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I. :m9 Requested From I
her lg‘el‘s; McCleary I
ormg I ~ , To Beofigiill‘yéfaid
5 4 ‘ CounES . i
I ,. y Will get its firstl
,Ow”) Of National Laborl
activity 11 e x t ,
. ring supposedly,
. is hMCCIeary Timberl
em in the court-
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huh ary company of— i
3.10011 said they
' did {notlfled 0f any hear— ‘
‘ ‘ he?” knoW the reason?
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of the N.L.R.B.§
"1g here was dis-I
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r board of countyl
; l _ _ ” -r00me.questing the uSC‘
Writt‘
d on by Elwyn.
:CIEIOI‘ for the 19th
‘.L.R.B., request-I
“he starting atl
mOrning‘ of Aprill
K we 3’) and indicated.‘
Ornulld require about,
pete. No further,
oagésclosed in the;
r granted thel
equest for courtrooml
a:
mmissioners held3
3’ session at thei
flay, awardingl
mi Chevrolet ‘
um Sh Road District‘
, s tI“uck on its bid‘
h in :ttlng May 5 at
*the ti he commissioners I
, Mingle and place. for,
. l y H0 0“ the petitioni
I the foodsport residents
diatrrmation of a fire
let covering partl
x end precinct, and ,
in 8d 1940 road
1:341 when no;
earingcr the adver- i
a"um notified the
Countyfs share
X collections was
pur-
6 land held by
e the tenth pub-
t° be held May'
. A and filed at the
‘ pr'tuiday noon.
5th! pugatmns have been
‘., .eleveflltlgse 0f tax—title
V heWt sale, the date'
6 been set.
0 3:31 services were
or mes by Mt. Moriah
the MD. Mifflin, 72,
died cCleary Timber
a Shelton hospi-
exnbea Short illness.
of _
0 [‘0ng the. Enum
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nd 6911' HES In the Mausoleum
ts Way . Mwas also a mem-
eat dis‘ _, men 0f the World
Ran 0“!
r3
“duets? the Masonic
I: er “1 the Masonic
- Joe: R- F. Eddy, A.
lb mWiv n Carman, L. D.
. Imbefig and A. P. Sae-
.5. of Mt. Moriah
i
g Survived by his
to“: a. daugh-.
Hansen, of
‘3 Sons, Clinton;
. -. and John P.,
and three grand-
8.
156 been a Shelton
. ear years. starting
\ 5' Plant here as
1 .
ardnfllcted fatal in—
Pal'ne, 27, bull-
Axel
1. Johnson.
with‘élear Hoodsport
:ary Intel. 'eath occurring
w 1“ Shelton hos-
as
[S unerafent to Sedro
iren i arrangements.
01,8 Survived by
esedfo Woolley;
t1 .hall.8 and his
Sister, Do-
ey will take
a new car in
e
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.then make a
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I Phone 149 Again
To Report Red
Demon in Woods
Today the State of Washing—
ton officially declared its annual
war on forest fires, although, of
course, it is always prepared to
battle woods flames no matterI
what time of year they occur.
Coincident with this
opening, District Fire
Charles Ogg reopened the state
forestry fire hall here and had
the telephone roe-connected, so
anyone wishing to report fires
may call 149, same number as
heretofore, he said.
Ogg said his staff of deputy
wardens probably will be the same ,
as last year with two exceptions, ‘
which have not yet been filled.
He said he would release the com-
plete staff as soon as the two
vacancies are filled.
SURIIVORORSUR
DISASTER DIES ON
FISHING TRIP HERE
Allan H. Hull, 45, Kamilche Serv-
ice Station Operator, Expires
Near Crater Lake
Allan H. Hull, 45, survived the
torpedoing of a submarine on
which he was serving during the
IVVorld War but a hike into the
rugged country above Camp 3 on
a fishing trip Easter Sunday was
the last straw for a gallant heart
which served his country in time
of need.
Returning from Crater Lake,
high in the Olympic foothills, Mr.
Hull complained of a slight pain
in his side and set down to rest
on a log with his fishing com—
panion, J. E. Ragan. There he
quietly expired, evidently with lit-
tle pain.
