The California Lumber Merchant - January 1942

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OUR ADVERTISERS

*Adverticements appea! in alternate issues.

Ametican flardwood Co.------------------

Dant & Rucsell, Inc.

Johnson Lumber Corporation, C. D.

Koehl & Son, fnc., John V..------Kuhl Lumber Co., Carl H..-------------

Lo-on-Bonnington C,ompany--------------------------19 Lawrence-Philipe Lumber Co..-------------------------20 Lumbermen's Credit Association_------------------*

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Guard Your Sawmills ! ! !

Wctch your scrwmill plcrnt, lvlr. Mcrnulccturerl

Wcrtch crnd gucrd it crs you never drecnned ol doing beforel

This rrrecDs NOW cnd it meqns YOUI

This is cn eurergency situction the like ol which there hcrs never been belore. Every scrurmill is cr delense pltrnt, every industrisl institution c Goveranrent asset to help win the wcr.

Mcke your plans AT ONCE crnd put them into eflect, to mqke your mills as sde lrom possible scrbotcge crs is humcrnly possible. Don't spcre the expense

These cre times when myslerious fires <rppecrr, crnd valuqble sawmills discppecn. Dodt doubt lor s moment thct there cre plenty oI saboteurs who would consider it their business to put c mctch to your mill.

Rrt on extrcr lorces. Tcke every pos3ible preccrution- Don't let your mills burn Conserve your resources lor the iob crhecrd.

In cll probcrbility the Government itsell will request and qdvise you regcrding the ttrking oI preccrutioncgl' mecsures to protect your mills. Don't wcritl Stcrt NOW with your extrc Aucrrds cnd your cdditional preccutionsl Remember thct we cre ct wcr, thct Filth Qsl.nsisls cre the things we crt home hcnre to fecrr, crnd tqke wsr-like mecaures to prolect cnd preserve your millsl

A line slogcn right now would be: "4 strong, higb fence, cmd plenty of gucrds, Ior every sawmilll"

On this New Year's Day we Americans are deeply grateful for many blessings and privileges, even though the shooting war has finally engulfed us. Among these blessings and privileges "t.-* * *

-the privilege of serving and sacrificing that this nation may live, ***

-the privilege of seeing the fires of patriotism and love of country re-lighted throughout this Jand, *:l'*

-the privilege of standing up for Godliness, and righteousness, and humanity, *+d<

-the privilege of opposing with all the might that Gocl has given us the deluge of blood which the German Beast and the Yellow Beastlings seek to force upon the world, ++'t

-the privilege of upholding the honor of the nation and of democracy in order that the world may be made once again a safe place for fine and civilized people to live in,

-the privitege of dritJ.; ;r, as best we may in this time of world tragedy immeasurable, in order that Right may prevail and Wrong be overthrown. ***

No doubt every American will agree that the privileges named above are true ones that we may all say "Am€n" to, for a united nation agrees today that our first, primal, and all-absorbing obligation at the present time IS TO WIN THIS WAR. Whatever the Government needs from us-from any and all of us-it shall have. even to our lives and the full amount of our possessions and resources'

A flood of excoriation that reaches the very skies has gone up from American writers and speakers since pearl Ifarbor, against the Little Yellow Men. yet Carl C. Crow, of Portland, Oregon, writing in his ,'Crow's pacific Coast Lumber Digest" is of the opinion that only those are surprised at the treachery of the Japs, who are unacquainted with them as a race, and then he goes on to tell why.

"Ask any man who has had to do business with the Japanese regularly. He will tell you that they are dishonest at heart, tricky and undependable. It is a characteristic that has come down for generations, an inherent contempt for the occidental standards of honesty and decency," says Mr. Crow, and continues:

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"Mimics only, lacking entirely the faculty of origination, the Japanese have in their grasping drive to participate in the commerce of the world, never hesitated to steal anything they wanted. No work of art, mechanical device, or manufactured product has ever come from deserving hands that the Japs would not copy and resort to all sorts of subterfuges to market as an original. Intricate machines have been bought for the sole purpose of dismantling and using as patterns from which to make inferior imitations and undersell the legitimate designers.

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"tltterly lacking in morals, the record of their rape in China stands as one of the darkest pages in all history. No degenerative practice or instrument has been too low for them to commercialize. Modesty and respect for the sanctity of a virtuous woman is unknown to them. Their plunder in China has seen their soldiers given free rein to prey upon the $romen and young girls in bestial fashion. The treachery of the Japs was never better demonstrated than when they sent another of their toothy, smiling jackals bearing the deception of honeyed words of friendship, to throw us off guard while their assassins sneaked

' up to deliver a stab in the back.

"They are an inferior Jtd-rtl,., race and the civilized world must keep them restrained in the future because they are a menace to everything that goes into the making of international honesty and decency. As a constant reminder to Americans and the generations that are to follow, Japan should be compelled to mark in a prominent place on everything she attempts to sell in this countfr:

..MADE IN JAPAN BY THE PEOPLE WHO MUR. DERED 2897 AMERICAN CITIZENS AT PEARL HARBOR ON DECE*?ET 7TH, 1e41."

That final suggestion by Carl Crow should be written

into the archives, and placed in effect when the time comes. And his summary of the Japanese national characteristics is doubted by no man'who knows them or ever had any dealings with them. They are sly, tricky, treacherous, dangerous people, without honor and without integrity, either individually or nationally. They have produced nothing to make the world better, created nothing, added nothing to the world's store of usefulness, wealth, knowledge, or happiness. They should be permanently disarmed of even so much as a pocket knife when this war ends, and catalogued for all time to come in their true light. They don't even make good servants, because of their leaning toward treachery and undependability.

Jap Subs Attack Lumber Sh;ps

The steamer sunk on the opening day of the Japanese war 700 miles off San Francisco has been identified as the 2,140-ton freighter, Cynthis Olson, owned by Oliver J. Olson & Co., San Francisco. She was under charter to the United States Transport Service and was carrying a cargo of lumber when she left port.

The NlcCormick Steamship Company's freighter Absaroka rvith a cargo of 5,000,000 feet of lumber was torpedoed off the California coast on Dece.rnber 24 and was towed into port by two Navy tugs.

Other lumber ships that were attacked but made their way to port were the Dorothy Philips, on December 24 and the Samoa. December 18.

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Be sure the structure is rigid and we[lframed. Insist on a good base. See that protective details are properly designed, and that reinforcement is completely embedded in the mortar. LIse only stucco made with

PORTLAND CEMENT or

applied and cured according to approved methods.

Paul Bunyan Enlists

By Wilson Compton Secretcry cnd Mcrncger Nctioncl Lunber Mcrnufccturers Associcrtion

The goal of the lumber industry during 1941, when production reached a new high fof recent years, was "defense." This year the saws will be humming a song of "offense,t' and even greater production is to be anticipated. The industry is at battlestrength now.

The job the industry did during the past year -meeting the extraordinary demands of the emergency with its established equipment and man-power-was in enormous volume. One item alone, the prompt delivery o12,I37,0N,000 board feet of lumber to build the cantonments, staggers the imagination-the biggest single carpentry job in American history.

Besides barracks, lumber has built for the Army laundries, hospitals, portable bridges, recreation centers, warehouses, laboratories, "chapels, offices, mess halls, hangars, shipping crates, tank models, rifle stocks, ammunition boxes and uncountable other items. For the Navy-ships. drydocks, shipyards. In addition to direct military use, thousands of new, lumber-built defense factories went up, and 120,000 new houses for defense workers.

Yet all this was only practice for what must be accomplished this year.

It is impossible for any man to foresee what the demands will be for the forthcoming year, but it is safe to say that the pace will be greatly accelerated.

The most important factor in the job that lumber is doing has been the development during recent years of improved timber engineering techniques that permit wood to do work formerly thought possible only by costlier and scarcer materials materials now sorely needed and

indispensable for the construction of actual fighting tools. For example, thousands of tons of steel will be diverted to munitions by the increasing use of wood in the manufacture of some 120,000 freight cars scheduled for 1942. The list of such "substitutions" is virtually endless.

