SUGAR

[Thomas H. Purvis]

http://www.astorialic.org/starjournal/1940...2september.shtm

LONG ISLAND CITY LOSING INDUSTRY FROM WAR

Queens faces the loss of one of it major industries, with about 1,200 jobs on the line. The Long Island City National Sugar Refinery, at 2-03 55 Avenue since the turn of the century, is largest refinery in the country. The move eliminates hauling sugar from fields in Louisiana to Long Island City, a trip of 1,000 miles. This frees up the rails for transporting fuel-oil to the Atlantic seaboard. The War Production Board Efficiency Program adds to the 300,000 workers idled in the 5 boroughs.

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http://www.nakina.net/reportd.html

DMSX Dunbar Molasses & Syrup Co. 7/1923

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http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/rolling-stoc...int/96-1-Du.php

Dunbar Molasses & Syrup Co.

In 1919, indicated as a recent addition, this New Orleans, LA company listed 70 tank cars, nos. 100-169. No gallonage was indicated. They were said to be marked with the name as above and "D.M.S.X."

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Dunbar Molasses

Name: DUNBAR MOLASSES COMPANY

Type Entity: Business Corporation

Mailing Address: ', NEW ORLEANS, LA 70150

Domicile Address: ', NEW ORLEANS, LA 70150

Incorporated: 11/15/1911

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Canadian Industrial Alcohol Company v. Dunbar Molasses Company: At the end of 1927, the plaintiff contracted to buy from the defendant about 1,500,000 wine gallons of refined blackstrap molasses, about 60% sugar, of the usual run from the National Sugar Refinery, Yonkers, NY. Delivery was to begin April 1, 1928 "to be spread out during the warn weather." The refinery that year produced far less than its capacity, less than a half-million gallons. The defendant shipped its entire allotment. 344,083 gallons, to the plaintiff. The plaintiff sued for damages, but the defendant contended that its duty was conditioned by an implied term, the refinery producing enough molasses to fill the plaintiff?s order. The defendant had no contract with the refinery. If the promisor is in some way responsible for the event, which makes performance of the promise impossible, justice does not dictate that he be excused. In this case, the defendant did not contract with its supplier to ensure usual production and he must pay damages.

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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoglesby.htm

1965: An uprising in the Dominican Republic was put down with the help of 20,000 U.S. Marines. Ellsworth Bunker, the U.S. ambassador, Abe Fortas, a new Supreme Court justice and a crony of LBJ's, presidential advisors Adolf Berle, Averill Harriman and Joseph Farland were all on the payroll of organizations such as the National Sugar Refining Company, the Sucrest Company, the National Sugar Company, and the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company - all of which had holdings in the Dominican Republic that were threatened by the revolution

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http://www.gangsofamerica.com/6.html

By 1903, some 250 large corporations had emerged as dominant. Such entities as International Paper (1898), National Sugar Refining Company (1900), U.S. Steel (1901), and International Harvester (1902) were all formed in this period by merging smaller companies into large corporations

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http://www.afn.org/~vetpeace/ideology.htm

The Rockefeller interests controlled the economy of several Latin American countries, including Peru and Venezuela. Creole Petroleum Company, for example, a subsidiary of Rockefellers' then-called Standard Oil of New Jersey, accounted for more than a third of Venezuela's oil, which made up 93% of Venezuela's export earnings. Nelson's own International Basic Economic Corporation in Peru ran a sugar mill,

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Pawley, William Douglas (1896-1977) — also known as William D. Pawley — of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Fla. Born in Florence, Florence County, S.C., September 7, 1896. Republican. U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1945-46; Brazil, 1946-48; delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1964.

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Or take Ellsworth Bunker who was sent to the Dominican Republic as a "troubleshooter" in 1965 after the April US intervention. The Dominican Republic is a large sugar producer and the National Sugar Refining Company has major holdings there, the same company that used to be a major sugar producer in Cuba

US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler: I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/SUGAR-INDUSTRY-stock-c...1QQcmdZViewItem

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http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/havana/Sugar1b.htm

Another successful American on the sugar scene was James H. Post, who became not only president of the National Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey, but was director of the National City Bank of New York and also of the American Colonial Bank of Puerto Rico. Post also served as vice president of the Cuban American Sugar Company, which owned a number of sugar mills in the island. He also held other positions in the Cuban sugar industry, such as president of the New Niguero Sugar Company, president of the Guantánamo Sugar Company, director of the Chaparra Railroad Company, director of the West India Sugar Finance Corporation (which also owned 12 mills in the Dominican Republic).