The country was so rugged and
difficult to reach that a party of
nine men who went in to bring
out the body were almost six
hours- in making the round trip
from Camp 3. The group consisted
of Ragan, Undertaker W. A. Wit-
siers, his assistant, Edgar Byrne,,;
and six men from Camp 3—How-
ard Townsend. Archie Vaughn,
Puhn and Norman Hulbert.
Funeral services will be con—,
ducted at two o'clock Wednesdav
from Witsiers Funeral Home with:
the Olympia Eagles aerie in
charge. Burial will be in Shelton
Memorial Park.
Mr. Hull had lived at Kamilche
for the past five years, operating
the service station owned by Mrs.
L. K. Munson, his sister-in-law.
He came here for his health, which
has been poor since he was wound— I
ed in the war. He was one of six
survivors from 40 men in a U. S.
submarine which was torpedoed
and exploded. He spent 13 months
in a hospital recovering, although
his wounds have troubled him from
time to time ever since.
He was a former secretary of
the Shelton Eagles aerie but re-
cently had transferred to the
Olympia aerie, and was a mem-
ber of the Shelton Odd Fellows
lodge. He was born at Steuben-
ville, Ohio, on December 28, 1895.
Pete and Karol
Skating For Us
Fitting it is that Shelton-born
Peter and Karol Kennedy, who
have risen to no little fame
through their ability on the steel
blades, should skate for the bene—
fit of something in Shelton.
This they’ll do this coming
weekend, when they appear in
exhibitions Saturday and Sunday
at the Olympia Ice Arena, With
a 4:15 matinee performance for
kids Friday afternoon.
The benefit part comes in the
form of a percentage realized from
the sale of tickets to the exhibi-
tion by the Shelton Garden Club
for its Railroad Avenue beautifi—
cation project, according to Mrs.
George Cropper, club president,
said today.
GRAPEVIEW COUPLE MAKING
TRANSCONTINENTAL. CAR TRIP
From Mrs. Bert G. Mitchell,
part-time Journal correspondent
for the Grapeview community,
comes an account of the trip she
and Mr. Mitchell are making. It
is the kind of a story a lazy news
editor takes joy in receiving fQI‘
it needs no re-writing to turn lt
into “news style,” Mrs. Mitchell
being a talented writer in her
own right.
Written from Hollywood and
postmarked April 9, the story
says:
Dear Editor:
We are spending a week in Hol-
lywood after a trip by auto down
the Oregon Coast, through San
‘Francisco and down the MISSiOns
Trail. We were very fortunate
in not being actually in many
of the rain storms but We were
held up by the slides in northern
California. Particularly along“th
Eel River there were many high-
way crews at work. At one place
they said the hill was sliding for
a half mile back. Since the droP
official _.
Warden
1 Possession. however, is not be-
Missing, Kiddies!
George Brydon, Dick Ellison, Bob,
Consolidated withTe Shelton Independent
SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Tuesday, April 15, 1941.
NAVY Til TAKE
I
ON IIAI IIIIRO
S Oil Condemnation Proceed-
} lugs Filed Last Week
In Federal Court I
U. S. Navy officials will take
charge of the Shelton airport of—
ficially May 3, the Mason County.
commissioners were informed last
Friday after paying a visit to the
‘U. S. Federal Court clerk in Ta—
coma.
Condemnation proceedings have
;been filed in that court by the
INavy to secure possession of 200,
l
l
acres of land owned by John
‘MacRae and Peter Anderson ad-
.jacent to the present airport sit-
,uatcd on county land.
ing delayed because of the con~,
idomnation proceedings. Just what
Ithe government is to offer the
icounty for the 40 acres on which
,the present airport is situated is
Inot certain, but the commission-
Iers said they believed it would
be $20 or $25 an acre. '
The commissioners are waiting
definite knowledge on what sum
they can expect from the govern-
ment before making plans to es-»
tablish another public airport few
local airplane users, as the pres-
ent airport will be closed to pub-
lic use as soon as the Navy takes
official possession, the commis-
sioners said the Navy had inform-
ed them.
The commissioners also were
told on their visit to Tacoma
lFriday that the Shelton airport}
'would follow the Arlington air-
port in Skagit county and would
precede the Port Angeles airport
in Clallam county in order of
attention. The Snohomish coun—
ty airport is now being put in
shape by the Navy as the first of
the four auxiliary landing fields
,of which the Shelton airport isI
lone which the Navy is establish~
ing in Western Washington in its
national defense preparation pro-
gram.
