November 1. 1919] 



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offered until October 6 to purchase from one to five shares of 

 seven per cent preferred stock of the company in addition to 

 that to which they were entitled as common stockholders. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, entertained 100 local 

 tire dealers at luncheon September 24 and took them through 

 plant No. 2 which has recently been put into operation. The 

 luncheon was given to introduce George H. Bacon, formerly of 

 Baltimore, Maryland, who has recently been appointed manager 

 of the local sales branch of the company. It was announced that 

 the output of the company has been increased from 22,000 to 

 36,000 tires per day for the coming year. 



E. C. Vermillion, for the past year identified with the Ameri- 

 canization work of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., has been 

 made director of Americanization work of the public schools 

 following the resignation of E. P. Wiles, formerly of Cleveland. 



The latest development in industrial sports in Akron is the 

 formation of an industrial polo league, imder the management of 

 J. D. Thomas, formerly county treasurer. The Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co., The B. F. Goodrich Co., The Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co and The ililler Rubber Co. are among the rubber 

 factories who have joined the league. The games are to be 

 played in a local amusement park. 



The Miller .-Xthletic Association of The Miller Rubber Co.. 

 .\kron, has won the industrial tennis championship of the city. 



The .\kron Rubber Mold & Machine Co., Akron, has neither 

 changed hands nor is considering such a move. To the con- 

 trary, the officers of the company, consisting of S. W. Harris, 

 president and general manager ; W. E. Wilson, vice-president and 

 assistant general manager, and G. F. Hobach. secretary- and 

 treasurer, are all active in their respective positions and authorize 

 the announcement that decision has been reached to purchase and 

 install new equipment and increase the size of the plant which 

 will enable the company to take care of its rapidly increasing 

 business and insure improved service on deliveries to its 

 customers. 



.\rthur H. Leavitt. who returned to The B. F. Goodrich Co., 

 Akron, in charge of pneumatic truck lire and motor products 

 sales when he received his discharge as major in the Motor 

 Transport Corps, has resigned to accept the position of assistant 

 sales manager with The Akron Rubber Mold & Machine Co., 

 Akron. He had been with the Goodrich company eight years 

 prior to 1917, when he was the first Goodrich employe to enlist 



The Portage Rubber Co., Akron and Barberton, has elected 

 M. S. Long president in place of W. W. Wildraan, resigned. 

 The following appointments have also been made: H. M. Kerr, 

 formerly auditor of factory costs- and accounts for The B. F. 

 (Joodrich Co., Akron, controller ; E. W. McCreery, formerly 

 assistant sales manager of the Republic Rubber Co., Youngs- 

 town, Ohio, assistant sales manager ; B. M. Schreckingost 

 special factory representative with headquarters at the faaory. 



The company has ordered the preparation of plans and specifi- 

 .^ations for a three-story reinforced concrete addition to the fac- 

 tory, to cost approximately S200.000. 



The Rubber City Clearing House Co., Akron, has increased its 

 capitalization from 5200,000 to $500,000, and is building a four- 

 story huilding of modern construction, 125 by 150 feet with rail- 

 road frontage, which will cost approximately $150,000. The 

 concern deals in blemished seconds and surplus stocks of tires 

 and also in raincoats, rubber shoes, hot-w^ater bottles, etc., in 

 the nature of seconds. 



The India Tire & Rubber Co., .\kron and Mogadore, Ohio, has 

 appointed William G. Lerch superintendent. He was formerly in 

 charge of tire production for The Miller Rubber Co., Akron. 



The insurance plan of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. 

 .\kron, recently adopted, operates on a service basis and not on 



that of salary. Employes may carry as high as ^,000 insurance 

 after 20 years with the company. Ten years entitles a man to 

 $2,000 and 15 to $2,500. The initial policy is for $1,000. These 

 amounts are not affected by the State Workmen's Compensation 

 Fund. 



The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has been cited by the War 

 Department for its part in the war. The flag which was given 

 the company as an acknowledgment of its patriotism is hanging 

 in the lobby of the factory office of the company. 



Miss Gertrude V. Seiberling, daughter of F. A. Seiberling, 

 president of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, was 

 married to John L. Handy on October 4, 1919, at Stan Hywet 

 'fall, the Seiberling residence. 



The American championship in balloon racing was won by 

 Ralph H. Upson, pilot of the balloon "Goodyear 11" of the Akron 

 -Aero Qub, when he won the recent race which started October 1 

 from St. Louis, Missouri. Upson was the seventh out of the ten 

 contestants to report landing and the fourth to land in Canada, 

 coming down at 8:55 p. m. October 2 at Dunham, Que- 

 bec, in a severe thunderstorm. The duration of the trip 

 was 262/3 hours and the straight line distance. 1,030 miles. Up- 

 son also won the 1913 race and R. A. D. Preston, another Good- 

 year man whose picture appeared in The Ixdl\ Riaber World 

 for November 1, 1918, won in 1914. Both Upson and Preston 

 are therefore qualified to enter the international balloon race in 

 1920. 



"Every foreign-bom workman speaking English and no man 

 without his first papers by 1921," is the slogan of The Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co. in its Americanization program, aided by the 

 factory school where aliens are uught to read, write, and speak 

 English. There are now 61 classes weekly, and the entire course 

 consists of 250 hours of class-room work in three grades com- 

 prising conversational English, historv- and government and the 

 ideals of Americanization. Each student is advanced to the next 

 higher class as soon as capable. 



raXTZLAKD HOTIS. 



The Thermoid Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey, has opened 

 a local sales office at 1302-1303 Swetland Building, Oeveland. in 

 charge of H. R. Portugal Carl A. SchelL in charge of engineer- 

 ing, also has his headquarters at the same place. 



The D. & M. Cord Tire Co., Engineers Building. Qeveland, 

 is building a one-story brick building. 140 by 220 feet for the 

 exclusive manufacture of cord tires, and is plaiming a three- 

 story brick, steel, and concrete building, 130 by 285 feet to be 

 started during the coming year. The manufacture of iimer tubes 

 will be postponed until completion of the latter building. The 

 production of cord tires is planned to start about Februarv 1, 

 1920. 



The McElrath Tire & Rubber Co., Oeveland. has accepted the 

 factorj- site offered by the Chamber of Commerce of Ravenna, 

 Ohio, which consists of ten acres of land west of the Erie railroad 

 depot adjoining the railroad on Oakwood street. The formal ac- 

 ceptance written the Ravenna Chamber of Commerce, signed by 

 R. P. McElrath as president of the company, was dropped in a 

 box from an airplane so that it landed on the new factory site. 

 Ground will be broken in the near future. 



The Zenith Tire & Rubber Co., Leader Building. Qeveland, 

 has purchased 236 acres of land at the east edge of the city, 

 between Euclid avenue and the Nickel Plate and New York 

 Central railroads. Plans are being prepared for a group of 

 buildings consisting of a power plant main factorj-. and admini- 

 stration building, to cost approximately $1,000,000. Construction 

 work will start early next year. 



mSCEIXAlTEOUS OHIO VOTES. 



The Pennsylvania Rubber Co.. East Jeannette. Pennsylvania, 

 has opened a branch office at 120 East 8th street Gndntiati, in 



