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M.y Appoint Trustee for Nelson Companies Openr \(/holesale Olfiice in Los Angeles
When hearings in the case of the Charles Nelson Co. and Nelson Steamship Co. were resumed in San Francisco May 11 the court indicated that it will appoint a permanent trustee for the two companies before hearings resume on May 15.
The trustee will succeed to the position norv held by Homer W. Bunker, named as president of the companies several weeks ago, who first recommended such an appointment in his report.
U. G. Richards of Oakland, former assistant manager of E. K. Wood Lumber Co., was suggested for the position of trustee.
NEII/ REDWOOD ASSOCIATION HEAD ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO
Carl Bahr, former assistant secretary of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, who was asked by the directors of the California Redwood Association to take charge of the activities of the Association, arrived in San Francisco, May 5, to assume his new duties.
R. W. Dalton has opened a wholesale lumber office at 315 West 9th Street, Los Angeles, operating under the name of R. W. Dalton & Co.

Mr. Dalton is widely known in lumber circles in Southern California and Arizona. He represented the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. in Arizona for a long period, and when they consolidated with the Patten-Davies Lumber Co. he continued as Arizona representative for the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. He returned to Los Angeles in 1932, and since that time worked out of their Los Angeles office.
I. N. TATE ADDRESSES U. S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
An able address on the subject of "Improvements in Manufacturers' Marketing Methods" was given by I. NTate, vice-president and secretary, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, St. Paul, Minn., before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, D. C., April 28.
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Santa Fe Lumber C,o. ---Schafer Broc. Lumber & Shingle Co. ----------1O Shevlin Pine Salec Co. --------------------------------13 Smith Wood-Products, fnc. -----------
Stanton & Son, E. J. --Suable l{ardwood Co.
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How Lumber Looks
From 8E cities in the Pacific Coastal area building permia registered e 45.5!s gain in April over the comesponding mo_nth oilast year, according to the Vestern Monthly Building Sur' vey pnipa.red by H. R. Baker & Co., California Investarent Banking filrrr.
Building per:rrits as reported by these 88 cities @ta,led fLTr9221600 and comprised, l0r792 perrnits, compared with t12r 67r&t value and Er500 permits in Apil' 1935. This sizable improvement was general thtoughout the entire te-rritory cover' "4- by the Suren and includes cities in 11 Vestern states' British Columbia and Hawaii.
Among the 25 cities reporting laqgest volume of luilding permits during April were several showing exceptional gains. these 25 cities reported a total volume in permits of. $L4AO8'' 941 cocrpared wiah il4,@4r579 in March, 1936, and $tor6lr506 in April, 1935. The gain in April over March totaled 2.2270 a,nd the gain in Aptil ovet April of last year approximated 39.47Vo.
Los Angeler again ted all Vestern cities in volume of per. mits, and ren up a volume in April considerably larget than the cocrbined total of t{re trext five ranking cities. San Francisco with a very sizable increase regained second pocitiont and was follo,rved by Sacramento, Long Beach, San Diego' Oaklendr Portland, Seattle, U*"".tP Hills and Vancouver, B. C.
Dtrting the weel ended l&.[ay 2, 1916, 569 mills producod zrtrlzsr0/ilo feet of hardwoods and softrvoods cocrbined' ship# 251,64;o,0(X) feet,rand booked orders of. 22VB67,W fetl accoding to relrorts to the Nationd Lumber Manufacturers Association from regionat associrtio{rs coveting the operations of important soff,wood and latdruood mills.
2fi) dorvn and operating mills in Vashirrgton and Oregon which reported to the Vest Coest Ltrmbermente Association for the wee,k ended l&.tray 2, produced 11116041510 feet of lum-
ber. The industry producod 67.8 pet cent of its weekly cut during L926-1929. New business taken fon the wek was 103r7r2r025 feet, and shipments 12012811943 f.eet. The unf,lled order file at these mills stood at 451,872,817.
The volume of bueiness coming to the industry continued on a level of preceding weeks. Production also has continued even' >F t rf
The \ifestern Pine Associatio,n for the week ended llay 2, 114 mills reporting, gave orders as 6lr347rffiO feet, shipments 58r873rq)0 feet, and production 6Lrl62rOOO feet. Orders wef,e .3 per cent above production, and 4.2 pet cent a.bove shipments. Shipments werc 3.7 per cent below production" Unfilled orders on hand totaled 236,519r0fi) {eet.*
The Califomie Redwood Association for the same week reported production of 13 mills as 816751000 feet, shipmecrts 10,5071000 feet, and new business 11,7E3r0fi) feet. -Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 49r39F.r0}O f.et
The California market " *""-"O prices firm. Lumber cargo arivals at Los Angeles harbor totaled l6rl49rq)O for the week ended May 9 as compared with 2511581000 feet for dre previous -week. The increased lumber handling rates at Loc Angeles-Long Beach harbor went into efiect on May 6.Redwood prices were recendy advanced the advantes reflecting existing stoc& shortages. The demand continues at a high level absorbing practically all of the present production. . Fir mill prices are firrn with the exception of some sutplur items.

A q""d volume of business is reported by California pine manufacturers.
It is repoated that 60O loggers are on strike in the Lower Columbia River area.
Advertisements Are Kindlv Thoughts
By JACK DIONNEAdvertisements .ue expressions of kindly THOUGHTS' uttered for YOUR benefit Ever think of it that way?
The busirrrcss of living is in realityrrsimply the busines of TFIINKING. A human mind is like a lake. It must have both inlet and outlet.
' Each of up is continually thinking ideac of our own, ond swapping them for the ideas of others. If there is a famine of outside ideas, we shrivel up. Chitdren with ttnobody to ptay withtt ate unhappy and unmanageable.
From thinking with our heads, to DOING with our hands, is but a little step and then our THOUGHTS become THINGS.
The originator of an idea is not much better ofi than before h9 odginated it, until he gets others to absorb it, enioy it, and benefit by ic
It is because the men of America are so unfe$ered in their THINKING and DOING that this country is so f,ne a place to VORK in; and it is because these thoughts are fteely radiated and spread broadcast in the dis' tribution of manufactured things and in the distribution of FACTS concerning thear (ADVERTISING), that this country is so fne a place to LIVE in.
The advertisements in the papers and magazines are THOUGHTS-te[ing you of the ideas that other men and wo,men have thought out for your happiness.
READ THE ADS.
They are the voices of hundreds of thogsands of looms, shops, foundries, studios and laboratories, where mi[' lions of minds are turning PLEASANT THOUGHTS into THINGS \ffORTH VHILE-fo'r YOUR comfort and advanage.

Vagabond Editorials
Bv Jack DionneNot long ago I used most of my Vagabond space in one issue discussing the progress being made by the railroads in improving their public service. Since that time I have listened to a very up-standing railroad executive deliver a most forceful public address in which he plead for release of the railroads from crippling rules, regulations, and legislation which, he said, have long been ham-stringing the rails, and threatening their final destruction.

