Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1931, Page 10

A—10 ww BETHLEHEM ENDS TUBE MERGER PACT President Grace Declares Company Used Option to Cancel Contract. v the Ascociated Press NEW YORK, October 15.—Eugene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Corporation, today announced the merger contract between Bethlehem and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. has been canceled. Mr. Grace said, due to changed con- ditions, it was deemed impracticable to carry out the contract made in March, 1530, for merging the two companies and that Bethlehem had exercised its option to cancel the contract. Contract Extended. The contract, Mr. Grace said, had been extended from time to time by agreement of the parties in the hope that conditions would justify consum- mation of wh>t both believed to be a #ound undertaking. The agreement had covered acquisi- tion by Bethlehem, either directly or threugh subsidiaries, of all properties and assets of Youngstown Sheet & Tube. The oroposed consideration was the issuance of Bethlehem stock at * shares for three of Youngstown assumption of Youngstown's 4 debt and other liabilities. delay caused by court pro- strain the voting of cer chares, the plar. received approval more than the required two-thirds Youngstown stock on April 11, 1930. Bath Companies Appeal. Diszenting interests, headed by Cyrus Eaton, after prolonged hearings, ob- tammed an injunction, alleging, among cther grounds, that stockholders had 1-ceived inadequate information. The njunction was granted by Common Tleas Judge David G. Jenkins, at Youngstown, December 29 last, and ap- peals were entered by both companies January 27 last. In some circles it was reported that the purpose of the appeal was to keep the case open pending a renewal of negotiations. Reports have been cir- culated from time to time that a new basis_for the merger was being nego- tiated, but they all met with denials. Purnell in New York. Only today it was reported that Frank Purnell, president of Youngs- town Sheet & Tube, accompanied by two attorneys, had been in New York, presumzbly in connaction with the mer- ger negotiations. At the Bethlehem offices, however. it was said it was nct known there her Mr. Purnell had been in town Mr. Grace's announcement of the cancellation of the contract was made in a formal statement issued at his office during his absence. It was said that he was out of town and would not. return today. It was pointed out in some quarters that the announcement loft open the question of whether cancellation of the contract meant that all effort to merge the two companies had been abandoned, or whether renewed efforts would be wade to see a merger on a new basis. Because of Mr. Grace's absence from the city, no comment on this point was available at the Bethlehem offices. COURT FIGHT SPECTACULAR. it het YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, October « Negotiations for the merger of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. with the Bethlehem Eteel Corporation into a billion-dollar enterprise precipitated one of the most spectacular court battles in American industrial history. Merger negotiations between officers of Sheet & Tube and Bethlehem began early in 1930, In March directors of Sheet, & Tube approved the merger and it was ratified by Sheet & Tube stock- holders a_month later. Cyrus S. Eaton, Cleveland financier, led a group of minority stockholders in an attack on the merger terms, and after a three-month court battle ob- tained an injunction from Judge David Jenkins of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. The injunction decision was appealed, but the appeal is still pending The issues in the court battles were threefold: Whether the exchange of one and one-third shares of Bethlehem stock for each share of Sheet & Tube was equitable; whether the merger contract ratified by the Youngstown stockholders was legally executed and whether the proxies cast in the share. holders” meeting were validly voted. Judge Jenkins' decision did not touch upon the three points of issue, how- ever, or the action of the stockholders. It bore upon the meeting of the Sheet & Tube directors. He held that the directors were “guilty of breach of con- duct tantamount to fraud,” in that they did not fully inform themselves of all factors in the merger deal, did not supply stockholders with essential information and acted with ‘“‘unseemly precipitation.” MASONS TO CONFER HONORS IN TEMPLE Alexandria Memorial to Be Used First by D. C. Com- mandery. 