Owens Illinois dedicates new lab

NEW LABORATORY IS DEDICATED

OWENS-ILLINOIS COMPANY DEDICATES NEW RESEARCH LABORATORY

150 Guests Are

Entertained By

Owens-Illinois

Leaders in Science and Industry Attend

All-Day Program of Newark Plant;

University of Illinois President

Gives Dedication Address.

Educators, engineers, industrial leaders and government repre­sentatives, numbering more than 100, today attended the dedication of the Owens-Illinois Glass company’s new research laboratories at the Newark plant of the industrial products division. Constructed of glass brick, insulated with the most modern insulating material science has been able to produce, air conditioned, the new labora­tory is the scene of research in the application of glassfiber in many industrial and domestic uses. Above left is an exterior night view of the modernistic building. To the right is a view of the machine shop where engineers and mechanics develop new ma­chinery for the processing of glass fiber. Below is the office of the laboratory director, Games Slayter, who is host in today's event. High officials from the Toledo offices of the company are among those attending the ceremonies.

One hundred and fifty leaders in education, science, research and industry headed by President A. C. Willard of the University of Illinois, assembled this morning in the plant of the Owens-Illinois company to formally open the recently constructed Industrial and Research laboratory south of the general factory offices.

Following a breakfast at the Granville inn the guests were transported to the plant where William E. Levis, presi­dent of the Owens-Illinois company, introduced President Willard, who made the dedication address.

"How has this all come about?" said Willard. "I am sure this group here assembled expects me to answer in one much abused word — Research. Research gets mighty little credit for the dis­covery of glass, unless research accepts all scientific accidents as its own children.

The origin of glass is shroud­ed in obscurity, and speculation suggests that its discovery was largely, if not entirely, accidental. All we know is that the accident happened a long time ago and whether it was an Assyrian, an Egyptian or a Phoenician or some other artisan who gazed with wonderment and appreciation on the fused ‘batch’ of silicates be­fore him, we shall never know," Willard said.

Many Uses of Glass.

"It is not necessary to call by name the long list of manu­factured products made of glass to impress you with its import­ance. I would rather ask you to imagine a glass free world, a world in which no glass of any kind existed. For example, re­move glass from our modern world tomorrow and you would practically stop all scientific re­search and experiment study in the natural science of chemistry and physics, to say nothing of astronomy."

Terming the local plant of the Owens-Illinois company a daring venture in the widening field of modern glass technology. Presi­dent Willard said, "But to the Ow­ens-Illinois company with its pre­vious experiences in creating glass products of many kinds, with its resources, with its organization, including more than 14,000 em­ployes with its 21 plants, and with its marvelous laboratories and research facilities, the idea of mak­ing cloth commercially out of glass is just another problem which science and technology will solve."

History of Industry.

The feature of the breakfast at Granville inn which was followed by a 2 o'clock luncheon and dinner tonight was table service and ap­pointments made entirely of glass. At the breakfast, the welcoming address was made by William E. Levis and followed by a short his­tory of the glass fiber industry by Games Slayter, research director of the local laboratory.

Another Newark major glass company's product was displayed to the guests through the courtesy of The A. H. Heisey company who supplied crystal ware as favors.

This afternoon the guests continue to pour through all departments of the research and factory of the North Newark glass plant. It is the first time that large group has been conducted through the entire plant.

The following were present at the dedication ceremony:

Frank H. Adams, general manager, Surface Combustion corporation, Toledo; Earl Aiken, U. S. Advertising company, Toledo; T. K. Almroth, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; R. H. Barnard, vice president, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Dr. W. M. Barr, Union Pacific Railroad company, Omaha, Nebr.; H. A. Barnby, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; H. C. Bates, Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y.; C. B. Belknap, executive vice president, Owens Glass company, Toledo; Willard H. Bennett, Ohio State university, Columbus; Charles Bentley, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Alton, Ill.; Frederick F. Berlinger, Joseph Berlinger company, New York City; Harold Boeschenstein, general manager, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo: W. H. Boshart, director, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Bowes, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo.

