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The Government called heavily on Mrs. Franklin in its cases growing out of the gambling raids of March 25, 1949. One of the defendants, Attilio Acalotti, was sentenced to serve eight to 24 months for threatening her with bodily harm if she testified. Acalotti, also convicted for opera ting a lottery, was identified as Mrs. Franklin’s former boy friend. Mrs. Franklin, announcing she was tired of a star witness role that was knocking her out of a livelihood, left the city. Recently she returned for another trial in which Lewis and others pleaded Slump Is Noted Here In Service Recruiting Army. Navy and Marine recruit ing offices here are in a slump after the bonanza months of January and February. Leatherneck recruiters signed up a postwar record-breaking 126 men in January and 103 in Febru ary and obtained a double quota of 134 men for March. But so far this month only 27 men have joined the Marines here. The Navy is in a little better shape to cope with its doubled quota. There has been a sharp drop in the number of new appli cants, but the Navy’s tremendous backlog of would-be sailors is pay ing off. About 55 men are ex pected to be sworn in this week, compared with a February weekly average of 32. A Navy official said, however, that the backlog is disappearing. He explained that men either are being drafted or are deciding to finish school. An Army-Air Force recruiter said, ‘Business is very slow for the Army—we're going to have to go out and beat the bushes.” The Air Force is under a strict quota of four first enlistments a day and has had no trouble fill ing it. Dennis A. Smith, 15. got the British Empire Medal for swim ming to rescue a boy w-hose ca poe capsized a mile from shore. Yon can look 3 to 7 years younger in »OHL£ " ... flexees new bra and girdle Count on looking 3 to 7 years younger this Spring ... choose Flexees Profile for your Girdle and Bra. Thousands of delighted wearers of Flexees first Profile Girdle will welcome this new Profile-Hi. . . created for sleek midriff fashions. Top It with Flexees new Profile Bra... unique lastique inserts and stitched ynder-cups give beautiful uplift, defined bosom contours. Just ask your favorite store, now/ PROFILE-HI GIRDLE—Leno elastic with panels of satin lastique. White, pink, black. $12.95 PROFILE BRA—Porous Nylon. White, pink. $2.95 protection... look for the fiercei label *t.m. opp. for —Star Staff Photo. BERNICE FRANKLIN. guilty to gambling charges, but she did not testify. Since March 8. when she took her physical examination, Mrs. Franklin has been undergoing the usual processing. This will in clude a check of former employers and character references, officials said. Their preliminary investigation showed she was “highly qualified” for the service. Pending comple tion of the investigation, she had been slated for induction, perhaps in two weeks. Mrs. Franklin is the mother of six children. She told recruitment officials she was fwaiting a final divorce decree. Mrs. Franklin included among character references several Gov ernment officials who took part in the gambling trials. She also listed as a former em ployer the Circle Restaurant at 1133 Fourteenth street N.W.. where she was employed as a waitress at the outcropping of the Acheson Back af Work After Bermuda Vacation Secretary of State Acheson returns to work today after a two week vacation in Bermuda. After he has caught up on ac cumulated work, he may go to Key West, Fla., for a meeting with President Truman although no definite plans have been made for such a trip, aides said. Mr. Acheson returned from Bermuda by way of ^ New York yesterday. It was the first pro tracted leave he has taken since he became Secretary of State more than two years ago. Oriental Cream • O U » A U O gives i pleasing com plexion and alluring loveliness for thit important occasion. mu. 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They must control the expansion of bank deposits and the constantly increasing money supply. f Regardless of inflation or deflation, war or peace, fire or flood . . . life insurance continues to be the "best buy" in pro viding for the welfare of your family and in attaining financial security for yourself. This is well indicated by The Equitable’s 91st Annual Report. During 1950 more people bought more Equitable life insurance protection than ever before. New Ordinary and Group insurance written last year amounted to $1,410,000,000, bringing The Equitable’s total insurance in force to $15,278,000,000.