April 16, 1945 (4 pages)

eee ee ee 2S eS = Sas 4 “dull, “a part of the tongue, in Cherokee, Passes . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”——Daniel Webster ye evada City : _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget me frie This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your nds, your neighbors, and your town, read . The Nugget. Vol. 19. No. 30 _The. County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945 JUST WONDEREN’ J-wonder at the languages of earth, ! They are so numerous and diverse, And each one sports a flock of dialects, Which make the complications even ‘worse. I wonder. if the tongues, wherever and whenever it occurred was not, in reality, a blessing in disguise. Wouldn’t is be rather if we “all used the same language? Somehow I doubt that human beings ver péssessed and used a confusion of «common speech, even in their grunting and. gesticulating prehistoric days. The study of hhman speech is both fascinating and dsefnl, for the genius of every nation is emboided and set forth in its language. In: tracing . ” a single word to its primative origin, one frequently ‘discovers vast fields of historic, romantic and cultural worth, and gains a clearer understanding of the lond and the people whom he once referred to as foreign. Our own language seems to have begun in the stone age with our grunting and gesticulating’ pre-Adamic ancestors, we make use of a number of their gutteral sounds to this day. For instance—ho, had huh and the very familiar uh huh. The nEglish language is a econ-. glomerate—and contributions to ifs growth and levelopment, have come . from every point of the compass, Its . history as revealed in ext books us-. ually begins with the early Britain . in the days of crude, unlettered iso-. Jation, when the language was bunt . and notable for the simplicity of its . vocabulary. During the centuries which followed, primative speach was enriched by conquerin Angel and Saxons, J ymans and Normans. The Armada left, . aside from } 1 many spicy words and expressions. which became in time legitimate parts .f Enelisi speech and when. England became} mistress, of the seven seas, each returning ship prought back strange, fascinating words, which were taken up and used untill they ytoo, became! we speak today. . languages, Volapuk, others, brought they Utviversal peranto and vented and public tention; but withered vine, for reasons readily understood. They were not flerible enough for diplomatic uses, and works off literary art, couched in either Volapuk or Esperanto could not compete with those written in richer and=more &0phisiticated languages of times. There will be a multiplicity of tongues represented at the San Francisco conference—a confusion of tongues, fi you will, but we still hope that there will be no serious confusion of thought, no wily use of diplomatic speech, no labrynths of rhetoric and that translators will watch their linguistic steps and make all subjects clear to the little people of the world who, after all, are more deeply concerned with the outcome of various sessions, ‘than. all. the earned diplomats alive in the world today, Uncle Silas says: “Our American Jand soldiers seem to take the water thazards as skillfully as their English cousins, Hitler couldn’t jump the (English channel, but our boys could.” ~—A. Merriam Conner. have inaton thej been to modern Dan Donovan, Born Dan Donovan, day settlers on died San been one of the San early Juan Ridge, Diego Tuesday, it has by friends here. He had residing in the southern city for the past six years. He had only recently celebrated 84th birthday. Donovan was born Nevada County of migrated to California in the early 1850s. For 52 years he was employed in the butcher shop and grocery of the late Joe Holland in North San of the late J. Holland in N, San ‘Juan. Liater he drove a stage from North San Juan to Smartville, Yuba County. Funeral services and burial took place in San Diego. din learned been his at Cherokee, parents who imGR ASS VALL RY SPRING FESTIVAL The Grass Valley High School PTA will give a Sping Festival dinner next . Friday. evening in the high eafeteria. Proceeds of the will to the Red Cross. tions ma¥ be made by ringing up . school . dinner . . teserva. the . £0 high’ school,.65. bi . galls suddenly left us and told us us~to-hetp ourselves to anything we could find. For a week we lived ‘pretity well, for we found consider+ LAMAR FLEMING TELLS = OF EXPERIENCE AS PRISONER MOURNS DEATH A wivid déscription of his experiences while a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines was given here by LaMar Fleming, superintendent of the Balatoc Mine of the Benguet Mining Company at Baguio until the fall of Manila. Fleming, who was one of thousands prisoners liberated by Ameriean troops, arrived in San Francisco Sunday on a government. transport ship. There he Vas met by his wife and their 16 year.old daughter, (Mary, whom he had not seen since he spent .a brief vacation in Nevada City in 1938. Employed > For many years \prior anese invasion of the Philippines Fleming had been in charge of the mine near the summer capital of the islands. 