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East Home Paper Since in News and Features The Weather Fair Sunday; slightly cooler in west portion Sunday. T-IL 1 The Post-Register Home Edition NEV VOLUME NO. III. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, SUNDAY, JULY 15 1934. ASSOCIATED PRESS I VTTEI) PRESS NUMBER 217 SAN FRANCISCO ON VERGE FAMINE PANIC Europe Disappointed Over Speech Board Fails in HE Toi't tO Wartl FAILS DISCUSS El Official Comment Generally Withheld; Contradictions Noted.

SERVANT OLD GANG. Chancellor Warns Certain Death Awaits Those Who Revolt. Wheat Yield in Idaho Expected Show Increase COUNTY OFFICE SEEKERS FILE Governor Ross Files Petitions Early Saturday Activities Increase Late Saturday at Court House Here. Forecast Saturday Indicates Reduction in Other Idaho Crops. CLOSES SATURDAY.

BOISE. July 14. C. Ben Ross filed his declaration of candidacy and nomination peti- tions signed in 21 counties shortly before 10 a. xn.

today. The documents were taken by one of the secretaries from the offices to the office of secretary of state, accompanied with a check for $49, the filing fee. A supreme court aspirant and two candidates for congress filed at about the same time. O. C.

Hall of Twin Falls, filed for the supreme court bench; Heber Q. Halen, Boise Republican, filed for second district congress FEWER POTATOES. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Disappointment at Chancellor failure to discuss German foreign policy was the general reaction to his speech today in Eurojiean capitals. Official comment was withheld, in some instances until the text could be carefully studied.

Nationalist newspapers in Paris! man and "scTott Hall, Malad interpreted Hitler silence on for- 1 Republican, filed for second dis- eign affairs as an indication that trict congressman, he is in no hurry to study the 1 The filing deadline is 5 p. French proposal of an eastern today. Locarno pact. 1 a. ------The French foreign carefully withheld comment, fearful of hampering the delicate Locarno negotiations.

The commentator of the news- Production Estimated at 20,140,000 Bushels; 21,850,000 Harvested in 1933. More Candidates Expected File Shortly Before 5 P. M. paper Figaro said the speech disappoint both Germany and and that it was full of contradictions. Daily Mail saw as an indication that the German tuuitauuu uiui me vserman army was restive.

state- BaDSOn Says Present Set- ment that President von Hindenburg had reconciled the reiehwehr to the present state of affairs. Importance also was placed upon the assertion that the storm troop forces had bean increased against his orders. The Laborite Herald said Hitler revealed himself the obedient servant of the old gang, back Is Only Tern- porary. (Continued on pace Enter Search Saturday For Little Boy HARTSDALE. N.

July 14. UP) let-down. of justice operatives waited vainly today for a kidnap note that would justify their entrance into the search for little blue-eyed Bobby Connor, 21 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.

Connor, missing since Thursday evening By ROGER W. BABSGN. BABSON PARK, July 14. today contrast strangely with those of a year ago. Last July business was going ahead by leaps and bounds.

Stock market activity was feverish, with prices advancing daily. We were approaching the peak of a sensational in the recovery period. Today business is only fair. Stock trading is at the lowest levels in 10 years, while security prices are drifting aimlessly. These market are a result of the summer business BOISE.

July 14. prospective increase in wheat production hut a reduction generally in other and fruits was forecast by Julius H. Jacobson, United States department of agriculture statistician for Idaho, in his state crop re- released today. His on the July 1 outlook of crops this year follows Total wheat production in Idaho is estimated at 20,538,000 bushels compared with 19,365,000 in 1933 and the five year average of 27,708,000 bushels. The early season permitted irrigated spring wheat to mature earlier and thus escape to some extent the full effect of diminishing water supplies.

Dry land, spring and winter wheat has suffered from drouth and a material acreage will hardly be worth harvesting. Wheat prospects in the 10 northern counties are reported good. grains and combed production of 9,075,000 bush- of corn, oats, barley and rye Is forecast from July 1 condition in comparison with 10,674,000 harvested in 1938. This represents a 15 per cent reduction. Based on July 1 conditions the total hay crops promise 2 120,000 tons compared with 2,425,000 in the five year average of 2,822,000 tons.

Filings for county offices took on renewed Friday afternoon and Saturday morning as the deadline, 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon drew near. W. L. Brewrink, county auditor, 1 said at noon Saturday several Off Mass Strike Hopes for Armistice in Coast Maritime Dispute Fade Away. BULLETINS Mrs.

