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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



May 10, 1921 



Rotary Cut 



Northern 

 Veneers 



Members of 

 Maple Flooring 

 Manufacturers' 

 Association 



P>URNITURE manufacturers and factory buyers who insist on 

 ■^ having high quality veneers should send us their orders. We 

 are specialists in Northern Veneers. ., ■ ■ ^ ■ 



We also manufacture Northern Pine. Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar 

 Posts and Poles, Lath and Shingles, which we ship in straight 

 cars and cargoes or mixed with our "Peerless Brand" Rock 

 Maple, Beech or Birch Flooring. (..' ('"' rrucs 



The Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



Chicago Offices: 812 Monadnock Block GLADSTONE, MICH. 



YOU WILL not 

 appreciate the 

 Mengel grade and 

 the Mengel serv- 

 ice until you have 

 tried "something 

 just as good." But 

 will you not tal^e 

 our word for it? 



Ime FIenqil Comewy 



INCORPORATED 



Louisville. Ky. 



THE PAST AND PRESENT IN MAHOGANY 



{Co-ntinued from paf/c 31 > 



will continue its support. If not, that support will be withdrawn. I 

 am in receipt of recent information that Congress has this year 

 increased its appropriation by approximately $100,000. It is well 

 known that the furniture workers. Southern Pine Association, 

 shipping box makers, and many other associated wood manu- 

 facturing interests have found the laboratory constantly more 

 essential to their progress. 



"At the request of the director, a memorandum has been pre- 

 pared for the information of the lumber experts, of the laboratory, 

 by William Braid White, of the Music Trade Review, in which the 

 uses of various woods in the different branches of piano making 

 has been carefully described. It is expected that the laboratory 

 will shortly issue a report on the subject. This association may 

 then see where perhaps w^e can advantageously ally ourselves 

 with the valuable work of the laboratory, which is entirely for 

 our benefit. 



"We have to mourn the loss of no fewer than ten colleagues 



and friends. During the year 1920 we were saddened by the 

 successive deaths of Fayette S. Cable, president of the Cable-Nelson 

 Piano Co.; A. F. Deenniston of the Biddte Piano Co.; Frederick 

 L. W. Lohr of Hardman Peck & Co.; Frederick Kranich of Kranich 

 & Bach: Henry Meyer of the Smith Barnes & Strohber Co.; Fred- 

 erick W. Chickering of Chickering Brothers, and William Daliba 

 Dutton of Hardman Peck 6t Co. 



"During the present year, Simon Shoninger of the B. Shoninger 

 (^o., and James Henry White of the Wilcox \ White Co., have 

 likewise passed from the scene. 



"We bow our heads reverently at the names of our departed 

 friends. They did well their work on earth and their fame lives 

 after them. 'Death is but the dropping of the flower that the fruit 

 may swell.* 



Chemical Reaction Affects Casein Glue 



Although casein glues are highly water-resistant, they ultimately 

 decompose when exposed to a damp atmosphere for a long time. 

 For many months studies have been under way at the Forest 

 Products Laboratory to discover the cause of this decomposition. 



The decomposition study is still far from complete, but the 

 conclusion has been reached that the decomposition of ordinary 

 alkaline casein glues is not due to the action of bacteria or molds. 

 It appears to be due entirely to chemical action of the alkali in 

 the glue. This conclusion is based upon the following observa- 

 tions : 



Increasing the amount of alkali in the glue increases the rate 

 of decomposition when the glue is kept wet. 



Glues containing no sodium hydroxide, although deficient in 

 some important respects, do not decompose as rapidly' as similar 

 glues containing sodium hydroxide. 



Cultures of molds and bacteria could not be obtained from 

 decomposed alkaline glues. 



Some chemicals which have antiseptic properties are found to 

 improve casein glue, but this improvement is due to their chemi- 

 cal action rather than to their toxic properties. 



Glues can be completely decomposed in a short time at tem- 

 peratures above that at which bacteria can grow. 



Further work is being directed toward the production of glues 

 which will resist chemical decomposition and at the same time 

 be impervious to the action of fungi and bacteria as well as 

 moisture. 



Arrested on Income Tax Violation Charge 



Arrests were made May 2 at Goshen. Ind.. on Federal grand 

 jury indictments, against Benjamin F. Deahl, president of the 

 1. X. L. Furniture Company of Goshen, Ind.. Charles E. Morrice, 

 of Peru, Ind., and Willis D. Widner, of .Auburn, Ind., ex-resi- 

 dents of Goshen and formerly employed by the I. X. L. Company, 

 charging them with violation of the income tax law. The indict- 

 ments resulted from prosecution of Morrice by Deahl on a charge 

 of an appropriation of $50,000 of the I. X. L. company's money. 



The indictment against the three men is in two counts, one 

 charging a conspiracy to commit an offense against the govern- 

 ment by making fraudulent income tax returns in violation of the 

 revenue act of 1918, the overt act in this indictment charging 

 the defendants of having conspired to show the 1918 inventory 

 of the company to be $91,238.08, instead of the true value of 

 $132,574.76, for the purpose of defrauding the government. The 

 second indictment charges Mr. Deahl and Mr. Morrice with an 

 attempt to evade the income and excess profits tax for 1919, 

 conspiracy being charged and the overt act alleged, and with 

 having made a statement of their inventory showing $26,224.16 

 instead of the true amount of $52,780.97. 



Bonds for $5,000 were given by each, bonds for Morrice and 

 Widner having been signed by William P. Charnly, mayor, and 

 A. Aitken, both associated with them in manufacturing plants at 

 Peru and Auburn, and Deahl's bond was signed by his brother, 

 Anthony Deahl, Harris Oppenheim and Samuel F. Spohn. 



