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Show Nilnety-two Named In Oil Swindle Fort Worth, Tex. Indictments charging ninety-two oil promoters and associates with using the malls to defraud de-fraud were returned by a federal grand jury here Friday. Those named nam-ed in the indictments Include Dr. Frederick A Cook, former Arctic explorer, ex-plorer, nnd E. C. Kingsbury, prominent promi-nent Texas politician. The indictments indict-ments involved fifteen separate promotions, pro-motions, including some of the most prominent in Texas. The grand jury report followed intensive investigations investiga-tions made by department of justice and postoffice department agents, during which they discovered an alleged al-leged gigantic swindle involving millions mil-lions of dollars annually and extending extend-ing to all sections of the United States. |