Lillian Craner, Logan, Killed in Accident Near Here. 8 DEATH OCCURS. Portland Brakeman Dies From Injuries; Rossi Plans Act. 115 ARE DEAD TOKYO, July 14. One hundred and twenty five were known dead and 206 were missing today in floods in western Japan.

More than 300 homes have Imm-h destroyed and 15.0(H) partially inundated, said to the home ministry from prefect ural governors. Some 25,000 persons, it was estimated, Hre homeless. PASSENGER HURT. SAN July 14. on the verge of a famine panie, San Frnneiseo prepared for a general labor strike after a federal mediation hoard reported failure in to ward off the mass walkout.

(Continued on 51 Business activity on the whole, as measured by the Babson chart, is now 4 per cent below last July, which was the peak of recovery to date. Many individual indicators, however, are still abova July, 1933. Among them are car- loadings, electric power eonsump- The federal agents, called into 1 volume of retail sales, the case under the Lindbergh naping law', deepened the mystery of Bobby disappearance by clamping dowm a censorship on the household of his frantic parents. Frank Fay, of the New York office of the intelligence bureau, who is in charge of the case for the department of justice, asked the Greenburgh police not to comment on the progress of the in- vestigation. All mail being scanned carefully but nothing of value had come from the chronic writers of freak only communications.

employment, factory purchasing power, bond prices, bank deposits, and newspaper advertising lineage. Nearly all consumer industries are doing as well or better than they were a year ago. The main reason why total business is less than Dern Cuts Canal Zone Visit Short PANAMA, July 14. (A1' George H. Dern, United States secretary of war, had decided to cut short his visit to the canal zone and tentatively planned to sail for Los Angeles on the S.

S. Talamanca a week from next Sunday. Dern said he probably will Inspect army engineering projects on the Columbia river and in Montana befora returning to Washington. were withholding their filing until the last moment in order to determino whether they cared to become candidates and if they I were to have opposition, i The race for representative on the Democratic ticket is to be enlivened by filings made Saturday by George Hersley, master of the Pomona Grange in Bonneville county, and H. E.

Elkington, both on the Democratic ticket for that office. There are two to be elected. Jack Booth, long considered a candidate for nomination on the Democratic ticket for sheriff, made his formal filing Saturday. Estella S. Mulliner, county treasurer, filed Saturday for tion and election to that office on the Republican ticket.

The filings to noon Saturday in addition to those already published. are: J. M. Booth, Democrat, for sheriff; David R. By bee, Democrat for precinct committeeman; Estella S.

Mulliner, Republican, county treasurer; W. H. Elkington, Democrat for representative; George Hersley, Democrat for representative; L. E. Arave, Democrat for precinct committeeman.

Sam H. Price, chairman of the board of county commissioners, said Saturday at noon he intended to file for renomination and election before the books are closed at 5 o'clock. Filings made after the noon hour in the county clerk's office up to 1:30 were, for county commissioner, third district on the Democratic ticket, Francis Burtenshaw; for assessor on the Republican ticket, Charles W. Scott; for precinct committeeman, all on the Democratic ticket, A. C.

Hancey, Lem Cook, Meldon Later Robert Andrus, Parley Byington, Thomas Cook, W. E. Priest, and Sylvester A. Kellar. COMMANDER of the flight of 10 army Martin lmmhcrs to Alaska will he Lieut.

Col. Henry II. Arnold, shown in a new photo. Arnold, of the army's most noted aim stationed at March Field, Riverside, Calif. 19 More Water Hopes of an armistice in the Pacific const maritime the vital issue of the spreading labor revolt faded last night when federal board members came wearily from prolonged conferences and announced: The announcement intensified the emergency and brought frank predictions that a committee of Okehed 700 representing all of the 144 unions in San Francisco, with POWERS TO MEET GENEVA, July 14.

world were committed today to another serious fling at disarmament next September by the official convocation of the steering committee of the disarmament conference, Arthur Henderson, conference president, encouraged by the recent Franco-British and the boom given to security pacts, officially called the committee meeting for the early days of the league of nations assembly beginning September 10 Car Turns Over Three Times as Gets Out Control. SALT LAKE CITY, July 14. of 19 more water projects culling for the expenditure of $21,723 boosted to $160,718.65 (he total allotment of money from the $400,000 drouth relief fund sent to the stats by the federal government. Projects approved by the governor's drouth relief committee yesterday included: Paradise Irrigation and Reservoir ftsm, any, Cache for pump, $2900. Pump well, Lavton, Dnvis county, $2650.

Waterworks Improvement. Fielding. Bexelder county, 1000 Spring development, Stnnrod, Boxelder county. $1500 Pump well, Woods (Jross, Davis county. $3172.

