Taylor, special deputy of the state department of bankappointe receiver for the and notice to that the doors the bank for the information of Run Forces Closing bank closed by Swigart chief examiner the department. after authorities Harrisburg had ceived that there had heavy bank and that. unless the depositors discontinued the withdrawals, there alternative closing the bank. Swigart came Altoona Thursday night the books the institution. He found the bank solvent condition, decided not close it. The stitution opened o'clock yesterday morning and immediaterun started. o'clock the doors were closed and the notice posted. In statement to The Tribune last night, Mr. Swigart $400,000 withdrawn from the Mountain City Trust company morning, the the Union bank closed its doors. Yesterday morning during the bank was opened, 000 withdrawn. To Make Appraisal and then an audit books the bank be made. This will take several Mr. Swigart After ventory the department. be whether liquidate or bank reopen The Taylor receiver the Mountain City Trust company made Peter Cameron, secretary banking Mr. Taylor will complete charge of the bank until the inventory Incorporated In 1905 The Mountain Trust company was incorporated September and owns building Twelfth street which banking rooms located. annual statement. issued cember total sources The resources included the lowing items: Loans and house and fixtures. hand and overdrafts. The liabilities included the $77,089.85; deposits, Officers of bank Oswald. president: Mattas, president: Lynn McG. Moses, Hark assistant and trust officer: Leckie, comptroller. Directors are: Banks Kurtz. Oburn. Charles H. Weest. W. H. Burgoon and SIX ELECTROCUTED COLUMBIA, The murders Cayce night and Lexington county merthe state dawn today. Si. five them members band that had committed the state, The executions started shortly after o'clock and came end few minutes seven. FORESTERS MEET hundred members the Allegheny section Society American Foresters comprising today in their annual
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Let's Start Thinking Yesterday will into the records as one of the most harrowing days in Altoona financial history. AND THE WHOLE BUSINESS WAS NOTHING BUT FOOLISHNESS. All the turmoil, all the tragedy, the bitter feeling. and the misery would have been avoided if people had only stopped to THINK. Altoona needs sanity, a solid basis for action. Altoona banks need support, not desertion. They are getting that support from the business men, from the business and firms. WHY NOT FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC? on anyone's yet circulated for gospel all that was heard in the business district yesterday. seemed that the entire city was howling calamity, that every citizen had become gossip. What you heard depended what you wanted to hear. Anything was THE TRUTH. Vicious. malicious rumor forced the withdrawals which forced the Union bank to close. Vicious, malicious rumor forced the withdrawals which forced the Mountain City Trust company to close. There was no sane reason for the closings. The banks were solvent. The only it certainly is not TO THINK. The statements on this page today are not fabrications, they are plain, unvarnished facts. And note that the words of the representatives of Altoona's business firms, of the biggest depositors in Altoona banks, are not mere expressions of confidence. They state plainly that the funds of their firms are entrusted to, and will continue to be entrusted to Altoona banks. The Tribune its editorial statement of repeats Thursday morning: banks are not headed by miracle But they are under the guidance of good men, leaders of this community, whose interests are irrevocably tied up with the welfare of Altoona. They have contributed much to the progress of this city. "And they deserve a better break from the public than they have been getting. A little more confidence, and a little less will help everyone."
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HEARD SHOTS And Left Car In Street Woman Testifies At Detroit Buckley Murder Trial. Witness Talked With Defend ant Before Slaying. State Asserts-Jury Completed. Detroit. February 27-(AP)-The daughter policeman. who admits. according to Prosecutor Harry S. Toy, that she drove car blocked pursuit of Jerry Buckley's slayers. stole the show completely today in the trial of three of the alleged as She Mrs. Lucille Love, who was guest the La Salle Hotel, of the slaying last July In an affidavit submitted to ReJudge Edward Jeffrias this Prosecutor Toy said the woman had talked with Ted Pizzino, one of the defendants. two hours before slaying. and was sipping coffee with Angelo Livecchi, another the defendants. with short time after the radio political was shot down in the hotel lobby Mrs. Love, who had ben held communicado by police Wednesday night with her husband, and who appeared before the 22-man Wayne County Grand Jury in surprise session last night, does not deny these allegations, Prosecutor said, but does deny the inference that she was in league with Buckley's slayers. She and she only "Sarah" started from the hotel for drive in she said, about midnight. Hardly had they started. she than "Sarah" insisted they turn In driving the hotel, looking for parking place, she said, they heard what like shots, and both jumped from the car, leaving in the middle of the street and fled. Mrs she returned to find the car there and drove into parking lot She attributed actions agitation over the supposed shots. Prosecutor Toy's affidavit was in support of motion for five-day continuance, to permit further investigation of the woman's story. The motion overruled by the Court. Mrs. Love is the daughter of Laverne Kelso, of the Detroit Police Department. jury nine men and five women selected late tonight. total of 106 talesmen were examined in selecting the 14 jurors, two whom excused by lot at conclusion the evidence, unless one or more members of the panel are taken ill during the trial. ALTOONA BANK CLOSES. Altoona, February The Mountain City Trust Company closed by order of the State Banking run on the bank started when the Union Bank Altoona, private institution. closed early this week. In statement at the close last year the bank reported capital and total resources $2,497,440.44.
