July 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



767 



John D. Hess, Jr. 



James \V. O'Meara, of the advertising department of The B. 

 F. Goodrich Rubber Co., has resigiied, effective July 1, and has 

 not announced his future plans. For the past si.\ years Mr. 

 O'Meara had charge of the company's news service for news- 

 papers and magazines. 



J. H. .\ppleby, for many years connected with the .St. Louis 

 and Kansas City, Missouri, branches of the Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co., has been promoted to the firm's force of special 

 motorcycle tire representatives. 



John D. Hess, Jr., has been promoted to manager of pneumatic 

 tire sales for the Firestone Tire 

 & Rubber Co , with headquarters 

 at Akron. Starting with the com- 

 pany nine years ago as salesman 

 at Detroit, Michigan, he has 

 successfully filled the position 

 of branch manager at Geveland, 

 Ohio, special representative to 

 truck manufacturers, district 

 manager on the Pacific Coast, 

 and assistant to the western 

 sales manager. He has been 

 afforded an opportunity to study 

 tire merchandising under all lo- 

 cal conditions throughout the 

 country and has gained a wide 

 acquaintance in the tire and 

 allied industries among whom 

 his promotion is welcomed 

 as well merited. 



On account of ill health, O. L. Weaver, who was connected 

 with The Star Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, since its organization, 

 has tendered his resignation. The office of sales manager, for- 

 merly held by Mr. Weaver, will be assumed by A. G. Partridge, 

 who is also vice-president of the company. Mr. Partridge was 

 previously vice-president and general sales manager of the Fire- 

 stone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Dr. W. C. Geer, of The B. F. Goodrich Co., with Mrs. Geer, 

 has left for Europe where they will travel for the next month. 



Councilman Gus F. Kasch has proposed that monuments to the 

 originators of four world industries in Akron be erected in Akron. 

 Among them is a monument for Dr. B. F. Goodrich, the orig- 

 inator of the rubber industry on its present basis. The others 

 are for the originator of the Chautauqua plan, cereals and the 

 founder of the sewer pipe industry. Thus far Mr. Kasch's plan 

 has not gone beyond suggestion. 



Harry Quine, for several years connected with the lecture de- 

 partment of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., has resigned to 

 accept a position with the National Highway Council in Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



P. B. Martins, for more than 5 years manager of the safety 

 department of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., has resigned. 



The past presidents of the Chamber of Commerce, many of 

 whom are directly or indirectly connected with the rubber in- 

 dustry, entertained the Italian Commission on electrification of 

 Italian industries and railways at the City Club the latter part 

 of May. The commissioners visited the Ohio Insulator Co. at 

 Barberton, part of the Akron district, and The B. F. Goodrich 

 Co. during the day before coming to the chamber dinner. They 

 asked that Akron men assist Italy in building up its industries 

 by the extension of credit and by actually going to Italy to 

 give assistance. 



Leroy R. Reifsnider is president, E. C. Shaw, formerly vice- 

 president of The B. F. Goodrich Co., is vice-president, and Paul 

 Held is treasurer of a new $2,000,000 building and loan association 

 which has been organized and will open for business within a 

 month. It is believed by the organizers that more money will 



be available for home building with the decrease in returns 

 for rubber stocks. 



Walter T. .-Xkers has been named receiver for the B. & W. 

 Rubber Co., one of the smaller and newer rubber companies of 

 Akron. Louis W. Bogner, factory superintendent, filed the pe- 

 tition for receivership, alleging that the company owed him $2,019, 

 which, under the administration previous to the receivership, had 

 been lost. He aI.so charged that the plant had been operated 

 only a few months and was closed about September 1, 1920. 



Little definite progress has been made in solving the difficulties 

 of the Interlocking Cord Tire Co., Akron. The plan whereby 

 the creditors were to be paid oflf within a year with money to 

 be made by the company operating the plant was not accepted 

 by the court under which the receiver was appointed. The 

 receiver has asked that the stockholders pay the portion of 

 their stocks which remained due, and the court ordered that the 

 final payments on the stocks be made. Whether the stockholders 

 will finally be able to obtain sufficient money to operate the 

 plant and raise the receivership is a matter of doubt in Akron. 



The employes of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. gave a 

 farewell party to their former chief, F. A. Seiberling, at the 

 Goodyear Auditorium which he built for them, and it was one 

 of the most touching scenes ever enacted in Akron. His brother 

 Charles was presented with a loving cup, while a similar fund 

 raised by the employes for Mr. Seiberling will doubtless be used 

 to purchase additional equipment for the Children's Hospital. 



MISCEILANEOUS OHIO NOTES 



The Hercules Rubber Corporation reports a change of address 

 from 908 Union Central Building to 922 Race street, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio. 



Dexter C. Hathaway, branch manager at Cleveland, Ohio, has 

 been appointed to the assistant sales managership of The McGraw 

 Tire & Rubber Co.. East Palestine, Ohio, Temporarily he will 

 continue to supervise the affairs of the Cleveland branch to 

 which he has devoted himself since his affiliation with the com- 

 pany almost a year ago. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE MID-WEST 



By Our Regular Correspoiiilent 



MID-WEST RUBBER MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION 



AT the June 14th meeting of the Mid-West Rubber Manufac- 

 turers' Association, a stirring short talk was given by Ensign 

 Roger v. I'Tory, of Chicago, attorney for the American Legion, 

 in which he said, "The American Legion is taking the place of 

 the G. A. R. in keeping alive and continuing the proper ob- 

 servances in patriotic matters," and urged that ex-service men' 

 be given preferential employment as a matter of patriotic duty. 



The board of directors' meeting was presided over by George 

 B. Dryden, who gave a very interesting review of the mechanical 

 goods industry and expressed his opinion that the lx)ttom price 

 may not yet have been reached but nevertheless it is not a bad 

 time to buy rubber. He believes that factories now given up 

 entirely to the manufacture of tires and tubes should give more 

 attention to other lines of manufactured rubber goods, as the 

 possibilities of rubber mantifacture have nowhere near reached 

 the limit. 



The following speakers were called upon and responded briefly: 

 J. H. McGrory, Katzenbach & Bullock; O. L. Heath of The 

 Barrett Company; C. H. Taveniere, Fred Stern & Co.; C. Stitt, 

 .•\. Daigger & Co. ; W. E. Wrisberg, Newsom Valve Co. ; D. L. 

 Sprakcr, Kokomo Rubber Co., and E. H. Bohlman, Cupples Com- 

 l)any. 



Sydney J. Roy, Hannibal Rubber Co., Hannibal, Missouri, 

 gave a splendid talk on tires. He insisted that tires must be well 

 made ; they have been sold too cheaply, but an honest product 

 nuist be turned out ; the tire industry must be put on a solid 

 foundation and fictitious adjustments eliminated. Mr. Roy pre- 



