Oitohor 10, iniS 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Important Announcements from Washington 



By H. C. HaUam 



Regarding Essentiality of Lumber Workers 



An additional annoiiiicenient regarding the lumber indiisti y with 

 relation to priority, labor anil tlio draft, has recently conn- from 

 the War Industries Board. It is as follows: 



The attention of UnnbernieD and malingers uf lumber nilllK and plants 

 Is called by Charles Edgar. lUreetor (if Uunber, War Industries Honril. to 

 the stutenients by B. W. Baruch, ehalrnian of the War Industries Board, 

 on the protection of essential Iniliistrlal I'stabllshnients and by K, .M. 

 Crowder, Provost Marshal denernl. on Industrial exemption. 



The Pilorltles Division has held that the lumber Industry Is c.ssenilnl, 

 and that necessary men in the industry should be considered within class 

 4 of the Preference List of e.ssentlal industries by the district draft boards 

 and industrial advisors. 



Lumber mill managers and employi'rs in the lumber Industry are ad- 

 vised by Mr. Edgar to take lmmeili:ite steps to protect their plants and 

 industry by malting application tor exemptions from the draft for abso- 

 lutely essential employes. 



Following is Mr. Baruch's statement : 



The first duty of the industrial establishment Is to bring about the 



needed 

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the details ol tin- law. Tlu> iii'xt is i.i inak.- II a niattcr of lii>nor to ask 

 for industrial exemption for the lowest possible number and only for the 

 indispensable key men; By observing these two points the duty to thi' 

 army and the duty to the array's supply source will be discharged. 



No Change in Pine Prices 



The price ti.xing eoinuuttee of the War Industries Board has let 

 it be known that there will be no increase in the base price of Xortli 

 Carolina pin?, although a few item prices may be increased. 



This followed the precedent in the case of southern pine lumber 

 prices, which will also probably be followed in the case of fir lum- 

 ber prices, which are scheduled to come up for readjustment before 

 the price fixing committee October 11. 



The North Carolina pine prices under the new order remain 

 effective from October 1 until December 31, as they had before 

 from June 28 to October 1. It was ordered that the director of 

 lumber, in conference with the war service eommitteo of the North 

 Carolina pine industry, should have discretion to revise item ]irices 

 to a minor extent. 



The old southern pine prices, which had bee^i effective from 

 .lune 14, are continued by the price fixing committee from Sep- 

 tember 23 until December 23. The yellow pine price order con- 

 tained certain provisions different from preceding orders. 



It was also decided by the price fixing committee and the repre- 

 sentatives of government departments that inclusive wutliin these 

 dates timber prices on the lumber schedule should ap])ly to all 

 shipments to government departments, including the Eniergciicy 

 Fleet Corporation. 



It was decided by the price fixing committee that the interprela 

 tiiin of the terms of sale should be as follows: 



The usual trn<le practices shall continue, including 2 per cent off for 

 .ash within 10 days from date of Invoice, to be applied to United States 

 (Jovernnient purchases as well as all others (except In special cases where 

 former trade practice has well established net cash terms, and except as 

 to export shipments to foreign countries). In transactions where pur- 

 chasers do not avail themselves of cash discounts, the terms shall be 60 

 days net from date of invoice, and in such transactions the accounts may 

 be converted into trade acceptances which do not bear Interest before 

 maturity. 



.\s regards the recpiircment by the Kallroad .Administration that ship- 

 pers shall bulkhead the ends of open freight ears, it was decided that an 

 extra charge for lumber and labor for constructing bulkheads may be nia<le 

 by the shipper and invoiced to consignee, irrespective of whether or not 

 for government or civilian use. 



On the readjustment of Item prices. It was decided that the director of 

 lumber. In conference with the war service committee of the manufac- 

 turers, should have discretion to make certain minor changes and correc- 

 tions in the item prices, which however should not affect the average 

 l>ase price. 



