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West. He also leaves a daughter in England. Masonic funepal services were conducted May 2 followed by private interment in Inglewood Park cemetery.

W. Ernesr nfOSS

Brief word has been received of the death of W. Ernest Moss, May 25, in Mercy hospital in San Diego. He was believed to be in his early 70s. Mr. Moss started in the industry as a lumber dealer in Iowa in 1906, moving on to Boise, Idaho, and starting his California activity with the John W. Fisher Lumber Co. in Santa Monica. He was also connected with the wholesale firm of Erik Flamer in Long Beach. For the last three years, Mr. Moss had conducted a lumber brokerage business ir-r San Diego. He leaves his son Jack and a granddaughter.

George W. DULANEY

Word was received in San Diego, May 15, of the recent death of George William Dulaney, Jr., 81, in Hong Kong, while on a world tour with his wife Blanche, it was reported by United Press International. Although he was retired from the lumber industry, Mr. Dulaney maintained his interest in Hoo-Hoo, in which his number was 9967 and of which he was Rameses 38, having served as Snark of the Universe in 1939. His home was at 7951 La lota Way, La Jolla, Calif.

Mr. Dulaney formerly headed lumber and engineering companies in Clinton, Iowa, and was a director of a dozen or more lumber firms throughout the U.S., including the Eclipse Lumber Co. (see Page 39), of which he had been president and board chairman. He retired and moved to California in 1947, settling in La Jolla.

Mr. Dulaney was born July ll,1877, at Fort Scott, Kansas, attended school in Hannibal, Missouri, and military academies in various places from 1892-95. He graduated in 1898 from Yale university. In October 1898, he began long and productive lumber career as a civil engineer Empire Lumber Co. in Wisconsin. He retired in 1947 the highest officer of the Eclipse Lumber Co. in Iowa.

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Mr. Dulaney was initiated into Hoo-Hoo at Concat No. 840, January 13, 1903, in Minneapolis, Minn. He played a prominent role during the reorganization days of the International Concatenated Order. On August 18-19, 1938, members of the order were invited to a general convention session after which the Reorganization committee appointed nine members of the order to the Supreme Nine. Assignments to the various offices were not made, with the exception of George W. Dulaney, who was selected for the Snark of the lJniverse following the reorganization. On January 16, 1939, a joint meeting of the committee and the new Supreme Nine was held in Minneapolis. The meeting approved the selection of Mr. Dulaney for Snark and, upon formal balloting by the Nine, he was duly elected. He was re-elected Snark at the 49th annual convention in Chicago in 1940 and held the hiqhest office until succeeded in l94l at the Golden Jubilee lonvention in Hot Springs, Ark., by Don S. Montgomery, whose Hoo-Hoo Number 30285