Personnel

Last week the following were news :

Sir Henry Worth Thornton resigned as president of Canadian National Railways. His duties were taken over by Samuel James Hungerford.

William Benson Mayo, 66, resigned as chief engineer of Ford Motor Co. and vice president in charge of aviation. Associated with Henry Ford for 20 years, a close friend and adviser. Engineer Mayo said he plans a short vacation, will then devote himself to "engineering developments." During his work for the Ford Motor Co., Engineer Mayo, a keen-eyed man with big ears and tight lips, has been connected with almost every major development in the company, including the building of dams, ore carriers and the 40-passenger Ford "Pullman" airplane.

Elisha Walker, bankless banker, and Herbert Bayard Swope, rufous onetime executive editor of the old New York World, were made directors of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. at the request of a group reported to hold 150,000 shares and headed by Bernard Mannes Baruch. Financier Baruch's direct entrance into B. M. T. affairs was thought likely to hasten unification of New York's scrambled subways.

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