September 30, 1949 (6 pages)

Mbt ny ~<a a0 ~ U.S. Wants to Conquer Russia Red Chiefs Say Copyright 1949, by The Nugget By JAMES C. CROCKETT, Col., U. S. A., Ret. Russian censorship and MVD (police) control go to extreme length to prevent the citizens of the Soviet Union from learning how the world outside Russia thinks and lives. At the same time propaganda shapes the thoughts of the Russian people in keeping with the policies and wishes of the Communist regime. The Russian citizens are isolated from contact with both the ideas and the person of foreigners by censorship and police terror to an extent never before attained in a d tivilized country. During the war, a Russian friend of mine, who had lived in the United. States several years during the 20’s, often would: come to my apartment for a snack or to borrow a “Who done it” book which he loved. Usually we discussed daily news of the world and the events of the war. He spoke of the food and other articles which Russians received through lend-lease channels with deep appreciation. He was especially thankful for American. penicillin, which one time saved the life of his small daughter. His only source of world aews was Izvestia and Pravda, two Moscow daily newspapers. He never ; could read the “other side” of the aews for no foreign publications are allowed to be sold in Russia, When the war ended, the Russian press began printing only bad news about the United States or distorted accounts of events there. Despite my arguments and denials, my friend came to believe what his newspapers told him. He was convinced that life in the cities of the U. S. is dangerous because of gangster bands; that living and working conditions of’ American dJabor are miserable due to starvation wages; that the U. S. is trying to surround Russia and destroy it and that life in Russia is more pleasant than in the U.S. Before I left Russia he had grown to fear and hate America. Soviet propaganda is directed both at the Russian people and at the outside world. Its primary purposes are: perpetuate the Communist regime; to weaken its capitalist enemies; to support Soviet political maneuvers and to prepare the minds of the Russian people for a Communist world war. Within Russia propaganda is colored to appeal to the nationalistic Spirit of the people and to strengthen their military psychology. But outside of Russia the propaganda is an appeal to fellow travelers for support of Russian plans for a “peaceful” world ruled by Communists, ; . The Soviet propaganda is disseminated by schools, books, newspapers, magazines, public speakers,. radio, theatres and the circus. As an example of what the Russian school boy gets as history I will quote a few lines from a Russian school history book. It says, “There are no parasites, capitalists and landlords in ‘the U.S.S.R. as there are in other countries. Our country has become the most advanced and mightiest country in the world. Under the leadership of the Communist party we created this great country.” man who'gave me this book was a Russian teacher of history. He tried to escape from Russia a short time ago—he was captured and shot. f Day after day, in Russia, I listened to the Soviet radio as it fed the vanity of the ignorant Russian youth with stories of his powers reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda to its youth. At the same time the Soviet radio was broadcasting to other countries in every spoken languagetales of hatred and envy about the United States. At the movies and the theatrés“in Russia I saw such shows as “The American Question,” which depicted to Soviet youth Americans as degenerate and weak but plotting against the Soviet Union. Even at the Russian circus, I saw the antics of the clowns ridicule the officials of the U. S. and Great Britain and accuse them of being in Russia as spies. : All foreigners are shown as stupid, weak and medn to the Russian people by the Communist propaganda. I realize many people who have visited Russia have returned to the U.S. and tell a different story than mine about Soviet propaganda and censorship. : But I can only say that I have known many individuals—distinguished Americans—who have entered Russia, been entertained, given flowers and shown the sights of the country without once making contact with ‘a Russian who was not a member of the propaganda or MGB (secret police) organization. Sometimes these visitors have been asked by their Russian guides to name the activity they wished to see and sometimes they have thought they were free to talk to any Russian. Yet, what these visitors saw and heard was carefully arranged by the propaganda ministry and the MGB. When a foreign visitor arrives in the Soviet Union—by air, train or boat—he or she is met by one or more agents of the “Russian Intourist Bureau.” It makes> no difference whether the visitor is high or low, an official or private businessman, tourist or journalist —no matter why he comes