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“SUCKERS” SHORN WITH “FAKE" BEER Near-Beer and Pop Sold as “Real Stuff” to Gullible FORUM PRESENTS NEW MONEY DATA 555 Undersecretary Mills Urges Public to Have Patience Mills as follows: July 10, that is, next Wednesday, the United States Government will be- gin the issue of new paper currency of Mr, on retained, “‘t scattered throughout the nof t to the counter- was an_encouragem feiter, since the public was inclined to this feature, which, as & matter , but sheet and inti- localized as formerly. The life of paper currency is mately connected with its fitness, d | Banks will do everythin, mediately substituted for the old. We Essen! ds are- necessary hmdlmi the - retirement of the old, which, in effect, is_the basis for the issue of the new. currency necessarily in legal and accounting restrictions, and, course, there are physical limita- tions both at the Federal Reserve Banks and the Treasury. Therefore, instead of an_ immediate redemption of all out- standing currency it will be ne for the issue of the new to be made over a certain period of time. The ‘Treasury and the Federal Reserve to_make this redused size and improved design. Our paper curr!n:‘lhu been issued in its it size 0e 1861, and this m?‘. refore, is an important one which bound to arouse widespread interest.| For a few days we will look witl - rise at these new, to us, strange: we all know how desirable it is to have clean, fit bills, though not necessarily brand new ones. In order that this new currency might have a longer life than that of the old extensive research work was_undertaken, with the co-operation period as short as possible. This means that at the very outset all banks ap- lying for currency will be rationed, s& it were, and cach will be required to take a certain percentage of old-size currency assorted from the most fit for Rum-Hounds. in Talk Over Radio. BY HARVEY ANDERSON. (Continued From First Page.) Special Correspondent of The Star. NEY YORK, July 6—Prohibition has scattered and confused the old, experi- enced drinkers and has brought forward @ new generation of unskilled imbibers who are an easy prey to a new big-city dodge which capitalizes this lack of ex- perience. This correspondent léarned today of the widespread practice of trimming the | guileless and bibulous adventurer by the “blank cartridge” racket, as it is called | among its practitioners. It is worked | especially in tourist resorts, where there are more fledglings of this kind to be plucked. “Needle” Beer Fills Town. A pleasant hotel acquaintance warns that the town is full of “needle” beer and dangerous stuff of all kinds. There is the usual mourning over this terrible rohibition law, and finally the sympa- etic friend offers to send his visitor and his party to a sound establishment where some good stuff, right straight ftom the Canadian borders, may obtained. ‘The visitors find a basement to which they obtain entry by a complicated ceremonial of signaling and whisper- ing. It is a dublous looking place, and they are admitted only after a hard scrutiny by a swarthy individual, through a peephole. There is a cer- tain exhilaration in this, of course, and once in, furitive movement and more whispering make it certain that it is an inner citadel of the illicit trade in real liquor. The boss is reluctant to serve the newcomers and does so only after a long scrutiny of the in- itialed card from the hotel friend. “Beer” at 50 Cents a Glass. Beer is served at 50 cents a glass. ‘You can get better beer in any Eastern city for 25 cents a glass now, but it 18 explained that this is the real stuff and that it costs money to get it over from Canada. The beer produces the usual affiatus and perhaps even a tear- ful invocation of motherhood, or an outburst of discordant song. The mer- rymakers depart without learning that they have been served near beer, and they come back the next day for more. ‘This writer has taken the trouble to check up on some chance information regarding this enterprise and finds there are many such establishments in Eastern cities. Today he found a young man who formerly was a part- ner in a “blank cartridge” joint in Boston. “We used to enjoy having the dicks eome around and try to knock us over,” he said. “Time and again, they made tests of our stuff and, of course, they | never found a trace of alcohol. “I give you my word, the suckers used to get just about as much kick out of this stuff as they would out of real beer. What's on your mind seems to have a lot to do with this drinking busi- mess. You take any party of people who aren't used to drinking ancrelet them think they're getting real stuff and they'll get hopped up every time. I have never seen one person alone get an imi- tation jag out of near-beer, but I have seen it happen time and again with a arty of four or five. They want to get it up and that has a lot to do with it. Goes Over Big, Too! “One day, three men and two wom- en came in. We made believe we didn't want to serve them, but finally did so and the near-beer went big. They had about five rounds and then | one of the women insisted that they| must all have a cocktail. I wes stumpd. | but