MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jock Dionne

Ag. not guaranteed---Some I have told for 20 years---Some less Boy or Gitl?

The colored woman had just retained the highbrow lawyer to handle her case in a suit she was bringing for breach-of-promise against a well-to-do local colored doctor.

"Is you certain dis doctuh done promised to marry you, Liza?" asked the attorney.

"Yes, Suh, he suttingly did, plenty times," she declared with emphasis.

"Ifave you got the proof in black an' white?" he wanted to know.

Her face fell.

"Nossuh," she answered, "jes BLACK."

Represent Redwood lndustry Expenses and Insignia Under at Pordand Meeting

George W. Gorman, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; C. W. Hexberg, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco; C. E. De Camp, Caspar Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Herb Klass, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, left March 12 to attend the price correlation meeting in Portland, March 14.

In addition to the Redwood Division representatives this meeting will be attended by representatives of the West Coast Division, Soutl?ern Pine Division, Northern Pine Division, and Western Pine Division.

Lumber Control Board to Meet

Washington, D. C., Feb. 26.---The National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority will hold its next meeting at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, beginning March 19,1934.

The principal business of the session will be to determine production of lumber and timber products for the second quarter of. 1934, and to allocate quotas of this production to the various divisions and subdivisions of the industry.

Those within and without the industry who wish to bring other business to the attention of the committee must notify the oflice of the Lumber Code Authority in Washington on or before March 14, at which time the docket of business will be closed.

Code Authority Meets in S. F.

Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority (Northern California) members met at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, March 2. Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman, presided. Matters pertaining to the operation of the Code were discussed.

Retail Lumber Code

Washington, Mar. 3.-National Recovery Administrator

Hugh S. Johnson today announced approval of the regulations for assessment of expenses and award of insignia under the retail lumber code and allied trades. The conditions of the approval are that the Code Authority, within 90 days study its financial requirements for the purpose of informing the Administrator in detail the requirements of the assessment and the amount.

As approved each member of the trade is to pay a quarterly assessment on January 1, April 1, July I and'October 1, amounting to five-tenths of one per cent of the total amount of sales of lumber, lumber products, building materials and building specialties made during the quarterly period. Revision may be made with the consent of the Administrator according to the necessities, but the amount is not to exceed the percentage named. Funds advanced by members for the initiation and administration of the code are to be credited against assessments.

Each member who shall have paid the assessment levied and who shall have agreed in writing to abide by the code is entitled to receive the code insignia.

Hear Talk On Crime

A better than average attendance heard a talk on "Organized Crime" by Earl Warren, District Attorney of Alameda County, at the regular monthly dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, February 26.

Professor Emanuel Fritz gave a l5-minute talk on "Termites." This proved so interesting that President C. I. Gilbert asked him to talk again on this subject at the next meeting. In the short time at his disposal the professor told members how to find termites, and what to do when they found them.

It was decided to hold the big 1934 Northern California Lumbermen's Reveille at the Oakland Hotel. Friday evening, April 20.