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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



July 1, 1921 



dieted the greatest business the world has ever known after 

 industr\- had passed through the present depression. Following 

 Mr. Roy's talk. Thomas FoUen discussed tlie question of foreign 

 exchange. 



The principal speaker of the day, IvJward S. Bahcox, Editor 

 of the hidia Rubber Rcxietv, was detained at home and his 

 address was read by the Secretary. It dealt with the plan of 

 Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, to inaugurate a system 

 of basic Federal-collected statistics that would constitute a great 

 stabili;;ing influence if put into operation. 



The meeting unanimously adopted the following resolutions : 



Be it Resolved, by the Mid-West Rubber Manufacturers' .Asso- 

 ciation, at the regular monthly meeting luncheon, Chicago Athletic 

 Association, June 14. 1921, that the plan of Herbert Hoover, 

 Secretary of Commerce for basic. Federal-collected statistics is 

 hereby endorsed, and that the Mid-West Rubber Manufacturers' 

 Association urge upon congressmen that they vote for the appro- 

 priation of $600,000 retiuested by Mr. Hoover to carry on this 

 work. 



Be it Resolved, by the Mid-West Rubber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, at the regular monthly meeting luncheon, Chicago Athletic 

 Association, June 14, 1921, that all members of Congress be sent 

 a bulletin of this Association carrying a resolution endorsing the 

 plan of Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, for Federal- 

 collected statistics. 



MISCELLANEOUS MID-WESTEHN NOTES 



The Essenkay Products Co. has leased three buildings at 

 2601-9 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, Illinois, and plans to spend 

 $15,000 ii'. alterations. The present city sales and service de- 

 partment, now at Michigan avenue, will also be moved to the new 

 quarters. F. D. Mayer is president of the company. 



The Bennett Elastic Web Co., Chicago, Illinois, which was 

 incorporated under the laws of Illinois, February 9, 1920, capi- 

 talized at $50,000, on December 20, 1920, increased its capital 

 stock to $75,000. The incorporators of this company, which manu- 

 factures elastic web products and textiles, are all residents of 

 Chicago and are: C. F. Bennett, W. B. Bennett, Benson Landon, 

 Robert N. Holt, and Benson Landon, Jr. 



H. O. Smith, who recently assumed control of the Racine 

 Auto Tire Co., Racine, Wisconsin, is a veteran in the rubber 

 industry. He was one of the organizers of the Indianap<jlis 

 Rubber Co., and the G. & J. Tire Co., both of Indianapolis, 

 Indiana. While president of these two companies, which later 

 were merged with the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Co., Mr. 

 Smith became identified with the Premier Motor Manufacturing 

 Co. and served as its president. .As one of the employer members 

 of the N'ational War Labor Board, Mr. Smith also played his 

 part during the war. 



The Standard L'nderground Cable Co., Wcstinghouse Build- 

 ing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has purchased approximately 

 thirteen acres in the northwestern industrial section of St. Louis, 

 bounded by Kingshighway Boulevard and Slevin, Geraldine, and 

 Brown avenues, where it is proposed to erect, in the near future, 

 a thoroughly up-to-date plant for the manufacture of insulated 

 wire and cables. The I)uildings. several separate and complete 

 units of brick concrete and steel, will comprise a weatherproof 

 wire and cable factory, a copper-wire drawing mill, a magnet 

 wire department, etc. The floor area will cover about four acres. 

 Joseph W. Marsh is president of the company. 



The Wishnick-Tumpeer Chemical Co., Chicago, Illinois, will 

 place three automobiles at the disposal of members of the Mid- 

 West Rubber Manufacturers' .Association during the Pageant of 

 Progress Exposition to be held on the Municipal Pier in Chicago 

 from July 30 to .August 14. Members of the company will act as 

 guides and chauffeurs. Appointments may be arranged by mail. 



Charles Piez, president of the Link-Belt Co., Chicago, Illinois, 

 and former director-general of the United States Shipping Board 



Emergency Fleet Corporation, addressed the Engineering .Adver- 

 tisers' .Association of Chicago at the Great Northern Hotel on 

 June 7, his subject being "Advertising and Selling from the 

 E.xecutive Viewpoint." 



Harry E. Geib has been appointed manager of the Chicago, 

 Illinois, office of A. Schrader's Sons, Inc., Brooklyn, New York. 

 Mr. Geib has been with the Schradcr forces over five years and 

 his exceptional executive ability has won him rapid advancement. 

 He is particularly well-equipped to render to customers that 

 efficient service characteristic of the Schrader house. 



The Fumess Corporation, 343 South Dearborn street, Chicago, 

 Illinois, has at Clarksboro, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, what, 

 engineers claim to be the largest deposit of high-grade fuller's 

 earth yet discovered in this country. Tests show it to equal any 

 of the bleaching clays imported from England and heretofore 

 held as standard. The company has begun the development of 

 its holdings, which consist of 270 acres, a mill with a daily 

 capacity of 60 tons having been established. Excellent shipping 

 facilities and low cost of mining enable the product to be put 

 into the Chicago market at a very reasonable price. 



The stockholders of the International India Rubber Corpora- 

 tion, South Bend, Indiana, at their annual meeting held in 

 January, voted that the name of the company be changed to 

 Odell Rubber Co. The principal product of the company is 

 "Odell" cord tires. 



Building operations have commenced on the new $1,000,000 

 tire plant of the Wildman Rubber Co., at Bay City, Michigan. 

 The site is on a tract of 63 acres just south of Salzburg. The 

 building under construction is of reenforced concrete, 365 by 

 161 -feet, three stories and basement, and will have a daily 

 capacity of 2,500 tires and 5,000 Wildman self-sealing inner 

 tubes. It is hoped to begin production before the end of the 

 year. 



THE MOST WESTERN TOY BALLOON FACTORY 



One of the new and flourishing rubber industries on the Pacific 

 Coast is the making of air and gas toy balloons and other 

 inflatable novelties by the Pacific Balloon Co. at its plant, 186 

 Blaine street. Riverside, California. The concern was started 

 a year and a half ago by H. A. Dodge, the president, who is 



Pacific B.^lloon Co.'s Plant, Riverside, California. 



also interested in a similar concern, the Howe-Bauniann Rubber 

 Co., of Newark, New Jersey, to supply the trade between Chicago 

 and the West Coast. 



Donald Fullerton is secretary-treasurer and manager of the new 

 project that is producing 20,000 balloons daily and steadily in- 

 creasing to meet a demand which the company has done much 

 to promote. Until the advent of the company, toy rubber balloons 

 were comparatively rare and dear on the Pacific Coast, it is said. 



The factory was built especially for the manufacture of these 

 toys, and it has an up-to-date equipment of dipping and curing 

 apparatus, cement-mixing machines, form stripping devices, roller 

 coineyors, etc. The rubber used for the gas balloons is cleaned, 



