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( 2 ) A list of all contracts with purchasers abroad existing on August 1, 1918, for the exportation of caustic soda which had not been exported on that date, showing, (a) the names of the purchasers abroad, or consignees; (b) the dates of the contracts: ( c ) the quantities: (a) the price paid or contracted to be paid therefore; and (e) if the applicant on August 1 , 1918, owned or had any interest in the title to the caustic soda to be exported the place or places of storage on or about that date, or if in transit on August 1 , 1918, from an inland point within the United States, the date of shipment from such point and port of exit in the United States to which such shipment was destined
On and after August 1 , 1918, applicants for licenses to export caustic soda will also he required to state on their applications whether or not they have acquired any title or interest in the caustic soda which it is proposed to be expoited, and if the caustic soda is in existence, the place of
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The fbregoing requirements are supplemental to the regulations contained in circular letters issued by the United States War Trade Board under date of March 30 and May PI. 1918. For the convenience of exporters the regulations with respect to caustic soda have been consolidated and revised into one ruling (W. T.B. R. 175, issued July 26, 1918). Copies thereof may be obtained upon application to any branch office of the War Trade Board on and after July 27, 1918. During the absence of L. L. Summers, head of the Chemical Section of the War Industries Board, A. W. Chase is acting as chief of the Section.
PERSONAL NOTES
Lieutenant Andrew P. Peterson, a member of the Chicago Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, who had been in military service in France since September 1917, was reported in the June casualty list as having been severely wounded. Information was received indirectly a few days later that he was recovering from his wounds, but on July 15 the casualty list announced Lieutenant Peterson’s death as the result of wounds received a t the front. Lieutenant Peterson was a resident of Lamberton, Minnesota. He attended the University of Minnesota, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in 1910 and Master of Science in 1911. He entered the service of the Western Electric Company a t its Hawthorne plant in the Summer of 1911, and remained in that service until the time of his enlistment at the First Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Sheridan, in May 1917. Lieutenant Peterson was a chemical engineer of unusual ability and attainment. I n the service of the Western Electric Company he specialized upon the technology of the fabrication of rubber. He conducted some important industrial researches, and soon distinguished himself by the ability to put to practical use his scholarly attainment. He was not only well balanced intellectually, being quite as proficient in mathematics as in the physical sciences and philosophy, but he was unusually well developed physically, having several times carried off honors as a wrestler. Shortly before his enlistment he had been promoted to Chief of the Research Department of the Chemical Engineering Division a t the Hawthorne Works, and had been strongly urged to use his scientific training and experience in engineering service for the Government. While he admitted that he undoubtedly could be more useful in that service, he felt that because he was physically able, he ought to go into active military service. After debating for several weeks as to what was his duty in the matter, his powerful sense of the justice ot the Alliedcause and his duty as an American citizen forced him to enlist for direct military service. He obtained his commission a t the close of the First Officers’ Training Camp a t Fort Sheridan, and was sent immediately to England, whence, after several weeks’ training, he was sent to a point near the front line trenches for intensive training with certain British units. He was among the first Americans to take part in the operations on the Western front during the past Spring.-F. W. WILLARR,Chicago Section. Mr. Charles V. Bacon was commissioned a captain in the Engineer Reserve Corp on July 2 and is now stationed a t the General Engineer Depot, Washington, D. C., in the Division of Investigation Research and Development, being a member of the executive committee. Capt. Bacon was formerly associated with the American University Experiment Station as Chief of Section on Flaming Liquids, and later as Chief of Section on Oil Research. Mr. Bacon’s laboratory in New York City is being conducted in his absence by Mr. Ernest Molnar. Mr. C. H. Crawford, formerly of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad, and prominently associated with the exhibit of that railway at the Third National Exposition has been appointed Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. A., and is stationed a t the General Engineer Depot, Washington, D. C. Dr. Ira E. Lee has resigned from the University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y., where he acted as instructor of chemistry, to accept employment as research chemist with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co , Wilmington, Del. Mr. John M. Sanderson, for the past several years chief chemist of fhe Ohio Varnish Company, has recently entered the
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employ of the Larkin Co., Buffalo, N. Y., as superintendent of their paint and varnish department. Miss Jessie Y. Cann, formerly head of the chemistry department at Rockford College, Rockford, Ilf., has just accepted an assistant professorship in analytical chemistry a t Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Mr. Albert J. Kraemer, formerly employed by the Union Oil Co., California, as chief chemist of the Avila Refinery, is now engaged in the Chemical Warfare Service, Research Division, in the small scale production of gas chemicals. , Professor George Borrowman has resigned his professorship at the University of Nebraska to take up research work for the Niagara Alkali Company, under the direction of Dr. John E. Teeple, in the Chemists’ Building, 50 East 41st Street, New York City. Mr. H. E. Shiver, assistant chemist, South Carolina Experiment Station,. Clemson College, S. C., has accepted a position as chemical engineer with the Air Nitrates Corporation a t their electrochemical plant a t Muscle Shoals, Ala. He will be in a supervisory position in Unit 5 of the plant. Mr. Cyril B. Clark, employed for the past few years in the Research Department of the General Chemical