Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1935, Page 27

BANQUET TO HONOR COLEMAN JENNINGS Civic Leader to Speak on “Big- woodward School, will be toastmaster. | gest Job in World” at Y. M. | C. A. Wednesday. at the Central Y. M. C. A. next Wed- nesday at 6:30 p.m. 4+ Mr. Jennings will described “The Biggest Job in the World.” Harry L. Spratt, one-time shortstop with the Boston Braves, who has a boy in the Two of the students, North Long- field and Jack Edwards, will give toasts to “Our Mothers” and “Our Dads.” Thomas W. Lanigan, special THE EVENING FORD WINS SUIT OVER LINCOLN DEAL $100,000 Award to Sweeten Com- | pany Reversed and Counter "Claim Upheld. | STAR, WASHINGTON, Motor Co. $6,690, which it had orig- inally asked. The decision ends the second major legal controversy involving Ford’s pur- chase of the Lincoln Motor Co. in 1922. A Philadelphia jury awarded | the Sweeten concern $100,000 in Octo- | ber, 1933. The Sweeten concern was the Phil- adelphia representative of the Frank- lin Automobile Co. when the Lincoin Motor Co., was organized by the late D. C., Eighteen months after the agresment the Franklin concern went into re- ceivership and subsequently was pur- chased by the Fords. During the receivership the Sweeten company iiled claims alleging the Fords had induced the company to accept a new contract. Two months later, the company charged, Ford started suit ‘o collect $6,800 in notes which the Swezten company had given the old Lincoln company. TUESDAY, APRIL 2, SIX FLYERS KILLED AS CROWDS WATCH Jack Barstow, Former Aide to Lindbergh, Among Crash Victims, —_—— 1935. B—11 another flown by Eddie Jnhnmn.lmonupl-ne plummeted near an air- manager of the Corpus Christi, Tex., | port at Elmhurst, a few miles west of Alrport, and fell a hundred feet away | Chicago. With Abbott at the con- from scores of spectators. B-mnw| trols, the ship crumpled 25 feet from and Jack Cowgill, reporter for thea radio transmitting tower. Corpus Christi Caller-Times, a pas. | _Experimenting with a glider wing, senger, were killed. Johnson escaped | Floyd Davis, 22, parachute jumper, with only minor injuries. | hurtled 6,000 feet to death near Flint, Barstow was associated with Col.| Mich, when one of his two para- Charles A. Lindbergh in glider experi- , chutes fouled in the glider wing at- ments in San Diego, Calif,, in 1930. | tached to his back. Davis had hoped At De Leon, Tex, & student pilot, | !0 Use the wing, a 4-foot span of assistant to the Attorney General, will respond for the parents. Coleman Jennings, leader in civic| A dramatic sketch, “The Perfect end philanthropic enterprises, will be | Partnership,” will be presented by » guest of honor and principal speaker | DICK fi;‘;‘;'vspcm‘lflkflxrfl\ };’:c;h?):llf | at the annual father-mother-son ban- | Miss Janet Coons, bird imitator, will quet of the Woodward School for Boys | offer her specialty. Henry M. Leland and his son, Wilfred C. Leland. The Sweeten concern claimed 't was offered inducements by the Frank- lin Automobile Co. to become the Philadelphia agency for the Lincoln car, but the manufacturers failed to furnish cars, thereby causing loss. This suit was upheld today. Cecil Cook, 20, was burned to death fabric, to glide his flight to earth, after his plane fell from a low alti- | tude and burst into flames 2 miles | south of the city. Witnesses said his | rescue was impossible because of the | flames. L. W. 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