DR. C. G . S U IT S
C. G. Suits lias been elected vice pres
ident in charge of the research labora
tory, General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y. He succeeds William D . Coolidge, retired.
John C. Cairns has been nam ed vice president in charge of operations, Stan
ley Works, New Britain, Conn., and he is succeeded as vice president in charge of the Hardw are Division by Patrick F.
King. Rodman W. Chamberlain has been appointed general sales manager of all hardware sales, and W. Ronald Morse has been m ade plant superintendent in charge of all hardware manufacturing.
Emory Smith has been nam ed to the Washington staff, International Division, B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, O.
Harry D. Myers has resigned as di
rector of purchases, Thompson Products Inc., Cleveland, and subsidiaries, to join Harry Ferguson Co., Detroit, in an ex
ecutive capacity.
Ernest Mcnhall, previously secretary and treasurer, Highway Trailer Co., charge of apparatus manufacture, has become a m ember of the president’s staff in charge of employe relations, making his headquarters in New York. Roy C.
Muir becomes general manager, appar
atus departm ent, and Earl O. Shreve is in charge of customer relations. William R.
Burrows, chairman of the labor rela
tions committee, has retired.
Clarence E. Scarle has been elected president, W orthington Pump & Machin
ery Corp., Harrison, N. J., succeeding president; Edwin J. Schwanhausser be
comes vice president in charge of sales, and Leslie C. Ricketts, manager of the corporation’s Harrison works, has been elected a vice president.
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----M. W. Kellogg, president, ----M. W. Kel
logg Co., New York, lias been elected to the board of directors of Pullman Inc., concurrent with the acquisition by Pull
man of the entire outstanding stock of the Kellogg Co.
Joe Hoefer lias been named sales and service engineer for the Michigan terri
tory by Udylite Corp., Detroit, and Leonard Singer lias been appointed serv
ice engineer, New York territory.
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ing laboratory. Activities of the labora
tory will be broadened to include the requirem ents of the entire company.
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Ellis L. Spray, vice president and gen
eral manager, Westinghouse Electric Elevator Co., Jersey City, N. J., has been elected a director of First National Bank of Jersey City.
Roger M. Wise has been appointed to the newly-created post of vice president in charge of engineering, Sylvania Elec
tric Products Inc.
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Oscar N. Lindahl, vice president, Car- negie-Illinois Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, has been reappointed chairman of the Com
mittee on Federal Taxation, Controllers Institute of America.
James Y. Carmichael, m anager of the Georgia Division, Bell Aircraft Corp., Buffalo, has been elected vice president of the corporation.
Endicott Lovell, president, Calumet &
Hecla Consolidated Copper Co., Boston, and Charles J. Stakel, general manager,
W . S. K IR K P A T R IC K
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., Cleveland, have been appointed to the board of the headquarters at 50 East Forty-second street, New York. Mr. Kirkpatrick was formerly associated with the management firm of Houston & Jolies, New York, and was vice president, A. O. G. Corp., Providence, R. I. Prior to that he was contract officer for the British Purchas
ing Commission, following several years in Europe on special assignment for In
ternational Telephone & Telegraph Corp.
M. K. Layer, for several years con
troller, Michigan Die Casting Co., D e
troit, has been named secretary-treasurer.
Paul M. Shoup, president, Southern Pacific railroad, has been re-elected pres
ident of the M erchants and M anufactur with Camegie-Illinois Steel Corp., Pitts
burgh, as contact metallurgist, has joined Tate-Jones & Co. Inc., Leelsdale, Pa., as metallurgical engineer and assistant man
ager of sales.
M E N o f I N D U S T R Y
Russell T. Branch, formerly executive vice president, Stone & W ebster Engi by-laws have been changed, establishing Alva W. Phelps, president, as chief ex
ecutive. C. Frederick Cunningham was elected chairman of the executive com
mittee to act as board chairman.
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Calhoun Norton, vice president, Arens Controls Inc., Chicago, has been elected president and general manager, succeed
ing Charles A. Arens, retired. field engineer, General Controls Co., Glendale, Calif. His headquarters will be at the Cleveland factory branch.
J. F. McBride has been appointed sales manager of the Range Division, General Electric Co., Bridgeport, Conn.
P. G. McAusland, for the past two years comptroller, Reliance Electric &
Engineering Co., Cleveland, has been elected treasurer, succeeding H . M.
