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The Weather Member of The Associated Frets EVENING NEW Snow and warmer (Detailed weather review on ptfe S) Circulation indited by Audit Bureau of Circulations Rattle mtk titaqnlttr, PRICE THREE CENTS BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1933 THR EVF.MNG NEWS. Established Mav H. VM Et. July 21. 15.

Vol. XXXVII. No. l-Jt MILITANT STAMP PRESIDENT CALLS 4-DAY HIS LONG BATTLE IS ENDED WOUND IS FATAL TO GH1CAGQAM AT 8:55 A. M.

TODAY SUMMON HOLIDAY Roosevelt Invoking Wartime Authority, Takes First Step Toward Returning Normal Free Flow of Currency Clearing House Certificates May Be Issued As Medium of Exchange Ml LOCAL SI SCRIP TO REPLACE PRESENT CURRENCY j' i Treasury Off'cials Prepare Cates for Use During Holiday Governors or Various States Called to White House for Views Preparatory to Drafting Necessary Legislation Washington, March 6. (AP) The nation today entered upon a four-day modified bank holiday while President Roosevelt, vesting himself with war-time authority, exerted the great powers of his office to restore financial order out of economic confusion. The first step of a direct, precedent-shattering offensive to bring back the normal free exchange of currency was taken last night by a presidential proclamation suspending banking operations through Thursday, placing an embargo on exports of gold and prohibiting the earmarking of gold for foreign account. Today treasury officials prepared orders for the issuance of clearing house certificates to be used as scrip during the holiday and Mr. Roosevelt and his advisers shaped TiIATOTt ANTCN" CmivtAK Anton J.

Cermak. after a stubborn fight to live following his wounding by a bullet intended for the then President-elect, this morning died in a Miami hospital, having successfully passed through three crises but being unable to overcome the fourth. If HE CLEARED Battle Creek Banks Hopeful of Opening for Trust Fund, Business Tomorrow. PERMIT DEPOSIT BOX USE Battle Creek banks, sus pending all business for the day, were hopeful that they might be permitted to open tomorrow tor handling tne new trust fund accounts. NOT "BANKING BUSINESS" The clearing house association, at a noon meeting, decided the holders of safety deposit boxes would be permitted to use these facilities.

The action was taken on the as sumption that safety deposit boxes come under the heading of ware house facilities and the service does not come strictly under the heading of banking business. It was also believed that, by the time for banks to open tomorrow, permission would be given to re sume the regular trust fund account business. The clearing house association met al 8:30 o'clock, surveyed the situation and wired the secretary of the treasury asking permission to transact business under the special trust fund accounts. "Five minutes after we get the word all Battle Creek banks will be open for the handling of the trust fund accounts," a banker said at r.oon. But the banking hours wore on and the authority was not forthcoming.

The Associated Press said that a statement which would clarify the (Please Turn to Page 2, Column 1) ADMITTED BT FARMER State Police Secure Confession from Benzie County Man He Killed Proprietress. Frankfort. March 6. OP) Fred Salzwedal, 23-year-old farmed of Benzie county, was held here to dav following his alleged conies- sion to the slaying last Tuesday night of Mrs. Betty Adams, 38-year-old widow who operated a road- house near here.

He win oe arraigned today on a charge of first degree murder. Sheriff James Crawford and Corporal Colburn Munger of the state police said Salzwell told them he was motivated by hatred for the woman whom he blamed for trouble between himself ana friends. An exploded shotgun shell, iouna near the scene of the crime, provided the clue that led to Salz-wedal's arrest. It was traced to him and, the officers said, he confessed last night that he used it to kill Mrs. Adams as she stood in her roadhouse.

