lndict Lumber Manufactur ers and Associations

Indictments returned at Los Angeles October 4 charged seven associations, 168 lumber firms and 53 individuals in the West Coast lumber industry with conspiracy in restraint of interstate trade and commerce. Federal Judge Harry Hollzer opened the sealed indictments which were returned by the Federal Grand Jury after an investigation by government officials.

The indictments returned were separated into two groups, one affecting production, manufacture and sale in interstate commerce of 'Western pine lumber. The other concerns those engaged in similar enterprises in lumber obtained from Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar, Port Orford cedar, and.Sitka spruce.

Defendants Western pine lumber indictment:

Feather River Pine Mills, Inc..

E. A. Findell Lumber Co..

Fruit Growers Supply Co.....

Gilchrist Timber Co.....

Grande Ronde Pine Co.....

Grants Pass Wood Products Co..

The Hallack & Howard Lumber Co.....

9..A. Harris &_Son-, Inc....

Edward Hines Lumber Co...

Homestake Mining Co...., geo L.-Jantze-r Lumber Co., Inc..

Ingham Lumber Co.....

Ivory Pine Co... ,.

Kalispell Lumber Co.

Kesterson.Lum-b._er C_orp...

Kinzua Pine Mills Co..... ..Delaw-are

Klamath Lumber & Box Co.. ..

Klickitat Pine Box Co.....

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Sugar Pine Lumber Co.. ..

Officials of the Western Pine Association:

Swift Berry, Camino, Calif., president, member executive and eco'nomics committee.

John R. Gray, Spokane, Wash., vice-president, member board of directors.

James G. McNary, McNary, Ariz., vice-president, member board of ' directors. member executive and economics committee.

S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Portland, Ore., secretary-manager.

W. E. Griftee, Portland, Ore., assistant secretary-manager.

A. M. Aston, Omak, Wash., member board o{ directors, member executive and economics committee.

C. L. Billings, Lewiston, Ida., member board of directors, member executive and economics committee.

J. M. Brown, Spokane, Wash., member board of directors, member executive and economics committee.

J. F. Coleman, Kinzua, Ore., member board of directors, member executive and economics committee.

R. A. Colgan, Chico, Calif., member board of directors.

J. C. Dolan, Flagstafi, Ariz., member board of directors.

A. J. Glass6w, B-end,'Ore., member board of directors.

I. P. Hennessv. McCloud. Calif.. member board of directors.

C. L. Isted, Sina, Ore., member'board of directors, member executive and economics committee.

Harold G. Laws, Delleker, Calif., member board of directors, member executive and economics committee.

W. C. Lubrecht, Bonner, Mont., member board of directors.

R. R. Macartney, Klamath Falls, Ore., member board of directors, member executive and economics committee.

J. L. M'cCarthy, Orofino, Idaho, member board of directors, member executive and economics committee.

E. N. McDevitt, Somers, Mont., member board of directors, member executive and economics committee' f. S. Wiltier, Westwood, Calif., member board of directors.

M. T. McGoldrick, Spokane, Wash., member board of directors.

H. D, Mortenson,-Klimath Falls, Ore., member board of directors.

C. G. Price, Diamond Springs, Calif., member board of directors, member executive and economics committee.

I. C. Rassenfoss. Standard, Calif., member board of directors. ilueo Schmidt. Klickitat, Wash., member board of directors. Auirst J. Stange, LaGiande, Ore., member board of directors, -member exeiutive and economics committee.

A. T. Vove. Klamath Falls. Ore.. member board of directors.

J. M. White, Weed, Calif., member board of diregtors, member executlve and economlcs commrttee.

Officials of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and other organizations:

Corydon'Wagner, Tacoma, president of W.C.L.A.

C. H. Kreienbaum, Shelton, Wash., vice-president for Washington of W.C.L.A.

G. T. Gerlinger, Portland, vice-president for Oregon of W.C.I-.A.

F. C. Reed, Seattle, treasurer of W.C.L.A.

W. B. Greeley, Seattle, secretary-manager of W.C.L.A,

R. D. Brown, Seattle, assistant manager of W.C.L.A.

C. R. Elliott, Anacortes, Wash., trustee of W.C.L.A.

H. W. Stuchell, Everett, Wash., trustee of W.C.L.A.

E. C. Stone, Seattle, Wash., trusteee of W.C.L.A.

L. L. Doud, Tacoma, Wash., trustee of W.C.L.A.

F. L. Stokes, Bucoda, Wash., trustee of W.C.L.A.

C. Stuart Polson, H6quiam, Wash., trustee of W.C.L.A.

C. E. Miller, Warrenton, Ore., trustee of W.C.L.A.

W. W. Clark, Portland, Ore., trustee of W.C.L.A.

J. S. Magladry, Culp Creek, Ore., trustee of W.C.L.A.

Wm. Vaughan, North Bend, Ore., trustee of W.C.L.A.

C. H. Ingram, Tacoma, trustee of W.C.L.A.

O. R. Miller, Portland, trustee of W.C.L.A.

J. D. Tonnant, Longview, Wash., trustee of W.C,L.A.

Edmund Hayes, Portland, trustee of W.C.L.A.

P. C, Stevens, Portland, manager, Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association.

H, J. Cox, Eugene, Ore., secretary-manager, Columbia Valley Lumbermen's Association.

Wilson Compton, Washington, D. C., secretary-manager of National Lumber Manufacturer's Association

R. T. Titus, Seattle, secretary-manager of Intercoastal Lumber Distributors' Association.

Kenneth Smith, San Francisco, secretary-manager of Lumber and Allied Products Institute.