In meeting all these extraordinary demands "in a hurry" no more than temporary local ,shortages of normal supplies of lumber (and then only in a few grades and items for ordinary civilian use) were experienced during the past year. The industry is confident that no such "bottlenecks" will occur this year. The forward planning and coordination of defense buying of lumber and timber products has been much improved.

Nor is the industry neglecting to insure the perpetuation of timber crops for the future. More conservative management and more careful logging of forest lands, with the aid of better forest protection in most regions and with more scientific aids are fully replacing the heavy industrial drains on the forests in these desperate days. More important, fire-the greatest single enemy of our forestsis being curbed. In the State of Washington alone, the number of forest fires was reduced from an average of 1,5O0 to 1,050 last year as a result of state-rvide cooperation of public and private agencies, and the industry is hopeful of reducing the toll even further.

No matter what the war needs of the nation and its allies, the industry can fill them promptly this war year,and with ample provision for the future. Immediately upon the declaration of war, and in behalf of the Lumber and Timber Products industries of the United States, I sent the following wire to the President:

"The lumber and tim,ber products industries will promptly and willingly undertake any assignment necessary to our national defense. We no doubt can help also in the maintenance of vital civilian economy. We can and will produce all the timber products which our government and her allies want. This is our defense and our war and our job just as it is yours. We await orders of the Commander-in-Chief."

There is no need for the lumber industry to enlist; it has already enlisted. "Paul Bunyan," the great woodsman of America forest lore, lvill run his saws faster in 1942.

Wilson Conpton

27y'o to )O/o morc capacity due to tolid edge-to-edgc rtacking. Bettcr quatity dtying on low tenpcranrrer with a fa* revotrib.c circulation, Lowcr rtacling corta-jurt rolid cdge.ro.idge rtacling in the rinplert form.

Ure MooreLiln Paint Products for weatherproofing &y Liln and nill roofs.

Kiln Build.cr for More Thrn l{.lf r Crntury Nortt Portha4 OpJecboavi|lc, Flcid.

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UilJq,rPpt Ur*t

This should be the greatest Convention year in the History of your Retail Dealer Association. So many new housing developments have arisen within the past few months that every Lumber Merchant in the land will make it a definite point to attend his Association's Convention.

will be found interesting and instructive. Our fieldmen will be in charge of this comprehensive display-explaining how the new Blueprint Policy of the Bureau will help the dealer sell more shingles.

Before you attend your Convention, send for a complete set of these Shingle Construction Blueprints-they will be of value. Just fiIl in the coupon below-there is no charge or obligation.

The fieldmen of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau will attend all of these gatherings, from Coast to Coast. The new Certigrade Exhibit RED CEDAR SH I NGLE BU REAU SEATTLE,

Philippine Mahogany Situation

By W. G. Scrim President, PhilippinelMahogany Manufacturers' Irnport Association, Inc.

It is difficult to make any prognostication concerning the Philippine lumber situation. During the past year the demand for our product has been greater than for any year since Philippine lumber was first introduced into this country. This, of course, was due primarily to the demand for our lumber for boat-building purposes in connection with the defense program.

During the past 6 months

and practically the only available space for lumber has been on deck, nevertheless, the importation of Philippine lumber during that period was greater than for the same period the past six years, exceeding by fifty per cent the past six

year average. For the most part, imports have been absorbed upon arrival, as a result of which there is very little Philippine lumber available at the present time, and the prospects of further importations appear to be very discouraging, to say the least. From our knowledge of the Islands, we cannot see how it will be possible to make any further shipments until the sealane around the Islands has been definitely cleared of the enemy. At the present time considerable enemy activity is occurring adjacent to the plants of the largest producers of Philippine lumber and, while we have no definite information concerning the mater, we feel that production, if not stopped entirely, is being considerably curtailed.

Philippine Mahogany imports into the United States in 1941 were approximately 3O,000,000 board feet.

SAN FRANCISCO VISITOR

George E. Ream, president of the George E. Ream Co., Los Angeles, and Harbor Plywood Corporation of California, San Francisco, lvas recently in San Franciseo on a business trip.

BV lacb Siaaaa

Age not guarantced---Some I have told ]or 2O years---Some Less

"And a Little Child Shall Lead Them"

A draft company from one of the big cities turned out to be an unusually big, husky, rough lot of two-fisted men. But when they got to training camp they found themselves under the captaincy of a small, pale-looking, insignificant, mustached officer. This proved a great shock to them.

The first night in barracks one of the rookies, who was evidently the "educated pig" of the gang, said: "Do you know what this company and this captain remind me of? That famous quotation from the Scriptures-'And a little child shall lead them.'"

This proved a big hit with the gang, and became the watchword of the company. Whenever the Captain passed

a gang of his men standing about, no one would look at him, but someone would say, in a sort of an aside: "And a little child shall lead them." This got mighty old to the Captain, and one night just before dark the bugle called the Company out, and they lined up in front of the Captain, who had mounted a box so they could see him well. There was a light in his eye that was not reassuring and he boldly announced:

"Tomorrow morning, one hour before daybreak, with a full pack of equipment on every man's back, this gang of roughnecks is going to start on a thirty mile hike-'and a little child shall lead 1trsq1'and he'll. BE RIDING A HELL OF A BIG HORSE !''

Sent \fires to the President

Portland, Oregon, December 12Support of President Roosevelt and the Government in the present world crisis was unanimously expressed today by the Executive Committee of the Western Pine Association meeting here in special session. The following wire was sent to the White House by James M. Brown, president of the Western Pine Association:

"The members of the Western Pine Association represented by its Executive Committee at a special meeting held in Portland, Oregon, on December 12, 1941, unanimously resolved to express to you and to our government their unbounded confidence in the ultimate victory of our nation and its allies, over all its enemies. You are further assured the utmost possible support of this vital industry in the rapid production and delivery of all of the products from our mills and factories which are essential to the success of our armed forces in this world conflict. It is, and will continue to be, our aim to harmonize all of our activities and operations with the national objective of final and complete victory for the forces of right."

The Lumber MerchantJ-AG"i"tion of Northern California desires to express to you its utmost confidence in your ability not only to resist the dastardly attack of the Japanese but to bring about their ignominious defeat of which they are so deserving. We pledge to you all our re, sources in any manner in which you may see fit to use them. I am sure not only our Association but the entire industry nationally feels the same as we do and will use every possible influence at their disposal to assist in bringing about the ultimate defeat of the Axis Powers.-Bernard B. Barber, Secretary.

Permit me to advise you that this Association will give you its full and undivided cooperation in the war emergency. The foremost object of our members is to help you in every way possible to win the war.-Orrie W. Ifamilton, Secretary-Manag'er, Southern California Retail Lumber Asso,ciation.

Our industry ready to place every resource at your disposal during present war. Productive capacity believed ample to meet war needs quickly, efficiently, and patriotically. In addition to our forest resources we also pledge individual services of men in our industry in whatever capacities deemed essential to victory.-Earl M. McGowin, President. Southern Pine Association.

Army ,Cantonments in West Approved

San Francisco, Dec. l2-Lieut. Col. Harold D. Stetson, 9th Corps Area, assistant constructing quartermaster, announced today he had received approval from Washington ' for construction of three major cantcinments in the West.

Preliminary plans and engineering,specifications for the camps-at Marysville, Cal., and Medford and Corvallis, Ore. -already had been drawn up.

Each cantonment will house 33,000 soldiers.

Col. Stetson made the announcement to a convention of contractors.

Paul Bunyan

Yesterday and Today

Pcul won his lme with cnr qxe cmd cm ox. The lumber industry of todcry is more compliccrted but Pcul Bunycm still stcmds as the symbol oI crchievement

Red River's logging includeE selective cutting, consenrqtion cnd lorest protection Bed River'E production requires crccurqte cnd unilota miling, Hln-secrsoning cmd grcrding to Associction stcmdcn&.