made up my mind I'd have a try at it. I mixed up some pink pop and | somes amber-colored pop and made & great fuss shaking it up. Then I put in a few more harmless odds and ends and topped off each glass with a counle of maraschino cherries. It went big. They had five rounds and went out arm in arm singing at the top of their voices. “It is mostly young people who fall for this. People who started their drink- ing before prohibition came in aren't 80 easy to fool. When we see that we have an old-timer on our hands, we Jjust tell him that, for certain reasons, we are afraid to serve any more that day and stick to it. We wait until he i8 gone before we start serving again. It's a great way to trim college boys. “This is going big and if you hear some wise bird drop a remark about a ‘blank joint,’ you will know what it means. It's a great racket in the Sum- mertime when there are a lot of suck- ers out looking for éxcitement.” (Copyright, 1989.) o. MOTHER OF 5 SEEKS DEATH BY POISON Children Better Off Without Her, Mrs. Elsie Gentile Believed, Police Say. ‘Believing, police say, that her five children would be “better off” without her, Mrs. Elsie Gentile, 30 years old, swallowed a quantity of poison yester- day afternoon in her home at 1443 T street and was found about 5 o’clock by her husband, J. B. Gentile, suffering from it effects. Gentile summoned the Emergency Hospital ambulance and the mother was given first aid by a staff doctor and then removed to the hospital, where cians say she will recover. Mr. Gentile was away from home at the time his wife took poison, returning | some time later. He could not be! reached for a statement last night. Policeman George W. Patton of No. 8 precinct, who questioned Mrs. Gentile after she had been treated at the hos- pital, reported that she told him: “My| children will be better off without me."” Officers investigating the case were informed that Mrs. Gentile had been in Iailing health for some time. Leit to right: Mrs. Roy if ing world endurance record at Ci Mitchell and husband, Mrs. Byron Newcomb a: leveland. c Sleep— (Continued From First Page.) shake your insides out. Lightning flashing all around, pitch darkness be- tween the flashes. Once we heard a clap of thunder over the noise of the motor l-o gau know it must have been retty loud. o Mlytchell—we came out of the storm over Wadsworth. I recognized a beacon there that is on my mail route. Then we flew over Medina for & while. It looked as though it was clearing up and we started back to the llr{nrp Then it closed in agein and we couldn't see where we were for a while. Finally we got back to the airport. We stayed near the airport all night, but it was terribly rough. It wasn't until Friday morning, though, that we began to feel the effects of our fight with the storm. Then we began to feel all in. Our re- sistance was shot. We decided if we could just beat the record we'd be satis- fled and come down. We gave up the notion of flying for 200 hours or more and just wanted strength enough to keep going for a few hours. Challenges Cleveland. Newcomb—I want to see somebody also break our record in Cleveland. They may do it in California, they may do it in Texas, but I want to see some- body else break it in Cleveland. We only had a clear sky one night and that was the last; every other night we ran into rain and clouds and thunder- storms. Mitch flew the ship every time we refueled and I did the refueling. -We got to be pretty expert at it. Putting the gas in was easy, but grabbing those bags was the tough part. The wind whipped them back and forth and we had to refuse some of them. The only complaint I have about Mitch he was always yeiling to me to light him a cigarette. The inside of the plane was drenched wi'h gasoline, but we'd open the windows and let | air cut b-fore we lit un, Mitchell—Th>n we'd do a litile ex- perimental smoking. For.unately our experiments turned out all rignt. We had arranged with the folks on the fround to send up flares when we equaled the record. When we saw those flares we shook hands and said to each other, “Well, we're through.” Then we began to relax. We flew around the airport & few times to make sure we had passed the record and then came down. Didn’t Wear Parachutes. ‘We never put our parachutes on, al- though we had them with us. The rips in the wings were caused by the refueling hose and the bags brushing against them. They weren't serious, though, and never gave us any trouble, I think the method we devised for greasing the rocker arms in the air was original and had never been used be- fore. We had a separate grease line from the cabin to each rocker arm. This eliminated the necessity of having a catwalk and one of us climbing oul to grease the rocker arms by hand. We had an auxiliary tank rigged up 8o that we could change the oil completely at_regular intervals. The first night we left the ground we knew there were four other endur- ance planes in the air and we 8ort of figured we were entering an elimi~ nation race. It was rough the first nlrhc, al. though we had a reasonably good weather outlook. It was rough almost until 10 pm. and then Newcomb took the ship and flew until daylight. But we were both 5o keyed up that neither of us slept the first 24 hours. Then we both got sleepy at the same time. The toughest refueling of the flight was the one during the storm Thurs- day night. The crew took off knowing that a severe thunder and electric storm was close. To dodge the storm and give us gas, they took off at 7:45 p.m., knowing they would hit rough air. ‘They climbed to 2,000 feet, wobbling their wings to show us they were ready for contact. We knew it would be dark soon. They were flying above us. It was very rough at 2,000 feet, but we could not go higher because of rougher air. With a high wind we were shifting in all directions. 