Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1932, Page 6

AVIAIIGN CONTROL FIGHT 1§ SETTLED Cord and Cohu Reach Com-- promise on Selection of Board of Directors. By the Associated Pres: NEW YORK, November 18.—The spectacular fight for control of the Aviation Corporation of Delaware and its operating subsidiary, American Air- ways, has ended in an agreement. After days of charges and ecounter- charges, which threw Wall Street and the financial communily into two sharply opposing camps, it was an- nounced last night that the opposing factions, one led by the youthful E. L. Cord, and the other by La Motte T. Cohu, president, had reached a com- promise. Division ¢f Board. The agreemen: provides that the koard of directors shail be reduced to 15, that five shail be selecied by Cord and his group, five by the present board, which Cord is seezing to control, and the remaining five chosen by mutual agreement between the two faetions. Cord, newly risen automotive finan- cier and a heavy stockholder in the Aviation Corporation, had sought to oust the corporation’s present manage- | ment. The quarrel followed a plan of the board of directors to buy the assets of North American Aviation through & stock issue The fight over the huge aviation con- cern involved a battle for proxies un- ! precedented in the cirplane field, the expenditure of large sums for advertis- ing and the filing of libel suit for $1,000,000. Statement Issued. Cord is due here by gsirplane from’| the Pacific Coast tola) Cohu and L. B. Manning, executlve vice presi- | dent of the Cord Corporation and member of the Copd camp, issued Joint statement, sayini “An arrangement has been arrived at by representatives of both contend: ing groups ef directors of the Aviation Corporation looking to a settiement of the existing controversy. The ar-| nnnmmc will be submitted shortly to burd of directors for its approval. | d that the board be | r:duood in number, one-third to be selected by the present board, other | than the Cord interests; one-third by the Cord group and one-third inde- pendent prominent men mutually agreed upon by both groups. “All matters at issue will be resolved by the new board and litigation ended.” One of the last moves in the battle was a $1,000,000 libel suit filed day by Cohu mtn-t partners , Cord supporters, one of k which, it was ssserted, lished “to lnt!umnl stoc! proxy fight. ———————— ADMIRAL BYRD GIVES NATIONAL GRANGE TALK Convention in North Carolina Told Need of Market Development by Gov. Gardner. % l] the Amllhdm TON-SALEM, N, ©., Novem! H—-'l'he NW .: was pub per cent better in areas where farmers are organized into strong co-operative movements than in those where or- ganizations are weak or where farmers are not perati VEL to Dr. Henry Mace Payue, | ho-uwuuumuuud { has the tall man's distaste for Pn!hmn berths and steamer bunn is only the means to an In the lut 30 years, Dr. Payne caleu- lated today, he rode trains, ships and airplanes & matter of 1.130,517 miles, and every mile on business | As a consulting mining engineer, with fields someifines as distant as the Klon- dyke from Cape Town, Dr. Payne has bad scant time for the pleasures of globe-trotting as such. It was the mileage of a traveler for pleasure, however, which evoked a com- | parison from Dr. Payne—that of Julius Brittlebank. who has circled the world 12 times since retiring, 30 years ago, from business at Charleston, S. C. Since he quit work Mr. Brittlebank has covered almost.1,000,000 miles, en- joying. the going almost as much as the destinations and studying people as well as cities and countr Mr. Brittlebank is 73, and has time for leisure, but Dr. Payne, at 55, is still bent upon’ the urgency of his calling. But for a touch of rheumatism, which enforced a few days of idleness at his heedquarters here, Dr. Payne explained, | he would hardly have had time to com- pare his mileage with Mr. Brittlebank's, | as published recently in The S | ““Last month,” he said, “I made two | trips to the West Coast, and next week { I'll probably drop down to old Mexico | for a few days. Dr. Payne. whose home is in New York, maintains an office and residence here for his occasional visits: also an | office in Jackson, Miss., for his duties | as geologist of the Gulf, Mobile & Northern Raflroad. He is a consulting engineer for the American Mining Con- gre:s, and was retained in the seme eepocity by the Russian Government Guripg the World War and up to the time of the czar’s abdication. Dr. Payne has helped open hundreds of mines in Europe, China, Japan, Mex- ico and South America, as well as the United States All of which has en- | tailed almost constant travel. “I know more ways of folding myself | | THE EVENING Travels 1,130,157 Miles CONSULTING ENGINEER COMPUTES FIGURE FOR TRIPS IN 20 YEARS.| DR. HENRY MACE PAYNE. —Star Stafl Photo, GETS 360 DAYS AND FINE FOR THEFT OF TROUSERS Man Released From Occoquan Last Baturday Gets Maximum Sen- tence From Judge. Charged with stealing three pairs of trousers from a downtown store, Me- Kinley Hatchet, colored, 33, who, ae- | cording to police, is an ex-convict who was released from Occuquan only last Saturday, was convicted in Police Court yesterday. Judge Isaac R. Hitt sen- tenced _hlm to 360 days in jail and/ | fined him $200 with the alternative of serving 360 days more. A -bhwlrmpmo " | Hatchet, aceording to a store detec- ing them | tive, took the trousers from a bargain | I'm glad to say. | counter and stuck them under his over- | And Dr. Payne in recent years has mlt The attention of Policewoman found an answer to the transportation | Pearl Pythian was called and she im- oblem—the airways systems of the | ln-dmely arrested the mi The prisoner’s police record, which | ~“Breskfast in Denver,” he said, “and | showed he had n arrested more | lunch in Salt Lake Olty, an afiermoen | than a score of times, was shown there for business, an all-n hulupu: Judge Hitt, who pronounced the maxi- |a hotel, snd junch the following day | mum sentence. {in San Prancisco; afternoon business | there, and then the plane for Los An- | .fl:t in time for supper at the latter | | place.” Dr. Payne was quite certain, however, | there was no pleasure in travel. “I| never took & vacation or pleasure trip | he said. “When I get time rs, 8 comfort- reading matter. my friends to travel for fun and me about it, but I but they're m: nited States. SEVENTH Hundreds Here they are, 1 R LT hy 1513 28th St the city. Li. 5350 X Write or Phome for Sa, pairs STAR, WASHINGTON, FINANCIAL WORRIES FACE LIBBY HOLMAN Considers Return to Stage After Her Baby Is Born Some Time in February. By the Associated Press. | WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., November | 18.