I very much agree with this railroad man. lfowever, I'm inclined to think that what the railroads need is prodding of a different character; prodding that will force them to go permanently into the business of searching out and creating improvements in their own business. For the railroads have been of that often discussed class of people who stand so close to the trees that they cannot see the forest. Most of their progress has come from people entirely outside their own ranks, business, and profession. rF
The eight greatest strides the railroads made in the nineteenth century-the telegraph, the sleeping car, the autornatic-$ock signd system, the air brake, the refrigerator car,'lhe automatic ear coupler, the vestibule bufrer, and the electric locomotiv+-were all created by people far removed',from railroad service. fsn't that interesting?
Thgy used to couple their cars together with the primitive link and pin method, which started and stopped and ran the trains vvith torturing jolts. Eli H. Janney, a clerk in a dry goods store, saw that something had to be done about it, so he created and patented the first automatic car coupler.
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A school teacher named Moses G. Farmer designed the first electric locomotive. We are inclined to think off-hand, that the electric locomotive is something new and modern. But this school teacher designed the first one way back in 1847.
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A doctor who ran his own sanitarium, his name was Ifosea W. Libbey, invented another tremendous forward step in railroading when he created the vestibule bumper that made it possible to eliminate open platforms between cars, and which likewise served to cushion the jolts of starting and stopping.
Two of the most vital things in railroading are, of course, the telegraph and the automatic block signal system, both vital in dispatching trains, keeping them located, and preventing more than one train being on the same piece of track at the same time. The automatic block signal system was devised by Thomas Seavey Hall, a retired textile manufacturer, of Massachusetts.
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You can hardly think of railroad service without telegraphy, can you? The land telegraph first found its widest use with the railroads. Its inventors were Wheatstone, an English professor of Philosophy; and Morse, the American, whose profession was that of an artist.
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Westinghouse uras a 23 year old kid whose sole experience was fooling around his father's carpenter and machine shop when he invented the air brake. Prior to that time all railroad brakes had to be set by hand, which crude method was so terrible that the young rnan witnessed it a few times and was shocked into doing something about it.
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Pullman, who invented the sleeping car with folding berths, was a street contractor in Chicago when he got the idea. He built several of these cars in 1859 and got the Chicago & Alton to use them. But it was another ten years before they were adopted as necessary train equipment. Pullman moved to Colorado and made a living managing a store during the time he was perfecting his car and getting the railroads to accept it.
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The railroads have always been and are still today lacking in research facilities and activities. In the last generation research in other industries has built such tremendous industries as the automobile, the radio, aviation, telephone, electric, chemical, and others. In 1900 when the first automobile show was held in New York City, one third of the cars shown were electric, most of the rest were steam; little was thought of gasoline for motor fuel, and there wasn't a motor truck on earth. Think of that ! And look at the automobile industry today. And look at the oil industry which grew with and by reason of the automobile industry. Research did it.
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And when the first streamlined train appeared a few years ago to which the railroads pointed with pardonable
pride and the public rushed to see, it was found that the streamlining was a result of aviation and automotive research; the roller bearings on the silent wheels were made by Timken, a famous automobile supply man; the qngine was built by Winton, a General Motors subsidiary. The train itself was built by Budd, an automobile body and wheel manufacturer, out of stainless steel developed by Henry Ford.
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The motor vehicle is naturally frequently referred to as the chief and vital competitor of the railroads. True. Yet one of its greatest customers. In the past ten years the railroads have hauled no less than THIRTY-TWO MILLION CARLOADS of automobiles, trucks, trailers, parts, accessories, tires, road materials, gasoline and oil. Some business! The total revenue to the roads from this transportation was in excess of four and a quarter billions of dollars. Freight by and from the autornotive industry today represents about 13 per cent of the total tonnage the railroads carry.
But the railroads have gone into the truck and bus operating business themselves; and are going in deeper every day. Ten years ago the railroads of this country owned about 1,600 trucks or busses. In 1930 this had increased to 7,(X)0. Last year it was above 48'(X)O,'and increasing at
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What a tremendous thing this automotive industry has become in forty years. Forty years ago, in 1896, there were just four gasoline driven cars on earth, a Duryea, a Ford, a Haynes, and a Menz. The last was a German car. fitere were no highways. Henry Ford was a hired hand for a company that was later to become the Cadillac. General Motors had not been dreamed of. The gasoline tax, the greatest tax-paying giant in all this world's history, was not thought qf until 1919. This was the Aladdin's Lamp that was to transform a muddy world into one well covered with smooth, modern highways. It made the automobile business, the cement business, the oil business, and almost every other great business of the world came to. depend on it for its chief susten"rau.* tf ,r.

The automobile industry has produced something like 63,(XX),(X)0 vehicles in these forty years, that sold for about $55,000,fi)0,000 at retail. This industry gives employment to about twelve per cent of the nation's workers, and pays about one out of every eight tax dollars paid in this entire countr''
But I'll tackle this big subject at some later date.
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Arizona Dealers Hold 21st Annual Convention
Cloude Hayes Elected President
Claude Hayes, Prescott'Lumber Co., Prescott, was elected president of the Atizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Associationo Inc., at the twenty-first annual convention held Friday and Saturday, May 8 and 9,'at the Santa Rita Hotel, Tucson. He succeeds J. G. O'Malley of the O'Malley Lumber Co., Phoenix.
H. S. Corbett, J. Knox Corbett Lumber Co., Tucson, was elected first vice-president, and C. J. Killen, Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., Yuma, second vice-president. Chris Totten, Phoenix, was re-elected secretary and manager.
President J. G. O'Malley presided at the business meeting on Friday afternoon.
Governor B. J. Moeur of Arizona welcomed the delegates to Tucson and congratulated the lumbermen on their ability to cooperate and work together.
Thomas J. Elliott, State Administrator of the Federal Housing Administration for Arizona, discussed the Federal Housing program with reference to homes costing under $2000 on property not already improved with buildings, which now can be properly handled under Title II of the Act, and he thanked the lumbermen for their cooperation with FHA officials.
Kenneth Smith, secretary o,f the Lumber & Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, talked on the grade-marking and advertising program being carried on by the Institute. He said that dealers representing'more than 8O per cent of the volume in the area embraced by the Institbte are now selling only grade-marked Douglas firin the Common grades, No. 4 to Select Structural, inclusive, and in support of the movement advertising is being carried in the Los Angeles daily newspapers together with a direct mail campaign to lending. institutions and contractors urging them to cooperate with the Institute by using grade-marked lumber. He also advised the lumber dealers as business men to take an active interest in political affairs.

