Lawrence-Philips Buys S.S. Point Loma

The Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. has purchased the S.S. Point Loma from the Hart-Wood Lumber Company and will continue to operate the vessel in the coastwise lumber and merchandising trade, principally lumber. They took over the vessel on June 15, 1933, and have changed its home port from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. has been operating the vessel for the past year and a half. The same officers will remain on the ship with Captain John Olsson, Master.

The S.S. Point Loma was built at Portland, Ore., by the Albina Engine and Machine Works in 1918 for the Norwegian g'overnment, but was taken over by the U. S. Shipping Board during construction and used in the Trans-

H. B. HEWES BACK IN CALIFORNIA

H. B. Hewes, nati.onally known lumberman, and president of the Clover Valley Lumber Co., Loyalton, returned to San Francis,co recently after spending several months in the East. Mr. Hewes paid a visit to Loyalton soon after his arrival.

Atlantic service. The Hart-Wood Lumber Company bought the vessel after the war, converting it from a coal to an oil burner, and equipped the boat for handling lumber. They owned and operated the vessel up until the time it was chartered by the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. The steamer has a capacity of 1,900,000 feet B.M. of lumber.

The Lawrence-Philips Steamship Co. will also continue to operate under charter the S.S. San Diego, which has a capacity of 1,650,000 feet B.M., and the S.S. Claremont with a capacity of 1,450,000 feet B.M. of lumber. The Lawrence-Philips Steamship Co. is a member of the Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference.

Vacation Trip

D. Norman Cords, sales department, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a two weeks' automobile trip to the Northwest, in the course of which he visited the company's mills in Washington a1d Oregon.