W T BTACK LUMBE R ME RCHANT

How Lumber Looks

The lumber industry during the week ended April 8, 1939, showed production about 61 per cent, shipments about 60 per cettt, and orders about 67 per cent of the cories,ponding week in 1929, accotding.to- reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

512 mills, reporting for the week .ended April 8, 1939' oroduced 201.905,0001eet of hardwoods and softwoods combltted ; shipped n2,28},ffi0 feet; and booked orders ol 2ZO,l77,UiO fuAi. Revised figures for the preceding wee5-'ir'ere milis, 541; production li+,29rgf/Ut: feet; shipments 225,225,000 feet; anld orders 22t,754,W f.eet.

Lumblr orders reported for the week ended April .8, 1939, bv 431 softwood mills totaled 2llJ6,m feet; shipments 193,118,mO feet; and production 194'022,60 feet'

Reoorts from 99 hardwood mills for the same week gave new 'business as 9,01 1,000 feet; shipments 9,162,000 feet; and production 7,883,0@ feet.

A total of 143 down and operating mills in Washington and Oregon for the week ended. A.pril 8, reporting to the West Co?st Lumbermen's Associatibn, produced 92,834,221 feet; shipped 90,580,201 feet; and-new business was 1Ol,Z4O,1O4 ieet. The unfilled order file at these mills at the end of the week stood at 324,87,189 feet'

The same number of mills, reporting for the week ended April 15 produced 91,83&503-feet; shipped 104,145,953 feet; .rid tr"* business was 106,185 ,132 feet- The unfilled order file at the end of the week totaled 325p10'4O1 feet.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended April f S, if S mills reporting, gave production- as 65,169,000 fe^*; rhip-""tt ffi,627,m" ieet; ana new business 63,142,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled I72,424,0N feet.

The California April 8 reported ments 8.O38.00O Week-end orders

Redwood Association for the week ended production of 13 mills 7,279,0ffi-teet; shipfeet; and new business 6,627,W feet. on hand totaled 35,352,000 feet.

" American Moth er lor 1939"

Mrs. Otella Compton of Wooster, Ohio, widow of Dr' Elias Compton, for many years professor of philosophy at Wooster College, a.nd rmother of four distinguished children, has been named as the "American Mother of 1939" by the American Mothers' committee of the Golden Rule Foundation, with headquarters in New York'

Her three sons are Wilson, Karl and Arthur Compton' Wilson M. Compton, lawyer-economist, is secretary-manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association; Dr. Karl T. Compton is president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Arthur H. Compton, professor of physics at the University of Chicago, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1927. A daughter, Mary, linquist is the wife of Dr. C. Herbert Rice, 'principal of Christian College at Allahabad, India.

Mrs. Compton will represent the nation's mothers on Sunday, May 14, at ceremonies arranged in her honor in New York, as the guest'of the Foundation'