H. C. Braden Elected.President

Tom McCann Hoo Hoo Club

At the annual meeting of the Tom A. McCann Hoo Hoo Club of McCloud, California, on August 5, H. C. Braden was elected president for the coming year. M. C. Gerlicher was elected vice president and L. E. McGonagle was reelected secretary-treasurer. W. H. Fishburn, William Ponto, John Kennedy and W. W. Martin were elected directors.

William Ponto was nominated for reappoinment as vicegerent snark for the Shasta ffistrict. Prof. Johns of Chico College addressed the meeting.

Monolith Midwest Company Operating at Full Capacity

Shattering all expectations of Los Angeles officials of the Monolith Portland Cement Company, announcement has just been received that the new $2,000,000 plant of the Monolith Portland Midwest Comparry at Laramie, \Myo., now is operating on a full capacity basis.

'Ihe huge mill, said to be one of the finest in the country, was completed the early part of this year and was formally opened only a few months ago. At the time the structure was designed, Monolith officials believed its capacity of 2000 barrels a day would meet needs of the Midwest territory for an indefinite period.

Orders alrbady on. hand, together with the normal run of business, give assurance also that the cement plant will be operating at capacity until at least the first of the year, Monolith officials said recently. The Midr,vest company and the'Monolith Portland Cement Comoanv of California are under the same manag'ement and conirol.

Frederick Franklin Moon

Frederick Franklin Moon, dean of the New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, New York, for the past nine years.died at a hospital in Syracuse on Tuesday, September 3. following an operation. Dean Moon was taken suddenly ill while vacationing in the Adirondacks. He was born at Easton, Pa., on July 3, 1880, and attended college at Amherst College and lfarvard and Yale {Jniversities. He received his degree of Master of Forestry from Yale University. All his life rvas spent in forestry and he was considered an authoritv in his field. FIe was the author of several books on foreslry and was a delegate to the World Forestry Congress at Rome in 1926. Dean Moon is survived by his widow and his son, Frederick Franklin, Jr.

Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York paid tribute to Dean Moon as follolvs:

"The sudden death of Franklin Nloon, dean of the State College of Forestry, comes to me as a great shock. I saw him not long ago and he seemed to be in fine health and spirits and very much interested in the program of reforestation for the State of New York.

"IJnder Dean Moon the State College of Forestry at Syracuse has-become one of the most imiortant instituiions ofits kind in America. The effect of the college instruction under his supervision has been felt through its graduates not only in this State but in every part of the country which is actively engaged in the rebuilding of our depleted forests.

"The State has suffered a great loss in the passing of Dean Moon in the prime of his usefulness."