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WORTS EVENZS
y EDWARD W. PICARD
Cepy'rloht Western NewoSmPer Union
Consolidated with The Shelton Independent '
VOL. LIII--NO. 90. SHELTON, WASHINGTON, Thursday, November 9, 1939 .... ......
Feature
Hallow's eve found every Eu-
ear cocked to Moscow,
history-making utterances
Premier Viacheslav Molotov:
Hitler had 1,500,000 men
at the front; so did the allies.
hung in abeyance. For as
swung so would the war, be-
every other European state
leclared its status, neutral with
either toward Germany
Italy and Hungary) or toward
Thunder
t hours before Molotov's
II Duce Benito Mussolini
a coup that must have stunned
erstwbile colleague in Germany.
was Propaganda Minister
0Alfleri, close friend of Nazidom's
Paul Joseph Goebbels.
were Fascist Secretary
Starace, close friend of Dep.
Fuehrer Rudolf Hess and the
who gave a signal for the Ital.
er's demonstration against
ALL 0UIET ON Mural Problem Solved! ql
SItELTONFRONT New Design Orderedtl
Succor for Shelton's postoffice Grant Angle's story of October
ARMISTICE DAY
City Takes Day Off s War Vet-
erans Obser.qe Anniversary Of
Peace, Citizens Celebrate 5Oth
Anniversary Of State
America's war dead will be paid
homage again Saturday on t h e
21st anniversary of the signing
of the Armistice ending the World
War, with Shelton and Mason
County contributing its bit by
closing up activities of a com-
mercial nature for the entire day.
War veterans will spend the day
reminiscing over their experiences
in the great war, remembering just
where they. were and what they
mural problem has arrived, chums,
so we can quit fretting about the
prospect of seeing Navajo Indians
and oxcarts crossing the Arizona'
dessert painted upon the walls of
our new federal building•
This is the assuring word from
Congressman Martin F. Smith, who
took the matter up with federal au-
thorities in Washington, D. C. yes-
terday and evidently obtained im-
mediate action on the matter. His
telegram of assurance to M is s
Jessie Knight, Shelton postmistress
reads:
"I personally conferred t his
morning with Edward Bruce, chief
of section of fine arts, public
buildings administration, and I
joined in vigorous protest of Shel-
ton Chamber of Commerce, Ki-
wanis Club, the Shelton-Mason
thirty-first. Upon my recommen.
dation I was assured instructions
would be given to Richard Haines,
of Minneapolis, winner of eommis.
sion, that mural be redesigned and
was further assured that Post-
mistress Knight and citizens of
Shelton would be given opportunity
to view design and pass judgment
on same before final decision is
approved by public buildings ad.
ministration. Kindly advise other
interested parties. Glad to have
cooperated and obtained favorable
action."
MARTIN F. SMITH.
So there's the evidence. Not
only are we freed of the prospect
ARMISTICE DAY
PROGRAM IN SHELTON
All DaymStores, public offi-
ces closed.
9:30 a.m.Americn L e g i o n
cocktail hour, Hotel Sheiton.
10:30 a.m.--Annual American
Legion Armistice breakfast, Ho-
tel Shelton.
11:O0a.m."Taps" by 15 trum-
pet players throughout City, 30
second period of silent prayer
for war dead.
1:55 p.m.--Flag raising cere-
mony by American Legion at
Loop Field.
2:00p.m.--Third annual Arm-
istice Day football game, Shel-
ton vs. Bellarmine, Loop Field.
9:30 p.m.--Annual V. F. W.
post Armistice Ball, Blue Ox.
9:30 p.m.--Annual American
Legion post Armistic BaH, Un-
ion City Masonic Hall.
of viewing the original mural cho,- 1
en for the Shelton postoffice, but] SEVEN SE$0LS TO
we are also to have a voice in sen I
Twice a Week
TUESDAY and
THURSDAY
a_
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
Good Foxglove Crop
Aids Digitalis Industry
Who'll Be No. 7
In Sweepstakes!
