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The Federal Trade Commission has ceased the practice of granting licenses for the working of enemy-owned patents. All these patents, and among them many valuable dye patents, have been turned over to the Alien Property Custodian, who now holds them in trust. It is understood that the Alien Property Custodian intends to sell these patents outright in the same manner in which he is dealing with the rest of the alien enemy property placed in his hands. The Schaefer Alkaloid Works, the Standard Essence Company, and the Thorium Chemical Company have been merged and the consolidation will continue the business of these firms under the name of Maywood Chemical Works, Maywood. N. J. The Atlantic Chemical Co., Newark, N. J., with a capital of $I,OOO,OOO,has filed a certificate of incorporation with the Secretary of State a t Trenton, N. J. The incorporators are I,. L. Terhune, W. W. Ames and J. W. Fulkner. The American Cotton Oil Company has recently established a large research department. This chemical department has its headquarters at the Chicago factory of the N. K. Fairbank Company and is to conduct research work, both pure and applied, for the American Cotton Oil Company, the N. K. Fairbank Company, and the Union Seed and Fertilizer Company. The personnel of this department includes: Director, Dr. V. H. Gottschalk; Senior Chemists (in charge of divisions), J. C. Ingram, H. C. Holden, and Dr. M. L. Dolt: Junior Chemists, K. R. Beaqh, J. G. Hawthorne, R. S. Bracewell, H. T. White, H. D. Rasmusson, G. R. Jenkins, Miss E. A. Jones, Miss Eloise Parsons, Miss Marietta Eichelberger, W. D. Edwards, Wm. Kahlbaum, and L. W. Babcock. The Redmanol Chemical Products Company has placed a fellowship at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, Pa. The fellowship will be in the hands of a senior and junior chemist and Will be of three years’ duration. The prospects of a good supply of oil fuel for Egypt are very promising. At the beginning of the war the Anglo-Egyptian Oil-Fields was the only one of the various companies formed to search €or oil in Egypt that remained in operation, and down to 1914the only finds of importance had been at Gemsah, where none of the gushers that had been struck had given anything like a permanent yield. But the new field discovered in 1914 a t Hurgada has been proved to be of singularly regular formation, and its yield has steadily increased, until, according to recent reports, i t now stands a t over 15,000tons of crude oil a month. Meanwhile the Suez refinery has been enlarged, and there is every reason to hope that as much oil will shortly be available for internal’consumption as can be dealt with by the company’s existing facilities. It is stated that, in consequence, most of the public utility companies in Egypt have now converted their plants to burn petroleum residue. At the organization meeting of directors of the Air Reduction Company, Inc., New York, N. Y., held on February 19, 1919, the following officers were elected: President, A. S. Blagden; vice-president, A. R. Ludlow; treasurer, C. E. Adams; secretary, M. W. Randall; assistant treasurer, C. L. Snow; assistant secretary, C. C. Emerson.
