W. O. Springer has been appointed manager of the Cleveland steel-service plant of Joseph T. Ryerson & Son Inc., Chicago. For the past 15 years he has been -in charge of the Cleveland Special Steels Division. He is a graduate of Purdue University. After extensive ex
perience with Babcock & Wilcox Co., Mr. Springer joined Ryerson in 1929 and became associated with the alloy, tool and stainless steel departments in Chi
cago. Some time later he was appointed
sistant treasurer and assistant secretary of the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh. Mr. Main, who has been associated with Westinghouse since 1926, will be the company’s credit manager also.
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Peter L. Lenz, who has been man
ager of the Middle Atlantic District manufacturing and repair departm ent for Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., Willys-Overland Motors Inc., Toledo. O.
Mr. Hawley rejoined the company in 1940 as superintendent of the Shell D i
vision, after having been associated with Willys from 1919 to 1933. Prior to his new appointment, he held the position of
general superintendent of the Machine Division. Awards Committee, W ar Production Drive, and advisor to Indiana State WPB the corporation’s Nashville, Tenn., plant as division manager.
Richard Erwin Dougherty, vice presi
dent, New York Central railroad, New York, has been aw arded the 1945 Egles- ton Medal of Columbia University E n gineering School’s Alumni Association for
"distinguished engineering achievement."
D. P. M organ has joined the sales staff, Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Corp., Glassport, Pa., as assistant sales man- ager, Philadelphia district. Mr. Morgan had previously been sales engineer for the Hanna Stoker Co., Cincinnati.
M att Koener has been appointed chief inspector for Caterpillar Tractor Co., Pe
oria, 111., succeeding M. D . Johnson, re president and treasurer, Bell Aircraft Corp., Buffalo, and also has been elected a director. Leston P. Faneuf was named secretary and chief of the corporate staff
and Harvey Gaylord was appointed as
sistant treasurer. D. Roy Shoults, for
merly engineer of General Electric Com
pany’s Aviation Division, has joined the
Kenneth Campbell, senior project en
gineer, W right Aeronautical Corp., Pater
son, N. J., has been awarded the W right motors, perm itting b etter performance by cargo planes and bombers.
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M. A. H annan has been appointed di
rector of plant protection, Republic Steel Corp., Cleveland, to succeed J. L. W il
liams, who has resigned to go into the consulting business. F or the past three years, Mr. Hannan has been plant protec
tion director for Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., with headquarters in San
C. Forrest Tefft, president, Claycraft Co., Columbus, O., has been installed as
Sullivan, assistant to the director,
Bat-W . O . SPRINGER H. C. ATKINS E. H. W EL K ER
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telle Memorial Institute, Columbus, has been re-elected treasurer. Ross C. Purdy secretary; John Caruthers, assistant sec
retary; and E. J. Krupp, assistant treas Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. His headquarters will be in Philadelphia. He manager of American Magnesium Corp.,
H. F. MILLMANN president, Marine Trust Co., Buffalo.
Clarence E. W ynn has become man
ager of industrial relations, National Tube Co.’s Alloy Division plant at Gary, Ind., succeeding Gray D. Hobby, recently transferred to take a corresponding po
sition in the company’s Lorain works.
H enry S. Freynik has been promoted to the position of chief metallurgist, Riverside Metal Co., Riverside, N. J.
He has been associated with the com
pany’s laboratories for 21 years.
George W. Dolan, president of Math- iescn Alkali Works Inc., New York, has been elected to a one-year term as direc
tor-at-large on the board of the National Association of Manufacturers, New York.
W . I. FLOYD Pittsburgh, has been elected president, succeeding Robert G. Allen who has re
signed. E. M. W ebb has been elected vice president and general manager.
B. S. Pease, assistant m anager of the Wire Rope and Construction Materials Division, American Steel & W ire Co., Cleveland, has retired. H e is succeeded by Myron E. Capouch who has been assistant manager of the company's elec
trical and wire rope departm ent at Chi years’ experience in metalworking in
dustries, has been appointed to the staff of the metal cleaner service laboratory of the Cowles D etergent Co., Cleveland.
J. A. Holladay has been elected a vice president of United States Vanadium Corp., New York, and has taken charge ben, recently appointed assistant gen
eral manager of the apparatus depart
ment.
Roy B. Buckley has been appointed executive vice president, Timm Aircraft Corp., Los Angeles. H e also has been reappointed general manager. D on P.
Purdy has been nam ed vice president and
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assistant superintendent, Roy A. Lind- gren, from superintendent of blast fur
naces to second assistant general super
intendent; Paul R. Nichols, assistant superintendent of blast furnaces to superintendent of the department; and Roy P. W heatley, to assistant super
intendent of blast furnaces.
E. Pecrce Lake has been appointed general sales manager of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., Detroit. Mr. Lake had appointed secretary of the company.
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Benjamin F. Courtright, superintend
ent, metallurgical and inspection de
partment, Wisconsin Steel Division, Inter
national Harvester Co., Chicago, has to superintendent of the department;
John R. Pigott, second assistant super
intendent of the same departm ent to
Thomas Redmond has been appointed Detroit sales representative for the F. J.
Stokes Machine Co., Philadelphia, with headquarters at 920 Balfour road, Grosse
neer formerly associated with Ferro Enam el Supply Co., Cleveland, has Cleveland, and former superintendent of the Missouri Furnace Co., St. Louis, died of Curtiss Airplane Export Corp.
Elmer M. Naylor, 49, founder and and prominent industrialist of Garwood, N. J., died recently at his winter home founder of Woolery Machine Co., Minne
apolis, died in that city April 10. Northwestern Barb W ire Co., Sterling, 111., now Northwestern Steel & W ire Co., formerly works manager of Niagara Elec
tro Chemical Co., Niagara Falls, N. Y., died recently in that city.
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