15 Miles in Contact. ‘They made attempt at our request to lower a bag first. Basham held his ship Isumy. & tough job, and flew west into the face of the storm with rain pouring down in sheets, We flew 15 miles in contact. MARRIAGE PLAN VETOED BY SLAIN GIRL’S FATHER Yetters Reveal Facts at Inquest Into Shooting of Missouri High School Student. By the Associated Pre KEWANEE, Mo., y 6.—Letters re- veal marriage plans for last June 20 and her father’s objections, were of- fered at an inquest held yesterday by Coroner P. H. Chile into the fatal :Mounf of Miss Irmi Hendershott, gmz 6-year-old high school student, y as Mnybefi. 19, of Hammond, Ind, Thursday. e g:u:h turned thy ‘weapon on himself before the s luhl;l m send a charge from a shot- ‘The coroner learned Maybetry mmmunder the name of ?hdy'l;’tuytbenr‘r’y used the assumed name. ned Tondon Seen From Taxis. wing . hnmnamn&flmmmmm me We could not pick up the bag on ac- count of rough air. Basham, refueling pilot, ordered the bag drawn into his ship and ordered the gas hose lowered. He knew we could stay w without food, but not without gas. We lowered the in over Oleveland with only crew! low. Both ‘We made & quick contact L nd transferred 100 gal. ns. ‘The refueling crew knew it was taking a chance and saved the rocord for us at this point by giving us this 100 The storm increased. They had given us gas, and if they had wanted to quit thought But in spit us again and t. Still the that far or cgrem. ere is & “Friday , are most the clty, are most i monotony of the night shortly before § a.m. “I took the controls at 5:30, and we dropped notes, five notes all together, to be refueled at 10 o'clock. The con- sumption of gas in the morning was very low. “At 10:156 we took on 55 gallons of gas and 5 gallons of oil without trouble to the refueling plane and with little effort on our part. “Then shortly after we greased the rocker arm. We had 18 grease cups sliding out to the grease points of the motor and connected with the dash- board. All we did was fill the grease caps at the dash and the whole motor was lubricated throughout. “At 8:30 in the morning we carried five gallons of oil in each oll tank and were doing fine. The refueling was done in rough air and we hoped to do better the next time. “Our throats had become sore, due to the broken windshield. There was an overcast sky and the wind was from the northwest. We were flying about 300 faet shortly after the refueling at 11:45, when we took on 65 gallons. We did not _take on the bag with the food. “The motor began to run a little rough that Saturday noon but we greased the rocker arm and the motor smoothed out . _The afternoon seemed to drag on and Newcomb took the controls &t 6 p.m. “Saturday at 2 pm. we had some sandwiches and coffee and then feit very much better. We refueled twice and had both gas and oll tanks filled. Both were in good spirits with the motor running perfectly. Fly Into Shower. “After 6 o'clock, the weather reports predicted a light rain and possible thundershowers, but the showers passed by to the northwest. Then it started raml?g’ abcut 10 p.m., but the vicibility wes fefe; “Sunday moming at 12:20 New~omb relicved me at the controls. first to go to sleep whn Newcomb took up the grind and kept on in deep slumber until 4:30 a.m., when I crawled out and took the controls from New- comb. “In the dawn I saw a few clouds, but the weather was very favorable. Soon we dropped a note to be refueled. We had lots of gas, but wanted to be sure of ourselves. “Around 8 ‘Bash’ flew alongside and signaled that all the competition had ‘downed.” < ““We were tickled to heart. We should not have been, we know, but it was such a grand and glorious feelin, we had the race all to ourselves. It had been a race up to that time, you know. “Newcomb remarked that he would ery if anything jed to us. “The morning slipped by nicely, but it took & lot of hedge hopping to break the monotony. Hedge hopping means tting some thrills by dipping over e tops of trees. “About 7 Sunday rnomkal there was and indication of a ground fog roli in off the lake. The weather was g otherwise. Newcomb, who had been nlee})lnz like & brick, took the controls at 10 am. “We had some more coffee and sand- wiches. Both of us were hearing well. The weather was turning rough near ground. The motor was running perfect and we greased the rocker arms every night as far as that goes, I flew | The see to refuel; it worried because we did not know what it might bring. Tried to Clean Shield. “The top windshield, through