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[Lee Forman]

US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler: I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916.

Hey Tom.

Butler is very interesting...wonder what his opinion would have been on events in the early 1960s. The link below to his 'War is a racket.'

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

- lee

[Thomas H. Purvis]

US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler: I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916.

Hey Tom.

Butler is very interesting...wonder what his opinion would have been on events in the early 1960s. The link below to his 'War is a racket.'

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

- lee

If provided with the facts, doubtful that he would have had much of a change in philosophy.

Personally having a cousin who did quite well during in the Vietnam "Black Market", it is not difficult to recognize the economic "good" which Vietnam gave us.

Without going into a diary for the exact date, in early/ mid-1968, after leaving Kontoum, we were moved to an area approximately 50 miles north of Saigon to hit an NVA Regimental Base Camp.

The NVA had mostly left by the time we got there, but had to leave most of their provisions behind.

Which happened to include several hundred cases of "Aid to Asia" rice which was grown right here in the good ole US of A, boxed and shipped to Vietnam to help the "people" who had once been a major rice exporting country.

The boxes of rice were stacked into piles 10 to 12 feet high, and there was the good old "shaking hands" symbol of the US on the boxes.

So, not unlike the black market which flourished for years in South Korea, Vietnam was a "money maker" for anyone who had no morals as regards getting wealthy off the death of fellow americans.

Any war is good for "business"! Just that it is also bad for the health of the young who actually have to do the fighting and are the ones to die.

I therefore feel that General Butler would not have had any great change in opinions.

Tom

Graduate: School of the America's------Panama

[Thomas H. Purvis]

http://www.astorialic.org/starjournal/1940...2september.shtm

LONG ISLAND CITY LOSING INDUSTRY FROM WAR

Queens faces the loss of one of it major industries, with about 1,200 jobs on the line. The Long Island City National Sugar Refinery, at 2-03 55 Avenue since the turn of the century, is largest refinery in the country. The move eliminates hauling sugar from fields in Louisiana to Long Island City, a trip of 1,000 miles. This frees up the rails for transporting fuel-oil to the Atlantic seaboard. The War Production Board Efficiency Program adds to the 300,000 workers idled in the 5 boroughs.

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http://www.nakina.net/reportd.html

DMSX Dunbar Molasses & Syrup Co. 7/1923

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http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/rolling-stoc...int/96-1-Du.php

Dunbar Molasses & Syrup Co.

In 1919, indicated as a recent addition, this New Orleans, LA company listed 70 tank cars, nos. 100-169. No gallonage was indicated. They were said to be marked with the name as above and "D.M.S.X."

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Dunbar Molasses

Name: DUNBAR MOLASSES COMPANY

Type Entity: Business Corporation

Mailing Address: ', NEW ORLEANS, LA 70150

Domicile Address: ', NEW ORLEANS, LA 70150

Incorporated: 11/15/1911

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Canadian Industrial Alcohol Company v. Dunbar Molasses Company: At the end of 1927, the plaintiff contracted to buy from the defendant about 1,500,000 wine gallons of refined blackstrap molasses, about 60% sugar, of the usual run from the National Sugar Refinery, Yonkers, NY. Delivery was to begin April 1, 1928 "to be spread out during the warn weather." The refinery that year produced far less than its capacity, less than a half-million gallons. The defendant shipped its entire allotment. 344,083 gallons, to the plaintiff. The plaintiff sued for damages, but the defendant contended that its duty was conditioned by an implied term, the refinery producing enough molasses to fill the plaintiff?s order. The defendant had no contract with the refinery. If the promisor is in some way responsible for the event, which makes performance of the promise impossible, justice does not dictate that he be excused. In this case, the defendant did not contract with its supplier to ensure usual production and he must pay damages.

