April 16, 1937 (6 pages)

Cpe MRI: AeeeaeeS wast Ae and vaster seas than Thinking Out Loud ry ¥ Nevada City Nugget ——— COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA city a The Nevada City Nugget helps your and prosperity. By subsribing to, and‘ advertising in the Nugget, therefore, ~ you help yourself. nd county to grow in population © wii H. M. L. . The lordly homo sapiens, who regards himself as the perfect goal toward which the Creator has_ been working for some millions or billions of years, may be right, and yet sometimes viewed in that eternity of time and limitless space in which the universe swims, we have doubts. For this reason: at various times in various places on the globe depending upon heat, or the lack of it, moisture, vegetation, prevalence of warmer the modern earth supports, and other factors, other animal forms have dominated the earth. There was an era for instance when mollusks were the higher form, another when fish and sea monsters were on top, a later millenium when sea monsters became amphibian or altogether land amimals, giving us the dinosaurs and other “saurs’’, petrified remains of which now form such interesting features of our museums. The survival of the forms that finally took the shake and the intelligence of men through the various geological periods do not. necessarily indicate a providental plan. Adaptability to changing .conditions, fecundity, and intelligence have not always been sufficient to preserve the various offshoots of the human geneological tree against extinction. At least scientists seem to agree that the Neanderthal man was one of the several variations of early homo sapiens, who for some reason, probably connected with the glacial ebb ana flow, disappeared from the face of the earth. In this connection it is interesting to speculate whether Man will be the ultimate survivor of animal life on earth, if the word ‘‘ultimate’’ can be used in connection with anything which is infinite. Perhaps it would be better to ask: after Man, what? Domestic animals are out because of their dependence upon man. Wild life species, can hardly survive if Man does not, for the reason that these too depend now upon the charity or the scientific interest of Man, for their permission to live. The fish may survive beyond the existence of Man, but really the next dominant life upon earth, it. would seem probable, will be the insects. Their origin is very ancient, their astounding reproduction abilities, the greatest of all creatures, and their increasing adaptability, would seem to make them the eventual heirs of the earth. Man unwittingly has assisted the spread of insects to all parts of the.earth, in some parts, of which, various ~ species live and multiply much easier than in their original habitat. But why should Man as a speies . ever disappear, vanish from his earthly home? Wars and disease-may . : kill off humans faster than they multiply, and insects with their constant increase may devour his food. Entomologists when they take time for_the long view are inclined to the theory that ultimately ‘inseets will win. Among the insects are the enemies of all land life species. From potato beetles to bedbugs the human species from birth to death fights insects. No rattlesnake is more pois‘onous than the black widow spider. The locusts wait in the ground for years to descend tn an opportune moment to harvest the planting of men. The peach borer, the Japanese beetles, the cottle boll weevil, the codlin moth, the pine bark .beetle of our own neighborhood and all the Sierras, all lie in wait to destroy the sustainance of man. If war and pestilence should ever weaken the human race, the insect stand a good chance of finishing it off. It is nothing for this generation to worry about, of course, and yet each generation must carry its share of the battle. Our legislators génerally speaking take the short rather than the long view. The pine bark beetle is annually destroying more timber than all the forest fires, and yet is With the greatese difficulty that Congress can be brought even to consider an appropriation of some $50,000 merely to make a survey, or diagnosis of this insects’s destruc=tion and growing menace. Today because our lawmakers could not see the importance of it, bubonic plague, through rat fleas, is loose in the state. Squirrels and rabbits carry the death dealing fleas and there are sporadic cases of plague deaths in California. The rats and their fleas that carry the dreadful disease came originally from the orient and shortly after the great earthquake and fire of 1907, there were several deaths in San Vol. 11, No. 31. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937. STATE CHAMBER TRIES TO HALT TREASURY RAIDS SACRAMENTO, April 15.—With requests before the legislature for $174,000,000 additional expenditures beyond the limits of the governor’s budget tphe State Chamber of Commerce today sent a letter and broadside to its seven thousand members and_ affiliated organizations. throughout the state, urging a vigorous stand against the ‘‘wholesale campaign against the taxpayer.” The State Chamber’s _ bulletin points out that additions recommended to the Senate Finance Committee and the Ways\ and! Means Committee of the: es eae by department officials and other groups, total $11,000,000. One hundred and eighty special bills in both houses request additional appropriations of $130,000,000. Legislation proposing further liberalization of old age aid amounts to $34,000,000. The budget recommended by the governor for the 1937-39 biennium totals $446,466,507, and the State Chamber urges that the legislature make no increase or changes to raise the total-expenditures beyond the limits set by the governor’s budget. All