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Hoarding One of Reasons
Advanced by Financiers.
Washington, — Paper cu
high denomination has
creased in the last three
years. In ng
$1,000, $5,000 and $10,000
net gain has been $732,108.550.
standing $5,000 and bills
creased $148.135.000, while other h
denomination paper
500 between January
June 30, 1032
Neither the treasury nor
eral reserve has analyzed
money data to the
to determine the exact reason
tremendous gain in the $100, £500 and
$1,000 bills. Hoarding and the use of
money in large bs
racketeers, bootleggers
licit gentry have
factors in the larg
standing bills in t
group.
Recently at the Instito
Affairs at the of Virginia,
Edmund Platt of New York,
ident of the Marine Midland
tion and former vice governor of the
federal
whether be though
notes were “money”
useful ci
they were
Serve system.
one-an
and
$100, SHAN),
the
Onit-
outstandi
notes
10.0060
the fed
the paper
NECessSary
for the
extent
units gangsters,
been
& amoun
Wy
,
ae
© 0
University
vice pres
corpora
asked
t £1,000 and 210.000
of
reserve board, was
in the sense
or
5
renlatin medium and
issued by the federal
Mr. Platt said that
J00 notes by his bank
why
re.
the
only issu
he conld recal
was sent to Cuba.
that the bills
for betting on horse
been which
Mr. Platt under
were to be
races,
Robert Warren of New York
ed that $10000 bills were
stead of gold by those who,
had one
st used
ood
assert
in
used
One of the Best
Bilvio Cueccl, seventeen-year-old ap
prentice, has become one of the lead
ing Jockeys of this country and has
many victories to his credit, Including
the American derby and the Arlington
clazsie. Cucel weighs about 98 pounds,
.
i
|
|
confidence In banks, have withdra
money f
it
amount
In determir
treasury
perts hay
thelr rom deposit
ferred
tt
to safety
ie of al R00 ON) Od THN),
unt of hoard-
ments of
his basis,
a8 been estimated
i fis run
AX OOO 00 to 82066) (Xx)
ing the abnormn
naintained in
to meet emergencies,
» of
money vauits by banks
On June 30 the
in circulation
or an of
the 3 the
total amount of money
was £5.000,041.717,
£374.000.000
increase
in
! § Yircuia-
the 1032 fiscal year
gher than June 30,
174.000 000) hiche t
}
during ear
declinin 48.
tion‘at the end o
SMS O00 (00 h
and £1
me 30, 10930
face of
o
f
was
1029,
Jt
Considerable doubt
Washin
make great nse
£1 iv)
gton whether erin
of bank: f above
gotial
their
Ne
extent
Hoar
use
gxing |
in he bootle
ders of large sums ndoubtedly
ur
bills of £100, £300 and £1.00
and Ju
2 it ga in outstand
Between January ne
ing bills was that
nation ;
» £100 denomi
80)
bills ine We
bills, 8261087 n 2
there has
the
S000
£1.000
bills
of $i3.-
1530: in the
to $1,000.00
1920 to this month a net
S48. 400 00%
d $2
in outstanding £10,000 bills,
been rease
) 31,
Inst six months it came
But from
crease of
an
de.
is recorded.
Five bills
red
ns shown by treasury books, was $420.
630.000. However, that amount
£320,000,000 was accounted for by the
decreased,
ition
of
retirement In May, 1020, of a reserve
in gold certificates maintained in the
New York assay office, bringing the
actual decrease in the $10.000 bills to
$00,630,000. As these bills were sent
to the treasury for redemption they
were retired.
Instead of worry-
ing about when the
world coming to
an end, it would be
better to develop
care In crossing the street,
POTPOURRI
Sheep's Longest Wool
There are many kinds of sheep,
but a breed known as the Merino
has the longest wool. While the
wool clipped from an average
sheep weighs but three to eight
pounds, as much as thirty pounds
may be obtained from these. It is
aA native of Spain, but is also raised
extensively in Australia.
©. 1912, Western Newspaper Union,
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DEAN
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yt
Police Dog Saves Life of King
Carol’s Favorite.