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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKoglesby.htm

1965: An uprising in the Dominican Republic was put down with the help of 20,000 U.S. Marines. Ellsworth Bunker, the U.S. ambassador, Abe Fortas, a new Supreme Court justice and a crony of LBJ's, presidential advisors Adolf Berle, Averill Harriman and Joseph Farland were all on the payroll of organizations such as the National Sugar Refining Company, the Sucrest Company, the National Sugar Company, and the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company - all of which had holdings in the Dominican Republic that were threatened by the revolution

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http://www.gangsofamerica.com/6.html

By 1903, some 250 large corporations had emerged as dominant. Such entities as International Paper (1898), National Sugar Refining Company (1900), U.S. Steel (1901), and International Harvester (1902) were all formed in this period by merging smaller companies into large corporations

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http://www.afn.org/~vetpeace/ideology.htm

The Rockefeller interests controlled the economy of several Latin American countries, including Peru and Venezuela. Creole Petroleum Company, for example, a subsidiary of Rockefellers' then-called Standard Oil of New Jersey, accounted for more than a third of Venezuela's oil, which made up 93% of Venezuela's export earnings. Nelson's own International Basic Economic Corporation in Peru ran a sugar mill,

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Pawley, William Douglas (1896-1977) — also known as William D. Pawley — of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Fla. Born in Florence, Florence County, S.C., September 7, 1896. Republican. U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1945-46; Brazil, 1946-48; delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1964.

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Or take Ellsworth Bunker who was sent to the Dominican Republic as a "troubleshooter" in 1965 after the April US intervention. The Dominican Republic is a large sugar producer and the National Sugar Refining Company has major holdings there, the same company that used to be a major sugar producer in Cuba

US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler: I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/SUGAR-INDUSTRY-stock-c...1QQcmdZViewItem

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http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/havana/Sugar1b.htm

Another successful American on the sugar scene was James H. Post, who became not only president of the National Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey, but was director of the National City Bank of New York and also of the American Colonial Bank of Puerto Rico. Post also served as vice president of the Cuban American Sugar Company, which owned a number of sugar mills in the island. He also held other positions in the Cuban sugar industry, such as president of the New Niguero Sugar Company, president of the Guantánamo Sugar Company, director of the Chaparra Railroad Company, director of the West India Sugar Finance Corporation (which also owned 12 mills in the Dominican Republic).

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In the Kingdom of Big Sugar

http://www.mariebrenner.com/articles/bigsugar/fan2.html

"Okeelanta, a subsidary of South Puerto Rico Sugar, controlled 90,000 acres of sugar property in South Florida and 240,000 acres in the Dominican Republic.

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http://www.scripophily.net/soporisucone.html

In 1959, the company changed its name from the South Porto Rico Sugar Company to the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company . In 1967, the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company merged with Gulf and Western Industries.

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http://wptv.jobing.com/jobfair_company.asp?i=13481

Perhaps it should have been mentioned that this was the Fanjul family of Cuban Sugar wealth as well as the Czarnikow-Rionda Company of New York, which also included the Cuban Trading Company.

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http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/B...agaSeries41.pdf

http://www.gale.com/servlet/ItemDetailServ...=null&id=228211

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Which brings us around to: Included among the correspondents in this series are Alfred Jaretzki of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell (which owned stock in several of the Rionda sugar companies),

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Which also brings around to: Aurelio Portuondo was the Cuban Trading Company's primary liaison with the Cuban government. He was also an important delegate to both the U.S.-Cuban and international negotiations to establish bilateral and multilateral sugar stabilization agreements. Portuondo played an important part in the creation of the U.S.-Cuban Reciprocity Treaty of 1934. The treaty negotiations in Washington were played out against a backdrop of revolution and U.S. intervention in Cuba which are described in vivid detail in Portuondo's correspondence.

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/braga/Braga11.htm

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Mr. Portuondo also being familiar with the Cuban Transportation System:

http://www.tramz.com/cu/sc/sc.html

Aurelio Ballenilla Portuondo. Como pasar una estancia agradable en Santiago de Cuba. Santiago de Cuba, 1950. Guidebook notes the five remaining tram routes.

What happened to the system after Havana Electric Railway was sold to Autobuses Modernos in 1950? The only thing certain is that the Santiago tramway closed on 26 January 1952, three months before the system in the capital.

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June 23, 1950: Havana Electric Railway (HER) is acquired by the William D. Pawley Company, "Autobuses Modernos S. A."

