president, has been elected president and treasurer of De Laval Separator Co., New York.
H enry G. Macdonald has been ap
pointed assistant vice president of Pull
man-Standard Car Mfg. Co., Chicago.
Mr. M acdonald was with Standard Steel Car Co. from 1902 to 1930, rising from sales engineer to assistant to the vice president. He became assistant secretary of Pullman-Standard when that com
pany was formed through the merger Calif,, Fabricating Works of Bethlehem Steel Co. vice president of Adamson-United Co., Akron, O. and general industrial fields, outstanding among which was the development of large bearings and their application to ferrous and nonferrous rolling mills.
Elected vice president in 1925, a large comptroller, Wickwire Spencer Steel Co.
and subsidiaries, with headquarters in New York. Theodore A. Havens Jr. has been appointed tungsten engineer at W ickwire Spencer Metallurgical Corp., Newark, N. J. subsidiary of Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. Armon N. French has
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been appointed assistant sales manager of W ickwire Spencer Metallurgical Coip.
Newark, N. J. sales headquarters in Philadelphia in 1932. Shortly after Pearl H a rb o r. he was made district m anager at W ashing
ton. He will be succeeded in that post by Milton W. Brooks who has been asso
ciated with Mr. Campbell handling Navy and Maritime locomotive and marine products for several years.
Claude M. Nelles, associated with Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., since 1913, for many years steel buyer and supervisor of open-hearth steel produc
tion, has resigned due to ill health. His work in direction of Ford steel mills will be assumed by his assistant, Frank Curtis, while steel buying will be handled by- Charles H. Carroll, purchasing executive.
The Ford by-products sales departm ent will take over Mr. Nelles’ responsibilities in steel sales. Mr. Nelles began work with F ord in a production job, and after three y-ears was transferred to time, costs and sales department. Following con
struction of the open-hearth departm ent in 1918 he took over supervision of pro
duction there, later becoming steel buy
er. In recent years he served for a time
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with Messrs. Carroll and Howard Kel
logg as co-directors of purchases, and later undertook the development of an incentive pay system which is being in
troduced in the steel mill departments.
J. O’H. Anderson and H . B. Spack-man became assistant general Spack-man
agers of sales, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, May 1. Mr. Ander
son has been m anager of sales, Tubular Products, and Mr. Spackman has been district sales manager, Philadelphia of
fice. O ther Jones & Laughlin sales of
fice appointments effective May 1 were:
V. A. Jevon, assistant general manager of sales, who will be in charge of Pitts
burgh district sales office activities; C. T.
Hapgood, assistant manager of sales, Tubular Products, who has become m an
ager of sales, Tubular Products; E. W.
Harwell, district sales manager, Chicago office, who has become district sales manager, Philadelphia office; L. C.
Berkey, district sales manager, St. Louis office, who has become district sales manager, Chicago office; and C. C.
Welding, district sales manager, Pitts
burgh office, who has become district sales manager St. Louis office.
W. H unter Russell has been appointed southwestern district sales manager for Baldwin Locomotive Works, with head
quarters in Dallas, Tex.
ently reported in the caption accompany
ing his photograph1 in the April 23 issue of St e e l, page 8 0 .
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Keen Johnson, for the past year an assistant to the president, Reynolds Metals Co., Richmond, Va., has been made a vice president, with offices in W ashington. Mr. Johnson succeeds W . G. Golden as vice president, who is re
tiring because of ill-health. M. A. J.
Phillips, vice president of Reynolds Al
loys Co., Listerhill, Ala., a Reynolds
neering of Mason-Neilon Regulator Co., Dorchester, Mass. becoming Chicago district m anager and later division manager. He was trans
ferred to the New York office in 1941 and in 1944 was elected vice president of Electro Metallurgical Sales Corp.
Ernest C. Low, general m anager of
gineering and connected with Roebling since 1926 has been nam ed vice presi been appointed assistant to general su
perintendent at the South Chicago plant of Camegie-Illinois Steel Corp. Asso
ciated w ith the plant for the last 15 years, Mr. Pierce started as a m etallur
gist in the plant laboratory. F or the past three years he has been assistant to the general superintendent. Mr. Peters, also with the South Chicago plant for the last 15 years, started as a testing en
gineer in the electrical departm ent
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from the district managership at Milwau
kee for Bliss & Laughlin Inc., Harvey, president, has been appointed president, the Steel Co. of Canada Ltd., Montreal. inactive, chairman of executive com
m ittee of Gar W ood Industries Inc., D e
apolis, a subsidiary. Commander Bergen, who is president of John J. Bergen & served successively as departm ent su
perintendent, general superintendent and rice president. F or many years he was chairman of the employment relations committee of the National Association of research for the Harbison-W alker Re
fractories Co., Pittsburgh, died April 27 Canadian and British Ceramic Societies and the D eutsche Keremische Gesell- in Homestead, Vandergrift and Sharon, Pa.
Charles Wells Shartle, vice president and sales m anager of Texas Electric Foundrym en’s Association three years ago for 50 years as a foundrvman.
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I'lie San Francisco Bay facilities rough
ly are divided into three main units.
First, and key to the whole setup, is the M are Island Navy base, a huge in
stallation covering 1821 acres and filled widi millions of dollars of equipm ent submarine tenders, landing craft, destroy
er escorts and smaller vessels. The de
San Francisco repair facilities are han
dling work on about 100 vessels each
Approximately $34,599,000 will go for expansion of Terminal Island in south- em California so th at facilities will ac
commodate repairs to battleships. Other expenditures will include dredging of San Francisco Bay a t six points at a
pansions were reported in northern
California during March. These addi
tions and expansions represented oudays totaling $6,264,700. During the month,
Search for idle materials, particularly"
sheet steel and plate in all thicknesses,