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An explosion of 10,000 pounds of black powder a t the plant of the du Pont Powder Co., a t Wayne, near Paterson, N. J., caused the death of two men. The explosion occurred in the finishing building where the glaze is put on the powder. Turkey has only one modern dyeing establishment, the Oriental Carpet Manufacturing Co., a British plant, in Smyrna. The government textile factories usually maintain dyeing departments of their own. Small dye shops exist all over Asia Minor, and German synthetic dyes are generally used, though natural indigo still predominates. There is also a German establishment in Constantinople which includes dyeing works with mechanical power and a chemical laundry. The National Aniline and Chemical Co., Inc., announces the production of two new dyes, Erie yellow Y and wool blue C B. The first is a direct color practically identical with the pre-war chrysophenine and is not only valuable for cotton but also for wool and union goods. The second is identical with the pre-war azo wool blue C, similar to azo acid blue B, and is of special value in dyeing worsted goods with silk effects. This is the first bright blue of a reddish shade manufactured by this company. Eugene Suter & Co., 1 2 0 Broadway, Kew York, specializing in fertilizer materials, chemicals, oils and dyes, have established a branch a t 60 Gartenstrasse, Basle, Switzerland. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., is erecting a three-story extension t o its chemistry and chemical engineering laboratory. The addition will include an assayin’g room, organic laboratory and a quantitative analysis laboratory, and is estimated to cost about $75,000. The Acme White Lead & Color Works, Detroit, Mich., has awarded contract for the building of a four-story plant in Hamtramck, Mich. The New York City Board of Education, through the Bureau of Vocational Activities, has established a textile school under the direction of W. H. Dooley. Two courses are offered, a two-year course in general textiles, and a two-year course in applied %extiledesign. The school was founded by the Upholstery Association of America. A complete experimental dye laboratory has been donated and part of the equipment has been given by textile manufacturing firms ,and dye interests. Sodium sulfate estimated a t 6,000,000 tons has been discovered in the Blue Mountains, Saskatchewan, on a branch of the Canadian n’ational Railway. The salts are said t o be 98 per cent pure, needing no refining and worth upwards of $20 per ton. Limestone has also been found in the district, promising .the possible manufacture of sodium carbonate. The California Ink Co., San Francisco, has taken over the business of G. D. Graham and the California iZniline and Chemical Company, and is preparing t o enlarge its manufacturing facilities. Ownership of the latter company makes i t independent 01 foreign dyes and chemicals. This company supplies about 90 pp_r cent of the newspapers west of Denver with ink and has a large export trade. The Kentucky Color 8: Chemical Co., Louisville, Ky., has been reorganized and construction work is under way a t an estimated cost of S70,ooo. An annual output of 2,000,000 pounds of colors for manufacturing paints and varnishes, sprays, insecticides, and general chemicals is estimated. The Atlantic Dyestuff Company, Boston, Mass., recently announced a new dye which they are putting out and which is known as “Atlantic Blue B Extra Concentrated.” This dye possesses the properties usually found in the sulfur blues, being very fast to mashing, light, fulling and cross-dyeing. I t s shade is hardly altered by a n after-treatment with bichrome.
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The Glidden Co., Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers of paints, varnishes, etc., has acquired the Campbell Glass & Paint Co., operating plants in St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., and the. Mound City Linseed Oil Co., St. Louis, Mo., for a price approximately $900,000. The new crop of Egyptian cottonseed for England was scheduled t o arrive in Hull, England, early in December, the amount from all sources being estimated a t 400,ooo tons, about twothirds of Britain’s pre-war importation. The deficiency in cottonseed during recent years has been compensated for in part by increased imports of refined cotton oil from America and by increased home production of edible oils and fats from oil-nuts. A comparison of the total imports for the period January to September 1918 with those for the same period, 1919, shows an increase of 250,524 long tons in 1919. England’s oil-seed and oil-nut crushing industry is now greater than Germany’s was before the war. The Hey1 Laboratories, Inc., announce the removal of their laboratories and plant from Chicago t o New York City, which step was taken in view of the necessity of increasing their capacity and the fact that nearly all of their raw material is made in the East. Their capital has been increased from j310,ooo t o $60,000 and they have equipped a new plant solely for the production of acriflavine, for the manufacture of which they have the only license in the United States. The Director of Sales, War Department, invites informal proposals from chemical manufacturers, dealers and distributors to market on a commission basis the surplus stocks of manufacturing chemicals, acids and allied products held by its several bureaus, which should be addressed t o the Raw Materials and Scrap Section, Office of the Director of Sales, Room 2507, Munitions Building, Washington, D. C. The date of opening bids is January 5, 1920. The following is an enumeration of the principal products which will be embraced in the proposed contract, and the approximate surplus of each, Mixed Acid 17 138 000 Ibs. Nitric Acid 829 000 Ibs. Oleum 6,153,000 lbs., Sulfuric Acid i3,8dO,OOO lb;., Acetic Acid 6S’,OOO lbsj Absorbent Oils 81,300 gals., Calcium Carbide 636,000 lbs., Diphenyl. amine 100,000 lbs. Naphthalene Flakes 511 000 lbs. Magnesia Powder 21,000 Ibs., Potassiim Chlorate 10,500 Ibs., Sdlvent NLphtha 28,200 gals. Caustic Soda 109,000 lbs., Methyl Acetate 500,000 Ibs., Miscellaneous Oil; 350,000 gals.