to Russia—‘Intourist” is his guide. Intourist operates all the hotels in the Soviet Union in which a foreigner is allowed to live. In all cities there is one or more especially designated hotels where foreigners must stay. In Leningrad at the Astoria, in Odessa at the Londouskiya, in Moscow. at the National, Savoy, Grand or Metropole. I can not recall ‘the names of the special ‘“Intourist” hotels in the other cities I visited but in all of them “Intourist” guided and cared for all foreigners. The “Intourist” hotels and all their help are part of and employes of the great MGB (secret police) organization. If a visitor leaves an “Intourist’? hotel for any reason he is either guided’ by an “Intourist”’ guide or is trailed and watched by a secret agent of the police. Within the Soviet. Union propagarida working hand in hand with censorship has won its battle. It has killed God in the hearts of Russian youth so as to make them the “pliant instrument of the Cmmunist leaders. I have often asked Russian girls and boys ‘if they believed in God. Sometimes they would make the sign of the cross and say yes. But the great majority would answer with a smile, “That’s a capitalist myth,” or would say “Religion is a capitalist superstition.” Not only has Soviet propaganda affected the thought of youth; it also has distorted the minds of older people. It has left them entirely ignorant of the world outside the U.S.S.R. and knowing only the half truths fed them by the censored press. It has destroyed the good will created in the mass of Russian people by our wartime lend-lease. It has made them fear, distrust and dislike the U. S. It deceives the world outside Russia as to conditions inside the Soviet Union and as to the intentions of the Communist regime. It is extremely difficult for people who have not lived in Russia a long time to understard or believe that the propaganda can be so effective. The answer to this is that Russian propaganda is coordinated with and made part of every agency of education, entertainment, recreation and information. ship guards every one of these agencies against encroachment of a foreign thought or idea which does not support Soviet. propaganda. Over both propaganda and censorship the MVD and MGB watches continually for the slightest deviation from the approved Communist line. Offenders are immediately detected and ruthlessly punished. This evil trinity—propaganda, censorship and police control—is far more efficient in Russia than it was in Nazi Germany, where I watched it for years. But the worst thing that it has done in the Soviet Union is to make vain ignorant godless young men and women who are being prepared to try for world dominance, Col. James C. Crockett In next week’s Nugget I will tell how chaos might come to the lawless rural areas of Russia. me / a Volume 22, No. 56 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA CHARLES HOLMAN IS FOUND DEAD IN YUBA DREDGER POND MONDAY A three-day search for Charles Anton Holman, 72, ended Monday when the body of the local man was found Monday afternoon in a dredger pond near Hammonton. The body was found by Harry’ Fong, Marysville merchant, who was on a fishing trip. : Holman’s jacket had been tied around his neck with fishing line and a 35-pound boulder was inside the jacket. A note and personal effects was found on the bank. Holman, a retired dredgerman . who with, his wife had made. his The’ On the other hand censor-. home in Nevada City the past five years, left his Zion i home early Thursday afternoo to do some fishing in nearby reservoirs. A search was started Friday morning when Holman failed to return. Harold and Clarence Oberg, cousins of Holman, came from Morgan Hill to aid in the search. William Swain, Nevada City airport manager, searched by plane. Mrs. Holman said her husband had been suff€fing ill health for several months and recently had: been blue and despondent. Holman was. born in Stockholm, Sweden. He came to the U. S. as a boy. He worked as a dredgerman on the Panama canal for years before moving to Oakland. After retiring he and his wife moved to Nevada City. They had no children. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the chapel of Holmes Funeral Home under the direetion of the Nevada City Elks lodge. Rev. Walter Rubke, Grass Valley Lutheran church pastor, officated. Cremation was in Sierra View crematory, Marysvilie. DEMOCRATIC PARTY — TOPS NEVADA COUNTY Democrats still outnumber the Republican * party _ in Nevada vounty, according to Ralph E. Veeble, county clerk. Deeble’s deputies have completed. purging and preparing the register of voters for the November 8 special election. Deeble said 9,730 electors are registered for the special election. wast year’s presidential election had 11,234 on the register, but the regular-purging accounted for the decrease. Democrats lead with 5,357 registered voters. Republicans number 4,040. Independent Progressives mustered 