Deadline Friday
i were doing when the wonderful
i nevs of the signing of the Arm-
istice reached them. A2ong with
!this event, the citizenry-at-large
will observe the day as Washing-
tea's 50th anniversary of state-
hood. No special Golden Jubilee
program has been arranged in
Shelton, although many nearby
communities have done so.
The American Legion's annual
Armistice breakfast starts off the
Armistice Day program in Shel-
ton, and will be held at 1:30 in
the banquet room of the Hotel
Shelton, but long before tTikt hour
the Legionnaires will start gather-
Increasing importance is being
given by Mason County to a little-
known, although long-known, in-
i dustry with prospects this year of
!an unusually fine crop of fox-
gloves.
The picking season for this an-
nual trade is just reaching its
zenith for the year -- November
through February -- and Mason
County stands to produce a good
crop, according to Fred Lasher,
manager of the digitalis produc-
tion industry in this area.
Digitalis is a medicine used in
relieving heart trouble and it is
made from the leaves of foxglove
plants which bear purple blos-
soms, Mr. Lasher explained •to a
Journal reporter yestettday.
Only the purple-blossomed fox-
glove leaves have this medicinal
quality, he said. The white, yel-
ing and the tales will begin flying, when Shelton junior high stud-
Silent Prayer At U ents conduct a "Back-To-School"
t At eleven o'clock all tomfool, program in the junior high build-
cry stops abruptly vHaile heads bow ing as the local highlight of Edu-
in silent prayer for the departed cation Week.
I heroes -who gave their lives in the --ver on ls my1 ect whether
E m y e t ,
cause of their country. veryone
] ....... J parents of students In school or
is asked to onserve a u-secono __, ,^ _,,^_.4 ,t.^ ,,•.. m^
I reverent silence at this time along ohacd" wPnPava hurdnv ovmn-
l, DUCE'S ARACE with the war veteran. ,,: , I i''egin'&'-'" S--'--" -:-
His dmo.on... At t.!s same moment Taps' I They'll see how today'; students
[Will' De DIOWn on u'umpets Dy some ..h.,,t th ,,1..1.,, ho..h
' last winter; Gen. Alberto [15 musicians, of the !unior an d iaily'routin"e-ls e'p'ic'ed"i'n"brie
• , se n ior SChOOl Dan{Is, station-
d, frzend of Htler s Col. Gem I ...... he c't . I in an assembly in the auditorium
, e{I mrougnout t x y t m a ,,
.r von Brauchitsch and author J ...... " _ I which will open the Back-To-
,, . ,, new even in necon for oeserving oi" ra
Italian bhtzekrieg plan for I the revere-" -eriod lh honor '-" "h ^ I Scho pro m.
man. Italian. Spanish drve ] war dead g ' Imitate Teachers
t France; Gen, Gluseppe I Not on'l" Shelton but "-eral Sam Wilson, unior high stud-
friend of Field Marshal Her-! ..... ; . .. , _ ,v ent body president, will introduce
Goerin" Re,,lactn them ieommunjues in M,a$on, .oult:y .a each detail of the program. A skit
a. , , ,welt walt near Taps DIOW'n oy by students will imitate their
.of.the.roaders like Mar- ] the school trumpeteers, reports, too ,a ,,.,,,.,. ,, ,n,me
Graztam, chief of s • Dick Berg, tlt&:directo,mho., e0nadrable Jn'me',::,:tfhm tr
were other YaV0tqtes like ranged the stunt at the ugges- Hatch is directing.
Minister Count Galeazzo CI- tion of Legionnaire Milt Clothier.
