Junkers v. Ford

Henry Ford and Hugo Junkers prudently admire each others business virtuosities. Professor Junkers sent his strapping son Ehrhard, 21, to study Ford production methods at Detroit before entering a German university. Ehrhard Junkers enjoyed genuine Ford hospitality from last Christmas until last Thanksgiving. Last week he sailed for Germany on the Bremen/- hoping to get home to Dessau for the marriage this week of his fourth sister Use to Mr. Ford's service-manager-in-Germany, a Herr Alkier.**

The Ford-Junkers admiration and personal amity, however, has not soothed a Junkers grievance nor quieted a commercial animosity. Professor Junkers considers that the Ford trimotored transport which William Bushnell Stout designed, uses some patented Junkers arrangements --the attachment of the motors to the wings, the construction of the body of the machine, the all metal system. Contesting with Ford in the U. S. the German decided was inexpedient. But when a Ford ship appeared at the London Air Show this year, Professor Junkers, foreseeing a Ford invasion of Europe, ordered his lawyers on guard. Last week the Ford Company tried to deliver one of its trimotored jobs to a Spanish air line at Seville. Swarmed lawyers and process servers with an injunction, the first of many which may keep the Fords from exporting their planes to Europe unless they first settle on a money basis with Professor Junkers.

/- Also aboard were the great plane designers Claude Dornier and Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker.

**Professor Junkers has eleven living children. A twelfth, Werner, was killed in a South American airplane accident six years ago. Unmarried Herta, 30, the eldest child, works in her father's factory. He sleeps and works in a private apartment above the factory because life at the main home, eight minutes walk away, is too bustling. He eats his meals with the family. They have another home at Aachen in the Frankenburg, once Charlemagne's hunting lodge.

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