15 Epecial Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va.. October 15.—Al- though not completely finished, the new George Washington Masonic National 'morial is to be used by the Washing- ton Commandery, No. 1, Knights Tem- plar. Saturday for tne first conferring of the Order of the Temple degree to be held in the new temple. The order will be conferred on a class of 35 candidates of the District of Co- Jumbia. J. Claude Keiper, secretary- treasurer of the Memorial Association, will knight the first Mason ever to re- ceive the honor in this new temple. The conferring of this degree will be part of an all-day meeting of the Wash- ington Commandery here. Luncheon is to be served at the new temple in the efternoon, Grand commanders of six iurisdic- fions and all members of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite who are Templars have been invited to_the con- clave. Members of the Old Dominion Commandery, No. 11, of Alexandria, are to attend the ceremonies Saturday night. They will march in uniform to the temple, being headed by a police escort and the Citizens' Band. Perry W Weidner, grand master of ‘Templars in the United States, is to be here for the occasion and will “knight” a prominent member of the class. Grand commanders of Kentucky, Penn- sylvania, District of Columbia, com- manders of six other States and past commanders of three States have al- ready notified the Washington Com- mandery that they will be present. BROOKHART, JR., ELECTED Smith Brookhart, jr., son of the Iowa Senator, has been elected president of “Fetracom.” a social club of employes at the Federal Trade Commission, it was made known today when the re- sults of the balloting Monday were made public. Other officers chosen were: Vice wresident. William M. Haigh: secretary, Anna M. Morton: treasurer, Mary Ann Hoffman: social secretary. Mre. Katha- rine Peffers Elv: Executive Committee, Hengg, P. Alden, Mre. Mildred Ander- aon.. Herrity, Henry C. Lank and Mrs. Josephine B. Miller, MRS. PATRICK Individualism of Players Gone, Famous English Actress Declares. |sT l Star of “The Sex Fable” Glad to Be Behind American Footlights Once More. | | “Wung - Wung - Wah - Wah - Woosh - Woosh-Wish-Wish” — which translated into our native tongue means “The gay girl of Berneo, I wish I'd never been born-e-o"—sat at lunch yesterday on | the lap of her mistress, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and ate julienne potatoes | surrepticiously. because, of course. she knew she wasn't allowed in the dining room of the hotel. | “Wung-Wung,” etc., whose ancestors are among the proudest of the Pekingese | race, had come to Washington from England and was traveling as the guest of Mrs. Campbell. And Wung-Wung | suggested to Mrs. Campbell’s interviewer that it was odd that so few people over here knew about this grand lady of the English stage, and that it was probably a matter of histopy that last Monday | night when Mrs. Campbell walked onto the stage of the Belasco it was the first time “ever” she wasn't recognized | immediately with “a great big hand. Glad to Be in the States. Mrs. at” has, of course, been re- ferred to as the “Sarah Bernhardt of the English stage.” Mrs. Campbell, as a matter of fact. isn't at all the same vintage as the “divine Sarah" since she was playing ingenue Juliets when Mme. Bernhardt had grown into late middle age. But perhaps some will re- call that two-score years or more ago they both toured England in ‘‘Pelleas and Mellisande"—Sarah, then 60, play ing the role of Pelleas (in tights, of | course,) and Mrs. “Pat” playing the young girl part—and (this story_the jatter tells on herself) one of the Irish papers said of them that they were| “both old enough to know better.” Mrs. CampBell and Wung-Wung (frowned upon by all the waiters) said they were glad to be in the “States.” particularly under the wing of that| astute impresario, Gilbert Miller. About | the stage, too, they both feel the same-— | although Wung's grease-paint memories extend back sorething lik» four-score years lass than her mistress. “The theater is not what is used to be. The romance has gone out of it. Indi- vidualism 1s what makes acting. -nd there isn't any more individualism. | Every one is like every one ol Mrs. “Pat,” for whom George Shaw wrote “Pygmalion” and played ‘‘Magd: in this country overwhelming success Like Everybedy Else. “They suit themselves to this realism by being like everybo \about them. Their mental visions an ideals have not the play they