additional expenditures increases being requested by various groups would increase the total of the state’s expenditures to $620,000,000. A “While some minor adjustments for emergencies warrant. consideration on their merits,’ writes the State Chamber, ‘‘there is no possible justification for this wholesale campaign against the taxpayer.” All members and affiliated organizations were urged by the State Chamber to communicate with their representatives at Sacramento immediately. CCC BOY WINS POST IN TAHOE FOREST SERVICE Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson announces the appointment of Tyra B, “Bud” Sellers as telephone operator and clerk to District Ranger ‘McCaslin at North Bloomfield. Sellers will go on duty about May 1, and expects his mother to arrive about that time from Missouri. They -will occupy one of the Forest Service buildings at MéCaslin’s station. Sellers has spent two and _ onehalf years in the Civilian Conservation Corps, according to Nelson, enrolling originally at Roaring River, Missouri, in Company 1713, later being promoted to assistant leader. He was a member of the advance cadre which established Company 4739 and was transferred with this company to Blackduck, Minnesota. He was promoted as leader and served as Quartermaster Sergeant for the company. In December, 1935, he went into private employment. Sellers re-enrolled and was assigned to Company 3711 at Grass Valley, California, in April, 1936, and was assigned to clerical and accounting work in the supervisor’s office at Nevada City. Nelson states that ii was the industry and ability displayed in this work that recommended him for the position at North Bloomfield. Sellers has always been active in athletics and played first base on the baseball team at the Grass Valley camp. Last summer he was given a try out by the St. Louis Cardinals a: Sacramento but had not had sufficient experience to make the team. SOUTH YUBA AND TRUCKEE READY TO FISH Captain A.*H. Willard, of the state fish and game commission, stated yesterday that water in the many rivers, streams and lakes is still high for fishing and will be high on May 1. The South Yuba river and Truckee river are clear enough to fish in. Fly fishing should be good in both these rivers when the season opens May first. rats eventnally mingled with the ground squirrels and today bubonic plague persists in California and spreads slowly .eastward. And this mainly because: our politician statesmen can’t see in a rat flea a menace Francisco from bubonic pleague. The, to the human race. NEW HIGHWAY SECTION WILL SOON BE OPEN From Superintendent Fred Garrison’s office it was learned the rerouted section of the Tahoe-Ukiai highway below Rough and Ready is expected to be completed about May 15. It is about four miles long and will cut over the montain from the South Yuba river bridge detouring around to the south of Smartville and -Timbucktoo eliminating several steep narrow grades and a _ long bridge. The Yuba Pass beyond Sierra City was re-opened last Monday, the snow ranging from two to ten féet in depth. The pass is about 6009 feet above sea level and a little lower than the Donner Summit. JOAN GRANT IS AGAIN CRUSADER CONTEST WINNER Joan Grant, senior in the Nevada City high school, yesterday afternoon won first place in the district Crusaders contest, held at Marysville, to which five counties sent their prize winning student speakers to compete. Last Saturday afternoon in Grass Valley, Joan won the gold medal in the contest between representatives of (Meadowlake, Grass Valley and Nevada City high schools. With the award of first place to Miss Grant went a beautiful gold cup in yesterday’s contest. One boy and four girls participated in the event. Miss Nancy Jones, member of the Nevada City high school faculty, who has been chief coach for Miss Grant is especially pleased with the award. Miss Grant will now take part in the final contest which will be held in San Francisco, April 29 for Northern California winners of the district contests, -If she should win in these finals she will be awarded the grand prize. which consists of a trip to Hawaii accompanied by: her mother, Mrs. Robert Grant. : The contest sponsored by the Cru-. saders of California, an organization devoted to inspiring good citizenship and patriotism among’ the state’s youth, this year chose as a topic for all contestants: ‘‘American Citizenship and What It Means to Me.” Miss Grant’s handling of this theme was marked by clear thinkand lucid exposition. In the opinio»d and lucid reasoning. In the openion of those able to judge, she stands an excellent chance of winning the trip to the Hawaiians. GRAMMAR SCHOOL P.T.A. MEETS THIS AFTERNOON meet this afternoon in the auditoro’clock. Following the business meeting there will be a musical entertainment in which Mrs. Christian Anderson and her father Mr. Pavilla will participate. Mrs. Leland Smith, third district P. T. A. home making chairman, will make an interesting report. EIGHTY PERCENT OF IRRIGATION TAX PAID The Nevada City water department is making a drive to get in as much money as possible as the city is to undergo a large expense in repaving many portions of the streets worn by snow'and ice the past winter and fixtures for the new city hall. Water Collector R. L. P. Bigelow appointment of a peace Justice of the peace Madbury had been appointed by the President, his The Grammar Sehool P. T. A. -will appointment confirmed by the senate, his commission signed but nevium of the new school house at two aa tration ended. coming into power refused to deliver the commission. Madbury took his complaint directly to the Supreme Court and asked for a writ of mandamus to compel delivery. Chief Justice Marshall wrote the decision of the court, and incidentally, without relation to the case in hand, laid down the doctrine of the Supreme Court’s power to nullify acts of Congress when these, in the opinion of the court, did not conform to the Constitution. stated. ed by their, own OPPOSES REPEAL OF CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM SACRAMENTO, April 15.