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Affairs of New York Bank "Scrambled." NEW YORK, Jan. 2—(AP) The intermingled financial affairs of four subsidiary corporations of the closed Bank of United States were described today as a "corporation omelet" at a bankruptcy hearing on the affairs of the corporations. Carl J. Austrian, representative at the hearings for Joseph E. Broderick, state superintendent of banks who closed the institution last Dec. 11, offered this comment on the situation after Saul Singer, vice-president and chairman of the bank's executive committee, testified on the financial structure of the four companies. Singer declared all four were solvent. The subsidiaries, which went into bankruptcy last Wednesday, are the Bankus Corporation of New York, the City Financial Corporation, the Municipal Financial Corporation and the Delaware Bankus Corporation. After long and involved testimony, counsel for the receiver asked Singer, "If a man had 100 shares of City Financial he then received 56 units, each unit made up of one share of Bankus Corporation and one share of Bank of United States. Is that right?" "Yes, that's right," the witness replied. In response to a question as to how much had been raised for the corporations from the public, Singer said $33,500,000 had been raised and then an additional $14,700,000 had been borrowed, making a total of $48,200,000. Mississippi Banks Close. JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 2—(AP) Withdrawals by depositors today was given as the reason for the closing of five Mississippi banks taken over by state and Federal departments. The closed banks were the First National Bank of Pontotoc, with deposits of $600,000 and capital stock of $125,000; Bank of Pontotoc, deposits $534,000 and capital stock $100,000; Citizens' Bank at Winona, deposits $260,000 and capital $25,000; Bank of Blue Mountain with deposits of $179,000 and capital $10,000; Bank of Derma with deposits of $50,000 and $10,000 capital. Arkansas Banks Reopen. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Jan. 2—(AP) State Banking Commissioner Walter E. Taylor announced the reopening of three banks today. Those reopening are: The Eudora Bank as successor to the closed Eudora Bank and Trust Company at Eudora; the Bank of Salem at Salem and the Farmers' Bank at Casa. Alabama Bank Closed. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 2—(AP) Dent F. Green, state superintendent of banks, announced late today the People's Bank of Gilbertown had closed. Capital stock was listed at $15,000 with a surplus of $3000. Deposits on Nov. 20, 1930, were $61,880.