Prize Egg Still
Worth 50¢ Cash
Lured out by perfect weather,
several hundred Shelton and Ma-
son County kiddies combed Knee-
land Park for prizes in the an-
;nual Easter egg hunt conducted
by the Active Club last Sunday.
, But they didn’t comb it well
enough, evidently, for one of the
golden prize eggs worth fifty
cents in cash to its finder it still
missing, Chairman Bill Bourland
reports today.
I Six of the eight gold eggs were
{turned in during the progress of
lthe hunt Sunday and a seventh
vwas redeemed yesterday by Rus—
sell T‘NOhey, who found it after
I other searchers had given up. The
other gold egg finders were Duane
., OVERAIRI’RRT
Possession Not To Await Outcome
4-Bloom Tulips
Discovered At
Hoodsport Home
Stories of early blooming
flowers, early growing vege-
tables, etc., have been a dime
a, dozen this year but here’s
one that’s a. bit different.
It’s about some flowers that
are not only early blooming but
also oddities among their spec-
ies.
They are tulips with four
blossoms growing from single
stems which were raised by Mrs.
G. C. Gray in her Hoodsport
garden. Mrs. Gray has six
such freaks of the tulip fam-
ily, all produced from bulbs
which were given her by a
friend a couple of years ago
supposedly as “culls.”
WARREN MELCIIM
T0 RECIEVE. TOP
BOY SCOUT RANK
Eagle Scout Badge Presentation
To Feature Court of Honor
Program Thurs. Eve
Another court of honor rolls
around for Mason County Boy
Scouts this Thursday evening and
another Eagle Scout will be added
to the already considerable list
of those top flight Scouts in these
parts when Warren Melcum, vet-
eran.member of Troop 25, steps
up to receive the badge of highest
rank attainable in Scouting.
Melcum, a senior at Irene S.
Reed high school, where he has
been active as a manager for bas-
ketball and baseball teams and is
at present captain of the High.
climber golf team, has had all his
Scout training in Troop 25. In
addition to his participation in
athletics at high school, Melcum
has been active in many other
student body affairs and is a
member of the school annual staff
as well as being a good student
scholastically. He is the son of
Dr. M. C. Melcum, Shelton den-
tist.
Award of the Eagle badge to
Melcum will be the feature of a
program which will see nineteen
advancements claimed by a dozen
Scouts of the Shelton and Agate
troops, plus whatever advance-
ments Scouts of Troop 11 at
Hoodsport come up for. No re-
port of the results of the Hoods~
port board of review have been
(Continued on Page Two)
and cash commissions. Under
five prize bicycles and eleven
candidates.
additional candidates.
Archer, Lawrence Hackett, Dick
Clifton, Gene Wells, and Harold
(Wilson, who found two.
I Nearly 800 other prize eggs, re-
deemable at Shelton business
firms for small prizes, were scat-
.tered about the park for the
young searchers, along with sev-
eral hundred bags and baskets of
candy eggs.
Cancer Control Meet
Wednesday, Courthouse
Dr. Simeon Cantril, noted con-
ductor of the Swedish hospital
,tumor clinic in Seattle, will again
appear before a Shelton audience
this Wednesday evening as guest
speaker for the Mason County.
'Women‘s Field Army of the
American Society for the Control
of Cancer, which is sponsoring
another of its public meetings in
Its program to educate the public
in the control of cancer.
This meeting will be held 'at
the courthouse at eight o’clock.
The public is cordiany invited. No
admission is charged.
to the river was several hundred
feet (estimated, I didn't measure
it!) we were glad the hill stayed
put. At Santa Rosa we thought
our troubles were over but just
out of town found the highway
under water. We drove through
that for about a mile.
Since We reached here the wea-
ther has been lovely and we make
ourselves disagreeable by saying
that we brought it with us from
Puget Sound. However, t h e wea-
ther is the unimportant part of
the trip. Visiting with old
friends, “seeing the sights” and
enjoying the things that are dif-
ferent—those the the things that
make a trip worth while. We go
from here to Arizona, Oklahoma,
Missouri and then east to visit
our daughter in Washington, D, C.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Bert G. Mitchell.
PS. We. are not trying to.
break into pictures (or any-
from anyone. anywhere.
