The Neishbors' Little Boy

Has Marched Away To \(/ar

(Reprinted frono The Log

The little chap who used to race his kiddykar across your front yard flowers.

The little chap who climbed in his father's original model of the jeep and tooted and tooted and tooted when you were trying to nap.

The little chap who stood behind the horseless carriage and yelled at the top of his voice when you were trying to put your orvn little ones to sleep.

The little chap, a little bigger now, who liked to play around the Long-Bell lath mill of which his dad was foreman, at Longvier,v, and pouted with every angry freckle when Joe, Sr., said, "Go home, now Joe; you got yoLlr chores to do."

The not-soJittle-any-more chap who carried his little brother on the crossbar, riding his bike on the sidewalk you took home, and almost rnade a path across your lawn.

The no-longer-little chap who smiled to his mother's beaming smile of pride when his dad snapped them in front of the house the day he finished high school.

It'l your neighbor's lirtle boy. The baby raho grera up to become an American fighting man!

of Long-Bell, It[ay, 1943)

There isn't any particular reason why "Young Joe" Joncas should have been selected for this theme; except that some of his neighbors spoke so smilingly of his decently harum-scarum boyhood that he seemed like the typically American "neighbors' little boy;" and "Old Joe" had a few treasured snapshots he was rvilling to lend for copying.

"He rvas crazy about'bugs'," said Kenny Jacobsen, fire department inspector, "and any time of the day you could see him all but skidding the corners, kids hanging all over his stripped-down flivver."

His mother said he got the house "all grease."

"He'd hammer and tinker and pound on the darned old things all hours of the day and night," said Luzelle Jones.

But the neighbors grinned behind their nettled cussing.

Typically American. Gloriously American. Completely American.

That's what he is fighting for nozu!

Fighting to protect the neighbors' flower beds, that he used to damage.

Fighting to give you the right to lull your little ones to rest in peace.

Fighting to give you that serene calm of sleep that once he used to shatter.

Fighting for the rights of other, younser, stitl growing

"kids," to nettle and baffle and charm their neighbors in the way he used to do.

Freight Rate Deductions Do NOt Apply

On MPR -215 Safes Until July 1

maybe home to do

Fighting, too, for his dad's right, and his own right, when he returns, to choose his work and to build his home and to rear his family in security, and have "Little Toes" of his own to chores, despite the pouting.

After high school "Young Joe" worked with his dad a while in the lath mill. Then he worked in the factory. And then the desperate nature of his country's fight burst upon him. He joined the United States Marines. Now he's in Marine aviation: The neighbor's little boy who marched away to war.

Soon there will be nearly eleven million other "neighbors' little boys" in the Marines, the Army and the Navy.

In tiynes such as these they are your boys, too !

Direction No. 1 to CMP Regulation No. 3

Direction No. 1 to CMP Regulation No. 3 has been revised to indicate that its intention is to place rated orders of dealers, distributors, and jobbers on a par with orders in the same rating band bearing allotment numbers or svmbols, the War Production Board announ,ced today. The Direction does not have the effect of granting rated orders of dealers, distributors, and jobbers preference over other orders in the same rating band not bearing allotment numbers or symbols.

This means that a dealer's order rated AA-1 would have preference equal to a manufacturer's order rated AA-1 bearing an allotment number. However, the dealer's order rated AA-1 would not displace a manufacturer's order rated AA-1 in a production schedule.

The Direction has also been revised to apply the equality of dealers', distributors', and jobbers' rated orders to all such orders. Previouslv it applied only to those placed prior to April 7, L943, calling for delivery not later than June 30, 1943.

Closed For Duration

Builders Lumber & Supply closed for the duration.

Lt., San Diego, has

Distribution yards may continue until July 1 to sell soft. wood lumber at prices reflecting transportation rates in effect before May 15, 1943, although the 6 per cent general increase in freight rates granted the railroads last year has been rescinded as of the latter date. However, after July 1, the savings resulting from the deduction will be passed on to consumers, the Office of Price Administration announced.

"Naturally, present stocks in distribution yards were purchased under higher freight rates than those which will be in effect after May 15," OPA said. "However, the permitted selling prices for these stocks, according to Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 (Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood Lumber), must be computed on the basis of rates prevailing at the time of sale. It follows, that in disposing of their present stocks, distribution yards would not be compensated for the inbound transportation costs actually borne in acquiring such stocks. The net effect is a devaluation of such stocks to the extent of the reduction in freight rates. This results in undue hardship. and some form of relief is necessary.