The National Research Council has formed a special committee on food and nutrition problems, composed of a group of the most eminent physiological chemists and nutrition experts of
the country, which will devote its attention and activities t o the solution of important problems connected with the nutritional values and most effective grouping and preparation of foods, both for human and animal use. Special attention will be given to national food conditions and to comprehensive problems involving the coordinated services of numerous investigators and iaboratories. The committee, with the support of the Council, is arranging to obtain funds for the support of its researches, and will get under way, just as soon as possible, certain specific investigations already formulated by individual committee members and subcommittees. These in-lude studies of the comparative food values of meat and milk and of the conditions of production of these foods in the United States, together with the whole problem of animal nutrition; the nutritional standards of infancy and adolescence; the formation of a national institute of nutrition ; and other problems of similarly large and nationally important character. The Cocoanut Products Corporation, Baltimore, bld., has completed a large plant there and is preparing t o begin production for use in the manufacture of cocoanut meal cakes, drugs, soap, explosives, butter, and lard. This company has a j2,ooo acre plantation in the Philippines.
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Dr. Arthur Lachman, a prominent chemist of the California Section, whose address is Holbrook Building, San Francisco, California, disappeared on December I I , leaving no clue, disappearance supposed to be due t o temporary dementia and accompanying loss of identity. -411. members are asked to bear this in mind in the hope that some clue may be found. Mr. Hugh Byron Gordon has resigned his position as assistant professor of chemistry a t Rutgers College and is now with the the U. S. Conditioning Co., of Xew York City. Mr. Ernest R. Schierz has resigned as chemist in the engineering department oi the Kational Carbon Co., Inc., of East St. Louis, to accept a position as instructor in the chemistry department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Mr. Henry M. McCance, for the past seven years chemist for the Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Co., of Honolulu, Hawaii, has recently accepted a position as research chemist with the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., Richmond, Va. Mr. C. E. King, formerly of the University of North Dakota, has been made professor of physiology and pharmacology in the School of Medicine, University of .4labama, Mobile, Ala. Mr. Harold C. Urey, formerly with the Barrett Company, Frankfort, Pa., recently accepted a position as instructor in chemistry a t the State University, lfissoula, bIont. Miss Ruth Thomas has resigned as research associate in organic chemistry a t Xassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, SIass., to accept a position on the editorial staff of THISJOURNAL.