There are two first prizes—the high candidate in each
district will each receive one
bicycles.
highest number of votes.
win one of the prize bicycles
mission equal to 20 per cent (one-fifth) of all money he or she
has turned in for subscriptions.
Following is a list of the young men and young ladies Who
have Signified a desire to work in this campaign. As the
Shelton-Mason County Journal
returns had not been received
candidates.
the report days:
thing else) .
Your Subscription can Mean
4 DAYS LEFT
T0 EARN $10 ;
CASH AWARD
Only New Subscriptions Count To-
ward This Feature Of Jour—
nal’s Campaign; Sat-
urday Deadline
Just four days remain of the
competition for the $10 cash prize
offered in a new campaign, to the
candidates in the Shelton-Mason
C o u n t y Journal’s subscription
campaign.
This cash prize will be won by
one of the active candidates in
addition to the regular prize he or
she wins in the campaign. Each
candidate is guaranteed either a
brand new bicycle or a liberal
cash commission.
Only new subscriptions count I
towards the $10 cash prize and the
candidates are out rustling their
best now for the new subscrip-
tions while they can win an extra
$10 in cash.
General interest in the campaign
has been on the up-swing as more
and more people have seen the
fine prizes the youngsters are
working for.
For the convenience both of the
candidates and persons wishing to
pay their subscriptions the Jour-
nal office is open each evening
until o’clock and until o'clock
on Wednesday and Saturday eve—
nings. ‘,
For the duration of the cam—
paign~—until 9 p. m., on May 3;“!
the Journal is offering a spec1al=
subscription rate. For this short
time $4.00 will bring the Journal
to your house for two years de-
livered by carrier in Shelton and:
$3 will bring the paper any place
to you outside Shelton by mail
for two years. On account ‘of i
rules governing delivery of city
mail, people living in Shelton City
CANNOT receive The Journal by
mail.
Brother, Sister Drive
To National Capital
Bud Quinn, Shelton postoffice,
mail "terrier; and his sister, Shire'
ley, left here Friday for Washing- ‘
ton, D. C., where Shirley is to
report for a civil service position!
with the Veterans Bureau.
Bud is taking his vacation at
this time, so is driving his sister
HERE ARE THE CANDIDATES
Each active candidate in this campaign is sure of winning
a prize bicycle or a cash commision as only as many candidates
will be allowed to be active in this campaign as there are prizes I
When more than sixteen candidates enter one prize
bicycle and four cash commissions will be added for each flve
Next week’s paper will announce the
\number of bicycles—if any——to be added in this campaign.
This will be governed by the number of candidates who are
actively turning in subscriptions.
The candidates are separated into two districts.
living outside the City of Shelton are in District Number One,
and those living inside the city
trict Number Two, but any candidate may secure subscriptions
The other prize bicycles will be
dates, regardless of which district they are in, having the next
The active candidates who do not
impossible to publish the corrected final list of actually active
' The official list of active candidates will be an-
nounced in next Tuesday’s Journal and will comprise those in
the followmg 11st who remain active by reporting on each of
DISTRICT NUMBER ONE
AUSETH, Victor, Agate .............................................. ..
10,000
AVERY, Laurence, Arcadia Road .... .. .. 10,000
BAKER, Laura. Jean, Matlock Route . 10,000
BLEECKER, Marcia Jane, Hoodsport ........... .. . 10,000
BUFFINGTON, Geraldine, Skokomish Valley . 10,000
EAGLE. Wentz, Arcadia Road . 10,000
EDWARDS, Elvin, Victor . 10,000
GLASER, Hugo, Jr., Harstine Island . ......... .. 10,000
LUNDBERG, Oscar, Jr., Dayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
10,000
OGG,» Bernadine, Matlock Route .. 10,000
PETTY, Oliver, Kamilche ......... .. . 10,000
REMME, Ramona, Arcadia Road . 10,000
‘ ROBINSON. Fae, East Dickinson . .... .. .. 10,000
SHAW. Betty Lou, Capitol Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10,000
WECKHORST, Robert, Belfair ...................................... .. 10,000
. DISTRICT NUMBER TWO
CASE, Patty
...................................................................... ..
10,000
COLE, Louise ....................................................... ..