Hitchcock, retired. Mr. McAusland will also continue as comptroller.
Paul C. Sandmeyer has joined the stainless steel products sales departm ent of Pittsburgh Steel Co., Pittsburgh. Pre
Three appointments announced by Stewart-Waxuer Corp., Chicago, are:
Arden LeFevre, vice president and di
dios and radio-phonograph combinations according to announcem ent by the Ben
ager, Indian Motorcycle Co., Springfield, Mass., succeeding Roland Sheriff, who is retiring after 36 years w ith the com
pany.
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o----Leonard Eger, development expert, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, O.,
ager, Gunite Foundries Corp., Rock
ford, 111.
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H. S. McPherson has been appointed midwestern sales manager, Mechanical Goods Division, United States Rubber Co., New York, and W. M. Ballcw has
sistence division office of the quarter
master-general, W ashington, has been assigned as director of procurem ent at the Chicago quarterm aster depot, re
placing Col. Bernard J. Finan, who has been transferred to Washington.
D el C. W iseheart, for the past three years personnel manager, Ekco Products Co., Chicago, formerly Edw ard Katzin-
M E N of I N D U S T R Y
assistant personnel manager, Revere Cop
per & Brass Inc., Chicago, has been Electronic Components Division with offices in New York.
Elwood M. Davis has been made as
sistant to die vice president in charge of sales by Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Co., Stamford, Conn. H e was former manufacturer of hydraulic fittings, valves, and machine tools.
Thomas W. Bacchus, 82, retired vice president and director of Hercules Pow
der Co., Wilmington, Del., died in that city Dec. 30 after 47 years of distin
guished service in the explosives indus
try.
William Knight, 64, nationally known engineer specializing in aeronautics, and technical adviser to th e American general staff in Paris in W orld W ar I, died Dec. prominent part in coal development near
Greensburg, Pa., and who was associated w ent there three years ago for his health with th e Jamison Coal Co., died at but continued active in the company Greensburg, Dec. 31. which he helped to found in 1914.
Edm und W. Neumcister, 69, vice presi
dent and director, Cherry-Burrell Corp., Milwaukee, died Dec. 25 in that city.
Mr. Neumeister was one of the organ
izers of the Cherry-Burrell Corp. and of its predecessor, Milwaukee Dairy Supply Mfg. Co.
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o---Frank Capp, 50, for the past 16 years civil engineer, Portland Cement Associa
tion, Chicago, died Dec. 22 in that city.
H arry W. Broady, 66, inventor and mechanical engineer and consultant with Brush Development Co., Cleveland, died Jan. 2 at Irvington, N. J. shipyard in Gothenburg, Sweden since 1938, died Dec. 27.
George W. Lowe, 70, retired secre
tary of N ordberg Mfg. Go., Milwaukee, died Dec. 28.
Samuel Phillips, 71, retired operator of Phillips Iron & Metal Co., Manitowoc, America, Pittsburgh, died recently in New Kensington, Pa. vice president, American Telephone &
Telegraph Co., New York, died Dec.
M E E T I N G S
BIRTHDAY: Rustless Iron & Steel Corp. celebrated its 20th anniversary Dec. 2 7 by stepping up production of stainless steel by 22 per cent over
Convention at Cincinnati Jan.
10 a n d 7 7 will consist of forum constitute the entire proceedings of the two-day meeting except for election of directors-at-large.
A feature will b e an exhibit by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. and the Metals Reserve Co. of typical material to be offered as a result of termination of war contracts and disposal of surplus property. At the forum will be repre
sentatives of the Army, Navy, and other governmental agencies interested in m ar
keting of scrap, both from contract ter
minations and disposal of surplus prop
erty. Opportunities will be provided individual dealers to obtain detailed in
formation about marketing procedure.
Continuing strength in the recently re
vived activity in the scrap m arket is ex
pected to add interest and importance to the two-day meeting. Despite the drop in the m arket last fall, iron and steel scrap consumption in 1944 was practi
cally at an all-time high, approximately 54.876.000 gross tons, so close to the former mayor of Cincinnati, prominent attorney, and chairman of the Cincin centrifugal processes under patents held by Jack Trantin Jr.
Mr. Trantin is president of the Youngs
town Alloy Casting Corp. Youngstown Alloy wished some tim e ago to install
Production of their three-thousandth mile of welded invasion tubing used to the company, announced recently. Known as R-303, the alloy is made of alumi