Clare Bowler, Sunday Star, Co­lumbus; B. E. Boyd, Owens-Illi­nois Glass company, Newark; Ed­ward M. Brecher, Opportunity magazine, Chicago, Ill.; H. A. Bruno, H. A. Bruno & Associates, New York City; A. T. Bush, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; W. J. Camlin, laboratory building contractor, Newark; Otto Carmichael, J. H. Colbur, Asso­ciated Press; Harry Collin, director Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Howard W. Collins, New­ark; Roy L. Commann, Barrett company, New York City; J. N. Compton, Carbide & Carbon Chemicals corporation, South Charleston, W. Va.; D. H. Corlette. Owens-Illinois Glass com­pany, Toledo; W. C. Davis, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Watson Davis, director service, Washington, D. C.

W. A. Davis, Gustin-Bacon com­pany, Kansas City, Mo.; Mike Des­mond, Columbus Citizen, Colum­bus; Dr. W. C. Ebaugh, Denison university, Granville; O. W. Erikson, Foster Engineering company, Indianapolis, Ind.; Dr. W. A. Everhart, Denison university, Granville; John C. Fistere, Ladies' Home Journal, New York, N. Y.; F. C. Flint, Hazel-Atlas Glass company, Zanesville,; Alex S.; Forster, Forster, Wernert & Tay­lor, Toledo; C. Wilbur Foster, chairman, Foster Engineering Company, Ltd., Indianapolis, Ind., and architect who designed build­ing.

John E. France, St. Paul Cham­ber of Commerce, St. Paul, Minn.; F. L. H. Francisco, New York, N. Y.; Francis C. Frary, director Aluminum Research Laboratories Aluminum Company of America, New Kensington, Pa.; E. E. Free, New York, N. Y.

O. F. Freeland, Manager, Ana­conda Wire & Cable company, Muskegon, Mich.; J. A. Friend, American Refrigerator Transit company, St. Louis, Miss.; R. W. Gillespie, Jeffrey Manufacturing company, Columbus; R. A. Gon­zalez, manager, Airtemp, Inc. Dayton; Commander H. W. Graf, U. S. navy department, office of chief of naval operations, Wash­ington, D. C.; Robert Gunning, American Education Press, Co­lumbus; A. L. Gustin, president, Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing company, Kansas City, Mo.; A. L. Gustin, Jr., Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing company, Kansas City, Mo.; C. A. Hall, The Elec­tric Storage Battery company, Allegheny avenue and 19th street, Philadelphia, Pa.; C. F. Hanson, Irvington Varnish & Insulator company, Irvington, N. J.; Ralph C. Harden, Gustin-Bacon Manu­facturing company, New York, N. Y.; Ben T. Hazelton, director, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; E. Wilson Heisey, A. H. Heisey & Company, Newark.

T. Clarence Heisey, A. H. Hei­sey and Company, Newark; Rob­ert Hertzberg, Modern Mechanix, New York, N. Y.; Hans Heye, Actien Gesellschaft der Gerresheimer, Dusseldorf, Germany; Wil­fred Hibbert, Toledo Times, Tole­do; F. R. Hohmann, Owens-Illi­nois Glass company, Muncie, Ind.; Karl B. Hoke, architect, Toledo; Minot Holmes, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Muncie, Ind.; H. W. Horn, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; A. V. Hutchin­son, American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, New York, N. Y.; W. J. Ingler, Maple road, Newark; Jan S. Irvine, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Hurlbut S. Jacoby, Ohio State university research, Colum­bus; Paul Jones, the Rostone com­pany, Lafayette, Ind.; Webster N. Jones, director Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Victor Knapp. Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; W. W. Knight, director Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Theodore Larson, architectural record, New York, N. Y.; Jack Leisenring, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Muncie, Ind.; George Leland, Gerald Leland, Leland Electric company, Dayton; William Lescaze, architect, New York, N. Y.; Preston Levis, president Owens-Illinois Pacific Coast company, San Francisco, Calif.; R. H. Levis, director Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; W. E. Levis, president Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Philip Linne, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; W. G. Lovell, research laboratories, General Motors cor­poration, Detroit, Mich.; Albert S. Low, V. P. and chief engineer, the Austin company, Cleveland; William J. McCaughey, Ohio State university, Columbus; Dar­rell McDougle, Life Magazine, New York City; S. J. McGiveran, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; W. G. Lovell, research laboratories, General Motors corporation, Detroit, Mich.; Albert S. Low, V. P. and chief engineer, the Austin company, Cleveland; William J. McCaughey, Ohio State university, Columbus; Dar­rell McDougle, Life Magazine, New York City; S. J. McGiveran, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; F. J. McNeil, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; E. F. Martin, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; A. E. Marshall, New York. N. Y.; Howard Miller, General Electric company, Fort Wayne, Ind.; B. C. Milner, Jr., New York, N. Y.; E. B. Moore, the Bridgeport Coach Line com­pany, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn.; Mark Murphy, Toledo News-Bee, Toledo; F. L. Myers, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Howard Myers, the Architectural Forum, New York, N. Y.; Presi­dent Philip C. Nash, University of Toledo: C. E. Nourse, Foster Engineering company, Indianapolis, Ind.

