Slight Improvement in Lumber Residential Architecture to be Sales Expected in May Featured at Exhibit

Washington, May 2.-A 5 to 10 per cent increase over April quantities in sales of lumber to retail dealers and industrial consumers is expected by manufacturers du,ring rvlay, and an ( is forecast by May, and equal increase i is by "The Lumber Lumber Market" in its Mav 1 issue. in sales by retailers to builders lf, .--l rrt' :, rt A :---,These forecasts are based on reports of its 1,900 odd cortespondents representing dealers, manufacturers salesmen, banks, building and loan associations and similarly informed sources in every section of the country.

Residential building should increase at the sams rrate, though correspondents in at least twenty-eight states indicate that while building money is plentiful, it is being loaned only on narrowly constricted credit. In many localities banks and building and loan associations are insisting upon a pledge of personal occupancy or a specific contract for other occupancy after ,construction before lending.

Saks fncreased in April

An increase in the volu.me of general sales by manufacturers and retailers, amounting to between 5 and 10 per cent during April was accompanied by a corresponding decr@se in prices received by both manufacturers and dealers, and further slight price recessions are indicated. Indust'rial purchase and consumption remained at the low level of March. Retail dealer 'stocks increased by somewhat more than 5 per cent during April. fndustrial consumer stocks decreased slightly. Stocks held by manufacturers on April 18 were 1 per cent below those on the corresponding date a year ago.

Residential architecture, including all styles, from the modernistic to the French Chateau, will be shown in the exhibition of the work of John Byers, architect, which opens May 18th in the Architects Building Material Exhibit atFifth and Figueroa Streets, Los Angeles.

A number of preliminary sketches of the beach residence to be built in Santa Monica for Mr. and Mrs. Irving Thallerg (Norma Shearer), rvill be featured in the ilisplay. It is to be French provencial style of architecture and will include a projection room for sound pi,ctures, as well as many other interesting features.

Photographs oI Early California interiors, depicting the use of wood paneling for decoration, will be included in the exhibit, as well as several sketches of ranchhouses built in Ventura County. Mr. Byers also plans to show the preliminary sketches for the Caballeros Golf Club which is to be built near Ventura Boulevard.

A. C. HORNER BACK FROM EAST

A. C. Horner, manager of the 'Western division of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. returned to his San Francisco headquarters May 4 froman Eastern trip which occupied six weeks.

Mr. Iforner attended the Building Officials Conference of America at Toronto, Canada, last month, and attended a_meeting of the Technical Advisory Com,mittee at C,tricago. He spent a week in Washington, D. C., and visited a nrimber_of places in the Middle West and Southwest, returning to San Francisco by way of Seattle and Portland.