used to | have. Of course it was pretty hard to come back to idealism after the war— | but till much of the glamor has grne. People don't take time enough to learn how to speak.” Mrs. Campbell, it will be remember=d. lectured here last sea- son on the importance of diction in the theater. “As for acting in the mocvies it's the szme thing. Even more. You can't do your best work becauss you do every- thing in sections. You ‘do one scene | in two minutes. then ycu do it over. and over, 15 times perhaps. There is no sequential train of thought or emotion. How can you do vour bhest when you are interrupted every five minutes er so?” And Mrs. Campbell i knows because she was in Hollywood last season and appeared in one flm. | “The Dancers,” which was her first and apparently her last picture ““‘Hollywood is too full of cliques,” zhe Isl!d with a =mile. | Mrs. Campbell. about whom Shaw wrote back in 1896 in one of his let- ters to Ellen Terry apropos of one of his plays: “I will go to the beautiful Mrs. Campbell, who won my heart long ago by her pianoforte playing as Mrs. ‘Tanquera: admits that America has many very fine actors and actreses, Katherine Cornell. she thinks, is our first actress—"her Elizabeth Barrett is beautiful”—and she also admires tre- mendously the Lunt family (Alfred Lunt and Lynn Font:nne) and she says that she would like to see Leslie Howard play “Hamlet.” English Wouldn't Stand It. | “As for these American actresses— | they are so beautiful! So bien soignet! | And they're all married and have got- ten rid of their husbands! The trouble with them is that their husbands spoil them. They are much too kind to them. In England the men wouldn't stand for such goings on. They would beat them over the head no doubt.” ‘This handsome lady, who once play=d Juliet opposite Forbes - Robertson's (a_“sure-fire” combination to the box office nd whosé acting in | “The Matriarch” only a few seasons ago was the talk of London. seemed gl that the Bourdet play, “The Sex Fable, in which she is playing at the Belasco, had been so cordially received. “We like it," she said to Wung-Wung, who had raised her head up to the level of the table, “don’t we?” And Wung-Wung was about to an- | swer in the affirmative when she saw | {a waiter coming toward her—and with | 'tht she ducksd her head, gave a short b’m;flkt and got herself completely out of | sight. | with WOMEN RESCIND DRY LAW STAND Volstead Act Failure, Say Demo- cratic Clubs in Maryland Session. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., October 15—/ Stating that “inasmuch as the Volstead act has proven a failure,” the United Democratic Women's Clubs of Mary- | land adopted a resolution at the open- ing meeting of the Fall convention here yesterday rescinding the resolution | passed at Havre De Grace, Md. in October, 1925, calling for the enforce- ment of all laws. The passage of this and other reso- lutions followed tne calling together of the convention yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Mary H. Duvall, retiring State chairman, who introduced Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore. Mayor Jackson welcomed the delegates and their friends to the city. Ritchie Is Guest. Guests of honor at dinner last night included Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, Mayor Jackson, United States Senator Millard | E. Tydings. Mrs. Samuel Herrick, presi- | dent of Woman's National Democratic | Club; Mrs. Elizabeth R. Menefee, Demo- cratic national committeewoman: Mrs. Jam-s G. Whiteley, Democratic Con- essional committeewoman, and Miss lian . Forw vice chairman, Democratic State Central Committee. Gov. Ritchie was indorsed by the clubs as their candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination for President of the United States in another resolution adopted. This resolution was intro- duced by the Woman's Democratic Club of Prince Georges County. i b s More than 400 people from other| countries already have made riserva- tions to attend ihe industrial fair at Cork, Irish Free State, next year. | Delaware Tajs B it AGE HAS LOST ITS ROMANCE, CAMPBELL SAYS MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL. WOULD BLOCK 1.C.C. ORDER Colorado and Utah Groups Seek to Prevent Rail Merger. WILMINGTON, Del., October 15 (/) —An injunction to restrain the Denver & Rio Grande Western R2{road. a Corporztion, from carrying out an Interstate Commerce Commis- si-n order was sought yest'rday in Federal Court. The Moffat Tuhnel League, a_volun- tary associztion of Ste>mboat Springs. Colo.. and the Uintah Basin Railroad League, a voluntary greup of Utah asked that the rail line be restrained from proceeding with 2cquisiti-n of the Denver & Salt Lake City System, a Moffat road. and that the Interstate Commerce Commission ord-r of Feb- ruary 1, 19 authorizing the acquisi- tion through stock purchzse be declared illegal, null and void. A temporary in- juncticn is sought with later action to make it permanent SUAR, PROPOSAL T0 JOIN CHEST IS REJECTED Montgomery Social Service League Vetoes Merger With D. C. Group. