C. Arthur Bruce Elected President Of N.L.M.A.

Chicago, November 26._.C. Arthur Bruce of the E' L' Bruce Company, Memphis, Tennessee, 'was elected president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, today, at the 43rd annual meeting of the association, held at the Blackstone Hotel, here, Novembet 26 through 28' He succeeds George T. Gerlinger, Willamette Valley Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon.

Other officers elected were: first vice president, C. L' Billings, Potlatch Forests, Inc., Lewiston, Idaho; vice president and treasurer, W. M. Ritter, W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus, Ohio; regional vice presidents,. A' J' Stange, Mt. Emily Lumber Company, La Grange, Oregon; ,W.B. McNeal, Argent I-umber Company, Hardeeville, South Carolina; Dean Johnson, C. D. Johnson Lumber Corporation, Portland, Oregon; executive vice president, R' A' Colgan, Jr., formerly of the Diamond Match Company, Chico, California; acting secretary, Henry Bahr, counsel, National Lumber Manufacturers Association; new honorary members, George W. Dulany, Jr., Eclipse Lumber Company, Clinton, Iowa, and E. A. Frost, Frost Lumber Industries, Shreveport, Louisiana.

C. Arthur Bruce, newly elected president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, was also recently elected executive vice-president of E. L. Bruce Company, Memphis, Tennessee, with whom he has been connected since 1914.

Born in Lawrence, Kansas, and educated at the University of Chicago and Harvard, he had a successful business career before joining the Bruce Company as sales manager. He became vice president in 1925, devoting most of his attention to research and product development, employee and public relations, advertising, sales, and promotion.

ln 1932 and 19'10 he was Republican candidate for Governor of Tennessee.

He has long been active in lumber trade associatiorl work, serving last year as regional vice-president of NLMA' He rvas also a member ex-officio of the executive commit- tee, member of the Building Code & Trade Promotion Committee, and the Committee on Foreign Trade. He was a member of the executive committee of the trustees of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., and chairman of the Research & Product Development Committee, chairman of the AFPI committee on hardwood research administration, and a member of the finance sub-committee of the AFPI public relations committee.

During the war he served on the Lumber & Timber Products War Committee. He is a director of the Timber Engineering Company and president and member of the board of Southern Hardwood Producers, Inc.

Harry G. Uhl, president of the Timber Engineering Company, who was acting manager of the NLMA from January I to October 31, made a report to the board of directors which was an account of his, stewardship during that period.

Building code experts of the association, he said, are participating in code studies in 194 cities.

The Army, he reported, has officially adopted the National Design Specification for stress grade lumber and its fastenings.

Practical assistance has been rendered the Home Planners Institute program of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, in the form of printed lecture material and addresses by NMLA staff men at local institute meetings.

The report included information on the work of the Law Information Service and Statistical Division, both under the direction of Henry Bahr; the Forestry Division, under Harris Collingwood; the Information Service, in charge of Robert Turner; the Timber Engineering Company; the research work of the American Forest Products Industries Committee.

The motion picture, Trees for Tomorrow, had 11,000 sl-rowings to audiences totaling more than 1,250,000, and nearly 3,000 forest industry firms are making community use of AFPI materials, Mr. Uhl said.