Needham Ball of the Arizona Federal Housing Administration explained the recent changes made in the Federal
Housing Act, and talked in detail on the financing and construction of the low priced homes now included under Title II of the Act.
President O'Malley addressed the meeting on Association activities saying he was pleased that competitive conditions that exist in other states is absent from the Arizona lumber trade, however, he stated there is still room for further cooperation.
Following the business meeting, there was an executive session when the new officers were elected for the coming yeat.
Theri was a short business session on Saturday morning when Association business policies were discussed.
The social program included golf and bridge for the ladies on Friday afternoon at the El Rio Country Club, and bridge at the Santa Rita Club Rooms Saturday afternoon. The Knothole Club dinner was held at the Santa Rita Hotel Friday evening at 7:00 P.M., and at 1O:30 in the evening there was dancing and a floor show at the hotel. Saturday afternoon, the lumbermen played golf at the El Rio Country Club.
A dinner dance was held at the El Rio Country Club on Saturday evening with about 125 In attendance.
The convention was well attended and in addition to the Arizona dealers, the following were present from Los Angeles: 'Warren B. Wood and Percy Merithew, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; Kenneth Smith, Lumber & Allied Products Institute; Charles Henry, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.; Gus Hoover, The Pacific Lumber Co. and WendlingNathan Co.; Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & &Son; L. G. Lynch, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.; E. U. Wheelock, E. U. Wheelock, Inc.; H. F. Bowles, Long-Bell Lumber Co. ; Mason Kline, Union Lumber Company; R. W. Dalton, R. W. Dalton & Co.; Jack Hook, McCormick Steamship Co.; Harry Hart, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., and Paul Revert, The Red River Lumber Co.
'\X/'. B. Nettleton Elect ed President of N. L. M. A.
Chicago, May 8.-The first annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association since it attained almost complete federation of the regional and species associations was held here April 23-25. It was marked by intensive and highly interested consideration of the comprehensive program of lumber promotion, on which the association is now concentrating.
Walter B. Nettleton, Seattle lumberman, who was president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in 1935, was elected president of the National. Other general officers elected 'were: W. M. Ritter, Washington, D. C., vicepresident and treasurer, re-elected; J. F. Coleman, Kinzua, Oregon, president of the Wistern Pine Association, reelected; E. L. Kurth, Keltys, Texas, president of the Southern Pine Association, re-elected, and Victor Larsen, Noti, Oregon, president of the West Coastt Lumbermen's Association. Wilson Compton was re-elected as secretary and manager.
The new Board of Directors consists of 45 members. The regional associations of the Pacific Coast are represented as follows:
California Redwood Association-Leonard Hammond and A. S. Murphy; West Coast Lumbermen's Association

-E. W. Demarest, Corydon Wagner, G. T. Gerlinger, E. C. Stone, T. Victor Larsen, and M. C. Woodard; Western Pine Association-J. F. Coleman, Walter Neils, Jas. G. McNary, B. W. Lakin, R. R. Macartney; Douglas Fir Plywood Association-Neil Malarkey and Bruce Clark. Included in the Directors-at-Large are Walter B. Nettleton, F. K. Weyerhaeuser, D.'T. Mason and J. D. Tennant.
Of the 20 members elected to the Executive Committee, the following will represent the Pacific Coast regional associations:
California Redwood Association-Leonard Hammond; Western Pine Association-Jas. G. McNary; Douglas Fir Plywood Association-Neil Malarkey. Western lumber manufacturers included in the Ex Officio members of the Executive Committee are W. B. Nettleton, J. F. Coleman and Victor Larsen.
The Board of Directors received with regret the resignation of Carl W. Bahr as assistant secretary of the National to become manager of the California Redwood Association.
The mid-summer meeting of the Board of Directors will be held on Puget Sound, the time and place to be announced later.
California Gianfs---forty Minutes With Redwood
The California Redwood Association is preparing a release schedule for their new sound moving picture, "California Giants." It is the general opinion of those previewing the picture that it is one of the most interesting industrial pictures ever screened. The industry, fortunately, has a background in the scenic timberlands which generates immediate interest.. But'the picture is far more than a travelogue of the Redwood Empire. It covers the logging and manufacturing branches of the industry, and then follows the shipping department through to the actual consumption of the finished product. This brings out the final link of contact with the consumer of the product, treating it in the forms with which he is familiar.
The production end of the industry is not slighted. It is given complete coverage from the tree through every operation of manufacture and refinement. One of the many interesting highlights is a series of shots of the high-climber, including a close-up of him working on top of a tree.
The audience interest in the picture is sustained by excellent film cutting which makes all scenes short and con-
HARRY O. GEARY VISITS RED RIVER PLANT
Harry O. Geary, regional sales manager for The Red River Lumber Company at New York, has just completed a ten-day visit to the company's plant and general sales office at Westwood. He stopped on his way west at Pittsburgh, Chicago and Reno and is returning via San Francisco and Los Angeles, contacting the Red River sales organization. While in Westwood he inspected varioud phases of the operation from logging to remanufacture studying new developments in the manufacture of lumber and plywood. Mr. Geary also discussed plans for increased sales service in his territorv.
TERMINAL COINSTRUCTION STARTS
Construction was started on the Southern California terminal of the Coos Bay Lumber Co. at Los Angeles Harbor, April27. Merritt, Chapman & Scott of San Pedro, are the contractors.

cise, yet long enough to bring out the subject involved. When the operation becomes flat, as in the many factory scenes, the continuity is flashed back and forth between the production of the article in question, and its use.
Many very interesting scenes illustrating the variety of uses of Redwood are shown, including the historic Russian Church at Fort Ross; the Dolan Creek bridge on the Carmel-San Simeon highway, the catwalk of the Golden Gate bridge, interiors of movie stars' homes, tanks, cooling towers, etc.
The reforestation and forest conservation work of the Redwood industry is demonstrated cleverly by direct illustration and contrasting with the havoc wrought by the elements in the forests.
The dialogue does much to sustain interest. ' The subject is treated in the'vernacular, with humor injected frequently. It is b.rimful of accurate information on the Redwood industry, and provides forty minutes of real entertainment.
RALPH L. SMITH LUMBER CO. BUILDS FIR PLYWOOD PLANT AND SAWMILL
The Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company is building a new fir sawmill with a daily,capacity of 125,000 feet at Coquille, Ore.
This company has also ordered equipment for a new and modern Douglas Fir plywood plant to be built alongside the sawmill.
NEW LUMBER AND SHIPPING COMPANY
Floyd Hallock, formerly manager for Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. at Portland and Marshfield, and C. H. Wheeler of Portland, well known in the logging and sawmill business of the Northwest, have organized the Wheeler-Hallock Co., with offices at 6L2 Pittock Block, Portland, to conduct a lumber and shipping buisness in the California trade.
Transferred to Red River's New York Olfiice Use of Acme Balances Growing
Robert L. Lamson of the general sales office of The Red River Lumber Company at Westwood, is being transferred to the company's New York office where he will join the enlarged sales force under regional sales manager Harry O. Geary.
Mr. Lamson has had a broad experience in the Red River organization, starting as a part time high school employee 14 years ago. With the exception of one year with the Spanish Peak Lumber Company of Quincy, Cal., grading their mill output, he has worked continuously at Westwood, starting in the box factory and remanufacturing department, getting working experience on the grading chain, in car loading and shipping and working for two years on special production accounting. He was also in the Red River retail yard at Westwood and has been in the general sales offlce for one year.
With this background Mr. Lamson will serve the trade in the territory extending through New Jersey, Southern Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. En route east he will call on the company,s sales connections at Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis and Pittsburgh and the Red River offices at Reno and Chicago.
The use of Acme Spring Sash Balances is steadily increasing, according to A. H. Kersting, owner of The Acme Spring Sash Balance Co., whose factory is at 1019 East 16th Street, Los Angeles.
Last month was the best month in the history of the company, Mr. Kersting says, and he feels very optimistic about the future.
The company has been established for l0 years, and makes Acme Sash Balances exclusively, having distribution all over the country with the exeption of the New England States.
C. A. Cady of Alameda, Calif., was recently appointed Northern California representative.
Donald Macdonald
Donald Macdonald, treasurer of The Pacifi,c Lumber Company, San Francisco, died in San Francisco, May 2, in his 71st year.