Thereafter, an immediate transition to diesel driven buses as the transit system for Havana begins.

TIME MAGAZINE

Mar. 20, 1950

When Cuba's President Carlos Prío Socarrás decided to scrap Havana's rattletrap trolleys in favor of buses, he thought he knew just the man for the job: tall, tough Millionaire William D. Pawley, 53. Boss of Miami's bus system, Pawley had organized Cuba's first commercial airline and built most of its airfields.

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"These two families formed an alliance with the marriage of Alfonso Fanjul, Sr. and Lillian Gomez-Mena in 1936. The combined family holdings included interests in ten sugar mills, three distilleries and the Czarnikow-Rionda Company, as well as major real estate holdings throughout Cuba."

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Florida Crystals' /aka Okeelanta

http://www.floridacrystals.com/whoWeare.asp

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Florida Crystals/aka Talisman Sugar

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y03/nov03/17e7.htm

In Miami, he was quickly joined by his wife and two daughters and found work in the sugar industry working for the Fanjul family as a warehouse manager for the Talisman Sugar Corp. in Palm Beach County.

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http://weeklyplanet.com/2001-03-14/news_feature.html

The resilience of sugar supports is a tribute to the political clout of the four biggest subsidy recipients -- the Fanjul family, U.S. Sugar Corp., Talisman Sugar Corp. and A. Duda & Sons Co. A 1994 St. Petersburg Times analysis found the quartet had shelled out $2.5-million in federal campaign contributions and national soft-money donations from 1979 through 1994 while taking in $163-million worth of sugar subsidies in just 1994. Tampa's Lykes Bros. Inc. got $1-million in subsidies that year.

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http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1972-...-29-ABC-15.html

Talisman Sugar Company of South Florida is next union target, where Jamaicans have taken over driving jobs. [pres. Talisman Sugar Corp., William PAWLEY - says majority of workers don't want union.]

REPORTER: Charles Murphy

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[Thomas H. Purvis]

http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/cashingin_sugar/sugar08.html

S U G A R ' S

F I R S T F A M I L Y

MEET THE FANJUL FAMILY

[Thomas H. Purvis]

http://www.opensecrets.org/pubs/cashingin_sugar/sugar08.html

S U G A R ' S

F I R S T F A M I L Y

MEET THE FANJUL FAMILY

http://www.scripophily.net/czcoyo19.html

Certainly does not hurt to be in the "Jute"/Sisal business as well. Cuts out the middle-man.

http://www.ajweberman.com/nodules/nodule8.htm

Dorothe Matlack said that, despite George DeMohrenschildt's subterfuge, that he and Clemard Joseph Charles were in the jute business together, she did not believe this to be the real reason for George DeMohrenschildt's presence at that meeting: "I knew the Texan wasn't there to sell hemp."

[Lee Forman]

Hey Tom - if I asked this before and you answered, accept my apology in advance.

The Sugar Beet King - Henry Oxnard. Any clue?

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : HSCA

RECORD NUMBER : 180-10033-10038

RECORDS SERIES : FBI INVESTIGATIVE FILE ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD.

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 105-82555-639

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM : [No From]

TO : [No To]

TITLE : [No Title]

DATE : 11/30/1963

PAGES : 12

DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM.

SUBJECTS : OSWALD, LEE; OXNARD, HENRY

CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED

RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL

CURRENT STATUS : OPEN

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 05/24/1993

COMMENTS : Box #:6. Folder Title: Section 30.

Boggs: The fellow Butler, who works for the profit organizations that Dr. Oxnard heads to disseminate and tie Communist propaganda to Latin America, is the one who confronted him on the streets in New Orleans. I know Butler. He is a very fine young man. It was . . . Butler says that this w the first time that they established that he had been in Russia and that he had defected at one time and then returned. You have that undoubtedly in your files, that film, that tape that was made and borrowed in New Orleans?

A. Yes.

[Thomas H. Purvis]

Hey Tom - if I asked this before and you answered, accept my apology in advance.

The Sugar Beet King - Henry Oxnard. Any clue?

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : HSCA

RECORD NUMBER : 180-10033-10038

RECORDS SERIES : FBI INVESTIGATIVE FILE ON LEE HARVEY OSWALD.