"Pcrul Bunycms"

CATIFO,NNIA PINES

Soft Ponderosc Sugcr Pine II'MBEB MOI'I.DINGS PTYWOOD INCENSE CEDAB

Venetiqlr Blind Slcb curd Pencil Stocl

For Sowhern California, stocks includ,ing Sash and Doors are carried, in the Los Angeles Wholesale Warehouse. Truck Deliueri.es.

TheRDD RMR LUMBTR C0.

BECISTENED TNADE MANT

EVERYTHING IN HARDWOODS WHOLESALE

Daniel Webster's Address to the FIag

"When my eyes shcll be turned to behold lor the lcst time the sun in hecrven" mcy I not aee him shining on the broken cnd dishonored frcrgnents of cr once glorious unior-* on stqtes dissevered, discordcmt, belligerent,' on cr lcrnd rent with civil feuds or drenched, it mcry be, in fraterncrl bloodl Let their lcst leeble curd lingering glcnces rcrther behold the gorgeous ensigm of the Republic, now hown crnd honored throughout the ecrth, siill lull high cd. vcrnced, its crms crnd trophies stresnti-" in their origincl lustre, not cr stripe erqsed or polluted, not cr single gtqr obscured, becrring lor its motto no such interrogcrtory crs-'Whct is crll this worth?'-nor those other words of delusion crnd lolly-'Liberty lirst cnd union cdter. wqrds',' but everywhere, sprecrd cll over in chcrcrcters ol living light, blczing on crll its crrnple lolds crs they lloat over the secr crnd over the lcnd cmd in every wind under the whole hecrvens, ihct other sentiment decrr to every Americcrn hecrrt-Liberty cnd Union, now .'nd lorever, one crnd insepcrcblel"

MODEnNoBEtrUnFIrLoEcoNoMtcAL

ttG adwdl-Philippaneltt

SoUd Philippine Mcrhogcay Wcrll Pcoclliag

A Sensational New Product That Sells on Sight

CADWALLADER.GIBSON

--GBAIIBS--

YOU TNOW TTIAT GRADING IN ANY PANTICT'IAR GNADE OF II'MBEB CAN VABY AS MUCH AS $IO.OO A THOUSAND FEET.

TIIAT'S WHY OIIB GRADES AT TIIE PRICE ANE YOT'R BEST BIIY. PNOOF? ASK OUN CUSTOMERS.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Elect Officers War Has Not Stopped Home Building

Geoge E. Ream, George E. Ream Co., Los Angeles, was elected fresident of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2 at the monthly meeting held on December 11. Other officers elected were: R. S. Osgood, Frieder Brothers, Los Angeles, vice-president, and Fred E. Golding, Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, secretary-treasurer.

D. C. Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles, was named vicegerent snark for the Southern California-Arizona district.

All the new ofiicers addressed the

meeting, discussing Hoo-Hoo activities for the coming year. Harold Alberto, the Gay Deceiver, entertained the group with his amusing stories and tricks of magic.

Lumber Deliveries From Northwest

Deliveries of lumber from the Northwest to California ports for the mohth of November totaled 65,842,800 feet, according to reports by 14 companies to the Pacific Lumber Carriers' Association, San Francisco.

Deliveries to the various ports were as

San Francisco

Santa Barbara

Hueneme

Los Angeles

San Diego

Total . ....65,842,800

John W. Fisher, Fisher-Swartz Lumber Co., Santa Monica, and past president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, states that the war with Japan has not stopped building activity in Southern California.

"We have more jobs going this month than in any December for a good many years," Mr. Fisher said.

With the Federal government now spending half a million dollars on the expansion of the Douglas Aircraft Company's plant facilities in Santa Monica by the erection of a new warehouse and freight yard, local home builders expect that the demand for defense housing facilities will increase rather than diminish.

FHA Sets New Hish

Capt. Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California district director of the Federal Housing Administration, announced a new November high in the number of applications received by the Los Angeles FHA for home building loan insurance.

The month recorded a total of. 22D applications for insurance of home mortgages amounting to $9,383,000, as compared with the previous November high in 1938, when 2179 applications with mortgages totaling $9,695,0@ were received.

L. A. Wholesalers Have Christmas Party

The Los Angeles wholesatre lumbermen held their annual Christmas Party at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, Thursday noon, December 18. There wps a large attendance and after luncheon there were several impromptu talks and group singing. The Christmas spirit predominated and the gathering departed r,vith pleasant memories of a delightful party.

George E. Recrm

Pioneer San Francisco Hardwood Firm Celebrates TOth Anniversary

White Brothers, pioneer hardwood dealers of San Francisco, to provirle room for bigger stocks and expanding business. whose establishment is called "Hardwood Headquarters," cele- The first move was to a site on Main Street. the second to brate this year the 70th anniversary of the founding of their Spear and Howard Streets in 1887, and the third to the firm in l872by Asa L. White and Peter White. present location at Fifth and Brannan Streets in 1909.

Back in 1852, when the waters of San Francisco Bay came up to Montgomery Street and the shore line curved along the present site of the Donahue Monument, Peter White came to California from his home "Way down East," at the age of 18.

He was a farmer's boy who had learned the wagon-making trade. He pursued this vocation, gradually improving his status until in 1868 he was the proprietor of a business supplying wagon materials and hardware to the blacksmiths and carriage makers of that period. The thorough-brace stage coach was the method of land travel and as practically everything was made of wood, a considerable business for the hardwood dealer resulted.

In 1868 Asa L. White came to California and in the year 1872,the two brothers associated themselves in the business of selling wagon materials and hardwood lumber, under the name of White Brothers. Their location was on Market Street next to the gore of California Street and running through from one street to the other. The building which they occupied had formerly been the terminal station of the steam "dummy" line, which ran on Market Street from the F-erry to the junction of Valencia Street. The business of White Brothers increased, and their stocks of hordwood lurnber were augmented as the years went on. Connections were made with suppliers in Central America, Mexico, Australia, Siam, Liverpool and I-ondon, and the business grew to be the largest hardwood house on the Pacific Coast.

It has been necessary to move three times to larger quarters

In 1928 a large area was acquired on High Street in Oakland and an East Bay yard established there.

The founders have passed away and the business is now under the management of William T. White, president, son of Asa L. White, and C. Harry White, vice-president and general manager and nephew of the founders. Don F. White, son of C. Harry White, is assistant manager and N,L Johnson is secretary and treasurer.

John A. Howatt, the sales manager, has been with Hardwood Headquarters for over 33 years. He is an old planing millman, and his thorough knowledge of the working of lumber added to his sales experience make him well qualified to handle the hardwood problems of the buyer.

Bill Meyer, ambassador-at-large, is the best known of the

Piclure tqken qt present locstion, Filth cnd Brcnnqn Streetg, soon clter tbe ycrd wcrs moved there in 1g09. It will be noted thct more horses thcn trucks were used ia thoee dcryr.

Firrt White Brothers hcrdwood ycrd with frontcge on both Cclilonric and Mcrket Streets.

salesmen. He has what might be termed a roving cotnmission, and has been with White Brothers since 1916. A number of young salesmen are gaining a good knowledge of hardwoods under the old experienced heads and are rendering good service.

The yard force consists of senior clerks who have been with White Brothers f.rom 20 to 30 years.

Walter Herkenham is manager of the Oakland yard. Charlie White and Ed Zittleman are salesmen there.

Long experience, ample stocks and financial responsibility

The superintendent at the San Francisco yard is Jack Howley, who has been with the organization for many years.

Wat Risk Insurancs Increase Added "Caldor" Holds Annual Christmas Party to Lumber Freight Rates

A surcharge of 8l cents per 1000 feet in addition to the regular freight rates will be effective January 2, 1942, on all shipments of lumber between ports in Oregon, Washington and California, according to an announcement by the Pacific Lumber Carriers' Associatlon, San Francisco. December ))

The purpose of the surcharge is to cover the actual outof-pocket cost for war risk insurance that operators find necessary to place on their vessels engaged in the transportation of lumber and forest products between Oregon. Washington and California ports.