Mr. Macdonald was born in Canada, and was with the company since 1910. lle was manager at Scotia from 1910 to 1918 and made his home there during that period. He came to San Francis,co in 1918 and was treasurer of the company up to the time of his passing. He lived at the Pacific Union Club.
He is survived by a son, Alexander Ma,cdonald.
Funeral services were held in San Francisco on May 4, and the remains were taken to Louisville, Kentucky, for interment.
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New, Insuloting STIFF-LATH
Invites troweling pressure. No sharp edges of protfruding pafts arourid which plaster must be forced. rVide beveled edges on four sides give strongef bonding-full one-half inch Ship-Lap Joints remain tightly closed. Superior plaster base provides Protectioo against heat, cold, ooise, and destructive vibration.
MY FAVORITE
By Jack Dionnenot gurrant€ed--Some I have told
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jor 20 years---Some less
Ag" Shot Him Anyway
One of the best darkey stories I have heard in some time was pulled over the air by Lasses and January of Showboat fame. It went something like this:
"Boy, did you know dat Sam Jackson got killed when he was out deer hunting?"
"Now, Son, how did it happen?"
VISITS NOTRTH\,I/EST MILLS
Back at his desk May 4 from two weeks' business trip to the Northwest, Al Kelley, sales manager, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Franciscq found the rail mills with good order files and saw no indication of any weakness in prices. A good volume of intercoastal and rail business is expected by the Northwest mills within the next 30 to 45 days,.he says, as the Government releases money for.the rehabilitation of flood damaged and tornado torn areas.
Mr. Kelley was ac,companied on the trip by Chas. B. Cross, salesman for the company in the Sacramento Valley. They visited a number of Fir and Pine mills in Oregon and Washington and ,called on the company's representatives in Portland and Seattle.
JOrNS SANTA CRUZ LUMBER CO. '
E E. Carriger, formerly with Wood Bros. Co., Santa Cruz, is now with Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, succeeding James M. Maddock who recently resigned.
UKIAH YARD CHANGE,S HANDS
The Diamond Match Company has purchased of La Porte Lumber Company at Ukiah.

"He went out hunting deer, an'he kep singing'The music goes round an'round'so nobody wouldn't shoot him fo'no deer."
"Well den how did he git killed?"
"A fellah done shot him fo'singin' 'The music goes round an' round.'
J. U. GARTTIN HEADS STOCKTON CI;UB
J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, was elected president of the Stockton Hoo Hoo Club No. 62, recently reorganized. O. V. Wilson, Central Lumber Co., Stockton, was elected vice-president and Donald Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., was elected secretary.
Mr. Wilson presided at the meeting held in Stockton preliminary to the reorganization. Gordon Pierce, president of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 spoke on the work being carried on by his club, and Bert Bryan, a past president of the East Bay club spoke on the subject of the Hoo Hoo order. A group of eight from the East Bay attended the meeting.
IMPROVEMENTS AT LINDEN
Linden Lumber Co., Linden has completed construction of a new building, 'containing the offi,ce, modern display room and store. The building is of. 2x4 Redwood crib con' struction.
BACK FROM EAST
Herb Klass, general ,sales manager, The Pacific Lumber the yard Company, San Francisco, returned May 8 from a business trip to the Eastern States.
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LOS ANGELES
630 Boatd of Tradc Bldg.
310 Sansome Street, San Francisco STEAMERS
Aberdeen, Varh. Santiam
Hoquian, Wach. Trinidad
Aberdeen, varh. Batbara cater Dorothy Cahill
Rayrnond, Varh. Edna Chrirteuon
Branch Ofices: SEATTLE
National Bank of Commerce Bldg.
CALLING ON ARIZONA RETAIL DEALERS
George Geary, in charge of the Sugar and Ponderosa Pine department, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Carl W. Hornibrook, sales manager of the Ewauna ' Box Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., left May 11 on a two weeks' trip to Arizona where they will call on the retail lumber trade.
BACK F'ROM NORTHWEST
Don Doud, Los .Angeles, is back from a trip to the Northwest where he called on the mills he represents in the Southern California territory. He traveled both ways by airplane.
INSTALLING THREE TURBINES
The Washington Veneer Co., Olympia, Wash., are installing three turbines which will generate the electricity for their sawmill, veneer and remanufacturing plants,
PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY IMPORTS
Imports of Philippine Mahogany and Philippine hardwoods into the United States, consigned to various ports, 'for the month'of April, 1936, amounted,to 2,688,000 board feet, one per cent of which'was logs. Total imports for the first four months of the year totaled 10,970,000 board feet, 5 per cent of which was logs, as compared to 8,706,000 board feet for the same period last year, indicating an increase this year 'df. 2,264,@0 board feet, or 26 per cent.
Jane Chrirtenron
Annie Chrigtenron
Edwin Christenson
Catherine G. Suddcu
Eleanor Chrigtenrcn
Charlec Chrirtenson
PORTLAND
200 Henry Bldg.
364-FOOT REDWOOD DECLARED TALLEST
Sacramento, April l5.-After a survey of California's many redwood groves, officials of -the state division of parks have given the title of "the tallest tree in the world" to a redwood monarch in Dyerville Flat grove, 45 miles south of Eureka.
The giant California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) towers 364 f.eet in the air. It is 47 feet in circumference at the base and 11 feet in diameter and contains approximately 125,000 board feet of lumber, it is estimated.
Another tree, eveh larger from the standpoint of potential lumber, is in the Bull Creek Flat grove. This tree is 72 feet in circumference at the ground, is 345 feet high and lvould make approximately 154,000 feet board measure of lumber.
OFFICES MOVED
Offices of the Trower Lumber Company have been moved to Rooms 301 and 302, Lumbermen's Building, 110 Market Street, San Francisco. Telephone number remains the same, SlJtter 0426. They are the oldest tenants in the building, having been there since its erection in 1908.
BUYS LUMBER YARDS
The Hayward Lumber & Investment Co'., Los Angeles, has bought the Whitson Lumber Co. at Santa Ana, and the Newport Beach Lumber Co. at Newport Beach.
Shevlin Pine Sales Gompany

SPEOES
The McClod Rivc Luber CuPolv McCloud, Crlif@ir
Shcvlln-ClarLc Copann Lhttcd For{ Fnnca+ Onlarlo
Thc Shcvlin-Hlxo Copary Bcod, Ong6
NORTHERN (Genuine) VHITE PINE (PINUS STROBUS)
NORVAY OR RED PINE (PINUS RESINOSA)
PONDEROSA PINE (PINUS PONDEROSA)
SUGAR (Gcnuine Vhltc) PINE (PINUS LAMBERTIANA)
LUMBER CAREERS Frank \(/. Trower
One of the best known and respected men in the lumber industry of the West Coast is Frank W. Trower of the Trower Lumber Company, San Francisco. In a few weeks' time he will have completed 46 years of service in the wholesale lumber business in San Francisco, which must be a record or close to it.

