"N?fuy Bill" Ingram Draws Big ,/ S. F. Hoo Hoo Crowd

President Jim Farley is to be congratulated on arranging a program that brought out the largest attendance in recent years ata meeting of the San Francisco Hoo Hoo Club. The occasion was-when "Navy Bill" Ingram, head coach of t\e University of California, was the guest of honor and principal speaker at the regular luncheon meeting of the club held at the Commerciil Club, San Francisco, Thursday, April 30.

More than 100 lumbermen, many of whom had not attended a lun'cheon for some time, were present.

President Farley presided and also acted as chairman of the day. He began by giving a hearty welcome to the speaker and guests, and ,confinid the business part of the meeting to a statem'ent from Vicegerent Bert Bryan on the progress of the Parson Simpkin Sequoia Memorial. A resolution was then adopted endorsing the memorial.

The president then introdu,ced Supeivisor Jack Spauld.: ing, Coach Jimmy Needles, of the University of San Francisco; trd. Hughes, of the'San Francisco Chronicle; Harry Borba; San Franiisco News; Gregor Duncan, Call-Bulletin artist;'Bill Monahan, graduate manager bf the University of California, and Bill Leiser, S. F. Eiaminer, all of whom were guests of tthe club.

Bill Ingram's talk was listened to with great interest by the big audience of football fans. and while he naturally refrained from any predictions regarding the coming football season, he said that California has a wealth of good material and assured his hearers that the boys are going to put in a lot of hard work. He commented on the game to be played between St. Mary's and Southern Methodist at San Francisco, December 5, and vou,ched for the fact that Southern Methodist is a good team, as they beat his team last year 2O to 7.

Softwood Imports During March

According to figures supplied by the Section of Customs Statistics of the Department of Commerce to the Lumber Division, softwood imports into the United States during March, 1931, were as follows:

Sawed lumber of fir, hemlock, spruce, pine or larch, dutiable; from Canada 42,732,W board feet; from Germany D6,W; fror4 Mexico,326,W; from Nicaragua, 20,000, and Yugoslavia 92,m.

Boards, planks and deals in the rough or planed and dressed on one side; of fir, hemlock, spruce, pine or larch; from Canada27,W,ffi board feet; free of duty.

Other kinds of softwood lumber. free of dutv: from Canada 1,892,000 board feet. (Under this class ior February there was reported 8,000 board feet from Mexico, which was in error.)

Seattle Lumberman Killed in Plane Crash

Thomas D. Stimson, president of the Stimson Mill Co., Seattle, was killed when his plane crashed about 6O miles northwest of Spokane, April 26. He was returning from a pleasure trip. Mr. Stimson. who was an aviation en- a pleasure Stimson, avi thusiast, was 47'years of age. He was the son o -thusiast. was f of the late

C. D. Stimson, pioneer Northwest lumberman, and is survived by'his widow, his mother, a sister and four children.

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