—A. J. McFadden, chairman of the Statewide Agricultural Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce, today sent a letter to 400 grower and farmer members of the State Ghamber’s agricultural Committees, urging strong opposition against the effort to repeal the California Criminal Syndicalism Act. McFadden called attention that A. B. 311 by Richie would be heard before the Assembly Committee on Crime Problems Tuesday evening, April 20. He said ‘‘a tremendous drive is being made in favor of this bill by leftists and certain labor groups, and this drive is expected to culminate in a huge demonstration before the Assembly Committee by persons going by caravan to Satcramento from all parts of the state.” “This is a call for action’’ states McFadden, “for all those who: would sustain the law which would prevent advocating teaching or aiding and abetting the commission of crime, sabotage, or unlawful acts of force and violence or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accompishing a change in industrial ownership or control, or effecting any political change.”’ McFadden urged growers and the farmers to communicate with members of the Assembly Committee on Crime Problems and urge that the present State Criminal Syndicalism Act be sustained. SUPREME COURT DISPUTE AS OLD AS U.S. HISTORY Frank Finnegan, president of the Rotary club, gave an interesting historical sketch of the Supreme Court controversy yesterday at the meeting of the club at luncheon. It aroused considerable discussion. From an historical standpoint, the speaker stated, the controversy over the Supreme Court’s assumed power to invalidate laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional dates back to John Marshall, who as chief justice, in an obiter dicta, inserted in a decision, laid down the doctrine power was necessarily a function of the court. that this The case was that involving the justice of the in the District of Columbia. delivered to him as the adminisPresident Jefferson Finnegan pointed out that though other Presidents had sought to name judges to the Supreme bench with a view to influencing its decisions in at least two instances their desire and their purpose had been defeatappointees, who JOHN BECKER TO GO TO SOUTH AFRICA superintendent of in Bear Valley, John Becker, the Zeibright mine who resides in Nevada City, will leave here Wednesday for South Africa. He will leave Colfax on the Overland Limited, arriving in New York Saturday to take passage on the big passenger ship, Queen Mary, for London, England. From London he will go by Imperial Airways to Capetown. Planes in Europe travel by day only and it will take eight days flying time for the trip which would have taken 17 days by boat. Mr: Becker has made the trip several times, Mr. Becker expects to be gone about two and a half-months on this business trip. He will travel about 15,000 miles on the _.ourney. Robert J. Hendricks, general manager of the Zeibright and Murchie mines, will! have charge while Mr. Becker is away. Mrs. Becker will remain in Nevada City while her husband is gone. John Becker, one of Nevada City’s foremost citizens, came to Nevada county with his parents from Mississippi when only five years old and looks upon this city as his home even though his profession has taken him to foreign countries for years at a time. : ANNUAL C. OF C. principal speaker of the evening at the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting held on Tuesday evening at the National Hotel. Judge Jones paid tribute to the pioneer spirit of Nevada City and said that in looking over old records of the Nevada City Chamber of Commt.te that he had noted chamber had always been foremost inpromoting the welfare of the city. ed at the meeting at about fifty Forest Supervisor was the song leader accompanied by Mrs. P. Bonner. Songs from the Ro+, tary song book were ‘stint group with much enthusiasm. written for the occassion by Fred .Conner. report of the chamber. W. F. Roddy read a report regarding the purchase by the city of the Daniels property at the corner of Pine and Commercial streets. The main reason advancDINNER MEETING FINE AFFAIR Judge George L. Jones was the that the President Fred E. Conner presidwhich were City people. DeWitt Nelson Nevada ny the Mr. Nelson sang a solo, the song Mrs. Secretary Griffith gave his annual BALLOT PLACES CHOSEN BY LOT, onee upon the bench, voted as their ~ ISNEW DEMAND SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.—By an overwhelming vote, the Commonwealth Club of today went on record in favor of: aI Determining a measure’s position on the November state ballot by lot, instead of, as atpresent, by the Secretary of Sate’s arbitrary assigning it a number. 