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That In cases where manufacturers make reductions from the maximum 

 prices to wholesale dealers, the reductions should be considered In the 

 nature of an allowance to cover the expense and profit of sales by whole- 

 sale dealers and should not be Interpreted as constituting a general reduc 

 tlon In the nmrki't prl< f lunilier to the trade. 



Concerning Supply of Certain Woods 



.loseph Holt of St. Louis, who is in Washington, suggests that tht- 

 shortage of black walnut lumber for airjilanes and gunstocks might 

 be made up in part at least by utilizing for those purposes thou- 

 sands of walnut fence rails that are on farms throughout the west 

 and south, also the log steps and interior timbers of farm houses 

 in those sections. 



Elm timber growing on the farms of the country is a valuable 

 asset, says the department of agriculture in a recent bulletin. 

 The demand for elm is said to be increasing and the supply de- 

 creasing, according to the department. It estimates that the total 

 stand of elm is 7,500,000,000 feet, which, it is stated, would furnish 

 a supply for 30 years at the present rate of cutting, as the annual 

 output of elm lumber is 24,000,000 board feet, making it twelfth 

 among all woods and tenth among hardwoods in quantity of lumber 

 production. 



Paragraphs on Important Subjects 

 Ralph C. Angell, head of the spruce bureau of the West Coast 

 Lumbermen 's Association, is in Washington to urge that the gov- 

 iTumeut US'," its influence toward having used the lumber produced 

 incidentally in cutting airplane spruce material. Mr. Angell says 

 that this incidental product is about 7.1 to 80 per cent of the total 

 spruce cut in the process of manufacturing airplane lumber. He 

 states that Sitka spruce is first made into flitches at the private 

 mills where 23 per cent becomes incidental stuff. The flitches are 

 sent to the government cut-up plant at Vancouver, Washington, 

 where 5U per cent more of the stuff becomes incidental, leaving 

 only 20 to '2') per cent of the timber that actually goes into wing 

 beams. 



The war trade board has issued a general import license applying 

 to many commodities, but excluding some. Those excluded include 

 mahogany logs and lumber, trees, bamboo and willow, etc. 



The war trade board has also issued a revised export conserva- 

 tion list, which besides the usual list of lumber and wood varieties 

 that cannot be exported except by special permit, includes the fol- 

 lowing explanatory information: 



Under the heading of Wood (ash, birch, chestnut, flr timber, mahogany, 

 oak, quebracho, spruce, and walnut) the fnllowlii;; are included: 

 Logs_: Timber. rMiii.,i. 1. ■/, n .iv,.,i, ,i,;,<i, m- -.|'i,ii./i. 



'■'■■" 'lii •■i.i,- ■ii.Teial uses, in- 



Lumber ; 

 eluding woods sii 

 for airplane and 



made ; 

 The 



ides, veneers 

 , :.' frames, ord- 

 ■ - !' ■ ■ ■ - ' ' - for war sup- 

 in unfinished shape that are to be 

 the point of destination when made 

 D ilcsks and barrels, furniture stoclc. 



for completely manufactured articles 

 I as desks, furniture, barrels, casks. 

 I'wfoundland. 



Ht has called for proposals for fur- 

 nishing a niLiiitity ,if woclemvare including 30,000 pairs of exten- 

 sion crutches, 3,600 typewriter tables, and 72,000 bed trayo with 

 legs. The bed trays the government wanted delivered within ten 

 days, but the proper purchasing officer has been informed that it 

 will be physically impossible to accomplish that. 



The Navy Department is on the market for several hundred lead 

 lined boxes for holding acids and chemicals. The outside of the 

 boxes may be of kiln dried rock maple or birch. Bids will be 

 opened at the bureau of supplies and accounts on October 15. 



It is reported here that the Victor Talking Machine Company 

 will make no more such machines during the war, but the Edison 

 and Grafanola phonographs will continue on the market. 



