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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
Troop Four Meets,
Leaders Appointed
and Team Chosen

Boy Scout Troop No. 4 met Tues
day evening and Harold Hines was
appointed senior patrol leader by
Scoutmaster Leroy Jones, Cecil Mil
tenberger was appointed patrol
leader for the Eagle patrol and
Graham Parkinson is his assistant.
The troop basket ball team was
chosen with Frank Allen captain.
Those on the team are Harold Hines,
Graham Parkinson, Charles Wander
wood, Cecil Miltenberger and
Captain Frank Allen. These boys
are pretty fast and use exceptional
teamwork in their playing and it is
expected that they will. bring home
the bacon for the troop this season.
Carrot Simmons, Ronald Robbins
and William Norris are to take the
tenderfoot tests ON December 8 and
Temp Hopkins and Frank Schu-
maker will take them on December
'18.
The troop has started a library for
the use of the members and Dewitt
Line has been appointed librarian.
He reported that there were seventy
books in the new library at present
with many more coming in.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
GERMAN CAPITALIST
IS NOW IN LONDON
Transportation is Most
Needed Factor for
Europe

Hugo SHINES, very successful
German capitalist; who has engaged
in all lines of business including the
operation of a chain of newspapers,
has amassed a stupendous fortune
during the war to add to his already
large estate. He seems to have been
eminently successful in everything
that he has undertaken, as q great
organizer of men and of business,
and is regarded by Germany as their
greatest living man.
~ Mr.. SHINES has been in London
for some time holding conferences
with leading men, and he advises
that the leading nations of Europe
must get together in some plan for
the rehabilitation of Europe or
civilization will be lost. He recon-
mends first the rebuilding all the
means of transportation, that they
connect as soon as possible the great
commercial centers with the popula-
tions and resources of eastern
Europe, get stream of commerce
and industry into operation that
shall give the people a chance to
save themselves. Mr.. SHINES says
that while Russia is the most hope
less of all the European countries
it is at the same time the most hope
full because of it's vast resources. He
says that Russia has the wealth to
furnish raw materials that can be
used in the rebuilding of the other
countries of Europe including Russia
itself, but that there must be con-
certed effort of the great capitalists
of Europe and the great commercial
organizations to place the means
within the reach Of the common peo-
pie so that they can get back again
into the great game of production
and self support. lns
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
EUROPE UNABLE TO-
PAY BIG WAR DEBT !!
American Banker GiJe
Plan for Rebuilding
Nations

w. D. Vanderlip, America s m-
GUS banker who has taken such a Nm
terest in the study of European pm
ditions, has just, returned from tARre
and says it will be utterly imp oss Die
for the nations, of Europe TO nay
their war debt to stfea United St9tes
and continue their own existence.
After a long study of the, problem
he recommends that the nations
owing these debts be required to pay
the interest and that the United
States use the interest or authorize
to have it used for rebuilding
Europe. He recommends
that it be used for those things that
are needed most, such as the re-
building of railways, bridges, docks,
warehouses and the things that will
enable them to rebuild their trade.
When they have transportation and
of moving goods to and from
factories and farms they can then
begin to produce something for
themselves, and if such policy is
continued for few years they
might even begin to pay something
on the principal and in the course OF
the term of years for the payment OF
these debts they will probably get
on their feet sufficiently to pay the
rest of the money to the United
States and let the United States keep
it. ~ @&
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
FAMOUS COLONEL
!. PERISHES AT SEA
Ceremony Unnerves
One of Americas
Greatest Heroes

