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J. D. Sullivan has been elected vice president, Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., Denver. Mr. Sullivan will continue in charge of commercial steel sales for the corpora! ion.
Tom M. Girdler, chairman of the board of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., has resigned as chairman and di
rector after almost three and one-half years of service. Mr. Girdler, who con
tinues as chairman of the board of Re
public Steel Corp., Cleveland, became chairman of the Consolidated and Vultee aircraft corporations in December, 1941, to help accelerate military aircraft pro
duction. The companies later were merged.
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W. A. Dawson who is chief master mechanic, De Havilland Aircraft of Can
ada Ltd., Toronto, has been elected na
tional assistant secretary and treasurer of the American Society of Tool Engi
neers.
L. Burton Saunders has been named manager of the statistical section of the.
Employe Accounts Division, Westing- house Electric Corp., Pittsburgh. For
merly staff assistant in that division, Mr.
Saunders succeeds M. E. Baughman, who has been transferred to the headquarters industrial relations department.
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William L. Gamer has taken an ex
ecutive position with Pratt & Letchworth Co. Inc., Buffalo, a company he left 14 years ago to specialize in electric steel casting practice in the Midwest. For tire past three years he has been plant superintendent, Calumet Steel Castings Corp., Hammond, Ind.
Harold W. Rehfeld has been named factory manager of the new government tire plant in Tuscaloosa, Ala., which will be operated by B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, O. Mr. Rehfeld recently re
turned from Europe after serving as
technical advisor and special consultant to the commanding general of the Army Service Forces.
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William H. Martin has been appointed technical representative in the Pittsburgh area by Harry W. Dietert Co., Detroit.
Mr. Martin comes from the company’s home office where he has devoted the major portion of his time to research.
Prior to his association with Dietert Co., he was chief radiologist with Kelsey- Hayes Wheel Co., Detroit.
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Miss Dorothy Kimmel is managing di
rector of the newly fomied export com
pany, Lempco-Intemational, with head
quarters in the Citizens building, Cleve
land. She has been export manager for the past 15 years with Lempco Products Inc., Bedford, O.
named secretary and Omar C. Spencer, counsel for the company, was named a director and assistant secretary.
Lawrence Halleran, until recently as
sistant superviser of tire alloy wire mill, Callite Tungsten Corp., Union City, N. J., has become sales manager of the company’s Wire Division. He succeeds Harold M. Malm, who has resigned to join Little Falls Alloys, Inc., West Pat
erson, N. J., in an executive capacity.
A. A. Hare has been appointed assist
ant district sales manager of Youngs
town Sheet & Tube Co.’s Pittsburgh district, with offices at 902 Gulf build
ing, Pittsburgh 19. Prior to this ap
pointment, Mr. Hare covered upper New Jersey for the company with headquar
ters in New York.
Glenn A. Dute has been promoted to assistant comptroller of the Ferry Cap
& Set Screw Co., Cleveland, and Dan J. Cantillon has been elevated to sales engineer with the Industrial Sales Divi
sion.
Philip D . Wagoner, president of the Underwood Corp. (formerly Underwood Elliott Fisher Co.), New York, has been elected chairman of the board, and Leon C. Stowell, executive vice president, has been elected president.
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Dudley E. Chambers has been named executive engineer of the research lab
oratory of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y., to succeed Dr. Lau
rence A. Hawkins, who is retiring.
C. T. Burg, general sales manager, Iron Fireman Mfg. Co., Portland, Oreg., has been made vice president in charge of sales, with headquarters at the com
pany’s Cleveland plant. Frank S. Kecox, secretary-treasurer, has become vice pres
ident and treasurer with headquarters at the company’s main plant in Portland, Oreg. Clifford IV. Snider, controller was
Harry J. Haflin has been named gen
eral sales manager of General Prod
ucts Division, United States Rubber Co., New York.
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Kenneth I. Thompson, formerly west
ern manager, Railroad Department, In- gersoll-Rand Co., New York, has joined the sales staff of Oxweld Railroad Serv
ice Co., as eastern sales manager, with headquarters in New York.
George W. Stout, advertising and pub
licity manager, Perfect Circle Co., Hag
erstown, Ind., has been named a mem
ber of the Industrial Advertising Com
mittee of tire Association of National Advertisers, New York.
Harry Bernard has been made di
rector of service and service engineer
ing of Mack Trucks Inc., New York.
Mr., Bernard, who joined the company in 1924, prior to his present appoint
ment has been general service manager.
W . H. M ARTIN L. HALLERAN
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M E N o f I N D U S T R Y manufacturing of Continental Can Co., New York, with headquarters there. Mr.
Cameron is also president and treasurer of Cameron Can Machinery Co., Chi
cago, a wholly-owned Continental sub
sidiary. W. W. Tomkins and G. E.