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 105-82555-639

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM : [No From]

TO : [No To]

TITLE : [No Title]

DATE : 11/30/1963

PAGES : 12

DOCUMENT TYPE : MEMORANDUM.

SUBJECTS : OSWALD, LEE; OXNARD, HENRY

CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED

RESTRICTIONS : OPEN IN FULL

CURRENT STATUS : OPEN

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 05/24/1993

COMMENTS : Box #:6. Folder Title: Section 30.

Boggs: The fellow Butler, who works for the profit organizations that Dr. Oxnard heads to disseminate and tie Communist propaganda to Latin America, is the one who confronted him on the streets in New Orleans. I know Butler. He is a very fine young man. It was . . . Butler says that this w the first time that they established that he had been in Russia and that he had defected at one time and then returned. You have that undoubtedly in your files, that film, that tape that was made and borrowed in New Orleans?

A. Yes.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/or...os/o-000021.txt

[Lee Forman]

Thanks Tom - a keeper to be sure. Boggs' comment is curious. Oxnard is not mentioned as heading any organization Butler worked with. If it's INCA, then that is interesting. In retrospect - probably not the brightest comment for Boggs to have made?

http://cuban-exile.com/doc_076-100/doc0078.html

Makes me wonder now about Oswald addressing the Jesuits.

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/parnell/ce2649.htm

[Thomas H. Purvis]

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/nordlicht.html

La Branche Plantation

http://www.stjohnparish.com/grh/leon.htm

The Life and Times of Leon Godchaux

The Sugar King of Louisiana

But his eyes was on the big prize, a sugar plantation. His chance came in 1850 when he was able to buy the Souvenir Plantation from Antoine Boudousquie at what was known as Bonnet Carré. He changed the name from Bonnet Carré to Reserve as his first move.

He expanded his holdings rapidly. As his profits rose he plowed it back into more land. Eventually he purchased Star, Diamond, LaPlace, LaBranche, Belle Point, New Era, and Cornland Plantations. He bought a number of small plantations and grouped them into the name Elm Hall, over in Assumption Parish. In Lafourche Parish it was Greater Raceland Plantation, in Raceland.

[Guest John Gillespie]

"Thereafter, one should note the schedule of George DeMohrenschildt:

And, one should thereafter correlate this schedule with that of LHO:

February, 1963: LHO & Marina are introduced to the Paines.

March 12, 1963, LHO orders rifle from Klein's Sporting Goods.

March, 1963--- George De Mohrenschildt Travelled to Haiti, and stopped off in the Dominican Republic.

De Mohrenschildt's "geological survey" approved. Payment to be in the amount of $285,000.00.

Payment initially made in the sum of $20,000.00 cash, and the remaining monies to be paid over a period of ten years from interest in a "sisal" plantation at Montrouis which was to be operated by Clemard J. Charles.

Easter, 1963----Back in Dallas, visited the Oswalds.

April 1963--LHO has photo's made of himself holding rifle.

April 10, 1963----LHO shoots at General Walker

April 24, 1963----LHO leaves for New Orleans, begins his New Orleans/Mexico activities

May 1963---De Mohrenschildt left Dallas, stopped over in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia.

June 1963---De Mohrenschildt went back to Haiti. Stopped over in Dominican Republic

April--1964---De Mohrenschildt went to Dominican Republic from Haiti to get Bureau of Mines information. Went to San Juan Puerto Rico."

Tom,

Thanks for this enlightening thread. Can you just cite a source on the above? Thank you.

JG

[Thomas H. Purvis]

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/nordlicht.html

La Branche Plantation

http://www.stjohnparish.com/grh/leon.htm

The Life and Times of Leon Godchaux

The Sugar King of Louisiana

But his eyes was on the big prize, a sugar plantation. His chance came in 1850 when he was able to buy the Souvenir Plantation from Antoine Boudousquie at what was known as Bonnet Carré. He changed the name from Bonnet Carré to Reserve as his first move.

He expanded his holdings rapidly. As his profits rose he plowed it back into more land. Eventually he purchased Star, Diamond, LaPlace, LaBranche, Belle Point, New Era, and Cornland Plantations. He bought a number of small plantations and grouped them into the name Elm Hall, over in Assumption Parish. In Lafourche Parish it was Greater Raceland Plantation, in Raceland.

