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INDUSTRIAL
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A m o n g Chemists Chester E . Andrews, who for the past eleven years h a s been chief chemist in charge of production for the Selden Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., has resigned his position. Herbert Antoine has left t h e employ of the R o m e Wire Co., where he has worked as rubber chemist during the last t w o years, in order to take charge of technical work w i t h the Marion Insulated Wire and Rubber Co., Marion, Ind. Henry Arnstein has sailed on the Manchuria for Cuba, to c o operate in the establishment of the new industrial alcohol law. From Cuba Doctor Arnstein will go to Panama and. then to Peru t o check u p and assist in starting t h e operation of several a l coholic motor-fuel plants. J. G. Aston, formerly of t h e University of California and n o w research assistant at Harvard University, will join the chemistry staff of Northwestern University in September. A. Burg, who has completed his work for t h e degree of M . S . a t the University of Chicago, has accepted employment as r e search chemist with the Kimberley-Clark Paper C o . Joseph Chittum, instructor in Purdue University, has returned t o the University of Chicago t o complete his research work. James Cleary has been appointed general sales manager of Combustion Engineering Corp., 200 Madison A v e . , N e w York, N . Y. R. B. Cooper has been appointed assistant professor o f chemistry at Battle Creek College, Battle Creek, Mich. William P . Dittmar and Leonard A. Covell h a v e entered t h e service of the Seaboard By-Product Coke Co. Frank H . Dotterweich has accepted a position in the Gas Distribution Department of the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Co., of Baltimore. Raymond M . Finn has accepted a position with t h e Maryland Plant of the Bethlehem Steel Co. Louis W. Herbst, jr., is now cadet engineer with the Western Gas Construction Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. All are graduates of t h e course in g a s engineering a t Johns Hopkins University. Herbert A. Endres has left the employ of the Celite Co., a s research chemist at Lompoc, Calif., and is n o w i n the Chemical Research Laboratories of t h e B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio. J. R. Fanselow and T. G. Finzel h a v e resigned their respective instructorships in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin t o enter the industries. The former has accepted a position with t h e Kimberley-Clark Co., Neenah, Wis., and the latter with the D u Pont Rayon Co., Buffalo, N . Y. Erich von Gebauer-Fulnegg, assistant professor a t the University of Vienna, has received a similar appointment on t h e chemistry staff of Northwestern University. E. C. Gilbert, associate professor of chemistry a t the Oregon State Agricultural College, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the year 1928-29. L. O. Gunderson is now president of the Electro-Chemical Engineering Corp., 621-31 South Kolmar Ave Chicago, I11., the business organization being founded on the Gunderson process for the prevention of corrosion. Valentine Harrington has left Drexel Institute t o take an instructorship in inorganic and analytical chemistry at t h e Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., where he will also work in the newly established Inorganic Industrial R e search Laboratory. B. L. Heath has resigned his position a s assistant superintendent of the Ashland Refining Co., Ashland, Ky., t o become superintendent of the Freedom Oil Works Co., Freedom, Pa. S. M. Hermann, president of the Apex Chemical Co., Inc., New York, N. Y., left on June 30 for a two-month stay in Europe, combining business with pleasure. H. H. Hopkins recently became connected with t h e A. M . Todd Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. R. E. Hutchinson has been transferred from Plant 2 of t h e Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, to t h e new Los A n geles plant of the company. Stanley J. Johnson has left the Thomson Research Laboratory of the General Electric Co. t o take a position i n the Research Department of the S. D . Warren Co., Cumberland Mills, Maine. A. C. Lansing, formerly chief chemist at the Peoria plant of the Commercial Solvents Corp., has been transferred t o Terre Haute as chief analyst, Research Department, and has been succeeded at Peoria b y V. D . Charleston. J. A. LeClerc, grain specialist in t h e foodstuffs division of the Department of Commerce, has accepted appointment in the food research division of t h e chemical and technological research unit of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. A s chemist in charge of research work in cereal chemistry, Doctor LeClerc will in-