Special permission authorizing this surcharge has been granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission under date of December n,I94l.

The employees of The California Door Company, Los Angeles, and their wives, enjoyed their annual Christmas party and turkey dinner at the Central Manufacturing District Club, Saturday noon, December 20.

Out of town guests were Fentress Hill, San Francisco, president of the company, C. G. Price, Diamond Springs, general manager, and Mrs. Price.

Each employe was presented with a bonus check by Resident Manager Glenn Fogleman based on their share of the year's profits.

SPENT HOLIDAYS IN KANSAS CITY

W. H. Ultch, salesmah for Santa Fe Lumber Co. with headquarters at Stockton, spent the Christmas holidays with his relatives in Kansas City, Mo. He was accompanied by his wife.

C. Hcrry White Williqm T.

White give to the house of White which is worthv of the best

Brothers a stability and standing traditions of American business.

A man asked ." ir:,il::#) characteristics or a gentleman, using the term in its broadest sense, would probably reply: "The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others would say or think."-John Galsworthy.

COOPERATION

Stand off by yourself in your dreaming, And all of your dreams are vain; No grandeur of soul or spirit, Can man by himself attain.

It is willed we shall dwell as brothers, As brothers, then, we must toil, 'We must act with a common purpose, As we work in a common soil.

And each who would see accomplished, The dreams that he's proud to own, Must strive for the goal of his fellows, For no man can do it alone.

CAN'T EAT THAT

In a fashionable restaurant a new multi-millionaire with no knowledge of French and no desire to expose his ignorance, pointed to a line on the bill-of-fare, and said to the waiter:

"I'll have some of that."

The waiter said: "Sorry, Sir, but f can't bring you that."

"Why not?" demanded the newly rich.

"Because," said the waiter, "the band is playing that."

PROGRESS

The progress of the world depends on the men who walk in the fresh furrows and through the rustling corn; upon those who sow and reap; upon those whose faces are radiant with the glare of furnace fires; upon the delvers in mines; upon the workers in shops; upon those who give to the winter air the ringing music of the ax; upon those who battle with the boisterous billows of the sea; upon the inventors and discoverers; upon the brave thinkers.Ingersoll.

A LITTLE MORE

A little more smile, a little less frown, A little less kicking a guy when he's down; A little more WE, and a little less I, A little more laugh, and a little less cry; A little more fowers on the pathway of lifg And fewer on graves at the end of the strife.

HIS TITLE

When he got home for Christmas, be boasted to his friends that he had been an all-American end. They investigated and found out that he was right; all the Americans he played against, ran around his end.

A CANDIDATE'S EXPENSE ACCOUNT

A man who ran for Sheriff in deep West Texas made out his political expense account after the election as follows:

"Lost four months' sleep and twenty days' canvassing; Iost 1,360 hours' sleep worrying about the coming election; lost forty acres of corn and a crop of sweet potatoes; lost two front teeth and a lot of hair in a fist fight at a speaking place; donated one beef, four shoats, and five sheep for political barbecues; gave away two pairs of suspenders, five calico dresses, five dolls, and thirteen baby rattles; kissed 126 babies; kindled 14 kitchen fires; put up eight stoves; cut 14 cords of wood; carried 24 buckets of water; gathered seven wagonloads of corn; pulled 475 bundles of fodder; walked about four thousand miles; shook hands ten thousand times; told a million lies; attended 2.6 revival meetings; was baptized twice by immersion and once by sprinkling; contributed $50 to foreign missions; made Iove to nine grass widowsi got dog bit 19 times; got Hell beat out of me at the election."

A DOUBTER

"Providence," declared the Sunday school teacher, "is very wise."

"Oh, yeah?" said doubting Thomas. "Then why wasn't the mosquito made a vegetarian?"

THE EASIEST IV\/AY

Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no cou,rage, no brains, no character is needed to set up in the grumbling business.

Survey Shows American Forests Fulfv Able to Supply Increased Requirements of Nation at War

Washington, Dec. 23-A year-end survey of the capacity of American forests disclosed today that, despite the coming year's war-time increase in requirements for all forms of forest products, timber resources in this country will be more than able to supply the nation's needs.

According to I. N. Tate, president of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., national trade association, the forest products industries will face in 1942 the "heaviest production responsibility in their history," but are confident "there will be no shortage."

Mr. Tate's year-end statement continued:

"fn estimating 1942 demands for lumber, plywood, pulpwood, and other forest products, it is a fact that they will be used in many ways to relieve the war-time strain on critical materials-especially the metals.

"Forest products will not build a field gun or a tank, but wider use in defense industry is releasing materials indispensable for actual fighting tools. More than 1,000,000 men are trained to work in wood. No time-consuming plant expansion or re-tooling is necessary in applying forest products to war-time needs.

"Already forest products have begun to replace the previously extensive use of metal foils. Solid oak barrels are replacing those of steel. Desks, chairs, and a wide range of other furniture items are again being manufactured exclusively of wood in place of aluminum and steel.

"Thousands of tons of steel will be saved through the increased use of lumber in the manufacture of over 100,000 freight cars scheduled for 1942. The list of other ways in which forest products will save critical materials is virtually endless.

"Technological and engineering improvements are an additional factor spurring the use of forest products as ,substitutes for metals. One example is the current widespread employment of a metal 'connsqfes'-rvsighing only a few ounces-as a means of joining wood members in beams and trusses capable of bearing loads previously entrusted only to steel. The demand for lumber, plywood, and woodpulp products to assume jobs previously shared

with the metals comes on top of the execution of one of the biggest carpentry jobs in history$11,000,000,000 worth of construction in l94l of. the thousands of buildings needed.quickly by the Army and Navy and for civilian Purposes.

"By June of last year the Army had 1,418,000 men in camps and cantonments constructed almost entirely of forest products, including 2,137,00fJ,Offi board feet of lumber.

"Troop housing was only one of many building types. The Army needed forest products for portable bridges, hospitals, recreation centers, warehouses, laboratories, chapels, offices, me,ss halls, hangars, shipping crates, models, rifle stocks, ammunition boxes, and many other necessary items. The Navy, too, required duplications of many of these buildings, plus lumber-built mine layers, mine sweepers, mosquito boats, coast guard cutters, battleship decking, shipways, docks, and drydocks. For wood ships the Industry is supplying the Navy with huge timbers, 108 feet long. "These military items are supplemented by thousand,s of new factories and over one-half million new homes for defense and civilian workers.

"Contributions of wood pulp and paper made from wood pulp to national defense were similarly important. Faced with a sudden curtailment of pulp imports, the American pulp and paper industry had the biggest job in its history dumped in its lap.

"Reliable estimates of the 1941 consumption of forest products compared with 194O are: Lumber-34,000,000,000 feet, as compared with 29,000,000,000 feet; pulpwood15,000,000 cords, as compared with 13,000,000 cords; plywad-2.000,000,000 feet, as compared with 1,500,000,000, and veneer-933,000,000 feet against 813,000,000 feet.

"More than 43 per cent of the 9,000,000 tons of paperboard manufactured last year was used for defense purposes. Defen,se requirements also used 29 per cent of the 2,800,000 tons of wrapping paper produced in this country, 4O per cent of 800,000 tons of fine paper, and 9 per cent of

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Dealers Suggest Use of Plywood Panels \(/ar to up Construction in Nation Next Year br Elbctive \(/indow Blackout

The Santa Monica lumber dealers are suggesting the use of Plvwood panels for quickly and effectively blacking out windows.

According to Frank Alley, Alley Brothers, the advantage of this material is that it is light, can be stored conveniently when not in use, and can be put in place quickly wltth a minimum of effort.

John W. Fisher, Fisher-Swartz Lumber Co., in explaining the campaign to acquaint home owners with the use of Plywoods for blackouts, says: "Lumber firms are advertising this material as part of public service program. Obviously, there is no important volume of sales involved, and no possibility of repeat business. We do feel, however, that Plywood is the most convenient material at hand in assuring a lighttight blackout, and are ofiering it on this basis."