County Journal, and yourself of ecting its successor. And what J PLAY FINAL HOME
mural design, stressing to him more could be asked! low, speckled, or other colored fox-
gloves are useless in producing
PROGRAM ! GA ARMI!TICEI
'BACK-TO-SCHOOL', M E o,, Gives 'Era Away
THURSDAY PROMISES FUN yen t [ Pickers don't have to have the
Se sen'ors--o w l grace blo.oms on the plants in order
w-,,-,T w wv'vr,' t vr t 'w vw rra the starting nneup tor the She/-[ to tell if they have the right type
Will{ l-'l'f:rM'l, iWl } ,1 li II:I?N ton Highclimbers in their third[Of foxgloves. They can tell by
. ,., .=, .=,L,.,, . ............ annual Armistice Day gridiron[the shape of the leaf whether they
. . struggle with Bellarmine high have a purple-blossomed plant or
If they've lost touch to aeer- Extra curricular worz will oe! school of Tacoma e some other color, Mr. Lasher ex-
Mason County will play a more
j i important role this coming year
have a chance to compare the past eat work will be shown, a "get-to- of Shelton's observance of Armis- in the unique industry Mr Lasher
with the present Thursday night tether" period for teachers and tics. conducts because a better-than-
One other senior ordinarily a
regular probably won't be in suit
for this final game on home soil,
nursing a broken finger and hop-
ing to be able to get into the sea-
son's finale Thanksgiving Day at
Olympia. This is Frank Waters,
veteran guard, who may not be
able to play again this season, de-
pending upon the success or fail-
ure of splints to protect his broken
digit.
Regulars In Farewell
But the seven who will wear
their Red and Black onto Loop
Field for the last time as prep
football players are Danny Cor-
parents and visitors will be held,
and refreshments served during
"noon hour."
Early Day Scenes
An exhibit of old-time school i
pictures will recall fond memories l
to many parents and adult visi-
tors, such as the first school bus
of 1916, .an open truck driven by
Jack Cole, as compared with the
big fleet of modern busses which
whisks students to and from school
today.
Pictures of athletic teams tf
dv.ys gone by, including some of
the early girls basketball teams
which Shelton boasted, will be an-
(Mussolini's son.in.law) and
Dine Grandi, minister of Jus-
Paris there was a feeling the
e-Ber n axis had broken down
letel, London was also hap-
or a few hours earher Italy's
Ssadx Giuseppe Bastlaninl
asde a strong anti-Communist
In the Balkans it was
Mussolini disapproved Rus-
r expansionist policy, especially
II Dues did not even wait until
spoke. But in Italy it was
indication that Mussolini
ear to the ground; Italians
with the allies, they
wanted strict neutrality.
Talk
allied reaction to Premier
speech was relief over
declare a military al-
With the Reich, even though
charge Britain and France
RUSSIAN DEMANDS
would give Finland part
(1) in ezchanse ]or movin
trontier northwest o!
(2); Russia wanL (3) is.
Seldmri, Ho#lasd, Lavansaari
woUld lase land (4) .,t
Fimdsh sul/ /or navsl bases;
' Rybachi penin.
not to preserve de-
or restore Poland, but to
their world empires. But
reflection made the allies wor-
Molotov revealed, much
chagrin, the stalemat-,
which have occupied
lWo countries for the past
a mutual assistance
wanted territorial ex-
(see map) which Finland
would "robus of the
of defending tha independ-
!,' • of our land,"
of Commerce
Is Thursday
meeting f t h e
Chamber of Commerce will
Thursday evening in the
with the usual 6:30
off the program,
Harold Lakeburg r e,
raembers this afternoon.
Student trumpeteers who w t 11
play "Taps" at eleven o'clock from
the porches or street coeaers near-
est their homes include: Wylie
Hoyle, Angleside; Jack Allison,
,Union; Bernard Boylan, Hillcrest;
Wesley Lizotte, Route 1 (Olympic
highway three miles south of
Shelton); George Snyder, "Hill-
crest; Bob Pearson, Hillcrest; Milt
Clothier, Jr., senior high school
district; Clarence Robinson, An-
gieside; Keith Bennett, Shelton
Valley; Earwin Loop, Angleside;
Allan Johnson, upper Cota street;
Dick Ammerman, Hoodsport; Bob
Springer, Southside; William Hilli-
toss, Hoodsport; Lester Joslin, Mt.
View; Vernon Stewart, First and
Pine streets; Charles Evans, Ar-
cadia.