A crowd was in the place when the shot was fired through a window. UP BYTDMOnnOW BANK Clearing House Certifl an emergency legislative piu- gram to be presented to con- gress in- special session Thursday. CONGRESS MEETS THCRSDAT Governors who attended the inauguration Saturday were railed to the White House before lunch for a conference, with the bank ins crisis foremost of the topics for discussion. The governors' views were sought for the drafting of the remedial Iegilation which congress will be asked to enact within a few hours after it meets. A quick succession of events without parallel In peace time brought forth two proclamations from, the White House yesterday as Mr.

Roosevelt grasped the war time dictatorial powers he pledged himself to seek if the situation called for such bold action. First he met with his cabinet and then congressional leaders. A proclamation convening congress into special session at noon Thursday followed. Close to midnight came the second proclamation, declaring a banking holiday. Not Off Gold Standard Secretary Woodin of the treasury, was emphatic in his assertion that the President's action in suspending banking business did not take the United States off the gold standard.

Some financial authorities raised this question, but most agreed it was without merit inasmuch as the measure was decidedly temporary in effect. Woodin indicated that the cash windows of the treasury would be closed through the holiday and with the federal reserve banks closed also, all redemption of currency in gold would be stopped completely. The holiday was declared under the trading with the enemy act passed in 1917. It can be extended if necessary if congress has not put through the emergency legislation by Friday morning. In the proclamation Mr.

Roosevelt empowered Secretary Woodin to "direct, require or permit" the issuance of clearing house certificates. Officials were at the treasury until an early hour this morning to work out such a plan to keep the channels of exchange open and insure the orderly conduct of business. The proclamation cited "heavy and wide-spread withdrawals of gold and currency from our banking institutions for the purpose of hoarding" and "increasingly speculative activity abroad in foreign exchange" which "has resulted in severe drains on the nation's stocks of goIJ." For Best Interests of AH -it is in tne i 'f, "It is in the best interests of all the document said, of respite be provid ed with a view to preventing further hoarding of coin, bullion or currencv or speculation in foreign exchange and permitting the application of appropriate measures to protect the interests of our people." Modifications placed" upon the holiday would permit any bank that can gain the permission of the government to stay open and conduct its business as usual and accept new deposits to be placed in trust at-junts subject to full withdrawal. Persons close to President Roosevelt said that he realized days ago that he niipht have to act at once and that he already had familianz- Please Turn to Page 5, Column 6 HOW SMART ARE YOU? (Let encli m'-mbr of the family writs down hi or hr own answer, or. if at school, lot ea'h pupil write down tlio answer to each question.

Of the 1 qncstlons. four correct answers Is a fair avcraee for adults, three for children under 12. The correct answers will be found on the rows note paire.) lVhat Is the Mrthstone for March? 2What color is the Mongolian a What pronoun is thn objective of we 4 What Is a catamount? 5Wn.it is peat: ft In what sport Is the parl-mntuol svtem nsed? 7Vhat country does King Carol rule 8 How many e.ozraphical miha are there is a league? 9 What Is a nonaseiiarijn'' 10 On what finger arc tn jagcm-it and 'wtd'diES riofi CONGRESS APPEAR III LOCAL BEHALF Nobel Prize Winner May Testify for Rebecca Shelly in Naturalization Case. CASE COMING UP IN MAY Judge Hatch Previously Re fused Citizenship Because Of Pacifist Stand. Chicago's famous social worker.

Jane Addams, who won the Nobel peace prize in 1931, is coming to the assistance of Rebecca bhelley ol Battle Creek, who lost her American citizenship through marriage to an alien and was denied naturaliza tion in 1931 because she declined to Dromise to bear arms for the United States. Miss Addams will testify in behalf of Miss Shelley when her sec ond application for naturalization comes up for hearing in the Cal houn circuit court at juarsnau late in May. Telegraphs Willingness It was announced in Detroit today bv W. W. Denton, secretary of the Shellev repatriation committee, that Miss Addams had telegraphed her willineness to take the stand to testify that she knew Rebecca Shellev as an American citizen and conscientious objector to war be fore the marriage which forfeited her citizenship.

