GREAT BRITAIN: Queen's Strong-Box

Queen Mary rented a safety deposit box fortnight ago. Apprised in advance of Her Majesty's intention, London's Chubb & Sons' Lock & Safe Co., Ltd. had prepared a gold key to the royal box. which Chairman Lord Hayter presented with a profound bow.

Forty feet underground in the vault of London Safe Deposit Co., the Queen-Empress used her key, locked up a packet she had brought from Buckingham Palace.

"Her Majesty expressed the deepest interest," said Safe Deposit Company Chairman Mr. George Kettle, "when I told her that nobody but the owner could get to any of the safes without going through nine different degrees of identification."

In the past seven years no bank has failed in either Great Britain or Canada, announced the U. S. Department of Commerce last week, announcing also that over 2,000 U. S. banks closed in 1931, tying up $1,700,000,000.