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Died. Arthur Henry Fleming, 84, West Coast lumberman who endowed California Institute of Technology with more than $5,000,000; of a heart ailment; in Pasadena. In 1926 Philanthropist Fleming built a pavilion to preserve the historic railroad car 24190, in which armistices for World War I and the surrender of France in World War II were signed...
Some men have political sense, some haven't. Young F. Lynden Smith, Pontiac, Ill., lumberman, had it. He had it to such a powerful degree that he attracted the nose of Governor Henry Horner in 1936. The Governor was out for reelection, and the powerful Kelly-Nash machine was out to stop him. It was backslapping, 44-year-old Lyn Smith, a Kiwanian, Mason, Shriner. Elk, World War veteran, whom Henry Horner chose to manage his campaign downstate. Mr. Smith's reward for helping Horner win was the directorship of the State Department of Public Works...
...plant, built by Southland Paper Mills, Inc. outside of Lufkin. Southland Paper was financed by sale of $1,742,000 worth of stock (of which Southern newspaper publishers took $425,000) and a $3,425,000 loan from RFC. His publisher-stockholders contracted with President Ernest Lynn Kurth, onetime lumberman, to take his entire output for five years...
Fifty years later Lumberman George T. Webb heard about these pines, took a look, last September bought up the stock of the Rugby Land Co. for $15,000. Soon his loggers began to fell the timber on the outskirts of the tract, getting closer & closer to the little village, until one pine crashed across the church fence. Aroused, tree lovers, historians, librarians of Tennessee, the few surviving Rugbyans protested. To their appeal for help, Congressman Bruce Barton of New York, who was born nine 'miles from Rugby, wired earnestly but distantly: "Only God can make a tree...
...Southern slash pine excited Southern publishers: with slash pine growing like weeds in the South, they ought to get their newsprint a lot cheaper than the $42.50 a ton then charged by the Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South's biggest industrial baby, Southern capital was hard to find for newsprint. Texans...