51. Other party affiliations were Socialist 6, Prohibition 5, Townsend 5, CommuHist 1: D. M. LONEY IS HEAD. OF N. C. FARM CENTER D. M. Loney was elected chairman of the. Nevada City Farm Center at a regular meeting of the organization Friday evening at Seaman’s lodge, Pioneer park Ralph S. Schorr was chosen to serve as vice chairman. Mrs. Wilda Schorr was elected secretarytreasurer Atout 60 members and guests enjoyed the pot-luck dinner that preceded the meeting. Bob Hanley, secretary of the Nevada County Farm Bureau, presented motion pictures. Al Brass, retiring chairman, presided at the meeting. Brass said officers of Farm Centers of this district will meet tonight in Foresthill. Next meeting is set for Friday, Oct. 28. HISTORICAL SOCIETY WIL MEET ON MONDAY First fall meeting of the Nevada County Historical society will be held Monday evening, Oct. 3, at the Nevada City elementary school with Charles Parsons talking on Felix Gillet, pioneer Nevada county nurseryman, . Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger will be program chairman. . Reports on the museum, historical markers’ and plans for the ; from the attorney general’s office . .pie and coffee. fail and winter sessions will be made. Friday, September 30, 1949 GRAND JURY IS CALLED INTO ACTION THURSDAY Nevada county grand jury was called into & secret session yesterday. The jury was admonished to secrecy until the-final report is filed, Foreman Curtis; Clark said. Clark said the jury prorogued at a late hour yesterday afternoon. wis . TRINITY CHURCH IS ORGANIZING YOUNG PEOPLE’S FELLOWSHIP Dances and other forms of rec. reation will be planned at a Sun. day meeting of the Nevada City’ Young People’s Fellowship, now organizing under the direction of Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector ' of Trinity Episcopal church. The new organization plans a broad program of religious study . and recreation with membership . open to young people of all faiths. One of he organization’s first . obiectives will be the raising of funds for the purchase of a motion picture projector, record player and public address system. The first meeting of this group ' was held Sunday night at Trinity church. Joan Oje, senior student at Nevada City high school, was elected president. Other officers are Bob Pohley; high school sophomore, vice president; Honi Ray, graduate of San Francisco Lowell high school, secretary; and Peter Ray, high school sophomore, treasurer. The group plans Sunday. evening meets at 7 o’clock. The officers have extended an invitation to all young people from high school age to 20. CHIEF OF POLICE SAYS ILLEGAL COIN MACHINES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED Chief of -Pélice-Max Solaro said last night no illegal coin machines are’ inside the city limits of Nevada City and none will be tolerated now or in the future. Following receipt of a letter } CALL OF THE WILD—Pegzie Castle, one of’ Holly wood’s cheesecake cuties, demonstrates what one film fashion designer calls the “nature look.” The designer expects the new: fashion to bring women back to their nat ural looks by eliminating flairing hair-dos, falsies and shoulder Pads. Peggie seems to be on the right track. 1,181,653 TROUT ARE PLANTED IN DISTRICT The Bear river fish planting base, operated by’ the state division of fish and game, is closing this. week after two months of fish planting operations that. in,cluded the planting of 1,181,653 . fingerling trout in 85 lakes and 58 streams in Nevada, Placer and Sierra counties. requesting Solaro to report on) Rainbow trout totaling 825,979 “one-armed bandit” conditions int seg weighing 4,509 pounds and Nevada City, the chief instructed 355,674 Eastern Brook.trout that Patrolman Clarence Martz to in. weighed 2,508 pounds were plantvestigate and search for illegal. .q jn this area by a-state crew ma¢hines. Martz reported he did comprising W. S. Frazier, Yemen not find any illegal machines. . King, Neil Nyberg and E. H. RobThe letter from the attorney! inson, under the supervision of general to Solaro was instigated Andy Weaver. by a request from Governor Earl ' The trout were reared -at the sea according to the police Mt. Shasta hatchery and _ transcoiet, ported to Bear river base in tank ALL-GIRL LEGION POST . 