Although now still in his fifties, Mr. Trower knew as a mere youngster many of the big figures in the California lumber world of the 1890's and early 1900's, names that are now but memories, in the days when the first block oh Steuart Street and on Market Street housed most of the lumber manufacturers of San Francisco, and the wholesaler without mill ownership or connection was unknown.
Frank Whittaker Trorver was born in Oakland, Calif., September I0, 1876, His father, Ebenezer Trower, was a native of England, and his mother, born in New Brunswick, was of English ancestry. He attended the Oakland public schools, finishing grammar school in 1890 in his 14th year, and after starting to work took a course in night high school work in Oakland to complete his schooling.
His first job was as office boy with the Mendocino County Redwood Association, on Steuart Street, San Fran.cisco. an organization which aimed to handle all the Redwood produced in Mendocino County, but which lasted only nine months. The Association was headed successively by the late E. C. Williams, and later by the late R. G. Byxbee. When the Association dissolved young Frank immediately became office boy for Heywood & Hackley, agents for the Gualala Mill Company. Recognizing his ability the firm thrust a great deal of responsibility on the young lumberman and before he was 19 he was signing checks for the concern. From 1893 the San Francisco end of the business was conducte{ under the name of the Gualala Mill Company, and Mr. Trower looked after the sales, the charters, etc., and later became secretary of the company, remaining with them for 13 years, until the property was sold in 1903 to the Empire Redwood Company.
As a boy young Trower was in the era of small lumber sailing vessels from 75,000 feet capacity and up that were discharged by hand labor, "shoving" a piece or two at a time "over the rail." He saw the gradual upbuilding of the steam schooner fleet, from the time when a boat carrying 5@,000 feet was considered a large steamer. In those days all the lumber was tallied and inspected at San Francisco Bay and San Pedro docks by local lumber surveyors' associations, the cost being equally divided between buyer and seller, work which is now done at the mills bv PLIB and WCLA Inspection Bureaus.
During his teens young Frank spent most of his lunch hours along the San Francisco waterfront watching the boats unload, learning the lumber grades and supplementing his training by frequent trips to the mill at Gualala, in Mendocino County.
With his brother, A. E. Trower, whohad been with the Gualala Mill Company for three years, he organized in 1903 the firm of Trower Bros., wholesalers and mill agents, with offices at 5 Market Street, corner of East Street, now the Embarcadero.
Burned out by the great fire of 1906 they were one of 15 lumber firms that erected the first office structure east of Van Ness Avenue. It was known as the Lumbermen's Building, a "long, low, rakish looking craft," one story high, located at Folsom Street Bulkhead. Each office had one door, and one window fore-and-aft. Trower Bros. moved to the present Lumbermen's Building, 110 Market Street, when it was built in 1908, and they incorporated as Trower Lumber Company in 19L7.
Mr. Trower recalls that after the 1906 fire and earthquake many lumber firms located temporarily in Oakland,' and that the Fir manufacturers (then organized as the Pine Manufacturers' Association, so called from the use of the name "Oregon Pine") held regular meetings on board the river steamer "H. J. Corcoran," moored to Clay Street wharf, San Francisco. Later these meetings were held in a small assembly room in the back of an East Street drug store near Howard Street wharf, that being the only available meeting room in the burned district until the spring of. IX)7. An interesting bit of lumber history is that at , one of these meetings he presented a resolution that resulted in abolishing the old $2.0O per M reduction for No. 2 Common included with the No. 1 Common, and establishing one price for the grade known as California Common, which permitted 75 per cent No. I and 25 per cent No. 2, and was afterwards reduced to 15 per cent No. 2. This reform saved the lumber manufacturers millions of dollars, for it became the Coastwise custom, as San Francisco was then headquarters for the Fir interests of the Pacific Coast. It is a matter of record that it was not until many years afterwards that orders were taken for straight No. 2 Common. Many Fir basic price lists were established in San Francisco, which became the ruling discount and differential prices for the entire Coast.
He helped to organize the Wholesale Lumberrnen's Club, of which he was president, and later the Douglas Fir Club of San Francisco in 1913. He was the latter club's first president for two terms, and was presented with a beautiful silver tea service in 1915. This club did much useful work in the 13 years of its existence.
For nearly 25 years he was active in Hoo-Hoo circles. Ife was elected Supreme Junior Hoo-Hoo in 1911, and attained national prominence when at the annual meeting
at Asheville, N. C., in 1972, he was elected Snark of the IJniverse. Space limitations prevent detailing his many varied activities, but in that quarter of a century he did a tremendous amoullt of work for the Order, believing that in Friendship, Goodwill, Confidence and Cooperation would be found the means to overcome many of the lumber industry's troubles.
In Oakland, on September 6, 1905, Mr. Trower married Miss Naomi Agnes Blake. They have a daughter, Miss Elizabeth (Betty) Blake Trower, their son Franklin having passed away last November, aged 8.
He is a member of several fraternal orders, and his home is in Oakland. He and Mrs. Trower, since 1905, have been members of the First Congregational Church of Oakland, and he was president of its large Men's Club. . His principal diversions are walking and reading, €specially history, economics, the money question, and the study of politics and g'overnment. He maintains a lively interest in what is going on in the world everywhere. Believes in what Robert Louis Stevenson told the little girl: "The world is so full of a number of things, I think we should all be as h"ppy as kings." And that this philosophy includes material things too, and a fair distribution of them according to merit and effort. He thinks that our greatest problem now is how to combine the best in the co-oferative and individualistic systems according to sound, progressive American standards and traditions; believes that most of the world's sore problems can be solved by adhering to the principles of decency and justice; in short-the practice of the Golden Rule; has found by many years' experience that nearly all lumbermen are "good scouts," even those who like to be considered "hard-boiled" are "brothers under the skin," possessing the common failings and virtues of mankind.
By instinct a crusader against wrong and injustice, his long business training taught him caution in appraising quack remedies for "all the ills that flesh is heir to." He likes that famous expression of Theodore Roosevelt-"practical idealism."
Mr. Trower believes in trade associations for limited purposes, based on voluntary self-interest rather than coercion. He has a high conception of the splendid part that lumbermen have played in upbuilding the Nation, and believes that we must adapt our methods to changing conditions, so that our industry may always continue to render solid service to the people it touches in production, distribution and consumption. Frank's "suppressed desire" was to be a freelance columnist or editor on a first-class newspaper or syndicate.
NORTHWEST LUMBERMAN VISITSLOS ANGELES
Carl H. Kuhl, Carl H. Kuhl Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., is a Los Angeles visitor, and with Carl Davies, their Southern California representative, is calling on the trade. Mr. Kuhl will also spend a few days calling on the Arizona dealers.