Miss Shellev was a delegate to the woman's interna tional congress at The Haeue, of which Miss wes chairman and was a member of the Ford peace expedition during the World war. Kept Own Name Miss Shelley has retained the use of her maidsn nime throueh on unusual aerrement made with her husband. Felix M. Rathmer. vho formerlv operated an electrical shop on South avenue, prior to their marriace.

After the wedding they maintained separate residences. Mr. Rathmer was a native of Germanv whose own had been delaved because of the World war. with the result that he was still i German subject at the time of his marriaee to Miss Shellev, who was born at Haw thorne. January 20, 1887.

On Mav 29. 1931, at a naturalist tion hearing at Marshall. Miss (Please Turn to Page 2, Column 5 IN CAPITAL IS QUELLED Several Persons Are Injured When Police Charge March Of Unemployed. Washington, March 6 Several persons were injured today in fighting between policf and unemployed at Twelfth and P. streets when officers broke up a demonstration.

The disturbance arose after the demonstrators had marched from a hall on Eleventh street with the announced intention of going to the district building to demand more unemployment relief and equality between whites and Negroes. The demonstrators were met outside the hall by Inspector Albert J. Headley who warned the marchers they would not be allowed to march in formation in the street. The marchers persisted, however, in spite ot tne warnings. At Twelfth street, the demonstrators found their path barred by police, armed with clubs, riot guns and tear gas grenades.

The foremost policemen charged the oncoming marchers, raining blows upon those in the front rank. Those in the rear fled. Those unable to escape were loaded into patrol wagons and taken to police stations in the vicinity, whence the injured were sent to a hospital. FATHER KILLS INFANT BY PLACING IN STOVE Allegan. March 6.

Cecil Dostie. 27. was held here todav on a charge of burning his infant son to death Sunday by placing the child in a cookstove. Dostie informed an older daughter that the child was in the stove when the girl returned. He also is said by officers to have attacked his wife.

Officers believed Dostie planned to kill his entire family. Dostie formerly was an epileptic patient at Wahjamcga. EX-OFFICIAL TO FACE EMBEZZLEMENT COUNT Midland. March 6. OFp A warrant charging embezzlement of S7.500 of Midland county funds has been served on Henry W.

Harrison, former county treasurer. The warrant was served on Harrison Saturday nieht by Sheriff George Venner. Harrison is recovering from an operation which he underwent February 20. TURN ABOUT FAIR PLAY Philadelphia. March 6.

Difficulties of getting money from home long have troubled the college boy but Paul Levy, a senior at the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania has a new one to tell. Paul got a telegram from his father, Cleveland. merchant. "Rush all cash you can spare," the missive read. "Bank closed." FISHERMEN RESCVED Charlevoix.

March 6. Pi Coast euards Sunday rescued J. C. Marshall. Murly Plum.

Oscar Ward and Glen Williams, all of Charlevoix. I when they were carried out to Lake Michigan on, an ice floe which broke (away while they were ADDAWIS TO WOMAN Victim's Story One of Success Won with Work Immigrant Boy Steadily Forges Upward Through Perseverance and Industry: Was Quiet Humanitarian and Had Real Record in Chicago Politics. Anton Joseph Cermak capped a 1-tin rwJ a 1 1 r- lilatii'Alt ci i feoc ill political career by attaining the 1 Chicago mayoralty with the 1931 I overthrow of "Thompsonism." The story of the man who be- came Chicagos democratic 1933 "world's fair mavor" concurrently with the citys repudiation of Wil-j liam Hale Thompson is a repetition of the traditional American saga to business and political eminence. Cermak victory by a record majority in the 1931 election, when Thompson sought a fourth term, was described by political critics as being attributable as much to an rrormot anti-1 nompsen vote as to a pro- vote, yet he never was characterized 'as strictly an oppor- (Please Turn to Page 5. Column 3 1 TOLD TO LEAVE PRUSSIA Charged with Writing That Nazis Guilty of Setting Fire to Reichstag.