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, October 15.—An invitation from the Washington Com- munity Chest that the Soctal Service League of Montgomery County become a member of the Chest has been de- ' clined, Dr. Jacob W. Bird, president of | the county league. announces. ! In a letter to John Poole, president | of the Community Chest, various dis- advantages to both the league and the Chest, are set forth, chief among them being that the county league is a semi- governmental agency, receiving one-| third of its funds as an appropriation |of public tax money from the County | Commission. Conference Proposed. William J. Plunkert, assistant director of the Washington Chest, recently laid before the executive secretary of the league, Miss Willie Greene Day, the suggestion that the league become a member of the Chest. At that time it was set forth that should the league express a willingness to join, a_com- mittee from the Chest would be named to confer with the league on details of |the_matter. N On receipt of this suggestion the di- rectors of the league named a Special Committee, which held several meet- ings, some of which were attended by | Mr. Plunkert of the Washington Ches Mr. Plunkert stated at these meetings that the suggestion that the league be- | come a member of the Chest rose out of | certain complaints of residents of Mont- | gomery County and other suburban | arcas of Maryland and Virginia to the| {effect that while residents of the counties have been solicited to con- | tribute to the Chest, the member or- | Bird for the county league stated: D Co TnUsisineY. G glnintlonl of the Washington body ave not, to & corres) degree, rendered service to the residents of Montgomery County and other subur- ban counties. Chest Makes Up Deficit. ‘The considerable amount of hospital services now belnfi furnished by Dis- trict of Columbia hospitals, members of the Washington Chest, to Montgomery County rfit lents was set forth before the Special Committee by Mr. Plunkert. Tt was agreed that the amount paid for hocpital services by the county does not fully compensate the hospital for the services rendered, the deficit being made up by the Chest, but Mr. Plunkert agreed with the members of the com- mittee that unquestionably the amount contributed annually by residents of Montgomery County to the ,Chest is greatly in excess of the amount of serv- ices rendered to residents of the county by member organizations of the Chest. Objections to joining with the Chest, set forth in President Bird’s letter to President Poole of the Chest, included the view that it is doubtful whether a single campaign would raise an amount equal to that raised by two campaigns for funds, as at present. If this doubt proved correct, it was set forth, and provided the county le2gue's budget was maintained at the present figure, the amount remaining to the Chest would be decreased accordingly. County Drive Needed. It was also pointed out that the Greéater Washington area covers only the suburban area of Montgomery County and a drive would still be re- quired by the Chest to care for the upper portions of the county. Loss of direct contact with the pub- He and public support and interest by member organization of the Chest also was set forth as a reason why it was felt inadvisable for the county league to accept the suggestion. In closing his letter Poole of the Washington Chest, D{. you feel that fuller discussion of the situation would be helpful in pro- moting our mutual desire to further social welfare work in the Greater | Washington area, I am sure that rep- resentatives of our board of directors would be glad to meet with a com- | mittee from the board of the Washing- ton Community Chest.” The 200th annivarsary of the birth of the English poet William Cowper will be observed in November. You can fool yourself but you can’t BAD fool BREATH | to President sisdan Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., October 15.