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No Time Set For Payments State Banking Sec'y, Mt. City Bank Receiver Refuse to Make Statements not known when creditors the defunct Trust company, closed since will receive payments on their deposits. Dr. James Gordon, secretary of banking. yesterday. Dr. Gordon queried by The Tribaction lated for the the sitors, stated that does not when any will made and has statement regarding the bank. The Tribune's action was taken in response to numerous inquiries regarding the status the closed bank. In the by the banking department that the quickest way tain prospective from the receiver the bank, such being available sooner than the official which will made from time to from the banking department's Philadelphia office George special deputy banking and receiver Mountain banking institution. would not discuss conditions the bank when interviewed last night. said, though, that he hopeful that now being sidered would materialize very quickly.
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OBJECT TO BANK RECEIVER'S EXPENSES HOLLIDAYSBURG Jan first hearing on exceptions filed against the report of George F. Taylor. representing the State Banking department receiver for the defunct Mountain City Trust Company of Altoona, opened today before Judge Marion D. Patterson Stockholders of the bank obpected bills filed Taylor. They promise hard fight. Taylor testified this morning Miss Ruth Forsht of Pittsburgh. Taylor advisor. expected to take the stand this afternoon
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Bank City Receiver Quits State Position Resignation, Tendered in 1931, Effective January 14; Liquidation Here Far Advanced George Taylor, receiver for the Mountain City Trust company since closed almost has resigned his position in the banking department. Mr. Taylor, affiliated with the department for eight years and holding the banking the closed bank since April resignation become effective January He originally tended leave the January but due condicontinued his duties through the past addition to the Mountain City has many closed banks western Pennsylvania der his supervision. the time directing liquidation Mountain City, the Miners and Deposit bank, PortCitizens Trust BelleFranklin and Trust company, Pittsburg To Resume Practice Taylor expects resume his private practice Pittsburg yesterday that, addiappointment associate counsel for promiPittsburg trust company. receiver the MounCity been named but probably announced from Harrisburg about January that individual receivers expected appointed each of supervision. Mr. Taylor leaves the affairs Mountain City bank excelcondition. ments. per have been made depositors than years and, accordannouncement yesterday, another eight per cent be paid in the near may Definite decision this will lay the state department Dr. William and with the receiver, however. exceptions filed to the Despite first and partial of the and ceivership, illegal liquidation, the of conducting Mountain pense affairs since the bank closed according to yesterday explained that liquidation the local institution. others under Mr. Taylor's direction. proceeding threeinstead 15-year arrangement, as had been customplan centers use "revolving" force of skilled by training experience assist instruct the local force conducting complex and technical affairs liquidation for which and experience requisite. Although salaries and penses "revolving" force items chiefly under fire in the exception proceedings. the use experts declared be vindicated by comparison cost results obtained revolvin necessary only until the the first and partial account will be needed the Mountain of liquidatthe Mountain City with other ing banks, Mr. quoted figures from the United States comptroller which showed that liquidating 989 banks closed between the years 1865 and 1931 averaged 6.7 cents per dollar For banks closed October, 1931. the figure cents dollar. In marked contrast with these figures, the cost the Mountain City cents dollar paid dividends. These figures cover cost from the time the bank closed, February April when the first and partial account Another way of figuring the cost percentage the value stock assessments. Taylor pointed this that the comptroller of the (Continued
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TAYLOR, BANK RECEIVER, QUITS State Official Denies That Depositors' Charges Prompted Act. George F. Taylor, Jr., receiver for the closed Franklin Savings and Trust Company which figured prominently in the city treasury investigation a year ago, and receiver for the Citizens Trust Company of Bellevue, resigned yesterday as special state deputy secretary of banking. The resignation is to become effective January 14, it was learned. The announcement was made in Altoona, where Taylor had gone Thursday to argue proceedings filed against him by stockholders of the closed Mountain City Trust Company, who took exceptions against his "excessive and illegal" expenses in connection with his receivership of the bank. Taylor denied, however, that this action, similar to the one taken recently by stockholders of the closed Bellevue bank, had prompted or influenced his resignation. He contended he had decided to resign on January 1, 1932, a year before the proceedings in Altoona were filed, but that he was persuaded by banking department officials to remain due to the pressure of conditions. Taylor set forth that demands of his own private legal practice had forced him to relinquish his state duties, which he has held intermittently for eight years. He is to return here to become "associate counsel to a banking institution", the name of which was not divulged. He appeared with his assistant, Harry G. Butler of Pittsburgh, before Judge Marion D. Patterson in Blair county court Thursday to deny allegations of the bank stockholders (Continued on Page Four, Col. 5)