Enroute from New York to
Havana, Colonel Charles w. Whit
tlesey famous commander of the
Lost Battalion" and one of the
foremost heroes of the war, perished
at sea according to a despatch from
the United Fruit company's liner
Toloa received in New York Monday.
The information came as a distinct
shock to the noted hero's friends and
to his law partners in the firm Of
White and Case Of No. IA Wall st.,
who were unaware that he even con-
templated a trip to Havana.
Colonel Whittlesey left two notes
telling of his intended action, one
addressed to his father, who lives
somewhere in Massachusetts, and the
other to John B. Pruyn, law part
,ner. These notes were discovered
in his cabin soon after his absence
from the ships. company had been
noticed. H& O.. IA s.sa k}.# tG6ti
tits thought that thetceremony in
honor of America s unknown dead
on Armistice Day unnerved him and
his, action Of Sunday night is the re-
suit of the ceremony with which he
was profoundly impressed. He was
a pallbearer on that occasion and
since then he ha dseemed to be un-
warrentedly depressed.
Whittlesey's war record is one of
the most romantic adventures of the
war and so great was his heroism
that General Pershing recently
ranked him second to Sergeant
Woodhill as one of Americas great
est heroes. naa.
Surrounded in the Argonne Forest
with his entire command, the first
battalion Of the 308th infantry of the
Seventy-seventh division, he had
been cut off from food and fresh
water for four days. At dusk on the
fourth day a blindfolded German
bearing white flag crossed the line
and asked Whittlesey and the eighty
seven men left in his command to
surrender "in the name of human
ity'' and he hurled back the answer
"You go to hell" which was after
wards taken up by all the American
armies.
Colonel Whittlesey was rewarded
by President Wilson and bore medals
from practically every country that
was allied with the United States In
the war.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
FILM R GOES II.
ON WITNESS STAND Al
Arbuckle Gives 1esti-
mony at Mondays
.esE C. .,.s -.a

Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, on trial
at San Francisco charged with being
responsible for the death of Miss
Virginia Rape due to injuries al
legged to have been inflicted upon her
by him at party at the st. Francis
hotel on September s, testified in his
own behalf Monday.
He said that he did not plan the
party held at his suite of rooms on
that occasion nor supply the liquor
and did not even know all the guests
nor have introductions to them. He
said he had just eaten his breakfast
when they began to arrive and was
clad in his pajamas and bathrobe.
1t seemed that the women them
selves had planned the party as a
surprise on him, and they took pos
session of the suite of rooms and
carried out their own plans. Miss
Rape, he said, asked for a piano to
be brought in for dancing, and a
phonograph was supplied. Miss
Rape did not dance, or at least he
did not see her dancing. He danced
some with Miss Blake and the liquor
spoken of was brought in or ordered
by his assistant. He drank some
highballs, and slipped away from the
others to dress to meet an engage
ment he had made to 60 out with
Mrs. Taube in the automobile. He
did not know they were coming to
have a party at his rooms and they
did not know that he had the en-
gagement to 60 out.
When he left them to go into his
bedroom to dress, he locked the door
and on opening the door Of the bath
room the door struck against some
thing and he Hound Miss Rappe "
ing on the flo0r suffering intensely.
He helped her up and assisted her
to walk to the bed and while doing so
Continued on page 5
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
YOUNG R0BBER
ADMITS PARTNER
Two Men Ask Newsboy
Direction to Brown
ing's Store

Guy Nelson, the eighteen year old
boy, who confessed to the killing OF
Stephen Browning at his grocery
store in Idaho Falls last Saturday
night, denied that he had a partner
or accomplice in the Job until Mon
day afternoon when he inadvertently
stated that he would die before he
would tell his partners name in the
deal. A news boy delivering papers
on the evening Of the robbery said
he met two men, one of whom In
quired where the Browning grocery
was and he directed them to 1t. They
went on together in the direction
of the grocery and the time Of this
incident corresponds closely with the
time of the robbery and killing. A
woman living in the neighborhood
saw two men leaving the store hur-
riediy at about the time the robbery
happened. The officers are sure that
Nelson had an accomplice in the deal
and they are holding his brother
Clyde, who stoutly denies that he
had anything to do with it or knew
about it.
Guy was taken to the hospital
when he was arrested, an X-ray
picture was taken to locate the bull
let in his body, 1t was extracted and
then he was taken to the city Jail
where he is being cared for.
In the bottom of Guys trunk was
found a 38 caliber automatic Colt
revolver that had been cleaned and
oiled after being used. This is be-
lieved to be the weapon he used in
killing Mr.. Browning, the report
says, and Guy confesses that he
walked into the Browning Grocery.
leveled the gun at Browning and told
him to throw up his hands, but that
Browning replied with shot that
struck him in the arm. Browning
fired two shots while Nelson fired
five, and all five of the shots took
affect in Browning's body, four Of
them passing clear thru his body,
two of them after passing thru his
chest lodged in the chair he was SIT
ting in and a third one 10 lged in q
heavy catalog standing against the
wall.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
Robber Of Skaggs'
Store in Salt Lake
Has Been Captured