2: Requiring the Seeretary of State to give public notice inviting citizens to contribute pro and con arguments on ballot measures for the official voters’ pamphlet in event such arguments are not forthcoming under present provisions 3. Elimination on initiative petitions of the present short circulation . title, prepared by proponents, and substitution therefore of the official title and summary prepared by the attorney general, BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE Bills are now before the legislature on these proposals: S. B. 525, S. B. 526 and S. B. 650, introduced by Senator Walter McGovern. The Commonwealth Club of California makes its decisions on public policy by means of secret membership polls which must be preceded by a thorough study and report by one-of the club’s study sections. The vote on these questions followed a study by the -legislation and elections section of the club of which Clarence E. Todd is chairman. Inyits study the section submitted a chart of the combined vote on November ballot propositions for the years 1932, 1934, and 1936, which showed a decline af several hundred thousand in the number of _ votes cast on measures appearing toward the end of the ballot compared with measures appearing toward the beginning. A poll of editors, legislators and other prominent citizens indicated that a large proportion were convinced that place on a ballot may spell adoption or defeat for a measure at the polls. NEGATIVE ARGUMENTS LEFT OUT t Club action favoring measures. to give greater assurance that both California . i i not more than $1,00 per hundred. on the Nevada City airport and the Washington road projects. Sort talks were made by H. M. Leete, Oscar E. Odegaard, Dr. W. W. Reeder, A. Jacobs, George Gildersleeve and Sheriff Tobiassen. ing Mrs. Conner for the poem which she composed for the occasion and also the hotel management. for the splendid dinner and service. President Conner announced the following as directors for the ensuing year: Odegaard, W. W. Waggoner, E. B. Cain, W. F. Roddy, H. E. Kjorlie, James Penrose, R. J. Bennetts, John . Fortier, F. F. Cassidy, George Calanan, Witt Nelson. PT. LOBOS WILD of a great golden eagle turning on talons at three swooping falcons in a successful attempt to beat off the attackers, is one of a number of interesting incidents included in a description of the bird and animal life issued by the Carnegie Institution ‘of Washington, D. C. The book was written by Professor Joseph Grinnell, director of the University of California Museum Zoology, member of the museum staff. all of the birds and animals that have made this historic marine outpost in Monterey county one of the most unique places of study and recreation in the country. In the observations conducted by Professor Grinnell and his assistant, 147 different bird. andividuals were seen, some of them, however, belonging to ed foar its purchase and removal is that it so obstructs the view at the iatersection that it is a great traffic hazard. Mr. Roddy estimated that the cos of purchase and _ removal would be about $8,000 which he stated could be raised by a tax of George H. Calanan made a report Resolutions were adopted thankAt the opening of the meeting Judge Raglan Tuttle, Oscar George Gildersliive, and DeLIFE SURVEYED BERKELEY, April 15.—The sight ts back’in midair and thrusting. its n the Point Lobos State Park, just of Vertebrate and Jean M. Linsdale, a The work describes individually he same species or family. So unique and distinctive is the about 80 per cent of the irrigation bills for the city had been paid. FINGER PRINTING LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICANTS Russell B. Farley, board of equalization agent of this. district, received instructions to start immediately on finger printing all applicants for liquor licenses. He went . c¢ to Lake Tahoe yesterday afternoon . eé to start work there first. ) t pleted fingerprinting the applicants . S of all those who hold liquor licenses. This is a new regulation of the State] 0 Boad of Equalization. * E. DeWein, owner of the Dipper mine at Alleghany, is visiting at his home in this city for a few days. they will start taking finger prints, before them upon the ;} than in accord their political, social conscience dictated rather than as he President might wish. The speaker declared that in no other country, such as Germany before France, or in England, did the highest courts have power to nuWify the has;laws passed by its parliamenpary body. its present -dictatorship, in The controversy ' between’ the ourt and Congress allied with the xecutive, has been active or latent ince the first supreme court. The As soon as the agents have com. justices Mr. Finnegan stated, had a plendid frecord of deciding cases law, rather r economic convictions. Woodrow Kistle has built a nice home east of Nevada City out on the Murchie mine road. chicken yard add to the convenience. A garage and sides of all measures be included in the voters’ pamphlet followed revela. ¢ tion by the legislation and elections section that in the sample year 1934 no negative argument appeared on. t fifteen of the twenty three November ballot measures—and that other years were almost as bad. The section also disclosed that nearly a million votes were cast on several measures on which no negative argument appeared, and one measure was even defeated at the polls, although nola negative argument had been included. The club’s recommendation on initiative petition titles was to alter a provision in the law in the hands of a measure’s proponents. The supreme court last fall removed Proposition 1 from the ballot on the basis that the short initiative petition} title was improper. the authors make a strong plea in take every precaution not to disturb this wild life. A plea is also made to present condition, so that it may remain a perpetual haven for these wildlings. For some of these birds, particularly, points out, it is almost the last refuge in the nation. were taken from the ill fated dirig-— ible Macon, which was lost in the sea in the general vicinity of Point Lobos, spent the last six months vis her daughter, Mrs. Lee Day and. ily in Nevada City, left in for her home in Manteca. bird and animal life in the park that he book that visitors to the park he state to leave the park in its Professor Grinnell The publication is illuminated by number of pictures, some of which Mrs. Mary E. Salmon who ha a ee.

