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Died. Ala'idin Sulaiman Shah, 74, Sultan of Selangor, third largest of the Federated Malay States; in Klang, Selangor. Some years ago the Sultan and the British agreed that his first son was not fit to succeed him. Two years ago the Sultan journeyed to London to persuade the Colonial Office that his second son should succeed. That trip was in vain: the British insisted on his third son, Cambridge-educated Tungku Laxaman...
...last week Continental Illinois was selling at $55 and there had been several dividends paid in stock. Hercules Life was the second largest owner, with some 15,000 shares. This tempting asset has long been eyed hungrily by Amadeo Peter ("A. P.") Giannini of San Francisco, who is to the West's banking what the Rockies are to its topography. Mr. Giannini's Transamerica Corp., once the biggest bank holding company in the world, is now being transformed into an investment trust because A. P. doesn't have to wet his finger more than once...
Month and a half ago. however, a Federal grand jury brought in indictments against John W. Gilliland, president of Bell General Pipe Line Co. of Gladewater, and 24 others, most of them employes of Bell General and its subsidiaries. Bell General is considered the largest independent pipe line in the East Texas field, which indicated the Connally Act was at last to be invoked in earnest. By last week 23 of the 25 had posted bond. One of the other two was variously reported as being in Spain and the Samoa Islands...
...Chicago grain exchange. Charging that it deliberately manipulated prices and attempted to corner corn futures last September, the Chicago Board of Trade expelled from membership Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois and its three top officers. Cargill Grain of Illinois is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc., generally accepted as the largest grain elevator and merchandising enterprise in the U. S. Snapped the Board of Trade: "Today's action is final and is not subject to review by any other tribunal." But grain traders agreed last week that the event was only the first round of the best knockdown & dragout speculators...
...Catholic Church is the largest in Canada, representing 41% of the popula tion, 85% in the French-speaking Province of Quebec. Last week a vehement protest against the Padlock Law was registered by a religious minority group, the Social Service Council of Canada, in which the principal Protestant churches participate. The council called the law "dangerously vague, beyond the authority of the Province of Quebec, contrary to the fundamental rights of a British citizen, contrary to public policy in Canada and menacing to the educational rights of religious minorities...