Nordlicht, Hitler's Horse

Died 1968 - St. Rose, Louisiana

Near the entrance to La Branche Plantation, just off of River Road, marked by a small plaque, is the final resting place of what may be the most notorious equine in history. This is the grave of Nordlicht, "North Light,"

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Guess that I forgot to add this part:

http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Oleander.html

Sent to the United States, Nordlicht was eventually auctioned by the Remount Service at Front Royal, Virginia for $20,300. The successful bidders were a syndicate comprised of Christopher T. Chenery, Dr. L.H. Kraskin and William D. Pawley, master of Belvoir Farm near The Plains, Virginia. Unfortunately, Nordlicht failed to become a success, getting only a few minor stakes winners. After changing hands, he died at La Branche Plantation in St. Rose, Louisiana in 1968, aged 27.

[Thomas H. Purvis]

"Thereafter, one should note the schedule of George DeMohrenschildt:

And, one should thereafter correlate this schedule with that of LHO:

February, 1963: LHO & Marina are introduced to the Paines.

March 12, 1963, LHO orders rifle from Klein's Sporting Goods.

March, 1963--- George De Mohrenschildt Travelled to Haiti, and stopped off in the Dominican Republic.

De Mohrenschildt's "geological survey" approved. Payment to be in the amount of $285,000.00.

Payment initially made in the sum of $20,000.00 cash, and the remaining monies to be paid over a period of ten years from interest in a "sisal" plantation at Montrouis which was to be operated by Clemard J. Charles.

Easter, 1963----Back in Dallas, visited the Oswalds.

April 1963--LHO has photo's made of himself holding rifle.

April 10, 1963----LHO shoots at General Walker

April 24, 1963----LHO leaves for New Orleans, begins his New Orleans/Mexico activities

May 1963---De Mohrenschildt left Dallas, stopped over in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia.

June 1963---De Mohrenschildt went back to Haiti. Stopped over in Dominican Republic

April--1964---De Mohrenschildt went to Dominican Republic from Haiti to get Bureau of Mines information. Went to San Juan Puerto Rico."

Tom,

Thanks for this enlightening thread. Can you just cite a source on the above? Thank you.

JG

The information is an "extract" from various testimonies (DeMohrenschildt & Wife) as well as other known facts related to LHO's timeline of activities, and the movements of DeMohrenschildt

There is a "LHO Timeline" posted on the web which is also of benefit in regards to his activities.

There is however no "single source" for the information as it must be gathered from a variety of areas as well as cross-checked with other sources.

And in that regard and light, one must also consider the DeMorenschildt's visit to Guatemala at exactly the same time as the Bay of Pigs training was taking place.

DeMohrenschildt was quite obviously being "used" by some entity and it is of course highly unlikely that even he understood any of it until after the assassination of JFK had occurred.

By his actions with LHO, he could not have come forward without implicating himself as well as losing the "Big Deal" as regards the Sisal Plantation, etc; BS.

His silence was initially bought with ten years of payments for the remainder of the $285,000.00.

The "link-in-the-chain" as to who was pulling the strings/providing the monies of George DeMohrenschildt is the ultimate key which would tie most of this together.

[Thomas H. Purvis]

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/nordlicht.html

La Branche Plantation

http://www.stjohnparish.com/grh/leon.htm

The Life and Times of Leon Godchaux

The Sugar King of Louisiana

But his eyes was on the big prize, a sugar plantation. His chance came in 1850 when he was able to buy the Souvenir Plantation from Antoine Boudousquie at what was known as Bonnet Carré. He changed the name from Bonnet Carré to Reserve as his first move.

He expanded his holdings rapidly. As his profits rose he plowed it back into more land. Eventually he purchased Star, Diamond, LaPlace, LaBranche, Belle Point, New Era, and Cornland Plantations. He bought a number of small plantations and grouped them into the name Elm Hall, over in Assumption Parish. In Lafourche Parish it was Greater Raceland Plantation, in Raceland.

