With His "Da*gs"

It was their first time under fire. The colored regiment was in the front line trenches, and the shells were beginning to explode nearer and nearer to them. On the average the soldiers were deathly still. Not a murmur rose from their ranks. Then a white of;Ecer heard a voice just around a sharp corner from where he stood, and as it continued, he stuck his head around to see who was doing the talking, and why.

There stood a huge, black, lanky Georgia darkey. And

THE DIAMOND MATCH CO. ADDS TWO NEW BRANCHES

The Diamond Match Company purchased the yards of General Supply Company at North Sacramento and Fair Oaks on September 1.

Hilmar Hauge will manage the North Sacramento yard and Chester Hinshaw will be manager of the Fair Oaks yard, it is announced by Ira E. Brink, manager of yards and stores for The Diamond Match Company.

ONE YEAR'S PLEASURE READING

Find herewith my check, amount $2.00, and again I say, "send me ONE year's pleasure reading."

Fred L. Jones Lumber Co. El Verano, Calif.

as the officer listened, he discovered that the soldier was apparently addressing his own feet.

"Feets," the officer heard him say, "git ready ! Git ready fo' somethin' tells me we's fixin' t' leave heah ! An' lemme tell you somethin', feets ! Don' you git excited an' staht runnin' off widout me, you heah? When you gits ready t' go, feets, jes lemme know, an' we'll go fQ'gethah !"

Going And Coming

Guy Smith, Rockport Redwood Co., Los Angeles, is back from a trip to the company's San Francisco office and the mill at Rockport, Mendocino County, Calif.

John Cushing, Lewis Lumber Co., Pengra, Oregon, has returned to the Northwest after vacati,oning two weeks in Los Angeles.

Byron Long of Edward Hines Pacific Coast Lumber Co., Portland, was in San Francisco last week on a combined business and pleasure trip. He renewed a number of old friendships made when he worked there some years ago.

Marc de Bruin, The Bruin Lumber Co., Los Angeles, recently made a business trip to San Francisco, taking time while there to call on a number of friends in the lumber business.

Wood Structural Design Data

The second edition of Wood Structural Design Data, a 296-page volume of technical information incorporating recent research findings on wood with complete text material, formulas and data for the design of wood structures compiled by the National Lumber Manufacturers Associatio.n, Washington, D.C., is now available.

Revised by Frank J. Hanrahan and Richard G. Kimbell of the Nati,onal Lumber Manirfacturers Association Technical Staff, the new edition is arranged primarily for convenient use by the structural designer, architect, engineer and technical student.

The new Handbook contains in either text or tabular form detailed data on such items as physical, chemical and mechanical properties of woods, timber quality-strength relations, a glossary of lumber terms with standard abbreviations, American Lumber Standard sizes with cross sectional area, moment of inertia, section modulus and other properties. Tables give safe working loads f'or standard sizes of wood beams when limited by either deflection or bending strength requirements, also safe allowable loads for laminated and plank floors and for wood columns.

The following supplements to the volume contain additional technical information useful in wood design:

Supplement No. 1-Working Stresses for Structural Lumber

Supplement No. Z-Bolted Wood Joints-Safe Loads on Common Bolts

Supplement No. 3-Maximum Spans for Joists and Rafters

Supplement No. -Wood Columns-Safe Loads (i.ncluding spaced columns)

Supplement No. S-Wood Trusses-Stress Coefficients, Length Coefficients and Angles.

Price of Volume I alone is $1.00 and Volume I with supplements $1.25.

Since publication of the first edition in 7934, Wood Structural Design Data has been generally recognized as a standard authority on wood design.

State Builders' Exchange Annual Sept. 21-23

The California State Builders' Exchange, Ltd. will hold its annual meeting at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, September 21, 22, and 23, 1939. All those connected with the building industry, not only in California, Oregon and Washington, but throughout the United States, have been invited to attend.

Saturday, September 23, has been set aside as Builders' Exchange Day at the Golden Gate International Exposition. An interesting program of business sessions and entertainment has been arranged for the three days.

Congratulations

Mr. and Mrs. Percy Youst announce the birth of a baby girl, Nell Lorraine, on August 31 at the Wilshire Hospital, Los Angeles. Mr. Youst is a salesman with the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company.