Cpe MRI: AeeeaeeS wast Ae and vaster seas than Thinking Out Loud ry ¥ Nevada City Nugget ——— COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA city a The Nevada City Nugget helps your and prosperity. By subsribing to, and‘ advertising in the Nugget, therefore, ~ you help yourself. nd county to grow in population © wii H. M. L. . The lordly homo sapiens, who regards himself as the perfect goal toward which the Creator has_ been working for some millions or billions of years, may be right, and yet sometimes viewed in that eternity of time and limitless space in which the universe swims, we have doubts. For this reason: at various times in various places on the globe depending upon heat, or the lack of it, moisture, vegetation, prevalence of warmer the modern earth supports, and other factors, other animal forms have dominated the earth. There was an era for instance when mollusks were the higher form, another when fish and sea monsters were on top, a later millenium when sea monsters became amphibian or altogether land amimals, giving us the dinosaurs and other “saurs’’, petrified remains of which now form such interesting features of our museums. The survival of the forms that finally took the shake and the intelligence of men through the various geological periods do not. necessarily indicate a providental plan. Adaptability to changing .conditions, fecundity, and intelligence have not always been sufficient to preserve the various offshoots of the human geneological tree against extinction. At least scientists seem to agree that the Neanderthal man was one of the several variations of early homo sapiens, who for some reason, probably connected with the glacial ebb ana flow, disappeared from the face of the earth. In this connection it is interesting to speculate whether Man will be the ultimate survivor of animal life on earth, if the word ‘‘ultimate’’ can be used in connection with anything which is infinite. Perhaps it would be better to ask: after Man, what? Domestic animals are out because of their dependence upon man. Wild life species, can hardly survive if Man does not, for the reason that these too depend now upon the charity or the scientific interest of Man, for their permission to live. The fish may survive beyond the existence of Man, but really the next dominant life upon earth, it. would seem probable, will be the insects. Their origin is very ancient, their astounding reproduction abilities, the greatest of all creatures, and their increasing adaptability, would seem to make them the eventual heirs of the earth. Man unwittingly has assisted the spread of insects to all parts of the.earth, in some parts, of which, various ~ species live and multiply much easier than in their original habitat. But why should Man as a speies . ever disappear, vanish from his earthly home? Wars and disease-may . : kill off humans faster than they multiply, and insects with their constant increase may devour his food. Entomologists when they take time for_the long view are inclined to the theory that ultimately ‘inseets will win. Among the insects are the enemies of all land life species. From potato beetles to bedbugs the human species from birth to death fights insects. No rattlesnake is more pois‘onous than the black widow spider. The locusts wait in the ground for years to descend tn an opportune moment to harvest the planting of men. The peach borer, the Japanese beetles, the cottle boll weevil, the codlin moth, the pine bark .beetle of our own neighborhood and all the Sierras, all lie in wait to destroy the sustainance of man. If war and pestilence should ever weaken the human race, the insect stand a good chance of finishing it off. It is nothing for this generation to worry about, of course, and yet each generation must carry its share of the battle. Our legislators génerally speaking take the short rather than the long view. The pine bark beetle is annually destroying more timber than all the forest fires, and yet is With the greatese difficulty that Congress can be brought even to consider an appropriation of some $50,000 merely to make a survey, or diagnosis of this insects’s destruc=tion and growing menace. Today because our lawmakers could not see the importance of it, bubonic plague, through rat fleas, is loose in the state. Squirrels and rabbits carry the death dealing fleas and there are sporadic cases of plague deaths in California. The rats and their fleas that carry the dreadful disease came originally from the orient and shortly after the great earthquake and fire of 1907, there were several deaths in San Vol. 11, No. 31. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1937. STATE CHAMBER TRIES TO HALT TREASURY RAIDS SACRAMENTO, April 15.—With requests before the legislature for $174,000,000 additional expenditures beyond the limits of the governor’s budget tphe State Chamber of Commerce today sent a letter and broadside to its seven thousand members and_ affiliated organizations. throughout the state, urging a vigorous stand against the ‘‘wholesale campaign against the taxpayer.” The State Chamber’s _ bulletin points out that additions recommended to the Senate Finance Committee and the Ways\ and! Means Committee of the: es eae by department officials and other groups, total $11,000,000. One hundred and eighty special bills in both houses request additional appropriations of $130,000,000. Legislation proposing further liberalization of old age aid amounts to $34,000,000. The budget recommended by the governor for the 1937-39 biennium totals $446,466,507, and the State Chamber urges that the legislature make no increase or changes to raise the total-expenditures beyond the limits set by the