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Show FIFTY POSTAL SAYINGS BANKS START NEXT WEEK By Leased Wire to The Tribune, WASHINGTON. May 13. Postmaster General Hitchcock will designate fifty postal savings banks next week, making a total of 179 in existence. Hereafter 150 and 200 depositories will be designated desig-nated every month. Mr. Hitchcock hopes to have more than 50.000 running In the next two years, He intends to start one nt ovory money-order money-order office in the country If congress will appropriate the funds necessary nex' year. According lo figures compiled at the postal department, the annual business of the 50.000 banks would amount lo more than 200.000.000. These figures are based on the ratio of the banks in existence to the population of the towns In which they aro located. |