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PERSONAL MENTION. 



\\ . II. Hurley lias been prumoicd irom the position oi western 

 district manager to that of eastern district manager of The 

 McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland and East Palestine, Ohio, 

 with headquarters in Xew York City. 



John D. Olwell has been elected president of the -Akron Over- 

 land Tire Co., Inc., formerly the Akron Tire Co., Inc., Long 

 Island City, New York. 



H. W. Harwell has been placed in charge of the New York 

 general sales office of the Henderson Tire & Rubber Co., Inc., 

 Columbus, Ohio, with headquarters at 40 Exchange Place, New 

 York City. 



William B. Clowar, for several years superintendent of the 

 hose department of the New York Rubber Co. at Beacon, New 

 York, recently resigned that position to become superintendent 

 of the Auto Topping Department of the \'ulcan Proofing Co., 

 Dean .street plant, Brooklyn, New York. 



Casper Smith, president of the Smith Chemical & Color Co., 

 Inc., 116>'assau street, New York City, has just returned from 

 a two months' business trip throughout the United States. He 

 reports business brisk, particularly in the West and Middle West. 



Clarence F. Brown has been appointed director of advertising 

 of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, 

 succeeding George Frank Lord, resigned. 



The following promotions are announced by the Westinghouse 

 Electric & Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : 

 .\lexander Taylor from manager of works to assistant to vice- 

 president, in charge of production, stocks, and stores in all 

 plants ; R. L. Wilson from general superintendent to works 

 manager, East Pittsburgh ; E. R. Norris, director of works 

 equipment, in charge of machinery, tools, and methods in the 

 \arious plants ; C. B. Auel. manager of employes' service de- 

 partment; G. M. Eaton, chief mechanical engineer; C. W. John- 

 son and H. W. Cope, assistant directors of engineering; C. H. 

 Champlain and E. S. IMcCIelland, assistant works managers; 

 John E. Bonham. assistant to works manager; E. S. Brandt, 

 supervisor of equipment and methods ; managers of engineering 

 departments — A. M. Dudley, automobile department ; R. P. Jack- 

 son, material and process ; F. E. Wynne, railway equipment de- 

 partment ; and G. H. Garcelon. small motor. 



-Arthur E. .Allen has been appointed district manager, at New 

 ■^'ork City, for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. 

 He succeeds Edward D. Kilburn. who has been made vice- 

 president and general manager of the Westinghouse Electric 

 International Co. 



Mr. -Allen entered the service of the \\'estinghouse company 

 in 1902. He is a native of Toronto, Canada, and served with 

 the Canadian forces during the war, being commissioned a 

 second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps. 



Sidney Dillingham. Akron representative of Duffy & Sears, 

 crude rubber brokers. New York City, began his rubber career 

 in 191.') in the Federated Malay States where he spent one and 

 one-half years with a European plantation company. He joined 

 the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Singapore, Straits Settlements, 

 Ltd., Singapore, Straits Settlements, in 1917 and remained there 

 tnitil 1918. acting in the capacity of rubber inspector and buyer. 

 He left Singapore in 1918, coming to -America where he enrolled 

 in an officers' training school. .After the armistice he entered the 

 <;rude rubber department of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, recently resigning to accept his present position. 



Dr. A. Pirelli has been elected president of the Italian Societa 

 di Chimica hidustriale (Society of Chemical Industry) at Milan. 



James Gustavus Whiteley. Belgian Consul at Baltimore, Mary- 

 land, has been appointed special representative in the United 

 States for the Belgian Committee that is preparing, under the 

 patronage of King .Albert, the festival at -Antwerp late this spring, 

 lo celebrate the Olympian Games. 



H. H. Coleman, president of the Bergougnan Rubber Corp., 

 Trenton, New Jersey, sailed for Europe on the steamer La 

 Lorraine, January 20, to attend the annual Bergougnan conven- 

 tion at Clermont-Ferrand, France. 



NEW JERSEY ZINC CO.. INC., TO INCREASE PRODUCTION OF 

 ZINC OXIDE AND LITHOPONE. 



The New Jersey Zinc Co. announces that it will construct ad- 

 ditional zinc oxide and lithopone plants to meet the growing de- 

 mand for these products. Work will be started at once in 

 Colorado and Pennsylvania. This company, said to be the 

 oldest and largest zinc company in the United States, was or- 

 ganized in 1848 and includes among its properties the famous 

 Franklin, New Jersey, mine which produces a pure zinc ore. 

 The company is now operating zinc oxide, lithopone and slab 

 zinc plants in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kan- 

 sas and Oklahoma. It has warehouses for its products in Brook- 

 lyn. Newark, Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Los 

 .\ngeles, and San Francisco and intends to establish others. Its 

 headquarters are in New York City and it has sales offices in 

 Chicago and Pittsburgh. 



With the manufacturing plants now in operation and those 

 about to be constructed the company will be in a position to 

 serve proiriptly and econoinically its trade throughout the 

 country. 



LINCOLN HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION ELECTS OFFICERS. 



-At the annual meeting of the Lincoln Highway -Association, 

 held recently in Detroit, Michigan, F. A. Seiberling. president of 

 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., .Akron, Ohio, who has been 

 president of the association for the past two years, refused to ac- 

 cept a third term, and Colonel Henry B. Joy, formerly president 

 of the Packard Motor Car Co., who w^as the first president of the 

 organization, was again unanimously elected president. Mr. 

 Seiberling continues to be identified with the work of the asso- 

 ciation as one of its vice-presidents and a member of its execu- 

 tive committee. 



The tire industry is further represented by J. Newton Gunn, 

 president of the United States Tire Co., New A'ork City, who 

 was elected to the board of directors. Probably not less than 

 $12,000,000 will be expended on the improvement of the Lincoln 

 Highway in 1920, and the permanent marking of the route from 

 Omaha to New York will be completed. 



EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NOTES. 



•yHE Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., -Akron, Ohio, has made the 

 •*■ following changes in the personnel of its eastern and south- 

 ern branches : W. M. MacNichol, manager of Baltimore, Maryland 

 branch, succeeding B. R. Leisure, promoted to be district man- 

 ager, with headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; E. D. 

 Manley, manager of Washington, D. C, branch, succeeding W. 

 M. MacNichol; L. L. Heidacher, manager of Memphis, Ten- 

 nessee, branch, succeeding G. K. Meeks, transferred. 



The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., Cleveland and East Pales- 

 tine, Ohio, has promoted B. P. Davis from the ranks of its 

 salesmen to be manager of the McGraw branch at Memphis, 

 Tennessee. 



The Kokomo Rubber Co., Kokomo. Indiana, has purchased a 

 site in Louisville, Kentucky, for its branch plant established there 

 six months ago. It will build a two-story and basement struc- 

 ture, of which the lower floor will be occupied by the retail 

 sales force. 



The Kafzenbach & Bullock Co., New Y'ork City, manufac- 

 turer and importers of chemicals and colors for the rubber trade, 

 has opened a new office at 119 South Fourth street, Philadelphia, 

 in charge of R. M. Smith. 