vestigate the baking quality of wheat flour and other cereal products as affected by the chemical composition of the grain, and will also investigate and correlate the effect of environment on the vitamin and other nutritional factors of cereals and grains. G. N . Lewis, of the University of California, received the honorary degree of doctor of science from the University of Wisconsin at its commencement exercises on June 18. Charles A . Lindbergh received the honorary degree of doctor of laws on t h e same occasion. E. N . McAllister is now employed a t Van Schaack Brothers Chemical Works, Chicago, I11. Frank J. Maguire, jr., gas engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1928, is among those enrolled in the cadet engineering course of the Consolidated Gas Co., of N e w York. H. L. Mason, who has been connected with t h e teaching staff a t Northwestern University, has accepted a position with the M a y o Foundation, Rochester, Minn., where he will be associated with E . C. Kendall. Philipp Moll, formerly sales manager of C. H. Boehringer Sohn, Hamburg and Nieder-Ingelheim on Rhine, and more recently vice president of Dissosway Chemical Co., has become assistant t o the manager of sales, Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co. R. S . Mulliken has been appointed a n associate professor in t h e Department of Physics, University of Chicago. Doctor Mulliken worked w i t h Professor Harkins for his doctor's thesis on the separation of isotopes of mercury. H e l e n Miller Noyes has resigned from the staff of the Harriman Research Laboratory, Roosevelt Hospital, N e w York, N . Y., where she has been investigating the enzymes in cancers and other tissues for the past nine years, and is now located in Carthage, I11. Irvine H. Page is to sail a t the end of August for Munich, Germany, where h e has accepted a position as guest research worker and physician to the Kaiser Wilhelm Anstalt Forschung under the directorship of Geheimrats Willstetter and Plant. Oliver C. Ralston, formerly assistant chief metallurgist of the U . S. Bureau of Mines, and supervising engineer of the Berkeley, Calif., Mining Experiment Station, has resigned to become director of research for the United Verde Copper Co., Clarkdale, Ariz., where a new research laboratory has been located. Problems in connection with present operation of the copper smelter and with recovery of by-products now wasted will be undertaken. Ollie E. R e e d , head of the dairy husbandry division of Michigan State College, has been appointed chief of the Bureau of Dairy Industry of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D . C , and will take up his duties about September 1, succeeding C. W. Larson, who resigned t h e first of the year t o become director of the National Dairy Council. R. B . Reynolds, of t h e University of Wisconsin, has joined the chemistry staff of Northwestern University. E. E . Routh has been appointed manager of sales for the Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc., 250 Park Ave., N e w York, N . Y. Mr. Routh h a s been a member of the Mathieson organization for thirty years, with the exception of four years in college, having started in as office boy a t the Saltville plant a t the age of eleven. Elden H. Ruch h a s been transferred from Akron t o take charge of the laboratory of the new plant of the India Tyre & Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., at Inchinnan, Scotland. Bert Russell has recently left Los Angeles t o participate in the work of the Patent Section of the General Technical Committee of the General Motors Corp., Detroit, Mich. L. W . Ryan has been made director of research of the new research laboratory of the Titanium Pigment Co., Inc., 105 York St., Brooklyn, N. Y . For t h e past few years he has been doing general research work for the company at Niagara Falls, N . Y. Nathan Schofer, a graduate in gas engineering at Johns Hopkins University, has accepted a position with the Illinois Northern Utilities Co. Mary L. Sherrill, associate professor of chemistry at Mount Holyoke College, will spend next year at the University of Brussels, Belgium. Miss Sherrill has been awarded a n international fellowship. O. S . Sleeper h a s been appointed engineer in charge of special development work, Buffalo Foundry & Machine Co., Buffalo, N . Y . For the past seven years Mr. Sleeper has conducted the O. S. Sleeper Co., manufacturing vacuum driers and chemical plant equipment. J. R . Thayer, a recent graduate of t h e University of Wisconsin, has joined t h e staff of Parke, Davis and Co., Detroit, in a research capacity.
