'\X/'. B. Nettleton Elect ed President of N. L. M. A.

Chicago, May 8.-The first annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association since it attained almost complete federation of the regional and species associations was held here April 23-25. It was marked by intensive and highly interested consideration of the comprehensive program of lumber promotion, on which the association is now concentrating.

Walter B. Nettleton, Seattle lumberman, who was president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in 1935, was elected president of the National. Other general officers elected 'were: W. M. Ritter, Washington, D. C., vicepresident and treasurer, re-elected; J. F. Coleman, Kinzua, Oregon, president of the Wistern Pine Association, reelected; E. L. Kurth, Keltys, Texas, president of the Southern Pine Association, re-elected, and Victor Larsen, Noti, Oregon, president of the West Coastt Lumbermen's Association. Wilson Compton was re-elected as secretary and manager.

The new Board of Directors consists of 45 members. The regional associations of the Pacific Coast are represented as follows:

California Redwood Association-Leonard Hammond and A. S. Murphy; West Coast Lumbermen's Association

-E. W. Demarest, Corydon Wagner, G. T. Gerlinger, E. C. Stone, T. Victor Larsen, and M. C. Woodard; Western Pine Association-J. F. Coleman, Walter Neils, Jas. G. McNary, B. W. Lakin, R. R. Macartney; Douglas Fir Plywood Association-Neil Malarkey and Bruce Clark. Included in the Directors-at-Large are Walter B. Nettleton, F. K. Weyerhaeuser, D.'T. Mason and J. D. Tennant.

Of the 20 members elected to the Executive Committee, the following will represent the Pacific Coast regional associations:

California Redwood Association-Leonard Hammond; Western Pine Association-Jas. G. McNary; Douglas Fir Plywood Association-Neil Malarkey. Western lumber manufacturers included in the Ex Officio members of the Executive Committee are W. B. Nettleton, J. F. Coleman and Victor Larsen.

The Board of Directors received with regret the resignation of Carl W. Bahr as assistant secretary of the National to become manager of the California Redwood Association.

The mid-summer meeting of the Board of Directors will be held on Puget Sound, the time and place to be announced later.