ESMOND W. GIFFORD is now employed with
Foster D . Snell, Inc., Brooklyn, Ν . Υ.
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SAMUEL M. GORDON, secretary of the Coun
THOS. C. ATCHISON, formerly located a t
Niagara Falls, Ν . Υ., became chief chemist of the Bright Star Battery Co., Clifton, N . J., on January 1, 1938. ROBERT H. BEDFORD, formerly engaged in
research work for the Canadian Govern ment at Prince Rupert, British Colum bia, has become associated with t h e Atlantic Coast Fisheries Co., New York, Ν. Υ. He will become active in t h e general research program of the com pany, which is directed towards the de velopment of improved products from fish and sea foods. DONALD J. BERGMAN, chief engineer of
cil on Dental Therapeutics of the Ameri can Dental Association, resigned his position on November 30 to associate himself with Endo Products, Inc., New York, as vice president in charge of re search. JOHN T. GOSSETT has recently been ap
pointed eastern sales manager of the Wilson & Bennett Mfg. Co. He will have headquarters a t the Jersey City office and plant and will be in charge of all sales in the territory east of Pitts burgh. Mr. Gossett was formerly associ ated with t h e Aro Equipment Corp., Bryan, Ohio. JOHN E. HAGGENMACHER has resigned as
vice president of the Warwick Chemical the Universal Oil Products Co., Chi Co., West Warwick, R. I. cago, III., presented a paper on "Ap 1ication of Automatic Control to the CECIL J. HAOGERTY has severed connec tions with Holy Cross College to join Oil Industry" at the annual meeting the staff of t h e College of the Sacred of the American Society of Mechanical Heart, New York, Ν . Υ. Engineers in New York on December 6.
DONALD R. BLUMER has resigned his posi
tion as research associate in natural gas at the Experiment Station, School of Mineral Industries, Pennsylvania State College, to become senior chemist with the Research Department of the Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, Okla. RALPH C. CHAMPLIN has been elected a
vice president of the Ethyl Export Corp., foreign subsidiary of the Ethyl Gasoline Corp., New York, Ν . Υ. WILLIAM
W.
COBLENTZ,
chief
of
the
radiometry section of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C., has been awarded the Rumford gold medal b y the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work "as a pioneer in the technology and measure ment of heat and light." The engagement of MARCEL D E CAVEL,
chemical engineer and manager of the Elektrion Oil Works, Ghent, Belgium, and M I S S
DENISE
Du
B o i s was
an
nounced on December 18, 1937. MILTON A. DEWEY has left the research
staff of the Gulf Research & Develop ment Co. to accept a position as assist ant director of the Petroleum Division of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Wilmington, Del., in charge of a new laboratory for developing organic chemicals for the petroleum industry. On January 1, D . E. DOUTY, president and general manager of the United States Testing Co., Inc., New York, Ν . Υ., completed 25 years of service as head of its testing laboratories. WALTER H. DUMKE has recently accepted
a position as assistant professor of chem istry at the Colorado State School of Mines. During the past three years he has beenr an assistant research chem ist for the l . S. Bureau of Reclamation, Department of Interior, with laborato ries located at Denver. JAMES T. EATON, for the past four years employed by the National Aniline & Chemical Co., has accepted a position with E. F. Houghton and Co., Phila delphia, Pa. GUSTAV EGLOÎT, Universal Oil Products
Co., Chicago, III., has been appointed chairman of the Science and Technology Committee for the Tenth International Petroleum Congress and Exposition, t o be held in Tulsa, Okla., May 14 to 21. W. R. ELLIS, LLOYD KITCHEL, P. W. MEYERINGH, and Ε. Β. MORROW have
been elected new members of the board of the Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del.
WALDERSEE
HENDREY
has
resigned
as
supervisor of organic research at the Beacon Laboratory of the Texas Co., to become assistant research director of Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc., Buffalo, KARL HEYMANN has accepted a position
as chemist with the Filatex Corp., Trenton, N . J. D. W. HOLLIXGWORTH recently severed his connection with the Continental-Dia mond Fibre Co., Newark, Del., and joined the technical staff of the Panelyte Corp., Trenton, N . J., as research chem ist. HARRY
W. K A L E Y has been appointed
general sales manager of the Ethyl Gasoline Corp., effective January 1. Mr. Kaley has been connected with the corporation for eleven years, serving as advertising manager and assistant sales manager. HARRY C. MARTIN has recently accepted
a position as chemical engineer with the Brown Paper Mill Co., Inc., Monroe, La. J. WALLACE
PAGE,
formerly
connected
with Columbia University and Ohio State University, has accepted a posi tion as assistant professor of chemistry and science education at Syracuse University, Syracuse, Ν. Υ.
GEOFF.