July 20, 1928
INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
Florence Schott, M.S., University of Chicago, 1926, will be at the University of Minnesota next year. E. Schotte and family sailed for Europe on June 30 t o attend the celebration of t h e twenty-fifth anniversary of the Dutch Chemical Society of which Mr. Schotte is a member. They will also travel through France a n d Germany s o that Mr. Schotte can study conditions of t h e soap industry in those countries. A. Sellner, chief chemist for the Cleveland Dental Mfg. Co., who retired on June 1, was presented with a watch. Mr. Sellner is now at home in Quincy, I11. C. W. Stratford h a s organized t h e Stratford Engineering Co., N e w York Life Bldg., Kansas City, Mo., for the primary purpose of marketing oil circulation stills a n d complete distilling and fractionating equipment. For the past eight years Mr. Stratford has been i n charge of t h e development work of the Associated Oil Co., S a n Francisco, Calif., where he was responsible for the production of Cycol motor oils and for the development and construction of refinery equipment. Herbert C. Tidwell, of Mexia, Texas, has been appointed assistant professor of chemical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology for t h e year 1928—29. H e will succeed Walter H. Taylor, w h o has been a t Carnegie while on a year's leave of absence from the University of Shanghai. Paul E. Weston, w h o is among t h e recent graduates of the University of Wisconsin who are entering the industries, has accepted a position with the Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co.
Remington Directs Food Research Laboratory R o e E. Remington, formerly associate professor of biological chemistry a t the North Dakota Agricultural College and for the past year Shevlin Fellow in Medicine at the University of Minnesota, has been appointed director of the Food Research Laboratory of t h e Medical College of South Carolina, at Charleston. A t its last session the General Assembly of South Carolina provided funds for a study of the nutritive value of foodstuffs produced in the state, with particular relation to their content of t h e so-called mineral elements. The immediate problem to be taken u p is the distribution of iodine in the foodstuffs and waters of South Carolina. Goiter is practically non-existent in the state.
Dean Stabler i n Automobile Accident On June 19, Laird J . Stabler, dean of the College of Pharmacy and professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California, as he was returning to L o s Angeles in his automobile accompanied b y Mrs. Stabler, was struck head-on by another machine which was blindly attempting t o pass a machine preceding it. Mrs. Stabler was fatally injured and Professor Stabler suffered numerous c u t s and bruises and a fracture of the leg below the knee, b u t is now convalescing in his home at Los Angeles.
Organ Features Importance of Dyes A n ingenious n o v e l t y in t h e shape of an imitation old-fashioned Gothic style pipe organ, featuring the importance of American dyes and calling attention t o the significance of color in everyday life, is now being displayed at t h e Du Pont Products Exhibit at Atlantic City a n d is attracting wide attention. In the "organ" t h e place of the pipes is taken by long glass tubes, each filled with a different colored liquid, so t h a t all the hues of the rainbow are displayed. T h e frames and the keyboard are real and the stops are i n various colors. A decoration of multicolored Pyralin pieces surrounds t h e keyboard. What appears to be the score sheet of t h e music with its writing is, in fact, a statement which reads in part: C O L O R — M u s i c T O THB E Y E S
T h e harmonies and symphonies of color in modern products are the melodic compositions of t h e dyestuffs chemist. H e is the magician whose t o u c h on the scientific keyboard of the industrial color organ creates the nuances o f visual melody. M a n makes his m a t e r i a l life * * * his clothing, his shelter, and his conveyances. D r a b and flat a n d soulless, indeed, would they be without those visual attunings t h a t synchronize with m a n ' s moods, his desires, and his needs. T r u l y , "Of all gifts to t h e sight of man, Color is the most divine * * *."
