the position of engineering manager, Fafnir Bearing Co., New Britain, Conn.
For the past 10 years Mr. Leister has been manager of the company’s Detroit territory.
Louis A. Traxel, formerly personnel director of Saginaw Steering Gear Divi
sion, General Motors Corp. at Saginaw, rington-Wilson-Brown Co., New York.
Before going into the Navy, Mr. Robin
son was associated with William Sellers
& Co., Philadelphia, for 13 years.
M. T. Deames has been named assist
ant general parts manager, Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, 111. Assisting him
visions. Other appointments include E. L. Mason, H. F. Haven, and C. D.
Byms to the positions of assistant parts managers of the Central Western and Eastern Sales Divisions respectively.
Lester L. Doughty, industrialist spe
cialist for the Foundry Division of the general manager, Southwark Division, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Eddystone,
S. L. M YER S LaPlant-Choate in various capacities for over 22 years, having started as helper manager and executive vice president, Ampco Metal, Inc., Milwaukee, succeed
ing C. J. Zaiser who has resigned as general manager, but who will continue as president. Reinhold Kunz has become first rice president and George Dreher has become second vice president.
Glenn Cordon has been named pur president, Westinghouse Electric & Mfg.
Co., East Pittsburgh, in charge of elevator and air-conditioning activities. Mr. Spray has been vice president and general man
ager, Westinghouse Electric Elevator Co., Jersey City, N. J., which is to be dis
solved.
C. F. Larsen has been named service manager, general service department, of Mack Trucks Inc., New York. Other Central Division with headquarters in Chicago. has been elected president, succeeding H. B. Walker, founder of the company, who has become chairman of tire board.
Martin L. TerBush Jr. has been ap pointed field representative of the Amer
ican Photocopy Co., Chicago. He will
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come president and general manager, Diebold Inc., Canton, O. O ther officers president in charge of product engineer
ing; John H. Baber, vice president in charge of factory operations and Harry C. W eible, secretary and treasurer. New board members elected were: Orville H. Foster Jr., secretary and director.
Koestlin Tool & Die Corp., Detroit, and J. Brenner Roote, president and director, H arter Bank & Trust Co., Canton, O.
R. E. W. Harrison has rejoined the Chambersburg Engineering Co., Cham- bersburg, Pa., as vice president in charge president of Houdaille-Hersliey Corp., has been elected chairman of the board of Bendix Helicopter Inc., succeeding the late Vincent Bendix. Robert J. New- house has been elected chairman of the Bendix executive committee.
Earl E. D iehl has been named North
western District treasury manager for the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh. In his new post he will have charge of Treasury departm ent activi
ties in an area comprising eight factory superintendent, Wilson Foundry
& Machine Co., Pontiac, Mich., and George E. Thierry has been appointed quality supervisor for the company.
Max W. Parmalee has been appointed of the Controllers’ Institute of America.
Carl A. Salmonsen, assistant manager of the General Electric Co.’s River works at Lynn, Mass., has been nam ed manager cf the company’s Philadelphia works, effective May 1. Robert Paxton, Phila
delphia works manager, has been named manager of the company’s Pittsfield, Mass., works, effective July 1 at which vice president in charge of transportation and supplies, have been elected direc telle Memorial Institute, Columbus, O., where he will be engaged in research on production methods and processes.
A. W. Taylor, formerly purchasing agent, Rotary Steel Co., Detroit, has been appointed purchasing agent for Crucible Steel Co. of America, New York.
H. O. Bercher, formerly manager of order department, Wisconsin Steel Divi
sion, International Harvester Co., Chi
cago, has been appointed assistant to the vice president in charge of the divi
sion.
Luther B. Martin has been appointed director of tire development <ttid research, United States Rubber Co., with head
quarters at Detroit. Mr. Martin is a t present chairman of the Ordnance Advis
ory Committee, Tire and Rim Association and a member of the Tire and Tube Technical Consulting Committee, W ar Production Board.
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purchasing agent of Universal Atlas Cement and Atlas Lumnite Cement Co., New York, succeeding the late Richard B. Hayes.
Charles C. Laym an has been elected president and general manager of Aero
nautical Products Inc., Detroit, succeed
ing the late Alfred Jackson. H e was formerly vice president and sales man
ager. M. J. Whitfield, formerly secre
tary, has been promoted to executive vice president and Byron Layman, treasurer, named secretary-treasurer.
O B I T U A R I E S . . .
Prof. Albert V. de Forest, 56, noted engineer, member of the mechanical e n gineering faculty a t Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology, and president, Magnaflux Corp., Chicago, died at his
“recognition of meritorious service to industries and to mankind in the creation of numerous new industries and count
less jobs.”