MAKE TRIP OVER ARIZONA TERRITORY
Warren B. Wood, Pelcy Merithew, and Gus Hoover, Los Angeles, and Francis Pool, Phoenix, motored to El Paso the early part of the month. They called on the Arizona trade and also attended the Arizona retailers'annual convention.
Altho this wood is not widely advertised
INDUSTRIALS
All Over the World Pay Heavy Freight Costs to g€t
Port Orford Cedar
Factory Floors, Mine and Tunnel Timbers, Irrigation $7ork, Shipbuilding, I(Iharf Construction, Chemical Tanks, Exposed lTalks, Floors and Seats on Tops of Buildings, Icing Platforms because of its Acid, Impact, lVarp and Rot Resistance
Technical and particular wood users, you will find, are much interested in it.
Smith Wood-Products, Inc.
Largect Producerr Band Sawn Port Orford Cedar Also Mfgrr. of Douglar Fir
CoQUILLE, OREGON California Sales Agents
JAMES L. HALL
PORTRAIT OF'AN ENEMY
His hate lunged at me with an eager sword, The bite of death upon its tempered blade; He loomed above my fear, an over-lord Whose fury brooked no mortal barricade; Defenses down, each moment now an age, I watched in fascinated calm, and saw His mighty arm uplifted high in rage; Against his,strength f knew no skill, no law.
And yet-was this a dream within a dream?During the very instant when I fell f saw his eyes'refected in the gleam Of his own steel; and only souls in hell Reveal such mad torment when fiends pursue, The stroke that cut me down had maimed him too.
-EliasLieberman in New York Times.
CITIZENSHIP
Good citizenship, like charity, begins at home. Let the good citizen support his family, keep his house and fence in repair, mow his lawn, trim his trees, mend his sidewalk, discipline his children, and pay his bills. ff he does less, he is not doing enough even though he is president of the local Neighborhood fmprovement Association and a deacon in the church.
"Take care of yourself" is noble advice. Take care of your family, take care of your house, and take care of ydur creditors. "The man who is diligent in his business will stand before kings," says the Bible. A man's first business is his familv. Let him look to his own afrairs and the communitv will be spared the burden of sendinq a policeman to notifv him tbat his children are heaving stones through the neiqhbors' windows.
The eloquence that tells us that every man owes an oblirration to his communitv, his profession. his lodee. his trade association. his club, and his wife's relations. is sound onoush. proVided the man has first put his personal affairs :- nrder.-Clipped.
ARROGANCE OF WEALTH
When a newly-rich attempts a sensation, it is highly gratifying to see him effectually squelched.
A rich oil magnate had descendg{on one of New York's big hotels. frritated a(the inflFerence of the stafr to his great wealth, he determig"d)tr give them something to talk about. So at breakfast waiter:
-e next morning he said to the
"Just bring me twenty dollars worth of bacon and eggs."
The waiter shook his head.
"Sorry, Sir," he said, "but we don't serve half portions in this hotel."-Sq!L$e.
soME sArLoR JOKES
Saw our old friend fda Wanna the other day and I asked her what she thought of sailors as boy friends. "Oh, they're all right f guess,'" she said; "but the way some of them start talking turkey right away you'd think Thanksgiving was just around the corner."-p1e6 the U.S.S. Pennsylvania "Keystone."
Coxswain: "Heyt, Chips, where did you get that blonde you were with the other night?"
Chips: "Dunno. I just opened my bill-fold, and there she 1vx5."-p;em the U.S.S. West Virginia "Mountaineer."
!\/HAT HE NEEDED
"Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And f wiII do my part."

"'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied, ttYou need a heart."
-R. W. Gilder.NOT POISON?
ttf have known you so long, doctor," said the patient at the end of his visit, "f do not intend to insult you by ofrering to pay you. But f have arranged a handsome legacy for you in my will.'
"That's very kind," the doctor said. "And let me have that prescription, again, please. f want to make a slight alteration in it."
Pioneer-Flintkote Catalog Now Ready for Distribution
One of the most complete and attractive roofing catalogs ever issued is now being distributed by the Pioneer-Flintkote Company from their offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Salt Lake City and Denver.
The new book contains 44 pages and is printed in four colors throughout, showing among other things, many shapes and styles of asphalt shingles in full color, the plates having been made direct from the shingles themselves, not from artists' d.rawings or colored photographs.
Other sections of the catalog illustrate and describe roll roofings, building and insulating papers, roofing asphalts, asphalt emulsions and miscellaneous roofing items. Nearly a dozen pages are devoted to description of manufacturing processes in the ZS-acre Pioneer-Flintkote Plant. There is much valuable information contained in the book, fgr example, a page which gives various methods of figuring roof areas, and other data of this type.
Harry J. Graham, director of sales of the Pioneer-Flintkote Company, states that nearly five months were devoted to the preparation of this book in order to make it as accurate and complete as possible. The catalog should fill a long felt want among architects, builders and roofing and lumber dealers throughout the west.

It is not intended for distribution to the general public. Copies will be delivered to dealers and other business and professional persons for whom it is intended, as rapidly as possible. This may take some time to accomplish, but a copy may be had immediately by writing or telephoning the nearest Pioneer-Flintkote office.
RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP
T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is back from a two weeks' trip to the Northwest where he called on the mills in the Coos Bav. Columbia River, and Grays Harbor districts.
CALLS ON ARIZONA TRADE
Paul Revert, The Red River Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a business trip to Arizona where he called on the retail lumber trade. He also attended the annual meeting of the Arizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Association at Tucson on May 8-9.
Pagadena Firm Manufactures Waterproofing Materials
A complete line of waterproofing materials, concrete hardeners and technical paints is being manufactured by the Volsonite Enterprises, Ltd., with general offices at 36 North Marengo Avenue, Pasadena. The company is starting a campaign to get lumber dealers to handle the line.
Vincent Harris Olson is president of the company. He is recognized in the construction industry as an outstanding authority on the waterproofing of concrete, and many of the world's largest structures have been permanently waterproofed under his engineering supervision.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Olson was an All-American right half on Walter Camp's team when he played for Rutgers. He played professional football under the name of "Swede" Olson for the New York Giants, and with Charlie Brickley, former Harvard captain, was joint holder of the first New York Giants' franchise. He expects to promote a professional team in Los Angeles.
INTERESTING DEDUCTIONS
Using the 25/o-of-income-for-shelter rule, calculations for the Purdue Housing Research Project, based on urban family incomes only, indicate that:
A $2,500 house is too expensive tor 35/o of American families.
A $3,400 house is too expensive lor 53/o of American families.
A $4,200 house is too expensive tor 66/o of American families.
A $5,100 house is too expensive lor 75/o of American families.
A $6,100 house is too expensive f.or 8O/o of American families.
-Building Business.
MAKES AIR ROUND TRIP TO NORTHWEST
Art Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles, returned May 14 from a business trip to the Northwest. He left May 3 by United Air Lines plane for Tacoma, where he called on mills represented by his firm, and on the return trip, also made by air, stopped off at Portland to visit the Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co. at Vancouver, 'Wash., for which Tacoma Lumber Sales is Southern California representative.
Bert Bryan Writes on Hardwoods
An interesting article entitled "Commercial Hardwoods," giving a brief story of the various hardwoods and their uses in every day life, was written recently by B. E. Bryan, general manager of Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, for the "Port of Oakland Compass," official organ of the Port. The article, in part, is as follows:

