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RISE IN WHEAT MAKES CLOSED BANK SOLVENT Currency Comptroller Suspends Assessment Of TWIN FALLS, Idaho, May (AP) comptroller of the currency has postponed, perhaps indefinitely, an order calling pay. ment next May 19 of 100 per cent assessment on the $25,008 stock of the Security National bank of Fairfield, Idaho, which, it is asserted, has been made solvent as result of increasing price of wheat since the Fairfield bank mended the assessment last Feb. Word of the comptroller's action. which is believed to set new precedent, came in a telegram today from United States Senator James P. Pope to Chapman and Chap. man, Twin Falls, attorneys for the Fairfield bank stockholders. It is the stockholders' purpose. the attorneys stated. to take and liquidate the bank's affairs. of there are 78 are Camas Prairie men and farmers. Many of them ac. quired bank stock in reorganiza. tion after the bank closed the first time about two years ago. The bank remained open only about 90 days after reorganization and then about 18 months ago was placed in charge of L. Bracken, former assistant Idaho state treasurer, as receiver. Stockholders through their attorneys enlisted assistance of all members of Idaho's delegation in urging the compirole ler of the currency the order for the assessment of stock. holders.
