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CHARLES R. McCORMICK & COMPANY BUY.APUS AND WALLINGFORD

Announcement was made during the past week of the purchase of the freighters Apus and \\/allingford by Charles R. McCormick & Company of San Francisco.

The Shipping Board freighter Apus was built at the yards of .the G. M. Stanifer Construction Corporation Van,cover, in 1920, The Apus is 401.1 feet in length, 53.2 feet beam and depth of 31.9 feet. The vessel will be renamed the Charles R. McCormick and will be ready to load cargo within a few days.

The freighter Wall'ingford, 1229 tons net, is 244 feet long with a beam 42 feet and a depth of. 26 feet. The vessel was built in 1919 by the Long Beach Shipbuildtng Company for the Shipping B,oard. Both vessels will be put into the intercoastal trade of the company.

A. W. JONES A CALTFORNTA VTSTTO,R

A. W. Jones, a large retail lumberman of Saskatchewan with headquarters at Moose Jaw, has arrived in-California and is now spending a few days in the Bay.District calling on the luumber ,trade. Mr. Jones shipped his automobile to San Francisco, and will spend the next six weeks touring the state. He is accompanied by Mrs. Jones on his trip.

T. E. WHITMER WENT BACK TO NEW MEXICO

A,fter two weeks verv pleas,ant visit in Los Angeles, T. E. Whitmer, he,ad of Whitmer, Jackson & Co., of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has returned h,onre.