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The Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Canada has awarded three fellowships and five studentships this year for investigations in some department of science bearing on industrial processes. W. F. Seyer will continue researches carried on last year in connection with the utilization of the tar sands of Alberta. D. W. Hatcher will pursue investigations a t McGill University in connection with the production of hydrogen peroxide and its solutions. 0. J. Walker, a graduate of Saskatchewan University, will undertake research work in connection with the vulcanization of rubber. Donald G. McGregor, graduate of Dalhousie College, will study the separation of the products of the distillation of coal in the manufacture of gas. Harold A. Braendie will investigate the elasticity of nonisotropic samples of crude rubber. Eleanor Shanley, a graduate of McGill, has undertaken research on the bacteriology of canned fish. A captain in the Norwegian navy, Mr. Bull, has invented a new bronze alloy, the so-called M. bronze, which is particularly adapted for bearings, armaments, and machinery parts where a comparatively high hardness is required, and for welding and rolling. I n order to satisfy different requirements the bronze is worked out in three qualities: hard (M. H.), medium hard (M. .M.)., and soft (M. B.). For use where an especially good quality is demanded and for ships’ use there can also be produced a finer quality, like mangan bronze. As there have lately been great difficulties in procuring certain expensive metals for the making of common bronze alloys, the Norwegian Department for Industrial Supplies has asked the consumers of such alloys to adopt the new bronze as soon as possible. Several of the government works have used this bronze for a considerable period with good results. As the price is much lower than that of the regular bronze, the new material offers considerable economic advantage. A company to manufacture dyestuffs has been formed in Sweden with a fully paid up capital of $3,216,000. The new works will have the services of Birger Rosenquist, who was formerly a representative in Boston of a large German dyestuffs establishment. The International Nitrogen Company, capital $4,000,000, has been organized in Cleveland, Ohio. The officers are: President, B. F. Bourne, of the Bourne-Fuller Company; vice president, F. H. Chapin; treasurer, S . C. Ernst. The first factory will be built a t Rochester, N. Y. The New Brunswick Chemical Company plant, which has been in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian since the declaration OF war between this country and Germany, has been sold for $22,650 to Hugo Boblenzer, president and treasurer of the company. The latter owned 755 shares of the concern valued a t $30 a share. The Norwegian canned goods exporters have been suffering considerably during the war for want of tinplate for cans. There has now been started a mill for rolling tinplate. The production for a start is calculated for 18,000 tons of tinplate per year, but it can be increased to three times this quantity. The imports of tinplate to Norway were 32,000 tons in 1912, 41,000 tons in 1915,and zg,ooo tons in 1916. I
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Dr. John Johnston, secretary of the National Research Council, has been appointed professor of chemistry in Yale University. Mr. C. H. MacDowell, director of the Chemicals Division of the War Industries Board during the war, and previously president of the Armour Fertilizer Company, and Mr. Donald Riley, formerly Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, and in charge of procurement of chemicals and explosives for the Navy during the war, are in Paris acting in an advisory capacity to the American Peace Commission. Mr. MacDowell stated that the work would be on problems of reconstruction, particularly from the raw material side, in the dyes, ferro-alloys, potash, and agricultural chemical industries. Charles F. Roth, recently discharged from the Chemical Warfare Service, addressed the Southern California Section of the A. C. S. on March 13.on “The Responsibility of the Chemist; and Some Words upon the Coming Chemical Exposition.” Mr. G. S. Meikle, formerly an engineer in the research laboratory of the General Electric Company, and more recently in the Development Division of the Chemical Warfare Service, is now with the G. S. Meikle Co., New York City. Mr. Arthur W. Elkins, chemical engineer with the General Chemical Co., died on March I, 1919,a t East Orange, N. J.
Major George L. Norris, engaged in aircraft production, has received his honorable discharge from the Army and has returned to his former position as metallurgical engineer with the American Vanadium Co., Pittsburgh. Major hTorris was district manager of production, Pittsburgh office, until November I, when he was transferred to Washington and assigned t o . duty as chief metallurgist, raw materials department, Bureau of Aircraft Production. Mr. Edward S . Rothrock, 1st Lieutenant in the zIst Infantry, Camp Kearney, Cal., has recently been appointed chemist for the Ashland Iron & Mining Co., Ashland, Ky. Mr. C. B. Wiltrout, industrial and technical chemist, is with the Eureka Centrale Sugar Co., Mayaguez, P. R., as superintendent of fabrication for the cane crop of 1919. Mr. Wm. H. Ross, having received his discharge from the Chemical Warfare Service, has returned to his former position in the Bureau of Soils. Mr. Raymond E. Kirk has returned to his work as instructor in general and analytical chemistry at Iowa State College, Ames, Ia., after having had leave of absence for the duration of the war to engage in the inspection of powder and explosives for the Ordnance Department, U. S. A.