32,2 2,8 tout ative dur. FROM SACRAMENTO TO INITIATE NEW MEMBERS . trout are fed and rested from 24 to 72 hours in holding tamks at the base prior to distribution. The size of tne fish range from two ‘ = ‘ * inches. The . local American Legion . ' four inches post will initiate 30 candidates at . next Tuesday’s meeting with the . : new recruits receiving the ‘honor . CANADA HILL POSSIBLE of being inducted by an all-girl! ; initiatory team from Virginia . -SHIE OF CLUB HOUSE Bowden post, Sacramento. Approximately 20. members _, luesday’s meeting will be famand guests were present Monday ily style with wives and members evening at city hall at a regular of the Legion Auxiliary invited. meeting ‘of Nevada County It will be the third appearance of Sportsmen’s association, Seeretathe capital team at the local post. ry H. F. ofge revealed Canada Frank Gallino, in charge of the Hill is a possible site for ® club kitchen staff ‘for Tuesday, anhouse ewe organization. nounced the menu will feature i spaghetti, miles and miles of it,. _ Sofge reported he.and George with french bread, salad, salami,. Canaan, clerk of Nevada City, was in Sacramento over the week end and was informed the city government could acquire the site by filing. COURT RULES COUNTIES WITH ENGINEERS MAY BUILD ROADS BY LABOR The right of a county to have road work performed by day labor was upheld Wednesday by the third district court of appeals. Chester Hard, Plumas county taxpayer, contended such work should be submitted to contractors under competitive bids. Hard sought a restraining order to prevent Plumas supervisors from re. surfacing three miles of county road. CITY COUNCIL TO MEET The court ruled the supervisors . were not required to submit jobs to bids so long as the county road commissioner was determined by . city ments completed. the evening. Thomas Keckley presided, PALO ALTO MAN KILLED IN Elwyn M. Westall, 32, Palo Alto, was killed Wednesday afternoon. by a falling tree in logging operations near Scales in Siefra county. The body was brought to Nevada City by the Holmes Funeral mains to Palo Alto today. will hold its regular meeting on hall, direct the construction. city clerk. Motion ‘pictures and refresh. Home, which will take the re-. City council of Netada City , Thursday evening, 8 o’clock, at according to an anthe supervisors to be qualified to nouncement ‘by George Calanan, '1,000-ACRE FORESTFIRE THREAT TO EAST END OF THE COUNTY More than 500 fighters were combatting Tahoe forest’s most destructive fire of the season and more than 1,000 acres of choice ceereation forest were consumed in a blaze that started Monday morning on Bald mountain and for a time threatened the town of Truckee. Forest Supervisor Guerdon Ellis said the fire was undoubtedly caused by a hunter or hunters. Ellis stated there is a 100 percent loss of timber in the burned area near. Truckee river on ground the forest service planned to develop into public camps and summer home sites. Ellis said the blaze was finally controlled late Tuesday but at its height was considered extremely critical. Other fires in the county the past week included: ‘ Stanford fire near Donner lake burned about 160 acres before being controlled Saturday. ; Hirschdale in the Truckee district and a fire near Milton lake in the Bloomfield district were controlled Friday. Smartville suppression crew controlled a fire of an acre of brush and _ slash’ Saturday evening. A grassy .woodland blaze burned 130 acres along the Dog Bar road southeast of Grass Valley Saturday morning. INITIATIONS LIVELY DISCUSSED AT SIERRA FOOTHILL CONFERENCE Freshmen initiation spotlighted by the cancelled freshmen jnitiation of Nevada City high school provided a subject for a lively discussion at a meeting of officers of. student bodies of the Sierra Foothill league held Tuesday’ in the Marysville high school. Other subjects of the conference included student activities, school affairs, athletics contests, year books and student body cards. Year book discussions centered around financing problems and was lead by Miss Maxine Ivey, editor of the Nevada City high school’s Quill. _ Nevada City delegates attend. ing the conference were Dolores Townsend, Elizabeth Wilson, Rae Buster and Darrell Moody. SPECIAL POLIO DRIVE: WILL BE ENDED TODAY Nevada county’s polio emergency campaign will conclude today in accordance with instructions from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, according to Elmer Stevens, chairman of the local chapter, It is the first time in the history of the foundation that an emergency campaign was held. The heavy drain throughout the nation had made the special capaign imperative. The Nevada county chapter re. cently received a check for $12,/ 800 from the national organization. Most of these funds will be used to defray ‘expenses of cases at Children’s hospital, San Francisco; Washoe general hospital in ‘Reno, Nev.; and Nevada county. hospital, Stevens said the locab chapter exhausted $2,600 — its share of the 1949 march of dimes campaign—and another $4,800 of emergency funds advanced during the summer. Organizations and individuals . are urged to subscribe today by . direct mail to Matt de Pauli Jr., Bank of America, Grass Valley. SIERRA LOGGING ACCIDENT REPRESENTATIVE CLAIR ENGLE VISITING HERE. . Clair Engle, Red Bluff, representative of the second California district in the U. S. house of rep-: . resentatives was calling on_ his constituents in Nevada City yesterday. The Weather Fred Bush, observer Friday, Sept. 23 Saturday, Sept. 24 . 83 3 Sunday, Sept. 25°. % 38 Monday, Sept. 26 ... 75 40 Tuesday, Sept: 27 68 45 Wednesday, Sept.28 . 71° 39 Thursday. Sept, 29 . 72 — 40.

