E. R. Maule Now Heads Cadwallader Gibson Co.

Appointed General Leaves Hammond "Bert" Maule, one

Manager of one of largest hardwood institutions in world. after eight years as m:rnager Sash and Door Department. of California's most popular millmen.

Annottncement of the appointment of E. R. Maule as General Manager for the United States of the Cadwallader - Gibson Company, Inc., came last week to his host of friends in the lu'mber and millwork industry. Mr. Maule assumed his duties early in April and left I,os Argeles Thursday, April 8th, for an extended tour of probably some two months, covering the important commercial centers of the United States. Stops will include St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Grand Rapids, New York and other of the important wood working centers. He will be actively engaged in interesting the large consumers in CadwalladerGibson Company hardwoods, ve- neers, doors, panels, finish and mouldings which are manufactured at their local Los Angeles plant.

The Cadwallader-Gibson Company has, in the last lew months, completed the erection and installation of machine1y in one of the finest groups of lumber mill buildings to be found anywhere in-the United States. Executive offices are'maintained at this plant at 3628 Mines Avenue, Los Angeles, which occupies a large site for storage yards, finish lumber, panels and veneer stock warehouses.

Mr. Maule, as general ,manager, brings to the company_ a wide experience in mill work. For the past eight yea-r-s he was manager of the Sash and Door Department of the Hammond Lumber Company's local plant; for seven years preceding that he served as head draftsman and desi_g:rer for the Firley-Loetscher Mfg. Co. of Dubuque, Iowa.T{e is.an active member of the local Los Angeles Sash and Door Association, vice president of the Mill Work Institute of California, and president of the \Vestern Planing Mill and Wood

\\,'orking Congress. He is also a director of the Mill Work Cost Bu"rea.t 6f Chi."go. It will be the policy of -the Cadlvallader-Gibson Companv to becotue members of the various associations, *t"tictt is in keeping with their established practice of co operating with theii competitors jn doing what they can for-the deielopment and good of the entire industry.

Few people even in the lumber industry a-re- aware of the extint-of the operations of the Cadwallader-Gibson Company, the Mines Avenue plant being but -one-unit..At thc Long Beach section of thi Los Angeles Harbor they have their own wharves and a large storage and grading vard occupying several acres'

In the Philippine Islands the parent company operates some 400 square miles of timberlands, modern American band saw mills and veneer plant, a complete standard Caggg railway system, and furnish employment for sorne 2000 *.n, itaui their own harbor, wharves, two ocean going steel freighters with the necessary tugs, lighters and^ other port equi-pment. The company is one gf the pioneer Ameriian lumbering firms in the Islands. Their holdings are exclusively in t[e Island of Luzon, the most northerly of the Philippine group. They have adopted specific trade-mark nameiand [uarintee the quality of their trade marked lumber, one of the progressive steps which characterizes the policy of their operations.

An extensive export business is ,maintained from their Luzon plant to the United States and the principal European centers, Great Britain being one of their important customers. Their domestic trade ln the Philippine Islands is extensive and furnishes them an outlet for such lumber that they do not consider up to grade for export purposes.

Offices of the Cadwallader-Gibson Company in the United States are B. W. Cadwallader, President: R. E. Ford, Vice President; L L. Johnson, Secretary, and E. R. Maule, General Manager.