which we had to watch the refueling ship, was smeared terribly. We tied a clean rag on a stick and tried to clean off the windshield from the side window, but 11 al ple in other planes) came so close we were worried, but we did not to shoo them off. About 3 in the after- noon the air was too rough to refuel. ‘We took two small cords and tied them around my right arm. Newcomb held the loose strings in his hand. One hard pull meant to go down fast, Two easy pulls was to go down easy. Two hard pulls was to go up fast. ‘At 8 p.m. we took on & hl’( of food. There was & light rain and °f cover~ in, h below us. Our new rigged-up signals had worked perfectly. “We flew between 200 and 300 feet until 4 a.m. Tuesday. Tuesday, circling the airport, the weather was prett; h—awfully hard to see throug « k o | et windshields. ux-n wnke"}lteweomb up and m%'eghhl‘anun.flw!':iu and coffee and then. I went to slee) woke p. Newcomb me again at 5 and asked me to look | word up the weather reports. It was getting worse all the time. ; n"d to drop «;’:.\v::nu:nm';)h:s:? 3 e Weather g0 0. bad that, we e dropped a d orew inted on the mnrm roof, 'Wumeruimprovlnl.‘ but getting worse. i 'kél:z circled the airport, trying' to within the flight boundaries all time. In the meantime, the clouds 200,10 % Seooped o e. . that the refueling up at all’times were in off the eoehs 3 t we could I was the | that | re, husband, and Eddie Stinson after break- —P. & A. Photo. i Log of Record Endurance Flight Airmen Tell Their Stories of Battles With Storm and Lack of Water Made Them Suffer—But They Kept on Until Ground F lares Told Them It Was Over. thing. We had only three hours’ sup- ply_of fuel. “This was a terrible grind. The short circles made us awfully tired. “At 10:30 we drop] & note asking for a forecast. No response. More worried, as our fuel was lower. We ran the motor at the least possible speed—about 1,480—and I figure we were only using seven gallons of gas an hour. We also made the carburetor mixture leaner. “Ordinarily we used between 11 and 12 gallons an hour. “At 11 am. the fog was still bad. ‘We saw an opening over the lake and headed toward it." Flying along the short line about 800 feet up, we saw Wwe were running low on fuel and hur- ried back to the airport to load up. Before we could get back, however, the ;ooguclosed in and we did not drop a “Newcomb took control at 11:30 a.m. We were still flying in_ small circles around the airport. The fog would break and then close in again. We got more worried because of our gas supply. I took the controls again at noon. “After noon the fog came and went and a driving rain started. At 1:15 we saw a light place in the sky and drop- ped & note. We had to refuel right away. The refueling was successful and that relleved us a lot. “We refueled again at 4 pm. and at 6:30 loaded up once more for the night. Newcomb took controls at 8. Both of us were feeling pretty tired. There was a light rain at 500 to 1,000 and we circled the alrpdrt all through the nam sometimes we dropped down to feet, but usually we kept the ship at 1,200, “Some one had sent up an alarm clock to replace the dashboard clock which had gone bad. It was set for midnight and when it went off. T'd like to have jumred out of the ship, I'm going to keep that clock. S'eep and Fly. “I took the stick at 3 a.m., Thursday. Every time Newcomb woke me up, he said that I asked to sleep just five min- dutes more, We were getting so we could sleep and fly at the same time, though, when the ship got out of line. it woke us up. “We refueled again at 7 a.m. without any trouble. Newcomb cleaned off the ‘wxndsm:ld. which had been splattered with oil, with a long stick on the end of which he had fastened a . He reached out through the hole in the of the cabin roof to do the job. fewcomb took control at 8 am. We changed the ofl and greased the rocker arms. Then we settled down to try and catch a little sleep when we got a chance. I took the controls again &t oon. “Everything was going fine, except that the ship had been banged up a bit ‘where the bags and hose hit the wings and fuselage. “We refueled at 3 p.m., but Bash went too fast and we dropped a note, asking him to slow up the next time. At 6 p.m. we took on more gas with- out much trouble, but when we tried to take on the bags they weaved around too much in the wind. We dropped a note asking that the bags be packed in such a way that there would be no open space between where the focd came and the top of the bag. We asked them to tie on an extra piece of the point on the bag where the topped, 50 that we would have a to grab hold of. “The fiext trip up, Bash did as we asked and everything worked fine. “We found out about Robey's death through reading the Plain ler, which the boys wrapped around the water bottle they dropped down to us. The Plain Dealer was the first paper we had seen in two days. “We dropped a note expressing our regret that Robey had died. (Walce Robey, mail fiyer killed at Columbus a week ago today.) We had asked that flowers be sent. Message from Robey. “We had a message from Robey, but did not get it until after he had been killed. I knew him when he was a ca- det and I an instructor at