788 Personalities 



Word has been received just as we go to press that Lieut. J. D. Aiken has 

 been killed in action with the British Forces in France. Lieut. Aiken was a 

 graduate of last year's class at the Forest School of the University of Toronto, 



Ellwood Wilson, Jr., who studied forestry and engineering at Cornell and 

 McGill Universities, has enlisted with the 242nd Forestry Battalion, C. E. P., 

 and has been given a commission as lieutenant. 



Dr. J. S. Bates, Superintendent of the Forest Products Laboratories, at 

 Montreal, Quebec, has left for Shawinigan Falls to assist the Imperial Govern- 

 ment in the production of chemical products needed in munitions manufacture. 

 Dr. Bates is "loaned" to the Imperial Government by the Dominion Govern- 

 ment for the period of the war. 



W. B. Campbell, Assistant Superintendent, who has been to the front for 



the past twelve months, has returned to take up the duties of Dr. Bates 



until his return. 



2. Southern United States 



Samuel B. Detwiler is in charge of the field work of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry in detection of the White pine blister rust, 



Lincoln Crowell has resigned from the Indian office, where he was in charge 

 of the work on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, N. C, and, with his brother, 

 has purchased a farm at Sandwich, Mass. 



James O. Hazard has sold his farm at Tuckahoe to the Dupont Powder 

 Company and has purchased another at Uhlerstown, Pa., opposite French- 

 town on the Delaware. 



H. J. Kaestner, Forester for the Department of Forestry, Game and Fish, 

 of West Virginia, has resigned to enter the employ of the William M. Lloyd 

 Lumber Company of Philadelphia. 



3. Central United States 



William G. Baxter resigned from the Forest Service on September 1. He is 

 farming in Iowa. 



Stephen Klem has resigned from the faculty of the Michigan Agricultural 

 College and is now agent for the Provident Life and Trust Company, with 

 an ofi&ce at East Lansing, Mich. 



4. Northern Rockies. 



Bartle T. Harvey has opened an oflSce at Missoula, Mont., as consulting 

 forest entomologist. 



William M. Mace has been promoted from Deputy Supervisor to Supervisor 

 of the Dixie National Forest, with headquarters at St. George, Utah. 



5. Southwest, Including Mexico 



Thomas McCullough has resigned from the Forest Service and is now with 

 Babbett Bros, of Flagstaff, Ariz. 



Emanuel Fritz has been transferred from Missoula to the Fort Valley 

 Experiment Station at Flagstaff, Ariz. 



John D. Guthrie has been elected as a member of the executive committee 

 of the Northern Arizona Game Protective Association. 



Clifford W. McIGbbin has resigned from the Forest Service. He was forest 

 examiner in the District office of Silviculture. 



