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Show i ing government checks not endorse them until they are being cash-, ed. Otherwise, they are negotiatble and the payee is the loser if they ere lost or stolen. He also urged payees receiving checks by mail, such as allotment checks for dependents de-pendents of men in the service, 'to notify their post office at once of any change in address, to prevent the check going astray with a subsequent sub-sequent chance of its falling into other hands. IDENTIFICATION URGED FOR U. S. CHECKS Proper identification should be made before United States govern- j ment checks are cashed, Paul A. Giesar of the Salt Lake office, U. j S. secret service, warned this week. He said several thousand dollars are taken out of Utah and Idaho monthly because of fraudulent en- l dorsements. Mr. Giesar said government checks may be lost or stolen, the same as any others, and the cashier cash-ier should insist on proper identification identi-fication of the payee, either thru cards showing physical details, or j personal knowledge. He also urged that persons cash- |