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Arthur D. Little, Inc., announces the following additions to its technical staff: Mr. Robert Woods VanKirk, M. I. T. I g I 8, chemical engineer ; recently engaged in the Development Division of the C. W. S., stationed at Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. John Stevens, M. I. T. 1918, chemical engineering administration; recently served as a private in the Research Division of the C. W. S., engaged upon gas defense work, stationed first at Washington and later in the Little laboratories. Lt. Earl Place Stevenson, B. S.; Wesleyan College, Middletown, Conn., 1916, instructor in organic chemistry a t M. I. T. 1917 and 1918; recently engaged in the Research Division, C. W. S., Washington and Boston. Mr. Eric R. Jette, B. S.; Franklin and Marshall, Lancaster, Pa., 1918, engaged as a civilian in the Pyrotechnic Section of the Research Division, C. W. S., Washington. In addition, the following members of the staff who had left the company’s employ for governmental activities have returned to the staff: Mr. Harrison E. Howe, consulting chemist, Ordnance Department, assigned to the Nitrate Division, Army Ordnance, for the purpose of correlating the research being conducted in various laboratories on the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, which division appointment is still held. As noted in our February issue, Mr. Howe has also been commissioned Major, Ordnance Section, Officers Reserve Corps. Lt. Roy C. Charron, who was first chemist for the division gas officer at Camp Devens, Mass., and later assistant to chief of the emergency laboratory section, Pyrotechnic Division, C. W. S., American University, Washington, D. C. Mr. J. M. Cullen, who was in the U. S. Navy. Mr. W. J. Winninghoff has returned to his former position with the Cooper Hewitt Electric Company, having been on a temporary leave of absence to do work in the Chemical Warfare Service a t Clark University. Mr. M . G. Spencer, formerly connected with the Midvale Steel Co., and later with the Watertown Arsenal, in the capacity of chief chemist, has joined the staff of the Electric Steel Company of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind., in charge of metallurgical operation. Mr. W H. Aldridge of 14 Wall Street, New York City, has recently accepted the presidency of the Texas Gulf Sulfur Company, now developing a large sulfur deposit a t Matagorda, Texas. Professor William J. Hale, of the department of chemistry of the University of Michigan, has resigned his position there and has accepted a position with the Dow Chemical Company, a t Midland, Mich., in which he will devote his entire time to research work. Dr. Hugh S. Taylor has returned to Princeton University to take up his duties again after service with the British Government in the Munitions Invention Department, where he has been engaged on problems connected with the preparation and purification of hydrogen. Mr. H. M. Heefner has resigned his position on the chemical staff of the Ault and Wiborg Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, and has accepted a position with the du Pont Company a t their Harrison Works, Philadelphia. Mr. C. H. Stone, formerly manager of the Lansing Fuel and Gas Company, is now in the employ of the Rochester Railway and Light. Company, making some special investigations for the vice president, R. M. Searle. Mr. Everett E. Porter who has been in the chemical service of the Government and located with the Bartlett, Hayward Company, Baltimore, Md., is now research chemist for the Ashland Iron & Mining Co., Ashland, Ky. Mr. Benjamin B. Schneider, who was formerly a member of the firm of Schneider and Wolfe, engaged in the practice of patent law, and who was prior to that an examiner in the U. S. Patent Office and an assistant chemist in the Department of Agriculture, is now connected with the legal firm of Dyrenforth, Lee, Chritton and Wiles, to continue in patent practice. Capt. K. L. Kramer, C. W. S., who has been Officer-in-Charge of the men in uniform a t the War Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, has been released from service and has entered as a graduate student in chemistry a t Johns Hopkins. Capt. It. R. Renshaw, C. W. S., who has been directing a corps of research men in the Johns Hopkins University War Laboratory, will remain a t the university for special research work in organic chemistry. Capt. Renshaw is professor of chemistry at Iowa State Agricultural College on leave of absence. Mr. Ernest A. Stoppel, recently employed as agronautical chemist a t the general laboratories of the Bureau of Aircraft Production, Pittsburgh, has accepted a position as assistant chemist with Valentine & Company. varnish makers, of New York City.