Football Features Afternoon
In the afternoon at 1:55 o'clock,
American Legion color squads will
conduct a flag-raising ceremony at
Loop Field and five minutes later
the third annual Shelton-Bellar-
mine high school Armistice D a y
football game will get under way.
The largest crowd of the season
is expected to be on hand for the
game.
Eyening observances of t h e
Arrdistice holiday will be in the
form of the annual Armistice Balls
conducted by the American Legion
and V.,F.W. posts, both starting at
9:30 o clock.
The V.F.W. ball will be held
at the Blue Ox pavilion a mile!
north of Hoodsport with muste'
I furnished by Happy Harrison's
,seven-piece orchestra. Harrison
himself is a war veteran and a
member of the V.F.W. in Tacoma.
The American Legion ball will
be held at the Union City Masonic
HaM with The Hightoppers, an
eight-piece orchestra direct from
the University of Washington !
campus, furnishing the music.
SCHOOI OBSERVE
ARMISTICE FRIDAY
Under a state law passed by the
last legislature, Washington schools
must observe Armistice Day on
Friday preceding when the actual
date falls on a Saturday or Sun-
day, according tO County School
Sdpt. J: E. Martin.
"The law requires schools to de-
vote at least aft hour's program
to the observance of Armistice
Day under such occasions," he
pointed out. "When Armistice
Day falls on a regular school day
then the day is a holiday, decreed
so by the last legislature. There-
fore we find ourselves under the
first circumstances this year so
rural teachers are urged to con-
duct hour-long programs as re-
quired by that law."
POSTOFFICE REMAINS OPEN
HALF DAI r ON SATURDAY
Unlike other public and govern-
ment offices, the Shelton postoffice
will rvmain on its regular half-day [
schedule Saturday, Armltice Day,
and will be open until noon, MLs!
Jessie Knight, postmistress, an-i
nounced today.
At the same' time she announced
that due to wax conditions in
Europe, parcel post deliverYat°nu
Germany, Czechoslovakia
Danzig has been suarpended inde-
finitely.
mier and Buck Armstrong, ends,
other source of memory tickling ........
,,xxr .... ,, .,+*; ..... line latter returning from the hoB-
• ptal q ad after recovery from a
friendly little gathering and pro- . .........
_ . ,.^,. ._ ,,.,_, ...... ._ __a cmppea sinew Done; JaCk caste,
gram wmuu w cm.tt ptuct mttt high sc^.in ~ ,_.,.,. ,. ,..
nf.hn,, mtt,la ttt;ll anltr hiuhlte't $ - u. $ ©; tseorge mxtu t
=ai, xr4,,, ..,*de '.,,.,-" -l=i * enter anet.eo.apmn; Don. trS,
.]A ...... "T hrt .... ----" ----t|| ,,,|11.._ w...."e'':"7' Jack Cole and Stan Arrrmtrong,
r v a b0.cles, the latter co-captain with
Smith. '
EXPOSITION COMMITTEES
TAKING BIT IN BICUSPIDS
Committee workers were speed-
ily whipping their activities int
working form today for the 1939
Shelton Merchants' Exposition
which is scheduled November 20
and 21 in Lincoln g'ymnaslum, Co-i
Chairman George Dunning and S.
B. Anderson reported this after-
noon.
With a master plan of the in-
terior of the gym and the booth
layout in their possession, mem-
bers of the booth sales committee
began work today and report a
highly encouraging respomm to
their approach to merchants,
Chairman I. H. Woods said. In
fact, several volunteers approach-
ed committee members asking for
booth space before any effort had
been made by the committee to
sell space, he said.
Space for over 40 bootls has
been set aside in the floor plans
for the exposition, Chairman
Woods reports, and within .the
next two days, or by the end of
this week, every merchant in town
will be contacted by members of
his committee• ":It will help a
lot if you merchants who plan to
take booths will ha'e a general
plan ready by tlie time we reach
you," he said, "or better still, your
chances of obtaining just the
booth you want will be better if
you contact us instead of waiting
for us to reach you."