the training school. “The cold T got from the broken shield was curing itself. But no sooner was the cold cured when I got a stom- ach ache. Wednesday, we refueled at 6:30 am. After that we got a note asking what we did in our spare time. ‘We wrote back that we didn’t have any spare time with\all the greasing of the rocking arm and changing the oil, We got quite a kick when we read that note asking what we did with our spare time. All during the trip we got along fine together and did not utter one cross “We read in the newspaper that was dropped to us Thursday, July 4, that we were supposed to be flying over Ak- ron, but if we were we didn’t know it. ‘There was nothing official to that re- note asking' for a forecast. | pos we took off and heavy shirt, but there was no time to change. At times when we were taking on line we would be soaked with it. - at other times we were soaked with the rain that shot through to us when we were forced to open the wind- shield during the refueling. After those times, there was nothing to do throw & wet blanket over us and go to o ‘and forget the rain and gas and “The food was fine, but we had too much of it. l'rhere was turkey, chicker, ‘equaled the othe; s e of he said, “will be strictly limited. We anticipate, of course, a curiosity de- mand which, for a comparatively short period of time, will increase - mand for currency, and we are pre- B‘Alnfl to meet that curiosity demand, it only to a limited extent. After whiat I may call the period of initial novelty interest is over, the public must expect the new currency to be issued but gradually, and as the old currency g retired as unfit for further circula- on. “This will require a period of at least three of four months, duflnfi which time, both sizes of currency wil be in circulation, but with the old size gradually disappearing. Asks Public to Be Patient. “In the meanwhile,” said Mr. Mills, “we ask to be patient, to be satis- fled for the time being with the cur- rency which has given you reasonable satisfaction for more than 60 years, and not to consider it necessary to carry nothing but new bills in your pocket.” The issye of new small size currency next Wednesday, Mr. Mills explained, will include all kinds and all denomina- tions from $1 to $20, except national bank notes. Small sizé gold certificates waved to the ground to hurry up the refueling. “We took on the gas in a hurry and lightning in all directions broke around us. There was a white cloud to the south and we thought that we could get through that, but sunk into a squall. We left the ship drift and de- cided to fight it out. The wind was blowing about 100 miles an hour. We lost all sight of land for 20 minutes. “We let the ship toss around and then headed northwest hoping to pick up the - air beacon at the airport Finally we saw & few lights, like street lights, they were lights we knew when we were flying the air mail and then we came closer to the port. “Next thing I knew, we must have over Akron at a thousand feet, it could catch no sight of it in the intense blackness. We went from Wads- worth over to Medina, where they have an emergency. We circled the fleld until the weather lifted to some ex- tent, but were in a hurry to get back to the Cleveland airport because we knew every one would be anxious to know where we were. We circled Medina for 15 minutes and headed for Cleveland. “It was a grand ceiling when we picked Cleveland up. Rain was pour- ing down, lightning flashing every sec- ond, but the air seemed stiller. We could hear thunder, but it did not bother ‘The lightning was blind- ing; we Started circling the airport and then the lights went out. “We changed controls at 1 am., Newcomb now flying (Mitch flew during the storm). Newk flew until daylight. Lightning, thunder and blowing and raising hell all night. No sleep, greased, olled and listened to motor, praying that it would not go out. d not have etos covered, was afraid they'd go out. Grease on them prob- ably kept them dry and working, Terrible Night. “I returned to the controls at 5 a.m. Newk seemed glad to see me; it was & terrible night. “Friday morning we both were very tired but congratulated each other on getting through the storm (later we i:nm"d that no other ship had ridden out). were both very tired and nervous. We began to doubt that we could carry on :;n‘ much beyond record time, if till en. “Hoped to get enough rest to over- come our exhaustion. Couldn't sleep all day although very sleepy. The mo- tor of the ship came out of the storm much better than we did. The motor seemed a little rough at 10 am. We ran it wide open for five minutes, then throttled it back, after which it re- gained its smoothness. At first refueling we learned of Bash’s crash. We were sorry. but happy that none was hurt. “The hand pump was not working very well—the gasoline was low in the cabin tank. They brought us up a bag. Wiggled wings when ready for gas. When we didn't want gas we always kicked the rudder and swung the ship back and forth, sideways. “Refueled at 6:30 (the last refueling) and were growing more and more tired every minute, looking forward to the end. We found it difficult to keep track of time because