A. SAEGER
Cement C o . , Houston, Texas. Mr. Saeger leaves the U. S. Bureau of Mines to take charge of the chemistry division for the Houston concern. JULIUS SENDROY, JR., has recently been
appointed professor of chemistry and head of the Department of Experimen tal Medicine a t Loyola University, School of Medicine, Chicago. Dr. Sendroy was formerly an associate in chemistry at the Hospital of the Rocke feller Institute for Medical Research, New York, Ν . Υ . H. R. SMALLEY, chief agronomist of the National Fertilizer Association, has been elected director of soil improve ment work, an enlarged program for which has been planned by the asso ciation. In developing its work the national Soil Improvement Committee ami the district committees will co operate with state agricultural colleges, experiment stations, and extension serv ices, with t h e United States Depart ment of Agriculture, county agricultural agents, teachers of vocational agricul ture, the farm press, and all other agen cies interested in agricultural improve ment. The use of fertilizers that are best adapted to the needs of crops in each state will b e encouraged and the use of poorly adapted and low-analysis fertilizers will be discouraged. SIDNEY
PAUL
SOLOW,
formerly
chief
chemist at the Fort Lee, N. J., plant of Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., was recently transferred to the Holly wood plant as plant manager. B E N FRIEDLAND has taken over Mr. So low's WILLIAM M. R A N D , president of the Merriduties at Fort Lee. mac Chemical Co., and a director of the Monsanto Chemical Co., of which it is H. N . STEPHENS, who has been on the staff of the School of Chemistry of the Uni a division, has been made a vice presi versity of Minnesota for the past four dent of the parent company. He has teen years, has been granted a year's also been elected the eleventh president leave of absence to organize a central of the Associated Industries of Massa research laboratory for the Minnesota chusetts. Mining & Manufacturing Co., St. Paul, R. J. R E E D has been appointed manager Minn. of the Tit us ville Iron Works Division VINCENT E. STEWART, who received his of the Struthers Wells-Titusville Corp., Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of at Titusville, Pa. Mr. Reed has been Florida in June, 1*937, is now employed associated with this division for more as chief chemist for the Florida State than ten years. He has been succeeded Racing Commission, Miami, Fla. T h e in his previous position of sales manager purpose of the laboratory is t o detect by DOUGLAS E . P E N N I N G . the administration of "dope" to race JOHN A. ROBERTS, formerly citrus chemist horses at Hialeah Park and Tropical on the staff of the State Chemist of Park. The laboratory is newly es Florida, has recently joined the Florida tablished and i s conducting research Citrus Canners Cooperative, Lake in improved methods of detection. Wales, Fla., as chief chemist. ALEXANDRE VACHON, professor of chem MARVIN C. ROGERS, formerly chemical istry at Laval University, has been engineer in the Research Laboratory of appointed technical councilor t o the the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana at Research Fisheries Council of North Whiting, has been appointed assistant America, which is engaged in research rofessor of chemical engineering a t the work in North Atlantic waters in connec tion with the fisheries matters pertaining diversity of Minnesota, effective Janu to Canada, m the United States and ary 1, 1938. Newfoundland. GEOFF. A. SAEGER has been appointed (Continued on page 64) chief chemist for the Gulf Portland
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UNITED STATES TARIFF ACT OF 1930 PARAGRAPH
DESCRIPTION OF ARTICLE
Ultramarine blue, dry, in pulp, or ground in or mixed with oil or water, wash and all other blues containing ultramarine Valued at more than 10 cents per lb. Valued at 10 cents per lb., or less I^ead pigmente Litharge Red lead All pigments containing lead, dry or in pulp, or ground in or mixed with oil or water, not spe cially provided for In chief value of suboxide of lead OTHER
73 73
ARTHUR ROSINGER
ARTHUR ROSINGER, assistant director of
research and development. Natural Products Refining Co., Jersey City, N. J., has been invited to lecture on industrial chemistry and applied chemical research during 1938 in the newly formed Essex Junior College, Newark, N. J., and will also act as the head of the Chemistry Department of the college. Dr. Rosinger is a graduate of the Royal Hungarian Joseph Polytechnic Institute of Budapest, Hungary, and was formerly associated with the University of Cluj, Rumania, and chief chemist and director of the Experimental Station Laboratory of Nagyvârad, Hungary. GLADYS SWOPE has resigned her position
as chief chemist for the Division of Sanitation of the Kansas State Board of Health and assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, to become chemist for the North Shore Sanitary District, Waukegan Sewage Treatment Works, Waukegan, 111.
80 80 81
201 (a) 202 (a)
205 (a) 207
207 207 2 0 8
213 214 216
21fi
CHESTER TIETIG, formerly examiner in
the U. S. Patent Office and chief inspector of explosives, U. S. Army Ordnance Department, has opened offices at 309 Mercantile Library Bldg., 414 Walnut St., Cincinnati, Ohio, to practice before the federal courts and U. S. Patent Office and to offer consultation service on process and product development. ROBERT D . VOLD has been
21fi
21fi 218 (a)
appointed
Bristol-Myers research fellow and junior research associate in chemistry at Stanford University. Dr. Void was formerly a research chemist in the Chemical Division of the Procter & Gamble Co. THEODORE P. WALKER of the Commercial
Solvents Corp., 230 Park Ave., New York, Ν . Υ., has been elected to asso ciate membership by the members of Nu Chapter (Purdue University) of Phi Lambda Upsilon in recognition of his in herent interest in the field of applied chemistry. W. B. WARREN, formerly of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, and the Coal Research Laboratories, Car negie Institute of Technology, has ac cepted the position of director of de velopment, Fisher Scientific Co., Pitts burgh, Pa. P. J. ZURIS has severed his connection with the Excelsior Varnish Works, where he has been chemist and sales engineer for 13 years, and now heads the Ace Laboratories, North Ridgeville, Ohio, engaged in research and specialty tech nical coating manufacture.