governor’s budget. All additional expenditures increases being requested by various groups would increase the total of the state’s expenditures to $620,000,000. A “While some minor adjustments for emergencies warrant. consideration on their merits,’ writes the State Chamber, ‘‘there is no possible justification for this wholesale campaign against the taxpayer.” All members and affiliated organizations were urged by the State Chamber to communicate with their representatives at Sacramento immediately. CCC BOY WINS POST IN TAHOE FOREST SERVICE Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson announces the appointment of Tyra B, “Bud” Sellers as telephone operator and clerk to District Ranger ‘McCaslin at North Bloomfield. Sellers will go on duty about May 1, and expects his mother to arrive about that time from Missouri. They -will occupy one of the Forest Service buildings at MéCaslin’s station. Sellers has spent two and _ onehalf years in the Civilian Conservation Corps, according to Nelson, enrolling originally at Roaring River, Missouri, in Company 1713, later being promoted to assistant leader. He was a member of the advance cadre which established Company 4739 and was transferred with this company to Blackduck, Minnesota. He was promoted as leader and served as Quartermaster Sergeant for the company. In December, 1935, he went into private employment. Sellers re-enrolled and was assigned to Company 3711 at Grass Valley, California, in April, 1936, and was assigned to clerical and accounting work in the supervisor’s office at Nevada City. Nelson states that ii was the industry and ability displayed in this work that recommended him for the position at North Bloomfield. Sellers has always been active in athletics and played first base on the baseball team at the Grass Valley camp. Last summer he was given a try out by the St. Louis Cardinals a: Sacramento but had not had sufficient experience to make the team. SOUTH YUBA AND TRUCKEE READY TO FISH Captain A.*H. Willard, of the state fish and game commission, stated yesterday that water in the many rivers, streams and lakes is still high for fishing and will be high on May 1. The South Yuba river and Truckee river are clear enough to fish in. Fly fishing should be good in both these rivers when the season opens May first. rats eventnally mingled with the ground squirrels and today bubonic plague persists in California and spreads slowly .eastward. And this mainly because: our politician statesmen can’t see in a rat flea a menace Francisco from bubonic pleague. The, to the human race. NEW HIGHWAY SECTION WILL SOON BE OPEN From Superintendent Fred Garrison’s office it was learned the rerouted section of the Tahoe-Ukiai highway below Rough and Ready is expected to be completed about May 15. It is about four miles long and will cut over the montain from the South Yuba river bridge detouring around to the south of Smartville and -Timbucktoo eliminating several steep narrow grades and a _ long bridge. The Yuba Pass beyond Sierra City was re-opened last Monday, the snow ranging from two to ten féet in depth. The pass is about 6009 feet above sea level and a little lower than the Donner Summit. JOAN GRANT IS AGAIN CRUSADER CONTEST WINNER Joan Grant, senior in the Nevada City high school, yesterday afternoon won first place in the district Crusaders contest, held at Marysville, to which five counties sent their prize winning student speakers to compete. Last Saturday afternoon in Grass Valley, Joan won the gold medal in the contest between representatives of (Meadowlake, Grass Valley and Nevada City high schools. With the award of first place to Miss Grant went a beautiful gold cup in yesterday’s contest. One boy and four girls participated in the event. Miss Nancy Jones, member of the Nevada City high school faculty, who has been chief coach for Miss Grant is especially pleased with the award. Miss Grant will now take part in the final contest which will be held in San Francisco, April 29 for Northern California winners of the district contests, -If she should win in these finals she will be awarded the grand prize. which consists of a trip to Hawaii accompanied by: her mother, Mrs. Robert Grant. : The contest sponsored by the Cru-. saders of California, an organization devoted to inspiring good citizenship and patriotism among’ the state’s youth, this year chose as a topic for all contestants: ‘‘American Citizenship and What It Means to Me.” Miss Grant’s handling of this theme was marked by clear thinkand lucid exposition. In the opinio»d and lucid reasoning. In the openion of those able to judge, she stands an excellent chance of winning the trip to the Hawaiians. GRAMMAR SCHOOL P.T.A. MEETS THIS AFTERNOON meet this afternoon in the auditoro’clock. Following the business meeting there will be a musical entertainment in which Mrs. Christian Anderson and her father Mr. Pavilla will participate. Mrs. Leland Smith, third district P. T. A. home making chairman, will make an interesting report. EIGHTY PERCENT OF IRRIGATION TAX PAID The Nevada City water department is making a drive to get in as much money as possible as the city is to undergo a large expense in repaving many portions of the streets worn by snow'and ice the past winter and fixtures for the new city hall. Water Collector R. L. P. Bigelow appointment of a peace Justice of the peace Madbury had been appointed by the President, his The Grammar Sehool P. T. A. -will appointment confirmed by the senate, his commission signed but nevium of the new school house at two aa tration ended. coming into power refused to deliver the commission. Madbury took his complaint directly to the Supreme Court and asked for a writ of mandamus to compel delivery. Chief Justice Marshall wrote the decision of the court, and incidentally, without relation to the case in hand, laid down the doctrine of the Supreme Court’s power to nullify acts of Congress when these, in the opinion of the court, did not conform to the Constitution. stated. ed by their, own OPPOSES REPEAL OF CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM SACRAMENTO, April 15.—A. J. McFadden, chairman of the Statewide Agricultural Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce, today sent a letter to 400