140 miles north of Manila. He employed 3000 Filipino miners at the plant. _ On Monday he and 27 other employes of the Benguet Mining Com3000 Miners to the Jappany were the guests of John W./. Hauserman, chief stockholder of the . company at.a banquet in the Palace . Hotel, San Francisco. . He said Hauserman announced . gold production in the , company’s mines in the Philippines will be re-! sumed as conditions warrant. Experiences Are Related “Until December 4ith I was held in Santa’ Tomas University com-! pound. There were three large buildings there and they were filled but not often crowded, with civilians. . We had three army doctors, assigned tous and ocrasionally soldiersawere ;. imprisoned —with—we but in pep oe it: was a civilian prison. “We never had enough to eat. We all loSt an average of 40 pounds each. When I left camp I weighed 116 pounds. I have gained 14 pounds ; since then. Normally I weigh around 1896. The thines we lacked were food ;and medical supplies. Ths Japs had . no system of rationing. We never. were fed even at the loW sti andard of . the Jap soldiers. “On December 4th they moved me and others to Los Banos, about 40 . miles from Manila’ in the southern . part of Luzon. After MacArthur land. ed in Lingayen Bay and began ‘to . make pregress toward Manila -our to shift for ourselves. “They left us all the keys and ‘told . able stores in our enclosure. « Then—Guards Returned ““Then just seven days after they left they were back, some of them all bandaged and all of them looking as though they had undergone some savage treatment. We surmised they had.g@me to the front to offer their services and their superiors had given them plenty of punishment for having left their posts without orders. “At any rate they were venomous. Our supply of meat disappeared completely. Dogs and cats around the camp were killed and eaten. As Mac‘Arthur’s troops approached Manila our treatment grew worse and during the: last week before our rescue we were issued no food whatever. Some of us had set aside little stores of rice, This we distributed as well as we could. “One morning I was out in the yard cooking a little rice. I looked up at the sound of planes and saw above us, rather low, three of our transports cireling. Each morning for two weeks this performance was i fighting with repeated. We thought little of it and ithe Japanese apparently thouht less . they would stack . guns and go out and take set-! for each morning their ting from up exercises about their Paratroopers Land “One morning after about two weeks, I looked up and saw what I believed was a lot of bundles dropping out of the planes. I exclaimed: ‘They are dropping chow! They are dropping chow.’ “T spoke too soon. They were paratroopers dropping down and before those Japs could reach their guns they were dead. Every Jap guard was . killed. None surrendered. The Fili. pino guerillas. helped too. They came from the woods troopers landed. It the whole 150 yards guns. just as the parawas well timed—— ‘Our boys the in attack. in planes ‘had been watching those Jang at their calesthenics every morning re -and ey \ for two ‘weeks. : Some of our people were so famished that when they got a chance they ate too much and died soon after they were liberated.’’ MR. AND MRS. J. GHIDOTT! SOON i I TO ARRIVES.F. John Ghidotti, who. left Nevada City to become superintendent of a gold mine on Masbate Island, in the Philippines, several years ago, and recently released from a Jap prigon camp, has_written his brother, Frank Ghidotti, here, that he expects return to this country very shortly bringing with him his wife, the former Miss Angelita Rochur, whom he married shortly after his release from a Jap prison camp: Mrs. Ghidotti is descendant of one of the early Spanish families’ of the! Philippines. The romance began several years ago. On. his. last visit 10 Nevada City Ghidgni showed his relatives Two of Mrs. have a picture of his fian'ce. Ghidotti’s tie U.S. Philippines and a brothers been forees in the sister, residing in this country is married to an American soldier. Afiter City graduating from the Nevada Chidotti al high school, was South are em-for sever in ica. He and the U loved Amer enroute years his. wife now States onan £62 Red brother to nited aAeeordins from San Francisco notifyhim of their ival day. AGED RE avimy Fan} fransport. ross message: expects a message ing ar any PSIDENT sree sb Funeral services were held in the Catholic Church in Sierra City -Saturday morffing for Mrs. Mollie Berger, who died in Oakland Thursday. The obsequies were directed Hooper and Weaver (Mortuary GrassValley._Interment—-was Sierra City Cemetery. Mrs. Berger was born in. Downieville, 82 years:ago. All of her life with the exception of the past few years were passed in Sierra County. Following her ‘marriage to the late