Nelson have been appointed assistants to Mr. Cameron on technical and ad Hanson-Van Winkle-Munning Co., Mata- wan, N. J., to succeed Nelson Todd who is leaving to go into other fields.
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George E. McLaughlin, W ar Produc
tion Board, Scrap Salvage Division, Phil
adelphia, has resigned to become affil foreman, metallurgical department, Car- negie-Illinois Steel Corp., Johnstown, Pa.
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Thomas Robins Jr. has been elected president, Robins Conveyors Inc., Passaic, N. J. to succeed Thomas Matchett, who assistant chief of Re-adjustment Division, Air Technical Service Command, Wright Field, Dayton, O., has been relieved of active duty with reversion to inactive status so that he may serve as consultant to the Defense Plant Corp., subsidiary of Reconstruction Finance Corp., Wash
ington. Colonel Peterka, while execu
tive engineer of Lamson & Sessions Co., Cleveland, was called to active Army duty in 1942 serving as chief of Materiel Distribution Branch until February 1944. He later became chief of the property disposal staff, ATSC, and still later became assistant chief of the Re
adjustment Division. While Colonel Peterka was at Wright Field, he devel
oped a plan for redistribution of surplus aircraft material through regular com
mercial channels. The "Peterka Plan”
is now known as the Metals Reserve Re
distribution Program. '
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James A. Roach has been appointed factory representative for Hyster Co., of Portland, Oreg. and Peoria, 111. to
John W. Stoutenburg has been appoint
ed sales manager of the Detroit district for Follansbee Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, with offices at 607 Stephenson building.
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Lud Emde has become vice presi
dent, general manager and a director of Temprite Products Corp., Detroit, suc
ceeding the late John Wyllie Jr. P. Fred Lesley, board member and secretary and treasurer, has become assistant general manager in direct charge of production,
purchasing and finance. Since 1938 Mr.
Emde has been Detroit district manager with Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., Harrison, N. J. as assistant chief of transportation, Transportation Corps. After complet
ing his duties as assistant chief of transportation, he reorganized the Air Service Command of the Army Air Force and its overseas operations, and con
cluded his service in the Army as a mem
ber of the Army Pearl Harbor Board.
He wrote the report of that board.
John Findley Peters, consulting engi
neer; J. Walter John, assistant director, Financial Accounts Division, and Gustav A. Baeslack, section engineer, of Wcst- inghouse Electric Corp. have been awarded the Order of Merit. Mr. Peters and Mr. Baeslack are located at East Pittsburgh, Pa., Works; Mr. John’s headquarters are in Pittsburgh,
R. E. Broyles has been appointed com
mercial manager of new branch office and warehouse of Graybar Electric Co.
Inc., New York, located at 1310-12 Agnes street, Corpus Christi, Tex.
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cation of aircraft manufacturing processes to that branch of the automotive industry.
Since 1933 he has been plant super
LIEU T. C O L. A . E. R. PETERKA C O L. H. A . TO ULM IN J r .
M E N o f I N D U S T R Y
intendent for General Motors Truck and Coach Division of General Motors Corp., Pontiac, Mich.
Robert Sergeson has been appointed chief metallurgical engineer for Rotary Electric Steel Co., Detroit, succeeding L. L. Ferrall, vice president in charge years. Previously he had been associated with Republic Steel Corp. in the Can- assistant purchasing agent since the com
pany has been organized.
Earl H. Fyler, assistant superintendent of industrial relations at the Gary, Ind., works of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Chicago, has been promoted to the posi
tion of assistant to director of indus
trial relations, Chicago district. Arthur
M . E. M O N TRO SE
er’s thirty-five years association with U. S. Steel subsidiaries began in 1910 of Western Pennsylvania, and Associa
tion of Iron & Steel Engineers, Pitts
McKelvey formerly was associated with Chicago Hardware Foundry Co., North
tively affiliated with the industry, having served as senior partner in the firm of Industries Board committee during the first World War, in charge of the alloca treasurer of Plastic Engineering Inc., and
president, Bowman Western Stamping Co., Cleveland, died in that city re Airlines transport near Morgantown, W.
Va. tire Blackstone Hotel, Chicago.
Edson John Noble, chief engineer and there at Trinity Lutheran hospital.
Frank W. Moore, 62, vice president of
perintendent, Rotary Electric Steel Co., Detroit, died April 17. Prior to his 10- year association with the company, he had been affiliated with Republic Steel Corp. at Canton, O.
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W E S T C O A S T
630-TON PLANER: Used for machining armor plate at the U. S. N aval drydocks, Terminal Island, C a lif., is this 630-ton machine planer. Its smallest casting weighs more than 70 tons. The planer is so delicately balanced that special housing is required to protect it from changes of temperature which would impair its accuracy. O fficial U. S. N avy photo