Mbt ny ~<a a0 ~ U.S. Wants to Conquer Russia Red Chiefs Say Copyright 1949, by The Nugget By JAMES C. CROCKETT, Col., U. S. A., Ret. Russian censorship and MVD (police) control go to extreme length to prevent the citizens of the Soviet Union from learning how the world outside Russia thinks and lives. At the same time propaganda shapes the thoughts of the Russian people in keeping with the policies and wishes of the Communist regime. The Russian citizens are isolated from contact with both the ideas and the person of foreigners by censorship and police terror to an extent never before attained in a d tivilized country. During the war, a Russian friend of mine, who had lived in the United. States several years during the 20’s, often would: come to my apartment for a snack or to borrow a “Who done it” book which he loved. Usually we discussed daily news of the world and the events of the war. He spoke of the food and other articles which Russians received through lend-lease channels with deep appreciation. He was especially thankful for American. penicillin, which one time saved the life of his small daughter. His only source of world aews was Izvestia and Pravda, two Moscow daily newspapers. He never ; could read the “other side” of the aews for no foreign publications are allowed to be sold in Russia, When the war ended, the Russian press began printing only bad news about the United States or distorted accounts of events there. Despite my arguments and denials, my friend came to believe what his newspapers told him. He was convinced that life in the cities of the U. S. is dangerous because of gangster bands; that living and working conditions of’ American dJabor are miserable due to starvation wages; that the U. S. is trying to surround Russia and destroy it and that life in Russia is more pleasant than in the U.S. Before I left Russia he had grown to fear and hate America. Soviet propaganda is directed both at the Russian people and at the outside world. Its primary purposes are: perpetuate the Communist regime; to weaken its capitalist enemies; to support Soviet political maneuvers and to prepare the minds of the Russian people for a Communist world war. Within Russia propaganda is colored to appeal to the nationalistic Spirit of the people and to strengthen their military psychology. But outside of Russia the propaganda is an appeal to fellow travelers for support of Russian plans for a “peaceful” world ruled by Communists, ; . The Soviet propaganda is disseminated by schools, books, newspapers, magazines, public speakers,. radio, theatres and the circus. As an example of what the Russian school boy gets as history I will quote a few lines from a Russian school history book. It says, “There are no parasites, capitalists and landlords in ‘the U.S.S.R. as there are in other countries. Our country has become the most advanced and mightiest country in the world. Under the leadership of the Communist party we created this great country.” man who'gave me this book was a Russian teacher of history. He tried to escape from Russia a short time ago—he was captured and shot. f Day after day, in Russia, I listened to the Soviet radio as it fed the vanity of the ignorant Russian youth with stories of his powers reminiscent of the Nazi propaganda to its youth. At the same time the Soviet radio was broadcasting to other countries in every spoken languagetales of hatred and envy about the United States. At the movies and the theatrés“in Russia I saw such shows as “The American Question,” which depicted to Soviet youth Americans as degenerate and weak but plotting against the Soviet Union. Even at the Russian circus, I saw the antics of the clowns ridicule the officials of the U. S. and Great Britain and accuse them of being in Russia as spies. : All foreigners are shown as stupid, weak and medn to the Russian people by the Communist propaganda. I realize many people who have visited Russia have returned to the U.S. and tell a different story than mine about Soviet propaganda and censorship. : But I can only say that I have known many individuals—distinguished Americans—who have entered Russia, been entertained, given flowers and shown the sights of the country without once making contact with ‘a Russian who was not a member of the propaganda or MGB (secret police) organization. Sometimes these visitors have been asked by their Russian guides to name the activity they wished to see and sometimes they have thought they were free to talk to any Russian. Yet, what these visitors saw and heard was carefully arranged by the propaganda ministry and the MGB. When a foreign visitor arrives in the Soviet Union—by air, train or boat—he or she is met by one or more agents of the “Russian Intourist Bureau.” It makes> no difference whether the visitor is high or low, an official or private businessman, tourist or journalist —no matter why