Company, 25 Broad St., New York City, has been detailed to some special work a t the Bay ‘Point Works near San Francisco. To complete this special work will take about four months, after which Mr. Clark will return t o New York. Dr. R. P. Calvert has been transferred from the position of Head of the General Chemical Division of the Experimental Station, Wilmington, Del., to that of Director of Delta Laboratory, Arlington, New Jersey. Both laboratories are under the direction of the chemical department of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Mr. Joseph Prescott, formerly assistant superintendent in the tinning department of the De Lava1 Separator Company a t Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is now assistant metallurgical chemist in the Ordnance Department. His work consists in supervising the heat treatment of steel, physical properties, etc. Mr. 0. I,. Thomas has been transferred from the Experimental Station of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Del., where he acted as research chemist, to the U. S. Government powder Plant a t Jacksonville, Tenn., where he will be chief supervisor of caustic soda manufacture and soda ash recovery. Dr. J. H. Ransom, after eighteen years in Purdue University, has been elected professor of chemistry and director of the chemical laboratories in VanderbiIt University, Nashville, Tenn. Mr. John A. Coye has resigned his position as chief chemist with the Engineering Experiment Station of the Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, to accept the position of assistant chemist with the General Chemical Company a t their Laurel Hill Works. Mr. J. Raymond Hess, until recently head chemist for the Ismert-Hincke Milling Co., Topeka, Kansas, is now with the Omaha Flour Mills Co., Omaha, Nebraska, acting as chief chemist. Mr. J. Thaddeus Batson has been transferred to the Gas Defense and is now stationed a t the Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Maryland. Dr. Raymond Freas has resigned as adjunct professor of chemistry in the University of Virginia to accept a commission as First Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps.
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Mr. D. L. Williams, formerly of the chemistry department of the College of the City of New York, is now in the Research Division of the Chemical Warfare Service a t American University, Washington, D. C. Mr. James B. Pratt, formerly chemist of the Southern Cotton Oil Co., Charlotte, N. C., has been commissioned captain in the Chemical Warfare Service and is stationed a t Niagara Falls. Sir Alexander Pedler, F. R. S., known for his research work in chemistry, for many years professor of chemistry in the Presidency College, at Calcutta, later vice-chancellor of the Calcutta University and minister of public instruction in Bengal, died on May 13, a t the age of sixty-eight years. Mr. M. W. Hensel, an expert in the sugar-beet industry, is now in the mountain zone of Avery, Ashe, Buncombe, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Watauga, and Yancey counties, North Carolina, having been specially detailed to look after the yield of the excellent syrup obtained from the sugar beet. Mr. Jean Piccard has been promoted to associate professor of chemistry a t the University of Chicago. Mr. I,. J. Pletcher, who was formerly assistant professor of chemistry a t Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, has withdrawn from teaching and is now associated with the Texas Refinery, Port Arthur, Texas, as research chemist. Dr. E. C. Shorey, in charge of the Division of Chemical Investigation in the Bureau of Soils, U. s. Department of Agriculture, has resigned to accept a position with the National Aniline and Chemical Co., Inc., at Marcus Hook, Pa. Mr. Harry C. Brill, who has acted as chief of Division of Organic Chemistry, Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I., for the past five years, resigned last February to accept the position of . acting professor of chemistry at Miami University, Oxford, 0. I n June of this year Mr. Brill was appointed professor of chemistry and head of the department of chemistry a t Miami University. Mr. Harvey E. Wilson has been transferred from the Jersey City plant of Marden, Orth and Hastings Corporation, where he was acting as chief chemist, to the Jones Point plant of the American Potash Corporation to act as the former’s special representative, and also to do consulting work on potash for the American Potash Corporation. Mr. Charles S. Rewe, chemist of the United States Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering for several years past, has resigned his position to enter the Research Department of the Barrett Company, 17 Battery Place, New York City. Mr. Vilhelm Gruner has severed his connections with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Del., to take up work at the plant of the Monmouth Chemical Co., Keyport, N. J. Mr. Samuel Wierman, formerly chief chemist and process manager of the citrus by-products factory of the California Fruit Exchange, a t Corona, California, is now with the Societe Financiere des Caoutchoucs of Antwerp, Belgium, and London, England, as chemist in charge of their Chemical and Agricultural Department, Federated Malay States. Mr. Sterling Temple, associate professor of industrial chemistry at the University of Minnesota until January 1918,and since then Captain, Ordnance R. C., has been stationed a t Edgewood Arsenal since April 4 of this year. Mr. Ralph A. Holbrook, chemical engineer, has recently located his headquarters a t Rutland, Mass. Mr. G. A. Armstrong, formerly employed by E. J. Loomis & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., as chemical engineer in charge of their tungstic acid and tungsten metal department, has severed his connection with this company to accept a position as chemical engineer in charge of intermediates with the Central Dyestuff and Chemical Co., Newark, N. J. Dr. Harrison Hale, for a number of years professor of chemiistry at Drury College, has resigned his position there to become head of the department of chemistry at the University of Arkansas. Associated with him will be Mr. 0. B. Read, formerly assistant professor in the Iowa State Teachers College, and Mr. H. M. Trimble, of the University of Michigan. Mr. Stiles Kennedy, who has been connected with the Northern Sugar Corporation in the capacity of chief chemist, is now acting as general manager for Henry M. Winslow, Harriman, Tenn. Dr. Albert W. Owens, who has been working for the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, is now connected with the Division of Chemical Metallurgy of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C.