Other committees also had their
part of the exposition preparation
well in hand. Joe Hansen, chair-
man of the prize committee, had
his prizes all lined up yesterday,
the day after announcement of the
committee appointments, while the
publicity and advertising commit-
tee likewise had outlined its work
program and was proceeding along
definite lines.
Hansen arranged for a Zenith
portable radio and a Westinghouse
electric roaster for the two ma-
jor prizes, one to be awarded each
evening, and also was lining up
as rapidly as pogsible lesser prizes
!
I COMMUNITY
to be given away each 15 minutes'
of both nights of the exposition.
A keno table 30x31 feet is in-
cluded in the fiber plans of the
exposition this year, one of the
largest ever made here, if not
the largest. Entertainment skits
will be caged from a platform
over the storerooms in the outh-
east corner of the gym, at the
back and to the right as one en-
ters the building from the main
entrance.
Failure of WPA
To Assign Here
Brings Protest
In an effort to discover why
no W.P.A. assignments have been
made in Masen county for the past
three months, the Mason County
board of county commissioners
yesterday drafted a letter to Con-
gressman Martin F. Smith in
Washington, D. C., asking his as-
sistance in the matter.
The letter pointed out that
about 50 family head in this
county are in dre need of assist-
ance, have been on W.P.A. before,
and because of age and other han-
dicaps are unable to secure pri-
vate employment.
The county, the letter said, has
been able to supply some food to
the larger and most needy f
theme 50 families but is unable to
cope with their other need,
Shel GM Elected To
W.S.C. Sophomore Post
Washington State College, Pull-
man, Nov. 7. Mary Lou Allan,
Shelton, has been elected oil the
executive council for the soph-
omore class at Washington State
College. Mary Lou is enrolled it
bacteriology. She will hold office
during the fall semester.
CALENDAR I
L e- SATURDAY--Armistice Day, en-
WEDNESDAY--American
tire town closes up to observe
holiday. (See program else-
where on this page.)
ATURDAYPrep football, Shel-
ton vs. Bellarmine of Tacoma,
2 p. m., Loop Field.
SATURDAYA m e r i e a n Le-
gion post Armistice Ball, Ma-
sonic Hall, Union City.
SATURDAY--V. F. W. post Arm-
igcice Ball, Blue Ox.
MONDAYStart of Annual Ma-
son County Red Cross roll call.
MONDAY--County Commission-
ers meeting, 10 a. m., courthouse.
MONDAYL a d l e s bowling
league, 8 p. m,, bowling alleys•
TUlgSDAYKiwanis club lunch-
eon, noon, Iotel Shelton.
UESDAY--Hood Canal Sport,-
mens' Association November
meeting, 8 p, m., IIoodsport gym.
The starting squad is completed
by Bob Puhn, fullback, and Red
Ru&ell, guard, both sophomores;
Bill Batstone, tackle and Frank
Beret, guard, both juniors. Bat-
stone took a stiff rap in practice
Continued on l'age Two
Date Of Catholic
Bazaar Nearing;
It's Nov. 15, 16
Details were virtually complete
today for the annual St. Edwards
church Catholic Bazaar scheduled
for next Wednesday and Thurs-
day evenings in Memorial Hall.
Booths for the bazaar have bee
contracted up to capacity, Chair-
man E. H. Faubert announced, with
indications pointing toward one of
the finest bazaars in th church's
history.
The annual chicken dinner held
on the firtt night of the bazaar
will be served from 5:30 to 7:30
Wednesday evening in Memorial
Hail, diners then having the baz-
aar features to take up their
time and furnish amusement.
Prizes of all kinds and descrip-
tion are again attracting atten-
tion of those who plan to attend
the bazaar. Such things as blan-
kets, quilts handiwork, ad useful
home appliances will be put up as
prizes while the booths, conces-
sions and eritertainment features
which have made St. Edwards baz-
aars outstanding in the pat will
again be on .hand for the 1939
event.