Berlin, March 6. Pi Camille Loutre. for 15 years Berlin correspondent of the Paris newspaper Petit Parisien. has been ordered to leave Prussia for two months after having been charged with writing that the nazis were euiltv of in- PUT ON GERT BY HITLER GROUP Nazi Victory at Polls Sunday Presages Vast Changes in National Affairs. DICTATORSHIP FORECAST Two-Year Holiday for Reich stag Is Probable; to Restore Old Imperial Flag.

Berlin March 6. Pi That the reichstag in all likelihood will adjourn for two years after a brief session is the opinion in government circles after the national socialist landslide in the reichstag and Prus sian diet elections yesterday gave the national government a decisive majority. Cabinrt Meets Tuesday The cabinrt will meet Tuesday to set the date for the reichstag convocation. The electoral endorsement of the Hitler government's "nationalistic revolution" with its policy of suppressing communists and socialists leaves no doubt that the next few months will be devoted to wiping out the last vestiges of both democracy and communism. Vast Chanees Forecast Hitler's nazis will cornprise the largest group ever sent to a German parliament, the final tabulation giv ing them 288 seats a reichstag with 647.

Their nationalist allies got 52 seats. Thev got 17.264.000 and 3.131.000 votes respectively ol tne ja, 230.000 cast. Vast chances in olficialdom, car rying the spirit of Hitlerism into every home and vitally affecting the nation's cultural, economic and social life, are mast likely to be cf fected. If Hitler adheres to the pro eram of the government, the foreign as well as the domestic policy will be mast militant. To Stamn Out Marxism A claim that the election victory entitles the nazis to take over the government was put forth in a statement issued by Hitler's press agency, which said: "The national socialists demand full recognition from young Germany.

A wave of national awakening sweeping all classes, and before which Marxism is falling, is the achievement of the national socialist movement. Thus, only national socialism can complete the lob." To Restore Imperial Flag It announced drastic measures. "National socialism nas the power and will use it to execute the judgment of the people against Marxism, proceeding in the best interests of the nation." One of the first acts of the new reichstag, Hermann Goering. minister without portfolio, said, will be to declare the old imperial black, white and red flag the national colors instead of the republican black, red and gold. Almost 90 percent of the electorate went tc the polls as compared with 75 and 84 percent in ihe November 6 and July 31 reichstag elections last year.

BHD RAPIDS 11N IS HELD FOR EXTORTION Attempt to Obtain $500 Under Threat of Death Leads To Her Arrest. Grand Rapids, March 6. fPi Mrs. Pearl Blake of Petoskey was held here by federal authorities todav on a charge of nsing the mails in an attempt to extort $500 from D. M.

Weaklv of Birmingham. under threat of oeatn to a memoer of his family. Mrs. Blake was arrested at the postoffice in Petoskey when she railed for a dummy package mailed by Weakly instead of the currency allegedly demanded by her. Arranged before the United States commissioner at Petoskey.

Mrs. Blake waived examination and was held to the grand jury. According to Weakly, the woman mailed a letter to him on February 13 demanding money, and threatening death "to a member of your family unless vou come through." The names "Pearl Smith" and "Tom Smith" were signed to the letter, Weaklv said. He turned the letter over to postal authorities, and the dummy package sent to Petoskey. D'Annunzio Says Kiki No Name for Actress Brescia.

Italv. March 6. OPi Girls named Kiki never will achieve glory, savs Gabrieic D'Annunzio, Italv's poet-warrior. He was arbitrarily renamed Kiki Palmer, pretty Italian actress. She received a telegram from him Just before a performance here saying he would call her Palma.

"It is poetic and significant." he said, "and goes weu wuri rainier. LEAP FROM BRIDGE FATAL Detroit. March 6. iA An unidentified man ended his life Sunday by leaping from the Belle Isle bridge into the Detroit river. His body was recovered by police who said he was about 43 years old and weighed 155 pounds.