he comes to Russia—‘Intourist” is his guide. Intourist operates all the hotels in the Soviet Union in which a foreigner is allowed to live. In all cities there is one or more especially designated hotels where foreigners must stay. In Leningrad at the Astoria, in Odessa at the Londouskiya, in Moscow. at the National, Savoy, Grand or Metropole. I can not recall ‘the names of the special ‘“Intourist” hotels in the other cities I visited but in all of them “Intourist” guided and cared for all foreigners. The “Intourist” hotels and all their help are part of and employes of the great MGB (secret police) organization. If a visitor leaves an “Intourist’? hotel for any reason he is either guided’ by an “Intourist”’ guide or is trailed and watched by a secret agent of the police. Within the Soviet. Union propagarida working hand in hand with censorship has won its battle. It has killed God in the hearts of Russian youth so as to make them the “pliant instrument of the Cmmunist leaders. I have often asked Russian girls and boys ‘if they believed in God. Sometimes they would make the sign of the cross and say yes. But the great majority would answer with a smile, “That’s a capitalist myth,” or would say “Religion is a capitalist superstition.” Not only has Soviet propaganda affected the thought of youth; it also has distorted the minds of older people. It has left them entirely ignorant of the world outside the U.S.S.R. and knowing only the half truths fed them by the censored press. It has destroyed the good will created in the mass of Russian people by our wartime lend-lease. It has made them fear, distrust and dislike the U. S. It deceives the world outside Russia as to conditions inside the Soviet Union and as to the intentions of the Communist regime. It is extremely difficult for people who have not lived in Russia a long time to understard or believe that the propaganda can be so effective. The answer to this is that Russian propaganda is coordinated with and made part of every agency of education, entertainment, recreation and information. ship guards every one of these agencies against encroachment of a foreign thought or idea which does not support Soviet. propaganda. Over both propaganda and censorship the MVD and MGB watches continually for the slightest deviation from the approved Communist line. Offenders are immediately detected and ruthlessly punished. This evil trinity—propaganda, censorship and police control—is far more efficient in Russia than it was in Nazi Germany, where I watched it for years. But the worst thing that it has done in the Soviet Union is to make vain ignorant godless young men and women who are being prepared to try for world dominance, Col. James C. Crockett In next week’s Nugget I will tell how chaos might come to the lawless rural areas of Russia. me / a Volume 22, No. 56 NEVADA CITY (Nevada County) CALIFORNIA CHARLES HOLMAN IS FOUND DEAD IN YUBA DREDGER POND MONDAY A three-day search for Charles Anton Holman, 72, ended Monday when the body of the local man was found Monday afternoon in a dredger pond near Hammonton. The body was found by Harry’ Fong, Marysville merchant, who was on a fishing trip. : Holman’s jacket had been tied around his neck with fishing line and a 35-pound boulder was inside the jacket. A note and personal effects was found on the bank. Holman, a retired dredgerman . who with, his wife had made. his The’ On the other hand censor-. home in Nevada City the past five years, left his Zion i home early Thursday afternoo to do some fishing in nearby reservoirs. A search was started Friday morning when Holman failed to return. Harold and Clarence Oberg, cousins of Holman, came from Morgan Hill to aid in the search. William Swain, Nevada City airport manager, searched by plane. Mrs. Holman said her husband had been suff€fing ill health for several months and recently had: been blue and despondent. Holman was. born in Stockholm, Sweden. He came to the U. S. as a boy. He worked as a dredgerman on the Panama canal for years before moving to Oakland. After retiring he and his wife moved to Nevada City. They had no children. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in the chapel of Holmes Funeral Home under the direetion of the Nevada City Elks lodge. Rev. Walter Rubke, Grass Valley Lutheran church pastor, officated. Cremation was in Sierra View crematory, Marysvilie. DEMOCRATIC PARTY — TOPS NEVADA COUNTY Democrats still outnumber the Republican * party _ in Nevada vounty, according to Ralph E. Veeble, county clerk. Deeble’s deputies have completed. purging and preparing the register of voters for the November 8 special election. Deeble said 9,730 electors are registered for the special election. wast year’s presidential election had 11,234 on the register, but the regular-purging accounted for the decrease. Democrats lead with 5,357 registered voters. Republicans number 4,040. Independent Progressives mustered 51. Other