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Show TO EVOLVE A 1 NEW SYSTEM I Currency Plan to Sup- S plant Old One Many H Experts to Be Called Washington. Jan. 7. Seeking to evolve a new currency system plan to nc recommended to congress aft a substitute for the one proposed by the national monetarv eommisslon a W sub-committee of the house commit- H i tpe of the hous, committee on bank- iH . jee on banking and currency today began a series of public hearings that probably will continue several weeks . Bankers and financial experts from 'ii parts oi the country have been In- H vlted to give their views. Those who were to be heard today included rH Barton Hepburn and Paul M War- H ourg, New Vork bankers; Victor Mor- H awetz, a writer, and Lesli,- M. Shaw, I former secretary of the m-isurv. I Representative (;inss of Virginia. I 9 chairman of the sub-committee, ex- Jjfil pects io conclude ihe hearings in M time lo frame a currency bill before JH the end of the present session al-thoufb al-thoufb there is no promise of the i- j passage of any such legislation at this- H OO :JbHH |