He was clad in a blue suit. Jig-Saws Are Here Again A new sunplv of those favorite Enquirer and News comic jig-saws that are proving so popular has Just arrived. And for three strips of Boots and Her Buddies or Our Boarding House clipped from consecutive issues of the Enquirer and News this week plus five rents vou will receive at the Enquirer and News office of these puzzles. Mayor Anton J. Cermak Dies Quietly After Failing to Emerge from Coma of Night.

FOURTH CRISIS TOO MUCH Members of Family Are at Bedside; Assassin to Be Charged at Once with Murder. Miami, March 6. (AP) Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago who was wounded February 15 by Giuseppe Zan-gara, the man who tried to assassinate President Roosevelt, died at 6:55 a. eastern standard time, today in Jackson Memorial hospital. The announcement was made by Alderman Edward F.

Kelly, South Park commissioner. Cermak died quietly. Jle did not emerge from the coma In which he sank last night. FOIRT1I CRISIS IS FATAL The mavor rallied from three crises in a gallant stand against complications of colitis, pneumonia and heart trouble that set in after the but eanerene appeared in the lower lobe of his right lung Saturday night and he grew steadily worse. The lung was the one grazed by Zangara's bullet.

Yesterday a third blood transfusion was given Mayor Cermak and neo-arsphenamin was administered to combat the gangrene area but he failed to respond and his condition continued to grow more and more grave. Family Is at Bedside Lat last night, physicians pronounced the mayor's condition "definitely critical" and the family was called into his room. They came out weepng and Mayor Cermak's phys-ctans shortly after midnight said he (Please Turn to Page 4. Column 7 TRIBUWl Impressive Services Are rteici Today in Senate Chamber Attended by President. WaKhinctnn.

March 6. Ur nt. cures of state were laid aside today while America's officialdom gainerea ai me iiu-uouiu of Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana in the senate chamber to pay him a last reverent tribute. I President Roosevelt and members of his cabinet in which Walsh would have sat had he dived headed the list of notables who sat silently near the silvered bronze casket and joined his widow in mourning his passing.

Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore and Bishop John Mc-Namara of Washington, the auxiliary bishop of the Baltimore diocese, conducted the impressive Catholic funeral ceremonies. About them were other church dignitaries in the full robes of their rank. In a brief eulogy of the distinguished legislator, who had served in the senate 20 years before his death early Thursday, Archbishop Curley said of him: "The beloved senator from Montana deserves a eulogy, but he needs none. He loved and served his God.

He loved and served his fellowman." Bv the side and near the head of the casket sat the sorrowing widow, the former Senora Nieves Perez Chaumont de Truffm of vana, to wnom me st-uaiui wed but a few days Deiore ms Bv her side, heavily draped in black, was his daughter. Mrs. Emmet Gudger. With them were tTe senator brother. John Walsh, and Mrs.

Walsh's son, Senor Mar- CITlieClbodv'will leave Washington at 3 50 p. m. for interment rites at Helena. Montana. Thursday, after a funeral service in the Catholic cathedral at Helena.

FULL TO SPECIAL Governors of New York Stock Exchange Meet Today; Chicago Croups Confer. New York. March 6. t.Vi Governors of the New York stock ex change at a meeting this morning gave a special committee full powers to take "any steps deemed necessary in the present situation." No action was taken by the governors in regard to a further exchange holiday. All marseib nac uilcu vw.y.

r-hfrno-o. March 6 JP An emergency meetinz of the directors of the Chicaso livestock exchanee was called todav to determine whether trading shall continue in livestock, SHOT IN FOOT Detroit. March 6. i.Pi Charged with stealing cakes from a bakery waeon. Victor Papo is a police prisoner in a hospital.