Bucharest.—A German police dog
saved the life of Madame Magda Lu-
pesct when a Rumanian officer secret-
ly entered her bedroom with the in-
tention of killing her. Madame Lu-
pescu was wounded in the arm, her
chambermald shot through the abdo-
men,
This was the second attempt upon
the life of Madame Lupescu in her
villa in Bucharest,
The beautiful Jewess, for whom
King Carol wus prepared to sacrifice
his throne, was saved from certain as-
sassination when her faithful police
dog sunk his teeth In the arm of Col-
onel Taranu, former Rumanian mill-
tary attache in Paris,
Taranu dropped his pistol before he
could fire the shot that was aimed at
Madame Lupescu's heart, Colonel
Taranu, together with four other Ru-
manian officers, was arrested,
The that both attempts
to kill Lupescu were made
discovery
Madame
GAGE AND HIS
MONEY
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Late Dean of Men,
University of Illinois.
At the professional school which he
attended they still say that Gage had
the most brilliant
mind that the
school has ever
trained. His fam-
poor
it
3
Ins }
aeip nim
WHS very
was 411
to
ially even
he
a
hrough
WHS go-
high
them
and
com-
earn
while In
high school and He often
lacked proper clothes; sometimes he
was only scantil ed, b
it all he manage
cle er
others quite
monplace, to
his
college.
living
re
iL
through
remark-
I ery
le work 1
No d
If It dic
his
mate
bo#
to reveal
Foyt
prospered beyond his mos 4
He n
ad ever had in his whole life
He had met a
made more in
than he !
’
girl after he
very much like
ly after he took ug
they were married
And a sre they ma
great mistake of their lives
as they got money,
spend it recklessly.
short
here ie the
As soon
they began to
had
they
its
ade.
Never having
of life,
without
comforts
were now not satisfied
luxuries Never having had an
quate income within which to
when they got one, they lived far be
yond it,
Gage made twice as much money as
he should have spent, for so skiliful
was he, and so much In demand that
his office was crowded constantly with
people eager to consult him. He
worked long hours, often coming back
to his office at night to finish what the
daylight did not furnish sufficient
time to accomplish, but the money
that he earned he squandered fool
ishly.
Gage Is an old man from overwork
at forty. He has accumulated little
though be has made much. He has
learned to save neither his strength
nor his money.
(© 1332, Western Newspaper Union.)
the
live,
Same Family Pastors in
Swedish Parish 350 Yrs.
Kristdala, Sweden For 3050 years
Kristdala parish, in the Swedish pro.
vince of Ostergotiand, has received iis
pastor from the same family. The
first reverend was named Duraeus
Meurling, and his descendant, Dr.
irik Meurling, today holds the same
office. In honor of this, two memorial
plaques were unveiled on Kristdala
churchyard in the presence of the
Swedish minister for cuits and eduea-
tion and the bishops of Linkoping and
Vaxjo,
by Colonel Taranu created a sensa-,
tion in Bucharest,
His enmity toward Madame Lupes-
cu is declared to be the result of his
transfer from Paris, where he was
Rumanian military attache, to Foesanl,
a small Rumanian city, He believed
Madame Lupescu to be responsible for
it, and resolved to take revenge.
His first attempt to assassinate her
took place last Easter but was unsuc-
cessful. He was able to flee undis-
OF INTEREST 10
THE HOUSEWIFE
Powdered starch rubbed over solled
spots on wall paper will remove them,
. . -.
When making peppermints waxed
paper is much better to drop them on
than a pan. If waxed paper Is
Natty Summer Blouse
FERRE
i
‘aris offers this crocheted blouse
which can be made up quickly by any
woman who Is moderately handy with
her needle, and can be worn any time
of the day and any time of the year.
It is featured In York in
ivory, nile, yellow or French blue wool.
Woman's Home Companion.
being New
Toms
_—
Some of the unemng
health, banded
headquarters in a litt]
are
have
ciub here seen
placed In
8 Df
corners the
when coo
11g fo voy od
asinfect gart
Big
7 nt
papers on
$
the
weather
BORN The window
smoothly.
. . *
Carry a corn popper with the ple
pic basket, Frankfurts placed in pop
per and shaken over a hot roast
perfectly.
fire
* . ,
Powdered pumice stone moistened
and rubbed over the bathtub will re
rove stubborn stains on the tub with.
out Injurng the surface
- »* .
Custard ples should be started in a
hot oven (375 degrees Fahrenheit) to
set the crust, then heat should be
quickly reduced to 300 degrees or even
less, to bake crust slowly.
e+ a
When cooking cabbage, place a smal)
pan with vinegar and pepper on the
stove where it will simmer while the
cabbage Is cooking. Tn this way you
will hardly detect any cabbage odor.