grower and farmer members of the State Ghamber’s agricultural Committees, urging strong opposition against the effort to repeal the California Criminal Syndicalism Act. McFadden called attention that A. B. 311 by Richie would be heard before the Assembly Committee on Crime Problems Tuesday evening, April 20. He said ‘‘a tremendous drive is being made in favor of this bill by leftists and certain labor groups, and this drive is expected to culminate in a huge demonstration before the Assembly Committee by persons going by caravan to Satcramento from all parts of the state.” “This is a call for action’’ states McFadden, “for all those who: would sustain the law which would prevent advocating teaching or aiding and abetting the commission of crime, sabotage, or unlawful acts of force and violence or unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accompishing a change in industrial ownership or control, or effecting any political change.”’ McFadden urged growers and the farmers to communicate with members of the Assembly Committee on Crime Problems and urge that the present State Criminal Syndicalism Act be sustained. SUPREME COURT DISPUTE AS OLD AS U.S. HISTORY Frank Finnegan, president of the Rotary club, gave an interesting historical sketch of the Supreme Court controversy yesterday at the meeting of the club at luncheon. It aroused considerable discussion. From an historical standpoint, the speaker stated, the controversy over the Supreme Court’s assumed power to invalidate laws passed by Congress as unconstitutional dates back to John Marshall, who as chief justice, in an obiter dicta, inserted in a decision, laid down the doctrine power was necessarily a function of the court. that this The case was that involving the justice of the in the District of Columbia. delivered to him as the adminisPresident Jefferson Finnegan pointed out that though other Presidents had sought to name judges to the Supreme bench with a view to influencing its decisions in at least two instances their desire and their purpose had been defeatappointees, who JOHN BECKER TO GO TO SOUTH AFRICA superintendent of in Bear Valley, John Becker, the Zeibright mine who resides in Nevada City, will leave here Wednesday for South Africa. He will leave Colfax on the Overland Limited, arriving in New York Saturday to take passage on the big passenger ship, Queen Mary, for London, England. From London he will go by Imperial Airways to Capetown. Planes in Europe travel by day only and it will take eight days flying time for the trip which would have taken 17 days by boat. Mr: Becker has made the trip several times, Mr. Becker expects to be gone about two and a half-months on this business trip. He will travel about 15,000 miles on the _.ourney. Robert J. Hendricks, general manager of the Zeibright and Murchie mines, will! have charge while Mr. Becker is away. Mrs. Becker will remain in Nevada City while her husband is gone. John Becker, one of Nevada City’s foremost citizens, came to Nevada county with his parents from Mississippi when only five years old and looks upon this city as his home even though his profession has taken him to foreign countries for years at a time. : ANNUAL C. OF C. principal speaker of the evening at the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce dinner meeting held on Tuesday evening at the National Hotel. Judge Jones paid tribute to the pioneer spirit of Nevada City and said that in looking over old records of the Nevada City Chamber of Commt.te that he had noted chamber had always been foremost inpromoting the welfare of the city. ed at the meeting at about fifty Forest Supervisor was the song leader accompanied by Mrs. P. Bonner. Songs from the Ro+, tary song book were ‘stint group with much enthusiasm. written for the occassion by Fred .Conner. report of the chamber. W. F. Roddy read a report regarding the purchase by the city of the Daniels property at the corner of Pine and Commercial streets. The main reason advancDINNER MEETING FINE AFFAIR Judge George L. Jones was the that the President Fred E. Conner presidwhich were City people. DeWitt Nelson Nevada ny the Mr. Nelson sang a solo, the song Mrs. Secretary Griffith gave his annual BALLOT PLACES CHOSEN BY LOT, onee upon the bench, voted as their ~ ISNEW DEMAND SAN FRANCISCO, April 15.—By an overwhelming vote, the Commonwealth Club of today went on record in favor of: aI Determining a measure’s position on the November state ballot by lot, instead of, as atpresent, by the Secretary of Sate’s arbitrary assigning it a number. 