NLMA Seeks Authsrity to Hoo-Hoo Reveille April 26 Represent

Regional Assns.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 12.-To .the.end that the lumber industry may present a united front in dealing with government agencies having in hand the neg,otiation of reciprocal trade agreements with foreign countries, particularly Canada, President C. C. Sheppard of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has asked the various regional lumber manufacturers associations for a prompt expression as to authorizing the National Association to act for the industry as a whole and as to the attitude of each group with rbference to the respective trade pacts and tariff matters in general.

Trade agreements already negotiated affect in the main the interests of special regions, groups or species-such, for instance, as the agreement with Cuba, which resulted in the immediate placing of large orders with manufacturers in the Gulf States for lumber suitable for box purposes. Agreements now pending; however, are with countries wherein the entire American forest produ,cts industry is interested, either because of shipments to the country directly involved or competition with the shippers of that gountry in some other export market.

Assured of the support and authorization of the regionals, the National Association will be in position to make proposals in their behalf and support them. A brief has already been filed in behalf of the box-shook branch of the industry, with the e4dorsement of the National, in connection with the pending agreements with Spain and Italy, in which, anticipating a request from the Italians for a reduction in the tariff on r,r'ines and alcoholic liquors, the g'overnment is asked to make the full amount of such redu,ction ,contingent upon the goods being shipped in boxes made from American shooks. The shook industry provides an outlet for low-grade American lumber, and, 7A per cent !o 75 per ,cent of the mill pri,ce represents expenditure for labor. Italy does not produce from her own resources the materials used in the manufacture of wooden boxes.

Representations have been made to the Tariff Commission's Committee for Reciprocity Information regarding negotiations rvith Spain, Belgium and Holland, and to the President with reference to the Italian tariff on lumber, the Fren,ch lumber quota,. and the German restrictions on exchange.

The suggestion has been to each of the principal exporting groups that they send a representative 'to Washington for a period to make a study of export opportunities in various countries, in collaboration with the stafi of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, upon which may be based recommendations to the government with references to trade agreements now pending or to be negotiated in future.

With San Pedro Lumber Co.

Bill South is now connected of the San Pedro Lumber Co. as Los Angeles territory. He was and Allied Products Institute

The annual Reveill,e sponsored by East Bay Hoo-Hoq Club No. 39 will be held in Oakland on Friday evening, April 26. As usual it wiil be followed by the annual golf tournament on Saturday morning, April 27.

The committees have set an attendance mark of 400 to shoot at, and they expect to reach it.

Larue Woodson is chairman of the general committee, and Carl R. Moore is general secretary-treasurer. Members of the general committee are H. S. Morton, G. F. Bonnington, B. E. Bryan, M. R. Grant, Earle Johnson, J. B. Overcast, Gordon Pigrce, Clement Fraser and Henrv Hink.

The other committees are as follows:

Entertainment-B. E. Bryan, chairman, Earle Johnson, Clement Fraser, Henry Hink.

Golf-Kenneth Shipp, chairman, G. F. Bonnington, C. I. Speer, Henry Hink.

Publicity-Clement Fra5er, chairman, Gordon pierce, Joe, Todd.

Banquet-H. S. Morton, chairman, Miland Grant, B. E. Bryan.

Programs, Posters and Tickets-James Overcast, chairman, G. F. Bonnington, A. H. Silligo.

Ticket Sales-Miland Grant, chairman, H. S. Mortdrn, Gordon Pierce, James Overcast, Forrest Peil.

T. \(/. Hine

Thomas Walter Hine, prominent Eureka Lumberman,. died at his home in Eureka, February 19.

Mr. Hine was born in Bowdoin, M€., 73 years ago. He moved to Aizona at the age of 21, studied law and was admitted to the bar there. He moved later to Southern California, and ,came to Humboldt County in 1898. Afterbeing in the shingle business for some time he joined the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company in 1904, and was vice president and resident manager of this company until he retired about two years ago.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rachael L. Hine; a son, Harry Hine, and a sister, Mrs.' Margaret Millay, all of Eureka.

Mr. Hine was a director of the California State Automo. bile Association, and was at one time president of the Eureka Chamber of Commerce.

Hollywood Exhibit Attracts Large Crowdg

The Better Housing Exposition at 65?O'sunset Boule. vard, Hollywood, in which more than 100 business firms are participating, is attracting large crowds. The exhibit is open every day between the hours of 2 and l0 p.m. The exhibit is designed to show proper and improper methods of construction and covers every phase of home building. The exposition is sponsored by the Hollywood Chamber of with the sales department sales representative in the formerly with the Lumber of r os Angeles. Commerce.