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I&.Lloyd Van Doren, C. W. S., who was formerly in General Sibert’s office in Washington, has accepted a position as Carnegie assistant under Dr. Frazer, of Johns Hopkins University, and will work for the remainder of the year on osmotic pressure. J. 0. Lewis, superintendent of the petroleum experiment station at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has just been appointed chief petroleum technologist of the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, in place of Chester Naramore, who has resigned from the government service to join the Union Petroleum Company with headquarters a t Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. W. P. Dykema, petroleum engineer of the Bureau of Mines, has been transferred to the petroleum experiment station a t Bartlesville, Okla., as superintendent. J. H. A. Fink, for many years the export manager of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, has severed his connection with that firm and accepted a similar position with J. I,. Hopkins & Co., IOO William Street, New York City. Lt. A. Klipstein, Jr., Infantry, U. S. A., has taken up his former connections with A. Klipstein 81 Co., New York, having received his discharge from the Army after a service of eighteen months. Capt. E. H. Kellogg, of the Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. A., recently returned from France, has taken up his duties with the Brown Company, Berlin, Me., as chemical engineer, having obtained his discharge from the Army. Mr. Alfred H. Clarke, who was formerly instructor in chemistry at the Chicago Heights High School, and who later enlisted in the Chemical Warfare Service, where he served in the Offense Research Section of the Research Division in Washington, has received his discharge and is now teaching at the Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Ill. Mr. Robert L. Wilson, formerly chief chemist of the Aetna Plant, Aetna Explosives Company, is now manager of the Northwestern Chemical Company. Mr. E. M. Hayden, who has received his discharge from the Army, where he served in the capacity of 1st Lieutenant, C . W. S., U. S. A., and as Commanding Officer of the Kingsport Plant, Edgewood Arsenal, Kingsport, Tenn., is now chemical engineer for the Connecticut Metal and Chemical Co., New Britain, Conn. Dr. Frank K. Cameron and Dr. H. S. Gale sailed recently to undertake for the Bureau of Mines an investigation of the European potash situation. Professor Arthur G. Williams, formerly instructor a t Beloit College, has been discharged from the Army in which he served with the rank of Captain, and has accepted a position as assistant professor of chemistry in the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Stillwater, Okla. Mr. James Richardson Donald, who for the last two years has been in charge of the inspection of explosives for the Imperial Ministry of Munitions, has returned to his old firm, Messrs. J. T. Donald & Co., Chemical Engineers and Consulting Chemists, Montreal and Toronto, Canada. Mr. Willis Clark, formerly with the Dow Chemical Company, of Midland, Mich., has accepted a position to teach physical chemistry a t the Detroit Central Junior College. Mr. William Hoskins, Jr., who has been in the Army since August 1917. serving first in the 149th Field Artillery a t Fort Sheridan, and then later transferred in the Sanitary Corps, in the Division of Food and Nutrition of the Surgeon General’s office in Washington, D. C., has been discharged and is now with Mariner & Hoskins, Chicago. Dr. W. V. Evans, formerly of the Ordnance Department, U. S. A., and later detailed to the Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa., to take charge of a unit investigating high explosives, has been discharged from the Army and has returned to his position as assistant professor of chemistry a t Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Mr. H. D. Valentine, who was inducted into service in September 1917, and who served in various branches of the U. S. Army, the latest being in the Ordnance Section of the Chemical Warfare Service, has received his discharge and is now teaching in the College of Mechanics and Engineering of the University of Wisconsin, a t Madison, Wis. Mr. R. C. Lyons, who has been chief chemist of Rock Island Arsenal for the past four years, has resigned his position to become chief chemist for the A. 0. Smith Corporation, Milwaukee Wis. Dr. P. W. Bridgman has returned from the naval experimental station a t New London, Conn., to his work in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University.