"An amendment to Maximum Price Regulation No. 215 has been drawn, therefore, to extend relief to the distribution yards by permitting the use of present rates (those in effect prior to May 15, 1943), in calculating inbound trans. portation for a period of approximately 45 days after the effective date of the freight rate reduction. This should permit the distribution yard substantially to dispose ol stocks on hand on the basis of the freight rate actually paid by them for such stocks."

The enabling amendment is Amendment No. 6 to Maximum Price Regulation No. 215, and became effective May 15, 1943.

After July 1, the actual carload rate in effect at the time of sale by the distribution yard shall be used in calculating inbound transportation.

Southern California Visitors

Otto W. Frese, San Francisco wholesale lumberman, was a Southern California visitor last week and visited his son, William L., who is in the Army Air Corps at Santa Ana. Mrs. Frese accompanied him on the trip.

Henry M. Luellwitz

Henry M. Luellwitz, president of the Anglo California Lumber Co. at Los Angeles, passed away suddenly at his home in Beverly Hills early Thursday morning, May fr, following a heart attack. He was forty years of age and was born in Spokane, Wash.

He was connected with the lumber business for many years, and was associated with his father, Gus Luellwitz, well known Los Angeles lumberman and president of the Globe Lumber Co.. until about 1931. Then he went to Klamath Falls, Ore., where he was connected with the fvory Lumbe_r Co., and later he was interested in the lumber financing business in the Klamath Falls district. He started the Anglo California Lumber Co., wholesale lumber yard, in Los Angeles in the fall of 1936.

Besides his father, he is survived by his widow, Elsie Luellwitz, and a daughter, Elizabeth Louise Luellwitz.

Funeral services were conducted in the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Saturday afternoon, May 22.

Norbert E. Lentz

Funeral services for Norbert E. Lentz, proprietor of the Encinitas Lumber Company at Encinitas, Calif.., who passed away following a short illness, were held at Santa Ana. He was 53 years of age.

Before establishing the Encinitas Lumber Company, eight years ago, he was with the Barr Lumber Company at Santa Ana for a number of years as manager of retail sales. His wife, Mrs. Lois Marie Lentz, who had been associated with him in the business, died last November.

He is survived by a daughter, and a son, Don, who is in the Navy.

Leonard M. Staley

Funeral services for Leonard M. Staley, who died suddenly at his home in Los Angeles following a heart attack, were held in St. Augustine Church, Culver City.

Mr. Staley was in charge of insulation sales for the San Pedro Lumber Company of Los Angeles for the past five years. He is survived by his widow and a daughter.

Cyrus B. Sweet

Funeral servicqs for Cyrus B. Sweet, pioneer lumber and railroad executive, who died on May 24 alter a brief illness, were held at his home in Los Angeles on May 27.

Born in Washburn, Ill., in 1861 aqd educated in Chicago, he was vice-president and general manager for a number of years of the Long-Bell Lumber Company at Kansas City, Mo., and of the Southwestern and the Louisiana Pacific Railroad Companies, two of the first railroads to traverse the South.

Retiring from active business, he came to Los Angeles in 1918. He is survived by his widow, a brother, a son, and three daughters.

J. C. Pitcher

Jay Clifford Pitcher, 70, member of the wholesale lumber firm of Smith & Pitcher, San Francisco, passed away in San Rafael,, Calif., May 19. He was a native of New York.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Pitcher; two sons, John and Charles Kimball Pitcher; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Esther Halsey; a sister, Mrs. Alice G. White, and a brother, E. C. Pitcher.

He was a member of Marin Lodge No. 191, F. & A. M. Funeral services were held Mav 2O in San Anselmo.

S. S. Freeman

Simeon S. Freeman, rvell known San Francisco shipping man, head of S. S. Freeman & Company, passed away in Alameda, Calif., on May 16, after a long illness. He founded the steamship company shortly after the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna E. Freeman, a son, Lieut. Marcus P. Freeman, U.S.A., a grandson, and three brothers, Dayr, George and Samuel Freeman, and a sister, Mrs. Daisy Gadsby.

Mr. Freeman was born in Oregon 69 years ago.