—Ru- dolph Evans,” native of Washington, has executed a model of a statue of Robert E. Lee. which Gov. Pollard de- clares is “one of thé finest and most realistic pleces of statuary I have ever seen.” e statue is to be placed on the spot_in the corridor in the old hall of the House of Delegates where Lee received his commission as commande) of the Armies of Virginia in 1861. The model was viewed in New York by Gov. Pollard and the art commis- sion. Mr. Evans, though born in Washington, is claimed by Virginia as one of her sons, being a member of a STATUE OF LEE BY D. C. NATIVE TO BE PLACED IN VIRGINIA CAPITOL| STAGES DAHLIA SHOW Screen Will Separate Work From Famous Carving of! Washington—Gov. Pollard Compliments Model. well known family of this State. 'n\e! late E. V. Valentine. famous sculptor | of Richmond, recommended Mr. Evans; for the work, and gave him the exact | measurements of Lee, which he had | taken from life when he designed the| famous recumbent statue of the Con- federate chieftain which is at the | Washington and Lee Uaiversity. | | As the statue is to face the speake: | chair, its back will be to the famous Houdon statue of Washington in the | rotunda of the Capitol. and therefore | it bas been decided that it will be | necessary to place a screen between the two in order to keep from violating | a rule always observed in the placing 'DRIVER INDICTED IN AUTO KILLING |C. P. Worthy to Face Trial for Manslaughter in Death of James P. Egan, | - | By 2 5taft Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md.. October 15.—Clarence P. Worthy of Waching- ton, driver of a car which struck and |killed James P. Egan, editor of an | American Federation of Labor publica- |tion, was indicted by the Prince Georges iCounly grand jury yesterday on a charge of man:laughter. Mr. Egan was killed while erossing the Baltimore Boulevard at Riverdale. Eleven other indictments were re- turned by the jury. They included one against James Love, colored, for the| {murder of Mildred Jordan, also col- lored, of Fairmont Heights. | of statuary. | MAN WHO DRANK FREELY | WASHES JAIL WINDOWS | | Seven Bottles of Bay Rum Too Much, Prisoner Tells Court at Takoma Park. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. TAKOMA PARK. Md., October 15.— Seven bottles of bay rum proved too much for his capacity, Berkeley Price, 35, colored. of Chatham, Va.. told Judge A.’'L. Wilson here last night when ar- raigned on charges of being drunk and disorderly. so today the police station and courthouse windows were washed again. Price. when he faced Judge Wilson, told of his drinking capacity. but said that seven bottles of the “rum” was a bit_too much for him. The assignment to wash the windows | of the courthouse and police station in lieu of a fine or imprisonment has been invoked by Judge Wilson several times recently with good results. Price did his window washing job today. The colored man was arrested at Lau- rel and Eastern avenues. TAKOMA PARK CLUB Eleven Classes Being Exhibited To- day and Tomorrow—Prizes to Be Given. ‘TAKOMA PARK, Md., October 15.— The 14th annual dahlia show, der auspices of the cultural un- Takoma Horti- Club, opened today in the Takoma Park branch of the Washing- ton Pub'ic Library, Cedar streets, until corner Fifth and will through 9 o'clock night There are 11 classes to be exhibited and continue tomorrow and an award will e made also for the best flower in the show. The dahlia show committee is ecom- irman: posed of Mrs. L. A. Cutshaw, chai Roy G. Pierce, F. J. Hopkins, Mrs. A. M. Bunten. H. C. Heffner, Elmer Brad- ley. Col. William H. England is pe dent of the club: Fred C. Duel 3 secretary, and C. G. Carr, chairman of the exhibition committes |WASHINGTON CHILD HURT IN BETHESDA ACCIDENT Cars of Mrs. Minnie E. Guillot and George A. Cooper Crash on River Road. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA. Md., October 15.—Head injuries were sustained by Shirley June Guillot, three-vear-old daughter of Mrs. Minnie E. Guillot, 3120 R street, Wash- ington, yesterday when the car driven by Mrs.” Guillot and another machine collided on River road near here. Mrs. Guillot's car was in collision with one driven by George A. Cooper, 2737 Devonshize place, Washington, accord- irg to the report made to police at the substation here. She was turning left to enter the driveway of her father, T. J. Stacks. when the collision occurred and her car went into a ditch. ‘The child was treated by Dr. E. @. Bauersfeld of Bethesda. 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