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Holyoke Takes Suspension gPhilosophically With the exception of those merchants who rushed to buy small change to run their business during the two-day bank holiday the Holyoke populace viewed the suspension of banking business today with scarcely a ripple of excitement. Prepared for the sudden move by more than week of increasing bank suspensions the West, Middie West and South local business men accepted the extension of the disturbance to the East philosophically. The man on the street, too. took the closing of the two Holyoke national banks, the Hadley Falls Trust company and all the savings and coooperative banks as something of little direct consequence to himself. Little inconvenience was anticlpated over the week-end. The individuals who go thru their daily affairs with direct with banks displayed only a gen- eral news interest in the bank hollAltogether. in the face of na tion-wide financial tie-up the ettizenry accepted situation whose reasons not clearly explained to them without giving any sign that they lacked confidence in the soundness of the nation's fiscal condition. Little knots of people viewed the closed doors of the banks here for moment and passed on about their business. Even the presence of members of the police traffic squad and force near the banks caused little comment. The Ukrainian women members of the English classes of the Skinner Coffee House have formed Ukrainian Women's which will meet every Saturday evening The members will study English. and also take up the study of Ukrainian art and folk lore About ten women have already joined the group.