of weariness. “Newcomb took the controls at 3:40 rvm. Friday. Believe me, it was a re- lief to break the monotony by taking or leaving those controls. See Crowds Gather. “After a while we noticed the erowds approaching on the port in greater numbers and also the autos in the roads became thicker. We were thankful that we were not in that jam of autos and men. “Each second seemed an hour long. It was then we decided that we could not go on to the 200-hour mark and zl;:tbnyn :o?n ng we had benfix the rec- lew hours we woul Foap L g0 down “We felt very bad about giving u before the 200 mark, but we cg\nd'holg out very little longer. “We did not know just when we had T mark. - We sta; the aif 28 minutes after we n'uw m fireworks on the ground. We circled low over the field and threw. out the red flare. We were rised that we had stayed up so long. Swarms rushed pum ‘:zs‘.ndwémwere afrald the pro- strike those L e o ‘;“i Ppeople, 50 we “Then we circled around an twice for a safe landing dsn.dm“:ad Tarkable manmer.s u‘?x"' 15ed again that ) St ain it we knew how to land. P ‘Everybody seemed to hug us and push us. We were kissed a_thousand times, it seemed. You couldn’t help but feel good with all the welcome. ‘Helen got some flowers . and put :Pm -'rglmd our nevi:z, hWe had to posed t Helen is & wonderful girl, o aubn “V‘{fd ::nt :!(::nuw the Winton, but leep u clock. And then, how we d.ll; 5129;’)"'5 2 i gives so much value at so low a price” {70 70 ROOF > L 5 Building MAIN OFFICE-6% 1GS-52 Reaction then set in and we | and then, in the course of & , we will wonder why, for so , We accomm re ited ourselves to their larger and more un- dy brothers, You will ask, of course, what were the reasons which led the Government after 80 many years, to make this change. After an exhaustive study and investi- tion covering & number of years the concluded that it was possible to give the public ‘plper money of more convenient size, of .longer life and bet- ter quality, and of improved design with greater protection against counterfeiting. The Treasury rtment decided that the convenience of the public warranted this reform, while from the standpoint of the Government the proposed reduc- tion in size will tantial sav- nse of manufacturing cost of handling the Saving of $1,5¢ PFrom the time the paper is delivered ba_ the mill until the notes are put into circulation an estimated gross saving, amounting to almost $1,500,000 & year, will be derived from the change in size. Each note will require one-third less paper and ink; its shipping weight will be reduced by one-third, and 50 per cent more notes will be produced by the same operation. An additional saving, the amount of which cannot be defi- nitely estimated, will undoubtedly be accomplished as a result of the ex- pected increase in the life of the smaller note as compared with that of the larger one, due to the fact that they will be subjected to less e-l‘elltngllnd folding. The normal increase the popula- tion and wealth of this country neces- sarily results in a constantly increasin demand for currency. This is wel illustrated by the following figures: In 19'7 the Bureau of Engraving and Printing delivered 128,672,045 sheets of currency; in 1920, 163,860,748 sheets: in 1923, 171,965,335 sheets; in 1026, 227 566,949 sheets, and in 1928, 236,565,232 sheets. The building now occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ‘was completed in 1914, and at the time of its erection it was contemplated that this building would be adequate to meet the bureau’s requirements for an extended period. It appears, how- ever, that within a comparatively short time the normal increase in the demand for currency would, were it not for the contemplated change, force the bureau to obtain additional manufacturing equipment and build a large extension to the present plant. The introduction of the new-size currency will solve the production difficulties of the bureau for the reason that the reduced size will permit the production of 12 subjects to the sheet instead of eight, resulting in an increased production of 50 per cent more notes for each printing operation. The reduced size will also have an lmrcmnt effect upon the available vaull ce, both in the Treas- ury and the 1 Reserve banks. Citizens Will Be Surprised. ‘The present size‘of the currency is 77-16 by 31-8 inches. The new size is 65-16 by 211-16 inches. I realize, of course, that a description of size given in terms of 1-16 of an inch does not convey very much over the radio, but I think you will be pleasantly surprised next Wednesday when you see the new bills and realize how great is the im- provement in appearance and in eon- venience from the standpoint of han- ing. I have mentioned improved appear- ance, For many years the maticr of | revizing the designs of the outstanding | currency issue of the United States has! been before the department, but there was never an opportunity to undertake & general revisjon until the decision to revise the size of the bills made it nec- essary to execute wholly new engraved stock for printing the new currency. Generally speaking, there is today a different design for the face and back of each denomination