The robber of the Skaggs' Grocery
store at Salt Lake City few days
ago, where they obtained $500 in
cash, Jean Foy, twenty-five years of
age has been captured and has con-
fessed his crime. Foy has served a
term in the penitentiary in Wyom-
ing and has been out for three years,
during that time he married and his
wife and child were in the court
room when he was sentenced. He
had been working as an electrician
and said that he had gone straight
from the time he was released from
the Wyoming penitentiary until he
committed this robbery. He said
he did 1t to get funds to support his
wife and child.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
Marines are Placed
on Mail Cars to
Prevent Robberies

There have been so many mail
robberies recently that the post
master general made arrangements
to have two marines placed on every
mail car in the United States, heavily
armed and instructed to shoot to kill
II anybody attempted to rob the mail.
One man is stationed in each end of
the car or on each side of the door.
The theory of the postal department
that any train robber may kill either
marine, but that the other marine
will kill one''or more of the robbers.
Since these precautions were taken
there has been q cessation Of mail
robbery.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
.ELKS WILL HOLD
. MEMORIAL SERVICE
Public Invited to Attend
Program Next
I. Sunday

Memorial services of the B. p. 0.
Elks Lodge No. 1416 will be held
Sunday afternoon at o'clock in the
tabernacle according to arrange
ments made by the committee in
charge.
Jesse Hawley of Boise lodge will
give the memorial address.
The members of the lodge will
will proceed from there to the taber-
nacle in a body. This is the first
Elks memorial to be held in Black
foot and it is hoped that all men,
bers will make every possible effort
to be present.
The public is also invited to at
tend these services and 1t will be an
occasion not soon forgotten. On this
day all the lodges thruout the
country honor their departed broth
ers and fitting program has been
prepared by Lodge No. 1416.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
HOME BANKER
TELLS OF TIMES
AFTER CIVIL WAR
Eight Years of Hard
Times is Followed
by Panic
of '73
DON'T GIVE UP
All of Us Must Learn
to Live Within
Our Means

Mr.. Younie, the Blackfoot banker
and capitalist, In speaking of cOndi-
tions confronting the country today,
said that while times seem hard they
are nothing in comparison with the
hard times they saw in Iowa follow
ing the Civil war. He says it con-
tinued to get worse then for eight
years until the panic of 1875 and
then an improvement commenced.
Mr.. Younie believes that no particu-
lar event In history can be taken as
a measure by which to Judge other
events, because they are modified by
so many different hings. He says
that business may recover following
the World War very much sooner in
our prosperous country than 1t cid
following the Civil war. He says
that If the grasshoppers had swept
the Snake river valley last summer
and destroyed all the crops, that our
condition this fall and winter would
be just about what their condition
was in Iowa one of the years follow
ing the Civil war. He said that be-
tween grasshoppers and prairie fires
the country was pretty we'll cleaned
up, people used up their resources
and had no income.
Their principal diet for a long
time was corn bread and sorghum,
no butter, no meat, no fruit, nor any
of the things that we regard as COM
mon necessities now. Nobody was
able to give them employment in any
considerable amount to help anyone
else, and when man got little
money it was considered quite neces-
sary to save 1t to pay taxes or some
thing that was absolutely essential.
He said he remembered getting some
work and a little money and buying
some side meat, and they regarded
1t as a very great luxury. On one
occasion when a prairie fire swept
thru their country here was small
tract that the fire failed to burn off
and the prairie chickens coming in
the spring made their nests in that
grass, because all the country around
was barren. During the nesting
period they had plenty Of fresh eggs
until prairie fire got into that patch
and swept it clean, leaving piles of
eggs wherever the nests had been.
They went out with buckets and
gathered up all the fresh eggs they
could use, and had eggs in every way
that they could think of preparing
them to break the monotony of the
feast of eggs. Mr.. Younie says there
are millions of dollars worth Of pro-
ducts in the Snake river valley for
which moderate price can be OBJ
tanned during the coming winter and
spring, and it is up to the people to
make the very best use they can of
their resources and to cut out all
forms of extravaganza. He says we
need not regret that! we have been
living beyond our means, but merely
get back again as soon as possible
to the simple life in a degree that is
in keeping with our income and our
means and our ability to pay our
taxes and as much Of our debts as we
can, nd never give up.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
FARM BUREAU WILL
issue NEWS LETTER
Instructions Given for
Potato Seed
Selection

