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Called Upon to Redeem
Mutilated Currency.
Washington. ~The amount of burned,
rotted and mutilated money arriving
at the ‘reasury for redemption has
vaulted to its highest level since World
war days.
Treasury officials attribute the in-
creased receipts of mutilated currency
to the widespread and unusual hoard-
Ing activities which followed last
year's record number of bank failures,
says the Chicago Tribune,
Jeginning shortly after the bank
failure rate reached a high peak last
year, the amount of burned, rotted
and mutilated currency reaching the
treasury has Increased monthly until
today employees in the currency re-
demption department are forced to
work overtime to take care of hoarded
currency which came to grief.
Failure of hoarders to remember
that their life savings had been placed
In the stove for safe-keeping until a
fire had been built has proved respon-
sible for much of the money
Washington. In many money
has been hoarded in chimneys to the
great detriment of the currency when
fall fires were built, In other in
1enhiine
reaching
cases
in banks he believed to be insecure,
The extremely delicate work of mak
ing goed this mutilated money is done
by several women clerks of long expe
rience, whose word as to the authen.
ticity of the claim is virtually infal-
lible,
The task of *ascertaining the valid
ity of the ashes or pulp which Is sent
In by hoarders as the remains of good
money Is particularly exacting in the
national bank redemption agency,
whih redeems national and federal re
serve bank notes. In this bureau not
only must the remains be identified as
genuine currency before it can be re
deemed, but the expert must also as
certain the member which Is-
sued it,
In the redemption of the
treasurer's office, where notes of Unit.
ed States Issue are redeemed, only the
fact that the remains are those of real
money Is necessary for redemption to
be made. In both bureaus, of course,
the experts must find out the exact
denominations of the notes,
The records of the claims han led
by the experts read aln like fiction
and most of thelr work seems all but
incredible to the laymu
Here i8 a case
Not long ago a citizen of Ohi
bank
division
destroyed
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in noint :
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may be leaning
roof doesn't leak.
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Erystore~Lvaer wnt 5
The walls
" but nothing matters as long as the
stances money became damaged after
being placed In mattresses or other
places for safe-keeping.
Hoarding which results in currency
mutilation causes losses for the gov-
ernment and in some cases to the in
dividual. About 75 per cent of the mu-
tilated money Is redeemed. The gov-
erunent loses because of the expense
of financing a division for the purpose
of redeeming money,
In recent months, it was stated at
the treasury, practically every claim in
mutilated currency cases has been ac
companied by a statement from the
owner of the money telling how he
hid his savings In some place he
thought secure rather than deposit it
For Spectator Sports
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Checked ginghams, suede cloth and
novelty woolens are the leading fab-
rics for spring spectator sports wear.
This frock bristles with fashion news,
The empire line, the crossstrap treat-
ment in the bodice, the gulmpe of light
blue and white checked gingham op-
posed to the darker blue of the sheer
wool, the high neckline and the gleam-
ing buttons.
peared at the national bank redemp
tion agency with a box securely bound
with adhesive tape, in which he said
there reposed the remains of $700. He
had drawn the money from the bank,
he said, put it In a baking powder
ean which he put In a still larger
metal can, and had hidden It In the
soot at the base of a chimney. A fire
in an upstairs fireplace caused the soot
to get hot and the cans and the $700
were reduced to a mass of metal and
ashes. This mass he wanted redeemed
for real money,
The sympathetic superintendent of
the agency turned the case over to
the experts and by noon next day they
had Identified not £700 but £710, and
had authorized payment of the money
in full, Whereupon the money In full,
Whereupon the citizen of Ohio admit
ted he had expected to retrieve only
about half his $700.
In order to make this restitution the
experts were faced with the problem
of ascertaining, from hardly more than
a handful of ashes, first whether the
ashes were those of genuine currency ;
second, the exaet denomination of each
note; and third, which of some ten
thousand member banks had Issued the
notes,
POTPOURRI
Comefs
Few comets are visible to the
naked eye, although the tails of
some are millions, of miles long,
Some 800 comets have been re
corded, but there are possibly
hundfeds of others that the most
powerful Instruments cannot de
tect. Comets are usually visible
for a short period of time and
then disappear to return later, In
dicating that they follow definite
orbits,
(D, 1932, Western Newspaper Union.)
Mrs. Herbert Hoover In the dress
she wore at a recent reception. The
dress is a dimity with blue spring
and t ed with ruffles of
the same materia With it sh
black vely on her hair a band of
black around her th
was the first time since the Civil
that a cott
a receplion.
lowers
© Wore
and
velvet
has been
been talking with Gor
concerning the qualities of an
intimate acquaint
ance of ours
has made the most
outstanding 8 uc
cess of the work
he has undertak-
en of any man In
his line with whom
I am familiar, We
were trying, if pos-
sible, to analyze
the personal qual-
ities in him which
made this success
possible.
“1 used to think
Ihave
don
just
who
Gordon sald to me,
Corson’s keen intellect,
racter of his mind
n success, and I must
“that it was
the unusual cha
which bro ught his
admit he has these, but as [ |
more i
more closel int
1 believe it Is his
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Job Costing $43,000,000 Is
Nearly Finished.