T. Berger, she, and her family, lived for several years at Packar Lake, where her husband owned and operated a gold mine.It was there that one of her young sons was drowned as a result of a break in a dam. Surviving are her children: Mrs. Tillie Wright of Alameda, Mrs. Olive Messler of Sacramento, Mrs. Thelma Nichols of San Francisco, Herbert T. Berger of Oakland, Jack Berger of Elko, Nevada, and Edwin Berger of Nevada City. She leaves several grandchildren. A sister Mrs. Annie Loeffler of Sierra City ig also bereaved. by olf yin the ott Mrs. Mary Jane Vincent of Grass Valley Passes Funeral arrangements are pending with Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for Mrs. Mary Jane Vincent, who died Saturday afternoon in a Nevada City hospital illness of three months. Mrs. Vincent was a native of England, aged 61 years. For 12 years she operated the Manion Dairy. She was the wife of Leonard Vincent of this city, and leaves a daughter, Mrs. J. F. Watts, and a son, Lean both of this city. The reside at 115 East Main Griass Walley. family Street; © CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY Majrory Myers was given a birthday party. at the home of her grandparents, Mr.-and Mrs. Charles Myers of Gold Fiat last Saturday honoring her 8th birthday. A gaily decorated cake was the central feature of a prettily arranged table. Tames “were played during the afternoon. Those present were her father, Lawrence Myers, Burlingame, Dorothy Shoecmaker, Niles, Mr., and Mrs. Wesley Etherington, Loretta Marcia ‘'GrassValley, and; her grandparents. ‘ Myers. following an. John. GRASS VALLEY OF PRESIDENT All stores, offices and public places in Grass Valley were closed Saturday in respect to the momery of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Commomerative services were held in all the churches Sunday during the morning hours of worship. Flags through the city fly at half mast. RESOLUTION OF MOURNING BY CITY COUNCIL to . All stores and professional offices and all public buildings were closed Saturday between noon and 3 p. m. in memory of President ‘Roosevelt. ; Commemorative services were. held in* Trinity Episcopal: Church’ at ‘o'clock in.the with the seervices Dy Cr at 4) pt afternoon in Washington, m. met adopted The city council affollowing Saturday and the resolution: ternoon WHEREAS, the One has removed our DeDiano as represe of the of war leader,—Frankiin the City the ision of Council local people, a political subdivthe government of which he was the head, hereby give expression to the wniversal: expression of an hi nis appalled. its personal We deep ldss by untimely Nac De ing. are Humanity has lost of ‘devoted leaders We had long one since belonged not alone to ourselives but the whole world. He long ,alone to the winning of had sinee belonged not } the war but ito the establishment of ‘an organiza. tion that had for its aims and pur; poses the elimination of all future wars. to the sea of of blood and the which destroyed. young men, throughout the world. That has been brought about by the pirates of the modern world. This was the perfection of humanity’s impulse. Unfortunately he over estimated his strength. The _ spirit was willing, but weary and worn he stepped to the roadside to rest, and his spirit winged its way to the unknown shore—the 31st president of our country, everyone of whom have been men of. finest talents and attainments. And a few who have earned the title of the world’s greatest characters and statesmen and whose utterances are classed as of the world’s finest literature. His place in history will be large. His passing at this time was a calamity, his personal contacts with the leaders of the world who are to meet in our state would have been invaluable. But regardless of this great calamity it is ours to dedicate our moral support to the great task to which he gave the full measure of his devotion. To aid in binding up the nation‘s wounds, and assisting the maimed and shlattered remnants %f the returning soldiers on their road to happiness and manhood we dedieate all that is sacred in life. We earnestly request the closing of the business houses as a mark of respect today while the funeral is in progress from 12 noon until 3 p.m. IRVINE SEAIMAIN, Acting Mayor. Councilmen Antone $Rore. Irving Long, A. S. Bates. GEORGE CAILANAN, City Clerk. MRS. GOLDSMITH HONORED Mrs. Belknap C. Goldsmith, was guest of honor at a luncheon given last Thursday in Trinity Parish Hall by those who have worked in the Girl Scout. movement. Mrs. Goldsmith has been secretary of the Girl Seont Council for a number of years, and with her husband is leaving shortly for Los Gatos, where they have pur‘chased a residence. Mrs, Eldon Kendrick, missioner of Girl Scouts hostess. This was his answer tears, the mountains river of explosives, deputy comwas linchThere were sixteen members of the council and leaders eon present. St. Agnes Guild served—a delightful luncheon. John rigely, fire suppression erew assistant of Tahoe