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Dr. H. E. Barnard, a Director of the AMERICANCHEMICAL
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Lnd for the past fourteen years chemist to the State Board of Health of Indiana, State Food and Drug Commissioner, State Commissioner of Weights and Measures, and Federal Food Administrator for Indiana during the period of the war, has resigned his official position with the State to become director of the newly-founded Americaq Institute of Baking, at Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Ernest C. McKelvy, chief of the physical chemistry section of the ‘chemistry division of the Bureau of Standards, died November 19, 1919, as a result of burns sustained in an accident in his laboratory on the previous day. Mr. McKelvy was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, May 9. 1884, and was educated a t Western Reserve University. He later studied at Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin and received his M. A. from the latter university in 1908. Mr. McKelvy had been connected with the staff of the Bureau of Standards since his graduation. He was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, the University Club of Washington, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and secretary of the local section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. Through his long association with Washington activities he had made a host of friends who grieve a t the untimely interruption of a life so full of promise. Professor Grinnell Jones has severed his active connection with the Tariff Commission in order to resume his duties as a member of the faculty of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. He is still retained, however, on the staff of the Tariff Commission in a consulting capacity. Dr. Harlan L. Trumbull and Mr. Webster‘N. Jones, who have been conducting investigations for the B. F. Goodrich Company, in Kent Laboratory, University of Chicago, since last April, are now attached t o the staff of the research laboratory of the company in Akron. Associated with them in this work is Mr. Henry Howard, formerly with Newhall and Company, of Seattle, Wash. Mr. Robert S. Bly, formerly in the Chemical Warfare Service and later in the laboratories of the Florida Wood Products Company, of Jacksonville, Fla., as research chemist, is at present in the chemistry department of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., assisting and doing work under Professor Lewis for the Ph.D. degree. Miss Mary Wetton has resigned as instructor in chemistry at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, to accept a similar position at the University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. Dr. Arthur W. Nixon and Dr. Jerome J. Morgan have been appointed to the faculty of chemical engineering of Columbia University. Dr. Nixon, specialist in explosives, was appointed associate professor of chemical engineering and Dr. Morgan, formerly assistant professor of chemistry at Stevens Institute of Technology, was appointed assistant professor of chemical engineering. Mr. Arthur C. Eaton, formerly employed by the Lord Brothers Company, Portland, Me., is now with the East Coast Fisheries Products Company, Rockland, Me. Mr. Max Latshaw resigned his position as chemist of the by-produets laboratory of the Zenitti Furnace Company, Duluth, Minn., to accept a part time assistantship in the school of chemistry a t the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., and a t the same time to pursue graduate work. Mr. Harlan A. Depew, formerly research physical chemist of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, is now in the employ of the New Jersey Zinc Company, Palmerton, Pa., where he is engaged in experimental work on rubber compounds. Mr. Ben H. Nicolet, formerly a t the Mellon Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., working on various industrial fellowships and later connected with the Chemical Warfare Service laboratory in Paris, where he had charge of the work along organic chemical lines, with the rank of Captain, has become assistant professor of chemistry a t the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Dr. Louis E. Wise has severed his connections with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, where he held a research position a t their Jackson Laboratory, Wilmington, Del., and has accepted the position of professor of forest chemistry in charge of the department of forest chemistry a t the New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. Dr. Jean F. Piccard, recently connected with the University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., has returned to Switzerland.
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Dr. John Tapan Stoddard, professor of chemistry at Smith College since 1878, died a t Northampton, Mass., on December 8, 1919. Messrs. E. L. Stephens, president, L. W. Stephens, vice president, and J. F. Stephens, secretary and treasurer, three brothers who gave up their growing business to enlist for service in 1917, have returned to Chicago where they are reestablishing their business, known as the Stephens Chemical Works. Mr. Charles G. Miller, until recently assistant chemist for the Ajax Rubber Co., Racine, Wis., has accepted a position as chief chemist for the McClaren Rubber Co., Charlotte, N. C. Mr. E. H. Kellogg has left Brown & Companv, pulp and paper manufacturers, Berlin, N. H., where he was employed as chemical engineer, t o join the sales department of the Burrell Technical Supply Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Russell W, Stovel, recently Lieutenant-Colonel, Engineers, U. S. Army, has been appointed consulting engineer for Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Company, Inc., New York City. Lieut. J. H. Becque, who has been stationed a t the U. S. Chemical Plant, Saltville, Va., has received his honorable discharge from the Army and has accepted a fellowship a t the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. Dr. Paul V. Faragher, formerly associate professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, and more recently fellow at the Mellon Institute, is now connected with the experimental laboratory of the Research Bureau of the Aluminum Company of America, New Kensington, Pa. Mr. William M. Corse has resigned his position as technical superintendent of the Ohio Brass Co., Mansfield, Ohio, and has accepted a position as general manager of the Monel Metal Products Corp., Bayonne, N. J. Mr. Wrn, M. Bovard has severed his relations as chief chemist a t the Emerson Laboratory, Springfield, Mass., to become manager of technical service with the Package Paper and Supply Corp., Springfield, Mass. Mr. B. E. Long, recently engaged in working out cost data on the manufacture of alcohol and other possible gasoline substitutes for some banking interests in the U. is now engaged as chief chemist and superintendent of fabrications a t the sugar factory ‘* Josefita,” near Havana, Cuba, where he will remain until about next June. Professor L. J. Cross, of Cornell University, who is absent on leave during the first term, ~ g ~ g - ~ g zisostudying , the problem of the utilization of the waste fruit products of the Pacific Coast states, which work is being done in an experimental plant a t Hood River, Oregon. Mr. Harold Gray, who has been on the research staff of Eli & Company of Indianapolis, Ind., for the past four years, is now on the research staff of B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, Ohio, in the organic development department. Mr. Robert G. Dort recently left the engineering division of the U. S . Air Service to take a technical position with the Standard Textile Products Company, New York City. Mr. Robert A. Fisher, previously a student in the Graduate School of Ohio State University, is chemist for the gasoline department of the Ohio Fuel Oil Co., Blue Creek, W. Va. Mr. M. Landon has left the employ of the Koppers Company of Pittsburgh, where he was employed as a benzol operating engineer, supervising the starting of benzol plants built by them, and has become operating superintendent of the Columbian Carbon Company’s gasoline absorption plant, Smithton, W. Va. Mr. R. K. Brodie has been transferred from the position of industrial fellow at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to the chemical department of the chemical division of Procter and Gamble Company, Ivorydale, Ohio. Mr. Peter G. Pirrie, who has for some years past been active in the baking and milling industry as a chemical engineer, and recently on the staff of the Siebel Institute of Technology of Chicago, has accepted the position of chief of the trade and service laboratories of the American Institute of Baking a t Minneapolis, and will also.act as associate instructor on the staff of the Wm. Hood Dunwoody Industrial Institute of that city. Mr. 0.J. Stewart, formerly instructor in chemistry a t the New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H., is connected in a similar capacity with the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Dr. Louis J. Gillespie, for the past six years investigator in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., is professor of physical chemistry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y.
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Mr. Arthur Given, who has served as Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department, was recently discharged but remains in the Ordnance Department in civilian capacity as chief of propellant production a t Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J. Mr. Daniel H. Rupp, formerly assistant chemist to Mr. J. E. Goodell, chemist for the City of Lancaster, Pa., and later in the Sanitary Corps, on duty in the Sanitary Engineering Section, Division of Sanitation of the Surgeon General’s office, Washington, D. C., is now with the City of Ravenna, Ohio, as chemist in charge of the water purification works. Mr. G. Francis Gray, who served in the Signal Corp in the Radio Development Section, as well as representing the Signal Corp on the Research Information Committee of the National Research Council, acting as liaison officer with the Naval Consulting Board, has become associated with the engineering department of the National Aniline and Chemical Company, New York City. Mr. Harry Gordon has resigned his position as research chemist of the Kistler Leather Company, Lock Haven, Pa., and has accepted a position in the research laboratory of the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N. Y. Mr. Herman C. Lythgoe, director of the Food and Drug Division of the Massachusetts State Department of Health, was elected president of the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists a t their recent meeting in Washington, D. C. Mr. Paul Smith, formerly chemist with E. Rauh & Sons Fertilizer Co., of Indianapolis, Ind., now has a commercial laboratory a t 122 E.Ohio St., Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. B. B. Brandt has severed his connections with the Union Dye & Chemical Corp., of Kingsport, Tenn., and is now associated with the Dicks, David & Heller Co., Chicago Heights, Ill., where he will be engaged in introducing a new line of dyes and intermediates. Mr. Frank A. Rohrs, formerly with the coke and by-product department of the Steel & Tube Co. of America, Wisconsin, has been engaged as research chemist for Kirkman Soap Manufacturing Co., New York City. Mr. M. H. Webster, for the past six years closely associated with the development department of Murray & Nickel1 Manufacturing Co., Chicago, has been appointed chief chemist for the Colombia Alkaloid Co., of Houston, Texas. Mr. Stephen R. Morey, who returned from France some time ago and who has been discharged from the Service after having served 15 months, now holds the position of general manager for the National Reduction Corp., Calvert, Ala. Dr. Eric K. Rideal, a graduate of Cambridge University and the University of Bonn, more recently a Captain of the Royal Engineers in the British Army, has been appointed visiting professor of physical chemistry a t the University of Illinois for the current