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Merchant, TODAY May 15, 1934

WCLA mills . . . J. Knox Corbett,72, pioneer Arizona lumberman and founder of the yard in Tucson, died April 22. He arrived in Tucson by stagecoach in 1880 at the age of 19 and started the lumberyard in 1890, merg- ing it with the W. J. Corbett Hardware Co. in 1919 after his brother's death. He served as postmaster of the city for 16 years and retired in 1922, turning the yard over to his son H. S. Corbett. Mr. Corbett, who also maintained a home in Los Angeles, also leaves a daughter, Mrs. W. A. Bell, and four grandchildren: Knox and Ruth Corbett, Mrs. William Cooper and W. A. Bell, Jr., and a brother, L. W. Corbett, Ventura, Calif.

Frank Curran of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, returned from a few days' Arizona business E. E. Westman of the Washington Veneer Co., Olympia, conferred with Ted Wright of the Los Angeles office. . Harry E. Caldwell, Minneapolis, executive secretary of Hoo-Hoo, is visiting lumbermen throughout California regarding a "New Deal" for the fraternal order. The Hoo-Hoo Reorganization committee developed a list of more than 700 from the first appeal for renewals, and states it has uncovered a strong sentiment for continuation of the Order. It was proposed to establish local clubs in the 15,000 municipalities of the U. S.

J. W. Fletcher, 77, died at his Los Angeles home, Aprll 22. He started in Chico as manager of the sash and door department for Diamond Match Co. and then joined Hammond Lumber in Los Angeles to superintend its sash and door work, later forming Fletcher & Frambes with his son-in-law, W. P. Frambes . . Archibald Whisnant was in San Francisco arranging the 1934 Pacific Logging Congress there R. R. Leishman of the Calif. Redwood Assn. appeared before the Building and Safety Committee of the L. A. City Council, April 19, to support an amendment that would exempt foundation grade from the ordinance requiring pressure-treating . E. J. Stuipeke, manager of the Sterling yard in Santa

Rosa, was chairman of the Lion's club meeting there April 19.

A meeting of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club authorized a resolution to the West Coast Lumbermen's Assn. urging intensive lumber promotion in the districts of California damaged by earthquake and flood About 250 Southern California retail lumbermen met at the Hotel Rosslyn, Los Angeles, April 25, to hear reports on the Code Authority by O. H. Barr. President Harry A. Lake reined the session Frank Park of the Park Lumber Co., La Mesa, left with Luther Gordon on a 3-week trip to Mexico . . Frank O'Connor of the Donovan Lumber Co., San Francisco, visited the L. A. office

. James L. Hall, San Francisco, was appointed Northern California agent for Bloedel-Donovan Mills, Bellingham.

Emil Swanson of the Eagle Rock (Calif.) Lumber Co. was in the throng of anglers who ushered in the trout season, May 1 . . . C. P. Henry, the Arizona representative, sat in for "Friday" Freeland in Los Angeles while he substituted for Guy Smith at the San Francisco home offices of Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. during the latter's absence on an eastern sales trip C. R. Johnson, president of Union Lumber Company, has been in Washington several months on business for the Redwood division of the Code Authority The Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. mill at Eureka cut one redwood 1og, April 30, that produced 13 pieces ol 6'x76"x28' Dense Select Structural timbers for the highway bridge south of Monterey.

S. M. flauptman, general manager of the California Wholesale Lumber Assn., San Francisco, attended a meeting o{ the Southern California district in Los Angeles Jack Dionne's "Vagabond Editorials" in this issue are not entirely in favor of the workings of the Government's "New Deal" . . . The Coos Bay Lumber Co. opened a Los Angeles office with Stuart Smith in charge . The National Recovery Administration rejected the petition of the Cabinet, Mill and Architectural Woodwork Institute to be exempted from the Code . . Charlie Cheeseman