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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10. l'J22 



at eight o'clock and the menu so arrauged as to permit dancing 

 the service, thereby providing a full evening's enjoyment. 



during 



EVERY LUMBERMAN 



LOGGER. MANUFACTURER. WHOLESALER. 



RETAILER. AND ALL OTHERS CONNECTED 



WITH THE INDUSTRY 







SHOULD ATTEND 



The Fourth ' 

 American Lumber Congress 



' at chicago 



Watching Lumber Statistics Developments 

 The National Lumber Manufacturers Association is keeping in close 

 touch with developments with reference to statistics of industry de- 

 sired to be secured by the government. Recent decisions and negotiations 

 between the Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce have 

 added impetus to these activities. 



The Forest Service acting in response to a resolution of the recent Agri- 

 cultural Conference suggests the consideration by the lumber industry of 

 the desirability and practicability of the current compilation and dis- 

 semination of lumber trade information by the government either through 

 the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, which now publishes 

 the monthly Survey of Current Business ; or through the Forest Service, or 

 through the Bureau of Markets of the Department of Agriculture. 



The proposal of the Federal Trade Commission to secure reports includ- 

 ing prices, costs, production, shipments, profits. et<*.. from basic industries 

 was suspended, on the ground that it could not be accnmplished through 

 voluntary co operation of these industries, until such time as the courts 

 may decide the authority of the Commission to require the furnishing of 

 such information. The Commission expects an early decision from .the 

 D. S. District Court. It will immediateiy apin-nl any adverse ruling. 



April 6 and 7, 1922 



Hoover Invited to Address Lumber Congress 



Secretary of Commerce Hoover has been invited to address the -Vmerican 

 Lumber Congress in Chicago on the evening of April 5 at which time it is 

 planned to hold a dinner in the Cdiigross Hotel to which will be invited 

 not only those in attendance at the Lumber Congress, but delegates from 

 all over the country attending the National Construction Conference which 

 is planned to be held in Chicago during the week of the American Lumber 

 Congress. 



This will give the lumbermen an opportunity to acquaint themselves with 

 conditions in all parts of the building industry throughout the country, 

 and should be a valuable additional feature of the Lumber Congress. 



National Construction Conference to Join Lumber Congress 

 The National Lumlier .Manuractiirers .Xssociation has invited the Na- 

 tional Federation of Construction Industries to hold its National Con- 

 struction Conference in Chicago in April during the week of the American 

 Lumber Congress. Plans for this purpose are under way. The National 

 Federation of Construction Industries comprises all elements of the build- 

 ing industry with the exception of building trades labor. It includes or- 

 ganizations of building material producers, contractors, architects and 

 engineers. 



This is the first time that an opportunity has been created for the lum- 

 bermen in attendance at the Lumber Congress to also get in first hand touch 

 with general building conditions throughout the country. 



National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Plans Are Elaborate 



There is every indication that the thirtieth annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association to be held at the New 

 Willard Hotel. Washington, D. C. March 22 and 23, will be very largely 

 attended. Secretary W. W. Schupner reports that correspondence with 

 members, and other association officers, demonstrate a widespread Interest 

 in the convention. 



Business will he liberally interspersed with social arrangements and in 

 a manner permitting members and guests to enjoy the surroundings in the 

 National capital during their few days' stay. The business sessions will 

 be pointed and the program is mapped out with a view of obtaining an 

 expression from the members on the association's distinctive membership 

 privileges. 



The convention will he opened on Wednesday morning by an address from 

 Secretary of the Interior. Albert B. Fall, the address of President John 

 W. McClure. address and a statement from the Secretary outlining the 

 accomplishments during the year will probably conclude the morning's busi- 

 ness with the announcement of the Committees. 



W. DuBois Brookings, manager of the Natural Resources Department 

 of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and A. E. Dodd. man- 

 ager of the Department of Distribution, will each convey a timely mes- 

 sage outlining the opportunity of further cooperation through the asso- 

 ciation. Committee reports will be confined to active committees, eliminat- 

 ing entirely tiresome perfunctory reports. 



