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foreign-borii employes, and the firm is pleased to render every expressed his keen appreciation of the cooperation of the San- 

 assistance possible to such aliens in taking out citizenship papers. dusky Chamber of Commerce, which organization played an im- 

 A class of twenty-five men has been enrolled and additional portanl part in making the project a reality, 

 classes will be formed as soon as teachers can be secured. 



Guy D. Niles, formerly manager for The Portage Tire & Rub- 

 ber Co., is now in charge of the New England branch of the 

 Gillette Tire Co., with offices and salesrooms at 587 Boylston 

 street, Boston. Mr, Niles has grown up in the business of mer- 

 chandising automobile tires and has a wide acquaintance through- 

 out New England. 



On December 9, the officers and plant managers of Evcrlastik, 

 Inc., 52 Chauncey street, Boston, held a get-together meeting at 

 the Boston City Club during which many ideas for the improve- 

 ment of working conditions in the several mills were discussed. 

 Those present were B. T. Martin, president; John Page, treas- 

 urer ; VV. B. Spencer, general manager ; Charles Stretch, sales 

 manager; Walter Martin, H. J. Martin, L. B. Chisholm, Arch. 

 Martin. Alfred Martin, Sol. Kendrick, Henry Turner, Walter 

 Dalby, Samuel Lounds, F. Gramelsback, A. S. Howard, Samuel 

 Kendrick, W. Painter, Thomas Dreier, Wilwyn Herbert and 

 Charles Lake. 



Samuel K. Nason, director of vocational education in Brook- 

 line, a suburb of Boston, announces evening classes in automo- 

 bile instruction, free to residents of Brookline, which will place 

 students in a position to qualify for a chauffeur's license from 

 the state. The care and repair of tires form part of the course, 

 which is to be conducted by Robert V. Dallison, instructor for 

 the Coast Artillery Motor Corps and the Y. M. C. A. Automo- 

 bile School. 



In order to provide additional capital to meet the increased 

 demand for George Grow cord and fabric tires, the George Grow 

 Tire Co., 323 Columbus avenue, is offering to the public 50,000 

 shares of non-assessable common stock at par, $10 per share. 

 The factory at Canton Junction is producing 600 tires weekly, 

 and as this output is consistently oversold the capacity will be 

 increased to 6,000 tires weekly. The firm's product is marketed 

 through a chain of stores operating in many leading New Eng- 

 land cities. 



L. J. Mutty, of the L. J. Mutty Co., manufacturer of automo- 

 bile top fabric, Boston, has left for a sojourn of several months 

 on the Pacific Coast, taking his motor car and golf sticks with 

 him. W. N. Shelton, general manager of the company, reports 

 that the demand for "Dridek" on the part of leading automobile 

 manufacturers has quadrupled and that the export business is far 

 above normal. 



The Worco Tire Co., Worcester, also distributer for the Paige 

 automobile, has been purchased by the R. C. Cann Co., of Boston. 

 In the spring the new concern will build a large garage and 

 service station near the present salesrooms. 



NEW AJAX PLANT AT SANDUSKY. OHIO. 



Horace DeLisscr, president of the Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., New 

 York City, recently announced that a new Ajax factory will be 

 erected in Sandusky, Ohio, where ninety acres of land have been 

 secured. The erection of the new plant will begin at once and by 

 the latter part of 1920, tire production will be well under vifay. 

 This is the third factory for Ajax, the others being in Trenton, 

 New Jersey, and Racine, Wisconsin. 



A housing plan for employes is being developed along with 

 other welfare activities. Between 1,000 and 1,500 homes for Ajax 

 workmen will be erected in Sandusky. Details for this housing 

 plan which will be along lines similar to the housing project al- 

 ready under way at Racine, are now being worked out by the 

 Ajax Industrial Welfare Department. 



Discussing the plans for the new Ajax plant, Mr. DeLisser 



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MANAGER OF THE MALAY RUBBER CO. 



WEN MoYNlHAN, for the past two years general sales mana- 

 ger of the Amazon Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has resigned 

 to assume active management of 

 The Malay Rubber Co., which is 

 being organized by distributers and 

 <lealers in all parts of the country 

 lor the purpose of manufacturing 

 and merchandising a high-grade tire 

 in a new plant to be built at Cleve- 

 land, Ohio. 



Before his .Amazon connections, 

 Mr. Moyniham was eastern district 

 representative of two Akron rubber 

 companies, and previous to that time 

 was in the ofliices of distributers. 

 His broad understanding of tire dis- 

 tribution eminently fits him for his 

 new position In The Malay Rubber 

 th him tire experts to care for every 



Mov: 



Co. will be associated 



phase of manufacture, production, sales and advertising, 



CHAIRMAN OF GOODYEAR'S BOARD OF CONTROL. 



AV/ D. Shilts, assistant secretary of The Goodyear Tire & 

 " • Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, and chairman of the board 

 of control, was graduated from Mt. Union College and began 

 the study of law in Cleveland. Finding that it would be 

 necessary to get work to pay his 

 way while studying in 1904. he 

 answered in person an advertise- 

 ment for a stenographer placed by 

 C. W. Seiberling in a Cleveland 

 paper. Arriving in Akron, he was 

 immediately engaged as the per- 

 sonal secretary of the then man- 

 ager of the automobile tire de- 

 partment, at a time when the 

 Goodyear output was 25 tires a 

 day. 



Close application and a compre- 

 hensive grasp of details brought 

 him promotion after four months. 

 He was placed in charge of the 

 correspondence of the tire depart- 

 ment, and at the end of two years 

 W. D. Shilts. a realization of his opportunities 



with the Goodyear organization led him to abandon the thought 

 of a career at the bar. 



From that time his rise was rapid. He was snon made 

 assistant to G. M. Stadelman and chosen as head of the automo- 

 bile tire department, then selected as manager of the salesmen's 

 department. His broad vision, coupled with exceptional execu- 

 tive ability, quickly brought further recognition, and he was 

 made chairman of the board of control. Recently he was made 

 assistant secretary, and so became one of the officials fourteen 

 years after joining the company at the bottom of the ladder. 

 Mr. Shilts will continue to act as chairman of the board of 

 control. 



"CRUnE RtJBBER AND COMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS" AND "RtJB- 



BER Machinery," by Henry C. Pearson, should be in the library 

 of ever}- progressive rubber man. 



