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NAMPA NATIONAL CLOSES MONDAY Big Bank Fails to Open Doors; Deposits Heavy Nampa.-The First National bank closed its doors Monday morning, with Foster R. Lamb, federal bank examiner, of Salt Lake, in charge. The institution is among the largest in Canyon county, having deposits slightly in exces sof $1,000,000 and total assets of more than a million and a half. Reports that the bank was wobbly were freely circulated around town Saturday afternoon. Vaults were sealed Sunday but the notice that the bank would not open was not posted until Monday morning. At 10 o'clock Monday morning. 300 Nampa citizens, depositors in the closed institution, crowded around the building endeavoring to learn reasons for the closing. Until a late hour Monday afternoon no statement had been made by any of the bank officials and no specific reason had been made public for the bank's failure to open Monday morning. Reports were current on the streets of Nampa that the institution would be re-opened in the near future. They could not be verified. Following the failure of the First National to open its doors Monday 1 morning a small run was made on the Nampa National. It was only a flurry, however, and the excitement soon passed without heavy withdrawals. The Stockman's National a third 1 Nampa institution, suffered little from withdrawals. W. E. Miller is president of the First National, A. J. Grosscup is vicepresident and Gertrude Miller cashier. The institution is housed in one of the finest bank buildings in Idaho, a modern structure of gray stone that was erected three years ago when the First National and the old Farmers and Merchants National were consolidated. (