Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 172, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1931 — Page 17
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Frederick Lewis Allen
In “Only Yesterday,” Frederick Lewis Allen has written an Informal history of the Nineteen Twenties from the Armistice of 1918 to the stock market panic of 1929. He has been on the editorial staff of Harpers magazine for eight years. It will be published by Harper and Brothers on Dec. 1. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN DON’T care if you are as old as the hills or as young as a tfresh bottle of milk, I want you fco meet Sandy, who “was a funny little old tin soldier” and “he was the littlest and oldest and funniest in Billy Brdwn’s tin-soldier army.” And how did he look? Will let J. Hal Connor, author of “Sandy—The Tin Soldier of the A. E. F.” just published by Laidlaw Brothers, Chicago. The author writes: “Sandy had a fred dusty spot on the very top of his head. That was why Billy Brown named him Sandy.” And you are going to relish the (exploits of Sandy when he is missing from one of Billy’s roll calls, generally held just before Billy went to bed at night. And Sandy, like all human beings, had a grudge against one guy, at least. In this case it was the Drum Major, who “alwajte was making fun of the other tin soldiers,” because he wore guady clothes and a “beautiful white plumed hat.” But in trying to get his revenge bn the Drum Major, Sandy nearly met death in the crack of a door but was rescued by Johnny Mouse. And he does get revenge. He poured glue over the Drum Major’s feet. “Sandy” is one of the most delightful books for modern children I have ever read. The pictures by Kurt Wiese makes it a book that Should be in every home where there are children. tt tt u Want to start a good book today? That is an answer in a way to a letter written me this week. “Please, name one book a week that you liked especially.” This week it is “The Unknown War,” by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. Probably the best account of the war on the Eastern Front that we have. Published by Charles Schribner’s Sons. u a tt Brentano’s in New York reports the best six sellers in non-fiction are: “Maid In Waiting,” by John Galsworthy; “Sparks Fly Upward,” by Oliver La Fargo; “American Beauty,” by Edna Ferber; “Promiscuous,” by Dora Macy; “The Waves,” by Virginia Woolf; and “Two People,” by A. A. Milne. a a tt THE winning book review this week was written by Miss Janet Baker of 31 North Denny street who reviewed “Shadows on the Rock” by Willa Cather. Her winning review is as follows: Old Quebec, a city built on a rock on the great St. Lawrence, is the setting for Willa Cather's latest novel, Shadows On The Rock. The story takes place in the seventeenth century during the last years of Frontenac’s life at the Chateau. Ships came only once a year bringing supplies, a few luxuries. and the long waited for news of the Court. From these provisions. Euclide Auclair, the Apothecary, tried to maintain a semblance of the old life in France for his daughter Cecile. The lives of these brave citizens from the drummer boy. Oioigio, to the Count himself are presented to us. and we may read of their sacrifloss during the founding of that grand old city. A bit of drama will be remembered as seeming to break the quiet and peaceful tone of the book. This story presents a truly great picture of a fearless people. When Miss Baker gets in touch with this department, she will have her choice of one of several good books. Write your book review and send it to the Literary Editor of The Times. Keep it around 150 words. Be sure and state why you liked or did not like it. One good book is being given away weekly to the winner.
Dr. Oliver, author of “Victim and Victor,” says that in writing "Article ’jjhirty-Two,” (s2.so)—his novel of a “clerical family”—he has tried to portray his fellow clergy not as he sees and loves them, but as they might appear to an impartial critic who, although he may tolerate them, does not love them at all. George and Miriam Stanley, each brought up in a clergyman’s home, resolve, when they marry, to be free of the “whole clerical show.” The story shows what happened to them and their resolution. The title refers to one of the famous “Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion” of the Church of England the article relating to the marriage of priests. Six of Family 111 By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Nov. 27. Wayne Buckles, his wife and four children are ill with diphtheria at their home here.
