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Show JAPAN DEMANDS 3,000,000,000 FEET YANKEE LUMBER BKATTTJC, Wash.. Kept. II Five hundred thousand dwelling's are to be rebuilt In Japan and thla will require three billion fee of lumber, lum-ber, according- to estimate received by the Wet Coeat Lumbermen a association as-sociation from ths United Btatea department of commerce. "it looks aa though we shall aee lumber production In the next year Increase to per cent over the last fiscal year, which haa bean the big--geet in our history," said Robert B. Allen, secretary of the West Coast Lumbermen's association. The department of commerce communication aald that Cd percent of tho Japanese lumbas roqutre-mentg roqutre-mentg must eeseo from American ports. |