National-American Annual Meeting

The 55th annual convention of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association was held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, on April D and 30. It was one of the best meetings held in years, over two hundred attended, and interest in the fine program presented was maintained throughout the meeting.

The new board of directors elected the following officers: President, W. T. Turner, Palmetto Lumber and Sales Co., fnc., Spartanburg, S. C.; First Vice President, E. W.'Conklin, Mixer & Company, Buffalo, N. Y.; Second Vice President, R. B. Colvles, Carlos Ruggles Lumber Co., Springfield, Mass.; Treasurer, William Schuette, Jr., William Schuette Co., New York, N. Y. (re-elected) ; Secretary-Directing Manager, Sid L. Darling, New York, N. Y. (reelected).

The following rvere reappointed: Charles J. Fisher, assistant secretary at New York, and Paul C. Stevens, Western manager at Portland, Ore.

Directors elected for a three-year term expiring in 1950, were: H. W. Aldrich, H. W. Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore.; H. A. Bailey, Bailey & Delano Lumber Co., Boston, Mass.; E. N. Beard, E. N. Beard Lumber Co., Greensboro, N. C.; G. N. Comfort, George N. Comfort Lumber Co., Cleveland, Ohio; H. B. Cooper, Cooper-Morgan Lumber Co., Portland, Ore.; G. L. Felter, Philadelphia, Pa.; D. A. "-Gillies, Gillies Bros & Co., Ltd., Braeside, Ontario, Canada;

R. C. Herrmann, Duquesne Lumber Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Dwight Hinckley, Dwight Hinckley Lumber Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; Edgar A. Hirsch, Hirsch T.umber Co., New York, N. Y.; Roy M. Janin, Roy M. Janin Lumber Co., Portland, Ore.; D. Carlysle Maclea, Maclea Lumber Co., Baltimore, Md.; D. R. Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Calif.; D. A. Weidler, Weidler Lumber Co., Chicago, Ill.

J. Philip Boyd, J. Philip Boyd & Co., Chicago, Ill., was elected a director for the two-year term expiring in 1949. Speakers at the convention included: President Titus W. Hager, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Secretary Sid L. Darling; O. J. McClure, business lecturer, Chicago, Ill.; Joseph A. Kolodny, president, National Association of Wholesalers, New York, N. Y.; W. H. O'Brien, trade promotion manager, Southern Pine Association,. New Orleans, La.; Frank Hemingway, business manager, American Forest Products Industries, Washington, D. C.; Paul C. Stevens, \Mestern manager; H. V. Simpson, executive vice president, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Portland, Ore.; and Paul S. Collier, secretary-manag'er, Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Associatio.n, Rochester, N. Y

Those in attendance stood in silent tribute as Secretary Darling read the list of the members who had passed on since the last annual meeting.