Development of spring, Farmington, Davis county, $600. Pump well, Woods Cross, Davis county, $405. TO PAY DIVIDEND SALT LAKE CITY, July 14. The state hanking department is ready to pay another five per cent dividend to depositors of the defunct Sugarhouse Banking company of Sugttrhou.se, John A. Malia, state bank commissioner, announced today.

their total membership of 65,000, will swing the general strike weapon today. Revolt Spreads. Meanwhile, other blockaded seaports girded themselves to continue the two months old maritime conflict which brought its eighth death list last night in Portland when James E. Bateson, railroad brakeman, died from injuries. The revolt spread into Canas the Vancouver waterfront workers voted for a mass meeting on a proposal to refuse to work United States ships and started collection of a fund.

Confronted by the threat of famine and disease. Mayor Angelo J. Rossi of San Francisco assumed the emergency granted him under the city charter. Lights, heat, sanitary service and the all important food supply, already sharply curtailed by strikes of teamsters and other unions, must be provided at all costs, Mayor Rossi declared. Department Meet.

Police and department heads and army officers from the San Francisco presidio were called HEADS FOR PORTLAND OMAHA, July 14. UT) by engine trouble to remain here two successive nights. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, NKA administrator, took off in his special plane from the municipal airport at 10:40 a.

m. (C.S.T.), bound for Portland, where he is scheduled to tomorrow afternoon. Losing control of the car she was driving north on the highway near the location of the Intcrmountain Fireworks company just south of Idaho Falls, Mrs. Lillian Owner of Logan, Utah, was killed and Mrs. Dean Brown of Burley injured Saturday morning at about 7:10 Mrs.

Craner was pronounced dead at the L. D. S. hospital, to which place she was taken, as soon as the accident was reported with the body removed to the McHan Funeral Horne. (Continurd on Eleven) The bank closed in 1930 with Julian Hawthome, deposit liabilities of $385,542.

The new payment will boost the total dividends to 40 per cent. Author, Passes Away Vacation Post Cards No, 5 (Continued on 7) LASHES of LIFE By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The only note received THE DEBIL HAS DERE was obviously written by a boy for a prank, Capt. Philip J. McQuillan of the Greenburgh police said. It demanded $50 ransom.

Fay also said he attached no importance to the note. ill BIRMINGHAM, aged negro expounded to a limited curbside congregation his that Saturday, not Sunday, is the Sabbath. Then he passed a shiny top hat. No coins fell. Slowly he packed his charts and moved on.

was his parting comment, Friday the 13th. I might have knowed the debil was in dis LAKEWOOD, Skowhegan, July 14. you ever see a place that looks like it was built just to enjoy? Well, this 4 whoie state of Ma ne looks that 5 way. If not a beautiful lake, a beautiful tree, or a pret- 5 ty green hay meadow and beau. tiful old-times houses, with barns built right in with the 5 kitchens.

Vacationers and ev- erything improved 30 per cent over last year. Roads have 5 been fixed up with federal money. 2 Newspaper advertising has in- creased over 50 per cent All these things have been done, yet the editorials say that the 2 new deal is a failure. a funny world. You feed a dog I bites you.

Yours, DO ALBANY, N. E. Fake have to be a supcr- to get his credit department to approve this order. customer was Mayor John Boyd Thatcher. The references were President Franklin Roosevelt and Gov.

Herbert iL Lehman. WAS IT AN OMEN? OKLAHOMi persons born on Friday the I3th organized the Oklahoma City Anti- Jinx dub, electing 13 officers on Friday the 13th. Thirteen bottles of milk were spilled when a picnic table overturned. DJ4. MeNaucht SLEEP ON Peltx, 7, slept peacefully last night, unaware that he had killed his 11 year old sister, Mary Ann.

His father, Frank Pelts, put him to bed after the 4 boy picked up an oloer rifle and fired a shot that struck his sister in the head. Shs died later in a hospital. 1 RAN FRANCISCO, July 14. -Julian Hawthorne, 86, author and only son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, famed American writer of the 19th century, died at his home here early today. Hawthorne had been in failing health for seme after recovering from a critical illness early in June.

He is survived by his widow, seven children, five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral. He disregarded the advice of his father avoiding a literary career and his prolific pen once carried him to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. The half hundred volumes he produced were popular reading in their time but are now out of print and nearly forgotten. Turning from fiction to the authorship of raining promotion literature, Hawthorne ran afoul of the law and was convicted in 1912 of using the mails to defraud.