10,000
DAVIDSON, Danny . 10,000
DUNBAR, Prentice .. 10,000
HACKETT, Joyce 10,000
HERZOG, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .. 10,000
LUHM, Albert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .. 10,000
MCBRIDE, Albert 10.000
MELL, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10,000
PARKS, Leonard 10,000
PIGG, Ralph, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10,000
POWERS, Richard . . . . . . . . < . 1.0.000
SMYTH, Jimmie ...... .. .. 10.000
SPRAY, Betty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10.000
VALLEY. Margaret .. 10.000
WENZ, Bobby .......................................................... ..
10,000
Watch for Official List of Active Candidates
In an Early Issue of The ——
SHELTON-MASON COUNTY JOURNAL
back to the national capital.
the campaign rules there are
cash commissions for sixteen
Those
limits of Shelton are in Dis—
of the District Captital prize
given to the candi-
will each receive a cash com-
goes to press today complete
from all candidates making it
First‘ Prize to Your Favorite!
1
More important matters were
undertaken at the April Cham-
ber of Commerce Session Thurs-
day evening but none compared
in pleasure with the letter Presi-
dent Ed Faubert read to the
membership from Dr. Arthur Mac-
Whinnie, main speaker at the
breakfast flight program held
for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots
Association group which flew to
Shelton a week ago Sunday.
The letter expressed the great
pleasure the A.O.P.A. enjoyed on
the Shelton flight, in theSe words:
Seattle,
April 10.
Dear Mr. Faubertr—T
Throughout the week, I, like
all the other participants in Sun—
'day‘s flight, have been enjoying
the memories of the perfectly
swell time and wonderful break-
fast provided for us by the Shel-
ton Chamber of Commerce.
We enjoyed very much the
warm friendliness with which we
were received and the pleasant
acquaintances we made.
For myself, I enjoyed very much
the little brochure on the history
of Shelton mote—each visitor was
provided with one of the brief
historical pamphlets on Shelton
which the Chamber of Commerce
and Rayonier Incorporated col-
laborated in producing a few
weeks ago). I intend to pass
this around to people to whom
this will mean a half hours’ pleas-
ure.
From our point of view this
was by far the most successful
breakfast flight that we have
made. Thank you again for the
nice time you gave A.O.P.A. and
.—-———_—
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
iFlyers Write I Pleased At
Treatment Accgrded Herev
their friends.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Arthur B. MacWhinnie.
Feature of the April Chamber
program on the business side was
the explanatory talk and question
answering of Lieut.-Col. William
Nelson, state advisor on occupa-
tional deferments for the select-
ive service system.
He answered a number of ques-
tions proposed from the floor by
members of the Chamber and em-
ployers of labor who were es—
pecially invited to sit in on the
talk.
After a motion put forth by
Maurice Needham, the Chamber
passed a resolution asking the
Navy to retain the name “San—
derson Field” which has been
given to the Shelton airport, when
the Navy officially takes charge
of it.
Mountain Road Backed
A letter from the Elma Cham-
ber of Commerce asking support
of its move to get the Quinault-
Brinnon trans—Olympic highway
completed was followed by a mo-
tion to support and turned over
to the Olympic National Park
and Forest committee for action
in drafting a resolution to be
forwarded to the proper authori-
ties.
July 27 was announced as the
date for the annual Pioneer Pic-
nic, sponsored by the Chamber,
by Chairman Grant C. Angle, and
May 22 was announced as the
date for the Chamber’s annual
visit to Adderbrook Inn for the
semi-official opening of the tour-
ist season on Hood Canal.
The next Chamber monthly
meeting will be May 8. .
RRANOIS CARR, ONE
OF OLDEST COUNTY
PIONEERS, PASSES
Homesteadcd at Kamilche In 1883,
Family Home There Since;
Funeral Today
Francis Carr, 72, one of Mason
County's eldest pioneers, dating
back to 1883, passed away at the
Shelton Hospital Saturday morn-
ing after a short illness although
his health has been fair for his
years until recently. Funeral ser-
vices wcre held at Mills and Mills
in Olympia this afternoon, and
burial will follow in the Odd Fel-
lows cemetery in the family plot.