The things of greatest interest to
the farmers of this community are
contained in a news letter now issued
monthly by the farm bureau in the
place Of the Farm Bureau News,
which has been discontinued in this
county.
In the first issue of this letter the
work being done to improve the
potato seed in the county comes II
for considerable discussion. The
Letter tells Of the use of seed plots
and the care that should be takec
Of the crop during the growing sea-
son, then of the hill selecting pro-
cess, which removes the inferior and
diseased plants from the yield.
The letter states, ut is our plan
to get the best seed available and
after dipping in corrosive sublimate,
plan on ground broken from alfalfa.
BY careful roguing or pulling out
diseased and weak vines during the
summer quality of high yielding
and disease free seed is produceds
Since the seed cutting from the po-
tato does ont represent the potato,
but the hill from which 1t comes, you
should select the best hills in your
plot for a similar seed plot the fol-
lowing year. This is the way to
build up your potatoes. If you have
good seed use part Of your own stock
for your seed plot, but try small
amount of seed from better field
with your own. The potatoes prov
ing to be the better should be pro-
pagated."
The farmers desiring to start a
seed plot and who wish to procure
the best seed in the county are d.
rected to get their seed from one of
the following who have seed eligible
for certiflcation: Eric Sundquist,
r.. F. d. No. /; J. H. Nelson, r. F.. D.
No. 1, Shelley; Amos Kelsey, Shell
ley; L. L.. Christensen, Shelley;
Roy Young, Shelley; Mark Shawver,
Blackfoot, r. F. D. No. Q: Karl Hun
ecker, Blackfot, r. f. D. No. 1 and
Farley Price,, Blackfoot. r. F. D.
No. 8. These men have total of
$500 sacks Of Rurais for sale and
H. J. Mcbride of Shelley R. F. D. No.
2 has 600 sacks of Russets for sale.
Besides these there are about twenty
others in the county who have seed
that is recommended. but who have
not had them certified yet.
The potato growers are again
warned that the crop that is held
over the winter for the spring mar
ket must draw 25 per cent more on
the market price in order to break
even on account of the shrinkage,
frost and rehandling.
Other subjects discussed in the
letter are dairying, extension schools,
community meetings, state seed
show and the mailing list of the
farm bureau.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
Meeting Endorses
Srnith-McNary Bill
and the Conference

The meeting of the Western States
Reclamation association has been
held at Salt Lake City and adjourned
Wednesday. The convention en-
dorsed the Smith-McNary bill appro-
priating lands for western reclama-
tion and for the drainage Of south
ern swamps, endorsed the action Of
the president in bringing together
the conference Of nations at the
peace convention, endorsed the
cause Of the ex-serviee men. in be-
ing given advantage IN nling lon
public lands, and reelected, p. sW.
Davis Of Idaho. president and Frank
Brown, secretary to the governor
was elected as secretary for the
reclamation association.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
JAPAN'S DECISION
IS NOW ANNOUNCED
Wants Greater Naval
Tonnage Than Plan
Provides

