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Limitation Order No, L-121

(Continued from or through one or more intervening persons) only if there is endorsed on the Purchase Order or Contract for such Construction Lumber the following statement, signed by a Contracting or Inspecting Official of the Army, the Navy, the Maritime Commission or the Defense Plant Corporation, as the case may be:

"The Construction Lumber Covered by this Purchase Order (or Contract) is required by the purchaser, actually to be put into construction during the period this order isin effect, and sixty days thereafter. The Construction Lumber is to be used for construction (or expansion) of facilities for the manufacture or processing of material for the Army, the Navy or the Maritime Commission, which construction (or expansion) is rated on Preference Rating Certificate (or Order) number Serial number ........."

(ii) any Construction Lumber which is actually in transit on the date of issuance of this Order mav be delivered to its ultimate destination;

(iii) any Producer may sell, ship and/or deliver any Construction Lumber to any other Produter; and

(iv) any Producer may sell, ship, and/or deliver such Construction Lumber upon the specific authorization of the Director of Industry Operations on Form PD-423 f.or the specific sale, shipment, and,/or delivery of such Construction Lumber.

(2) No person shall accept any delivery of lumber., the delivery of which is prohibited by this Order.

(c) Records. All Persons affected by this Order shall keep and preserve for not less than two (2) years accurate and complete records concerning inventories, production and sales.

(d) Audit and Inspection. All records required to be kept by this Order shall, upon request, be submitted to audit and inspection by duly authorized representatives of the War Production Board.

(e) Reports. Each person to whom this Order applies shall execute and file with the War Production Board such reports and questionnaires as said Board

Page 9) shall from time to time require.

(f) Violations. Any person who wilfully violates any ' ' provision of this Order, or who, in connection witir this Order, wilfully conceals a material fact or furnishes false information to arry department or agency of the United States is guilty of a crime, and upon conviction may be punished by fine or imprisonment. In addition, any such person may be prohibited from making or obtaining further deliveries of, or from processing or using, material under priority control and may be deprived of priorities assistance.

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Appeals. Any Person affected by this Order'who considers that compliance therewith would work an exceptional and unreasonable hardship upon him, or that it wpuld result in a serious problem of unemployment in the community, or that compliance with this order would disrupt or impair a program of conversion from non-defense to defense work, n&y apply for relief by addressing a letter to the War Production Board, setting forth the pertinent facts and the reasons why suih person -considers that he is entitled to ielief. Tne Director of Industry Operations may thereupon take such action as he deems appropriate.

(h) ington, D. C., Ref. L-121.

Applicability of Priorities-Regulation No. 1. This Order and all transactions affected therebv are subject to the provisions of Priorities Regulaiion No. 1, as amended from time to time, except to the extent that any provisions hereof may be inconsistent therewith, in which case the provisions of this Order shall govern.

4pplicability of other orders. Insofar as any other Order issued by the Director of Industry -Operations, or to be -issued by him hereafter, limit6 the the use of any material to a greater extent than the limits imposed by this Order the restrictions of such other Oqder shall govern, unless otherwise specified therein.

Routing of Correspondence. Reports to be filed and other communications concerning'this Order shall be addressed to the War Production Board. Wash-

(k) Efrective date. This Order shall take effect upon ' the date of its issuance.

Issued this 13th day of May,1942.

J. S. Knowlson Director of Industry

Operations.

John H. McCallum Passcs On

John H. McCallum, president of the J. H. McCallum Lumber Co., San Francisco, passed away at his home May 26, from a heart ailment.

He was born in Ontario, Canada, 72 years ago, and came to San Francisco as a boy. He was associated with the retail lumber business for most of his life, but was probably better known for his varied servi,ce to the community.

Mr. McCallum lMas a member of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners for 11 years, and its president for seven years. He retired from that position in 1923 after having been largely responsible for the development of the port of San Francisco.

He was a member of the board of directors of the lr. M. C. A. for 30 years and its president for 20 years, and was prominently identified rvith the Methodist Church.

He was a member of San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission since its inception in 1931.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. C. A. Parmlee of Santa Paula, and Mrs. John W. Wilke of Palos Verdes, a sister, Miss Kathryn McCallum of San Francisco, and six grandchildren.

Confer on Redwood Price Ceiling

When Peter A. Stone of the Office of Price Administration was in California recently he requested that a committee be appointed by the manufacturers of Redwood lumber to confer with him in Washington, D.C. on the matter of ceiling prices for Redwood lumber. The committee met with Mr. Stone in Washington, May 19, and the conference was concluded on May 25. It is expected that ceiling prices for Redwood will be announced in the near future.

The committee consisted of Jim Farley, The Pacific Lumber Co., Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., Mason E. Kline, Union Lumber Co., and Frank H. White, Hammond Redwood Co.

HOBBS WALL LUMBER CO. MOVES OFFICE

Hobbs Wall Lumber Company has moved its offices to Suite 1102, Financial Center Building, corner of California and Montgomery Streets, San Francisco.

The company's new telephone number is GArfield Z7SZ.

In Army Medical Corps

Robert Elliott, son of Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., is in the Army Medical Corps, stationed at Camp Barkeley, Abilene, Texas.

Wallace Towle In Army

Wallace Towle, well known in retail lumber circles in San Francisco, reported for duty in the Army on May 14. He is the son of S. W. Towle of the West Coast Lumber Co., San Francisco, and has been his father's assistant in the business.

Back From Northwest

R. E. (Ed) Fountain, Fountain-Smith, Los Angeles, re_ turned a week ago from a trip to Medford, Oregon.

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