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Walter Scrim Has Three Sons in Uncle Samts Service in Pacific

Walter G. Scrim has three sons-his entire crop-in the service of Uncle Sam. all of them somewhere in the I'acific Ocean. The oldest son, Robert, is a Lieutenant Junior Grade in the Navy. The other two, George and Alexander, are twins. George is a Cadet Midshipman in the Merchant Marine, and is on ship training in the Pacific somewhere. Alexander is purser on a \Mar Shipping Administration ship, also in tl-re Far East somewhere.

Walter Scrim, as is rvell known, is a veteran Philippine Mahogany man who retired from that line of business for the duration the day the Japs struck the Philippines. While such things are, of course, uncertain, he hears by the grapevine that the mill he represented, that of the Findlay-Millar Timber Company, is being operated by the Japs; also that the very large plant of the Insular Lumber Company is being operated. These are two of the largest and most modern mills on the Islands, and it is reasonable to suppose that with their great need for lurnber for war purposes, the Japs are using them for lumber making.

Mr. Scrim had two retail lumber yards in the San Fernando Valley outside Los Angeles, one at Van Nuys and one at Encino. He has closed the Van Nuys yard and solcl the property, but is doing a land office business at Encino, the yard being on the Ventura Highway. Here he sells everything anyone can think of except ice cream sodas, ancl is getting by in great shape. "f am iunning the yard just as you have been advocating in your Lumber Merchant editorials," says Mr. Scrim, "and we are getting fine results. We sell anything and everything our local trade wants or needs, regardless of how little related it seems to be to a regular retail lumber business. But we are getting by nicely by so doing."

IO PER CENT INCREASE ANNOUNCED FOR MAPLE. BIRCH AND BEECH FLOORING

A flat 10 per cent increase in basic mill prices for Maple, Birch and Beech flooring sold by mills in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota was announced September 2 by the OPA. The price advance is authorized in Amendment No. 1 to MPR No. 432, and becomes effective September 8, 1943.

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