Durant Heirs

Before William Crapo Durant resigned from active management of Durant Motors (TIME, Jan. 21), he chose a group of new executives, heavily interested in Durant stock, to succeed him, and last week turned over the management to them. In his choice of heirs he showed a marked predilection for executives who had trained under the brothers John F. & Horace E. Dodge. They are: for president, Frederick J. Haynes, onetime president of Dodge Bros.; for vice president in charge of production and engineering, Ralph A. Vail, onetime engineer in charge of Dodge production; for secretary-treasurer, John A. Nichols, onetime vice president in charge of Dodge sales; for general sales manager. R. G. Hodgkins, onetime Studebaker sales manager. Official announcement of the new officers came from George Harrison Phelps Inc., onetime advertising agency for Dodge Bros.