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Eight More St. Louis Banks Close Their Doors St. Louis, Jan. 17.—Eight St. Louis banks failed to open yesterday, making 16 banks with aggregate deposits exceeding $15,000,000 closed in the city and St. Louis county within the last 12 days. Most of the closed institutions were small neighborhood banks. Those which closed today were: Twelfth Street National bank, capital stock $300,000; deposits, $945,393; LaClede Trust Company, deposits $1,111,013, total resources $1,789,516; Chouteau Trust Company, deposits $668,835; total resources $1,019,141; Natural Bridge Trust Company, deposits $913,951, total resources $1,265,956; Lowell bank, deposits $2,457,134, total resources $3,517,290; Grant State bank, deposits $1,190,178, total resources $1,718,534; Sarah-Olive bank of St. Louis, deposits $174,572, total resources $425,653; Scruggs Vandervoort and Barney bank, operated in a downtown department store of the same name, deposits $1,762,642, total resources $2,507,530. PIG TURNS TABLES Salt Lake City—The pig which Harold R. Howard was trying to slaughter turned butcher itself. The pig was hung from a nail and Howard had stabbed it in the throat once. Thinking the one stab had not been sufficient, Howard grabbed one of the pig's legs and raised the knife a second time. The pig gave a frantic kick which caused the knife to slip and cut Howard's hand. He lost considerable blood before he reached the hospital.