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UNITED WORLD FINALLY BARS JAPAN'S GRAB U. S. Gets Back of League of Nations' Efforts to Avert War. NIPPONESE ARE ON SPOT They’re Too Poor to Afford Rule of Might, Says Diplomat. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Blunt speech on the part of the United States and the League of Nations at last has brought the Manchurian conflict to a head. Unless hostilities cease forthwith, the writer was informed, the exasperated powers will pin the blame on the nation that refuses to listen to reason, and further sterner measures then will be in ord3r. The dangerous misunderstanding with regard to the attitude of the United States has been cleared away. Secretary Stimson here and Ambassador Dawes in Paris, have made it clear that this country stands with the league in its effort .to avert further bloodshed. Previously, according to reports, the military faction in Japan had been counting upon a split; and although there still is no indication of just how far the United States or the league will go in the way of pressure, the Japanese war party now is aware that world opinion is united against conquest. Japan at Crossroads Today, therefore, Japan is at the crossroads. With full knowledge of what the cost of further aggression would be, she either must defy the world and be isolated, or else curb her general staff which now is in control. Japan’s future as a world power, in the opinion of a high-placed diplomat here, now depends upon her “failure” in Manchuria, rather than upon her “success.” If she succeeds in overriding world opinion in her Manchurian 'adventure, he stated, it would mean a return to the rule of might instead of right in the world, and Japan, the poorest of the great powers, could not long afford the expense. Isolated and ostracised in a hostile world, she not only would pauperize herself in trying to keep up a huge army and navy, but her foreign trade inevitably would suffer, bringing further impoverishment. Reds Making Headway Communism, admittedly, already is making headway in Japan and only a swing away from absolute militarism in the direction of liberalism and democracy can stop the red advance. Isolation and industrial stagnation as a result of being cold-shouldered by the rest of the world, it was stated, immeasureably would hasten the process. Success with her Manchurian grab, furthermore would hasten the day when a unified China would fight to get back her Alsace-Lor-raine. Russia, likewise, would demand an accounting one day. If Japan gets away with Manchuria, therefore, my informant concluded, it would be the beginning, rather than the end, of her troubles, and before she was through with them, she probably would find herself reduced to the position of a fourth class power. On the other hand, success for the League of Nations, the United States and world peace would spell success for the liberal element in Japan in whose hands the real future of the country, as a great power, really rests. BOWERS TO BE SPEAKER Historian, Former Indiana Man, to Address Pioneers’ Session. Claude G. Bowers, popular historian and former Ft. Waynq newspaper man, will be the principal speaker at the Society of Indiana Pioneers’ annual dinner at the Claypool, Dec. 12. The dinner marks the close of the thirteenth annual Indiana history conference, to be held here Dec. 11 and 12. The meetings are sponsored jointly by the Pioneers, Indiana Historical Society and the state historical bureau, which is in charge of C. B. Coleman. All sessions are open to the public. Women on Jury COVINGTON, Ind., Nov. . 27. Names of four women have been drawn for jury duty in a criminal case being heard here. It is the first time in the history of Fountain county that women have been called. The women are, Miss Verna Glascock and Mrs. Quentin Wert, school teachers; Miss Margaret McMahon. business secretary, and Mrs. Bert Shall, house wife.
Walker Pleads for Mooney
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Here is New York City’s Mayor James J. Walker (center) as he was greeted in San Francisco by Mayor Angelo Rossi (left) and Governor James Rolph Jr. (right) of California when he arrived to make a personal plea to the Governor for the release of Tom Mooney, who was sent to prison in 1916 following conviction in O connection with day bombing.
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‘Call Veterans Bums? I Didn’t!’ Says Dr. Wilson
II y United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 27.—Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the board of temperance, prohibition and public morals of the Methodist Episcopal church, issued a statement today declaring he had never referred to American Legionnaires as “bums,” "hoodlums," or “imps of hell.” He also said it had never been his opinion that “American Legion conventions are planned ahead of time as drunken orgies.” “When the American Legion con-
Father at 80 — He’s Magician
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Charles Andress, 80-year-old former circus magician; his 27-year-old wife and their baby are shown above. Andress says he is the “proudest daddy” in the world. The couple were married Nov. 9, 1930, after Andress had retired from circus life, and they live in Great Bend. Kan.