The representatives of Japan In
the peace conference at Washington
have announced their decision that 1t
will be necessary for them to have
$4,000 tons of fighting strength
in their navy, this being an addition
of $4,000 tons on the Hughes plan.
They speak Of 1t as the 1O-10-5 ratio
instead of the 5-5-3 ratio.
1t is said that they make a very
good argument in support Of their
claim and in making their case, but
that it is not at all likely that it will
be accepted as there is dispOsi-
tion to stand firm on the Hughes
plan. However, their proposition
will be considered, it has been re-
ferred to the experts for their OBJ
servation and will be referred back
to the committee and probably to
the conference of the whole.
One of the problems in the evacua-
tion of China by the French, English
and Japanese nations is the poor
postal service heretofore furnished
by the Chinese, but an agreement
has been reached by which these ma
tions shall gradually retire their own
postal service and help to develop
the Chinese service into efficiency,
and in the course of the year 1922
retire from the field leaving the
Chinese system in operation to
handle all the business by the first
of January, 1923. One of the OBJ
jections that China makes to the
foreign postal service is that it is q
means of conducting opium into
their country and they have no con-
troll and no opportunity to stop 1t.
One Of the requests made by the
Japanese delegation is that the
armed fortresses In the Pacific shall
be dismantled or that no further
armaments shall be built. They sug-
gested that the United States should
dismantle or quit developing the
fortresses In Hawaii, the Philippines.
and the island Of Guam, while Japan
could do likewise I'm the several
islands where they have fcftihea-
tions. t@t-
rs
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
new RECI LATDDN ]. 4
BILL PRESENTED
Will Act as Substitute
for Smith-McNary
Bill

POCATELLO, Idaho.-The Idaho
Reclamation association has received
a communication from Congressman
Addison T. Smith, enclosing copy
of bill introduced by FIR. Smith a. a
substitute for the McNary Smith
reclamation bill.
The new measure, which has been
introduced in the senate by Senator
McNary, follows the lines of the
original measure, but extends the
provision to reclamation Of swamp
lands in orde, to secure support Of
southern senators, as surmised.
The belief is expressed that the
southern senators and representa-
tives will unite in support of this
new bill, and the Idaho association
also has assurances Of additional
support in industrial centers in the
east.
A new feature has been added
which provides for relieving ex-
service men from paying any interest
on the costs of reclaiming lands as
we'll as giving them preference right
of entry and employment. The in
dications are that the American
Legion will stand squarely behind
this measure as 1t has for all recla-
'mation bills; that the American
Federation of Labor and numerous
other organizations interested in
making more homes for the people
and relieving the congestion of pop
ulatinn in the larger cities will con-
tiRue their. sctiye support
This new measure proaides for
foEty-ysaE bond fsaus form approved
districts to- cover the costs OF pro-
jects, which bonklBrshsll be- dep0sited
with the federal farm loAn board for
disposal in small denominations. n
The bill provides that mot to ex-
ceed $30,000,000 shall be placed in
Continued on page hve
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-12-01
Music Section of
4 Current Event Club
Gives Fine Program

The music section of the Current
Events club had their meeting on
Monday afternoon, Nov. 20, at 3
o'clock. They took up the study OF
the two operas, "Tales of Hoffman
by Offenbach, and Mime. Butterfly
by Puccinni. The program was as
follows:
Story of the "Tales of Hoffman,
New-York tribune., 1921-03-14

through Venezuela via Lake Maracaibe
and the Catatumbo River.
The following companies have mani.
tested an interest in the petroleum re.
sources Of Colombia, either by acouisi.
tion Of property through purchase
lease or concession, by exploration o,
by resident observations:
prudential Oil Company. Gulf Oh
and Transport Company, Sinclair OF
Company, Island Oil and rransporta.
ton Company, Standard Oil Company
Union on Company of California, At.
lantic Oh Company, Martinez Oil Com.
pany, Cartagena Oil Refining Company
Iolima Oil and Refining Company
Tropical Oil Company, Colombian Pc.
troleum Company, Ca1ib Syndicate, St
Clair Oil Company, Aaronson interests
of Oklahoma, Three Seas Petroleum
Company the Kelly interests), Atlantic
Gulf and West Indies Company. Trans
continental Oil Company (the Bcnedum-
Trees interests), Leonard Exploration
Emerald Oh Company. Guffy- Gillespie
on Company, West India Oil Company
Of Texas. Antioquia Petroleum Com
pany, Magdalena River and Coast Oil
Company, Midco Company Of Tulsa
Marland Refining Company, National
Petroleum Company composed OF
prominent Colombian citizens) and the
Bradford Colombia on Company.
British companies: Balfour-Wil
liams Company CLtd.), Colombian Min
ing and Exploration Company (Ltd.)
Lobitos Oil Company (Ltd.) Of Peru
Royal Dutch Shell, Anglo Persian
lL1d:). the Alvez financial group Of
London and the jerks financial inter
ests Of London"