Welfare Building
To Get Basement
Basement space beneath th Ma-
son County Social Security build-
ing at Sixth and Railroad will
soon become an actuality for
Pre¢ddential approval has been
given a WPA project for construc-
tion of a basement, according to
a telegram received by the Journal
today from Congressman Martin
F. Smith.
The project allots $1771 for the
project, including footings walls
and slabs, excavating, ingtalling
floor'dralns, pipe railing, electrical
Wiring and fixtures, doors, wind-
ows and helving and performing
incidental work.
The project is sponsored by Ma-
son County and work may be be-
gun at the discretion of State W-
PA Administrator Don Abel.
KIWANIS CLUB SEES
HAWAIIAN SCENES
Hugh Jeffers, Olympia laundry-
mail, entertained Shelton Kiwan-
ians and their wives with colored
motion pictures taken during a re-
cent visit to the Hawaiian Is-
lands, The meel:lng was held at
the Hotel Shelton Tuesday eve-
.ning. The banquet room w a #
well filled and all enjoyed the pic-
tures which presented kll t h e
vivid colors for which the Islands
are famous.
average crop of foxgloves is com-
ing, while in Grays Harbor, where
Mr. Lasher has conducted th e
bulk of his leaf gathering for the
four years he has been at it, a
short crop is certain, he said.
By proper picking a field of
foxgloves can be re-harvested ev-
ery 45 to 60 days, Mr. Lasher ex-
plained. Pickers usually work
only five or six hours a day at
their' task. They are paid a cent
Who's next l
That's the question they're
asking of the football sweep-
stakes Shelton merchants are
conducting in the Journal each
week.
Six weeks of the ten-week
contest have passed now and six
different winners have drawn the
weekly $5 check for best foot-
ball prognostications of the
week.
So who's next? The question
|s rightly asked. Bill McMillan
won the first week's test, Guy
McKinney the second, Pat Smith
and a half for green leaves, larger
amounts depending upon market
prices for properly dried leaves.
Mr. Lasher pays bonuses for the
the third, Betty Collier t he
fourth, Palmer Robbrts the
fifth and In Tiffany the sixth.
So, who's to be No. 7 ?
It will be someone who drops
a properly filled out ballot, fotmd
on page six of Tuesday's Jour-
nal, into a ballot box at the
Jourmti office, L. M. store, WiN
son's Cafe, Bowling alleys, or
H|llcrest Grocery by two o'clock
Friday afternnon. That's t h e
deadline.
PLAY COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENTS IN
COMEDY ARE SET
Duties For Presentation Ot "Mr'
Pim Passes By" Assigned
By V.F.W., Guild
Monday evening the joint coin-
mtttees of the V.F.W. and t h e
Theatre Guild met at the home of
Miss Cora Barber, business man-
highest quality leaves and als*O:ager of the Guild, to complate the
adheres to a policy of passing on lbusines details of the presents-:
profits When sale prices go up, he tion of the play, "Mr. Pim Pass-
asserts, l es By" by A. A. Mihe, which wilI i
Drying Important Detatl /be presented jointly tn the Junior
Drying the digitalis leaves is an lhig h auditorium November 16 and
exflrt'-', task, for the leaves de- 117 ......
leverage ver"tapily if left in ;the committee from the V.F,W.
the drier too long, he said. They'll l includes Fred Hickson, Ralph Pitt,
fade, for one thing, and that's fatal R C. Springer, and John Olsen.
for under the strict government The committee from the Guild in-
regulations which surround t h e ciude Ken Blanchard, Miss Bar-
gathering, treatment and shipping
of the leaves only good green
leaves can be marketed.
The leaves are dried best when
lald upon ordinary 2-inch mesh
chicken wire racks for from 48
to 60 hours in a heated room, not
too brightly lighted, with a slow
speed fan stirring the air and a
Continued on page Two
1st Car of Xmas
Trees Goes Out
Mason County's first carload of
Christmas trees for the 1939 cut-
ting season left the Northern Pa-
cific depot Monday afternoon
bound for California.