Mcsonitc Corporation Christmas Party

The Christmas Party of the Masonite Corporation held December 24 f.rom 11 :0O a.m. to 5:0O p.m. at their new offices and display rooms, 3926 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, was an enjoyable affair and was attended by a large number of the Southern California lumber and building materials dealers.

R. G. Wallace, Chicago, I11., vice-president and general manager of the Masonite Corporation, W. P. Frambes, 'Western manager, and his staff greeted the visitors. A buffet luncheon was served.

San Franci'sco, Dec. 26-New requirements brought suddenly into focus by the outbreak of war have caused OPM officials at Washington, D. C., to increase by nearly one billion dollars their estimates of the amount of money to be needed for all kinds of construction in this countrv dwing 1942.

Preliminary estimates under the old defense program set the L942 construction total at about $10,400,000,000a slight decrease from the $11,000,000,00O expected to be spent during 1941. The new estimate made today is for approximately $11,250,000,000, an all-time high, of which all will be for defense construction or construction essential to health and safety.

There will be large increases next year over this year in direct military construction and government-financed defense plant expansion, defense housing and community facilities. In every other major categorv there will be decreases of varying degrees, according to the revised estimates.

Now in its eighteenth month, the defense construction program, measured in terms of funds available, amounts to nearly $11,000,000,000. During next year the amount expected to be used for defense construction alone will be approximately $8,650,000,000.

The value of defense work in place today is $4,900,000,000, or aboat 44 percent of the $11,000,000,000 in defense funds alreadv made available.

s. s. Dononry PHUPs-s. s.IrwBEltcE PHIUPS--S. s. sorANo

Ph:lippine Mahogany lmporters and Distributors Pledgc Full Resources to Government During the \Var

The members of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., together with other importers and distributors of Philippine woods in this country, sent the following telegram to Secretary of the Navy Knox, Secretary of War Stimson, and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration, on December 18:

"The undersigned members of the Philippine Mahogany. Manufacturers' Import Association, fnc., representing the principal part of the Philippine Mahogany and Philippine Hardwood production and imports into the United States, together with certain other importers and distributors of Philippine woods in this country, having a direct and vital interest in this important matter, voluntarily pledge themselves as follows for the duration of the war:

"pi15f-Je continue to give first call to the Navy and Army on all present stocks and future shipments of Philippine Mahogany and Philippine Hardwoods.

"Second-To comply immediately and to the fullest extent of our ability with any requests or demands made by our Government upon our Association as a whole or upon any of us individually.

"Third-To abstain from unwarranted price increases regardless of emergency demand."

The telegram was signed by the Philippine Mahogany \{anufacturers' Import Association, fnc., W. G. Scrim, president; Cadwallader-Gibson Co., fnc., E. J. Stanton & Son, Frieder Brothers, and W. G. Scrim, I-os Angeles; The Robert Dollar Company, Geo. C. Cornitius Hardwood Co., San Francisco; Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, Ore.; Black & Yates, Inc., Brooklyn; Brown-Bledsoe Lumber Co., Greensboro, N. C. ; fnsular Lumber Sales Corporation, Philadelphia; Thomas E,. Powe Lumber Co., St. Louis; Winde, McCormick & Chapin, Inc., Charlestown, Mass.

Forests Able to Meet Requirements

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2,100,000 tons of printing paper. Large quantities of wood pulp also were consumed in the manufacture of explosives.

"Fortunately, the unusual drain on forest resources is one which can and will be replaced. Every year for more than two decades increasing numbers of forest owners have been applying principles of scientific reforestation. Seed trees are being left and millions of new seedlings are being transplanted from nurseries to cut-over land. More important, forest owners and public agencies are combining to protect growing forests from their greatest hazard-FIRE. As a result, the production of these new forests is being accelerated at such a rate that new growth in I94l approached 12,000,000,000 cubic feet, nearly balancing the amount used.

"While the Forest Products Industries will continue their program of reforestation, fire control, disease control, and research activities, nothing will be left undone to cooperate to the full in defense efforts and civilian needs."

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What Enthusiasm M.y Do

Success is lrequently due less to ability thcrn to EIITIIUSIASM.

The world likes to mqke room for the mcnr who believes in his mission. No mctter whct obiections mcy be raised, no mtrtter how dcrk the outlook, he believes in his power to trcnslonn into reality the vision he hqs seen.

It hcrs been scrid thct cll liberties, relonns, cnd politiccl achievements oI society have been gcrined by men thrilling cnd throbbing to some grect enthusic$n.

EnthusicEm will stecrdy the hecrt <rnd strengthen the wilb it will give lorce to the thought cnd nerve to the hcnd, until whcrt wcs only c possibility becomes c reclity.

No barrier however formidcble, no obstccle however seemingly insurmountqble, cqn bcrr the wcy to the mcrn possessed ol kue enthusicrsn lor cr high idecl.

Indifference is the opposite of enthusicsm. Indifference never lecds crmies thcrt conquer, never models stqtues thct live, nor moves the world to heroic crcts. Enthusicrsm it wqs thcrt wrought the statue ol Menon" cnd hung the brcrzen gctes ol Thebes; it lixed the mcriner's trembling needle upon its cxis. crnd first hecved the grecrt bcrr ol the printing pres$ It opened the tubes ol Gclileo until world crlter world swept belore his visior.* it reefed the topscil over Columbus in the morning breezes oI the Bchcruras. It hcs held the sword with which lreedom lought her b<rttles, cnd poised the cx oI the dauntless woodsmcn as he blazed the pcthwcy ol civilizction It turned the mystic lecrves upon which Shckespecrre and Milton inscribed their burning thoughts, cmd sustcined crnd soothed the soul ol Thomcs Jefferson in his declining dcys.

Enthusicsm is the inspircrtion of every.thing thct is grect, Without it, no mqn is to be feared. With it, no mcm is to be depised.

It is lrom the Greek words en cnd Theos, mecning the god within"

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Publicly Financed Defense Housing Moves Ahead

San Francisco, Dec. 26.-0. W. Campbell, Associate Coordinator of Defense Housing, revealed today that 1,045 new publicly financed homes for familie,s of defense workers and enlisted personnel had been completed during the week ending December 13 making a total of ffi,357 completed or occupied throughout the nation.

FHA-inspected privately financed homes started during the week, totaled 3,390. Since lanaary 1941, 207,515 such homes have gone into construction.

Owners of privately financed defense housing, operating with the assistance of Preference Rating P-55, it was announced, are now required to make definite statements as to the amounts at which they will sell or rent the properties they construct, in a new application form issued by the Priorities Division. The hew form PD 105 Revised, supersedes PD 105 and PD 105a. It may be used beginning December 22. Beginning January I, 1942, all applications for priority assistance in the construction o{ approved defense housing must be made on this form. The forms may be obtained from local offrces of the Federal Housing Association and from building and loan associations.

News ltems

Carl R. Moore, vice-president and general manager of Scott Lumber Company, Burney, California, spent the Christmas holidays with his family in San Leandro. He stated that his company will attempt to operate the mill throughout the winter.

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F. (Jerry) Bonnington of Francisco, returned recently Northwest. where he visited called on sawmills.

Lamon-Bonnington Co., from a business trip to the firm's Portland office

T. P. Hogan III of Hogan .spent the Christmas holidays Lumber Company, Oakland, in Yosemite National Park.

Frank R. Adams of California Redwood Distributors. Chicago, recently sp,ent two weeks in California'visiting his organization's member mills. He made the trip both wavs bv air.

LUMBER YARD FIRE AT SANTA BARBARA

Sabotage was blamed for the fire which swept through twothirds of the Ambrose Lumber Company's plant at Santa Barbara, Thursday night, December 11, destroying about 2,000,000 feet of lumber, six trucks and a Ross carrier. The loss was estimated at approximately $200,000.

The office building was saved and the next rnorning a sign, "Open for Business as IJsual," was hung out.

