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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[DtXKMIlKK 1, 1919. 



NEW JERSEY ZINC CO.'S RUBBER CHEMIST. 



H.\Ri..\N .\. IJepew, who has recently associated himself wilh 

 the research division of the New Jersey Zinc Co., at Palm- 

 erion, Pennsylvania, is peculiarly well fitted to fill the posi- 

 tion. Having graduated from the Chemical Engineering Depart- 

 ment of the University of Michi- 

 gan in 1913, and after teaching 

 general chemistry for a year, and 

 taking a year of post-graduate 

 work, he received the degree of 

 M. S. in physical chemistry in 

 1914. The next year he entered 

 the Bureau of Mines at Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, for research 

 work in physical chemistry and 

 two years later was sent to 

 Seattle, Washington, as the 

 chemist in the new metallurgical 

 station then being opened there. 

 In January, 1918, he was trans- 

 ferred to the war gas investi- 

 gation under the Bureau of 

 Mines, at American University, 

 Washington, D. C, becoming a 

 second lieutenant, C. W. S., U. S. A., when the War Depart- 

 ment took over the work, which oflSce he filled until December 

 30, 1918. He then entered the employ of the Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, as research physical chemist, working 

 largely on problems of heat, such as heat distribution during 

 vulcanization, and heat due to internal friction. 



Entering upon his new duties with the New Jersey Zinc Co. 

 in October, he is now engaged in experimental work on rubber 

 compounds and studying the properties produced by the dif- 

 ferent pigments in these compounds. 



Harlan A. Depew. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



J. P. Davis, purchasing agent of the Belden Manufacturing 

 Co., Chicago, Ilhnois, has been elected president of the Pur- 

 chasing Agents' Association, Chicago. Special importance at- 

 taches to this position at this time, since the convention of the 

 National Association of Purchasing Agents is to be held in Chi- 

 cago in 1920. Mr. Davis was formerly assistant purchasing 

 agent for the Standard Underground Cable Co., Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania, and has been with the Belden company since 

 1916. 



William F. Hart, who recently resigned as sales manager of 

 the Rubber Insulated Metals Corp., Plainfield, New Jersey, has 

 been appointed sales manager of the Needham Tire & Rubber 

 Co. of New York, Inc., 1695 Broadway, New York City. 



Harold O. Smith, formerly president of the J. & D. Tire Co., 

 Charlotte, North Carolina, has become associated with the Ajax 

 Rubber Co., Inc., 218 West 57th street. New York City, in 

 charge of the company's activities pertaining to housing and 

 general welfare work. 



The estate of the late Frank Cazenove Jones, whose obituary 

 was published in The India Rubber World, October 1, 1918, 

 has been appraised as follows: Total estate, $117,445; cash, 

 $14,477 ; personal, $3,724 ; stocks and bonds, $99,244. His widow, 

 Anna M. Jones, receives $51,220; his son, Frank C. Jones, 

 $17,468, and his two daughters, Pauline C. Chittenden and 

 Florence C. Doughten, $16,554 each. 



L. M. Bergin, managing director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., 

 Limited, of Great Britain; Sir Harry McGowan, one of the 

 influential directors; Captain George du Cros, manager of the 

 works at Birmingham, and other leading men in the company. 



are now visiting the United States with the object of establish- 

 ing a Dunlop company in .\merica, with a $50,000,000 capital, as 

 the chairman of the British company, A. L. Ormrod, announced 

 at the extraordinary meeting held on December 1, 1919. 



H. Cassel has been appointed manager of the New York City 

 branch of The Portage Rubber Co., Akron and Barberton, Ohio, 

 succeeding George H. Kiley, resigned. 



Averill Tilden has been elected to succeed H. L. McClaren as 

 a director ot the .^jax Rubber Co., Inc., 220 West 57th street. 

 New York City. 



WESTINGHOUSE ALLIANCE FOR WORLD WIDE TRADE. 



On his return from Europe late in October, General Guy E. 

 Tripp, chairman of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 

 Co., East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, announced the completion 

 of arrangements by which a business alliance has been formed 

 between that company and the Metropolitan-Vickers Electric 

 Co., Limited, the purpose of which is to expand the business of 

 the two companies throughout the world. One feature of this 

 arrangement was the payment by the British company of be- 

 tween $5,000,000 and $7,000,000 to the Westinghouse company. 



The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. has taken 

 over the plant of the New England Westinghouse Co. at Spring- 

 field, Massachusetts, and will soon have about 5,000 men at work 

 there, manufacturing industrial motors and lighting outfits, sup- 

 plementing the work at the East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 

 plant. The company has sold the drop-forging plant at Chicopee 

 Falls, Massachusetts, which it operated as the Page-Storms 

 Drop Forge Co., it not being adapted to the post-war needs of 

 the company. The J. Stevens Arms Co., another Westinghouse 

 enterprise, where rifles were made for the Russian Government, 

 is now turning out sporting rifles, and enjoying the heaviest 

 business in its history. 



ROBERT ALLAN RETURNS TO BRAZIL. 



Robert Allan, who was for many years manager of the 

 London & Brazilian Bank at Para, Brazil, and a well-known and 

 popular figure in financial and rubber circles of that city, has 

 accepted a position with the Mercantile Bank of the Americas, 

 and sailed for Brazil last month. 



Mr. Allan enlisted in the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards in De- 

 cember, 1917, and was severely wounded in the engagement in 

 front of Arras. After six months in the hospital he was dis- 

 charged five days after the armistice was signed. 



PLANNED A SOUTH AMERICAN RAILROAD. 



Seiior Enrique Coronel Zegarra, for more than twenty years 

 connected with the project of building with American capital the 

 Paita-Maranon railroad, to connect the Amazon river with the 

 Pacific, died recently at Lima, Peru. The proposed railroad was 

 planned as a link in a system of transcontinental transportation, 

 crossing the Andes from Paita on the Pacific to the upper waters 

 of the Maranon river, which is navigable from the base of the 

 Andes to the Amazon of which it is one of the great tributaries. 

 President Leguia of Peru declared in his inaugural address on 

 October 12 that the negotiations for the construction of the rail- 

 way were well advanced and that it would open up a region 

 capable of supporting a population of twenty-five million people. 

 Sefior Zegarra was formerly a member of the Peruvian Cabinet. 



The number of automobile tires imported into java and 

 Madura during the month of August, 1919, was 18,277 as com- 

 pared with 14,317 during the month of August, 1918. 



From January to August, 1918 and 1919, the imports of this 

 commodity into Java and Madura amounted to 70,708 and 149.- 

 569, respectively. 