of each kind of paper currency, and there are five kinds —United States notes, silver certificates, gold certificates, Federal reserve notes and national bank notes—accompanied BK.I multiplicity and duplication of characteristic features. In so far as the new notes are concerned, the principle of denominational designs has been strictly followed. That is to say, the been placed on the dollar emphasis has value of the note rather than the kind. Thus, instead of having different backs varying with fthe kinds of currency— that s, United States currency or Fed-« eral reserve notes, let us say—for the new designs every back of a fiven de- nomination will be absolutely identical. For example, take a $5 bill. The back will always bear engraving of the Lincoln Memorial as a predominating feature. Accordingly, there will be only one $5 back instead of several for the Government to print and protect and for the public to become familiar with. Of course, in 50 far as the faces are con- cerned, sufficient variation in detall is necessary to indicate the kind for pur- poses of sorting by banking institutions; that is to say, whether the bill is a United States note, a silver certificate, & gold certificate, & Federal Reserve note or & national bank note. But here again uniform denominational char- acteristics have been fixed, the out- standing feature of each denomination being a portrait. Thus, in the case of our $5 bill, on the face side, the portrait of Lincoln will always appear in the center. As a Lincoln portrait will al- ways indicate a $5 bill, so the portrait of Washington will always be found on the 1s, of Jefferson on the 2s, of Ham- ilton on the 108, of Jackson on the 20s, of Grant on the 50s, of Franklin on the 1008, of McKinley on the 500s, of Cleve- land on the 1,000s, of Madison on the 5,0008 and of Chase on the 10,000s. Simplification of Designs. ‘We believe that we have succeeded in & great simplification of currency de and we are confident that we have made counterfeiting and the raising of the bills from one de- nomination to another more difficult in the future. The denomination hence- forth can always be told readily by the portrait, which is the most difficult thing to counterfeit successfully, and as the public gradually becomes accus- tomed to te & given portrait with Endasingly proecica against aised bils prote against ra s and from' counterfeiting in general. In connection with counterfeiting, I Quality Materials of the Bureau of Standards, the Bureau of Efficlency and the manufacturers of the , to develop a type of paper which would have greater endurance and folding strength and which would at_the same time meet tne manufhc- turing requirements of the Bureau of Engra and Printing. It is not every paper of high strength that will stand the wett and m?mg operations in- cident to the manufacture of currency. Our currency is printed on dampened aper. Paper when moistened expands, ut does not always contract uniformly 88 1t dries. A second wetting is neces- nrx between the printing of the backs and faces. We require, therefore, a paj that will exg:nd and contract uniformly under these conditions, in order that the faces on each sheet of 12 notes may register with reasonable accuracy inst the backs previously printed. s-1s & somewhat severe re- quirement when combined with a stipu- lated thickness, structure and folding strength. We have, however, developed a paper believed to be satisfactory in all these respects and with such an in- creased strength that we are confident the currency will have a longer life. Mt;:eovelx;i in ::e]h- fllm‘nller sizes, the notes will generally it into pocketbooks without befil folded, which s not pos- sible with curency in its present size, | and its frequent folding and creasing eventually breaks the fiber of the paper and hastens its deterioration. Replacing Task Hu, ‘There are at present outstanding some five billion dollars’ worth of paper currency, or nine hundred miliion pieces. These figures will, I think, in- dicate the magnitude of the task un- dertaken by the Treasury when it de~ termined to replace this huge volume of currency with currency of a com- pletely new design. First the engraved dies had to be made and approved in turn. Prom these master rolls were pepared, and then in turn a sufficient number of plates to supply hundreds of presses, each with four plates for printing. Our next problem was that of production. It was necessary to print for a complete turnover of United States and Federal Reserve cur- rency approximately seventy-six mil- lion sheets of twelve subjects each, or nine hundred and twelve million indi- vidual pieces. These have had to through the various operations of wet- ting, back-printing, examining, a sec- ond wetting, face-printing, examining, trimming, numbering and sealing and the final cutting into individual notes. After this they have to be assembled into packages of four thousamd pieces | pa¢ for delivery to the Treasury. Vast as is the capacity of the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing to accomplish enor- mous tasks of this character, the pro- duction of this new currency, in part carried on during a period of