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PRESTO
NEW MUSIC GOODS PATENTS
Investors Find Opportunities for Their Talents in
Wide Field of Musical Merchandise.
1,409,078. Banjo ukulele. Rocco A. Carlucci,
West New York, N. J.
1,408,985. Reed for accordions. Alfred F. Car-
roll, New York, N. Y.
1,409,180. Attachment for reed musical instru-
ments. Guy B. Humes, Chicago, 111.
1,409,860. Combination mute. Guy B. Humes,
Chicago, 111.
1,409,064. Stringed instrument. Johannes Richter,
Niederlossnitz-Dresden, Germany.
1,409,322. Violin piano. James L. Warner, Girard,
Kans.
1,410,002.
Musical instrument.
Celso H. De
Benites, Hartford, Conn.
1,410,322. Mouthpiece for brass wind instruments.
James T. King, Toronto, Canada.
1,410,504. Stringed musical instrument. Clyde G.
Post, North English, Iowa.
1,410,235. Musical instrument. Levi J. Wing, East
Orange, N. J. •
1,411,563. Mouthpiece for clarinets and saxo-
phones. Duncan R. Clark, Forest City, Iowa.
1,412,016. Drum. Oliver N. Howerton, East
Peoria, and E. Starbuck, Peoria, 111.
1,411,522. Mute. Joseph Rudick, Akron, Ohio.
1,412,772. Horn or amplifier for phonographs.
Edwin A. Caviness, Battle Creek, Mich.
1,412,386. Mechanical musical instrument. George
Q. Chase, San Francisco, Cal.
1,412,239. Banjo. Edward N. Guckert 2 Toledo,
Ohio.
1,412,307. Drumhead tightening means. James
Innes, Powell River, Canada.
1,413,246. Stencil. Leo Wallenstein, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
1,413,445. Drum attachment. Tom Wilson, Chi-
cago, 111.
1,413,916. Violin. John W. Kincannon, Dyerville,
Calif.
1,413,929. Mouthpiece for wood-wind musical in-
struments. William Naujoks and E. McLaughlin,
Los Angeles, Calif.
FAVOR NEW VENEER RULES
Committee to Formulate Such Appointed at Meeting
in Chicago Last Week.
The Eighteenth annual meeting of the National
Veneer and Panel Manufacturers' Association, held
under the auspices of the National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association with which it is affiliated, took place
at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, December 4. The
veneer trade was well represented and a big attend-
ance of hardwood lumber men showed the broad
character of the interests discussed.
Harry E. Kline, president of the National Veneer
and Panel Manufacturers' Association, struck a
happy note when he compared the difference between
the price-cutting era and the pleasant and satisfac-
tory conditions prevailing in the trade today. He
drew a vivid word picture of the gradual rise of the
association, the overcoming of difficulties and its affili-
ation with the National Hardwood Lumber Associa-
tion. Mr. Kline said:
"I have recounted what we have been, and what
we are today. What we shall become lies solely with
you and with each of you. We have the membership
momentum, and it is up to you to keep it going. We
have the power behind us and the machinery, and it
is up to you to employ this power and the machinery
to the fullest extent, that you may receive all the
benefits that are due you, and that you are paying
for. We are part and parcel of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association, but (and you want to
capitalize this BUT in your minds) we do not want
to become a parasite, a barnacle, a bunch of hangers-
on, being merely members. We cannot shift the re-
sponsibilities of the veneer and plywood association
on any other shoulders than our own, and the burden
of proof lies with us and what we shall become de-
pends entirely upon the effort, the thought and the
interest that you gentlemen display in association
activities.
Mr. Kline recited the historical facts which have
led up to the present status of the veneer and ply-
wood rules. These he said have come from a succes-
sion of conferences, many of the rules being of many
years' standing. He emphasized the fact that while
the rules as now printed and officially adopted by the
National Hardwood Lumber Association are by no
means infallible, they at least serve as a favorable
basis on which to build further.
He particularly stressed the thought that the one
thing which has militated against progress in the
veneer and panel industries is not the absence of
grading rules but the fact that these rules have never
been enforced and that there has never been any
agency to administer them.
It was proposed that a committee composed of
one birch, one oak and one gum manufacturer, one
jobber and one consumer be appointed to handle the
veneer grades, the question of plywood grades being
left up to the plywood association which is not affili-
ated either with the Nntional Veneer and Panel Man-
ufacturers' Association or the National Hardwood
Lumber Association. It was agreed that the convic-
tions of the panel body should govern in the matter
of panel rules; that the veneer rules should be worked
out by the committee of the veneer association. This
committee will be appointed and names made public
very shortly.
December 15, 1923.
COINOLAS
FOR
RESTAURANTS, CAFES and
AMUSEMENT CENTERS
Style C-2
FROM THE BIGGEST
ORCHESTRION
STEEL PRICES AFFECTED.
The La Salle Steel Company, Chicago, announced
last week in a newspaper advertisement the abolition
of the steel trade practice known as "Pittsburgh
Plus." The term has been used to designate imagin-
ary freightage. The meaning of the announcement
is that screw steel, for illustration, will be furnished
this week by the La Salle Steel company for $3 per
100 pounds. The price before the announcement was
$3.34. The $3 is the Pittsburgh price, the 34 cents
represents the freight rate from Pittsburgh to Chi-
cago, a feature-added to put a Chicago concern and
a Pittsburgh concern on the same selling basis in the
Chicago district.
GUESTS EAT COLUMBIA RECORDS.
Paul Specht, recording artist for the Columbia
Graphophone Co. last week gave a thanksgiving din-
ner at the Alamac Hotel, New York, in honor of the
officials of the company. Cakes, made in the form of
phonograph records on which the Columbia labels
were exactly reproduced, surrounded a huge candy
phonograph in the center of the table. Present at
the dinner were President H. L. Wilson, Howard
Benz, L. L. Leverich, R. N. Bolton, F. James, Frank
Walker, John Brown, G. W. Hopkins and Paul
Specht.
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