Col. Greeley Makes Statement on Lumber Indictment

Seattle, Washington, October 5, 1940.-When asked to comment upon the sweeping indictment of western lumber manufacturers and associations, which was released yesterday by a Federal Judge in Los Angeles, Colonel W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, said:

"As far as the West Coast Lumbermen's Association is concerned, our activities are out in the open. We have furnished information and provided services for the consumers, no less than the manufacturers, of Pacific Northwestern lumber. This information and service, including inspection and grade-marking, are essential in the distribution of a thousand or more different lumber items, through many different channels and largely at great dis: tances from the sawmills. The distribution of lumber is no longer a 'horse and buggy' business.

"The West Coast lumber industry, with some 900 different sawmills, is so highly competitive that charges of monopoly against it are incomprehensible. We do not believe that the Association has broken any law; we are astounded by this action of the Fedeial Department of Tustice."

Bcll-Blvth

Alfred D. Bell, Jr. was married to Miss Marjorie Blyth at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in San Mateo, Calif. on Saturday, September 28.

Miss Blyth is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Blyth of Burlingame, Calif., and Mr. Bell is an executive of the Hammond Lumber Company and Hammond Redwood Company, San Francisco.

The couple left on a honeymoon trip to New York, from where they will sail on a West Indies cruise.

Los Angeles Building Code Revision Is Planned

An ordinance authorizing the Board of Building and Safety Commissioners to employ two men to revise the Los Angeles Building Code has been adopted by the City Council. The budget provides $10,000 for the purpose.

Rumley Dewitt will be employed as building code writer and Clarence J. Derrick as building code consultant.

Ralph Lamon On Road For Firm

Ralph Lamon, son of Fred Lamon of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, is now covering points in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys not previously covered by this firm. He is a graduate of the University of California, Class of '37, and before going into the office spent two years getting experience in the manufacturing end of the business in Fir, California Pine and Redwood mills.

JOHN B. MORRISON ELECTED PRESIDENT

John B. Morrison has been elected president of J. J. Moore & Co., pioneer San Francisco lumber exporting firm, succeeding Charles M. Goodman, who was president for three years. Mr. Morrison has been with the company for fourteen years. The firm specializes in the New Zealand, Australian, South African and South American lumber trade and has offices in various countries.

Buy Long Beach Yard

William Downey, R. M. Nelson and L. H. Purser have purchased the Lumber Supply Company at Long Beach. William Downey, who has been associated with the yard for some time, is manager.

First A Sawmill

The story of Coloma is familiar to all-a sawmill, a bit of gleaming metal in the mill race, the Gold Rush. The fact that this sequence of events was duplicated in many mining towns of the Sierra, is not so generally recognized. Perhaps the lumberjack has not received his just dues in our histories of the Mother Lode.

First they built a little sawmill

Near a river or a stream, As the first important adjunct

To an empire building dream.

Then tall Sugar Pines and Cedars

From the stand upon the hill, Were laid low and hauled as fodder To the greedy little mill.

Thus the forests paid their tribute

To the cities far awayMarysville and Sacramento, San Francisco by the bay; And the noisy little sawmill Buzzed and wheezed the long day through, And the lumberjacks and sawyers Had no trifling tasks to do.

Then, as in far famed Coloma, Some one found a trace of goldRaised a hue and cry about it, Here and there the story told. Soon beside a man made canyon Stood a group of miners' huts, For the lure of gold is stronger Than the lure of cedar butts.

And this story, oft repeated, You may hear some smiling day, As the old lode trails you follow Asking questions by the way. For a wheezy little sawmill By a chattering mountain stream, Was the first essential adjunct To a great State's golden dream.

-A. Merriam Conner.

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Ten Ycarr Ago Today

From October 15,1930 lssue

Sabin Carr, Yale pole vault champion Lumber Cornp"rry graduate and former intercollegiate became associated with the Sterling Salinas.

The Citrus Belt Hoo-Hoo staged a stag frolic at the Norconian Club, near Corona. A golf tournament was held in the afternoon, followed by dinner, after which there was a concatenation and several Kittens initiated.

Wendell T. Robie, Auburn, was elected president of the California Ski Association at an organization meeting held in San Francisco.

John H. Boone, partner in the at Lomita, retired from the firm partners, A. T. Gardiner and his

Home Lumber Company selling his interest to his son, N. M. Gardiner.

Competing against exhibits from the entire Pacific Coast, the 1930 advertising campaign of the Built-In Fixture Company, Berkeley, was judged the finest advertising of household products in the West at the Pacific Advertising Clubs Association annual convention at Spokane, Wash.

Louis C. Stewart, Sudden & Christenson, was appointed chairman of the Maritime and Harbor Committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.

J. H. Baxter & Co. completed construction of a new retort for treating commercial wood products with creosote at their Long Beach plant. The nerv retort is 8 feet wide and 137 feet long.

Announcement was made of the marriage of Miss Kate Salisbury Boardman and William H. Nigh of San Francisco. Mr. Nigh is in charge of the Pine department for Wendling-Nathan Co.

Building Activity in Los Angeles County Incorporated Areas Up lor 1940

Building activities in the unincorporated areas of Lo,s Angeles County for the first nine months of the present year reached a total value of $28,758,876, or $5,556,487 over the same period last year.

These figures were announced today by William J. Fox, chief engineer of the County Building Department.

During September, 1876 permits were issued for a total value of $2,965,149 as against 1410 permits valued at $2,186,677 f.or September a year ago.

One-story family dwellings led all other building activities. 808 permits were issued for homes valued at $2,177,890. There were 20 two-story family dwellings valued at $135,600. Principal other activities included 331 additions valued at $t8y',,172, 20 commercial building valued at $30,000, 335 outbuildings valued at $89,095.