Evening star. [volume], December 19, 1947, Page A-7, Image 7

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Fight for Son Started
By Mrs. Charrington
In British Courts
A trans-Atlantic fight for custody
of 6-year-old Robin Montgomerie
Charrington got underway today
after the boy, toho disappeared last
Monday from his mother’s home in
Warrenton, Va., arrived in London
with his father.
William Saxe of New York, counsel
for Mrs. Marsyl Stokes Charrington,
said he was making arrangements
with London attorneys to bring
Robert Montgomerie-Charrington,
the estranged husband, into court
on a writ of habeas corpus.
The writ, he said, was a method
of raising the custody question. The
court, he explained, will be asked to
decide "what is in the best interests
of the child.”
"We are going to contend,” Mr.
Saxe declared, "that the child is bet
, ter off with his mother, particularly
since she always has supported
him.”
Graunded at Shannon Airport.
Traveling incognito, the boy and
his father arrived at London Air
port today. They made the trip
from Montreal on a British Over-j
seas airliner, which was grounded
by bad weather at Shannon Airport,
Eire, last night.
The press report of their arrival
at Shannon was the first word Mrs.
Charrington had of their destina
tion since the boy and his father
left her Warrenton home while she
was shopping in nearby Mlddleburg.
Va. Mrs. Charrington accused her
husband of “abducting” the child—
thereby breaking what she described
as a Christmas “truce.”
At Shannon, the former British
Army officer told reporters he would
“go to any extreme to retain cus
tody of my son.”
Travel Under Name of “Brown.” .
At the London airport, he re
fused to talk with reporters who
recognized the pair, although they
were traveling under the names of
“Mr. Brown and Master Brown.”
They were expected to go to the
home of Mr. Montgomerie-Char
ringfcon’s grandmother at Hunsdon,
Hertfordshire.
The British Press Associated
quoted a member of the grand
mother’s household as saying:
"Everything is ready. We do not
expect to see Mr. Montgomerie
Charrington today, but expect he
will stay in London for a day or
two. Mrs. Montgomerie (the 88
year-old grandmother) is quite ex
cited and everything Is ready' for
her grandson when he arrives."
Says Heat Is Lacking.
The prospect of Robin’s arrival at
Hunsdon filled Mrs. Charring ton
with foreboding. She said the home,
while large and full of servants,
had no central heating or electricity
and was short on coal.
The boy, she said, had spent week
ends there, but lived with her at a
house she owned a mile away from
the grandmother’s estate.
The Charringtons were married
in Cairo, Egypt, in 1940 and have
been separated about six months.
Sloan Denies Coercing
Dealers to Use GM Unit
By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—Alfred P.
Sloan, chairman of General Motors
Corp., yesterday denied in Federal
Court that he ever coerced auto
mobile dealers to finance sales
through General Motors Acceptance
Corp., a GM subsidiary.
"I’m a strong believer in competi
tion, and competition is the cor
poration’s philosophy,” Mr. Sloan
testified before Judge Walter J.
La Buy.
The industrialist was a witness
in a $2,800,000 damage suit brought
against General Motors by Fred
Emich, a former Chevrolet dealer,
who alleged violation of antitrust
laws.
Mr. Emich accused the corpora
tion of canceling his two Chevrolet
franchises because he refused to
deal with the acceptance subsidiary.
Mr. Sloan, who also denied there
was any conspiracy to force dealers
to use GMAC, said the subsidiary
was founded because it was believed
General Motors could expand its
business by arranging Installment
buying.
Chapter Awarded Plaque
By Management Group
The Washington Chapter of the
Society for the Advancement of
Management has received a plaque
is the organization's chapter with
the most distinguished record of
jontributions to the science of man
igement. The plaque was presented
it a meeting last night at the
IToung Women’s Christian Associa
tion Building, Seventeenth and K
itreets NW.
Howard Hyde, chapter president,
iccepted the trophy, whose award
vas announced at a recent national
:onference, from Edward B. Wilber,
lational director.
Dr. Ronald Lippitt, 1 director of
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s Research Center for
Human Dynamics, conducted a
sample group discussion. Dr. Le
land Bradford, director of the Adult
Education Division of the National
Education Association, introduced
the demonstration. Other partici
pants included Dr. John R. P.
French of the M. I. T. center, and
Theron Butterworth of the United
States Public Health Service,
First Insurance Company
The first life insurange company
in America, organized in 1759, was
called “A Corporation for the Re
lief of Poor and Distressed Presby
terian Ministers and of Poor and
Distressed Widows and Children of
Presbyterian Ministers.”
Realistic Sound Effects
Of Silent Films Recalled
By th* Associated Press
DENVER.—John T. McParland,
retiring at 71 as superintendent of
the city auditorium, recalls that in
the silent movie days, former Mayor
Robert Speer insisted on a free show
for the public every Sunday.
“Eighteen of us used to go crazy
trying to give realistic sound effects
for those shows,” McParland said.
“We had rock crushers, steam whis
tles and fire bells back of the screen
and a 35-piece orchestra out front.
“We had a war picture one Sun
day. I got hold of the adjutant
general of the State National Guard
and he loaned me a Gatling; gun.
There was no blank ammunition for
the gun, so he had an entire com
pany stay up Saturday night dig
ging the slugs out of the bullets.
The theater even smelled like a
battlefield after that show.”
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