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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



May 1, 1921 



Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., was president of the company. 

 Stock holdings amounted to nmrc than $2,500,000, and the money 

 will be refunded to the stockholders as rapidly as payments are 

 collected from the owners of the homes. 



More than sixty Akron business men, representing every line 

 of industry, with a good number of rubber men, made the first 

 trade extension trip to the communities west of Akron on April 

 14. The. delegation went on a special train to five small towns, 

 the farthest away being 68 miles west of the city. J. B. Huber, 

 president of the Giamber of Commerce, originated the idea. 

 Crannell Morgan, of the Hardware & Supply Co., was chairman 

 of the committee which made arrangements for the trip. 



When delays in collecting taxes made it impossible to compel 

 payment in March, The B. F. Goodrich Co. was one of the large 

 companies which responded to appeals for assistance by paying 

 taxes amounting to almost one-quarter of a million dollars, when 

 under the law payment could have been deferred until June. 

 The officials of the company, however, were shown the dire need 

 in which the city and county would find itself if the large taxpay- 

 ers held up their payments any longer and responded quickly. 



Lee R. Miller, who with his brother Harvey and Jacob Pfeiffer, 

 organized The Miller Rubber Co. 26 years ago, has organized a 

 new company with a capital of $50,000 to manufacture surgical 

 rubber gloves at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The new corporation is 

 known as the Surgeon Rubber Glove Co. Flans regarding build- 

 ing and production have not yet been announced, but the new 

 company is being watched with interest by rubber men who won- 

 der whether the future will see the $50,000 company expand into 

 another Miller plant within the next few years. Mr. Miller was 

 instrumental in starting production of the standard rubber glove 

 by the Miller company. Recently this department was sold to a 

 Qeveland concern. Associated with Mr. Miller in the new project 

 are H. C. Osborne, C. N. Snook, J. P. Carney and L. J. Miller. 



The Mason Tire & Rubber Co. has paid in common and pre- 

 ferred dividends more than $1,000,000 since its organization in 

 1915, according to official announcement by the company, accom- 

 panying declaration of the regular quarterly dividend on the pre- 

 ferred stock on April 1. 



H. G. Wilson, formerly editor of the Goodyear Tire Nezifs, 

 is now connected with the Firestone Non-Skid. The Goodyear 

 Tire Neu-s has been temporarily discontinued. 



W. T. Behoteguy, for the past ten years manager of The 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s automobile tire sales, has been 

 placed in charge of company tire sales, to succeed W. G. Palmer, 

 who has retired because of ill health. Mr. Behoteguy is suc- 

 ceeded by Fred L. Morgan, who for the past ten years has been 

 in charge of the Cleveland branch of the company sales depart- 

 ment. C. W. Santee has been placed in charge of the reorgan- 

 ized sales department of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 

 Under Mr. Santee will be R. W. Clark, sales promotion depart- 

 ment manager ; W. H. Som, service department manager ; P. R. 

 Baugh, dealer development manager; H. H. Tolman, govern- 

 ment sales division manager; C. A. Reed, manager of stock 

 clearance division, and A. R. Kooh, who will continue to lecture 

 on farm field work. 



L. M. Barton, who resigned from the publicity department of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co. a year ago, has been named sales mana- 

 ger of the Republic Tire & Rubber Co., of Youngstown and 

 Canton, Ohio. 



The affairs of the Interlocking Tire & Rubber Co., which re- 

 cently ended disastrously in a receivership, remain in the same 

 condition in which they were reported a month ago. The stock- 

 holders, working through a committee, have raised $50,000 to take 

 over the operation of the plant, but thus far neither the receiver 

 nor the court under which he is holding the company property 

 have felt it wise to turn the plant over to the stockholders' com- 

 mittee. Meetings are being held weekly with the view of placing 

 the company back on its feet financially. 



With the increased interest shown by Akron manufacturers in 

 foreign trade, the remarks of Bertram G. Work, president of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., upon his return from his annual visit 

 to Germany and France, were of even greater importance this 

 year than heretofore. In Germany the industrial conditions and 

 food supply have shown improvement over the past year and 

 the spirit of the people has changed for the better, Mr. Work 

 said. Prices of meat remain very high in Germany, although 

 supplies were sufficiently large to warrant the abrogation of the 

 meat restriction last November. From the social standpoint 

 France has improved, Mr. Work said, but business is bad. The 

 motor industry- has been hard hit. With gasoline at 80 cents a 

 gallon, economy can naturally be expected. But the last two 

 months have shown signs of improvement. Bankers reflect this 

 better condition of business. 



The mute colony of Akron, which at the peak contained 3,000 

 men and women, has practically disappeared. With the general 

 lay-off of men the mutes returned to their homes. They ex- 

 pressed the desire, however, to return to Akron when business 

 conditions made it possible to obtain work. The mutes were 

 found to be very skillful and efficient workers. 



The Board of Education has honored the Seiberling family 

 for its loyalty to Akron and interest in public questions by 

 naming the $1,000,000 high school building to be erected in 

 Goodyear Heights, the company home site allotment, for the 

 Seiberling family. Bonds for the school have been sold. The 

 land upon which the school is to be built was donated by F. A. 

 Seiberling, president of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. The 

 plans for the building are along lines approved by Mr. Seiberling 

 and the building will be one of the most modern in the country. 



Two men were killed and four otliers injured in an explosion 

 at The Miller Rubber Co. cement house April 12. The cause of 

 the explosion has not been determined, although William 

 Pfeiffer, secretary and treasurer of the company, has made a per- 

 sonal investigation. The explosion broke hundreds of windows 

 in the main plant, but the general material damage was small. 



Plans for building a manor house on the Portage Country 

 Club grounds, to replace the club house partially destroyed by 

 fire two months ago, have been completed. The total cost of 

 the buildings has not been announced. The former club house 

 was the center of much of the social activity of the rubber men 

 in Akron. 



W. W. Hall, foreign trade director of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, and E. E. Titus, export manager of The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co., a member of the Chamber's foreign trade committee, have 

 i)cen honored by important appointments at the International 

 Trade Conference to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, May 4 to 7. 

 Mr. Titus has been named a member of the special advisory 

 committee which is to assist beginners in the export field, and 

 Mr Hall has been named secretary of the motion picture group, 

 which will study motion pictures in connection with foreign 

 trade development. 



At the recent annual stockholders' meeting of The India Tire 

 & Rubber Co., Akron, the same officers were reelected. They 

 are: J. M. Aldefer, president; J. K. William, vice-president; D. 

 A. Grubb, secretary and P. C. Searless, treasurer. 



The Mohawk Rubber Company, Akron, manufacture a complete 



line of odd size casings and tubes, as follows: 



ilxSyi N. S. CI. 37x454 N. S. S. S. and Q. D. 



i'ixl'A N. S. S. S. and Q. D. 36.x5 N. S. Q. D. and CI. 



35x4 N. S. S. S. and Q. D. 36x5!4 N. S. CI. 



36x4 N. S. S. S. and Q. D. 37xS'A N. S. Q. D. 



38xSJ4 N. S. Q. D. 



NEW HOME FOK AKRON ADVERTISING AGENCY CO. 



The Akron Advertising Agency Co. has acquired its own build- 

 ing at lis South Union street, in the residential section of Akron. 

 Improved business and staff additions necessitated removal into 

 larger quarters. When built this residence was the finest and 