SHORTER DAYS INCREASE JOBS 30 Per Cent More Men at Work in Muncie Plant. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Announcement that a plan has been put into effect giving 30 per cent more men employment in the Muncie Products plant, a division of General Motors Corporation, was noted in a survey of Indiana business and industry for the week ended today. The plan is now in effect in the machine shop department, but will be extended to the heat treating department next week. Seven-hour shifts are in effect instead of having the same force employed nine or ten hours daily. John G. Wood, general manager, announces plant operations are near half capacity, but by Dec. 15 will be 65 per cent of normal. Improvement in the South Bend industrial situation includes addition of 750 men to the pay rull in a week, bringing the total to approximately 10,000. Before the end of December, it is expected the force will be 13,000. Superintendent D. McWorkman of the Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc., reports some additions to the working force at the Greenwood plant, and believes the year of 1932 will be the largest in the company’s history. Made work continues to thin the ranks of the unemployed in Indiana. At Elkhart, 125 men were given work on city projects. They will be paid from a $25,000 appropriation. A force of 200 men is being employed by the city of Anderson. BUS DRIVERS COMPLAIN School Contracts Unprofitable Due to Low Bids. By Times Special GOSHEN, Ind., Nov. 27.—Half of the school bus drivers of Elkhart county are dissatisfied with conditions created by an act of the 1931 Indiana legislature, it was revealed at a meeting of drivers here. Depression in business is among factors responsible for the situation. Owing to the large number of unemployed men, very low bids were necessary to obtain bus contracts, it was pointed out, and as a result drivers are making little profit. Prior to the 1931 law, drivers were paid on a wage basis. Father Slaying Charged By United Press SULLIVAN, Ind., Nov. 27.—Leslie Lamb, 23, who police said confessed to stabbing his father to death with a pocket knife, has been indicted by the Sullivan county grand jury on a first degree murder charge. He was ordered held without bond. Date of his trial has not yet been set. Golden Day Passes By Times Special DARLINGTON, Ind., Nov. 27. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Welliver have entered upon the fifty-first year of their married life.
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1931
vention in Detroit passed a resolution which generally was interpreted as ‘wet,’ although the newly elected commandc , Mr. Stevens, says that this is a mistaken interpretation, I made certain comment which was in accordance vith the text of a carefully prepared statement,” Dr. Wilson’s statement said. “Subsequent to publication of this comment, I was approached by reporters for a western newspaper who asked for a special interview. Being in a hurry to reach an engagement, I explained that I could
OUT FOR THE JACK
Belle Livingston Invades Bagdad ’
BY TOM MAHONEY United Press Staff Correspondent DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 27.—8e11e Livingston, saffron-tressed queen of night clubs in New York, Paris and Reno, today muscled in on Tex Guinan’s home territory to play Scheherazade to oil millionaires in an Arabian nights setting. Her field will be the gold and mosaic “Bagdad”—sl2s,ooo night club built two years ago midway between Dallas and Fort Worth. “I’m not mad at Reno,” she hastened to explain. “I got a thrill out of seeing my name in electric lights over a cow barn there. “It’s a great place, but when they began to cut the show, cut the liquor and cut up aces at every opportunity, I thought I’d better cut and run. ,
FRAUD SUSPECT DIES Sportsman Was in Prison Pending Appeal Ruling. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—James A. Connelly, St. Paul sportsman, died Thursday night in the federal house of detention of acute indigestion. He was in the detention house on his own motion pending decision of his appeal, heard Nov. 16, from a ten years’ sentence after conviction of a charge of using the mails to defraud. Connelly dined well of a Thanksgiving dinner composed of baked ham and other delicacies, prison officials said. About 9 p. m. he became ill of indigestion and died a few hours later. He was convicted in federal court here in the spring of aiding in disposition of about $2,000,000, proved to have been obtained in a number of mid-western bank roberies. cops get "Teletypes Machines Are Installed at State Police Offices. New teletype machines are being installed at state police headquarters at the statehouse and at headquarters of the various lieutenants throughout the state, it was announced today by Chief Grover C Garrott. The machines are installed by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company with payment only for use, he explained. The company expects to link all important Indiana city police headquarters with the system, which permits typing messages direct throughout the circuit. Installation of the machines was recommended by the state crime commission.' MOTHER HURT IN FALL Topples Down Stairs With Baby in Arms; Infant Unhurt. Falling down a stairway in her home with her 9-months-old baby in her arms, Mrs. Jeanette Waterbury, 31, of 1258 West Washington street, was injured, but the baby was unhurt. Mrs. Waterbury told police she was carrying her child from an upstairs room. At the top of the stairway, her foot slipped, and she plunged hear-first down the steps. She said she held the baby tightly in her arms. Her fall was halted w T hen her head struck a door casing at the bottom. She sustained a severe scalp laceration.