The banquet on Wednesday evening will be up to the NationaTs usual 

 standard. President McClure will act as toast-master, the speakers be- 

 ing Hon. George Wharton Pepper, U. S. senator from Pennsylvania and 

 Col. H. C. Osborn, C. M. G.. Ottawa. Ontario, both renowned and dis- 

 tinguished after-dinner speakers. As usual, the ladies aUI participate with 

 the men in the banquet and listen to the after-dinner speaking. A dinner 

 dance will he t«'ndered on Thnrsrbiy evening. March 2:^, dinner heing served 



With the Trade 



Rate Stabilization Conference Postponed 



The joint meeting which was to ha\e been liebl in New York. February 

 28. by committees representing the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion and the freight managers of the trans-.Vtlantic steamship lines to dis- 

 cuss rate stabilization and various other matters of s])ecial interest to the 

 shippers, tiad to be put off because several other of the western members 

 of the committee found it impossjbb' to come East at the time. F. T. 

 Turner, of the Turner Farber-I:^ive Company of Memphis, and Lucas E. 

 Moore, of the Lucas E. Moore Stave Company of New Orleans, were men- 

 tioned as among those whose business engagements would not permit 

 them to attend. Another date for the conference has not yet been set, but 

 the committee Is being canvassed as to the time most convenient. The 

 joint meeting is regarded as an event of the highest importance for the 

 exporters in that it is expecte<l to make positive progress toward a settle- 

 ment of the problems now confronting the trade. 



ExDort Corporation Formed in Texas 



The International Lumber & Export Company, Inc., has be^-n organized 

 and executive offices opened at Beaumont. Texas. This company has taken 

 over all transactb)ns. contra<-ts, etc., of A. Milch, in whose name the busi- 

 ness was conducted pending the organization of this company. The company 

 is primarily engaged In the exportation of yellow pine lumber, timl>er and 

 hardwoods. The officers are A. Milch, president; W. J. Crawford, vice- 

 president, and R. W. Deshon, secretary and treasurer. 



Fire Damages Keene Company 



A loss estimated at :?:i0.000 was suffered by the Keene Manufacturing 

 Company, at Crothersvllle, Ind., recently, when fire destroyed the dry 

 kiln, a small office building and the main building. The company, formerly 

 known as the Benham-W'hite Company, had conilucted a sawmill and manu- 

 factured plow handles, spokes and barrel headings, but the Keene Com- 

 pany took charge January 10 and had intended making wooden toys. 

 The plant was to have resumed operations the day of the fire, after having 

 been shut down for the past few weeks. 



Plan to Make 40,000 Truck Bodies Yearly 



A new type of motnr truck ImmIv manufactured hy the Martin-Parry 

 Corporation, of York, Pa., will be placed on motor trucks of the Willys- 

 Overland Company through a contract just closed. 



The Indianapolis plant of the corporation will make the greater number 

 of the 40.000 bodies a year that it is expected will be produced. The mills 

 at York, Pa., will make the remainder, it was said. 



It is believed that the Martin-Parry Corporation also has working agree- 

 ments with the Chevrolet and Ford companies, and is figuring on a con- 

 tract with the Buick Company. 



Chapin Spahn, general manager of the Indianapolis branch of the cor- 

 poration, said plans are being considered for the construction of a large 

 lumber mill in Louisiana, where crude lumber used for manufacture of 

 vehicle Itodies, would be cut and trimmed, before being sent north. 



Although the cost of the proposed new mill has not been decble<l on, 

 Mr. Spahn said it probably would be large enough to cut and trim 4,000,- 

 000 or 5,000,000 feet of lumber annually. 



Ritter Hardwood Company Cutting Large Tract 



The bi;; mill of the Hitter Mardwond Lumber Co., I:ie;;er, W. Vn., has 

 placed in <.[n>ration and be«,'un cutting on the l.'i.(»0O jicres of virgin hanl- 