"There are some fifty or sixty kinds of hardwoods used commercially which are grown in the United States. In addition, possibly fifteen or twenty kinds are brought in from foreign countries and island possessions. The footage of hardwoods imported is infinitesimal compared with those which are indigenous, with the exception of Philippine hardwoods which are coming into the United States proper is an ever increasing volume, particularly on this coast.
"The domestic hardwood lumber reaches Oakland almost exclusively via water, through the Panama Canal; the foreign hardwood lumber arrives by water freight direct from the point of origin-Philippine Islands, Central America, South America, Australia and India; the small amount of European and Mediterranean hardwood used on the Pacific Coast is usually trans-shipped via water from New York.
"The manufactured products of hardwoods, such as panels and hardwood'flooring, are usually shipped by rail, although there has been some consideration given, during the last year, to moving flooring through the Canal. This 'may develop as terminal facilities are perfected for handling this easily damaged commodity.
"It is almost impossible to outline the channels through which hardwood lumber flows into consumption. There are certain well-defined outlets through which there is a continuous movement such as planing mills-for interior finish for homes, stores, restaurants, apartments, buildings and office buildings; and to truck body builders, where hardwood is necessary to withstand the constant and hard wear. A surprising volume goes into boat building business, as well as into small boats which are built at home by individuals. Almost all new construction uses
some hardwood. If a shoemaker opens a new Shop, he will need a heavy piece of hardwood on which to install his machines. This particular shop may not repeat this purchase for another twenty-five years. The type of such sales indicates the difficulty in establishing definite outlets through which hardwood is merchandised.
"Some conception of the very large investment in stocks carried in order to properly. serve Oakland and the back country from Bakersfield to Medford, Oregon, and to the eastern boundary of Nevada .can be had when consideration is given to the fact that, in addition to the sixty or eighty kinds of hardwoods used commercially, each kind develops several grades, some as many as five different grades-oak, the most commonly used and best known hardwood, is an example. Coupled with the above, there are innumerable manufactured products of hardwood which are in constant demand.
"The use of hardwoods will continue down through the coming centuries in America, for two very definite reasons: First, from a utilitarian standpoint, there are many places where hardwood is used where nothing has been invented which can be satisfactorily substituted. Second, from the standpoint of beauty and harmony in the home, hardwood is a part of our national living and being. When our ancestors came to America they built their homes of hardwood throughout, because the oak, ash, maple, beech and birch were near at hand and plentiful. These homes were sturdy, substantial and so well built that many of them are still standing and are in good condition. Who can say that such a home did not tend to add to the sturdiness of the character of those pioneers who were born and reared amid such substantial surroundings !
"There is a plentiful supply of hardwoods in the United States to care for the ordinary home consumption for decades to come. As our native forests diminish, wp will turn to Central and South America, where the supply is almost unlimited. It is evident, therefore, that hardwood lumber and its products will be coming through the Port of Oakland probably down through the centuries."
"Not thc cheapegt---Just thc best"
George A. Houston Leaves Long-Bell
George A. Houston, general sales manager of the LongBell Lumber Company, has resigned to devote his time to recently acquired interests in a California mining property, and will make his headquarters in San Francisco after June 1. He spent D years in the service of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, the last ten as general sales manager, with headquarters at Kansas City, which has been his home since 1920.
After three years in the Louisiana Southern pine mills of the W. R. Pickering Lumber Co., Mr. Houston joined Long-Bell April 30, lX)7, as quotation clerk in the Kansas City office. In July, 1908, he was advanced to the position of salesman at St. Louis. In September, L911, he became thC company's representative in Cleveland. He returned to Kansas City April l,l9n, to become manager of lumber sales. He was elected a director of the company in 1922, and in 1926 became general sales manager.

Long-Bell in its various mills and factories produces Southern yellow pine, Southern hardwoods, oak flooring, California pine, Douglas fir and sash and doors, and for many years Mr. Houston supervised their sales for the company, which was the first to trade-mark and nationally advertise lumber products. In addition to his sales executive work, he had general supervision over all advertising and sales promotion efforts for his company.
Mr. Houston represented Long-Bell at meetings of many regional and national lumber associations, and spent considerable time with the trade practices committee of the lumber code authority. In the last two years he has devoted much attention to a study of trade conditions in the Eastern territory. He is one of the best known lumbermen in the country.
Douglas Fir Plywood Association to Expand Activities
Important expansion of the work of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association has been announced by Frost Snyder, president of the Association, following a meeting in Tacoma on April 15. Concurrently with this announcement, President Snyder announced the appointment of Axel H. Oxholm as managing director of the organization.
The Douglas Fir plywood industry has made rapid strides during the last few years, and is today employing qbout 6000'men in the Northwest, and the product has a world wide distribution. Mr. Oxholm, who is managing director of the Pacific Forest fndustries, an export organization composed of all the Douglas Fir plywood mills in the Northwest, will continue his work along with his new duties.
LARGE CROWDS ATTEND HOME SHO\V
Large crowds are attending the National Home Show in the Architects Building, Fifth and Figueroa Streets, I-os Angeles. There are more than 170 separate exhibits of all classes of home equipment at the show. The show will continue daily, including Sundays, until May 17. Admission is free.
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DON CLARK WITH RED CEDAR SHINGLE BUREAU
Don Clark is now with the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau with headquarters in their Chicago office at 1327 Conway Building. He has been associated with the shingle industry in the Northwest for many years, and has been carrying on a wholesale business in Red Cedar shingles and shakes with offices in Seattle.
NEW PLYWOOD PLANT FOR BELLINGHAM
Plans for building a cooperative Douglas Fir plywood plant at Bellingham, Wash., were completed at a rheeting of the company's board of directors in Tacoma recentlv. It is stated by the organizers that the company will be capitalized at $50O,0@.
Victor H. Smith, Jr., of Tacoma, was elected a director for three years and made chairman of the board. The other directors are Victor Kulla, Tacoma, and George Woodruff, Seattle, three years; Otto From, Hoquiam, Gus Mourney, Marysville and Albert Matson, Rochester, two years; Ed Westerlund, Aberdeen, Ernest East, South Bend and Alfred Wicks, Seattle, one year.
OPENS OFFICE IN SAN FRANCISCO
Rex H. Morehouse has opened an office in San Francisco at 580 Market Street, where he will operate as a wholesale lumber dealer under the name of Morehouse Lumber Co. Mr. Morehouse has been in the wholesale lumber business in San Francisco for the oast 18 months.
VISIT NORTHWEST MILL
L. W. MacDonald and L. A. Beckstrom, MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., Los Angeles, have returned from a trip to the Trans-Pacific Lumber Corp. mill at Port Orford, Ore. MacDonald & Bergstrom, Inc., represents the Trans-Pacific Lumber Corp. in Southern California.
WILL HOLD ANNUAL MEETING JUNE 8
The annual meeting of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, Inc., will be held on Monday, June 8, at 10 a.m., at the offices of the corporation, 111 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles.
The officers of the Association are: lM. G. Scrim, president; M. S. Chapin, vice-president; F. J. Dunbar, secretarytreasurer, and G. P. Purchase, assistant secretary-treasurer.
PORT ORFORD CEDAR BUSINESS GOOD
Geo. A. Ulett, general manager of Smith Wood-Products, Inc., Coquille, Ore., manufacturers of Port Orford Cedar, was a visitor recently at the office of James L. Hall, San Francis'co, California sales agent. He reported that Port Orford Cedar business is good.
PLANT CAPACITY TO BE DOUBLED
American Lumber & Treating Co. has awarded the contract for doubling the capa'city of the treating plant for Wolmanized lumber at Wauna, Ore. The new retort is being built in the plant of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works. Another new plant is being built by this company at Gainesville, Florida.
Built for lord sizcs ranging from 36'x36" to 66"x94" any length of load. Also spccial types for special needs.