Francis Carr was born in
Yorkshire, England, June 25;
1852, and came to Canada when
19 years of age. He was married
at Thornbury, September 23, 1879,
to Mary E. Ellison, and in 1883
they came direct to Mason Coun-
ty, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Ellison and family, who
settled in Kamilche Valley. Fran-
cis Carr located a homestead and
this has been the family home for
57 years as a farm.
In earlier years Mr. Carr was
employed on the Port Blakely
railroad after it was started in
the late eighties, was Justice of
the Peace, road supervisor, and
served as postmaster when New
Kamilche postoffice was establish-
ed and for twelve years. He was
a charter member of Progress
Grange and long a member.
He is survived by his helpmate
through the years, two sons Har-
old and Roy, of Kamilche, and one
daughter, Mrs. S. C. Ball of Ab~
erdeen, and six grandchildren, be-
sides a sister in England from
whom they have not heard for
some time and do not know has
survived the ruin there. A ,son
Lloyd served in the World War
and is numbered among those
who gave their lives to their
country.
J oseph. Luhm To Build
New $2000 Home Here
Joseph Luhm was issued a
building permit Saturday by City
Auditor Gordon Hendry for con—
struction of a new $2000 home,
garage and woodshed at Roose-
velt and Hay streets.
ALEX JOHNSON ILL
Alex Johnson, retired independ-
ent logger, was admitted to Shel-
care.
It’s getting to be “big busi-
ness," is this annual cookie sale
conducted under the auspices of
the Girl Scout Council, with mem-
bers of the Girl Scout troopsand
Brownie packs taking the roles
of “saleswomen.”
Deliveries will be made on the
1941 sale this coming Saturday
and when all the boxes are in the
hands of customers who purchas-
ed them there will be 88,507 cook-
ies ready to sooth the sweet tooths
of 1389 families in Shelton and
Mason County.
Sixty-three cookies are in each
25-cent box and 111m: profit is
realized on each box sold, so the
total profit of this year’s cookie
sale will be $162.73%. The mon-
key is distributed to the troops
COUNCIL DELAYS
PIPE PURCHASE;
LOOKS AT LABOR
Costs 0f Laying Different Types
Of Pipe May Be Important
Factor To Consider
Action on awarding the con-
tract for :‘.\;.plying..pipe and ac:
cessories for the Shelton water
system improvement project was
delayed by the city council at its
special meeting last Thursday un—
til the cost of labor for laying the
various types of pipe can be de-
termined.
The delay was thought advise-
able because the bids for supply-
ing the material were of such
small differences that the council
believes the differences in the
costs of labor to lay the different
types of pipe (such as cast iron,
wood, etc.) might be such that
a better pipe could be laid for
less actual cost.
Bids for supplying the labor for
the waterpipe laying will be open-
ed by the council May 1, and on
that same date bids also will be
opened for supplying a booster
Pump to serve the Hillcrest resi-
dential area. ,
National Youth Administration
workers are expected to begin
work on the city dock float con-
struction project April 21, Mayor
William Stevenson said today.
MAYOR. SAYS GET READY
FOR ‘CANNING SEASON”
Mayor Bill Stevenson is well
aware that the cherries and
watermelon aren’t ripe in Shel-
ton gardens yet, despite the ad-
vanced season, but nevertheless
he wants Shelton residents to
get ready for the annual “can-
ning season.”
He requests that you gather
all the Cans that have accum—
ulated over the winter, and
GIRL scours SELL 88,507
COOKIES DURING 1941 SALE
drop them into a garbage Can
so they Can be transported to
the city dump, between April
28 and May 3, which he has
decreed as annual spring clean-
up week in Shelton.
He asks you also to make a
Can-vass, too, for all bottles,
Can-dy boxes, Can-ales and
other rubbish littering up your
backyard, and send them along
too. You Can probably see now
what he means by the Canning
season.
STARWICH IN HOSPITAL
,Pplice Chief Ray Starwich was
ton hospital Sunday for medical admitted to Shelton hospital for
medical attention last weekend.
—‘.
within the council in direct pro-
portion to the success of each
troop in the council, that money
being used to purchase troop
equipment and supplies.
The best “salesgirls” in this
year’s cookie sale were the young-
est in the Girl Scout Council, the
30 members of the Brownie Pack
supervised by Mrs. Lloyd Mor-
gan. They sold 515 boxes of
cookies, netting the Pack $68.22.
