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Show CUBA WEARS OUT AMERICAN MONEY HAVANA, Nov. 1 (Correspondence ;of the Associated Press i Americans In Cuba have Joint d Cuban bankers! pnd business ITjert In making fresh lompiaint pf Ihe w urn-out money In I circulation here. Except silver, the1 only currency In use Is American. Itl baa l.een changing hands so that It Is tattered almost uevond the point of recognii Ion. and health experts hav e declared Ihal much of it la a public' rnenn'-e. Bills that onre were green now are brown and yellow The edges are irav.i and the best, small bills ob-J talnable even from banks n re so fright-l fully filthy that If found In the stales would be TUirkly tailed In and de-i de-i rpj "d Willie the moQp iii Havana is dis- I reputable, It Is fine compared with mm b in general circulation in the provinces 1' h sit la us b.nv- pruteated BjjfrV jon the ground that it spreads skin dls- H oases, and they have advised patients gl to demand silver, even if a truck. Is sLfl Heeded to enri It around. LgSB Thu slory is told here, of a traveling man from li-orgla, who on a rapfol lgsa trip t" the island, brought lOOn ni' one-dollar bills which he sold to the j nativ es at $2 each. Many nativ es. $$rm however, refused to accept them on Itbe ground that they were counterfeit iWt "" hopa In Havana new Amen- -l ! I nouiev Is 'nuked nn with yiispiclnr ' dfjSB and not Infrequantly large, new hills i an taken first to a. bank to find If B are genuine H oo K |