Urges Passage o[ California Bill Schafer Lines Buy Steamer Regulating Trade Control

L. G. Sterett, secretary of the Millwork Institute of California, has sent a copy of Assembly Bill 24{U0: to the Institute's membership together with information pertaining to certain amendments which would incorporate some of the provisions of the President's Industrial Reconstruction measure.

Assembly Bill 2400 is an act regulating competition in business, providing for the organization of trade associations as defined, authorizing the Corporation Commissioner of the State of California to issue permits for the operation thereof, and defining and prohibiting destructive competition.

In his letter accompanying the bil1, Secretary Sterett says:

"This Bill, which comes up for consideration at the July session of the California State Legislature, is intended to give legitimate business a chance against tl-re activities of cut-throat operators. For that reason' it is deserving of every consideration and suPPort'

"We urge you to advise us at once of your interest in this important measure, and also to make known your suPport to your local senators and assemblymen'"

H. H. BARG VISITS LOS ANGELES

H. H. Barg, of Barg, Ziel & Co., lumber exporters and importers, San Francisco, was a recent Los Angeles visitor.

The Schafer Bros. Steamship Lines have purchaserl the steamer "C. D. Johnson III" and will add this vessel to their coastwise lumber fleet plying between Grays Harbor and California ports.

The S. S. "C. D. Johnson III" has a,capacity of 1,800,00O feet B/M of lumber, exactly the same as the S. S. "Hubert Schafer," which has been in operation for the past two years. These two steamers will now give approximately a I2-d.ay service northbound for merchandise between California ports and Grays Harbor. It is contemplated that the service might be extended to also include Puget Sound ports.

W. J. Mulligan & Co., 40 California street, San Francisco, are agents for the Schafer Bros. Steamship Lines.

Kellv-Diehl

J. Walter Kelly, head of the industrial department of the Chas. R. McCormick Company, San Francisco, was married to Frances A. Diehl in Redwood City, June 26. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly spent their honeymoon at Carmel.

Hammond Executive Visits San Francisco

J. A. Rankin, general manager of the Hammond Lumber Company's operations at Samoa, Humboldt County, recently spent several days at the company's head oflice in San Francisco.