Detectives grab suspect Kenneth M. Suiter outside Tower Grove Bank seconds after Suiter allegedly put his gun to the back of Captain John G. Walsh, posing as a bank guard, and took Walsh's unloaded revolver.
New Lafayette National Bank and Trust Company Building, recently completed at Lemay Ferry and Military roads, in Luxemburg, at a cost of $60,000, by the St. Louis Bank Building and Equipment Company.
Plenty of reading materialism is available for employees and officers of the bank in the bank's library, which features financial books and records, but also has fiction. From left, Mrs. Theodore van Ravenswaay, assistant librarian, and Mrs. Elizabeth Owens, librarian.
Gold service pins for 21 years or more of service are awarded to 325 veteran staff members of the Mercantile Trust Company at a dinner at the Statler Hotel. From left: Sidney Maestre, chairman of the board, watches Hord Hardin, chairman of the executive committee, give a pin to Claude Cour, former head teller who retired last August after 52 years of service.
Awarding of 50-year pin and watch to Arthur W. Reiter at the Mercantile Trust Co. first anniversary dinner of the 21 Club. Pictured from left to right: Gale F. Johnston, vice president of the board, Arthur W. Reiter, recipient of the 50-year pin and watch, Sidney Master, chairman of the board, and Kenton R. Gravens, president.