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ARIZONA BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION O ffice of the P resident 316 Security Building Phoenix, Arizona August 12, 1950 Mr* M. S. Eccles Board of Governors Federal Reserve System Washington, D.C. Dear Mr* Eooles: I am certainly delighted and happy to note from your letter of August 8, 1950, that you have accepted to be one of our Convention speakers* I was talking to Mr. Iff. R. Bimson, our President, yesterday, regarding my invitation to you, and Walter was delighted to hear that I had invited you, and followed my invitation by writing you personally advising you how happy he likewise would be if you would accept and attend our meetings, which we know you will enjoy imnensely* Our Convention, as we advised you, will be held on November 9, 10 and 11 at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix, so in order to pro tect you on reservations we have asked our Reservations Chairman to make reservations for you for November 9, 10 and 11* Registration will start at 9j30 Thursday morning, November 9th, and the social program will follow* The regular business sessions will start on Friday, November 10th, at 9s00 A.M. I will see that you receive a complete program in ample time for the Convention* We would like to have you appear on our program on Saturday morning November 11th. The morning session on Saturday will start at 9*30* We will be honored also by Mr* James E. Shelton, who is the incoming President of the American Bankers Association and whom you know well. Your talk will follow Mr. Shelton’s. We would like to have you give us the title of your talk as soon as possible, as we are proceeding to print our programs in plenty of time and give our Convention plenty of publicity, it being our opinion we will have the largest registration and Convention in the history of our Association* We would like to have you limit your talk to 45 minutes. If you have a cut of yourself and a resume of your biography, we would certainly like to have it for our Convention publicity* Anticipating the pleasure of meeting ji a hearty and official welcome to Arizo Rudolf G. Zepeda ac