C PA Commentg On Materiah Subiect

Lumberman Visits Hawaii As To HH-Priority Ratings

Suppliers of building materials subject to HH-priority ratings are not prohibited from selling these kinds of materials on unrated orders, the Civilian Production Administration pointed out today in commenting on regulations for channeling those materials into the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program Moreover, for most of those materials, no set-aside of stock for future dated orders is required'

In the case of a few of the materials, suppliers are required to set aside materials for rated orders. These suppliers' set-asides are all less than 100 per cent, with the exception of prefabricated houses, sections, and panels'

This comment was prompted by reports that some suppliers have been refusing to sell to customers without ratings on the mistaken ground that CPA regulations require them to hold their whole supply for rated orders.

These materials are controlled by CPA's Schedules A and B to Priorities Regulation 33' Schedule A lists the materials for rvhich HH ratings may be used by builders, contractors, etc. Schedule B contains special provisions for the distribution of these materials. For most of thd Schedule A materials no set-aside is required. Instead, the regulations merely require that rated orders, when received, be filled in preference to unrated orders. This is a limited requirement, since suppliers do not have to use their whole stock for filling rated orders received. Instead, the "ceiling" ptovisions explained in Schedule B prevent ratings from preempting :he entire supply since they permit suppliers to

Guest of Navy

Frank G. Kranz, president of the Golden State Lumber Co., retail distribution yard in Santa Monica, Calif., and a sawmill in Washington, was recently honored by being invited, with 25 other Pacific Coast business and professional men, by Secretary Forrestal to be guests of the Navy on a land, sea, and air trip to the Hawaiian Islands.

In a talk at a noon luncheon meeting of the Santa Monica-Ocean Park Chamber of Commerce, December 2, Mr. Ktanz said the group had a fine reception in the islands. They traveled over on the aircraft 'carrier Boxer, and returned on a Santa Monica Douglas DC-4 plane. Mr. Kranz said he was both surprised and reassured at the preparedness of the U. S. Navy, and the advan'ces that are being made in the use of guided missiles and undersea craft. The amazing recovery of the American forces after the Pearl Harbor attack, the speaker said, can be attributed to four points: Radar superiority, Naval intelligence, air power, and the production and supply lines maintained by American Industry.

use a part of their supply for unrated orders.

A few of the Schedule A materials are especially scarce in relation to the housing requirements. Therefore, various percentages of suppliers' receipts of these scarcer materials have to be set aside physically under Schedule B to PR-33 and held for rated orders. Except for prefabricated housing, all of the set-aside amounts are under 1C0 per cent.