* This total insurance in force represents money held for future delivery. When due, every dollar of that sum will be paid. But, as a responsible institution of thrift with more than six million people who look to us for economic security, we are concerned with the purchasing power of those dollars when they become due. For mounting inflation, man-made, threatens not only the worth of the dollar but the very*existence of our national enter prise. Indeed this threat is as real and deadly as the Red menace There’s nothing mysterious about this inflation. More and more people are beginning to realize that the stories they read on the financial pages of their newspapers have a direct rela tionship to the prices of food, furniture, and other living essen tials advertised in the same newspapers a week later. Inflation is everybody’s concern from the Wall Street banker to the Missouri housewife. In the fight against it, the American people—you and your neighbors—must learn to look beyond the local grocer’s bill and the meat prices in the butcher shop ... you must look to Washington, the seat of our Government, where the monetary policy is made. More than that .*7*. you must make your own voice heard among the law-makers. Con gress should be interested in your views on inflation, and your Congressman is as close as your nearest mail-box or telegraph office. Simply stated—the action that you and your neighbors take can well decide the destiny of our country. That’s what we mean by “Operation People U.S.A.” Prtudtnf <:■v £.. espy ot the President’s Report to the Board it Directors. The Equitable Life Assurance Society of The United States Thomas I. Parkinson • President 393 Seventh Avenue • New York 1, New York CONDENSED STATEMENT OF CONDITION at af Dtcember 31, 1950 Resources p« •Bonds and Stocks Cent U. S. Government obligations.$ 726,482,517 (12.7) Dominion of Canada obligations. 299,419,790 ( 5.2) Public utility bonds. 795.849,372 (14.0) Railroad obligations. 521,420,938 ( 9.1) Industrial obligations. 1,680,552,354 (29.5) Other bonds . 151,531,351 ( 2.7) Preferred and guaranteed stocks. 90,455,667 ( 1.6) Common stocks . 8,642,995 ( 0.2) Mortgages and Real Estate Residential and business mortgages . 788,666,769 (13.8) Farm mortgages. 150,933,941 ( 2.6) home and branch office buildings . 10,573,799 ( 0.2) Housing developments and other real estate purchased for investment. 129,056,089 { 2.3) Residential and business ’ properties ....* 6,997,068 ( 0.1) Other Assets $osh .■:.;•-- 68,135,232 ( 1.2) transportation equipment. 38,497,145 ( 0.7) loans to policyholders. 142,478,440 ( 2.5) Premiums in process of collection. 48,119,219 ( 0.8) Interest and rentals accrued end other assets. 44,052,280 ( 0.8) T°TAl ..55,701,864,966 ( 100) Obligations f*r Policyholders' Funds Cent To cover future payments under insurance and annuity contracts in force. .$4,648,333,206 (81.3) Held on deposit for policyholders and beneficiaries .. 323,281,234 ( 3.7) Dividends and annuities left on de posit with the Society at interest ... 130,044,178 ( 2.3) Policy claims in process of payment........ 28,191,420 ( 0.5) Premiums paid in advance by policyholders .. 85,105,097 ( 1.5) Dividends due and unpaid to policyholders ... 6,703,102 ( 0.1) Allotted as dividends for distribution during 1951.-.. 80,650,408 ( 1.4) Other Liabilities TaxeiMederal, state and other.-. 17,891,000 ( 0.3) Expenses accrued, unearned in terest and other obligations.. 8,789,419 ( 0.2) Reserve for revaluation of Canadian and other foreign currency accounts at free market rates of exchange...... 13,617,000 ( 0.2) Surplus Funds To cover all contingencies...-. 359,256,902 ( 6.3) TOTAl ..-.-.55,701,864,966 MOO) including $5,274,463 on deposit with public authorities. In accordance with eequirements of law all bonds subject to amortization are stated at their amortized value and all other bonds ond stocks are valued at the market quotations on December 31, 1950, as prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. WASHINGTON HEADQUARTERS CLAUDE A. COOK, Agency Mngr. 1741 De Sales St., N. W. at Conn. Ave.