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Plywood For Blackouts A New Defense Use

A curtain of plywood has been lowered around industries up and down the Pacific Coast to permit night production of vital war materials while blackouts are in effect to hide what would be targets for enemy bombers that conceivably could reach our shores.

tsiggest plywood-for-blackout order taken during opening days of the war-and just as vital ?s zny-ylas the 233,000 square feet purchased to cover windows of the main plant of Boeing Aircraft Co. at Seattle, Wash., where the hard-hitting, four-motor bombers are assembled. Six different Washington plywood firms shared in filling the order rvhich called for immediate delivery.

With the covering of windows with the big panels, the material is playing a brand new role in the defense of the nation. There already has been established a long list of plywood defense uses including everything from soldiers' lockers to barracks, pontoon bridges to patrol vessels.

Another noteworthy war installation of plywood was that at Fort Lewis where 40,000 feet of the panels were slipped into place to screen in night lights at mess halls, offices and utility buildings. These sheets were attached so they can easily and quickly be removed during the day, replaced during blackout times.

Meanwhile, every other Z4-hour enterprise scrarnbled for

black-out material and many managers looked to piywood as the answer especially when the covering had to be removable. Newspaper offrces, railroad dispatcher rooms, restaurants, the now all-important "little-manufacturers," post offices and other

Sales Representative ol Robert Gray $hingle Co., Inc. and Gudiner lumber Go. Scrles Offices

Wben the bltrckout hit Pqcific Cocst cities with the declaration ol wcr, windows in newspcper officee ql once were screened cgdinst light erccpement. This is q corner oI the Tccomc, Wagh., Newg-Tribune editorial room. Fir plywood coverg windowr by night, is ecsily removed during the dcy.

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governmental buildings-all have placed the big panels over windows.

Usually the S/lGinch Plyscord (,sheathing) grad,e or /aor /(-inch Plywall (wallboard), quality.are used. As these grades are manufactured for interior use, they are placed on the inside of the panes Bnd usually overlap the casings. (Whenever plywood is placed outside the windows and is to'remain exposed to the weather for an indefinite time, only the Exterior (waterproof) type should be used.)

Simple to Install

In industrial plants small nails are driven into basings to hold the panels. Where the sheets must be removed, various ingenious methods have been followed. Probably the installation most effective is that of nailing a narrow furring strip on each side of the casing and placing turnbuckles near inside edges. Then the blackout panel can be slipped in place and held there by the latches.

Blackouts brought up a brand new problem around the home, too. And here again the big, rigid panels have been applied in innumerable instances. In fact lumber dealers have reported heavy aggregate sales for the purpose. They point out that plywood has double value because it can be re-used for dozens of household needs after the emergency.

First rooms to be given the "treatment" were kitchens and bathrooms because these are necessity-rooms in the morning.

One of the thoroughly effective and simple mea.ns of installing panels in the home without marring casements involves the use of masking bpe, a gummed paper tape an inch or more wide. If the panel is carefully cut to fit tightly inside the 'casing, lhe masking tape is merely put along all edges of the panel to hold it in place.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39

The annual Christmas party of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, held in the Leamington Bowl, Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Friday evening, December 19, was successful in every way.

Lewis A. Godard, the Club's president, presided, and introduced George E. Ream, president of Los Angeles HooHoo Club, and W. Henry Gilbert, president of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club, who were at the head table.

A delegation ol N from the Sacramento Club and a number from the Central Valley Hoo-Hoo Club were present and the total attendance exceeded 150.

Vice-president George Clayberg, was chairman of the entertainment program, which was well above the average.

GOOD DEMAND FOR REDWOOD SIDING

'Fred V. Holmes of Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, who recently returned from a five weeks' business trip which included visits to New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and other eastern cities, reports that the present demand for Redwood siding will take all that can be produced. A large proportion of the wood siding used in many eastern areas is Redwood, which represents a great change in the last l0 years in favor of Redwood, he says.

INCREASE F'LOOR SPACE

Cole Door & Sash Co., wholesale sash and door dealers, recently added 6000 square feet of extra floor space at their warehouse at 1049 East Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles. They will use part of this for storage of Fir plywood.

Obituaries

Patrick J. McDonald

Patrick J. McDonald, pioneer planing mill operator, builder and contractor, passed away on December 2l in the St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles. He rryas 78 years of age.

Mr. McDonald died from the effects of a stroke he sufiered on December 7 when he was listening to his radio and heard the news that Pearl llarbor had been bombed by Japanese warplanes. His son, David McDonald, is a Naval Reserve ofificer stationedpt Honolulu. He failed to rally at subsequent information that his son had escaped injury.

Mr. McDonald had been a resident of I-os Angeles the past fifty years. Ife was born in County 'Wexford, L-eland, on March 17,1863, and came to the United States at an early age. He, came west from Chicago to manage the construction of the old Coronado Hotel near San Diego.

In 1898 he purchased the I-os Angeles Planing Mill, then located at San Pedro and Fifth Streets. Eight years later he built his own plant on Industrial Street, and was active in the planing mill business, local building and construction work until 1930 when he retired.

He was a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and Manufacturers Association, Jonathan Club, I-os Angeles Athietic Club, and Knights of Columbus.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Carrie lVlcDonald; four children, Laurence McDonald, Mrs. Ethel Murray and Mrs. Genevieve Birdsall of Los Angeles, and David McDonald of Honolulu; and eight grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at St. Vincent's Church. I-os Angeles, December 23.

Hcnry B. Hickey

Henry B. Hickey passed away in Oakland, December 13. He was a native of New York, and was president of the timber land firm of Standish & Hickey, San Francisco.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Emma R. Hickey and a son, Henry B. Hickey Jr.

Edward A. Chamberlin

Edward A. Chamberlin, operating manager of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, passed away in Oakland, December 18, as the result of a heart attack. He was at the office as usual on the previous day.

Ife was born in Chico, Calif., 59 years ago, and had been associated with his brother, W. R. Chamberlin, in the lumber and shipping business since 1919. One of the best known and most popular men in lumber and shipping circles in San Franci,sco, he gained his first experience in this line with the Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, having been with this firm from 1903 to 1919, and. in charge of their steam schooner fleet for many years.

Mr. Chamberlin is survived by his widow, Mrs Hazel Chamberlin, his mother, Mrs. Fannie K. Jackson, and his brother, W. R. Chamberlin. He was a member of Live Oak Lodge No.61, F. & A. M.

Funeral services were held in Oakland on Saturday, December 20.

Daniel G. Penzotti

Daniel G. Penzotti, operator of the Napa Builders Supply Co., Napa, Calif., died in Napa on December 17.

Ife was born in Tolosa, Spain, 57 years ago, and at the age of 11 came to Albion, Mich., where he lived until he completed his education. He came to California in 1905 and to Napa in 1933.

Mr. Penzotti is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gertrude M. Penzotti, two sons, Daniel G. Penzotti Jr., and F-rancis F. Penzotti of Napa; two sisters, and a brother, Rev. Paul Penzotti of Buenos Aires.

He was a member of Napa Lions Club and of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo.

Virsil J. Oliva

Virgil J. Oliva, 57, president of chandlers, San Francisco, passed December 14.

He was a native of Sierra Citv.

C. J. Hendry Co., ship away in San Francisco. California.

Ten Years Ago Today

From Janua ry 1, 1932 lssue

East bay lumbermen rallied nobly to the call of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 to filI empty nail kegs with groceries for distribution to needy families. More than 250 kegs were filled and distributed during Christmas week.

One hundred and fifty lumbermen and their ladies attended the Central Club's Christmas party at Modesto on December 19. The committee that arranged for the affair included Warren S. Tillson, Bill Mashek, George Ground, Jim Gartin, and Dick Ustick. Following dinner, there was an entertainment and dancing.

B. E. (Bert) Bryan, Strable land, was appointed Hoo-Hoo fornia.

INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

Hardwood Company, OakState Counselor for Cali-

Edward Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, was appointed Vicegerent Snark for the Golden Gate HooHoo district.