T h e organ is about 9 f e e t tall. The upper frame is made of cardboard and is in true Gothic style with three Gothic windows or apertures through which the multicolored glass tubes gleam. Electric lights in the back illuminate the whole apparatus.
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Research in Coal Mining and Metallurgy A program of fourteen research studies i n coal mining and metallurgy will be carried on during the year 1928-29 under t h e joint auspices of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, the U . S. Bureau of Mines, and two advisory boards of mining and metallurgical engineers and executives. Eleven college graduates have been appointed to research fellowships, and in addition a research engineer, an assistant research engineer, and an analyst have been engaged t o make the investigations. The program, it is announced, is similar in scope to those of the past few years that have been conducted under the same auspices. The research fellows, in carrying o u t their investigations, will be candidates for the degree of master of science to be awarded by the Institute of Technology in June, 1929. The reports of the studies will probably be published as in the past. Four of the studies will be financed by the Carnegie Institute of Technology, six by twenty-nine contributing companies representing the metallurgical industries, one b y the International Combustion Engineering Corp., one by the National Coal Association, and two by the Pittsburgh Coal C o .
Standard Sample of Ferrophosphorus The U. S Bureau of Standards has prepared a standard analyzed sample of ferrophosphorus containing 26.17 per cent of phosphorus. This standard is N o . 9 0 in t h e series and costs $2.00 per sample of 75 grams. It m a y be paid for in advance, with order, or be sent by parcel post, C. O. D., in the United States and its possessions. All foreign shipments require prepayment, together with 20 cents additional for postage. A complete list of standard samples, together with analyses, fees, a n d general directions are given in Bureau of Standards Supplement to Circular 25, which can be obtained free of charge upon application to the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D . C.
Effects of Pressing on Textile Materials The United States Hoffman Machinery Corp., maker of Hoffman pressing machines used by manufacturing clothiers, tailors, and dry cleaners, and of hat-cleaning and blocking equipment, h a s established an industrial fellowship at Mellon Institute in order t o carry out a thorough study of the effects of pressing on textile materials. The research program covers a wide variety of physical, chemical, and bacteriological studies. E. R. Clark, w h o h a s been engaged in practical textile studies at Mellon Institute and has specialized in the hygiene of apparel and the physical properties of clothing materials, has accepted the incumbency of this fellowship.
1928 Year Book of Commercial Fertilizer The 1928 Year Book has just been mailed b y the Commercial Fertilizer to its subscribers. This contains a review of the year's work of the National Fertilizer Association and its Soil Improvement Committee, articles on "Some Contributions of Scientists to Knowledge of Soils and Fertilizers in 1927," "Increased Use of Synthetic Nitrogen Fertilizers," "Progress in the Cyanamid Industry," "Nitrate of Soda," "Sulfate of Ammonia," and "Potash in Fertilizers," as well as a list of officials in charge of state fertilizer laws, agricultural experiment stations, a fertilizer manufacturers' directory, and alphabetical and classified buyers' directory of the allied fertilizer trade.
Linseed Oil Hearing Delayed The United States Tariff Commission has announced t h a t it does n o t expect to set a date for public hearings on the cost of production of linseed oil for several months. The Commission has completed an analytical study of both foreign and domestic cost data, but has not yet determined the principal competing country. Available foreign cost data, however, show Holland t o be t h e principal exporter of linseed oil. During its investigations the Commission also considered the question of producing flaxseed from which t h e oil is made, but was unable to obtain foreign book costs in Argentina, one of the principal exporters of flaxseed.
Tariff Commission Refuses Aldehyde Investigation The United States Tariff Commission has dismissed applications for investigations to the cost of production of acetaldehyde, paracetaldehyde, and sodium sulfate. Preliminary studies clearly showed that the facts did not warrant a formal investigation w i t h a view to changing t h e present rate of duty required b y the law.