2: Requiring the Seeretary of State to give public notice inviting citizens to contribute pro and con arguments on ballot measures for the official voters’ pamphlet in event such arguments are not forthcoming under present provisions 3. Elimination on initiative petitions of the present short circulation . title, prepared by proponents, and substitution therefore of the official title and summary prepared by the attorney general, BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE Bills are now before the legislature on these proposals: S. B. 525, S. B. 526 and S. B. 650, introduced by Senator Walter McGovern. The Commonwealth Club of California makes its decisions on public policy by means of secret membership polls which must be preceded by a thorough study and report by one-of the club’s study sections. The vote on these questions followed a study by the -legislation and elections section of the club of which Clarence E. Todd is chairman. Inyits study the section submitted a chart of the combined vote on November ballot propositions for the years 1932, 1934, and 1936, which showed a decline af several hundred thousand in the number of _ votes cast on measures appearing toward the end of the ballot compared with measures appearing toward the beginning. A poll of editors, legislators and other prominent citizens indicated that a large proportion were convinced that place on a ballot may spell adoption or defeat for a measure at the polls. NEGATIVE ARGUMENTS LEFT OUT t Club action favoring measures. to give greater assurance that both California . i i not more than $1,00 per hundred. on the Nevada City airport and the Washington road projects. Sort talks were made by H. M. Leete, Oscar E. Odegaard, Dr. W. W. Reeder, A. Jacobs, George Gildersleeve and Sheriff Tobiassen. ing Mrs. Conner for the poem which she composed for the occasion and also the hotel management. for the splendid dinner and service. President Conner announced the following as directors for the ensuing year: Odegaard, W. W. Waggoner, E. B. Cain, W. F. Roddy, H. E. Kjorlie, James Penrose, R. J. Bennetts, John . Fortier, F. F. Cassidy, George Calanan, Witt Nelson. PT. LOBOS WILD of a great golden eagle turning on talons at three swooping falcons in a successful attempt to beat off the attackers, is one of a number of interesting incidents included in a description of the bird and animal life issued by the Carnegie Institution ‘of Washington, D. C. The book was written by Professor Joseph Grinnell, director of the University of California Museum Zoology, member of the museum staff. all of the birds and animals that have made this historic marine outpost in Monterey county one of the most unique places of study and recreation in the country. In the observations conducted by Professor Grinnell and his assistant, 147 different bird. andividuals were seen, some of them, however, belonging to ed foar its purchase and removal is that it so obstructs the view at the iatersection that it is a great traffic hazard. Mr. Roddy estimated that the cos of purchase and _ removal would be about $8,000 which he stated could be raised by a tax of George H. Calanan made a report Resolutions were adopted thankAt the opening of the meeting Judge Raglan Tuttle, Oscar George Gildersliive, and DeLIFE SURVEYED BERKELEY, April 15.—The sight ts back’in midair and thrusting. its n the Point Lobos State Park, just of Vertebrate and Jean M. Linsdale, a The work describes individually he same species or family. So unique and distinctive is the about 80 per cent of the irrigation bills for the city had been paid. FINGER PRINTING LIQUOR LICENSE APPLICANTS Russell B. Farley, board of equalization agent of this. district, received instructions to start immediately on finger printing all applicants for liquor licenses. He went . c¢ to Lake Tahoe yesterday afternoon . eé to start work there first. ) t pleted fingerprinting the applicants . S of all those who hold liquor licenses. This is a new regulation of the State] 0 Boad of Equalization. * E. DeWein, owner of the Dipper mine at Alleghany, is visiting at his home in this city for a few days. they will start taking finger prints, before them upon the ;} than in accord their political, social conscience dictated rather than as he President might wish. The speaker declared that in no other country, such as Germany before France, or in England, did the highest courts have power to nuWify the has;laws passed by its parliamenpary body. its present -dictatorship, in The controversy ' between’ the ourt and Congress allied with the xecutive, has been active or latent ince the first supreme court. The As soon as the agents have com. justices Mr. Finnegan stated, had a plendid frecord of deciding cases law, rather r economic convictions. Woodrow Kistle has built a nice home east of Nevada City out on the Murchie mine road. chicken yard add to the convenience. A garage and sides of all measures be included in the voters’ pamphlet followed revela. ¢ tion by the legislation and elections section that in the sample year 1934 no negative argument appeared on. t fifteen of the twenty three November ballot measures—and that other years were almost as bad. The section also disclosed that nearly a million votes were cast on several measures on which no negative argument appeared, and one measure was even defeated at the polls, although nola negative argument had been included. The club’s recommendation on initiative petition titles was to alter a provision in the law in the hands of a measure’s proponents. The supreme court last fall removed Proposition 1 from the ballot on the basis that the short initiative petition} title was improper. the authors make a strong plea in take every precaution not to disturb this wild life. A plea is also made to present condition, so that it may remain a perpetual haven for these wildlings. For some of these birds, particularly, points out, it is almost the last refuge in the nation. were taken from the ill fated dirig-— ible Macon, which was lost in the sea in the general vicinity of Point Lobos, spent the last six months vis her daughter, Mrs. Lee Day and. ily in Nevada City, left in for her home in Manteca. bird and animal life in the park that he book that visitors to the park he state to leave the park in its Professor Grinnell The publication is illuminated by number of pictures, some of which Mrs. Mary E. Salmon who ha a ee.