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Position wanted as manager or assistant in retail lumber yard. Fifteen years in Southern California. Would entertain any kind of proposition, any place. Address Box C-619, California Lumber Merchant.
RETAIL YARDS FOR SALE
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Dant & Ru*E, Inc., 7 Fmt Sr.-,... ;....,,...............Sutter EtSl
Dolbcr & Cm hrbc Ca, 'il Mrcharb E:cbargc Bldg.....'.SUtbr 7l5a
C'eoryr YY. Gormu lif Sanrornc St. ...'...............D()rr3h, 3tt
HalL Jamel Lfrzc Mlllr sldg. .,.................sutt"f l3ts
Hmnod & Llttt! Rlvcr Rcdwood CG, ll, Mot3@Fy St.'..'.........DOuglas 33EE
Holner Eunlc Lmbcr Co.. -- f5|6 Fhaacbl Ocnter Bidg.......GArfteld ftzl
G. D. JoLnron Lumber Cor! 2!0 olifornia sto"t.....'].'.......GArficld aE5s

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llm DSll & Luobcr Co., - lr5 *irt l StF.t .....-.'.........EXbmL aul
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Schafcr Brc. LuEbGr & Sbbrlc CoI Drumn St. ..............'........Sutter l77l
Shcvlin Pim Salee Co., r€C Moadaoc& Blds. ...........KEmy ?fll
Sud&r ti Chrtrtcnrc4 tlO Suoc StE.t,..,............GArfta|d 2tat
Trcwcr Lubs Co- ll0 Martct Str;t........ ............sutt3r aa2!
Unlon Lmbcr Co., Circckc Buil*-C ..SUttc Cl70
Wcadlng-Natbatr Co, llC Market Stnct ..................SUttcr $t!!
E. K. Wood Lunbor Co, f Drurni Str.Gt....................KEarly }lfl
Wcrcrbuw Srl.t Cc- it Crlifmir Str..t...............GAricH tl?{
HARDWOODS AND PANEIS
Fonyth Hardvood Co, !55 Bayrhora Blvd. ........,......ATmtc lltl
Wbltc Brcthero,Fllth ard Bttmu Stct .........3Uttcr ltll
SASH-DOORS_PLYWOOD
Ntcolal Doc Sahr Co, 30$ rtth Strect ........,...........MLtb rr4
Orcfo-Wuhiugto Plyvood Co, 55 Ncw Motrmcry Stret.....,.GArficld Tlll
Whclor-Orgod Sala Crpmtloa, !0t5 trth st. ...................,..vAbncb 2ar
CREOSOTIED LUMBER-POLESI-PILTNGTTES
Arcicarr Luaber & Tmting Co., ll0 New Montgomery St. ,. ..,..Suttcr lzas
Hall, Janer L., 1026 Mlllr Bldr. ...................ttut!.r rt|t
LUMBER
5L ilitst ..'.........lNdm r.zr
Horu lubcr CmPu;' ---z"a -l AUo SGtr-......'..'...G!*nmrt llol
Pvmid Lunbcr Salor Co., -' - ns-pranJ building ...........Gt*rcourt r2lr
E. K. Wod Lunbc Cc. -- i;"Jitr{.& a xnr si.............Fnrltnlc lll2
Celtfmb Bulldcn Supoly Co, 700 lth Ave. ......H!a!te aola
Wcrtaa Doc & Suh Co., Sth il Cyprcr Sti .....,........LAto1& lll
HARDWOODS
Stnblc Hrdrrood Go5!? Fint Str.t.. :.......'....'.T€nplcbrr tlll
TVhlte50Brotha, Hfsb SircGt ......,...........ANdccr llCO
LOS ANGDLES
' LUMIER
Boolctrvr-Bunr Lubcr Co' --:ll Ch;-br of Cmmru Bldf...PRdpct 'a3r
Gtrnbcrlla & Co.' W. R-' --Tri--w".i trniu st-.."... ..'....'..TUc&cr utl
Dolbc.r & Cano Lunbct Co' - -ra- S["n Su|tdi"t............. " "'Vrtndikc tfllz
Hmnod & Llttlc Rlva Rcdwmd Cot --- toli S". Bndmy ...............PRqpcct t5l
Holnor Eurcka Imbcr Co.' Tii]zii *I;hiu.tr- -irar.' Mutud trsr
Hoovc, A- L.. --- ?f 'So. lr 'Brce Avc. .YOrk llCt
C. D. Joharon Lumbcr CcP., dtl P.trclclD Scorlder Bld8.'..PRdFCt ffas
Kuhl Lumbcr CmPanY, Carl H.' llt Chunb* of Connerce Bldg...PRdFct tr$
bvmcc-Pbllir Lunbar Cc, |!S Pclro|turl Socurltlc Bld3...PRoFGt Ua
MacDmdd & Berg:tro, lnc.' Ttit Pctrolsun Scorldcr Bld8....PRancct tftl
LUMBER
MrcDutd & Hminrtd, Ltd", 5,1? Pctroleu Smrltier Bld3...'PRapet !r?
Prciic Luubcr Cc, ltc ID L, L. Bnri Avr. ...'............YO* lfat
Patta.Blba Lunbcr Cc.
SAf E. !|L St. ,.............'.....VAndikc Zt2l
Rcd Rlvcr lrrnbar Co., t@ E. Slanra .CErtury ro?r
Reitz Co., E. L., 3itlt Pctrclem Seurlrler Bldg, ..PRcD€ct 2360
Suta Fc Lutnba Co., !f l Financial Ccntrr Bldg..... '.VAldikc {'t7l
Schafcr Bro. Lunbct & ghbsL Co. ld} W. M. Grhtd Btds.........TRbtV grr
Shdin Pine Sals Cor
32E Petrclu Seorlticr Bldg. PRcFGt 0015
Suddcr tl Chrbtcrum, r00 Bcrd of Tn& Btds. ....'...TRi!iV ttal
Tama Lunber Sala, 4Zt Petroleun Securfd.s Blda...PRdFct [0E
Unirn Lulba Cc- ta W. lL Grdaad Bldr.....'.....TRblV ztz
Wrnrrhr-Nr6u Co- ?f Sc I! Brcr Avt ....,.,.......Yd ff$
E. K. Wod Imbcr Ga. ,fltl Sutr Fc Aw. ..............JEliom tlll
Wcycrtam Salca Co{ !.|' Prbolau Sccurldo Bldt...PRo.Dct 55O
HARDW(X)DS
Cadwallader-Gibm Co., Inc.
362t Mlnee Ave. ........'].........Angctua lll0l
Perfectia Oak Floqing Cc, szo E. oth st. .,.....;..............ADamg l20l
Starta, E. J., tl Son, 20St Eut !!tb Strut............CEatury 2lilll
SASH-DOORS-MILLWORK
PAI\IEI.S AND PLYWOOD
Crlifcair Pel & Vcecr Co.
155 Sq Ahnda SL................TR|nity 0l5t
Kahl, Jnc \[t.. & Sor+
052 Sc Mycn SL ................ANgclur lltl
Oregm-Washingto Plyvood Co.
3lt Wcst Ninth StrGte .............TUGLG latl
Rcd Rivr Lubcr Co?01 E. Slam ..CEDtut':t to'l
Unltcd States Plysod Co, Inc,'
l9lll Eut r5th St. ................PRGFd$r3
Whcclor-Oscdd Salo Ccpcatictr
2t5! Samrmfo SL ..'..........'.TUGLr ||a
CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILINGTIES
Amaican Luba & Tnatingl Co.t
fGlf Sq Bmd*ry .."....'.."'PRcFCt 5551
