[Letter from Robert Markle Armstrong to Isaac Herbert Kempner, Jr., March 16, 1953] Page: 1 of 2

                                
I. f. Kempner, Jr.

OLIfTJ-TAYLOR ULITXN #50 - DATED AARCH 9, 1953
We have your letter of March 13 under the above subject and along with
this reply we are attaching copies of the subject bulletin as well as
your letter for the information of those sh     as receiving carbon copies.
We have sounded out the brokers and the trade regarding reaction to Gilie's
circular and in almost ever; case buyers have stated that thqr glanced at
the first couple of paragraphs, concluded it was another "Oliver Windy"
and did not take the time or trouble to read the rest. There were some few
who read it but so far as we have been able to find there was only one adverse
reaction and that was a relatively     1, young and unposted buyer.
It is our plan to hold a short sales meeting for our Texas brokers at the
opening of the Texas Wholesale Grocers Convention, at which time we want to
give them a brief run-down so they will be properly informed if the subject
should be brought up to them,
Herbert, I feel very strongly that we must not dignify this thing with &
reply, because I believe that to do so would be to arouse the interest of
some of our buyers to the extent that they might dig this Oliver circular
out of the file and really pay some attention to it. Unless we run into
more repercussions than we have so far, believe our best policy would be to
just let it ride,
The reaction of our biggest buyer has been that no really high grade broker
would write a thing like that.
oeos Mr. I. H.       er, Galveston, Texas
Mr. W. H. Louviere
Mr. E. 0. Wood

March 16, 1953