"Ffow the Indians A. Merriam Conner, in this issue.

Preserved the Forests," an article by North San Juan, California, appeared

"California Redwood," an address by Mason E. Kline, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, before the Purchasing Agents' Association of Northern California was in this number.

Fined in Trust Cases

San Francisco, Dec. ZO-Fines totaling $144,000 were imposed yesterday by Federal Judge A. F. St. Sure on fortyeight firms and individuals convicted last week of Sherman Anti-trust Act violations involving the Bay region millworking industry.

Judge St. Sure denied defense motions or an arrest of judgment and for a new trial. In twenty-three of the cases, the defendants were found guilty by a jury, while the other twenty-five had pleaded "nolo contendere."

California Building Permits for November

Moveg Made to Secure Materials to Complete Houses Being Built

San Francisco, Dec. 22-Two moves were made today to obtain materials to complete houses now under construction, according to advices received here from.Washington, D. C.

Donald M. Nelson, Director of Priorities,'stated that his division was ready to extend priority assistance to complete low-cost dwellings now under construction with USHA funds.

Leon Henderson, Director of the Division of Civilian Supply, announced a broad plan would be put into effect shortly to make materials available to complete privately financed dwellings for which foundations were in place on October 9.

The Director of Priorities is expected to issue a formal order carrying out the program shortly. The Preference Rating Order, P-71, will not be available before December 22, and applicants will not be received until that time, it was announced.

An A-10 preference rating will be made available for materials necessary to complete homes and apartment buildings now under construction. Officials of the Division of Civilian Supply estimated that approximately 70,000 private dwelling units are now under construction. The A-10 Preference Rating may be applied only to materials on the Defense Housing Critical List issued in connection with Preference Rating Order P-55, it was announced.

Snyder Named Acting \(/age-Hour

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g Adm in strator of the Wage and Hour Division, by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Mr. Snyder-who was Deputy Administrator under General Philip B. Fleming, now Federal Works Administrator-will head the Division until further notice.

B aird Sn y

Mr. Snyder was born in Lansford, Pennsylvania, in 1900. He attended Cornell and Yale Universities and was graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924 as a Civil Engineer. His first engineering work was a survey of coal lands in Venezuela; and he was later assistant superintendent of Lawrence Colliery at Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania. He subsequently operated a factory at Elyria, Ohio, and headed his own construction company. He became Principal Engineer of the Resettlement Administration several years ago, where he was first associated with General Fleming. He was later Chief Engineer of the Farm Security Administration before coming to the Wage and Hour Division in 1939, and became Deputy Administrator of the Division in June, 19,{0.

PORT ORFORD CEDAR USED FOR CULVERTS

' Port Orford Cedar is being used extensively in Nevada for highway culvert construction, taking the place of concrete culverts, which are no longer available by reason of restrictions on reinforcing steel.

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WANTED

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WANTS POSITION

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FOR SALE

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EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION

Retail lumberman with twenty years' experienceestimator, salesman, counter and outside work. Knows the paint, hardware and well business. Will go anywhere. Can furnish good references. Will appreciate an interview. Address B,ox C-927, California Lumber Merchant, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

We have a number of good yards in Southern California for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 8O1 Petroleum Building, Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 87,16.

How Lumber Looks

A soft lumber market was changed to a strong market immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 as a result of a big demand for lumber from buyers all over the country who had held off in the expectation of getting lower prices. Fir prices are now up to the ceiling on everything except low grade. There has been some new Government buying for emergency purposes, and heavy buying for construction of additional cantonments, housing for workers in war industries and enlargement of airports is anticipated. A big volume of Fir lumber is going into construction of industrial plants on account of the shortage of steel.

There was considerable buying by California retail yards in the first week after the declaration of war but this has tapered off in the last 10 days.

Many Northwest mills are having difficulty in getting cars. This is due to movement of troops, ammunition and supplies rather than to an actual car shortage. Demand for cars for California shipments has increased owing to the fact that very few ships are available for cargo shipments.

War risk insurance on boats, cargo and the men who

operate the ships is making the cost of operating so high that most of the boats are tied up.

Blackout restrictions which went into effect December 8 caused considerable curtailment in the Douglas Fir region for a week or so, with many mills taking off their night shifts, but production has been climbing again since the restrictions were removed. Production for the week ended December 20 by West Coast Lumbermen's Association mills was about 55,000,000 feet less than orders for the week. Holiday shutdowns will reduce production far below orders for the period between December 22 and January 3 if shutdown plans are carried out.

The Western Pine mills also experienced a big increase in orders following the outbreak of the war. For the week ended December 20 orders were 82,966,,00O feet, shipments 67,476,W feet, and production 59,377,W f.eet.

The Red Cedar shingle market is also active and prices have shown a good deal of strength resulting from heavy demand by line yards.

BI]YDB9S GIIIIDD SAN 3BANOISOO

LUMBER

LUMBER

Arcata Rcdwood C.oo

"' --4a-itdi;t strict ....'. 1........'YUkon 206ir

Atbinsn-Stutz ConPuY' -*rd-il*t."t strit'.'..'."""""GAr6cld ltllo

Luon-Bomlngton Company' 16 Califomia StrcGt........ "......GArfrold SEtl

MaaDonald & Hrington' Ltd..

16 Califomia St. :................'GArfield 8393

Weycrhacurcr Salcr Co, tlg Calif,o-ia Str6i,....,.........GAr6c1d t9ill HARDWOODS AI\TD P.ACTETS

Whita Brotbcr3,Fifti and Bi'unu Stra.b'.........Suttcr l3e5

c".ifi .ii:s;; -;;;1cr co. (Go.'..w:..Y:.:tr1 drdi) ....'....

"-f#i;?.1$"3i.lf*:. .3:: .-_''eror. .?{s

Dant & Ruteell. Inc.'

- -lil-f--tt Sirc.t' .'.'.. " "' " " "'GAnEdd 0292

ot!ffi

t*?t3t"H&t!3""""-...'SUtrer ?456

Gmerston & Gra, --iiio - l.-v Stre&.... ..'. " " " " "'Atwater l3ll0

Hall. Jmer I-,"-'ibiz*riiin" btds.. ..' .'' " "''sutter 7520

Pacific Lmbcr Co.' Thc

lm Busb Strei..................'.GArficld 116r

Pore & Talbot Inc- Lubs Divleion' - {51 Mekot' Strrst'................DOugIu 2561

Red Rivcr Lumbcr Co315 Monadnocl Blig.'......'......GArfield 11922

Santa Fe Lumber Co.,

16 Califomia Strci...............'Exbroo& 2074

Schafer Brcc. Lmbc & ShlDllL Co.

I DM StGt.....................9utt4 lzl

SASH-DOORS-PLYWOOD

Wheler Oggood Saler CorPoratim' 3tx5 rgth Street'..'.. "...""" "VAlencia 22{l

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLESPILING.-TIES

"*?ti S;;a Strat....'.......'.... .'Doushr refl

Flaltinm Mackin Co-' Ltd.'

Hammond Redwood co-o*".'... "....Dougra! 33SS 417 Montgomery gtr6t"

Hobba Wall Lumber Co.'

"-1Eo' .li*ota Avenuc' " " " " Mlsrior 00|l

Shcvlin Pine Salet Cl, 1030 Monadnock Bids.'...........EXbrok ?Ml

Suddcn & Christensn' 310 Smmc Strei..'.............GArfield 2t46

Union Lmber Co.'