Nordlicht, Hitler's Horse

Died 1968 - St. Rose, Louisiana

Near the entrance to La Branche Plantation, just off of River Road, marked by a small plaque, is the final resting place of what may be the most notorious equine in history. This is the grave of Nordlicht, "North Light,"

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Guess that I forgot to add this part:

http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/Oleander.html

Sent to the United States, Nordlicht was eventually auctioned by the Remount Service at Front Royal, Virginia for $20,300. The successful bidders were a syndicate comprised of Christopher T. Chenery, Dr. L.H. Kraskin and William D. Pawley, master of Belvoir Farm near The Plains, Virginia. Unfortunately, Nordlicht failed to become a success, getting only a few minor stakes winners. After changing hands, he died at La Branche Plantation in St. Rose, Louisiana in 1968, aged 27.

http://www.stjohnparish.com/grh/leon.htm

The Life and Times of Leon Godchaux

The Sugar King of Louisiana

But his eyes was on the big prize, a sugar plantation. His chance came in 1850 when he was able to buy the Souvenir Plantation from Antoine Boudousquie at what was known as Bonnet Carré. He changed the name from Bonnet Carré to Reserve as his first move

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http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1961/61-4/sugar.html

National Sugar Refining Company at Reserve, La., and some of the railroad tracks which serve its transportation needs. National is one of the two refineries that receive part of their imported unrefined raw sugar over Southern's Chalmette slip. The other is Henderson Sugar Refinery, Inc., located within the city limits of New Orleans.

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http://www.stjohnparish.com/grh/house.htm

By the early 20th century, Godchaux's sugar refinery had become the largest in the U.S. Those who worked at the refinery, built their homes close by and thus the town of Reserve became established. The refinery, became the economic base of Reserve's residents through most of the 20th century.

So important was the Reserve Plantation that in the fall of 1909, President William Howard Taft, in the company of 117 senators and congressmen, and twenty four governors, docked at the house on the way to New Orleans.

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In 1958, the Godchauxs sold the mill and refinery to the National Sugar Refining Company. The new owners decided not to only discontinue the railroad, but also to close the grinding mill and operate only the refinery.

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Besides the National Sugar Refining Company of New Jersey, Mr. Post was chairman of the board and director of the Cuban-American Sugar Company and president and director of the New Niquero and Guantanamo Sugar Companies.

He was a director of the following: The National City Bank of New York, the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company, the United States Casualty Company, the Manhattan Fire and Marine Insurance Company, the Brooklyn Edison Company, the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company, the Fajardo Sugar company, the Central Aguirre Associates, the Alliance Realty Company, the Holly Sugar corporation, the American Foreign Marine Insurance Association, the Underwood Elliott Fisher Company, the Westchester Insurance Company, the City Bank Farmers Trust Company, the Terminal Warehouse Company and the New Amsterdam Casualty Company, and a vice president and trustee of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank.

He was chairman of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Y.M. and Y.W.C.A.'s and gave large sums to both institutions; president of the board of trustees of Adelphi College, Garden City, L.I., and a trustee of Princeton Theological Seminary, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn Bureau of Charities and a number of educational institutions in the United States, the Near East and Brazil. In 1925 he contributed $25,000 for the establishment of colleges in the Near East.

Consolidation Prevented

Anti-trust litigation instituted in 1911 prevented the American Sugar Refining Company form controlling the National through stock ownership. Again in 1924 rumors spread of an impending consolidation. The resultant firm would have been the largest on earth in that business with control over approximately one-third of the world's sugar refining facilities. Mr. Post was slated to become president of the amalgamated company at a salary of $75,000 a year.

Attorney General Harlan E. Stone said he would oppose the move inasmuch as he conceived it his duty "to uphold decrees under the Sherman Law * * * rather than attempt to substitute my judgment for the wisdom of my predecessors and of the courts which entered such decrees."

Mr. Post ended the consolidation talk with a statement in which he said the "unwillingness of the Department of Justice" would be accepted as final.

During the World War he was chairman of the American Refiners committee of the National Food Administration. He issued repeated warnings of a sugar shortage unless housewives practiced greater economy.

A so-called "sugar trust" action of major importance followed the organization in 1927 of the Sugar Institute, Inc., with Mrl Post as chairman of the board of directors and president.

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Pawley, William Douglas (1896-1977) — also known as William D. Pawley — of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, Fla. Born in Florence, Florence County, S.C., September 7, 1896. Republican. U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1945-46; Brazil, 1946-48;

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