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Show CARRIERS ARE HELD UP BY STORM Saturday evening. 2d minutes after the Evening Standard was out the blizsard started in all Its fur So Btrong was thr wind and so cold the air that several of thr Evening Standard Stan-dard carriers were forced to abandon tho delivery ot the paper and did not mal e the deliveih until Sunday morning. I p on ihe hen h and out at Rive Points it was impossible for the 1 ar-rler ar-rler boys to proceed on bicycle or tlOrSS w ith tbe paper- Si veral or the boys werp so 1 hilled that their parents par-ents had to work- for several hours to bring them hack to a normal condition con-dition The Standard subscribers who did I not receive their paper until Sundaj morning have acted very nice about the matter, and the Standard wishes to how us apnreciation of the way the subscribers acted in the matter 111 not forcing the boys to deliver the paper during the storm. All Sunday morning, however, the carriers were kept busy delivering papers. If there are any of our subscribers who have not recehed the paper for Saturda evening the;, ran telephone to the of-flce of-flce and we will send out the Saturday Satur-day evening paper with tomorrow's issue Out of the 21 carriers 17 delivered their papers regardless of the storm 3everal of the youngsters had 10 stop in at the homes of subscribers and warm themselves before continuing their journey Several of them did not get through until 0 o'clock Should another storm like this take place In the evening and make it almost al-most impossible for the hoys to deliver de-liver the papers, the subscribers are hereby notified that the paper will be delivered the following morning, but a this is the first time in 20 years that such a Btorn) h.'ts sprung up so suddenly just after the evening paper was Issued. It probably will not occur a'-aiu during the next 2 years. If. however, it does come, rather than take chances on freeing a boy to death, we Wll lake chances on deli -cring the paper the following morning. morn-ing. thus far there Ihm been no complaints com-plaints trom our subscribers, and the Standard appreciates this very much. no PROBING THE MONEYTRUST C oncentration of IVIonev and Credits to Conclude Con-clude House Inquiry. Washington, la.11. 6, KWlher in qulry Into the so-called "concentration "concentra-tion 01 monej a nd credits" confi onted the bouse hanking and currenc: committee com-mittee with the resumption i"i 1 ol ihe money trusl Investigation Before 'he holiday adjournment the ' ommili-p onclu.le.i mast ,,( us in estimation of stock exchanges and clearing houses, leaving only minoi in tails undei those head's 111 be placed in the record The concentration ol monej and ciedits will conclude the ommlttee's efforts, and Chairman Pujo expects 10 hae a report before the house by February 1 Comptroller of the Currency Lawrence Law-rence O Murray was scheduled as I one of the first witnesses Thomas Fortune ltan also will apiar this week. |