year. Mr. Clyde L. Voress has resigned as chief chemist for the Ohio Fuel Supply Co., and has accepted a position with the United Natural Gas Co., Bradford, Pa., to carry out a line of plant experimentation. Mr. Richard Franchot, formerly in the Chemical Warfqre Service and discharged from that service about a year ago, is vice president of the Ferro Chemicals, Inc., Washington, D. C. Dr. George Heyl has resigned as secretary of the Heyl Laboratories, Inc., New York City, and has become vice president and technical director of that concern. Mr. John C. Cannon, who was recently discharged from the Service, has accepted the position of assistant in the chemical research department of Warner Klipstein Chemical Co., of Charleston, W. Va. Mr. I. Grageroff, with the Canadian Explosives Company, Ltd., for the last four and a half years, recently left that company to start in business with Mr. Chas. F. Papazoni, and is engaged in consulting work in industrial chemistry, being located a t Los Angeles, California. Mr. G. S. J. Dalton, formerly assistant superintendent of the Mansfield Tire & Rubber Co., Mansfield, Ohio, has accepted a position as superintendent of the Columbus Tire & Rubber Company, Columbus, Ohio. Mr. David F. Gould, formerly assistant chemist in the research laboratory of the Mexican Petroleum Corporation, Destrehan, L a , is now research chemist with the chemical department of the Barrett Company, Frankford, Pa. Dr. Harold Hibbert has been appointed assistant professor of chemistry in the post-graduate research department OF Organic Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Mr. E. R. Clark has resigned his position in the textile section of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C., to continue similar work in the central laboratory of the Standard Textile Products Co., New York City. Mr. George S. Trump recently left his position as chemist with the Lycoming Foundry and Machine Company, of Williamsport, Pa., to take a position as instructor in foundry chemistry a t Wentworth Institute, Boston, Mass. Mr. Harry R. Beard has resigned as research chemist a t the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory, Washington, D. C., and has accepted a place as instructor in chemistry a t the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Mr. E. M. Bissonette, formerly with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., a t their dye plant a t Deepwater Point, N. J., where he was in charge of the manufacture of naphthalene intermediates, is now with the Atlantic Refining Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., in charge of some refinery operations. Mr. George N. Fisher has changed his business relations from that of chemist for the Certain-teed Products Corporation, Niagara Falls, N. Y., to that of chemist for the General Chemical Co., East St. Louis, Ill. Dr. Edward E. Smith, formerly chemist in the food control laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., is now chief chemist for F. W. Stock & Sons, flour millers, of Hillsdale, Michigan. Mr. Arthur L. Stern has resigned from his position as research engineer with the Pennsylvania Trojan Powder Co., of Allentown, Pa., and is now with the Max Marx Color and Chemical Co., of Irvington, N. J. Mr. Louis A. Butts is now general field clerk of the Ohio Cities Gas Co., located a t Oilton, Okla., having formerly been instructor of chemistry and physics in the township high school, Farmer City, Ill. Mr. T. S. Huxham, who was formerly with the Condensite Company of America in their research laboratory a t Bloomfield, N. J., has charge of the laboratory of the Ramapo Ore Co., of Rockland County, New York. Mr. W. Albert Noyes, Jr., A.B., from Grinnell College, whose special field is chemistry, has been awarded a fellowship by the Society for American Fellowships in French Universities. Mr. Lewis 0. Bernhagen, who recently received his discharge from the Army is a t present assistant sanitary engineer of the Texas State Board of Health, Austin, Texas. Mr. J. S. Laird has resigned from his position as assistant professor of chemical engineering in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has joined the research department of the Jeffrey-DeWitt Co., Detroit, Michigan. Dr. C. A. Brautlecht is now professor of chemistry and head of the department of chemistry and chemical engineering a t the University of Maine, Orono, Me. Mr. W. Rowland Collins, formerly with the Wilckes Martin Wilckes Co., Camden, N. J., is now chemist for the Royal Baking Powder Co., a t their Chicago factory. Professor G. Vauthier has been appointed professor of chemistry a t the French University, Shanghai, China. Mr. E. R. Lederer, formerly connected with the Galena Signal Oil Co., and later with the Home Oil Refining Co., of Texas, is now identified with the Atlantic Gulf Oil Corporation, with headquarters in New York. Mr. L. J. Pletcher, formerly with the Texas Company, in their research laboratory a t Port Arthur, Texas, has taken a position with Wilson & Co., in their laboratory a t the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. Mr. Leonidas R. Littleton, formerly chief chemist for the Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc., Saltville, Va., has accepted a position as chemist in the research laboratory of the National Aniline and Chemical Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. W. A. Bridgeman has left his position as chemist and purchasing agent for the Teagle Company, of Cleveland, t o become general manager of the Wilbur White Chemical Co., Oswego, N. Y. Mr. D. Franklin Fisher, formerly connected with the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, New York, N. Y., in the capacity of food and drug inspector, has recently resigned from that position to become research chemist in the laboratories of the Van Camp Packing Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Henry N. Lyons, recently resigned his position as acid superintendent of the Kenvil Works, Hercules Powder Co., Kenvil, N. J.. and has accepted the position of chief chemist for the Columbia Chemical Company, Barberton, Ohio.