5X0 feet beneath
Steinway avenue in
runs river, at
the foot of what is aft OA,
drillers are now iting the finishing
their three years' task of
10 shafts and
$43,000 00)
by the board
w SOTO
Queens
1 ns si
touches to
excavating the
of city tunn
water conduit being bul
of water supply. The last section of
rock in the tunnel itself, between
shafts 2A and 3A under the Bronx riv-
er, wes “holed through™ recently. All
that remains of the excavating phase
of the work Is to round out the system
of access tunnels and pumping cham-
hers pe rmit drainage of
the entire aqueduct from shaft OA,
Since March, 1020, gangs of men
have been working 24 hours a day, six
days a week, linking up from
iI View reservolr in Yonkers to Red
ook in Brooklyn this rock tunnel,
longer than any yet constructed by
man. More than 1.300000 drill holes
have been “shot” with approximately
7000000 pounds of dynamite to dis
lodge the 1.50G,000 cubic yards of rocks
that have been removed.
Large enough to hold a subway car
with a man standing on top of it. and
az jong as the run from Van Court.
landt park to Atlantic avenue, Brook.
Iyn-in some places as far beneath the
sidewalk as the Metropolitan tower Is
above it, and In no place less than
520 feet under ground-—this mam-
moth pressure tunnel Is destined to
supply Brooklyn, Queens and a part
20 miles
designed to
~~
slowly
0 000 gallon
report that pr e
cent with
Patrick McGovern, Inc., wi
one year ivance
completed,
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: at the
View reservoir ane i
vith water easly in 1033,
Drinks Spray to Find
Out What It Is;
Bend, Ind.—Evereft
sixty-four, died after drinking tree
spray to find out what it Teek
met Steve Solnoky, the caretaker, at
the J. M. Studebaker Jr., esiate,
was mixing a preparatio
poison for a spray.
son.” said Steve in
drink.” with a laugh. One
sip and he collapsed. He died as he
renched the hospit al.
Dies
South Leek,
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Was,
“Well,
said Leek
Generally, every
good anecdote yom
hear of an adven
ture has been great.
ly embellished by
didn't happen exactly
jut don't we all admire
the teller. It
that way.
art?
B10 THEATRE
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TALKING PICTURES
WERE SHOWN IN
NEW YORK CITY
30 YEARS AGO
ONT BUTED BY
MERED CPOEm
™
SHORTEST
NAME IN THE
MR. X
~0f Oakland, Cal. =
THE GERMAN WORD
FOR TANK 15
IN THE WOLVERINE
Sue (micnican)
his house a good deal and it 18 no
now, You ney
hails
Vel to me
1 from Martin
young fellow, Martin
time. He lived In a
and had to take an
into the city. He alwavs
h on the table
astlly but deliberately. He
three minutes to get to
away. He always
yaw 3 ¥ ¥ =" 3
ong eisurely witho
when |
never wa
suburban
Was a
sted
town
early train
ate with his
wate beside
*i
Al -
station a block
walked
he
-
“A gold digger is apt to strike oil in
the timber region.”
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
To tightex in curtain rollers
vith pincers
Jake meringues on cream ples In a
Let them cool in a warm
place and out of a draft and
is less liable to fall. »
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slow os
the mer
ingue
cut glass wash it In
suds, pack It in sawdust. The
an dust the moisture. Re
move the sawdust with a soft brush,
- * .
To clean =OAD
then
ahsorbs
cake
itron,
When making a containing
nuts, raising and c¢ much labor
may be saved by putting all these In.
gredients into the chopper at one time,
Outboard Champion
William Crawford of New York, a
Junior at the University of Miami, who
won the American outboard champion.
ship at the International regatta at
Miama, Fla,
Plowed Up Old Coin
Forest Grove, Ore~~Farmer George
Vanderzanden plowed. Up came a
shiny object. It was a $20 gold piece,
dated 1861,
FRETFUL,
RESTLESS?
Look to this cause
When your baby fusses, tosses and
seems unable to sleep rests , look
ne common ay
ation. To get rid
the accumulated wastes which
restlessness and discomfort,
cleansing dose of Cas
you know, is made
children’s delicate needs
cause,
vegetable preparation:
harsh drugs,
mild and gentle you can give
young infant to relle
as effective for older
toria’s reg ive
laxed com t and
your baby. Keep
Genuine Castoria
CASTORIA
CHILDREN CRY FOR
no narcotd
Record Swimming Pool
ONSTIPATED ?
Take FR RATURE'S REMEDY
—tonight,. Your elimin
organs will be fu ¢
erly by morning a
tipation will en
actionas free and ea
ture at ber best—positiv
pain, no griping. Try it
Mild, safe, purely vegetable
ot druggists—only 25¢
FEEL LIEE A MILLION
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TAZE
{for sour gtomac
peartburi. Tums arc antec.
Interesting Work
Iry Girl—Why does
“This is a crit
“You said ft—
my work ev ery
Peterman’s Ant Food is sure death
to ants. Sprinkle it about the floor,
window sills, shelves, etc. Effective 24
hoursa day. Inespensive. Safe. Guar
anteed. More than 1,000,000 cans
sold last year. At your druggist's.
PETERMAN’'S
ANT FOOD
Fair Enough
Mike—Look here, you're cheating
Pat—] am not. I had that ace long
before the game began,
If «a man hasn't the germ of up-
rightness in him, praying for guild:
ance gels no response,
Do you get up in the moming with
tired fouling ond drog yourself through
the day? Nervous — jumpy = irritable
It is the worning sign of constipation,
Neglect may bring serious ailments. Toke
201 more of Dr. Morse's Indion Root Pills,
They are a gentle, mild, ond obsolutely
safe laxative. Mode of nature's pure
herbs ond roots. Use them tonight and
bring bock your pep of oll druggists.
EPILEPTICS, Giadly teil how my dave
ter was ‘quickly relieved st home I
discovery Sthout he) use of ha hn tul irser
Nothing Write MRE BUR
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