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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[NOVEMBKR 1, 1918. 



THE BICYCLE IS COMING BACK. 

 The War Industries Board has put the stamp of approval on 

 the bicycle as a healthful and virtually indispensable form of 

 locomotion and a direct contributor to greater efficiency, both 

 in manufacturing centers and the country. The present spirit of 

 economy, the prevalence of good roads, and the durability of 

 modern bicycle tires are all proving potent factors in restoring 

 the bicycle to popular favor. All indications point to a big 

 bicycle year in 1919, witli consequent increase in the demand 

 for rubber tires. 



WATERPROOF GARMENTS SEIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT. 

 So great is ihe demand for raincoats and waterproof garments 

 that about the middle of October the Government notified every 

 manufacturer to cease delivering any such garments, sold or can E.xpeditionary 



unsold, whicli were then in their possession or might be up to 



and including October 26, these goods to be shipped immediately 

 to the Government for use in the cantonments in this country 

 It was the desire of the Government thus to secure a practical, 

 immediate delivery of a million coats, but as near as can he- 

 ascertained about 275,000 were thus obtained. This is in no way 

 to be confused with the regular contracts for coats for use of 

 the .-Xmiy overseas. 



SERVICE NOTES AND PERSONALS. 



motor dirigible balk 



men on October 21 undertook to fly a new Navy twni- 

 Irom Akron, Ohio, to Rockaway, N. Y. 

 Among them were Lieut. Donald 

 T. Hood, son of Frederic C. Hood, 

 Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, 

 Massachusetts, and Lieut. Ralph 

 .\. D. Preston, formerly in charge 

 of the flying field of the Goodyear 

 Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 

 The first lap of the trip to Wash- 

 ington, District of Columbia, took 

 nine hours and the rate of speed 

 averaged 35 miles an hour. The 

 dirigible flew over the city and 

 made a landing at Anacostia 

 aviation field for fuel, after which 

 tlie trip was continued. 



Private Joseph Pezzullo, who 

 formerly worked for the Bourn 

 Rubber Co., Providence, Rhode 

 Island, has been severely wounded 

 while serving with Company M, 

 328th Infantry, in France. He 

 went to Camp Devens on October 

 3, 1917, and went overseas last 

 spring. 



Henry G. Tver, president of the 

 Tyer Rubber Co.. Andover. Massachusetts, left October 22 for 

 Camp Tavlor, Kentucky, to enter the Artillery Officers' Train- 

 ing School. He is 33 years of age. His business associates pre- 

 sented him with an engraved wrist-watch previous to his de- 

 parture. 



O. M. Brede, assistant secretary of the Detroit section ot the 

 Society of Automotive Engineers.^is now stationed at the Avia- 

 tion Repair Depot. Dallas, Texas.'and is a corporal in the 877th 

 Aero Sqnadror.. Mrs. Brede will perform his secretarial duties 

 in his absence. 



F. M. Morris, factory paymaster of the Firestone Tire & 

 Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, recently enlisted in the Quartermas- 

 ter's department and is at Camp Meade, Washington. 



A. H. Miner, formerly in the legal department of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co.. Akron, Ohio, has secured a first lieutenant's com- 

 mission in the Chemical Warfare Service (unattached) of the 

 American Expeditionary Forces. 



Liculciiant-Colonel Fred Garcin, son of Edward H. (iarcin, of 

 Edward H. Garcin & Co., 1790 Broadway, New York City, is 

 doubtless the youngest lieutenant-colonel in the United States 

 .■\rmy. He has been in the service for nine years and has taken 

 every advancement in rank from second lieutenant to his present 

 grade. His station is with the South Pacific Coast Artillery, 

 District of San Francisco. 



On his return from duty at the British Embassy in London, 

 II. .Stuart Hotchkiss was promoted to the rank of lieutenant- 

 colonel and assigned to the Bureau of Aircraft Production as 

 chief of the raw materials department in Washington, D. C. 



John L. Ryan, a former traveling salesman out of Milwaukee 

 tor the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, is now a 

 sergeant in Company F, 340th Infantry, 85th Division, Ameri- 

 f. Rol'crt E. Lee. head of the department 

 of labor of the Firestone Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Akron, Ohio, has been elected 

 Chief of the Personnel Staff of the 

 (Juartermaster General's office, Wash- 

 ington, District of Columbia. He will 

 have charge of selecting men to fill posi- 

 tions in the United States Quartermas- 

 ter's Department. Mr. Lee has been 

 with the Firestone company for more 

 than ffve years. 



H. G. Zimmerman, formerly with the 

 San Francisco branch of The B. F. 

 Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, is now in 

 service at Section Naval Base, United 

 States Harbor Patrol, San Diego. Calif. 

 Diomedes Pereyra y M., a former employe in the art division 

 of the advertising department of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 

 Ohio, speaking French, Spanish and Portuguese in addition to 

 English, is now in Uncle Sam's service as an interpreter in 

 France. He comes from a well-known Spanish family in Bolivia. 

 Paul H Loewcnlhal, of The Loewenthal Co., 23 Heyward 

 ■treet. Brooklyn, New York, has enlisted in the Tank Corps. 



Lyman L. Weld, formerly of the advertising department of 

 The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron. Ohio, has arrived in France 

 to assist .\. B. Jones, recently placed in charge of French Red 

 Cross supplies. 



Robert E. Lee. 



LlEUTEN.\NT 



R. a. D. Preston. 



MARTYRS TO THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY. 



CAPTAIN RALPH W. STEWART, an officer in the Fife & 

 Forfar Yeomanry, was killed in action on September 2, 

 1918. He was a member of the firm of Ralph W. Stewart & 

 Co. (Scottish Central Rubber Co.), manufacturing rubber boots 

 and shoes, waterproofs, and general rubber goods at Dunferm- 

 line, Scotland. 



Mrs. Jesse Sinclair of Providence, Rhode Island, has received 

 word from the Canadian authorities that her husband was killed 

 in action September 30, 1918. He worked for the Revere Rubber 

 Co., in Chelsea, Massachusetts, for several years and later was 

 a tire finisher for five years for the same company in its Provi- 

 dence plant. He enlisted in the British Canadian Infantry forces 

 a year ago and went overseas last January. He leaves his widow 

 and one daughter. 



Ernest W. Crosley, formerly employed by the Glendale Elastic 

 Fabric Co., Providence. Rhode Island, is reported to have been 

 killed in action September 22. He was chief gunner in a machine 

 gun battalion. Leaving Providence for Camp Dix on April 28 

 last, he went overseas in May, and was promoted to first-class 

 private upon arrival in France. 



The Cuban Tire & Rubber Co. (Compania Cubaiia de Zunchos 

 y Goma), Havana, Cuba, subscribed $10,000 to the Fourth Lib- 

 erty Loan, doubling its subscription to the Third Liberty Loan. 



