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...disappearance of two planters near Mer Rouge, La. Working like a detective, he soon suspected that the men had been liquidated by the Ku Klux Klan. He bearded the local Exalted Cyclops, got from him the admission that this theory was right. Reporter Rogers traced the missing planters to Bayou La Fourche. Dynamiting brought the men's bodies swirling to the surface while Rogers and National Guardsmen stood...
...most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still got next to nowhere. At last Engineer Abbot Atwood Lane of Gulf Oil Corp. thought up a contraption combining the best features of automobiles, tractors and boats. Last week, along the Bayou Lafourche, gauping Cajuns watched Engineer Lane's "Marsh Buggy" trundle across quaking fens, swish through deep water, climb over bushes and hummocks...
Among Mayflower's "hazardous ventures" was to put up $300,000 to further the seismic explorations of F. Julius Fohs, an oil geologist. Eventually Geologist Fohs discovered the English Bayou Oil Pool in Louisiana and Mayflower stock-holders received stock in Fohs Oil Co. now worth $2,500,000. Another venture was a $4,000,000 investment in Rhodesian copper properties, a commitment which was long thought to have been fabulously profitable. Actually, Mayflower lost...
...bottomlands in bayou country, in cultivated groves across the southern U. S. last week began the harvest of what promises to be the shortest pecan* crop in more than a decade. Government estimates for the new crop are 33,330,000 Ib. compared with a bumper yield of 95,340,000 Ib. in 1935. Not one cent will be earned by the Texas nut grove of the most eminent U. S. pecan grower, John Nance Garner. Just before he broadcast his only campaign speech from his home in Uvalde, the Vice President let it be known that his pecans were...
...that most settlers began scrambling pell-mell to the north in the famed "Runaway Scrape," But the blood of 800 of them was up now, and when Sam Houston yelled, "Remember the Alamo!" they rallied to him. Outside the present city of Houston, near where Buffalo Bayou meets the San Jacinto River, they took Santa Anna's army of 1,600 by surprise one afternoon in April. In 20 minutes Sam Houston killed nearly half the Mexicans, captured the rest, including Santa Anna, lost only nine of his own men. In September the Hero of San Jacinto was elected...