Crccker Building,.'.............'..SUttcr 6U0

Wcndling-Nar:han Co.'

ll0 Market Strut'....'..............Suttd $63

Americm Lmbcr & Trcating Co., 116 Nrw Montgomcry Stret.......Suticr lz25

Butcr. J. H. & Co.. 3l3' Montgomery Strcet...........DOuglac 3Et3

"ttffi ?li*:,1"3"T1'3iu"...'. GArnerd rezr

C. p. -farnon !q6$6a Q6mration.

-' Isi -ciff-"ia Stret....'"""""GArfield 625t

t*LliSSl'klTiil ff;;*", str6ct. .Yukon 1160

LUMBER

Wert Oregon Lmber Co.' 1995 Eius Avc. ..................4Twatcr 567t

E. K. W@d Lumbe Coo I Dm Stret...................Exbrook 3710

Gamerrton & Gren' """""'Hlratc 2255 Fot ol Eth AvG. '"'''' Gomu llnbs Co.'

tSzl Tidflatcr Av&u!"""""'ANdovs 1000

Hrlln&rttfdton'rt*1"*""n.

" ...ANdov$ 10?

Hocan Lumber Conparry' "*;i U-.Afu stier.. """ " "'GLGn@urt 6t6l

*"t *t"fl }:f.l"i'!i; "tt".. ..'r'winoakc 3400

t' F;"HH "i-H"ti.*.r.... "'FRuitvals 0112

LUMBER

Hall. Jmes L.. 1032 Mills Bldg.....'..'......'.......Suttcr 752a

Vuder Laa Piling & Lunbcr Co.' 216 Pine Strat ......,.............Exbmk a905

PAN ELSI-DOORTSASH-SCR' EN S

Calilomia Buildar SuPPIY Co. 7@ oth Avenuc ....Hltat. t016

Hocm Luber CmPanY. -2nd & Alie Strceta..............Gl.s@urt CE61

Wcrtcm Dor & Saeh Co., ' sth & Cyprcs! Stret!. '.. ..TEmplcbr 6400

HARDWOODS

Whitc Brcthers, 500 High S[ret....................ANdovcr 1600

LOS ANGBLBS

^'"'Er*f.;*fu"-ii*. i:..T:l....wEbct' ?tzt

Anrlo Callfomia Lumbcr Co

-"-5* -fr;' Flt*-ttt- A"tto3' "'''THonwall 3l'l'l

Atklnen-Stutz ComPanY, -1il-P.6i;; aiis.'.:.......'... .PR6pcct 4341

Burnr Lmber ComPuY' 9155 Charlcville Blvd.' iiii""iri trinil ..'. "........'BRadchaw 2-33EE

LUMBER "'T,n*#"tiihjif "r,H::. .?lL'io*,e..t usr Red Rivcr Lumber Co.' '---?0;-it Slauson.. .........'.........CEnturv 299?l

i6irJ. gt""a*av................'PRospect 03u

Rcitz Co.. E. L., ---'lis3-FLI-I""; Btds..........'.... PRosFct 2360

Rorborc Lunbcr C,o' ----l{C 36-. O"""s" 6.iw.............WYoning ?7e

HARDWOODS

Ameriro Hardwod Cot 1900 E. rsth gtreG ......'.........PRorp.ct {235

Cadwalladcr-Gibron Co., lnc., 3626 E. Olympic 81vd...... .....Allgolut Ul6l

Stanton. E. J. & Son, - - iom' e"it 3Eth streat ............cEntury 292u

Western Hardwood Lumber Co., 2014 E. lsth Stret....'..........PRo.poct 6l0t

SASH-DOORSI-MIIJWORK

c"rr C c".'. L J.'(w' D' Dunnlng)'- -

-* if cr-"i^U"t-of 'Co--re 9ldq'- PRoapcct $43

Ca;;LU:Co;; Lunber C.o. (R. l[. Erystrad) 240 BradburY Drlvc' i5;-d;t"t.i') .'....:..........ATlaltlc 2'o751

Coomr. W. Eo

---Fo?jeoa' ni-dnetd Bldg, .....'....'.Mutual 2r3r

Darrt & Ruell, Inc.' --'itiz-e. sith'st....'...................ADans tlol

o'*i"t .!ii-EH?:Y:..::: VAndike 6?e2

Sm Pedro Imb€r Co{ --lsra -S. Central Avc........'....Rlchmond lr{l

Suta Fc Lunber Co., -*iir -ii"-*"i"t Cair Blds..'.....VAndike 4'l7l

Schafa Brcc. Lubq & Shlngb Co. -- -nt w 9tb stret.'..................TRinttv |27r

Shcvlin Pine Sales Co.' ----iiii- Feiiot""; 81di...........'...PRoapcct 0615

Suddcn & Chrirtenon, ---om eo"ia of Trad! Bldg...'...'..'TRinitv tE44

Tacoma Lumbcr Sal*, - --gli pJtrolt"r[ Bldg: ..............PRocpcct 1106

PANELS AND PLYWOOD

Califomia Dor ComPuY, Thc -- lsao biibi.t Blvi. ,.....'.......K!mba[ 2rll

California Pael & Veneer Co. - -iss S. Alueda Stret ....'......TRinitv 005?

Cobb Co.. T. M.. iaoo Centrat 'Avenue. ..ADmr llll?

Eubank & Son. Inc., L. H. (Inglewmd)

Halllne Ma&tn Coo Ltd.

"*w. l,i- c"a*a blag. - ...'......'.TRinttv 3641

""-friitfXi#..!'3lTl:......."Ro!pct niB

Hobbs WaU Lumber Co.,

- ---5zs'Ii;; B|dg.........'...........TRinitv 506t

Holmes Eureka Lmbcr Co., ""'iiilzrT-i'.rtil"iJ -sra!..'. ' ' ' Mutual erEl

Hover. A. L-

- -sbi-d iittJui'"c Blvd.'.. " " " " " " " " York ll6E

C. D. Johnmn Lunber Corporation'

-- aie - Fit-totn Bldg.'...'..'......PRorpcct 1165

Lamne-Philipr Lmber Co.'

dt3 Pcrrclerin Bldg.... 'PRolpcct El?{

MacDonald & Harrlngton, Ltd. ---F;-tm Bultdini :............PRGPGcI 3lz7

Pacific Lmber Co., Thc'

- --i7zs -Wil"Ui"e Blvd. .........'...'....YOrk rr6E

Patten Blim Lumbcr Co.t

- ati E. sth Stret.....-..,..........VAndikc 82r

Union Lumber Co- ---tii vt: M. G".ti-d Bldg. ..........TRiritv 22tz Wadlinr-Nattu Co-' " -izii-wttili- 81vd..........'.'..... "York u5E lt/est Oregon Lumbcr Co.' - - -liz- FJt-tom Bldg.'.....'......Rlchmond 02El

W. W. Wilklnronn '- - 3iit- w. 9tb siret..............'...TRinitv 1613

E. K. Wood Lumber Co, -- lzof Sirta Fe Avenui............JEfrcreon 3lll

Weverhaeuser Salee Co.' -irio w. M. Garlud BIdg.........Mlchigan 6331

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES

Anericm Lumbcr & Trcating Co.' l03l S. Brcadway.....'...........PRolPcct {363

Butcr, J. H. & Co.' eOr' West sth Sdect. '..... ...Mlchlgu 6294

f0fO E. Hide Park Blvd.. '..ORegon t-165' Kochl, Jno. W. & Son' esi i. Mverc Streei. '.ANgelu tl9l

Mutual Mouiding & Lrnbcr Cot 9303 So. Hoper Ava............L/UayGtt l9zz

Oreeon-Waehirgton Plywod Cotlt tf,,clt Ninth Stret............TRinitv 1613

Pacific Wood Products Corporationt 36t|0 Tybum Stret.........'..'...'Al.buv 0l0l

Pacific Mutual Dmr Co1600 E. Washinaton Blvd..'.....PRo:pcct 9523

Rem Conpanv. Geo. E.. a5 s. Alafrda str*t............Mlchigu ltll

Red Rivcr Lumbcr Co., 702 E. Slaumn..'..................CEnturv 29e?l

samDsn Co. (Paradena). '745 S;. Rivnod Aio-.......PYphld l'all

West Coast Scren Co., 1145 E. ti:trd Strct................ADur lllCE

Wheeler Ocgood Salcr Corporation, 922 S. Fl-wcr Strc.t...............VArdik. C32C