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PLYV/OOD.-AII Douglas Fit plywood plants are down, and all quotations have been wit{rdrawn. Supplies of plywood and wallboard in the hands of jobbers in California are run- ning low.

PINE.-Most of the mills have more orders than they can handle. Some mills have advanced prices from lf.O0 to f3.00. Stocks are badly broken.

The Vestern Pine Association reports for the week ended May 18 new business totaling 70,054.000 ieetr 63 per cent above the three-year weekly avetege for May. Orders for the year to date are 31 per cent above the total for t{re corresponding period last year.

REDWOOD.-Dty uppers are all scarce. Common stocks are spotted, many sizes and grades being extremely scarce. Demand is very heavy. Most mills have 60 days' business on their books. Elfective I&'Iay 24 the Redwood mills increased the price of Redwood in all territory afrccred, to offset the in. crease in water freight rate.

Green Redwood shingles are available, but stocks are depleted and shipments are being made from freshly manufactured stocks.

Shingle operators are making every effort to serve the trade in the face of the sho,rtage of Red Cedar shingles. Although some minor advances have been made operators do not plan to take undue advantage of the shingle scarcity to advance prices.

Cargo arrivals at Los Angeles harbor showed a falling olf for the week ended l|vf'ay 25. During the week, Fir ardvals totaled abott 7r9l2r00o feet as against l4r274rOOO feet for the week ended May 18. Redwood cargo arrivals for the week totaled 745.OOO f.eet. There is practically no unsold lumber on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor, and most of the lumber arriving is going on immediate jobs. 42 vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber service on May 25; 57 boats were laid LTP.

California is showing continued improvement in building operations in both new construction and modetnization. Fot the first 22 d,ays in May, building permits in Loc Angeles totaled fl1,911r524 as compared with $702,973 fot the same period last year. Building permits in Loc Angelec for the first four months and the first twenty-one days of May totaled fl12,887,E95 which is $7,744,t77 more than the total for the corresponding period in 1934,

Weyerha euser Boy Still Missing Loyalty of Redwood Sawmill !(/orkerg

The nation was shocked to hear of the kidnaping of George Philip Weyerhaeuser of Tacoma, Wash., 9-year old son of John P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., nationally known lumberman and executive vice president of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., who disappeared at noon. Friday, May 24, while on his way home from school.

Several thousand workers of the Weyerhaeuser interests state that they stand ready to march into the woods and sear,ch every acre of forest land near Tacoma if necessary.

As we go to press, news dispatches from the Northwest report that assurance has been given that the boy has not been harmed and that negotiations are under way with the kidnapers for the boy's return to his parents whi.ch is believed near. F. R. Titcomb, general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. and an uncle of the missing boy, is acting as intermediary for the family.

Birthday Number Postponed

Because of the strike and attendant conditions, we will have no special Birthday Number, but hope, later in the season, rvhen the strike ends and tJle lumber industry begins to share in the apparent improvement in building conditions, we will get out an issue memorializing that fact.

Appreciated by Operators

Redwood operators have expressed their appreciation of the remarkable loyalty that has been demonstrated by their employes at all the Redwood sawmills in the area affected by the strike called on May 15 by the Sawmill & Timber Workers local union.

All the mills are running with full crews. Longshoremen have refused to handle lumber manufactured in Humboldt County since May 15 for shipment by water, but there is no interference with shipments by rail.

Mrs. Celia Laughead

Mrs. Celia Laughead, wife of W. B. Laughead, advertising manager of the Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, Calif., passed away May 12, as a result of an aut+' mobile accident on the Red Bluff-Susanville highway, west of Mineral.

Mrs. Laughead, who was driving the car, which left the highway and turned over several times, was unconscious when found and died a few hours later. She was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hanson of Westwood, who were both seriously injured.

Mr. Laughead was in Minneapolis when the accident happened, but returned to Westwood by plane, arriving the following day.