substan- tial productionn of the old-size cur- rency to meet the needs of the past months, has strained the Bureau's ca- city to the utmost. The task has en completed on schedule time, but this is due entirely to the skill and ingenuity of the personnel in overcom- ing all manner of mechanica and technical difficulties and to the Jevo- tion of the employes generally in their endeavor maintain the schedule of production that had been determined in advance. Bank Notes a Problem. ‘The work of production - measure, besn completed, except in & far as national bark no'es cerned. which involved a sp>cial prob- lem, but they, too, ere now being pro- duced rapidly and will be available for distribution at an-early date. The prob- lem of production is behind us. There remains the problem of distribution. As I have stated, there are at present out- standing about nine hundred million pieces of paper currency. Last year about nine hundred and thirty million pleces of currency were redeemed and about nine hundred and twenty-five million pieces of new currency were issued. Roughly speaking, therefore, the replacement of the old size cur- rency with the new small size cur- rency is the equivalent of about one year’s ordinary redemptions and is- sues. This makes it entirely clear that it would not be possible to undertake the replacing of all outstanding old- size ‘currency at one time. I emphas! this so that you will be prepared to be patient and must not expect to see the new currency when issued almost im- Vacation lasting benefit . . €0 new currency for the old. circulation. This percentage of eold currency will beogrlflually decreased until after a period of a few months it is anticipated that all old-size cur- rency presented at Federal Reserve Banks will be replaced in full with the reduced-sized currency. First Issue of All Kinds. The first issue of the new small- size currency will include all kinds, except national bank notes and all denominations from $1 to $20. Small- size gold certificates and Federal Re- serve notes in denominations above 820 will be issued at a later date. The small-size national bank notes will be printed and issued in order of charter numbers, beginning about July 15. The issue of the new small-size cur- rency will be made through the Fed- eral Reserve banks and branches. Btocks of the new-size currency already have been placed in Federal Reserve custody the 12 Federal Reserve banks and in certain of their branches. ‘The Federal Reserve banks have been authorized to make available on July 10 to the commercial banking insti- tutions of their respective districts limited amounts of new small-sise cur- | rency. But let me emphasize that the | amounts available for issue on July 10 will be strictly limited. We anticipate, of course, a curiosity demand, which, | for a comparatively short period of | time, will increase the demand for cur- rency, and we are prepared to meet that curiosity demand, but only to a limited extent. After what I may call the period of initial novelty interest is over the public must expect the new currency to be issued but gradually and as the old currency is retired as unfit for further circulation. This will re- quire, as T have already said, a period of at least three or four months, durin; which time both sizes of currency wil | be in t;ircuén‘::on. b;l‘; wltl’; the o]‘d lll: ually ppearing. In so far a tg!::dmuvn-l bank notes are concerned, it will probably take at least six or seven months to complete the turnover. All this necessarily will involve a cer- tain amount of inconvenience on the part of the public, an inconvenience wholly _temporary - in _character and which I think the public will appre- ciate is fully justified and is very much outweighed by the advantages to be derived from the substitution of the You can rest assured that the Treasury will make every endeavor to accomplish a complete turnover as rapidly as pos- sible, but in the meanwhile we ask you to be patient; to be satisfied for the time being with the currency which given you reasonable satisfaction for more than 60 years, and not to consider it necessary to carry nothing but the new. bills in your pocket. With your co-operation and good will it is probable that a year from now the old- size currency bill will be a rarity and in a short time thereafter will arouse as much curiosity as our new bills will on Wednesday next. —_— BALL PLAYER CIRCLES DIAMOND IN 13 SECONDS in large. ize | Cameron street wharf Eastern Carolina League Fielder Sets Unofficial World's Record by Speed. the Associsted Pre-s. WILMINGTON. N, C., July 6—Omt ficlder Vance of the' Rocky Mount, Fastern Carolina League, set an unofi- | cial world record today for eircling the bases in fleld events preceding a game with Wilmington. His time was 13 sec~ | onds fiat. | The recognized record was set by Maurice Archdeacon at Rochester, In- ternational League, in 1921, at 132-3 seconds. Three stop watches today caught the | Rocky Mount player at 13. il Braddock Church to Picnio. BRADDOCK, Va,, July 6 (Special) — Tne Emmanuel Episcopal Church Sun- day school will hold & glcnlc at Mar- shall Hall Friday. 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