He was born in New York and was graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912. He began his career in the drafting departm ent of the New London Ship & Engine Co., New London, Conn., and a year later became an instructor in engineering at Princeton University. He was associate research engineer, Union Metallic Cartridge Co.
from 1916 to 1918 and for ten years for inventions and meritorious improve
ments in machines and mechanical proc
esses. The Institute of Aeronautical Sci
ences awarded to him in 1938 the Syl-
ciety for Testing Materials.
Leon Fraser, 55, president, First Na
tional Bank of New York, former presi
dent of the W orld Bank for International Settlements, and well known in the steel industry as a director and member of the Finance Committee, United States Steel Corp., New York, died in North Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Kings
ton, Ont.; Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood, Ont.; Port Arthur Ship
building Co. Ltd., Port Arthur, Ont.;
Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland, Ont.;
and the Canadian Shipping & Engi
neering Co.
Frank Berry Allen, 58, since 1921 pres
ident, Allen-Sherman-floff Co., Philadel
phia, died recently at Tampa, Fla. Last year Mr. Allen received the Franklin In stitute Longstreth Medal for perfecting a water seal pump.
Charles W. Scribner, formerly a pro
fessor of mechanical engineering at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Iowa and North Carolina died recently in New York. He was a life m em ber of the American Association of Mechanical
En-Gene B. Hassler, chief chemist, Gen
H erbert M. D ibert, secretary-treasurer, W. & L. E. Gurley Co., Troy, N. Y., president of the Oregon Paramount Corp.
In addition to his business connections he was active in social and civic activi
ties, and was one of the formulators of the Oregon Workmen’s Compensation act.
Leroy F . Johnson, 53, for the past 10 years Chicago District sales manager of the Vanadium Corp. of America, died recently at Elmhurst, 111.
Samuel H . Gibson, who retired four years ago after serving for 35 years as general superintendent of the Fanner Mfg. Co., Cleveland, died in Lakewood, O., April 5.
W alter Ewing Miller, former vice president, treasurer and director of F air
banks, Morse & Co., Chicago, and a di
rector of Canadian-Fairbanks-Morse Co.
Ltd., Montreal, Canada, died recently identified with various phases of auto
motive production, died in Detroit, Ap engineer for Houdaille-IIershey Corp.’s Houde Engineering Division, Buffalo, died April 3 at Clarence, N. Y. Mr. Mar Houde, becoming factory superintendent in 1928 and consulting engineer in 1943.
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Report shows prospective employment of 780,000 persons in manufacturing, which would be 51 per cent below the California, Oregon and Washington.
The figure of 780,000 is based on an average good business year. Under poor business conditions, employment is ex
pected to drop to about 500,000. Con
version of w ar plants to postwar pro
duction of new products is expected to be negligible. Investm ent outlays planned in the changeover to postwar opera
time products. These figures include shipbuilding and aircraft. Excluding those two industries, the figures are as Coast manufacturers in postwar. This is exclusive of any allowance for the new integrated steelworks at Fontana or for the new nonferrous metals plants in Cali
fornia and tire Pacific Northwest, which may require additional heavy investments if they are to be kept in operation. Some
what more than half of the total outlay is indicated to be for plant and equip
ment. This amount, exceeding $200 million would be about twice as large as expenditures of Pacific Coast m anu
facturers for plant and equipment in 1939.
About $7 million of the $430 million is intended for the purchase of government- owned plants and equipment, with the air
craft industry being the most important single buyer. Another $70 million is intended for new plant construction;
$85 million for structural additions, al
terations and repairs; $60 million is for retooling, m uch of it in the plane industry;
$155 million is for accumulation of work
ing inventories, particularly by the lum
ber and tim ber industry and in aircraft plants; and $55 million is intended for other purposes.
No reporting manufacturer expects
difficulty in raising the necessary funds.
Shipbuilders expect to have less than 10 per cent as many jobs as in 1943, and aircraft manufacturers 14 per cent.
California, because of the greater im
portance of war industries, is expected to experience a greater reduction, both in absolute and percentage terms, in the number of m anufacturing jobs than Washington and Oregon, although Cali
fornia’s gain over 1939 is expected to be greater.
$17 Million in Contracts A pp roved by W P B A ge n cy
W ar contracts totaling $17,047,967 were approved last week for Los Angeles
Officers Elected by Pacific Northwest W arehousem en
Officers have been elected by the Pacific N orthwest chapter of the Amer
ican Steel W arehouse Association Inc.
They arę: President and chapter di
rector, O. J. Ulrich, Pacific Machinery
& Tool Steel Co., Portland, Oreg.; vice president, Harry Wolf, Pacific Steel W arehouse Co., Portland, Oreg.; and secretary-treasurer, H. F. Morrow, Pa
cific Metal Co., Portland, Oreg.