He was shot in the foot by a patrolman who said he came upon Papp as he ran from.a bakery truck parked in the street. CrMATflRMIQH II IIIUI llll 1 1'HI ULIlii lull mni-uii THE SITUATION IK SENTENCES (By the Associated Press) A banking holiday for the entire nation was proclaimed today by President Roosevelt. It extends from Monday to Thursday of this week, both days inclusive. No bank may transact any banking business whatsoever during the holiday except by permission of the secretary or tne treasury. A special session ol congress nas been called for noon Thursday to aeal with the problem.

Stock exchanges, it is Denevea, will be closed; but commodity mar kets are to remain open. The holiday is effective everywhere the American flag flies, including insular possessions. The President acted under the "trading with the enemy" act of 1917. The action was taken "to prevent the exporting, hoarding or earmarking of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency." If remedial legislation is not completed Thursday, the bank holiday may be extended. Secretary Woodin of the treasury stated emphatically that the holiday does not mean the United States has gone off the gold standard.

Clearing house certificates may be issued during the holiday by banking houses with their assets as security. The printing of clearing house certificates for use in New York has been started. Arkansas was the first state to wire the secretary of the treasury for permission to open banks in that state on a restricted basis. Herbert Hoover, former President, who found himself with but a small amount of cash, had no comment to make from his New York hotel suite. President Roosevelt is preparing a program for presentation to con gress when it convenes ui special session Thursday noon.

It Took Moratorium For Banks to Reopen Hammond, March 6. (P) Hammond, which didn't have a bank open for a 14-month period, presented a unique situation today. Despite the Indiana bank holiday two newly organized banks, the Mercantile State and the Calumet State, were open and doing business Forty new depositors were accepted by the Calumet State, officials said, during the first few hours of business today. The Mercantile State also received ncv deposits and honored all checks and withdrawals. Currency in Trade pay out fractional coin that is coins ranging from pennies to half dollars to meet the need for change.

Pending authoritative statements. it was the belief that bankers were working on a plan for a unuoriii standard of collateral thrournoui the country. In this way. New York scrip could circulate in otner and vice versa. Thus it appeared that the new money miehf be acceptable at or near parity througn-out the nation.

Bankers recalled the crisis of 1907 the last occasion on vnicn scrip certificates were' used here. Thev were, in effect, l'ens or orations aeainst the assets of the banks. It. New York thev were used nrimarilv for pavments between banks, but in other sections thev circulated just like money. When the need for them disappeared thev wer retired as fast as they were depesitd in banks.

More details about the scrip were expected shortly. Burner's statement. issud last nicht, said only that the clT.rin? house association h'ar adopted a certificate plvn to be put into effect "when, as and if the present emergency demanded it." The Bronx plant of the American Bank Note Co. hummed with activitv as demands for scrip came from manv parts of the country. Pleas for quick shipment of the certificates to villages and big cities burned up telephone wires.

CHINESE POT UP Troops Desperately Resist Jap-anese Thrusts to Capture Posts on Great Wall. ilty the Pros) A japanese campaign to seize China's fortifications in the Great Wall and garrison them for the purpose of the Japanese sponsored state of Manchukuo was stubborn- Marshal Chang-Liang sent two more regular divisions from Peip-ing to Kupiekow. only 50 miles northwest of the old Chinese capital, to aid in defense against a Japanese army approaching from Jehol city. Farther eastward a Japanese force seized Chanchiakow. another important pass, and a third Japanese unit was advancing on Chiehlinkow.

Both met desperate resistance. The capture of Weich-ang. between Jehol city and Chih- feng. in the province of Jehol, by Japanese followed another hard battle. Chinese turned against Tang Yu-Lin.

the fleeing governor of Jehol, demanding his death. The Japanese reports said he was about 40 miles northwest of Jehol city, his capital, which fell Saturday. Inquiries were made concerning safety of an American missionary, Harriet F. Minns, who refused to leave the Jehol war zone. Mike Wants to Talk But Chief Is Sleepy Albuquerque.