228 (6) 231 302 (a)
302 (g)
Umbers, crude or not ground Iron oxide and iron hydroxide pigments, not specially provided for Spirit varnishes Containing less than 5 per cent of methyl alcohol Containing 5 per cent or more of methyl alcohol All other varnishes, including so-called gold size or japan, not specially provided for Zinc oxide and leaded sine oxides containing not more than 25 per cent of lead In any form of dry powder Ground in or mixed with oil or water Toilet soap Soap and soap powder, not specially provided for Sodium chloride or salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packages Sodium hydrosulfite, hydrosulfite compounds, and all combinations and mixtures of the foregoing Bath brick, not specially provided for Clay tiles, glazed, ornamented, hand-painted, en ameled, vitrified, semi vitrified, decorated, encaustic, ceramic mosaic, flint, spar, embossed, gold decorated, grooved or corrugated, valued at more than 40 cents per square foot Plaster rock or gypsum, ground or calcined Clays or earths, including common blue clay and Gross-Almerode glass pot clay, not specially provided for I'nwrought and unmanufactured Wrought or manufactured China clay or kaolin Fuller's earth Unwrought and unmanufactured Wrought or manufactured Mica plates and built-up mica Graphite or plumbago, crude or refined Natural amorphous Crystalline lump, chip, or dust Ground feldspar Carbons and electrodes, of whatever material com posed, and wholly or partly manufactured, for pro ducing electric arc light If less than 0.5 inch in diameter or of equivalent cross-sectional area If 0.5 inch, or more, in diameter or of equivalent cross-sectional area Electrodes, composed wholly or in part of carbon or graphite, and wholly or partly manufactured, for electric furnace or electrolytic purposes Brushes, of whatever material composed, and wholly or partly manufactured, for electric motors, generators, or other electrical machines or appliances; plates, rods, and other forms, of whatever material com>osed, and wholly or partly manufactured, for manuacturing into the aforesaid brushes Articles or wares composed wholly, or in part, of carbon or graphite, wholly or partly manufactured, not spe cially provided for Biological, chemical, metallurgical, pharmaceutical, and surgical articles and utensils of all kinds, includ ing all scientific articles, and utensils, whether used for experimental purposes in hospitals, laboratories, schools, or universities, colleges, or otherwise, all the foregoing [except articles provided for in para graphs 217 or 218 (e) of the Tariff Act of 1930], finished or unfinished, wholly or in chief value of fused quarts or fused silica Ophthalmic lenses of glass or pebble, molded or pressed, or ground and polished to a spherical, cylindrical, or prismatic form, and ground and polished piano or coquille glasses, wholly or partly manufactured, with the edges unground Optical glass or glass used in the manufacture of lenses or prisms for spectacles, or for optical instruments or equipment, or for optical parts, scientific or commer cial, in any and all forms Photographic lenses, finished or unfinished, not spe cially provided for Smalts, frostings, and all ceramic and glass colors, fluxes, glazes, and enamels, all the foregoing, ground or pulverized Manganese ore (including ferruginous manganese ore) or concentrates, and manganiferous iron ore, all the foregoing containing in excess of 35 per cent of metal lic manganese Tungsten metal, tungsten carbide, and mixtures or combinations containing tungsten metal or tungsten carbide, all the foregoing, in lumps, grains, or powder
?
302 (g)
Tungstic acid, and all other compounds of tungsten, not specially provided for
302 (k) 1523
Chrome metal or chromium metal Press cloth, of which human hair is the component material of chief value Press cloth, of which camel's hair is the component material of chief value Hair press cloth, not specially provided for Annatto and gambier, and extracts thereof, not con taining alcohol
1523 1523 1609
PRESENT RATE OF DCTTY
4c per lb. 3c per lb. 2 or per lb 2 75c per lb.
3é per lb., but not less than 15% nor more than 30% 30% 0.125c per lb.
20% $2.20 per gal. and 25% 25% 25% 1 75c per lb. 2.25* per lb.
l i é per 100 lb.
35% 25%
«0% SI 40 per ton $1 per ton $2 per ton $2 50 per ton $1 50 per ton $3. 25 per ton 40%
40% 30% 30%
45% 30%
50%
40% 50% 45% 30% 0.5c per lb. on the metallic manganese contained therein 60é per lb. on the tungsten contained therein and 50 % ad val. 60é per lb. on the tungsten contained therein and 40 % ad val. 25 % 8c per lb. and 40% 40% but not less than 25c per lb. 40% Free
