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Edward C. Plummer Dies In Washington Colonel Edward C. Plummer, vice- chairman of the United States ship- ping board since 1923, and a lead- ing authority on American shipping, died in Washington on March 20 at the age of 68. He had been serious- ly ill since Feb. 25, when he suffered a hemorrhage. Mr. Plummer joined the shipping poard in 1921 and his death is a great loss to the board. He was chairman of its committee on legis-. lation and ocean mail contracts, trade routes and ship operations, and a member of its committee on claims, the interstate commerce commission and construction loans. Represent- ing the fifth generation of shipbuild- ers in his family, he spent his youth in the shipyards near his home in Maine and had made a special study of American shipping all his life. Colonel Plummer was born in Freeport, Me., and after graduating from Bowdoin college in 1887 be- came editor of a daily newspaper in Bath, Me., later purchasing a week- ly. During his newspaper career he studied law and was admitted to the par. He served as counsel for the Atlantic Carriers’ association for 21 years. In 1892 Mr. Plummer visited Eu- rope to study shipping problems and shipyards and eventually became an authority on both subjects. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in 1898 he became a recruiting officer for the United States navy and raised a ship’s company, which served on the monitor WYANDOTTE. Later that year he was a paymaster in the navy. ; He represented the interests of the coastwise sailing fleet in Wash- ington and brought about enactment of the law requiring that coastwise vessels be built by American labor. He also brought about abolition of the compulsory pilotage charges in the Virginia coal ports. A number of sea stories and poems were written by Colonel Plummer and he had contemplated writing a history of Bath upon his retirement from the shipping board. He is survived by his widow and three sisters. Stricken While Lecturing John T. Clancy, an executive of Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., died suddenly of a heart at- tack March 9 while lecturing at the Engineers’ club, New York, before a meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Mr. Clancy joined the Worthing- ton corporation in 1919 and in 1923 60 became assistant manager of oil and gas engine sales, with headquarters at Buffalo, which position he held until his death. In July, 1931, his headquarters were moved to the Har- rison, N. J., plant. He is survived by his wife Mary F. Clancy. Interment was at Arling- ton Cemetery. Announcement has been made that on and after April 1 the New York office of the Coen Co., combus- tion engineers, manufacturers of oil and gas burners, will be located at 30 Vesey street. Joins Worthington Staff Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp. has appointed Frank R. Wheel- er special sales representative with headquarters at its Chicago office. He will cover the mid-west territory, assisting the Worthington organiza- tions in Chicago, St. Paul, Kansas City, St. Louis and Detroit. Mr. Wheeler is well known for his work in connection with steam power plants. Consolidate Purchasing Announcement was made recently that effective March 21 the purchas- ing department of the Socony-Vac- uum Corp., 26 Broadway, New York, would make purchases in be- half of Standard Oil Co. of New York Inc., Vacuum Oil Co. Inc., Socony- Vacuum Specialties Inc., and Stand- ard-Vacuum Transportation Co. The shipping board on March 238 granted approval to the American Dia- mond Lines Inc. to change the names of six of the 10 vessels which it re- cently purchased from the board. The vessels and their new names are as follows: Ciry or ALTON changed to BLack GULL; CoOAHOMA County to Buack TERN; SACANDAGA to BLACK Herron; Sac Ciry to Biack FALCON; Saco to BLACK HAWK and TOMALVA to BLAcK HAGLE. Rearrange Districts McIntosh & Seymour Corp., Au- burn, N. Y., announces a rearrange- ment of its eastern and New Eng- land sales districts. The former, comprising the states of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Con- necticut, is now in charge of H. C. Lenfest, with headquarters at 30 Church street, New York, and the New England district, comprising the sstates of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island, is in charge of F. C. Mac- Krell with headquarters also at 30 Church street. MARINE REview-—April, 1932 Suitable Barge Terminal Urged at Chicago A number of Chicago shipping interests are urging strongly that plans get under way for the con- struction of a suitable barge ter- minal there as a part of the Lakes- to-Gulf waterway. The waterway system is scheduled for completion and actual operation next year. It has been charged that Chicago, the leading beneficiary of the system, has not been diligent in making plans for the use of the waterway. The Chicago regional port com- mission, the Chicago association of commerce and a number of other or- ganizations have sponsored a bill au- thorizing this construction. The bill will go before the Illinois legis- lature which reconvenes on April 19. The site for the barge terminal, chosen by the city engineers, is at South Damen avenue and the Chi- cago river. An expenditure of about $200,000 will be necessary to com- plete the improvements already made on the site. The funds are to be furnished, by agreement, by the At- chison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Illinois Central railroads. Legisla- tion, however, is held to be neces- sary, and this is being urged with- out delay. The site includes deep water slips, docks, railroad sidings, a covered transfer platform and a modern con- crete grain elevator of 1,000,000- bushel capacity. The last contract on the Illinois waterway, calling for a retaining wall at Joliet, Ill., will be let early in April, thus assuring completion of the project before next year. Plans are to finish ac- tual construction work by about mid- October of this year. This project completes the Illinois work in the Lakes-to-Gulf system, which was begun in 1908, when Illi- nois appropriated $20,000,000 for the work. After this sum had been exhausted and the Chicago sanitary district had spent $70,000,000 on its part of the waterway,.the federal government took over the project with an appropriation of $7,500,000. the Illinois state government to pro- vide bridges on the federal stretch of the improvement. It is expected that the waterway actually will be in use by 1938. Since 1908 the barge terminal . site, as it stands, thas been used in handling most of the lake-rail traf- fic in Chicago. Will Equip New Ships Each of the two new ships now under construction at the yard of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. for the Colombian Steamship Co. will be equipped with a Sharples centrifugal oil purifier to purify the turbine lubricating oil.