WPB Asks lncreased Production of Softwood Construction Lumber

Washington, D. C., May 6, l94Z-Following is a copy of a telegram sent late last night by M. L. Fleishel, chairman, Lumber and 'Iimber Products War Committee, to Associations representing loggers, manufacturers and distributors of lumber:

"fn order to meet the imperative and immediate needs of the War and Navy Departments and the Maritime Commission for construction lumber for the housing of the armed forces and for other essential war purposes, I

Senate Passes FHA Tide Vl Legislation

The Senate passed the new FHA Title VI legislation on May 7 which increases the aggregate amounts of mortgages which may be insured by the government from $300,000,000 to $800,000,000. The bill now goes back to the House of Representatives for conference on minor changes made by the Senate.

The new legislation provides for raising the maximum insurable loan from $4000 to $5400, and increases the time for which mortgages may be insured from 2O to 25 years.

The authorized limit for insurance of mortgages under Title VI was set by law at $300,000,000 which amount is obligated in commitments for insurance. The new legislation is necessary before Title VI can again be operative. It is expected that the passage of the legislation will great. ly expand the private construction of defense homes.

Recommendation in Regard to Maintenance of the Nation's Farm Production Plant

At a meeting of the executive committee of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, held at the Drake Hotel in Chicago jointly with the Secretaries on April 20-21, a Recommendation was made and unanimously agreed to in respect to the retail lumber dealers ability to maintain sufficient inventory of building materials to adequately serve the needs of the farmer in 1942. A copy of the Recommendation follows:

"With the full realization of our patriotic duty toward the Nation's War Program and the necessity for nationwide conservation of all materials and labor:

"The Retail Lumber Industry is now contributing a substantial proportion of its stocks of building materials to the emergency war program.

"An integral part of the contribution of this industry to the war program is the continuance of the retail lumber dealers' normal function of supplying the needs of the American farmer in providing the materials necessary to the upkeep and enlargement of the nation's farm production plant.

"There must be an assured flow of necessary building materials to the retail lumber dealer who services the urge you and through you all logging and sawmill operators and lumber industry employees throughout the United States immediately to inaugurate a full program of maximum production of all species of softwood lumber in common board, dimension and structural timber sizes and grades. The situation is so critical that I ask your immediate cooperation and action.

Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board"

needs of the farmer or the nation's food production program will be impaired.

"We recommend that the War Production Board recognize the farm needs in the above respect as war needs.

"That the War Production Board take such steps as are necessary to assure a reasonable flow of building materials essential to these purposes.

"We further recommend that the War Production Board instruct the various industry divisions concerned that, they take such steps as are necessary to make available an adequate supply of such materials as are needed for the fulfillment of the needs of agriculture."

Fir Price Ceiling to be Revised

Peter A. Stone, price executive, lumber section, Office of Price Administration, Washington, D. C., submitted a detailed all-embracing price ceiling on Douglas Fir and Western Hemlock to an advisory committee of manufacturers at Portland, May I and 2. After a two-day study of the proposed list Mr. Stone accepted the committee's proposal that they submit a revision of it to him in Washington May 18.

Westerners Named to Softwood Plywood lfPB Committee

Washington, May ll-The following Westerners have been appointed to the Softwood Plywood Industry Advisory Committee of the WPB, it was announced here today:

W. E. Difford, managing director of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma; Frost Snyder, president, Vancouver Plywood & Veneer Co., Vancouver, Wash.; E. W. Daniels, president, Harbor Plywood Corp., Hoquiam, Wash.; J. R. Robinson, president, Robinson Manufacturing Co., Everett, Wash.; Thomas J. Malarkey, vice president, M. & M. Woodworking Corp., Portland; Morris Sekstrom, manager, Olympic Plywoods, Inc., Shelton, Wash.; L. G. Opsahl, sales rnanager, Red River Lumber Co., Westwood, Cal.; Max D. Tucker, vice president and general manag'er, Evans Products Co., Plywood Division, Portland.

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