C. F. M cC R O R Y C H A R LE S F. M cBR ID E W IL L IA M S P R A R A G E N
Charles F. McCrory has joined May- Fran Engineering Inc., Cleveland, as ad
vertising manager. Mr. McCrory previ
ously had been associated with Bedile- assignment abroad with the Foreign Eco
nomic Control Council. Earl II. Fyler, formerly assistant to the Chicago dis
trict director of industrial relations, suc
ceeds Mr. Dowding as superintendent of industrial relations at the South Chi metallurgical branch, United States Con
trol Council in Germany. J. H. Slater, assistant district manager, Cleveland district of Republic, has been named acting district manager and H . L. Allen, open hearth superintendent, has been appointed acting assistant district man
ager by Republic.
Benjamin F. Courtright, who recently was appointed sales manager, Steel Divi
sion, International Harvester Co., Chi
cago, has been elected vice president,
Judge formerly served as general super
intendent with the Agaloy Tubing Co., Springfield, O.
Charles F. McBride, general traffic manager, Pittsburgh Steel Co., Pitts
burgh, was elected president, Traffic Club of Pittsburgh at the annual m eet
ing held recently. O ther officers are:
W arner B. Shepherd, assistant general traffic manager, Aluminum Co. of Amer
ica, first vice president; C. G. Magruder, division freight agent, Pennsylvania rail
road, second vice president; R. E. Rogers, general coal freight agent, New York Cen
tral System, third vice president; Nor
man J. Conboy, general agent, Texas &
Pacific railway, secretary; S. B. Duff, traffic department, United States Steel Corp., treasurer; L. G. Hults, traffic man
ager, United Engineering & Foundry Co., F. G. Moore, traffic manager, Co
lumbia Chemical Division, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., M. C. Richards, general traffic manager, National Supply Co., A. C. Schweitzer, traffic manager, United States Steel Corp., industrial governors;
A. H. Farrar, freight traffic manager, Baltimore & Ohio railroad, transporta
tion governor.
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John C. Graf has been appointed sales manager, Hydraulic & Special Machin
ery Division, William Sellers & Co., Philadelphia. Mr. Graf for the past two years has served as sales manager, Bald
win Southwark Division, Baldwin Loco
motive Works, Eddystone, Pa.
tion, factory supervision and purchasing.
Earle B. Tilton, has been elected president, treasurer and general man
ager, V ilter Mfg. Co., Milwaukee. Mr.
Tilton formerly served as executive vice president, treasurer and general man
ager. A. A. Silverman, formerly with Hansen Glove Corp., is vice president;
Ludwig E. Loos, secretary; M. F. Grady, form er controller and assistant secretary now is assistant secretary-treasurer. Board members include Messrs. Tilton, Silver
man, Loos and C. G. Bach, chief engi
neer, and W allace N. Nahin, general sales manager.
William Sparagen, executive secretary, W elding Research Council, Engineering Foundation has been appointed to the newly created position of director.
E. Robert Leeder, director of the D etroit artillery carriage section of Fisher Body Division, General Motors Corp., and former head of the Fisher Pontiac plant, has been elected vice president and assistant general man
ager, Martin-Parry Corp., York, Pa.
J. Robert Walsh, purchasing agent, Cletrac Division, Oliver Corp., Cleve
land, has been appointed director of purchases of the corporation with head
quarters in Chicago. He succeeds the Corp., Pittsburgh has been appointed acting vice president in charge of sales
sion with headquarters at Pittsburgh.
Mr. Godsey replaces George H . W ood
ard who was transferred to South Phila
delphia as manager, Aviation Gas T ur
bine Division. Frederick W. Rohde has
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been nam ed manager of quality control, Aviation Gas Turbine Division. Mr.
Rohde formerly was chief inspector, Jacobs Aircraft Engine Co., Pottstown, Pa.
Paul Mueller, formerly chief engineer, Blaw-Knox Co., Pittsburgh, will assume the post of m anager of engineering and research, P ratt & W hitney Division, Niles-Bement-Pond Co., Hartford, Conn., on July 2. Mr. Mueller formerly was associated with the organization in en
gineering from 1920 to 1927. His other have been elected directors, National Enameling & Stamping Co., Milwaukee.