Ancient Swedish Manors
Are Now Roadside Inns
Stockholm, Sweden Old Swedish
manor houses, formerly seats for the
landed gentry, In many cases have
been turned into inns and boarding
houses for motorists, according to the
Royal Automobile club, These road:
side hosteiries are becoming quite pop
ular,
The spring weather has been good
this year for the roads and they now
are in excellent condition. Owing to
the favorable Swedish rate of ex.
change, a record number of foreign
visitors bringing their own cars is ex:
pected this summer,
COME
NOW /
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4
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JT
¢ hat -
HA\
Passes on Loans
i
Ch hag £2 1
Urdermosd
Freq C. Croxton, assistant director
of the President's organization for un-
has been “drafted”
by the BR. F. C. to pass on the requests
for loans by the various states as au-
thorized by the relief act.
GABBY GERTIE
SEA ¥ 8 Pat ore
“Benjamin Franklin, fiying his kite,
was no doubt the first to say ‘There
by hangs a tail’"™
By Charles Sughroe
4
2
Ne
—
HA!
i
Never Too Late
for Love
By H. IRVING KING
© by Met lure Slansbaper Syndicate,
ARGARET HOWARD'S cane
should be a warning to all girls
of marriageable age, After, as every.
body sald, “flinging herself at the
head” of Howard Harrop, Howard had
Jilted her. Had Margaret been in love
| with a faithless wooer? Well, no—as
| & matter of fact she had not.
had, however, been rather in love with
his wotor car, his yacht and his coun-
try and she felt the blow
keenly,
There had never been any formal
engagement between Margaret and
Howard, but he had pald her marked
attention—and then gone off and mar-
' rled somebody leaving her to
wear the willow, Well after all, Mar-
garet was not wholly to blame for
part in the incident had
brought up that way~ #t to con
and
M
Khe
house,
else,
her
she been
sider
fortune then man who
it
forty
the
possessed
Harrop's
anced him ver:
jargaret’s
People
» OOCH-
s {8 Do use
in
mind! here
Sirs old
wd awakened
ments which
session
Was he destined
What
her from ex-
ad taken
was there
arred
the .
one loved
barred by the
from any be-
feelings in the mat-
there she was,
ture of things,
of her real
ippose she should,
herself; and should meet
The was
She would little
inadveriant-
Ir
with
betray
Do
horrible.
thought
see 0s
as possible of Phillip: would hold him
at a distance lest she should hold him
ten near. The result was that an icy
barrier seemed to arise between the
who had before been on 8 vela-
{ tion as nearly “chummy” as the po-
| mitions of employer and employed per-
mitted. Phillip felt the change.
Things could manifestly mot go on
this way: One day Phillip offered his
resignation. “You will find everything
in order, I think,” said he, “and nat-
prally 1 will stay until you provide
yourself with another manager.”
“But why do you resign, Phil
| Cummings?" asked Margaret. He no-
| ticed the slip and blushed—and Mar.
garet blushed, too. “Are you not sat-
{ {sfied with your salary ?—or is it your
| employer that you are dissatisfied
| with?”
“My salary is most satisfactory,” re
plied Phillip,” and until lately my em-
plover had been all kindness.”
“Then you have noticed a change in
uw
response :
{00
two
“1 have, Miss Howard"
“To what do you ascribe this
-
“To my presumption.
“Your presumption? Pray when
“Oh, Miss Howard,” cried Cum-
mings, do nbt question me-—pray let
me go-—it is best”
“Phillip,” said she, using his Chris.
tian name without hesitancy, “do you
really want to leave me?
Their eyes met and for a moment
they gared at each other without
speaking. Then he said, “I don’t want
to leave you-—and you must know I
don't. But what else is there for a
poor beggar like me to do?”
“Tot Why, stay with me—forever.,”
fialf an hour later Phillip was saying
“How the gossips will talk lI shall
be pointed out In the streets as a fore
tune-hunter. But let ‘em gabble™
“And they will say of me” replied
Margaret, “that, after ‘being Jilted by
everyone else, 1 had to take up with
my secretary.” And that's exactly
what the gossips did say, but Phillip
and Margaret didn't give a picayune—
they were haony