N. March 6. 'Pi Chief of Police Pat O'Grady has about reached the end of his patience with "Mike." otherwise unidentified, who lives in Baltimore. Many times recently. Chief onIy to fjnd js caUing from Baltimore Aiwa vs.

savs the chief, his admirer wishes to discuss old times. O'Grady can't recall the incident but Mike asserts the chief threw him out of a fashionable bar here several years ago. FOUR HELD FOR BOBING Flint. March 6. (Fi Four men are being questioned concerning the apparent bombing of a barber shop which police believe is a continuation of a price war.

in progress here for several weeks. The shop was owned by Roy F. Paee, who said three men called on him two weeks ago to demand that he raise his price, threatening him when he refused. of Americans Former President Hoover, just a few out of the White House, found himself with only a small amount of cash but was getting along. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania had just 95 cents in his jeans, but there was gasoline enough in the gubernatorial motor to carry him back home from Washington.

The movie folks in Hollywood had their fun. That wag. Jack Oakie, issued his own scrip, reading: Compliments of Jack Oakie, who owes you blank dollars and hopes you get it." At Dallas. Texas. Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray, musical ccmedy artists, arranced to pay their hotel bills by sintring for other cuests.

Like millions of others they have money but it is in banks. A New York hotel, finding itself short of cash, sent a messenger to churches to gather the contents ot collection plates. Business on Broadway boomed as some theaters accepted enccks lor ticKets. sub ways had a plentiful supply of nickels for thetime being, but were considering what to do about scrip. You can't put it In a turnstile.

STUBBORN EIGHT cerxliarism in the fire which na5 "u.l',.uA" Reichstag building last Monday. M. Loutre denied that he made such a report and also claimed that his newspaper had consistently favored Franco-German understanding, as did the newspaper Ere Nouvelle, to which he also con tributed. M. Francois-Poncet, French am bassador to Germany.

visited Foreign Minister von Neurath ves- terday and expressed the French government's displeasure at the contemplated expulsion. At the French ambassador's ur gent entreaty, the reich government is trying to persuade the Prussian commissary government to at least moderate the measure against M. Loutre. Resourcefulness Clearina House Serin Will Soon Again Put to Test in Emergency Replace Old Nev York, March 6. What is scrip, how does one get it and how does one use it? The answers to those ouestions were being learned bv millions today as bales of the freshly-nrinTerf emergency currency were pieimicu for distribution.

Clearing house serin, being prepared bv the New York Clearing House association, consists of paner certificates based on bank deposits. Thev are issued bv a group of banks, rather than by one banking institution. Although details of the certificate plan announced yesterdav bv Mortimer Buckner. head of the clearing house association, have not yet been made public, it was believed the new medium of exchange would be paid out by the banks in lieu of the old. A depositor anpearin" at bank to cash a check would be riven the certificates to the full amount of the check.

It would also be the rrorey tn which rav checks were cashed, and it would be accepted bv rnerchint. landlords, railroads and others in-stesd of the old currency. Bankers said that since the serin wou'd be accented for deposit at parity bv all clearing house members, it would serve as a satisfactory medium of exchange. The certificates, which represent actual deposes, will be issued, it was believed, in denominations ranging from $1 up. It was the understanding here that banks, when i they reopen, might be permitted to New York.

March 6. i Pi Quips. grins and tall stories were on the lips of Americans today as they went to a well they had not, tapped since war days. It was a well of resourcefulness, of ingenuity, of good humor. Human life, in spite ot the shortage of cash, was finding ways of carrying on as it has a way of doing always.

Even before' President Roosevelt, invoking the powers of a war-time law, took quick steps preparing the way for scrip, the idea of scrip was racing through the country, and communities in many scattered sections were arranging to have it printed. Tales of millionaires beseeching butlers for a spare dime, of folk with $100 bills being snubbed by change-guarding clerks, went the rounds. Ladies who used to talk about their operations now had a new topic of how the grocer man would not give them chanze lor S20 v.hen thev bought a lu-ccni can of beans From the top to the bottom ot the social scale, persons facing in- convenience grinned ana core it..