John Β. Berryman John B. Berryman. S3, chairman of the

l)oard of the Cram· Co., Chicago, died Aug. 11 after association with the company for ô.'i years. He came to Chicago from Toronto and served as manager of the engineering aales department, secretary of the company, vice president, president, and was made •hairman in 1935. He was also chairman of Crane, Ltd.» Montreal.

Reginald S. Boehner Reginald S. Boehner, 65, former head of

the chemistry department of Syracuse Uni­versity and a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY since 1923, died Aug. 9.

Born in Paradise, Nova Scotia, he gradu­ated from Dalhouse University and received his master's degree from McGill. After studying abroad under Emil Fischer at the University of Berlin, he completed work for his doctorate at McGill. During World War I he pursued war research at Johns Hopkins, doing special work on war gases.

Coming t o Syracuse University as pro­fessor of organic chemistry in 1912, he be­came active in the affairs of the Local Section of the ACS and published papers in the SOCIETY'S journals. Dr. Boehner be­came head of the department but was forced to retire in 1939 because of ill health.

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Horace Burrough, 3rd Horace Burrough, 3rd, 49, assistant general

manager of sales for Monsanto Chemical Co.*Β Merrimac Division, died of a heart attack Aug. 8 in Swampscott, Mass.

After attending Johns Hopkins in 1919 he received a commission at the U. S. Naval Academy and remained in the Navy until 1923. In 1924 he entered the engineering and manufacturing department of Monsanto and later became assistant in the sales de­partment, assistant sales manager, anil sales manager of heavy chemicals and alcohol.

His promotion to the position of assistant general manager of sales of the Merrimac Division followed in 1944.

Alexis Favorsky Alexis Favorsky, 86, Russian scientist

who performed basic research in synthetic rubber production, died in Leningrad Aug. 6. He had been a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY since 1933.

He represented the Kazan school of organic chemists, founded at the University of Kazan in the middJe of the last century. He was. a disciple of Butlerov, known for his projection of the theory of the structure of the molecules of hydrocarbons and for his conception of the peculiar "architecture" of chemical molecules. Favorsky led Soviet scientists in the search for motor fuels, fibers, rubber plastics, new building materials, medicines, dyes, explosives, and roods by methods of synthesis.

Some of the new nitrogen compounds he and his followers obtained were peracetin. cyperin, neoplasmin, and lupicain. Favor-sky's investigations into the expansion and compression changes to which the molecules of hydrocarbon are subject, received ac­claim. He succeeded in obtaining some carbohydrates from simple compounds.

Robert H. Goddard Robert H. Goddard, 62, pioneer in rocket

propulsion and chief of Navy research on jet-propelled planes, died in Baltimore Aug. 10.

After receiving degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University, Dr. Goddard taught physics at Worcester, Princeton, and Clark. During World War I he was research director for the United States Signal Corps and during this World War much of his work had been of a secret nature, including research on jet pro­pulsion and the development of other rocket-propelled weapons. Since 1934 he had been working at Roswell, N. Mex., under Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation grants.

George Owen Knapp George Owen Knapp, 89, former president

and chairman of the board of the Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., died July 22 in Santa Barbara, Calif. Mr. Knapp helped to form the Union Calcium Carbide Co. in 1894 and after it became the Union Carbide Co. served as vice president and director from 189S to 1903, and as president and director from 1903 to 1917. He was presi­dent and chairman of the board of the Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. until 1929, when he became honorary chairman. He retired in 1933.

Richard B. Schmilt Richard B. Schmitt, 57, Jesuit educator

and research chemist, died in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 11 after a long illness. He had been a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY since 1925.

Father Schmitt started his studies at St. Andrew-on-Hudson in 1906 and attended Woodstock College, Md., for three years be­fore joining the faculty of Canisius College. Returning to Woodstock, he was ordained to the priesthood. For three years he taught chemistry and German in the Philippines and then went to Loyola to specialize in

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microanalysis. H e taught at St . Peter's Col­lege in N e w Jersey and from 1943 was on the faculty of Fordham University. He had been editor of The Jesuit Science Bulletin and was president of the eastern division of the Jesuit Science Association.

Leonard A . Seltzer Leonard A. Seltzer, 75, honorary presi­

d e n t of the American Pharmaceutical Asso­ciation, died in Detroit on July 24. He had played an active role in that association s ince 1890.

After graduation from University of Michi­gan College of Pharmacy in 1892, he was associated with F . W. R. Perry and Parke. Davis and Co. He then had his own retail pharmacy establishment in Detroit . In recognition of many services to the pharma­ceutical profession he was awarded an honor­ary master of science degree by the Univer­s i ty of Michigan, the honorary degree of master in pharmacy by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, and an honorary doctor of science by Wayne Uni ­versity.

