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Show House Wanted j I Having literally sung himself into the senate, Idaho's crooning solon, Sen. -elect Glenn Taylor sought to sing himself into a home in crowded Washington, D. C. Gathering his attractive brunette wife and two children about him on the cold steps of the capitol, and Sen. Taylor With Family. plunking on his battered banjo, Senator Taylor purred: "O, give us a home, near the capitol dome. With a yard where little children can play-Just play-Just one room or two, any old thing will do O, we can't find a pla-a-a-ce to stay!" Until the Senator's song strikes a responsive chord in some landlord's heart, the Taylors will live in a hoteL UN-AMERICANISM : To Resume Inquiries The new house had barely settled into its seats before Rep. John Rankin Ran-kin (Miss.) set it agog by pushing through the formation of a new committee com-mittee on un-American activities to succeed ex-Rep. Martin Dies' defunct de-funct investigating committee, bitter bit-ter target of liberal elements. Representative Rankin resorted to a legislative coup in having the house approve the organization of a new committee, suddenly inserting his proposal as an amendment to the rules being considered for the current session. Seventy Democrats joined 137 Republicans in voting for the proposal while 186 votes were counted against it. Unlike the Dies committee, which concerned itself with investigation, the new committee on un-American activities will have the power to draft legislation for correction of abuses and submit it to the house for passage. BANKS: 17. S.'s Biggest Biggest bank in the world, the Chase National of New York wound up its 1944 business with a record-breaking record-breaking total of $5,150,004,000 in resources, re-sources, of which $4,835,219,000 were deposits. Holding of government securities se-curities reached almost $3,000,-000,000. $3,000,-000,000. Not far behind Chase's was the National City Bank of New York, with assets of $4,469,686,465, of which $4,205,072,012 were in deposits. de-posits. Also ot New York, the Guaranty Guar-anty Trust company finished the year with resources of $3,826,161,882. Biggest bank west of the Alle-ghanies, Alle-ghanies, the Continental Illinois National Na-tional Bank and Trust company of Chicago wound up 1944 with $2,619,-821.039 $2,619,-821.039 in resources, of which $2,-447,740,085 $2,-447,740,085 were in deposits. The bank held over 1 billion dollars in government securities. TV A With gross revenues of $35,429,000, the Tennessee Valley authority realized net income of $14,116,000 on power operations for the year ending end-ing June 30, 1944. Electricity production pro-duction exceeded 10 billion kilowatt hours and the agency also turned out 100,000 tons of calcium carbide for synthetic rubber. 130.000 tons of ammonium nitrate for fertilizer, and 9,000 tons of dicalcium phosphate for mixed stock feeds. Partly because of the draft, TVA employment dropped to 21,000. |