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W. P. Putnam, Major of Ordnance, U. S. A., has returned t o Detroit t o resume his activities as president and general manager of the Detroit Testing Laboratory. Mr. George A. Richter, who had the rank of Major in the Chemical Warfare Service and who recently received his discharge from the Army, has taken up the work of reorganizing a research force with the Brown Company, Berlin, N. H. Mr. Seward Snyder, formerly of the Prest-0-Lite Company, but lately with the Ordnance Department, is now with F. C. Atkinson at the American Hominy Company, Indianapolis. Mr. H. P. Vannah, formerly plant chemist with E. and T. Fairbanks & CO., scale manufacturers of St. Johnsbury, Vt., is now chemist in the research laboratory of the Brown Company, Berlin, N. H. Mr. B. A. Gish, who severed his connection as chemist of the H. E. Young Co., Inc., of Charlottesville,- Va., several months ago, has accepted a position in the division of chemistry of the Virginia State Agricultural Department, his work being that of developing the mineral and agricultural interests of the state. Dr. I. Dreyfus has recently resigned his position as chief chemist of the Beckers Works of the National Aniline Company. Dr. Dreyfus has been connected with this plant since its infancy and was one of the men who, in connection with Dr. Beckers, helped t o develop it t o its present efficiency, Dr. A. L. Walters, lately of the Arrny Medical Corps, has resumed his old duties as director of the department of experimental medicine, Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis. Mr. Charles Rascher, who was first-class Sergeant in the Chemical Warfare Service, stationed a t Lakehurst Proving Grounds, Lakehurst, N. J., is now in the laboratory supply business with A. Daigger & Co., Chicago, Ill. Mr. John R. Kuebler, of the Research Laboratory, Gas and Flame Division, Chemical Warfare Service, who has been stationed at Washington during the war, will resume his old duties in the chemistry department a t the Shortridge High School, Indianapolis. Mr. Leslie Hellerman, who enlisted in the Ordnance Department, and then later was transferred to the Chemical Warfare Service, has been discharged from the Army and is now registered as a graduate student a t the University of Chicago. Ms. Morris Kharasch, who left his research work a t the University of Chicago t o enlist in the Chemical Warfare Service, where he was assigned t o research work in the chemical laboratory of the Edgewood Arsenal, has been discharged from the service and is now completing his graduate research work at the University of Chicago. Mr. Nicholas D. Cheronis, who enlisted in the Chemical Warfare Service where he was assigned to work on the development of the so-called “gas fighting suit” in the Protective Clothing Unit, in charge of Professor Arthur E. Hill, of New York University, has been discharged from the Service and is doing graduate work at the University of Chicago. Mr. F. F. Blicke, 2nd Lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service, American University Experiment Station, Washington, D. C., has received his discharge from the Army and has keen reappointed research associate a t the University of Chicago. Mr. Isidor Levin, who served as a private in the Offense Laboratory, Development Division, Chemical Warfare Service, until his discharge, has resumed his position as chemist in the laboratory of the Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Company. Mr. R. Q. Brewster has finished his work for the Ph.D. degree a t the University of Chicago and has accepted an instructorship in organic chemistry a t the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., where he will take up his duties a t once. Dr. R. D. Mullinix, who has been an instructor in chemistry a t Northwestern University, is now research chemist in the International Filter Company, Chicago. Lieut. R. A. Hall,who has been cited many times for bravery, is now in the hospital a t Camp Upton, N Y., recovering from wounds and injuries received while at the front as Gas Officer. Mr. Marks Neidle, formerly assistant professor of physical chemistry in the School of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, is now chief chemist with the Sterling Varnish Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. Capt. T. Dale Stewart, formerly instructor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, and recently liaison officer for the research laboratory of the C. W. S. with the A. E. F., is resuming his duties a t the University of California as instructor in organic chemistry.