give no interview and referred once again to the prepared statement. “I was astonished to see certain statements attributed to me on the basis of that brief conversation which included the use of terms for which I am unable to assume responsibility. “These terms have been used in a way which clearly indicates a purpose to arouse prejudice against the cause of prohibition, against the church of which I am a minister, and,, in a sense, all Evangelical churches.
“So I backed up the vans, left a few black pillows in the stanchions, tied a bunch of crepe on the door, and came to Dallas. “Everybody ought to go to Reno just for the sights. The girls hop from one five-gallon hat to the other there and there are hills of discarded wedding rings. They have altitude in Reno. If you drink too much, get married too much, or riot too much, you can blame it on the altitude. tt tt “TF they ever settle the scrap be1. tween the cowpunchers and the sheepherders, I may go back.” Belle confided that her present invasion is not the first Texas chapter in “With Livingston Through Darkest America.” She recalled appearing here and at Paris, Tex., a few years after her birth in Emporia, Kan. They weren’t using electric lights on Texas stages then. “I was small, but it was a big part,” she recalled. “I shooed an elephant on the stage.” tt t it THE Scheherazade who married the Caliph worried about her head. Belle will not. She will be concerned only with the crania of Texas wealthy from oil, cotton, cattle, roulette or poultry. Belle is not particular. To assist her in the task will be a troupe of girls coming from New Orleans. “Maybe they’ll wear a bangle,” she promised. “I really want to go over down there is Tex’ country. We call each other ‘darling’ in letters. You know how women like each other when they do that.” Bagdad is just down the highway from the idle $1,000,000 Waggoner race track. Though the night club claims to be the most ornately furnished in America, it has enjoyed only indifferent success since its construction by Wylie Day in 1929. The present impresario is Paul Streeter, formerly manager of the Submarine and other clubs in Chicago. SANITARY SESSION SET Dr. King, State Chief, to Preside at Duluth Conference. Dr. William F. King, state health director, will preside at the Great Lakes sanitary district conference at Duluth, Minn., Dec. 7 ana 8, it was announced at the health department today. King is conference president. The meeting will be preceded by a conference on the Ohio river district to be held at Louisville, Dec. 4 and 5. Lewis Finch, chief sanitary engineer in King’s department, will represent Indiana at Louisville. A. E. Wirt, head of the housing division, will attend the President’s home ownership conference at Washington Dec. 2 and 5, King said. SEYFORT RITES SET Funeral to Be Held Saturday for Painting Contractor. Funeral services for Louis Seyfort, 68, painting contractor, who died of a heart attack Wednesday, will be held at the home, 1526 Park avenue, at 2 Saturday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Seyfort, a member of the Master Painters’ Association, was born in Worthington, Ind., and had lived here forty years. ' City’s Offer Spurned By Times Special MT. VERNON. Ind., Nov. 27. The Mt. Vernon Water Works Company has notified city officials of unwillingness to accept an offer for purchase. The offer was made as a preliminary step toward municipal operation.
“It becomes necessary, therefore, for me to say specifically that at no time have I referred to legionnaires as ‘bums,’ ‘hoodlums, ’imps of hell,’ nor has it ever been my opinion that ‘American Legion conventions are planned ahead of time as drunken orgies.’ “The statement of my opinion, prepared in manuscript and released at the time, is the only statement for which I assume responsibility and it is a correct report of my opinion at present.”
