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...week were on what the copper industry calls an "informal basis," the customary dodge to get around the Sherman Act. But not only were conferences informal, they were just about over. Emile Francqui, chief of the Katangans, departed for home. A. Chester Beatty, chairman of Rhodesia's important Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., said he was sailing Friday night; MM. Pisart & Gutt took passage on the Saturday sailing of the Ile de France. The conference looked like a failure. Then someone made a mysterious move and the foreigners stayed...
...order in rubbers may have to rush out and buy some Bah Lias, Gula Kalump, or Linggi, while in teas he must know Budla Beta, Chargola, Jokai, Pabbojan. The mining list includes famed De Beers Diamond Mines, the Rand (gold), Johannesburg Consolidated Investments ("Johnnies"), Rio Tinto ("The Tinto"), Roan Antelope, Katanga, Mount Isa, Siamese...
...South American producers was 3,374 tons against 4,151 a year ago and 5,376 in April 1929, stocks of copper on hand in May showed the first gain in six months, jumping 8,781 tons. Further complications will come next year when three big African mines (Roan Antelope, Rhokana and N'Kana) start production. Katanga, big Belgian Congo producer, is now working and has curtailed 10% to cooperate with the U. S. producers. But last week reports said U. S. coppermen no longer regard Katanga as a threat, would rather compete than barter with...
...Bill Roan June 18 Bryan, Tex. Shot
...above 23 listed by N. A. A. C. P., TIME recognizes 18 as lynchings. Beginning with Willie Kirkland as TIME'S sixteenth, John Willie Clark made seventeen (TIME, Oct. 13) and Bill Roan (No. 9 on above list) must be added, making 18. Bill Roan, accused of rape of a white woman, was seized and shot by what newsmen first reported as a sheriff's posse. Later investigation showed that the killers had not been legally deputized, were therefore lynchers...