October 1. 1918.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



SERVICE NOTES AND PERSONALS. 

 Dr. Lothar E. Weber, known to rubber manufacturers gen- 

 ■erally through his excellent work as consulting rubber chemist, 

 i.s connected with the Conservation Division of the War In- 

 dustries Board at Washington. As part of the program for 

 conserving sulphuric acid, the Board for some time has been 

 urging the substitution of nitre cake wherever possible. It was 

 in furtherance of this work that Dr. Weber addressed the re- 

 claimers at their meeting at Point Shirley not long ago. 



Edwin H. Kidder, manager of the Boston branch of the United 

 States Tire Co., has been given leave of absence that he may 

 join the personnel board of the Emergency Fleet Corporation at 

 Philadelphia. He will probably visit the various shipyards, and 



later go to Paris for similar duties abroad. 



The United States Tire Co. will appoint 

 a temporary manager to lill the position 

 tor the duration of the war. 



Major M. C. Rector of the Medical 

 Corps, now stationed at a base hospital 

 in France with the American Expedition- 

 an,- Forces, is a member of the executive 

 Lommittee of the Sterling Tire Corp., 

 Rutherford, New Jersey. He has been 

 decorated several times. 



Major Frank R. Bacon, president of 

 the Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co., 

 Edwin H. Kidder. Milwaukee. Wisconsin, which manufac- 

 tures electric-control devices, has been 

 detailed to Chicago as Assistant Ordnance District Chief of the 

 Chicago District, and will have under his supervision all ord- 

 nance manufacture in northern Illinois, northern Indiana, Wis- 

 consin, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Mon- 

 tana. 



Harry W. Bacon, manager of the Detroit office of the Dural 

 Rubber Corp., Flemington, New Jersey, has been accepted for 

 flying commission. He received his aeronautical training two 

 years ago in Southern California. 



Yvonne Caijo is a little French or- 

 phan living at Pluvigner, in the depart- 

 ment of Morbihan, who since 1916 has 

 been cared for by one of the staff of 

 The India Rubber World. 



Major H. Stuart Hotchkiss, Avia- 

 tion Section, Signal Corps, has been 

 relieved from further duty under the 

 Director of Military Aeronautics and 

 assigned to duty under the Director of 

 Bureau of Aircraft Production. 



Lieutenant C. S. Lewis, Jr., former 

 editor of the "Goodyear Family News- 

 paper," has been severely wounded in 

 France. He is the first commissioned 

 officer from Akron, Ohio, whose name 

 has appeared in the casualty lists, and 

 he fought in the famous Rainbow Di- 

 vision. Although in a critical condi- 

 tion as the result of four bullet wounds 

 in both ankles and one thigh, a speedy 

 recovery is hoped for. 

 Dr. M. M. Harrison, head of the 

 research department, has been granted leave of absence by the 

 Miller Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, to accept a captaincy in the 

 Chemical Warfare Service, National Army. 



.\viator Lieutenant Don Harris, a former employe of The 

 <3oodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has been interned 

 in Holland for the duration of the war, following his descent 

 for repairs, after an attack by German anti-aircraft guns, when 

 he was unable to get back to the American lines. 



.Mi-xander Dow, tire inventor and rubber man, is a captain 



Yvonne Caijo. 



in the Ordnance Department and assigned to the Western Cart- 

 ridge Co., East Alton, Illinois, in charge of matters pertaining 

 to production, approval of contracts, and purchase of materials 

 for plant extension. 



Rawson R. Cowen, of the E. H. Clapp Rubber Co., Boston, 

 Massachusetts, is now preparing for war service at the Artillery 

 Officers' Training School, Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, 

 Kentucky. Mr. Cowen is the son of the late Robert Cowen, of 

 the Boston Hose and Rubber Co. He is a graduate of Harvard 

 University, of the class of 1916, and has been on the force of 

 the E. H. Clapp Rubber Co. since that year. Mr. Cowen is a 

 husky individual, well fitted to do his bit for his country. He 

 was a football player during his colkge days, and for three 

 years was a member of the .-Mi-American team. 



I. R. Martin, former athletic director at The Goodyear Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, and well-known in college circles as an 

 athletic trainer, recently entered the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, to train as a seaplane opera- 

 tor. He has also been a student at Harvard and at William 

 Jewell College. 



D. Warren Boyer. of Trenton, New Jersey, who has been 

 connected with the Philadelphia branch of the Ajax Rubber Co. 

 for the past nine years, is now a chief petty officer aboard a 

 submarine chaser. He is stationed at Pensacola, Florida, and is 

 on duty in the Gulf of Mexico. He enlisted a year ago after 

 spending some time in a training school at Columbia University, 

 New York Citv. 



MARTYRS TO THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY. 



FIRST LIEUTENANT DAVID ENDICOTT PUTNAM, 

 America's ace of aces, whose portrait appeared in the 

 July number of The India Rubber World, was recently 

 killed in action in the air over Limey, France, when he was 

 attacked by seven German airplanes. He is said to have de- 

 stroyed 20 enemy machines. In one action, he shot down five 

 German planes within half an hour. He had been cited for 

 bravery in United States official orders a number of times, and 

 had been awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Govern- 

 ment. Lieutenant Putnam was a descandant of one of the oldest 

 .American colonial families. He is survived by his mother and 

 three sisters. Lieutenant Putnam was a member of the class 

 of 1920 of Harvard University. 



The Great War takes its toll not only 

 at the front but right here at home as 

 well. A peculiarly sad case was the death 

 of Howard Stokes Boyer, son of H. L. 

 Boyer, secretary of the Joseph Stokes 

 Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey. 

 Young Boyer, who was but twenty 

 years old and a fine upstanding boy, full 

 of life and patriotism, had joined the 

 Aviation Section and was in training in 

 Massachusetts. To use his own words, 

 he felt that he could make his "star 

 shine brighter in aviation than in any 

 other branch of the service." A friend 

 of all, a brilliant student in the chosen line, assured of quick 

 promotion, he was stricken with influenza and died in the hospital 

 camp. He gave his life for his country, a hero, a patriot, and a 

 martyr to the great cause. 



Four more gold stars will be added to the service flag of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., .-\kron, Ohio. Owen Hopkins, after 

 I eing wounded in France and returned to Newport News, con- 

 tracted diphtheria to which he shortly succumbed. George Min- 

 ford is reported to have been drowned during a sea fight, and 

 Thomas Wallace, to have been killed in action with the Canadian 

 forces in France, while Oscar W. Zuelsdorf, a former inspector 

 in Department 16-A, died in July as the result of wounds re- 

 ceived in the trenches. 



S. BoYER. 