EMPLOYMENT FIGURES STIR LABORS HOPE Rate of Job Loss Lower Than for November of Other Years. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. A bright spot appeared today in the depression outlook, with announcement by the American Federation of Labor that the rate of unemployment was checked during November, and was seasonably lower than even in the most prosperous years. Total increase in unemployment by the first part of November was less than expected by about 200,000 persons, although the actual number of unemployed in industry was brought to anew high level, William Green, president of the federation, said. The October-early November period was the first since last February in which the rate of unemployment increase was not more than normal, Green pointed out. Rise is Checked “Thus for two months in succession,” Green said, “it appears that the abnormal rise of unemployment has been checked.” He estimated the total unemployed union members at 20 per cent. “The check in the rate of increase may be due largely to efforts to keep men at work,” he said. “Although this brightens the future outlook a little, it does not after the fact that the present employment crisis will far exceed any we have experienced in this or any other depression in years.” Millions Are Jobless “Already there are 6,000,000 out of work. Unemployment in industry increase by 120,000 last month, and 300,000 were laid off on farms. (The usual November layoff is 480,000). The federation head estimated, if unemployment increases as much in the next two months as it did in 1928 and 1929, that 800,000 to 1,000,000 will be laid off from farms and industries in December and from 500,000 to 700,000 in January. CONVICT WINS LIBERTY Prison Doors Opened After Court Corrects Sentence. By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. 27. —George R. Frazer, convicted at Marion of automobile banditry, has been ordered released from the Indiana state prison by Judge Harry L. Crumpacker of La Porte superior court. Through error, Frazer was sentenced to a ten-to-twenty-five-year term. A month ago the trial court, Circuit Judge O. D. Clawson corrected the sentence to a straight ten-year term. Credit earned by good behavior made Frazer eligible for release Sept. 12. Upon this showing Judge Crumpacker granted him liberty. Closed Bank Pays By Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., Nov. 27.—A dividend of 10 per cent, the first declared by the closed Citizens Trust and Savings bank, is being paid. It totals $25,000. Idle Veterans to Sell By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 27.—Unemployed war veterans will be given work selling holly wreaths and Christmas trees.
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“This is war!” . . . Realization of the grim fact is written upon the faces of these Japanese soldiers pictured above as they surrounded a wounded comrade after an engagement with Chinese troops in the Nonni river district in northern Manuchuria.
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Aw, Boloney By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 27.—This Thanksgiving business is just a “lot of boloney” to Ernest Leib. Leib was released from jail alter a sixty-day term Thanksgiving day and went home to eat a turkey dinner. Before the meal was served, he was arrested on another charge and confined to jail again. He dined on bologna and bread.
AGKERMANN IS OUSTERTARGET South Bend Mayor Demands Controller Resign. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 27. Mayor W. H. Hinkle of South Bend today formally demanded the resignation of Rudolph Ackermann as city controller. The demand was made in a letter, the text of which neither the mayor nor Ackermann would make public. The demand is expected to cause rapid developments in a Democratic political squabble which was started recently when Hinkle let it be known that he intended to oust the controller. A charge that $20,000 was paid by a gambling syndicate as the price for protection of operations here, is a part of the strife. Frank Nevins, St. Joseph county clerk, is said to have offered to go before a grand jury and “lay the cards on the table” regarding the purported bribe. Prosecutor Samuel P. Schwartz announced a few days ago that if preliminary inquiry warranted he would call a special session of the grand Jury. He still was undecided on the session today. However, it is £iid Mayor William Krau, Democratic mayor of Elkhart, who this week referred to the bribe story while attending a state Democratic meeting in Indianapolis, “backed down” to the extent of saying he had only hearsay evidence. $227 IS ROBBERY LOOT Cash, Bank Books Taken at Residence; Caps, Gloves at Store. Five burglaries in which thieves obtained loot valued at $227, were being investigated today by police. Ransacking the home of Mrs. Hulda Strait, 1510 North New Jersey street, Thursday night, a prowler took SIOO in cash and two bank books, police were informed. Twelve caps and ten pairs of gloves were stolen from the Harry Levinson store, 17 South Illinois Illinois street, Charles Ruhsenberger, manager, reported. A radio valued at SIOO was stolen from the home of Mrs. Charles Glenny, 2626 East Tenth street. Mother of Six Dies ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 27.—Mrs. Hannah Isabelle Marshall, 83, resident of Anderson for half a century, is dead. She was born in Washington, Ind. She leaves four daughters and two sons.