—Freed of & charge of husband mur- | der, Libby Holman Reynolds was pic- tured by her attorney yesterday as| troubled by & lack of funds and with no definite plans except a probable re- turn to the stage after the birth of her y | vorite, at which he gave her a detaled | ocount of the dropping by the State of | North Carolina on Tuesday of the mur- der charge preferred against her and | Albert Walker, 19, after her husband was fatally shot here July 6. Wants to Be Left Alone. When Libby Holman, the exotic torch singer, was married secretly to Smith Reynolds, 20-year-old tobacco heir and aviation enthusiast. a year ago this month, she was reported to be earning | from $2,500 to $4,000 a week in her profession. | Polikoff said Mrs. Reynolds “is eon- yllderlng a return to the stage after the birth of her child, but in the mean- | time, he declared, aside from financial | worries, her chief thought is to live in seclusion “without being bothered.” Satisfied With Decision. The action of Solicitor Carlisle Hig- gins in, nolle prossing ¢ the charge against hr. Polikoff said, left Mrs. Reynolds | | somewhat d!sappolntod at first, but | | after it had been explained that there | | was no more definite step available to the State she was satisfied. The attorney said he had not dis cussed with his elfent the will left by young Reynolds in New York, the ex- istence of which was only recently made | known. The will was written before Reynolds was divorced by his first wife, | | and the present Mrs. Reynolds was not | mentioned in it. ‘ A scratch recetved while he was gar- | dening has caused the death of Alfred | Oswald at Newcastle on Tyne, England. | EISEMAN’S & F STS of Special TROUSERS ps the largest mk o h"anzt trousers to match odd coats in Just think, here’ you can choose from over -5,000 representing eyery wanted pattern, material, and CRACK - SHOT Is graranied i rid the of reaches. Get Worry itk thess & size. aen mo ense-carrying pests. e CRACK SHOT 524 ¥ —come to Eiseman’s first. H Match those odd coats NOW D. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1932. U. 5. TO DEDICATE PYLON |CATHOLIC HIERARCHY TO WRIGHT BROTHERS | cONGLUDES MEETING Hurley and Adams Will Take Part in Program Tomorrow at Kitty Hawk. By the Associated Press. KITTY HAWK, N. C., November 18. —The Nation will dedicate on this bleak coast tomorrow a memorial to its two Pw}nl_’mfl‘! of aviation, Wilbur and Orville Routine Matters Are Disposed of | in Final Bession at Brookland. Disposition of routine administra- | tive matters yesterday concluded the | two-day annual meeting of the hier- archy of the Roman Catholic Church in America, which was held at 'the Catholic University in Brookland. Headed by Cardinals O’Connell of | Boston and Mundelein of Chicago, high | dignitaries of the church from all parts right. On the spot where, 29 years ago, on | a December day, the first airplane rose | in flight in & fulfiliment of the faith of the two brothers, a pylon will be dedi- cated. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley is | to deliver the address at the exercises, which begin at 11 am. Charles Fran- cis Adams, Seemury of the Navy, nl.so\of the country attended the conven- is expected to attend. tion. The visiting prelates included ‘The Navy dirigible Akron my fly eight lrchh!.l!m and 70 bishops. overhead during the ceremonies i hierarchy renamed the follow- weather permits. \m. as the Ad.mlnhtutlve Committee for the Natlonal Catholic Welfare Con- ference: Archbishops Hanna, San Francisco; McNicholas, Cincinnati, and Murray, St. Paul, and Bi Lillis, Kansas | City; Schrembs, leveland; Boyle, | Pittsburgh, and Noll, Fort Wayne, Ind. | They met immediately following ad- journment of the conference. CITIZEN ISSUE RAISED PITTSBURGH, November 18 (. — Representative Harry A. Fstep, Repub- |lcan, of Pennsylvania, yesterday ob- |tained an order from Federal Judge | Nelson McVicar for a certified copy of the naturalization papers of Henry |} Ellenbogen, Democrat independent, who on the face of returns defeated Estep In | the congressional contest in the thirty- | fourgh district. Estep said Ellenbogen became a cif zen on June 17, 1926. The issue, cited by Estep, is a constitutional ment of seven years citizenship fore taking office. re- be- ACTRESS TO GET DIVORCE ———t—— Winnje Lightuer Wins Action in New York Against Husband. NEW YORK, Novembr 18 (®)— Winnie Lightner, boisterous stage and screen comedienne, has won s Teferee's recommendation for an interlocutery decree of divorce from George Holtrey, ::n)thy broker, 1t was learned yestets AY. “They have decided they are going to remain friends,” said’ Raymond J. Knoeppel, counsel for Miss Lightaer, “sharing the affection of Richard (a n of 4) between them.” Holtrey and Miss Lightner were married in Chicago February 8, 1924. g Lion Cubs Go Irish. DUBLIN (#).—The classical Irish names of Blanaid, Breas, Baedan, Brieriu and Branach were given by th lord mayor of Dublin to five lon cuhi born in the 200 here. 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