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N R A Compliancc Board for Ask Modification of Certain L. A, Appointcd
Provisions in Retailers' Code
Pursuant to the Executive Order issued by the President on July 15, 1933, various protests have been filed objecting to the application of the Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building Specialties Industry to the protestants, and Administrator, Hugh S. Johnson, having found that justice required, has issued a stay of the application of said Code to the protestants and those similarly affected, which stay reads in part as follows:
"I hereby stay the appli'cation of the Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Lumber, Lumber Products. Building Materials and Building Specialties Industry approved by the President on O'ctober 3, 1933, as to (1) Section 2 of Article VIII, and Section 11 of Article VIII of said Code, and, (2) as to the sale of Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building Specialties in ,carload lots, moving directly to any purchaser, job, contractor or consumer.
The protestants have requested that the above Code be modified in the following particulars:
I. section 2 of Article II shall be amended by inserting the following words at the end of said Section "Provided, however, that those engaged in selling Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Materials and Building Specialties in carload quantities to ftvernmental agen'cies, railroads, contractors amd/or €onsumers shall not be considered as dealers.
2. Article III shall be modified to read as follows:
"All persons engaged in the business of selling to contractors or 'consumers (except those engaged in selling in carload quantities direct to Governmental agencies, railroads, contractors and/or consumers) shall be subject to the provisions of this Code and all of the approved rules and regulations issued thereunder and shall be compelled to adhere thereto under such penalties as may be prescribed by the law.
3. Section 2 of Article VIII, shall be modified to read as follows:
"All prices, terms, and conditions of sale as developed under the uniform cost accounting system or established by appropriate rule or regulation within any trade area, and approved by the Administrator after such notice and hearing as he may prescribe shall be published by each
The office of the NRA Complian,ce Board for the Lumber and Lumber Products Industry for the metropolitan area of Los Angeles is at 1027 Rowan Building, Fifth and Spring Streets, Los Angeles.
The members of the board are Henry S. Patten, PattenBlinn Lumber Co.; George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris Lumber Co.; F. S. Jonson, 951 Manzanita Street; John W. Calvin, 1140 South Brannick Street; Mrs. Joseph W. Hamer, 1050 South Gramercy Drive; Arlo D. Poe, lllT Citizens National Bank Building, and Curtis Williams, 1027 Rowan Buil<iing. Curtis Williams is chairman, and Arlo D. Poe, secretafy,, of the Board.
Returns From Trip To South Seas
Sabin Carr arrived in Los Angeles November 4 on the Matson-Oceanic liner "Mariposa" from the South Seas, where he had been cruising on a yacht the last two months. Mr. Carr was prominent in athletics during his college days and was the first pole vaulter to reach fourteen feet, having set the mark in 1927 in the I. C. 4-A meet at Philadelphia while representing Yale University. The following year,1928, he represented America in the Olympic games at Amsterdam. He is connected with the Sterling Lumber Company of Oakland.
dealer within each trade area and shall be filed with the Code Authority or its delegated agent. Any deviation fiom su,ch published prices, terms, and conditions of sale until new prices, terms and conditions of sale shall have been published and filed shall be construed as unfair methods of competition."
4. Section 11 of Article VIII shall be eliminated'
Such modifications and amendments to the said Code in their present forms merely refle'ct proposals and are not to be regarded as having received the approval of the National Recovery Administration as modifying or amending the existing Code of Fair Competition, except to the extent that the application of said Code has been stayed as hereinabove stated.
A public hearing on the above quoted provisions to be conducted by the Administrator was announced to begin at 10:00 A. M., November 13, 1933, in the Chinese Room, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C., and will continue until completed.
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