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Mr. Joseph B. Nichols, previous to his enlistment in the Ordnance Department, was engaged in graduate research work in organic chemistry a t the University of California, Berkeley, Cal. Since his enlistment Mr. Nichols has been stationed at Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md., and assigned to organic research work. Mr. E. P. Fager, formerly employed as chemist by the American Water Works and Electric Company at Birmingham‘, is now serving as a chemist in the Ordnance Department a t the Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Md. Dr. R. E. Nelson has resigned his instructorship in chemistry a t Purdue University to accept an appointment as assistant gas chemist in the Research Division, Chemical Warfare Service, American University Experiment Station, Washington, D. C. Wr. F. A. McDermott, who has been doing industrial research work a t the Mellan Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., and has been research chemist with the Corby Co., Washington, D. C., has taken a positioh with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Coppany at their Experimental Station, Henry Clay, Del. Prof. Miles S. Sherrill, of the department of chemistry, Mass. Institute of Technology, has been granted a leave of absence from the Institute and has commenced work on explosives for the Ordnance Department. Mr. G. A. Menge, formerly connected with the Dairy Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, as a chemist in charge of condensed milk laboratory, has been transferred to New York, assigned to control of quality, both of raw material and of finished product, in the production of evaporated milk and of sweetened condensed milk. Mr. Chas. N. Jordan, ‘formerly instructor in chemistry, Marvin College, Fredericktown, Mo., is now engaged in chemical and metallurgical work for the Ordnance Department. Mr. John O’Connor, Jr , one of the assistant directors of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research of the University of Pittsburgh, has gone to Washington to assume the duties of a civilian appointment in the Plan and Scope Division of the Quartermaster General’s office. Mr. O’Connor has been a prominent figure in scientific and especially in chemical circles both in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. He has been one of the leaders of the movement to eliminate smoke. In 1912 he became economist on smoke investigation in the University’s department of industrial research, which later became the Mellon Institute. The following year he was appointed senior fellow on smoke investigation and in 1914was made one of the assistant directors of the Institute. Mr. O’Connor has been secretary of the Dust and Smoke Abatement League since its organization in 1912. He is a member of the Civic Club of Allegheny County and of its Smoke Abatement Committee. He was editor of The Crucible, the monthly bulletin of the Pittsburgh SecLion of the A. C. S., and was secretary of the Society’s publicity commit ’ee. Dr. Thomas I,. Watson, professor of geology in the University of Virginia and state geologist of Virginia, has been engaged for some months in cooperative state and federal work on war minerals and materials in Virginia. He is a member of the subcommittee of the National Research Council on materials for rapid highway and railroad construction behind the front, and an associate member of the War Minerals Committee. Prof. Gerald I,. Wendt has been promoted to assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. Mr. A. Douglas Macallum, research chemist, Toronto, has been granted exemption from military service on the ground of being engaged in the manufacture of diarsenol. Professor E. P. Schoch has been promoted to the head of the school of chemistry and chemical engineering of the University of Texas. Mr. C. A. Nash has resigned as associate in chemistry a t the University of Chicago and has accepted the position of research chemist for the Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Company, of Milwaukee. Mr. Donald E. Cable, a recent graduate of the department of chemical engineering, Armour Institute of Technology, is now employed as assistant chemist in the department of derived products, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. I,. Duane Simpkins, who for some time held the position of metallurgist and chemist for the American Smelting and Refining Company’s Lead Plant, located at Murray, Utah, and who for a few months was a chemist in the Civil Service, is now chief metallurgical chemist and metallographer for the Peters Cartridge Co., Kings Mills, Ohio.
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