October 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA" RUBBER WORLD 



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The Akron Seamless Rubber Tul)e Co., 126 West South 

 street, Akron, was incorporated November 7, 1917, under the 

 laws of Ohio, with a capital of $250,000, to manufacture rubber 

 inner tubes for tires. Its present officers are : G. C. March, 

 president; T. E. Barry, secretary; R. B. McReady, treasurer. 

 The board of directors includes also J. VV. Hassenflue, Carl 

 Myers and John Hausch. 



Recreation at the Miller Rubber Co., .^kron, will not slow up 

 during the winter months as plans are being made for a record- 

 breaking bowling season. In addition to having a team in the 

 Akron Industrial Bowling League and the company's Inter- 

 Dcpartment League of eight teams, a plan is on foot to organize 

 a second "Class -A" league throughout the factory, so that anyone 

 who likes bowling may have a chance to enjoy the game. 



John R, Gammeter, head of the experimental department of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., who spent the summer in Europe, has 

 returned to Akron. After going through Germany and the other 

 Central Powers he expressed the opinion that it will take many 

 years for these countries to recover from the effects of the 

 world war. 



The average .American working man is far better off than a 

 millionaire in Germany and the members of the so-called middle 

 classes in France and England, he said in telling of the food 

 shortage which confronts the European nations this winter. In 

 Germany the rationing system is in full force. 



There is a better feeling in Germany towards the United States 

 than any of the other .Allied nations. This he attributed to the 

 work being done by the Red Cross and other relief agencies. 

 There will be no coal in German homes this winter. All of the 

 fuel is being shipped to France and England, while German 

 business men are in this country buying coal to run their indus- 

 tries at $.35 a ton. 



Of all the countries he visited, Spain is the best situated eco- 

 nomically. There is an abundance of foodstuffs in that country 

 and little industrial trouble. Switzerland is in bad shape, due to 

 its inability to obtain imports. Holland is much better off, while 

 Italy, due to the falling down of her financial structure, is in an 

 even worse situation. 



Industrial disputes in France and England are retarding re- 

 adjustment in those countries. The crops in England are prac- 

 tically all failures, due to excessive rainfall. France will have 

 a bountiful harvest, nearly all of the devastated war regions being 

 replanted. 



F'rank Busbey, formerly in the publicity department of The 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., has resigned his position to take 

 charge of the "Cleveland Plain Dealer'' bureau in .^kron. 



H. S. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 

 .■\kron, who spent the larger part of the spring and summer in 

 Europe, has returned to his office. He insisted upon coming 

 home when the depression in business felt throughout the country 

 affected Akron, although a number of bankers in New York 

 assured him his presence at the factory was not imperatively 

 required. 



The aeronautical department of Tlic Cmodycar Tire & Rubber 

 Co., .\kron, recently launched "The Navy," a balloon built for 

 the United States Government. It is one of the largest lighter- 

 than-air craft of its kind built liy the company here since enter- 

 ing the air field. 



Reports from Detroit received in ."\kron, showing that the auto- 

 mobile manufacturers in that city will produce more automobiles 

 the coming year than have been produced in any year for the past 

 three years, is looked upon by Akron business men as an indica- 

 tion that a revival of the automobile and tire industries is at hand. 



Ground has been broken for the new $1.01X),000 Wellman- 

 Seavcr-Morgan Tractor Co. plant west of .Akron near Copley. 

 The company is a subsidiary of the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co.. 

 manufacturers of boilers and heavy machinery. It will manufac- 

 ture the "Akron Tractor," according to present plans. .Approxi- 



mately 10,000 men will be employed when the plant is placed in 

 operation. 



That thousands of men are not leaving .Akron weekly and filing 

 forwarding address, the Akron, post office records show. Only 

 3,784 forwarding addresses to other cities have been fdcd with 

 the Akron pos't office since July 1. This number is no higher than 

 during preceding months, and does not exceed the average of 

 about SO a day. 



The .Akron Chamber of Commerce has been successful in hav- 

 ing the Interstate Commerce Commission modify its rule com- 

 pelling shipment of all coal available for northern Ohio to the 

 Great Lakes and then to the Northwest, and will receive 40 cars 

 of coal a day for emergency purposes until lake navigation closes. 

 Akron homes were faced by a coal shortage worse than any 

 winter since before the war. 



Registration for entrance to the University of .Akron took 

 place September 18. Courses for teachers, working people and 

 citizens in general are offered. 



The Americanization' School of The B. F. Goodrich Co., .Akron, 

 opened September 13. All non-English-speaking employes of 

 the company are encouraged to take advantage of its classes. 



The structural en.ginecring and architectural work on ibe 

 new tire plant of the Phoenix Rubber Co., at East Akron, Oliio, 

 has recently been completed under the direction of R. G. Brown, 

 structural engineer of The Associated Engineers Co., Cleveland, 

 Ohio. 



MISCELLANEOUS OHIO NOTES 



The new plant of the Denman-Myers Cord Tire Co., Warren, 

 Ohio, i< now complete and fully equipped. In construction, ar- 

 rangement and machinery it is one of the most modern tire facr 

 tories in the country. It will be devoted exclusively to the 

 manufacture of Denman cord tires, and increased production was 

 started September IS. Walter R. Denman is secretary and gen- 

 eral manager and Walter E. Myers is president of the company. 



Dwighl P. Robinson & Co., Inc., New York City, with which 

 Westinghouse. Church, Kerr & Co., Inc., was recently consoli- 

 dated, has established a branch office in the Home Savings & 

 Loan Building, Youngstown, Ohio, in charge of C. I. Crippen. 

 The company recently moved its Cleveland office from the 

 Leader-News Building to the Citizens Building, in charge of 

 H. P. Clawson who was transferred from Chicago for tlie pur- 

 pose. , ! 



The Canton Rim Company, Canton, Ohio, which was incor- 

 porated for $100,000 on April 27, 1917, increased its capital to 

 $.S00,000 in March of the present year. The officers are F. G. 

 Graber, president; J. J. Litsinger, vice-president; Grover C. 

 Allison, treasurer; Charles Doerschuk, general manager. The 

 :ompany has just completed an addition, 88 by 120 feet, to its 

 factory at Louisville. 



The amiual sales convention of the Mason Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Kent, Ohio, was held at the company's home office September 

 9th and 10th. Several hundred branch managers and salesmen 

 were entertained at a banquet in the new Franklin Hotel. The 

 conference took place in the new addition to the administration 

 offices into which the company is about to move. The new type 

 of cord tire, the "Mason Junior," was introduced to the sales- 

 men, who followed its construction in the factory from raw 

 materials to finished product. This included inspection of the 

 textile division, which now produces from the raw cotton all 

 the cord used in Mason cord tires. 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Oliio, has a large tract 

 of land in the southern part of the city which will be developed 

 by the Mason Housing Co. within the next few years with the 

 building of homes for company employes. The Mason Housing 

 Co. is under the direction of Mason Tire & Rubber Co. officials. 



