Evening star., 1942-03-09
War Board Creates
"a Industry Branches
To Speed Production
Reorganization Aimed
At Maximum Output
From All Factories

By the Associated Press.
The War Production Board yes
terday announced reorganization of
its Bureau of Industry Operations
and establishment of "a industry
branches.
Chiefs of each branch have been
charged with responsibility for
ef1ecting maximum use of existing
industrial capacity :" for produc-
ton of war material and products
for essential civilian USE
Each chief will serve as "the
official point of contact between the
w. P. B. and all committees or sub
committees" of the industry as
signed him, the announcement said.
The bureau is headed by Philip
D. Reed. Named to assist him we're
ranking executives of nationally
known business and industrial
establishments.
The deputy bureau chief is Amory
Houghton, board chairman of the
Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.
Y. Assistant bureau chiefs are
John R. Kimberly, manufacturing
director of the Kimberly-Clark
Corp, Neenah. Wis, and Joseph R.
Taylor, purchasing agent for Socony
Vacuum Oil Co., New York
Other New Executives.
Special assistants are w. B.
Murphy. assistant to the president
of the Campbell Soup Co., Camden,
N. j.; Nathaniel G. Symonds. vice
president of Westinghouse Electric
Co.. and Ben Alexander. president
of the Masonic Corp, Chicago.
Marshall j. Dodge of the firm of
J. w. Davis & Co. is Mr.. Reeds
executive assistant.
The industry branches established
with the chiefs in charge we're:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Kanzler, presi-
dent of Universal Credit Co, De-
troit: rubber and rubber products
Arthur Newhall, executive vice presi-
dent of Talon, Inc. Meadville, Pa:
textiles, clothing and leather goods
r. r. Guthrie, director of Allied
Stores Corp. New York City: food
supply-D. C. Townson. president of
Curtice Brothers Co., Rochester. NY.
Consumers durable goods-Louis
c. Upton, president of the Nineteen
Hundred Corp, Binghampton. N.
Y; pulp and paper-David j. Win
ton, board chairman of the Winton
Lumber Co., Gibbs, Idaho; printing
and publishing George Renard,
executive secretary of the National
Association of Purchasing Agents,
New York City; service and distri-
button. office and service machinery
Nathaniel G. Burleigh. professor
of industrial management at Dart
mouth College, Hanover, N. H.
Machinery Divisions.
Special industrial machinery
Lewis S. Greenleaf, jr., industrial
sales manager of Bahr- Manning
Corp, Troy, N. Y; construction ma
chinery-Andrew Stevenson. for
merly securities analyst with the
Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion; air conditioning and CONNER
cial refrigeration-J. M. Fernald,
general manager of the Baker Ice
Machine Co, Omaha: transporta-
tion-Andrew Stevenson; commune
cations-Leighton PEBBLES, formerly
supervising utilities analyst of the
Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion: farm machinery and equip
ment-William R. Tracy, vice presi-
dent of Pontiac Motors division OF
General Motors Corp.
General industrial equipment
Charles S. Williams, board chairman
of Thomas A. Edison, Inc, West
Orange, N. j.: health supplies-Wil-
liam M. Bristol. jr., vice president of
Bristol Myers Co., Westfeld. N. j.;
toiletries and cosmetics-H. T. Ros-
enfield, president of the Los Angeles
Paper Bag Co., Los Angeles: safety