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Yapping loudly at the University of Illinois for many a month have been two self-appointed watchdogs of the public purse: O. S. Hitchner of Freeport and C. O. Ellis of Grayville. Watchdogs Hitchner & Ellis sniff out academic extravagance, then send pamphlets about it to Illinois newspapers and taxpayers. Recently they pounced upon Professor Alvin Robert Cahn of the Zoology Department, told how he spent the summer of 1932 in northern Minnesota investigating a tick which infested the moose of that region. Pamphleteers Hitchner & Ellis scornfully "estimated" that "this louse hunter" spent $12,000 of Illinois money in the interests...
Died. Adrian Iselin, 3rd, 20, socialite motorcycle enthusiast; when a motorcycle he was riding at night on a race track struck a parked track scraper; in Freeport...
Died. William Thomas Gardner, 90, Civil War veteran who, lacking newsprint, printed a wallpaper account of the fall of Vicksburg (now a collector's item); after a long illness; in Freeport...
...sulphur wells. This melts the brimstone, which is then pumped out. Two companies control substantially the entire U. S. sulphur production and the price for years has been $18 per ton- no more, no less. The companies are Texas Sulphur, which accounts for two-thirds of the production, and Freeport Texas, the principal deposits of which are at present not in Texas but in Louisiana. Last week Freeport Texas completed a four-year internal reorganization. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, sportsman son of the late Payne Whitney, was made Freeport's board chairman. Jock Whitney graduated from Yale...
Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., 31, vice president & treasurer of Freeport Texas Co. (sulphur) was elected president succeeding Eugene Levering Norton who stepped up to a less active chairmanship. Last month able President Williams marketed $2,500,000 of Freeport's preferred stock through his good friend (since Harvard Business School days), Partner Albert H. Gordon of Kidder, Peabody...