Describes lmportance of Forest Products in National Defense

A nation that has within its boundaries a bountiful supply of forest products has an enormous advantage in any emergency, according to C. P. 'Winslow, Director of the Forest Products Laboratory of the U. S. Forest Service, Madison Wisconsin. Mr. Winslow spoke at the 4oth annual meeting of the Society of American Foresters in Washington, D. C., on the importance of forest pioducts in the national defense.

Pointing out that Field-Marshal Hermann Goering had placed wood no less than second in the list of German necessities of war, Mr. Winslow outlined the vast number of uses in the expedited preparation of a national defense in which wood is vital to the United States. Cantonments, pontoons, shipping containers for explosives, air-raid shutters, assault boats, charcoal for gas masks, rosin for shrapnel filling, and plywood for trainer planes are only a few of the myriad military uses of rvood that were mentioned.

Describing how the Germans had turned to wood for the production of motor fuel, edible sugars, and synthetic wood "wools" and "cottons," Mr. Winslow stated that the procedure by which wood is converted to these uses has long been familiar to American chemists, and should need arise the United States can adapt the supplies of wood with equal facility.

Pointing out that national defense requirements might ultimately require the production from domestic sources of nearly every requisite of defense, Mr. Winslow cited a number of forest products problems which research men recognize as demanding attention. The efficient adaptation of wood in the mass production of aircraft, including thc development of fuselages, wings, and other parts, in whole or in part by mass production molding, the development of variable density propellers for modern high-powered airplane motors, and a number of construction details in the mass production of trailer planes were given high priority on the list of research needed to rfacilitate national defense.

Other items named included seasoning of gunstock blanks, improved decking materials for all naval craft, increased supplies of high-quality pontoon timbers, further improvement of gas-mask charcoal, improved designs for shipping containers for military commodities, substitutes for imported cork and kapok, and the solution of problems connected with the rapid erection of both temporary and permanent cantonments and other military. establishments. In order to expand trade with South America, Mr. Winslow said, more adequate knowledge of South American hardwoods is needed in this country. He also mentioned the need for expanded trade in pulp and paper and plywood in commerce with Central and South America.

John S. Magladry

Seattle, Washington, December 21, Ign.-It is nightfall in the woods and the last trail home for John S. Mag, ladry. Such was the word wired today to the Seattle office of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association from Eugene, Oregon. A heart attack took the pioneer lumberman on his last journey in the night. A Willamette Valley trustee of the Association and p'rincipal owner of the Bohemia Lumber Company of Culp Creek, Oregon, Mr. Magladry had been a worker and leader in the forest industry of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia since 1880.

He had just turned 16 in that year when he held his first lumber job, in a small Puget Sound sawmill, at the mouth of the Duwamish River. There he learned the head-sawyer's trade. Tivo y,ears later he was operating the headrig of the large Yesler-Anderson mill in Seattle. Last summer Seattle's oldest business building was torn down. Its framing lumber had been sawed by Mr. Magladry in 1882. He worked as head sawyer in a New Westminster, B. C. sawmill for seven years, and in Portland for three years. Employed by the founders of the Booth-Kelly Lumber ln of Company of Lane County, Oregon, in 1896, Mr. Magladry advanced to mill foreman, then to general superintendent. In l9O7 he joined with John t.. Kelly in organizing a lumber company. Since that year he has been an outstanding leader of the 'West Coast lumber industry.

Mr. Magladry is survived by a daughter, Mrs. John Trott Murray of Tacoma, and a sister and nephew who reside in San Francisco.

High Volume of FHA Applications

The number of new homes starting construction under Federal Housing Administration inspection during the week showed the expected effects of the holiday rush in the Southern California district, according to Capt. Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California district director.

During the week ended Dec. 20, a total ol 241 homes commenced construction under FHA inspection, while the previous week recorded 332 new homes.

Applications, however, continue to be received in substantial volume. The week ended Dec. 20 recorded, 462 cases, valued at $1,951,400.

This month the weekly volume has been consistently higher than in December, 1939, the number of applications for the insurance of mortgages under Title 2 during the past three weeks being 51 per cent in excess of that for the corresponding three-week period of 1939.

Appointed General Manager

B. L. Nutting has been appointed general manager of the Medford Corp. at Medford, Ore. Mr. Nutting has been connected with the company for a long period. He succeeds James H. Owen, manag'er for many years of the Medford Corp., and its predecessor, the Owens-Oregon Lumber Co., and who recently announced his retirement on December 31.

Everett Gillespie, sawmill superintendent, has been promoted to the position of assistant general manager in charge of production.

H. G. Dowson is sales manag'er, A. W. Lingaas, chief accountant, and G. G. Stagg, purchasing agent.

Seattle Offices Moved

Effective January l, 1941, the Seattle offices of Sudden & Christenson will be located at 617 Arctic Building, Third and Cherry Streets.

ATTENDED EAST.WEST FOOTBALL GAME

Forrest Haworth, district sales manager at Portland for Booth-Kelly tumber Company, and Mrs. Haworth, spent the Christmas holiday season in San Francisco. They will attend the East-West football game in San Francisco on January 1.

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 Holds Christmas Party

A big Christmas party was held by Sacramento HooHoo Club No. 109 at Wilson's Confectaurant, Sacramento, on Wednesday evening, December 18.

President Charles Shepard presided. Music was pro' vided by the Sacramento Quartet, and there was a Christmas gift for everybody.

Joe Weston, representative in California of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, exhibited the Douglas Fir Plywood talking picture and gave a talk.

Clarence R. Boyle

Clarence R. Boyle passed'away at his home in Altadena on December % after a month's illness. He contracted the influenza which later developed into pneumonia.

IIe was born in Michigantown, Indiana. Following his graduation from Butler lJniversity he entered the lumber business and was connected with the industry for many years in the South and Middle West. He was associated with the business in Los Angeles for the past thirteen years where he represented various Northwest and Southern mills. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Hartwell Boyle; a daughter, Mrs. Nell Boyle Hummel of New York City; a son, Claience R. Boyle, Jr., of Washington, N. J.; a sister, Mrs. Anna Brown of Pasadena' and four granddaughters. Funeral services were held at Pasadena, December 28.

Good Fellowship Christmas Fund

Announcement is made by the committee of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club's Good Fellowship Christmas Fund that there is still time for those who wish to subscribe to "Shares of Happiness" in this fund to send in their subscriptions.

Shares are $1.5O each. Checks should be made payable to Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 and mailed to the Fund Committee chairman, George Clayberg, Boorman Lumber Company, 10035 East 14th Street, Oakland.

Visits San Francisco

John N. Berry, sales manager of Scott Lumber Co., Inc., Burney, Calif., was recently in San Francisco on a business trip.