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MMI STANNTSNUNOUUATONUONANA TST ONAUN TAMA BIRCHARD TAYLOR, -- vice president of the William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, was elected president of the Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders' asso- ciation at its annual meeting held on May 10 in Philadelphia. F. P. Paten, vice president of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. was elected vice president and W. T. Sir, vice president of the Merchant Shipbuild- ing Corp., treasurer. The administrative council consists of: JosEPpH W. Powe LL, E, C. BENNETT, J. Harry Mutt,/M. A. NeELAND, W. T. SmitH, S. M. Henry, ft P Pater. .. L.. Beira, We G Coxe. «- * * *x WitttaM F. Taytor has been appointed president. of the Export Transportation Co., Baltimore. Mr. Taylor recently re- signed as assistant director of opera- tions of the shipping board. * * * R. E. Wetts has resigned as staff assistant to Captain Foley, director of operations of the shipping board. He will become manager of the foreign operating and traffic department of the Georges Creek Steamship Co. New York. The resignation took effect June 15, and Mr. Wells now is visiting the foreign offices of the Georges com- tany, the inspection trip requiring about four months, eo kk W. F. Dunwninc, executive assistant to Robert L. Hague, of the shipping board, has been ordered to London to become assistant to Capt. Frank Ferris, who succeeds Captain Tobey, as for- Gign representative of the shipping board. x ee Umetaro Hasurmoto, head of the Asano interests in the United States, With offices in New York, attended the seamen's congress held in Genoa, Italy, on June 15, in the capacity of advisor to the Japanese delegation. ee Epwarp J. DoneGAN, secretary-treas- urer of the National Dry Dock & Re- Pair Co. Staten Island, N. Y., recently returned from a business trip to Great Britain, * * * A. B. and A. C. Poucu, proprietors ot the Pouch terminals, Staten Island, AAR NEGA Marine News in a Personal Way Intimate Gossip About What Leaders in the Maritime World Are Doing N. Y., recently sailed for Europe where they will investigate modern port facil- ities Of the principal ports. K Kk x Francis P. McGovern, general coun- sel of the- Emergency Fleet corpora- tion since last January, has resigned and expects to engage in the practice of law in. Milwaukee. Since his association with the corporation, Mr: McGovern has reorganized the claims department: and established the principles of law REED Construction Corps, U. S. N., JAMES Former Commander, Now Assistant General Manager, Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. the and practice for settlement ol claims. eee Rote Hortvent, affiliated with the Kerr Chartering Co. for the past twa years, has resigned and will shortly take charge of the chartering business of the United Transportation Co., New York. Previous to his connection with the Kerr company, he was with Hanne- vig & Johnsen. * * * RatpH MitcHeLt has been appointed manager of the Buffalo Steamship Co, Cleveland, succeeding his father, the late Capt. John Mitchell. xe 8 Frank M. WILLIAMS, state engineer, New York, is on the committee 1n 415 ma 3 ' eos sr sss es ores enn innit charge of the entertainment and inspec- tion tour of 30 Swiss engineers and Lusiness men who will arrive in New York soon to inspect the barge canal between Waterford and Little Falls. * * * KK. M. Herr, president of the West-- inghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa. was recently decorated with the order of the rising sun by' the emperor of Japan. * K * Capt. Recinatp W. BeL_knap, former: ly in command of the battleship Deta- WARE, has been assigned tod the com- nmiand of the Squantum, Mass., destroyer' plant and the government dock im South Boston. ; Kk J. L. Ray, formerly manager West- ern Electric Co., Pittsburgh, has been transferred to the New York office as power apparatus sales manager in the general sales department. * cs * BERNARD JOHNSON, connected with the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. for 18 years, has been appointed permanent agent in Escanaba, Mich. He will have charge of the dispatching and loading of the company's vessels there. * * K Roy S, Mac Etwes, New York, as: sistant director of the bureau of for- eign and domestic commerce, has been confirmed by the senate to be directo: of the bureau to succeed Philip B Kennedy whose resignation becomes ef- fective July 1. Mr. 'Mac Elwee re- ceived a large part of his education in Germany and spent a few years there in business. He was at Hamburg at. the time the war broke out. Upon returning to the United States he joined the teaching staff of the Columbia uni- versity as lecturer in economics and foreign trade. He entered the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce from the federal board of vocational education and is the author of Ports and Terminal Facilities and a number of pamphlets on foreign subjects. * * * H. M. Gnriccs, manager of the ore and coal exchange, Cleveland, has been appointed director of the movement of lake coal and ore to the interior furnaces, so as to effect the greatest economy and efficiency in car supply.