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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1920. 



York. 



Voice Tire Exchange, Inc.. May 5, 1920 (New York), $10,000. A, 

 Voice, Passaic, New Jersey; J. H. Metz, 312 South Broadway, Yonkers; 

 f. A. Voice, 210 Eleventh avenue, New Y'ork City— both in N " ' 

 To manufacture and deal in tires. 



Wear Best Garter & Suspender Co., April 15, 1920 (Ne 

 $20,000. M. Sternfield, W. Brill, I. M. Glickm; ' ^ " 



street, New York City. 



-all of 57 East Third 



Wonderseal, Inc., April 23, 1920 (New York), $500. L. H. Crough. 

 301 Columbus avenue; H. W. I'rey, 1210 Clay avenue, both of New 

 York City; S. R. Fleisher, 817 Avenue N, Brooklyn— both in New York. 

 To manufacture a chemical compound for making tires puncture proof. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Walter J. Bitterlich, plant engineer for the Hood Rubber Co., 

 Watertown, Massachusetts, for the last fourteen years, has ac- 

 cepted a similar position at the new plant of The Seamless Rub- 

 ber Co., New Haven, Connecticut. 



O. G. Hellner, formerly special Iowa representative of The 

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

 has been placed in charge of the Iowa territory of the Globe 

 Rubber Tire Manufacturing Co., New York City. 



E. B. Thompson, former special representative of the Michelin 

 Tire Co., Milltown, New Jersey, has been placed in charge of 

 the central Illinois territory of the Globe Rubber Tire Manu- 

 facturing Co., New York City. 



D. J. T. Kennedy, formerly advertising manager of The Mason 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, is now assistant secretary and 

 director of advertising and sales for the new Latex Tire & Rub- 

 ber Co., Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. 



C. R. Collins and Lee Folger have been elected directors of 

 the McClaren Rubber Co., Charlotte, North Carolina. 



T. S. Lindsey, until recently eastern district manager of the 

 branches of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., New York City, has 

 been appointed a special representative of the sales department. 



Gladding Price, for the last two years in charge of factory 

 compounding for the Davol Rubber Co., Providence, Rhode 

 Island, has been appointed assistant to A. A. Somerville, manager 

 of the rubber department of R. T. Vanderbilt Co., 50 East 42d 

 street. New York City, and began his new duties May 1. Mr. 

 Price was formerly with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 

 Akron, Ohio, and with the United States Rubber Co. 



Charles C. Phelps has become associated with the Uehling 

 Instrument Co., 71 Broadway, New York City, combustion en- 

 gineers and manufacturers of fuel economy apparatus. He is 

 devoting most of his time to research work in connection with 

 the efficient combustion of fuel oil in boiler furnaces. He is a 

 graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology and an associate 

 member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 



E. A. Oldershaw has been appointed manager of sales, in 

 charge of the waterproofing department of the Mitchell-Rand 

 Manufacturing Co., New York City, manufacturer of electrical 

 insulating materials. Mr. Oldershaw has been engaged in the 

 structural compound and waterproofing business for over fifteen 

 years. 



L. Brandenburger, formerly located in the Walker Bank Build- 

 ing, has taken larger quarters at 59 West Broadway, Salt Lake 

 City, Utah. He has been recently appointed sales representative 

 of The Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wiscon- 

 sin, for the territory including Utah, the western part of Wyo- 

 ming, and three-quarters of the state of Idaho. 



George B. Fink, Jr., has been appointed manager of the new 

 rubber trades department of The Chas. R. Sargent Co.. Engi- 

 neers Building, Cleveland, Ohio, handling a complete line of 

 pigments, chemicals, oils and colors, and naval stores suitable 

 for the rubber trade. 



C. E. Thompson, president, and M. L. Heminway. general 

 manager of the Motor and Accessory Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, will sail for Paris on June 5, on the Kroonland. to repre- 

 sent the .^ssociation at the meeting of the International Cham- 

 ber of Commerce in Paris on June 21. They will also study the 

 conditions of the European automobile industry. 



E. B. Harral has suceeded H. C. Danaher as manager of the 

 New Orleans office of G. .Amsinck & Co., Inc., New York City. 



Bertram G. Work, president of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, was one of the 1550 passengers who sailed for Europe on 

 the Maurctatiia when she left New York City, April 24. 



Dr. Frederic Dannerth has recently accepted the position of 

 chief chemist of the C. Kenyon Co., Brooklyn, New York, in 

 charge of the chemical laboratory of the tire department at the 

 Bay Ridge works. 



John A. Horner, former branch manager of The Fisk Rubber 

 Co., Baltimore, Maryland, has been appointed inanager of the 

 Baltiinore district with headquarters in that city. Mr. Horner 

 has been connected with The Fisk Rub- 

 ber Co. since August, 1911, when he 

 entered its employ at the Baltimore 

 branch. In January, 1913, he was ap- 

 pointed salesman out of this branch 

 and in June, 1915, was made manager 

 of the Richmond, Virginia, branch. 

 On January 1, 1918, Mr. Horner re- 

 .^^^^^B ported for active duty with the United 

 f Mi^^^K^Ku ^'^tes Navy, serving until January 30, 

 mtmm:ms^mm ^g^g ^^ immediately reentered the 

 employ of the Fisk company as man- 

 ager of its Fort Wayne, Indiana, 

 branch. On November 1, 1919, he re- 

 branch manager, where he has remained 

 Mr. Horner succeeds E. J. McLaughlin, 

 health. 



Horner. 



turned to Baltimore as 

 until the present time, 

 who has been granted a leave of absence because of 



C. A. Warren, formerly manager of the Fisk company's branch 

 at Roanoke, Virginia, succeeds Mr. Horner as Baltimore branch 

 manager. 



Alfred Whiteway and Leonard Brown, both directors of Chas. 

 Macintosh & Co., Limited, Manchester, England, were in the 

 United States last month and visited rubber factories in the 

 East and the Akron district. 



MEETING OF AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS. 



The American Society for Testing Materials will hold its 

 twenty-third annual meeting at Asbury Park, New Jersey, on 

 June 22-25, 1920. The reports of interest to the rubber trade 

 will be made on Thursday afternoon, June 24, when E. A. Bar- 

 rier, chairman of Committee Dll, will report on rubber products, 

 J. M. Bierer will describe a test of special steam hose, and G. 

 B. Haven, chairman of Committee D13, will report on textile 

 materials. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN THE EAST. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



NEW YORK NOTES. 



HPhe Lee Rubber & Tire Corpur.ation, New York City and 

 •*■ Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, at the annual meeting elected 

 the following directors : H. C. Coleman, J. Carl DeLaCour, 

 John M. Dettra, James A. Fayne, Stephen B. Fleming, Albert 

 A. Garthwaite. Walter R. Herrick, Horace C. Jones, Samuel H. 

 Miller, John j'. Watson, Jr., and Joseph Wayne, Jr. At the or- 

 ganization meeting the following officers were elected: John J. 

 Watson. Jr., president and chairman of the board ; Albert A. 

 Garthwaite, vice-president and treasurer; Henry Hopkins, Jr., 

 secretary ; W. B. Dunlap, assistant treasurer ; and John M. 

 Dettra, assistant secretary. 



The Ajax Rubber Co., Inc., New York City, recently ratified 

 an increase in the capital stock from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, 

 par value $50 per share, to provide for future requirements of 

 the business, but it is not planned to issue any of this newly 

 authorized stock at the present time. 



The Tropical Rubber Co., 365 Broadway, New York City, is 

 a Delaware corporation organized November 6, 1917, with a 

 capitalization of $400,000, for the purpose of manufacturing and 



