Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-07

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rapher.
From Cotton TO Automobiles.
Albert R. Erskine, So, president of the
Studebaker Corporation, is a college
graduate. He started his business ca
reer with the American Cotton Co.
David A. Crawford, 81, vice president of
the Pullman Co., is college-bred man.
He started as assistant secretary with
the American Car and Foundry Works.
John N. WHY'S, 81, retired president of
the WHY'S Overland Co., and now the
United States. envoy to Poland, re-
ceived little elementary education. He
started as a laundryman.
Alvan Macauley, So, president of the
Packard Motor Car Co., soon turned
from law to business. Roy E. Tomlin-
son. SO, president of the National Bis
cult Co., college man, started with the
company and stayed there, and Stephen
Birch, So, president of the Kennecott
Copper Corporation, also college man,
started with that company. r. D. Block,
SO, president of the Inland Steel Co.,
with only a high-school education, be-
gan his career in steel mill. H. M.
Dawes, So, president of the Pure Oil
Co., started in the gas and oil business
after a four-year college course.
Several oil executives seem to have
been drawn from law Axtell j. Byles,
so, president of the Tidewater Oil Co.,
was graduated from Princeton and
Pittsburgh, and practiced law before
going into the oil business.
Philip D. Wagner, 81, president of
the Underwood Elliott Fisher Co., was
graduated from college and started his
business career In the shops of a Brook
Ign street car company. With no more
than a gramner school education and
newsboy experience, Charles B. Van
Dusen, SO, has become president of the
S. S. Kresge Co.
Norman F. S. Russell, so, president of
the United States Cast Iron Pipe and
Foundry Co., was graduated from college
and started as a clerk. Myron E. Forbes,
so, president of the Pierce Arrow Motor
Co., started in the shops of the COM
pany after graduating from college.
The 1910 Glass.
The largest group of executives is
composed of men between so and 10.
Seventeen of these received a college
education, while II received, at best,
high-school training. The college men
are Pierre Samuel dupont, so, chairman
of the board OF E. l. DUPONT Nemours &
Co.. Gen. James G. Harbord, "a, presi-
dent of the Radio Corporation of Amer
lea, who started as a soldier; Samuel
McRobertS,- 81, chairman of the finance
committee Of Armour & Co.; j. P. Nor
gan, So. ]. P. Morgan & Co.; Charles
A. Stone, 63, chairman of the board,
Stone & Webster & Blodgett, Inc;
James G. White, SO. president of j. c.
White Co., Inc; Charles M. Schwab
So, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel
Co., who started his business life in a
grocery store; Earl D. Babst go, chair
man of the American Sugar Refining
Co.: Simon Guggenheim So, president
Of the American Smelling and Refining
Co.; william H. Woodin 50, president
of the American Car and Foundry Co.;
Edward J. Cornish, president of the
National Lead Coz Otto H. Falk, 65,
president of the AlliS- Chalmers Manu-
featuring Co.; Robert P. Lamont, So,
president of the American Steel Foun-
dries; D. C. Jackling, 81. president of
the Utah Copper Co.; Charles Hayden,
60, chairman of the Cuba Cane Sugar