It was a single carload shipped
by the J. Hofert company and is
a lone advance guard of some 125
or 150 carloads which will be ship-
ped from here between November
15 and December 15, according to
H. E. DeShield, Northern Pacific
agent here.
Probably no other carloads of
trees will leave hre before Novem-
ber 15 and heavy shipping probab-
ly won't art until November 20,
he indicated.
State Prexy Of
F.0.E, Comes To
Shelton Monday
ber and Ms. H. D. Briggs. Fred
tie of Mr. rim, member of the
Blanchard will be in charge of the
selling of advertising; Miss Bar-
her in charge of the tickets and
posters and Mrs. Briggs in charge
of the publicity and hand bills.
Jack Pinckney, who has the ti-
tle of Mr. Prim, a member of the
V.F.W.. and also appeared in the
play of the V.F.W. last year. John
Bennett has appeared in a number
of plays by the Guild and is well
known in that capacity.
Others of the cast have had ear.
ious experiences along the line of
acting and the play should be
very interesting. The play is a
comedy and is one of the bet ex-
amples of the Englidlaman laughing
at his own foibles. It has English
traditions and English background
and is written in Mr. Milne's de-
lightfully whimsical manner.
Mr. Pim Passes By bringing
consternation in his wake and he
passes on quite unaware that hi
gentle instrusion Lnto thLs Ehglish
'country home has caused a men-
tal hoCk that an earthquake could
not have equaled.
Editor Finds New
Yorkers Uncertain
On B'usines Future
Word received from Grant C.
Angle" who has been visiting in
and around New York City for the
ast ,hree weeks, indicates that
been enjoying his trip. He
arrived there in time to spend
the lat three days at the Fair
which he called a good show but
no better than the San Francisco
exposition visited by him las t
June.
The weather was still mild at
his last writing, although t h e
storm which struck the east coast
this week will give him k touch
of real winter, and probably has-
ten his return home.
He referred to business condi-
tions a showing improvement gen4
erally in the east although there is
much uncertainty expressed as to
the future with doubt as to what
will follow the possible war boom.
The Journal editor expects to
start west some time this week,
making brief stops at Philadelphia
and Washington, D. C., and should
reach Shelton aiout November 15.
POMONA GRANGE
MEETING SUNDAY
The Mason County Pomona
Grange will meet at Shelton Val-
ley Sunday, November 12, at 10:30
a. m., reports Gyneth Auseth,
Pomona secretary. There w I l l
be a potluck lunch at noon. At
2:00 p. m., the Grays Harbor drill
team under the direction of Lynn
Bowen, will put on the fifth de-
gree.
All grangers are urged to be
preent.
There will be no election of Po-
mona officers this year.
J. M. HOOPER
High-Flying Eagle
Eagles holding membership in
the Shelton aerie will enjoy the
privilege of seeing J. M. Hooper,
state president of the F.O.E.,
next Monday evening when he
pays his official visit here.
President "Hooper will conduct
initiation ceremonies for a class
of 25 new Eagle,members and
will seak to the aerie member-
ship.
The meeting starts at 8 o'clock
in Odd Fellows Hall Monday
evening, November 13.
glen Auxiliary baked ham din-
ner, 5 to 7 p. m., Memorial Hall
(tonight).
WEDNESDAYActive club la-
dies night and initiation, 7 p.'
m., Memorial Hall (tonight).
TIIURAYChamber of Com-
TRSDAYBack To School
program, 8 p. m., Shelton Jun-
ior high school.
merce November meeting, 6:30
dinner, Hotel Shelton.
THURSDAYCommereial league
bowling, ,8 p. m., bowling alleys.
THURSDAYSpecial p t b I i c
hearing called by cLt councU
committee on appication fqr
car wrecking buslnees at Fair-
mont and 'Olympic highway.
FRIDAYFotball sweepstakes
deadline, 2 p, m.
FRIDAYCIty league bowling, 7
and 9 p. m., bowling allays.