party affiliations were Socialist 6, Prohibition 5, Townsend 5, CommuHist 1: D. M. LONEY IS HEAD. OF N. C. FARM CENTER D. M. Loney was elected chairman of the. Nevada City Farm Center at a regular meeting of the organization Friday evening at Seaman’s lodge, Pioneer park Ralph S. Schorr was chosen to serve as vice chairman. Mrs. Wilda Schorr was elected secretarytreasurer Atout 60 members and guests enjoyed the pot-luck dinner that preceded the meeting. Bob Hanley, secretary of the Nevada County Farm Bureau, presented motion pictures. Al Brass, retiring chairman, presided at the meeting. Brass said officers of Farm Centers of this district will meet tonight in Foresthill. Next meeting is set for Friday, Oct. 28. HISTORICAL SOCIETY WIL MEET ON MONDAY First fall meeting of the Nevada County Historical society will be held Monday evening, Oct. 3, at the Nevada City elementary school with Charles Parsons talking on Felix Gillet, pioneer Nevada county nurseryman, . Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger will be program chairman. . Reports on the museum, historical markers’ and plans for the ; from the attorney general’s office . .pie and coffee. fail and winter sessions will be made. Friday, September 30, 1949 GRAND JURY IS CALLED

INTO ACTION THURSDAY Nevada county grand jury was called into & secret session yesterday. The jury was admonished to secrecy until the-final report is filed, Foreman Curtis; Clark said. Clark said the jury prorogued at a late hour yesterday afternoon. wis . TRINITY CHURCH IS ORGANIZING YOUNG PEOPLE’S FELLOWSHIP Dances and other forms of rec. reation will be planned at a Sun. day meeting of the Nevada City’ Young People’s Fellowship, now organizing under the direction of Rev. Max L. Christensen, rector ' of Trinity Episcopal church. The new organization plans a broad program of religious study . and recreation with membership . open to young people of all faiths. One of he organization’s first . obiectives will be the raising of funds for the purchase of a motion picture projector, record player and public address system. The first meeting of this group ' was held Sunday night at Trinity church. Joan Oje, senior student at Nevada City high school, was elected president. Other officers are Bob Pohley; high school sophomore, vice president; Honi Ray, graduate of San Francisco Lowell high school, secretary; and Peter Ray, high school sophomore, treasurer. The group plans Sunday. evening meets at 7 o’clock. The officers have extended an invitation to all young people from high school age to 20. CHIEF OF POLICE SAYS ILLEGAL COIN MACHINES WILL NOT BE ALLOWED Chief of -Pélice-Max Solaro said last night no illegal coin machines are’ inside the city limits of Nevada City and none will be tolerated now or in the future. Following receipt of a letter } CALL OF THE WILD—Pegzie Castle, one of’ Holly wood’s cheesecake cuties, demonstrates what one film fashion designer calls the “nature look.” The designer expects the new: fashion to bring women back to their nat ural looks by eliminating flairing hair-dos, falsies and shoulder Pads. Peggie seems to be on the right track. 1,181,653 TROUT ARE PLANTED IN DISTRICT The Bear river fish planting base, operated by’ the state division of fish and game, is closing this. week after two months of fish planting operations that. in,cluded the planting of 1,181,653 . fingerling trout in 85 lakes and 58 streams in Nevada, Placer and Sierra counties. requesting Solaro to report on) Rainbow trout totaling 825,979 “one-armed bandit” conditions int seg weighing 4,509 pounds and Nevada City, the chief instructed 355,674 Eastern Brook.trout that Patrolman Clarence Martz to in. weighed 2,508 pounds were plantvestigate and search for illegal. .q jn this area by a-state crew ma¢hines. Martz reported he did comprising W. S. Frazier, Yemen not find any illegal machines. . King, Neil Nyberg and E. H. RobThe letter from the attorney! inson, under the supervision of general to Solaro was instigated Andy Weaver. by a request from Governor Earl ' The trout were reared -at the sea according to the police Mt. Shasta hatchery and _ transcoiet, ported to Bear river base in tank ALL-GIRL LEGION POST . 