TEACHER LAW IS RULED VOID BYMDGE State’s Tenure Statute Is Unconstitutional, Says Williams’ Verdict. APPEAL WILL BE MADE Bill of Rights Violated by Act, Decision of Jurist. Indiana’s teacher tenure law, which provides permanent employment for instructors after five years’ service unless they are discharged for cause, was held unconstitutional today by Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams. Ruling in the suit of Mrs. Avenell Howk, former teacher at School 41, who seeks reinstatement under the tenure law after her discharge in June, Williams ruled “the tenure statute in unconstitutional and void.” Fred Barrett, attorney for the teacher, said the court’s ruling gave school boards the power to discharge instructors without heeding the state law. He will appeal the case. Under the law, if a teacher holds a post in a school corporation for five consecutive years, the instructor becomes a permanent teacher of the corporation and the contract continues “in effect” unless succeeded by another contractual agreement with the school board. Held Violation of Bill Williams held the law violates the bill of rights by classifying the teachers. “This statute is designed to so tie the hands of the educational authorities that the young university graduate with teacher training will have the door of opportunity closed in his face merely because the legislature has tried to rewrite the maxim ‘once a mortgage always a mortgage,’ and have it read ‘once a teacher always a teacher,’ ” Williams said. The court held in the Howk case that the teacher was employed under a definite contract which gives the school board power to refuse to renew it at the end of the year. He said he believed if a teacher had been employed under the tenture law, that if it were constitutional the board must give notice of discharge. Opens New Path Williams’ ruling opens the path of inexperienced teachers who, heretofore, have battled to ~ain practice in schools in various parts of the state. Williams also pointed out that after serving the five years an instructor, unable, to commence the sixth year, either because of illness or other emergency, must “begin again the laborious process of teaching five successive years for the same school corporation.” According to Mrs. Howk’s suit, her five-year period would have been effective, Aug. 31, 1930, and, under the tenure law classification, she would have “become a permanent teacher with an indefinite contract.” First Ruling Against Law However, Williams pointed out that when she was discharged in June, Mrs. Howk came under the classification of a permanent teacher with a definite contract. Attorneys said Williams’ ruling is the first in Indiana against the validity of the tenure law. Several other similar suits are pending in county courts following dismissal of teachers from Indianapolis schools last summer. In these cases, the teachers allege, they were not given notice of their dismissals and no opportunity for a hearing before the school board. SHAKAMAK PARK TO HAVE TREE NURSERY Reforesting of Strip Mine Areas to Be Main Purpose. A transplant tree nursery will be established at Shakamak state park near Jasonville, it was announced today by Richard Lieber, director of the state conservation department. The nursery will serve a double purpose. In addition to reforesting sections of the park, trees will be transplanted to land in southwestern Indiana made barren by strip mining operations. The mine land area is said to comprise 15,000 acres. Shakamak park is near the stripped area, Lieber points out, and location of a nursery there will reduce cost of transporting trees to the planting ground. BANK TRIAL DEFERRED Hammond Case May Not Be Heard Until January. By United Press RENSSELAER, Ind., Nov. 27. Trials of five officers of the defunct First Trust and Savings bank of Hammond, which were to have started here Monday with arraignment of Peter W. Meyn, bank president, probably will not open until the February term of Jasper circuit court. Sudden illness of John Underwood, chief deputy prosecutor of Lake county, prevented opening oi the case, after all was in readines#. Judge George A. Williams of Jasper circuit court, agreed to postpone the case, and later revealed that it would probably be imposible to start it at this court session. Judge Williams said that Dec. 3 would be the earliest possible trial date, and that would be too late in the sesison to open what promise# to be a long trial. Meyn is charged with overdraft# and making unauthorized loan#. The four other officers face similar charges.