POISED FOR
TAKEOFF IN
ROLL CALL
Headquarters Iu Angle Bniiding
At 4th & Railroad Open I,'riday,
Solicitors Start Monday;
IO00 Set As Goal
Headquarters for the 1940 Red
Cross roll call drlw 'in Masen
County will open Friday morning
in the Angle Building in the space
on tile corner formerly occupied
by Paddy's Men's Shop. Drive
Chairman C. C. Cole said today.
Tile gears of
t h e mechanism
1111 1 11 which win gen-
ll'i I I I I i I erate the 1.¢)40
roll ca ll a re
I 1 greased and ,il-
----l _H.= ed for ttm offi-
._cial takeoff on
r - though tbe liead-
P- quarters will be
open Friday for any earlybird
memberships.
With a membership goal of 1000
: to aim at this year, the organiza-
tion of approximately 100 solicitors
which Chairman Cole has built up
is geared to push the drive through
l inside the first week or ten days,
although they have until the end
of the month in which to solicit
if they wish through the agreement
with the Tuberculosis Association.
Much of the soliciting army
mobilized by Chairman Cole will
have the benefit of past experience
in previous roll calls as the re-
sponse to requests for their as-
sistance once more has bee n
"most generous," the chairrmm
said today.
He called attention to the val-
uable assistance given him in'pre-
paring pre-drive details by t h e
students of Miss Helen Orion's
typing class at Irene S. Reed high
school in typing out several hun-
dred letters and by the Junior
high Girls Club in assemblhlg ma-
terial to be given to solicitor.s.
A large Red Cross display will
be unveiled in one of the L. M.
windows for Armistice Day as
another example of the coopera-
tion being given the 1940 roll call,
the chairman, l$Luted out,
Testing Station )
Here To Clean Up
Delinquencies
Automobile owners who failed to
put their vellicles through the
tate testing station last spring
when it was open here, or who
went through but failed to g e t
their gold sticker denoting pass
age on mechanical merits, are now
being hailed at-tin for the 'testing',
station is back again for an in-
definite period t(> clean up on
these delinquent car owners.
The station on Lhe Bayshore
Road near the city docks, pened
for "bUsiness' this morning an (i
will be here until the 900 or so
Mason County motorists who dld
not go through the station in its
previous visit do so tbJs time.
They are being notified by mail
to visit the station for inspection.
Failure to do so within a reason-
able period subjects car owners to
fines.
Clarence Rhines of Shelton. who
has heen engaged with the state
highway department ever since the
automobile inspection law w a s
passed and enforced, will be in
charge of the Shelton inspection
station alone,
The station wilt not be open
this Saturday because of the Arm-
istice holiday, but other Saturday
will be open. Daily hurs for the
station will be. from' nine until noon
and one until five.
Local 161 Puts Up
$70in Shoe Fund;
Total Now $444.77
Distributed over six months, the
largest single contribution to the
Mason County needy echO01 ehLI-
dren's shoe fund has been made by
the .International Brotherhood of
Pulp and Sulphite Workers Union,
Local 161, County School Supt. J.
E. Martin announced yesterday af-
ter being informed bY Oscar Wil.
kie. recording secretary for Local
161, that the union had voted to
give $60 to the fund' in $10 month-
ly installments for the next six
months.
The LB.P.S.W. had previously
given $10 to the fund when it was
first started shortly bcfor the op-
ening of school in September, mak-
ing a $70 contribution from the
pulp and sulphite workers in all.
With other donations of $5 from
the Hood Ctthal Women's Club. $2
from Lee Huston, and $1.70 from
the penny jar at Fred Buding's:
Allyn grocery store, the total for
the fund now reaches $444.77, Mar.
tin announced.
"With cold. wet weather now
upon us, demands upon the shoe
fund will increase heavily in the
next few weeks," he pointed out
"so all the donations we can ge
will be highly appreciated and pt$
to good use, Anyone who hasnl
et contributed to the fund who
ahte to do so and in sympathy
With the cause can help consider-
ably by sending their contribu*
tions to my office."