Mr. Gardner and Mr. Howard also are vice presidents of the organization.
Milwaukee Section, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, recently selected the following new officers: G. W . Cloth
ier, Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., chairman;
E. T. Sherwood, Globe Union Inc., secre Controllers Institute of America, New York.
Julius E. Graf, assistant chief engineer, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Pitts
burgh, has been appointed chief engi
neer of the metallurgical branch, Eco
nomic Division, United States Govern
m ent Control Commission for Germany, Appointment of personnel managers for four territorial divisions, Replace
m ent Tire Division, B. F. Goodrich Co.,
solidated operating and salary adminis
tration departm ents of the Personnel Service Division.
Maj. W . P. Tidwell has resigned as director of information, Surplus Property Board, Washington, to enter private public relations practice with headquar
ters in Washington. Before going with the Army and subsequently w ith the Surplus Property Board, Major Tidwell for many years was with the Crucible to the engineering development staff, W hiting Stoker Co., and has been as Labor Board, (Ohio, Kentucky-West Vir
ginia area).
Paul Isaacson, president, Young Iron Works, Seattle, and Ted Isaacson, vice president, Isaacson Iron Works, Seattle, have been nam ed to the board of direc
tors of the Isaacson company. C. Harold Blomgren was elected treasurer; Harry D. Larson, was appointed manager cov
ering sales, service and development, Tractor Equipm ent Division; and George
I. B. M acLELLA N
S. Allen, manager of mechanical engi
neering.
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Ian B. MacLcllan has been elected vice president and general manager, New-
partment: Richard E. Merrell, formerly manager of national account sales, has
merly assistant advertising manager, now is advertising manager.
D r. Charles E. Skinner, founder of the W estinghouse Research Laboratories, who recently retired as a civilian con
sultant, Army Signal Corps, was honored j recently by his former Westinghouse associates at a dinner marking his eightieth birthday.
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Robert D. McManigal has been elected a vice president, Westinghouse Electric International Co., New York.
Mr. McManigal has been manager of the associated companies departm ent since
1940. t
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o---Dr. Kenneth B. Goldblum has been appointed group leader in charge of the research and development section, Gen
eral Electric Co.’s Chemical Departm ent, Pittsfield, Mass. Roger Rice has been named group leader of the standards and testing section succeeding Dr. Goldblum.
Recent additions to the laboratory staff 1 I / T E E I
PAUL MUELLER M A J. W . P. TIDW ELL
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advertising manager, W eatiierhead Co., Cleveland, vice president; H arry Grin- ton, Cleveland regional vice president, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., associate Buffalo, has been reappointed chairman, Transportation Committee, B u f f a l o Curtiss-W right Corp., and Consolidated Vultee Aviation Corp.Wellman, research and chemical devel
opment; G. Marshall Naul, laminating development; John W. Chapin, chemical engineering.
ment, Republic Steel Corp., Cleveland;
Canton Drop Forging & Mfg. Co., C an-'
Humpstone has been appointed assist
ant director of commercial sales in charge of export sales; H oward Stans- bury, sales engineer of the Mars and and other flying boats and John E.
Soenke, domestic commercial sales and
O B I T U A R I E S . . .
Richard S. McCaffery, 71, professor of mining and metallurgy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., from 1914 to 1941, died June 12 at his home in New York. Since his retirem ent from the Wisconsin faculty, he had been a con
sulting metallurgist and mining engineer.
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Alton Coleman, 37, proprietor, Cole
man Plating Works, Richmond, Va., died recently at his home in that city.
Hal L. Purdy, 55, former vice president and general manager, Marmon Motor Car manager of special projects. Until the end of the war, the appointees will han
dle their new activities in addition to their present war assignments.
Nelson C. Dezendorf has been ap
pointed director of sales, LaGrange, 111. Electro-M otive Division, General Motors Corp., Detroit. manager of manufacturing was appoint
ed vice president and general factory