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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Jl NK 1. 1919. 



of the structures will be 90 by 360 feet; another, the engine 

 and boiler room, will be 82 by 92 feet. There will be an 

 800-foot siding. Henry A. Ludeke is president of the Atlas 

 company; Ira Worthington, vice-president, and R. I'nkles, 

 secretary. 



.\t the annual meeting of the Globe Rubber Tire Manu- 

 facturing Co., Trenton, New Jersey, Joseph B. Linerd was 

 reeUHteil president. He is said to be the youngest president 

 of any such important enter- 

 prise in this country. Young as 

 he is, however, he has had a 

 good business experience. Pre- 

 vious to his connection with the 

 Tilobe company, he held various 

 icsponsible positions with the 

 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 

 \kron, Ohio, and later became 

 sales manager of the Ajax Rub- 

 ber Co., Inc., Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey. In 1916, he reorganized the 

 Globe Rubber Tire Manufactur- 

 ing Co. and served first as its 

 general sales manager, later be- 

 ing chosen president, to which 

 office he has just been reelected. 

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Joseph B. Linerd. Solomon J. Lewis, representing 



the Sturdy Tire & Rubber Co., 

 of Trenton, recently returned from Havana, Cuba, where he 

 closed a $300,000 contract with the Caribbean Agencies. 



The Eureka Tire Co., 26 West State street, Trenton, New 

 Jersey, whose plant is on Whitehead's Road, has filed a cer- 

 tificate of dissolution in the office of the Secretary of State, 

 as agreed upon by the stockholders. 

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The New Jersey Car Spring & Rubber Co., Inc., Jersey 

 City, New Jersey, has elected the following officers and di- 

 rectors: G. W. Stephens, president: F. H. Smith, vice-president 

 and general manager; E. E. Dearth, secretary; Charles Hoff- 

 man and Jesse E. La Dow, counsel; directors — John J. Fields, 

 F. H. Smith. E. E. Dearth, Jesse E. La Dow, Charles Hoff- 

 man, G. \V. Stephens and P. H. Obcr. 



William J. B. Stokes, head of the Thermoid, Stokes and 

 Home Rubber companies, Trenton, who was chairman of 

 the Fifth Liberty Loan Committee, will shortly entertain 

 those who aided him in the work. 



.\lfred Whitehead, secretary of Whitehead Brothers Rub- 

 ber Co., Trenton, was chairman of the rubber manufacturers' 

 division of the Salvation Amy drive. 



The storehouse of the Empire Rubber & Tire Corp., Tren- 

 ton, was badly damaged by fire on May 19. the principal -loss 

 being caused by water from the sprinkling system. 



Samuel E. Lavery, formerly manager of the Allentown, 

 Pennsylvania, branch of the United Tire Co., has purchased 

 a building on West End avenue, Trenton, and will conduct 

 a plant there. 



Harry L. Midler, formerly owner of the Midler Auto Sup- 

 ply Co., Trenton, has been held in the Federal Court on a 

 charge of perjury in bankruptcy proceedings. He was held 

 in $1,000 bail. A petition in bankruptcy against the Midler 



company was filed by the Pennsylvania Rubber Co. early in 

 1918. 



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The plant formerly occupied by George F. Lufberry, Jr., 

 Meadow Lane, Elizabeth, New Jersey, has been sold to the 

 Lowenstein Radio Co., of Newark. The transaction involves 

 nine acres of land and twelve liuildings. 



The Victory Tire & Rubber Co., 385 East 149th street, 

 New York City, has plans for the erection of a tire plant on 

 Railroad avenue, Asbury Park. The building will be two 



stories high, 75 by 165 feet, and will cost $125,000. 

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Elgin L. McBurney, receiver of the Indian Tire & Rubber 

 Co., New Brunswick, has made application to the Court of 

 Chancery for permission to borrow $5,000 on a receiver's 

 certificate. An order to show cause why the court should 

 not allow this and order the business to continue for the dis- 

 posal of the property of the corporation has been obtained 

 by some of the stockholders. It is alleged that the assets 

 of the company total $107,115, and its liabilities $65,000. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



WHILE the several plants manufacturing rubber goods in 

 Rhode Island have many orders on their books, they 

 also have more or less stock on hand and are playing some- 

 what of a waiting game. Advantage is being taken of this to 

 make repairs, renovations, improvements, and additions as well 

 as complete accounts of stock of every description which have 

 not been taken as thoroughly as usual for the past two years 

 or more because of the drive under war conditions. 



In common with other industries the rubber manufacturers 

 are finding much difficulty in securing e.xperienced help to fill 

 numerous places that are vacant. Several hundred employes 

 left the several plants to go into the service of the country, 

 either as volunteers or draftees, and it is expected that with 

 their return they would seek their former positions. This has 

 not proved to be the case, however. While a few have applied 

 for and resumed tlieir former employment, a large majority do 

 not desire to resume indoor work, and so are seeking for some- 

 thing to do outside. 



The efforts to take Rhode Island over the top in the Fifth 

 Liberty loan by the subscription for a quota of $37,000,000 of 

 Victory Notes gave all industrial interests considerable activity. 

 Early in the campaign the announcement was made from New 

 York that the United States Rubber Co. had subscribed for 

 $2,500,000 of the bonds, of which $1,500,000 was to be credited 

 to the various States where the company had plants. Later 

 it was announced that of this sum $500,000 had been credited 

 to Rhode Island. In the distribution Providence, where the 

 Revere Rubber and Mechanical Fabric Companies are located, 

 received credit for $200,000. while Woonsocket with the Woon- 

 socket Rubber Co.; and Bristol with the National India Rub- 

 ber Co., each received credit for $150,000. 

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Edward P. Gwillam, of Newark, N. J., appeared before Judge 

 .\rthur L. Brown in the United States District Court this city, 

 about the first of the month and pleaded not guilty of conspiring 

 to bribe a United States official. He was released when $1,500 

 bail was furnished. Mr. Gwillam is general manager of the 

 Newark Raincoat Co., whose local representative, Samuel Levi- 

 son, was arrested here last summer on charges of attempting to 

 bribe a United States officer in connection with a raid that was 

 made. Mr. Levison informed the Government officials here that 

 Mr. Gwillam conspired with him in the bribing. 



