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Dr. H. E. Howe, of the National Research Council, Washington, D. C., has been made the chemical representative of the American Federation of Labor on the Advisory Committee on Disarmament, recently appointed by Mr. Gompers. Mr. Silas Carl Linbarger, who was ceramic engineer of The Carborundum Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y., died recently a t his home in that city, a t the age of 29. Mr. Harry R. Cary has left A. L. van Ameringen, dealer in perfumes and essential oils, and has purchased the drug store of James R. Spillan at Elmira, N. Y. Mr. Earle E Richardson who has been instructing in analytical chemistry and physics for the past four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been appointed research physicist under Mr. L. A. Jones at the research laboratories of Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Edwin R. Theis, formerly chemist for the American Oak Leather Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, has joined the staff of the department of leather research, College of Engineering and Commerce, University of Cincinnati, as research assistant. Mr. Oliver C. Rdston has been promoted from the position of superintendent of the Mining Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines at Seattle, to assistant chief metallurgist with headquarters at Berkeley, Cal., where he will also act as superintendent of the Pacific Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines. Mr. F. C. Henriques, who was chemist fOr the North Western Magnesite Co., assisting in the research work on magnesite atkthe Bureau of Mines, Berkeley, Cal., is a t present chemist for the Sampson Magnesite Company, Inc., which owns and operates the mine and calcining plant at Sampson Peak, Mendota, Cal. Mr.E. S. Crosby has resigned as sales and advertising manager of the United States and Cuban Allied Works Engineering Corp., to become manager of the Eastern District of the Celite Products Co., in New York City. Miss Ruth E. Merling, who had charge of the chemistry courses in the summer session of College of St.Teresa, Winona, Minn., has accepted a position for the coming year as instructor in chemistry a t the University of Kansas
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Dr. Ernest E. Lyder, formerly of the H. L. Doherty Co., is now with the Catlin Shale Oil Co., of Elko, Nev. Mr. George V. Downing, formerly research chemist with the I. P. Thomas & Son Co., Paulsboro, N. J., is now located in Salem, Va., as chief chemist for Leas & McVitty, Inc., and the Buena Vista Extract Co. In this work Mr. Downing will be associated with Mr. L. M. Whitmore, formerly leather chemist with the Bureau of Standards, and now manager of the process department of the above concerns. They are expected to do extensive work on the use of syntans and other tanning materials. Dr. H. E. Haggenmacher has been appointed research chemist of the Grasselli Chemical Co., Cleveland, Ohio. While in New York, Dr. Haggenmacher was connected with Collins and Roessel, Inc., engineers. Miss Helen C. Gillette, formerly in charge of the works chemical laboratory of the Prest-0-Lite Company, Inc., a t Indianapolis, Indiana, is now situated with the Union Carbide 81 Carbon Research Laboratories] Inc., Long Island City, N. Y. Mr. Edward S. Liebscher has resigned as research chemist with the American Lead Pencil Co., Hoboken, N. J., and is now associated with the Far East Products Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y., as president and technical director. Mr. N. I(. Chaney is in general charge of the research work of the Union Carbide & Carbon Research Laboratories, Inc., at Long Island City, N. Y. Mr. Chaney was formerly in the research laboratory of the National Carbon Co., which laboratory has been merged with that of the first-named firm. Mr. C. S.Adams has given up his position as lecturer in chemical engineering in the University of Toronto in order to pursue his studies for a Ph.D. degree in Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Edgar F. Smith accepted an invitation from the trustees and faculty of Cornell University to speak at the laying of the cornerstone of their new chemical laboratory on October 20, a t which time their new president was inaugurated. From there he went t o Chicago where he had been invited to speak at the annual banquet of the American Mining Congress on the evening of October 21.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES E. D. Winkworth has recently been made executive vice president of the Solvay Process Co., in full charge of management of the Solvay Process Company and the Semet-Solvay Co. The position is a new one, and is due to the removal of E. L. Pierce, president of the Solvay Process Company and vice president of the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation, to the New York offices of the corporation. Manufacture of an insulating board from bagasse has been started at the first unit of the Louisiana Celotex Co., Marrero, La., which has recently been completed at a cost of $500,000. If successful, further units will be erected as rapidly as possible, and it is hoped that within a few years a large part, if not all, of the bagasse produced in Louisiana will be used in this way. I t is said that the board can be produced a t less than the cost of lumber, can be used in the place of lumber for nearly all purposes, and is not subject to decay like wood. The recently organized United States Radium Co., New York, will take over a number of the larger radium companies in this country, including the Radium Luminous Material Corporation and its subsidiaries, and the Undark Radium Mines of Colorado. The radium works and extraction plant of the Radium Luminous Material Corporation at Orange, N. J., will be continued, as well as the research laboratory of the Undark organization. The Eastman Kodak Co. of New York has taken the first steps in its plan of reorganization and recapitalization, which has been contemplated since the settlement of the government dissolution suit. The company plans to enter a new fieldthe developing and printing of motion picture films-and has purchased three printing and developing laboratories: the G. M. Laboratory, Long Island City, with a capacity of 3,500,000 feet of motion picture a m s a week; the Paragon, Fort Lee, N. J., with capacity of 1,000,000 f t . a week; and the Sen Jacq Laboratory, Fort Lee, N. J., not yet quite completed. The University of Iowa is to have a new chemistry building, valued a t $1,000,000.
A reorganization of executive forces of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. is to be put in force immediately, by which there will be four main departments with six auxiliary divisions. Certain industrial branches, including dyes, pyralin, paints and chemicals, explosives and cellulose products, are put under separate general managers, each of whom will be held responsible for results in his particular industry. Managers of these branches have been appointed as follows: cellulose products, R. R. M. Carpenter; explosives, C. A. Patterson; dyestuffs, C. A. Meade; paints and chemicals, Hunter Grubb; pyralin, C. W. Phellis. The six auxiliary departments were created to act in consulting capacity and also to serve the company as a whole: legal, J. P. Laffey, chief counsel; development, Finn Sparre, director; engineering, S. M. Pierce, chief engineer; chemical, C. I,. Reese, director; service, W. B. Foster, director; advertising, C. F. Brown, director. A French estimate puts the sugar tonnage for 1921-1922 in France at 2,800,000, the area being 107,730 hectares, an inerease of 18 2 per cent but a decrease in tonnage. Germany has an estimate of 335,390 hectares and a sugar tonnage of 1,250,000, an increase of 22.48 per cent. Czechoslovakia has an estimated tonnage of 600,000; Italy, 180,000; Sweden, 150,000; Belgium, 225,000; and the Netherlands, 300,000 tons. The board of trustees:of;the:Ohio State University has authorized the establishment within the College of Agriculture of the Plant Institute of the Ohio State University. All membersof the staff of the college interested in plant studies may be members, and all graduate students doing their major work with plants are associate members. The Institute will conduct a seminary, review the work of its graduate students and encourage research. The departments of the college chiefly concerned are: botany, horticulture, farm crops, agricultural chemistry, and soils. The Dow Chemical Company has ahnost completed the plant which it is building at Midland, Michigan, for the manufacture of acetylsalicylic acid and it is expected that operation will begin within a few weeks.
