Corres. concerning: expense accounts; various business transactions; logging; car operations; timber; stock on hand at various mills; establishment of Post Office; Liberty bonds; gasoline stations Corres. between C. W. Howith, Beaumont attorney and B. F. Bonner, May 1917 re: attempted assassination of Mr. Van Auken, linking attempt to Sapp trial in Lufkin, Mr. Blain, and Jess Burwick Corres. with Southern Pine Association Corres. re: Negro labor in North (includes newspaper articles) ''Taking of Negro to North Discontinued", "Pennsylvania Railways Cease Recruiting Houston Negroes'' Folder of correspondence concerning meetings; Southern Pine Emergency Bureau; appointments to positions; government price fixing Newspaper articles: "Kirby Dismissal is Being Watched"; "Board Threatens to Commandeer Pine for Ships"; "Yellow Pine Industry in South May Be Seized"; "U. S. Threatens to Take Over Southern Pine"; "Ship Lumber Held Up" Southern Pine Association bulletin for the press--John H. Kirby-Lumber Administrator Report of Advisory Board of U. S. Shipping Board Southern Pine Emergency Bureau report on distributions General Correspondence