David S. Oakes, editor, Central Manufacturing district, Chicago, Ill.; Captain M. V. O'Connell, H. A. Bruno & Associates, New York, N. Y.; John T. Ogden, 11 West 42nd street, New York, N. Y.; Fred Ol­sen, technical director, Western Cartridge company, East Alton, Ill.; C. W. Parmelee, department of ceramic engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.; Hugh Paul, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; A. P. Peck, Scientific Amer­ican, New York, N. Y.; H. G. Phil­lips, treasurer, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Russell D. Prior, Filter Media corporation, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York; Ross Purdy, secretary, American Ceramic society, Columbus; S. L. Rairdon, Owens-Illinois Glass company, New York, N. Y.; H. M. Randall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Everett D. Reese, the Park National bank, Newark;

George V. Rhines, Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhoff, Inc., Toledo; W. L. Rybolt, National Warm Air Heating & Air Conditioning asso­ciation, Ashland; A. D. Saborsky, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Harrison M. Sayre, Amer­ican Education Press, Inc., Co­lumbus; V. H. Schnee, Battelle Memorial institute, Columbus; F. W. Schwenck, director, Owens-Il­linois Glass company, Toledo; Edwin A. Scott, editor, Sheet Metal Worker, New York, N. Y.; A. A. Shaw, president, Denison univer­sity, Granville; Frank Skeldon, the Toledo Blade, Toledo; Games Slayter, Owens-Illinois Glass com­pany, Newark; C. H. Spencer, the Newark Advocate, Newark; Frank W. Spencer, the Newark Advocate, Newark; A. C. Spinasee, Mt. Ver­non; C. G. Staelin, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo.

Bertram S. Stephenson, Ameri­can Radiator and Standard Sani­tary corporation, New York, N. Y.; J. F. Stevens, Gustin-Bacon Manufacturing company, Kansas City, Mo.; Earl P. Stevenson, Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.; W. C. Stone, American Refrigerator Transit company, St. Louis, Mo.; Wilber Stout, Orton hall, Ohio State university, Columbus; Eu­gene C. Sullivan, vice chairman and director of research, Corning, N. Y.; John Sullivan, Battelle Me­morial institute, Columbus; E. W. Summers, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Alton, Ill.; Nelson W. Taylor, the Pennsylvania State college, State College, Pa.; John Sutter, Owens-Illinois Glass com­pany, Chicago, Ill.; Edwin Teale, Popular Science Monthly, New York, N. Y.; E. Ward Tillotson, Mellon Institute of Industrial Re­search, Pittsburgh, Pa.; H. C. Trumbull, B. F. Goodrich com­pany, Akron; W. G. Vollmer, Missouri Pacific lines, St Louis, Mo.

John Waggoner, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Comman­der H. W. Wallin, bureau of con­struction and repair, U. S. navy department Washington, D. C.; Arthur S. Watts, ceramic engi­neering department Ohio State university, Columbus; George F. Weaton, Monaca, Pa.; E. R. Wade, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; C. J. Wilcox, director Owens-Illinois Glass company, Toledo; Allen W. Williams, National Warm Air Heating and Air Conditioning association, Columbus; L. T. Wil­liams; President A. C. Willard, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.; Dr. James R. Withrow, Ohio State university, Columbus; Frank Woolson, The Advocate, Newark; Paul Zimmerman, Owens-Illinois Glass company, Muncie, Ind.; Hon. William A. Ashbrook, Johnstown; Professor J. L. Bray, Purdue university, West Lafayette, Ind.; C. E. MacQuigg college of engineer­ing, Ohio State university, Colum­bus.