Eleanor Ann Booth, member of
Miss Betty McClelland’s Girl
Scout troop, was the best indi-
vidual salesgirl with 40 boxes
sold, but she just barely nosed
out a large group of other girls.
The 1940 cookie sale totalled
948 boxes. Six troops and packs
participated in this year’s sale.
SAILOR DIES ,
IN ACCIDENT
THIS MORNING
Second Seamon, Both From Sara-
. toga, In Shelton Hospital;
5 Driver Dozes At Wheel,
l Car Hits Pole, Stump
Mason County‘s second fatal
traffic accident occurred this
morning when Jones H. Miller,
21, fireman third class from the
USS. Saratoga, airplane carrier
in the U. S. Pacific Fleet, died
instantly from injuries suffered as
the car he was driving crashed
into a telephone pole and a stump
la half mile north of the Navy
Yard and Olympic highway junc-
tion.
It is believed Miller dozed at
the wheel as he and John Bark—
ley, 21, also a fireman, third
class, from the Saratoga, were
returning to their ship at Brem-
erton from a visit at Port Ange-
les. Barkley is in Shelton hospi-
tal with severe head, leg and eye
cuts and other injuries. Bark-
ley, owner of the car, was asleep
in the seat beside Miller when
the accident occurred and could
give no definite account of what
, happened.
State Patrolman Cliff Aden,
called to the scene by telephone,
said that evidently Miller had
Idozed and the car had run off
the road gradually on a straight
stretch, struck first the telephone
pole and glanced off it into
the stump. The machine was so
badly wrecked it had to be wired
together before it could be towed
in by the Shelton Garage wreck-
er. The impact of the collision
was on the driver’s side of the
car, Aden said.
Aden called Prosecutor Frank
Heuston, who acts as coroner al-
so, and Heuston pronounced Mil-
ler dead when he arrived at the
accident scene.
Miller‘s home was in Savannah.
Georgia, Barkley‘s is in Texas.
The accident occurred at 4.40
o'clock this morning.
Letter Tells How
.Coastfinardlook
Command of Ship
.Through his personal friend
since boyhood, Commander Bur-
ritt Kingsley Cook of Coast
Guard Cutter 265, stationed at
Portland, Wilbert Catto of Shel-
ton last week learned some of
the inside details of the seizure
of interned ships of warring na-
tions which was carried out at
the orders of the Secretary of
War.
A letter written April by Com-
mander Cook to Mr. Catto says
In part: '
I am now in addition to my
regular duties, the captain of the
8000 ton Italian motorship Leme.
I had to organize the seizing de-
tails and luckily things went
nicely. We captured the entire
crew without firing a shot. Of
course, the damage is quite ex-
tensive. It was done some time
before we captured her. In my
opinion the damage is mostly
superficial.
I_ have been busy as heck this
entire winter, but you should fol-
low me around now for a. day
and see. I have a prize crew of
20 men—all from various coast
guard units in Oregon. We are
pretty well organized now, but
the first day and night I was on
the go without letup for over 40
hours and with nothing but cof-
fee, etc. I just couldn’t get away
to eat and after a time I lost my
appetite anyway.
We have the crew in the coun-
ty bastile and criminal charges
are being filed. They may get
as much as 20 years for sabo-
tage."
The two men have been per-
sonal friends since they were 12
years old and Commander Cool!
has made a number of friends in
Shelton through visits to Mr.
Catto’s home here.
One Rejected By
I Army, 3 Others
Ordered on Calls
_One Mason County man was
rejected for physical reasons when
he reported to the Tacoma In-
duction Station last Thursday with
the five composing the quota to
fill the fifth draft call in the
Ninth Corps Area, Mrs. Martha
Haines, clerk for the Mason Coun-
ty draft board reported today.
At the same time, the seventh
call, coming as a surprise, was
announced today but will take
only one Mason County man, who
will report for induction April 24.
He will be Edwin Waldrip Taylor
of Route 1.
One other will report from this
county in the sixth call April 22.
he being James Edward Bales, a
transfer from Polk County, Iowa.
However, two others will report~
with him at the same ‘ e as re-
placements for reject draftee‘su
Harold Moore taking the place of
a rejected man from the third
can, and Merlin 0. Rickerts 01'
Shelton to replace the man who
was rejected last Thursday.