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Mr. M. N. Straughn, formerly of the Bureau of Chemistry in Washington, died in Port0 Rico on January 9, 1919. Dr. Thomas McCutcheon, associate professor of chemistry a t the University of Pennsylvania, has resumed his work there. Dr. McCutcheon has been in the service of the War Industries Board in England and France. Miss Aida M. Doyle resigned from the Bureau of Chemistry in February and is now with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, Del. Dr. F. C. Frary, formerly of the Oldbury Chemical Company of Niagara Falls, who has lately been engaged in war research, first in Washington and later a t the Edgewood Arsenal of the Chemical Warfare Service, is organizing a research laboratory for the Aluminum Company of America, a t Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. J. D. Edwards, associate chemist, and Mr. A. D. Bell, assistant chemist, Bureau of Standards, expect t o leave the Bureau in April to take up research a t the laboratory recently organized by Dr. F. C. Frary for the Aluminum Company of America, at Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. E. H. Grafton, who has been with the Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing Company, Passaic, N. J., has returned t o the University of Chicago and is finishing his doctorate work in physical chemistry. Mr. J. G. Goodwin has resigned from his position in charge of the department of chemistry a t Rockford College, Rockford, Ill., and is now a member of the sales force of Schaar & Company. Mr. H. V. Cadwell, who was enlisted in the School for Ensigns, U. S. XVavy, at Northwestern University, Evanston, has been discharged, and is again a member of the sales force of the Central Scientific Company. Mr. Harry W. Wolff has recently resigned as general manager of the Rector Chemical Corp., N. J., t o take charge of the chemical engineering research laboratories of Dr. Alcan Hirsch, New York City. Messrs. J. F. Schoellkopf, C. P. Hugo Schoellkopf, and J. F. Schoellkopf, Jr., have withdrawn as directors of the National Aniline & Chemical Co., New York, N. Y. Mr. E. J. Miller, who served for fifteen months as 1st Lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps, a t American University, where he was engaged in gas warfare investigations, has returned t o his position as chemist a t the Michigan Experiment Station, East Lansing, Mich. Mr. Stanley E. Kerr, formerly Lieutenant in charge of the chemical service a t Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., sailed recently for Turkey as a member of a party of workers of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East. Major J. H. Walton, Engineers, Gas Officer with the First Army, has returned t o this country and resumed his position in the chemistry department of the University of Wisconsin. Major Walton has recently been promoted to full professor of chemistry. Mr. C. J. Patterson, formerly chief chemist for the IsmertHincke Milling Company, is now chief chemist with the Campbell System, Inc., a t Kansas City, Mo. Mr. I,. Christison, who was formerly located a t the Kenvil Plant of the Hercules Power Co., is now research chemist with the Essex Aniline Works, Inc., of South Middleton, Mass. Mr. E. C. Carlyle has resigned his position as analytical chemist with George H. Morrill & Co., Norwood, Mass., and has become associated with Saarbach Laboratories, Inc., New York. Mr. A. C. Arend, who was chemist and engineer for the Glass Brick Co., Huntington, W. Va., prior to having served in the Chemical Warfare Service of the U. S. Army a t Cleveland, O., from which service he was recently mustered out, has accepted a position as assistant engineer, Division of Structures, Engineering Department, City of Cincinnati, 0. Mr. W. A. Bender has resigned his position as chief, San Francisco Station, U. S. Food and Drug Inspection, and has taken a position as chief chemist &ith the Douglas Packing CO., Rochester, N. Y. Mr. H. A. Slippy is now permanently located in Cincinnati as chief asphalt chemist of the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, with which company he has been connected for the past three years. Mr. D. F. Snyder, formerly chemist t o the Texas Food and Drug Department, is now with the Calco Chemical Co., Bound Brook, N. J. Mr. R. E. Sti-ohecker, formerly chemist for the Federal Packing Co., Enosburg Falls, Vt., is a t the present time superintendent of the Morristown plant of the Nestle’s Food Co., Inc.
