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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



JOHN W. THOMAS. 



JOHN W. THOMAS, chairman of the solid tire division of 

 the War Service Committee of the Rubber Industry of the 

 U. S. A., is a native son of the Buckeye State, having been born 

 in Tallmadge, Ohio, in 1880. He spent his boyhood days on a 

 farm, entering Buchtel Academy at the 

 age of 17, and completing his education at 

 Buchtel College, from which he graduated 

 in 1904 a degree of Ph. B. Shortlv 

 alter graduation he entered the laboratoi v 

 of The B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohi-, 

 where he spent three years in researcli 

 and experimental work. In Januar\, 

 1908, he joined the Akron, Ohio, organi- 

 zation of the Firestone Tire & Rubl^er 

 Co. and installed its laboratory, where he- 

 served as chemist for two years, goiii^ 

 thence to the manufacturing departmeni. 

 serving an apprenticeship in one tin- 

 manufacturing unit after another, and 

 becoming manager of one of the departments. In 1911 he was 

 appointed superintendent of the factory, a position he still holds, 

 and in 1916 he was elected a member of the board of directors 

 ■of this company. Mr. Thomas makes his home in Akron, is 

 married and has four children, two boys and twin girls. He is 

 a member of the Congregational Church, of the Lone Star Fra- 

 ternity, the Portage Country- Club, Akron City Club, Rotary 

 Club,'ohio Society of New York, Society of Automotive Engi- 

 neers, Knights of Pythias, and the Akron Chamber of Commerce, 

 of which last organization he is a director. 



PERSONAL MENTION, 

 Prominent among the younger men identified with the rub- 

 ber industry, and one who has won recognition by his 

 versatile ability and invariable courteousness, is W. H. Dick- 

 «rson. He was assistant to the secretary of The Rubber Asso- 

 ciation when, upon recommendation of 

 the Committee on Rubber and Kindred 

 Products, he went to the War Trade 

 Board and the Bureau of Imports at 

 Washington as trade expert in charge 

 ^^ of details relating to the inspection and 



" IHl ^^ '".^ allocation of rubber and kindred prod- 



^B^, ucts. 



^■C_ Having acquired in the service of the 



^■ST" ' y \ Government a successful record and a 



'^ypl^'' Mk large acquaintance among leading rub- 



^2_^^^B^ ber men, Mr. Dickerson will continue in 



^flM^^Hr the rubber business as a member of the 



^ ■ office staff of Meyer & Brown, dealers in 



Dickerson. crude rubber, 347 Madison avenue, New- 

 York City. 

 Charles R. Sargent has been appointed general manager of 

 Stresen-Reuter & Hancock, Inc.. Chicago, Illinois, manufacturer, 

 importer and exporter of colors, minerals, chemicals and oils. 

 Mr. Sargent will take charge of the Chicago office, but will spend 

 part of his time in Cleveland, where he has been branch manager. 

 Frederick W. Dunbar resigned on December 31, 1918.^ as 

 American agent, attorney-in-fact, and manager of the New \ork 

 City office of Aldens' Successors, Limited, London. England. 

 He' is succeeded by Thomas A. Maguire and Alvah H. Brown 

 ' as joint agents and attorneys-in-fact. 



R. A. Hoover, special representative of The Pioneer Asphalt 

 Co., Lawrenceville, Illinois, was in New York City last month. 



L. P. MacNamara. of MacNamara & Wadbrook, Inc., New 

 York City, has recently returned from a three weeks' trip to Hot 

 Springs. Arizona, where he has extensive ranching interests. 

 E. E. Wadbrook, of the above company, has just returned from 



W. 



P, Ripley. 



Piedmont, North Carolina, where he participated in the golf 

 tournament. 



M, L. rieminway, whose efficient work as secretary of the War 

 Service Committee of the Rubber Industry will be favorably re- 

 membered by the whole trade, has been appointed assistant man- 

 ager of the Motor & Accessories Manufacturers' Association, 33 

 West 42d street. New York City. 



Joseph P. Ripley, who has been in charge of the government 

 sales of The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, 

 in Washington during the last year, as 

 _ ~~\ well as manager of the Baltimore district 

 „^^|H^^^ of the company, has been promoted to 



^^^^^^^^k manager of the central district, with 

 .$S^^^m headquarters in Chicago. Mr. Ripley en- 

 ^JHI^^^^W "^'^'^^ ^^ employ of the Fisk company in 



^t^Sj^Hf January, 1909, as salesman in the western 



^V^^^HV New York district. He was subsequently 



^^^^^^rJ^^ appointed manager of the Baltimore 

 "•■^^^^^^B branch in 1910 and Baltimore district 

 ^A ^^Bt manager in 1915. The central district in- 

 ^^fM^^ eludes 20 direct branches of the Fisk 

 _^^BS^S- I company and comprises the states of Illi- 

 nois and Indiana and parts of Wiscon- 

 sin. Iowa and Kentucky. 

 Frederick B. Peterson, the former director of the Bureau of 

 Imports, War Trade Board, has become associated with Charles 

 T. Wilson Co., Inc., crude rubber dealers, New York City. 



Elmer E. Bast has been appointed Chicago representative of 

 the United & Globe Rubber Manufacturing Cos., manufacturers 

 of mechanical rubber goods, Trenton, New Jersey, with head- 

 quarters at 173 North La Salle street, Chicago, Illinois. 



\. M. Whaley has been appointed Southern sales manager for 

 The General Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, with headquarters 

 at Atlanta, Georgia. 



Thomas L. Moore has been appointed Southwestern district 

 manager for The General Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, with 

 headquarters at Dallas, Texas. 



B. F. Wulff has been appointed general sales manager for the 

 International India Rubber Corp., manufacturer of "South 

 Bend" tires, Indiana. Mr. Wulff was formerly sales manager 

 for the Century-Plainfield Tire Co., Plainfield, New Jersey, and 

 was before that with the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., in Chicago. 

 Claude Piatt, recently central district manager of The Fisk 

 Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachu- 

 setts, has been promoted to the position 

 of special representative, with offices at 

 the Chicago branch, 2508 Michigan 

 Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Piatt's 

 new duties will take him among the man- 

 ufacturers of the country, handling spe- 

 cial and contract sales of both pneumatic 

 and solid tires, Mr. Piatt became identi- 

 fied with the Fisk company in 1905, when 

 he was appointed Cleveland salesman, and 

 later became manager of that branch. In 

 1909 he was appointed manager of the 

 Chicago, and four years later manager 

 of the central district. 

 J. T. Mahon, general manager of the Henderson Rubber Co., 

 Baltimore, Maryland, spent 10 days in the early part of Jan- 

 uary in New York City. 



Thomas A. Maguire has been appointed manager of the New- 

 York City office of Aldens' Successors, Limited, London, 

 England, at 290 Broadway, succeeding Frederick W. Dunbar, 

 resigned. Mr. Maguire's connection with the New York house 

 covers a period of two years. He was formerly with Edward 

 Maurer Co., Inc., New York City. 



Claude Pl.\tt. 