William H. Smith William H. Smith, 48 , a member of the

N e w England sales staff of Philipp Brothers, Inc. , and formerly affiliated with the sales division of the N e w England branch of the Grasselli chemicals department of D u Pont , died July 3 1 . H e had been a member of the Rubber Section of the A M E R I C A N C H E M ­ICAL SOCIETY, and the N e w England P a i n t and Oil Club.

C. J. Sommerville C. J. Sommerville, research chemist for the

Eagle-Picher Lead and Zinc Co., died J u n e 2 9 as the result of poisoning with areine gas while experimenting with the extraction of germanium. A n account of his work o n germanium appeared in the June issue of the Monsanto Chemical Co.'Θ magazine.

Eric P. Swenson Eric P . Swenson, 90 , former president of

t h e Freeport-Tezas Co . (now the Freeport Sulphur Co.) died Aug. 14 a t Upper Saranac Lake, Ν . Υ. H e had been chairman of the board of the National Ci ty B a n k of N e w York and of t h e National Ci ty C o . and the National Ci ty Safe Depos i t Co. a s well as a director of the Pacific Oil Co.

Louis A . Voorhees Louie A. Voorhees, 80, formerly chief

chemist of the New Jersey Agricultural E x ­periment Stat ion, died Aug. 14.

Dr. Voorhees graduated from Rutgers Preparatory School and Rutgers University, from which h e received his master's degree in 1888. Joining the work of the experiment station, he became head in 1S95. A member of the A M E R I C A N CHEMICAL SOCIETY since 1938, he had also been a member of t h e So ­c iety of Chemical Industry, the Chemists* Club of N e w York, and Phi B e t a K a p p a honorary fraternity.

The A M E R I C A N CHEMICAL SOCIETY re­grets t o announce the death on Aug. 3 of Frank W. D o u g l a s , professor a t Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo., and a mem­ber of the S O C I E T Y since 1919.

Malcolm Xtf. McAllister, director of the Southeast Clinical Laboratory and resident of Hunt ington Park, Calif., died March 22 1944. Memljer of ACS since 1939.

Henry L. Blum, 74, founder and former president of the United Piece D y e Works, Lodi, N . J., d ied Aug. 22 in Scarsdale, Ν . Υ. H e was a former director of the Du Pont Rayon Co.

Sir G e o r g e C. Clayton, 76, a director of the Imperial Chemical Co., London, and former member of Parliament, died July 28 in Alyth, Eng land . He also had served as director of t o e Power Gas Co., Ltd. , and the Liverpool G a s Co.

William B . duPont, 31 , manager of the industrial d iv is ion of the National Radiator Co., Johnstown, Pa., died on Aug. 9 after a short illness.

Thomas G a m b l e , 77, founder and pub­lisher of Weekly Naval Stores Review, died July 13 at S ignal Mountain, Tenn.

Guy O. Gardner, production manager and director of research, Ash Grove Lime & Portland C e m e n t Co. , died Aug. 5.

Abel J. K a s k e y , 50, president of Hance Brothers a n d Whi te Co., pharmaceutical

chemists of Philadelphia, died of a heart at ­tack July 16 in Atlantic City.

W . P . McCready, general superintendent of the Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc., Salt-ville, Va., plant, died July 18 after 30 years with Mathieson.

B e n j a m i n ' s . Mechling, 72. former presi­dent of the Mechling Brothers Chemical Division of the General Chemical Co., died July 8.

Jacob Pfeiffer, 84. founder and former president of the Miller Rubber Co. of Akron, now consolidated with Goodrich Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, died July 29 in Miami, Fla.

Charles B. Raymond, 79, former secretary-treasurer and later vice chairman of the executive board of The B. F. Goodrich Co., died in Santa Barbara, Calif., on July 29.

Harry F. Spier, 65, president of the New Jersey Pulverizing Co. and a director of the National Industrial Sand Association, died recently.

Montaigu M. Sterling, 62, president of E . Fougera & Co., importer a n d exporter of French and English pharmaceuticals, died in Wilton, Conn., on July 9.

Capt. Phillip I. Taylor, 3 1 , treasurer of T . P. Taylor & Co., Louisville, Ky. , was killed in a plane crash in Luzon June 26.

Will iam Welcke , 75, first vice president and treasurer of Fritzsche Brothers, Inc., dealers in essential oils and aromatic chemi­cals, died in Mt . Vernon, Ν . Υ . , July 13.

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