He was paroled after serving a few months of his one year terra. Nippon Report Made for May, When British Impose Restrictions. From the statement made to the sheriffs office by witnesses, the driver of the car evidently desiring to avoid a truck swung to the right of the highway, striking the shoulder of the highway, swerving across the road, turning over three times into the barrow pit. Harry Greaves of Okmulgee, driving behind the car occupied by the two women, witnessed the accident. He brought Mrs.

Brown to the hospital and notified the sheriffs office from the hospital. Dave $Seguin, deputy sheriff and an ambulance went to the scene of the accident, taking Mrs. Craner to the hospital Mr reported te tbs sheriffs office a truck drove onto the highway from a side road and occupied half of the highway, making it necessary for the woman driving the car to swing wide in order to avoid the truck. Harry Morris of Idaho Falls, driver of the truck, told the sheriffs office that he was leaving the grounus of the Intermountain Fire, Boise Man to Join Army Flight WASHINGTON, July 14. men who will fly the army air 10 bombers from Washington to Fairbanks, Alaska, and return were selected today by the war department.

The training and photographic trip is to atart between July 20 and 25. Officers designated for the flight included Sec. Lieut. L. F.

Harman, Boise, Idaho. STUDIES ROAD METHODS. SALT LAKE CITY, July 14. UP) C. Wright, chief engineer of the state road commission, was back at his desk today ready to put into practice highway construction methods gleaned during a tour of Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

Mr. Wright said Utah's highway construction methods compare favorably with those of other possibly Oregon, where the pretence of hard rock gives the roadbeds a superior 'oundatioa. By GLENN BABB. OSAKA, Japan. the month in which Great Britain imposed quota restrictions on Japanese textile imports into the United Kingdom and British colonies, saw Nippon's cotton goods set a new high record.

Statistics published by the Japan Cotton association support the Japanese contention that they have wrested from Britain her century-old leadership in cotton textiles exports, for generations the first staple of world commerce. Nippon Ffmt Clash. Thus the advantage in the first phase of the Anglo-Japanese trade war inaugurated by Walter Run- quota announcements, is claimed by Japan. In May the Japanese cotton industry exported 265,623,000 square yards valued at $14.550,000, surpassing the previous high mark of March, 1934, by 42,000,000 square yards and $2,500,000. According to the figures British exports for May were 150,000,000 square yards, the lowest since August, 1933, the month in which the rising tide of sales passed the falling British figures.

For the whole of 1933 cotton goods exports were 2,090,000,000 square yards and Britain's 2,031,000,000. Gains in British Indicating that the new British barriers were ineffectual the figures showed that gome of largest gains were made in British territory, especially India the Straits Settlements, Australia and South Africa. For the first five months of 1934 cotton goods exports to the markets in which competition with Britain has been China, Dutch East Indies, Africa. Malaya and Latin (Continued on ft) Shelley Group Urges Operation Sugar Plant (Continued on 6) Coup Etat Sets Up New Government (Special to The Post-Register) SHELLEY, July delegation of Shelley men left this week for Salt Lake City to meet with company officials of the Utah- Idaho Sugar company in regard to the running of the Shelley factory this year. The Shelley chamber of commerce wired for an appointment.

The men going as delegates ta represent this district were L. Ivan Jensen, R. L. Anderson, W. M.

Christensen, Marion Esplin, Leonard Cox, Floyd Kelly, J. Berkeley Larsen, Arnfred Christensen and Joseph Bischoff. Most of those named are farmers and growers of sugar beets. The beet crop in the Shelley district is in good condition. It is hoped that the factory here wUi run this fall, as it gives employment to many, and greatly helps the community.

Four Shelley boys left on Thursday for work at the CCC camps at the Challis camp, for six months. The boys are Wayne Peterson, Stanley Allen, Frances Rowbury, and Lewis Nilsson. Mr. and Mrs. T.

J. Bennett and daughter Katherine, and son Rhyll, left Saturday on an extended tour to northern Idaho, Montana and Canada. While in the northern part of the state Mr. Bennett plans to do some campaigning for his race for secretary of state on the ticket They expect to be gone about two weeks. SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 14.

A government communique reveal, ed today that a new anti-government plot has been uncovered at the military garrison In div, less than two months after tbs coup which established a new regime. The government announcement described the affair as a conspiracy. The communique said dozen were implicated and that about 50 persons had been thrown in jail. It was with the co-operation of younger officers of the Bulgarian army that Kimon Gweorguieff organized his coup of May 19, which placed him in the premiership. Get it Ready! Some odd furniture or household item that you sjre not using cao bo sold for CASH Get it ready and advertise it on the Want-Ad page.

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