32,2 2,8 tout ative dur. FROM SACRAMENTO TO INITIATE NEW MEMBERS . trout are fed and rested from 24 to 72 hours in holding tamks at the base prior to distribution. The size of tne fish range from two ‘ = ‘ * inches. The . local American Legion . ' four inches post will initiate 30 candidates at . next Tuesday’s meeting with the . : new recruits receiving the ‘honor . CANADA HILL POSSIBLE of being inducted by an all-girl! ; initiatory team from Virginia . -SHIE OF CLUB HOUSE Bowden post, Sacramento. Approximately 20. members _, luesday’s meeting will be famand guests were present Monday ily style with wives and members evening at city hall at a regular of the Legion Auxiliary invited. meeting ‘of Nevada County It will be the third appearance of Sportsmen’s association, Seeretathe capital team at the local post. ry H. F. ofge revealed Canada Frank Gallino, in charge of the Hill is a possible site for ® club kitchen staff ‘for Tuesday, anhouse ewe organization. nounced the menu will feature i spaghetti, miles and miles of it,. _ Sofge reported he.and George with french bread, salad, salami,. Canaan, clerk of Nevada City, was in Sacramento over the week end and was informed the city government could acquire the site by filing. COURT RULES COUNTIES WITH ENGINEERS MAY BUILD ROADS BY LABOR The right of a county to have road work performed by day labor was upheld Wednesday by the third district court of appeals. Chester Hard, Plumas county taxpayer, contended such work should be submitted to contractors under competitive bids. Hard sought a restraining order to prevent Plumas supervisors from re. surfacing three miles of county road. CITY COUNCIL TO MEET The court ruled the supervisors . were not required to submit jobs to bids so long as the county road commissioner was determined by . city ments completed. the evening. Thomas Keckley presided, PALO ALTO MAN KILLED IN Elwyn M. Westall, 32, Palo Alto, was killed Wednesday afternoon. by a falling tree in logging operations near Scales in Siefra county. The body was brought to Nevada City by the Holmes Funeral mains to Palo Alto today. will hold its regular meeting on hall, direct the construction.. city clerk. Motion ‘pictures and refresh. Home, which will take the re-. City council of Netada City , Thursday evening, 8 o’clock, at according to an anthe supervisors to be qualified to nouncement ‘by George Calanan, '1,000-ACRE FORESTFIRE THREAT TO EAST END OF THE COUNTY More than 500 fighters were combatting Tahoe forest’s most destructive fire of the season and more than 1,000 acres of choice ceereation forest were consumed in a blaze that started Monday morning on Bald mountain and for a time threatened the town of Truckee. Forest Supervisor Guerdon Ellis said the fire was undoubtedly caused by a hunter or hunters. Ellis stated there is a 100 percent loss of timber in the burned area near. Truckee river on ground the forest service planned to develop into public camps and summer home sites. Ellis said the blaze was finally controlled late Tuesday but at its height was considered extremely critical. Other fires in the county the past week included: ‘ Stanford fire near Donner lake burned about 160 acres before being controlled Saturday. ; Hirschdale in the Truckee district and a fire near Milton lake in the Bloomfield district were controlled Friday. Smartville suppression crew controlled a fire of an acre of brush and _ slash’ Saturday evening. A grassy .woodland blaze burned 130 acres along the Dog Bar road southeast of Grass Valley Saturday morning. INITIATIONS LIVELY DISCUSSED AT SIERRA FOOTHILL CONFERENCE Freshmen initiation spotlighted by the cancelled freshmen jnitiation of Nevada City high school provided a subject for a lively discussion at a meeting of officers of. student bodies of the Sierra Foothill league held Tuesday’ in the Marysville high school. Other subjects of the conference included student activities, school affairs, athletics contests, year books and student body cards. Year book discussions centered around financing problems and was lead by Miss Maxine Ivey, editor of the Nevada City high school’s Quill. _ Nevada City delegates attend. ing the conference were Dolores Townsend, Elizabeth Wilson, Rae Buster and Darrell Moody. SPECIAL POLIO DRIVE: WILL BE ENDED TODAY Nevada county’s polio emergency campaign will conclude today in accordance with instructions from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, according to Elmer Stevens, chairman of the local chapter, It is the first time in the history of the foundation that an emergency campaign was held. The heavy drain throughout the nation had made the special capaign imperative. The Nevada county chapter re. cently received a check for $12,/ 800 from the national organization. Most of these funds will be used to defray ‘expenses of cases at Children’s hospital, San Francisco; Washoe general hospital in ‘Reno, Nev.; and Nevada county. hospital, Stevens said the locab chapter exhausted $2,600 — its share of the 1949 march of dimes campaign—and another $4,800 of emergency funds advanced during the summer. Organizations and individuals . are urged to subscribe today by . direct mail to Matt de Pauli Jr., Bank of America, Grass Valley. SIERRA LOGGING ACCIDENT REPRESENTATIVE CLAIR ENGLE VISITING HERE. . Clair Engle, Red Bluff, representative of the second California district in the U. S. house of rep-: . resentatives was calling on_ his constituents in Nevada City yesterday. The Weather Fred Bush, observer Friday, Sept. 23 Saturday, Sept. 24 .. 83 3 Sunday, Sept. 25°.. % 38 Monday, Sept. 26 ..... 75 40 Tuesday, Sept: 27 68 45 Wednesday, Sept.28 .. 71° 39 Thursday. Sept, 29 . 72 — 40.