R. G. ROBBINS IUMBER GO.

Distributors ot Pacific Coast Forest Products

Otis Fry, who was well known in California' lumber circles for the past forty years, passed away at his home in Arcadia on July 25. He was 72 years of age.

Mr. Fry retired from active business in 1940, having operated the South Gate Lumber Company and the Southern California Lumber Company for some years prior to his retirement. Before that he, lvas an active partner in the Home Lumber Company at Long Beach, and later with the Interstate Dock and Lumber Co. in Long Beach.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nellie H. Fry; two daughters, Mrs. Lucienne Wright and Mrs. Virginia Lewis, and a son, John O. Fry.

Funeral services were held on July 28 at Grace Chapel, Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood.

With Hughes Aircraft

Dick Twohy, son of Arthur Twohy, Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is a Senior Stress Analyst at Hughes Aircraft, Culver City. Dick graduated from the University of California at Berkelev last Tune.

JOHN VOSMEK ON EASTERN TRrP

John Vosmek, rail sales manager, Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, recently made a trip to his old home in Iowa before reporting for service in the Navy Seabees at Farragut, Idaho.

Los Angeles Visitor

R. A. Seemann, Seemann Lumber Company, Encinitas, was a Los Angeles visitor last week.

Destructive Timber Control Law Proposed in U. S. Senate

Complete control of the cutting of privately owned timber in the United States and possessions, whether one tree or a million acres, is vested in the Secretary of Agriculture by a bill, S. 1330, which was introduced July 8 by Sen. Mon C. Wallgren (D., Wash.). For failing to keep all records required by the Secretary or his designated agency (presumably the Forest Service), or for falsifying such records, a fine of $50 a day for each violation is authorized.

For violating any one of the regulations that may be set up under the proposed act, a fine of $10,000 may be imposed.

This bill, if enacted, would authorize the Secretary to require a certificate of clearance for any shipment of forest products, large or small; and either the selling or ofiering for sale, the transporting or ofiering for transport, of forest products without such certificate will be a violation subject to the $10,000 fine. This applies to either the lumberman or the carrier.

The bill was referred to the committee on agriculture and forestry.

A. N. SANDERS COMMISSIONED

A. N. Sanders, representative of R. W. Dalton & Co., at Phoenix, Ariz., before he entered the Army in Jaly, 1942, is now a Znd Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery, Anti-Aircraft, stationed at Seattle.