national forest and wife of Camptonville spert Saturday .in this city on business. ‘ one . coincident . casualties . valiant . ‘Roosevelt. : } ee ntative of] 'three scientists in the fish research “Search associates, and Fred Yerman, SERVICESIN = TRINITY HONOR LATE PRESIDENT Trinity Episcopal, Church was filled and many. were unable to obtain seats at the-—services in which the entire community participated Sav-. urday afternoon in memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Rev. Cedric Porter, opening the service, said: ‘‘We give our solemn .greeting at this community . rector, memorial service conducted at. an hour when men and women of all ages throughout the nation and the world pause in reverent tribute to a man who lived and worked among us bupt a few short houhs ago. He was a fellow citizen, the president of the United States of America, Franklin . D. Roosevelt. “A world mounrs, will carry.on. A that world great man dies but there is triumph and no sadness the knowledge that the principles for which he stood, of his greatness, but in that. were the secret can never die, can never be imprisoned within a fragije human shell.’ Participating in the service were members of the National Forest Ser. vice, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and representatives. of all civie and fra. ternal organizations of the city. In’ addition to several hymns known to be favorites of the late president, the choir. sang Kipline’s recessional’’ with Car! Libbey, solo. ist, and his wife directing the choi G@orge Gildersleeve led in the congregation’ in the pled all iance to the flag-—Rev. David Ralston pastor of the Methodist Church read St. Paul’s first enistle to the Corinthian Representing the community thespeakers were H. S. Foreman: president of the Nevada City Gham . ber of Commerce, Hi FE; Kjorlie, sup;erintendent of the © unified schoo! . district, and Georgé Calanan, city clerk. . rs ‘Dp SPOILED FISH TESTED WITH SAN FRAINCISCO, April A new instrument known as a rte meter, which acts like a mechanical nose and is used to sniff the odor of spoiled fish, has been developed by laboratory at Hooper Foundation on the San Francisco campus of the University of California. The stinkometer was devised byDre Ou WwW Land and Dr. Lionel Farber, reprincipal laboratory assistant, who claim .that it is more sensitive than the educated . nose of the trained fish inspector. Tests for the freshness of fish in the canning industry have depended on the sense of smell, since no one other method was: found to be reliable in all cases, the authors say. However, they point olit that smell is not alwawys accurate in borderline cases because it is’ subject to fatigue, personal opinion and _ bias. The stinkometer is based on the fact that. the substances responsible for the odors of decaying gases which are known to chemists as oxidizable, and are oxidized by other, chemicals such as potassium permanganate, the authors explain. In the stinkometer, washed air is bubbled through juice squeezed from fish, and is then passed through the colored permanganate solution, grad-} ually changing it from purple to green. Experiments have shown that the instrument is not only applicable to substances which develop odors as they spoil, but also to materials like coffee and spices that loose their fragrance as they deteriorate. i NEW “BFWC PRESIDENT The Grass~*Valley Business and Professional Women’s Club will install new officers Wednesday evening, April 18th, at a formal dinner meeting in Bret Harte Inn at 7 p. m. ‘Mrs. Veda Meeker chosen president to succeed Miss Betty Eldredge, whose term expires, will be. seated and will preside over the last half of the meeting. ‘Mrs. Thelma Sah] will have charge of the program which, it is promised will be of unusual interest, A full . H. Ward Sheldon, ' Kendrick fish are}, attendance of members is erpected. ee J.P. SIEGFRIED HEADS NEVADA CITY ELKS The Nevada City Elks Lodge . ‘Thursday night installed J. F. Sieg. fried and other.officers in office. The ceremony was in charge of Ray Clinch of. Grass Valley Lodge and his corps of officers. During the evening. George H. \Calanian, délivered a splendid eulogy on thé late President Roosevelt. A lodge of sorrow was held in memory of the chief executive who. be-. longed to New York Lodge No. 1. J. C. Tyrrell of Grass Valley also gave a brief and appropriate message to the assembly. The following officers. ‘were installed to assist Siegfried in his administration during the coming year ‘steemed Leading Knight; William Wasley, Esteemed Loyal Knight; Irving Long, Esteemed Lecturing :Knight; Lambert Thomas, Secretary; H. A. Curnow, Treasurer; J. F. Colley, Trustee, Eldon Kendrick, alternate delegate to Grand Lodge,.Charles Parsons, Es= quire; Rev. Cedric Porter, Chaplain; William V. Tamblyn, Tyler, Lloyd Penrose, inner guard. In appreciation of his faithful service during the past Eldon the exalted ruler sun, but guns were not given a certificate one when again. cift was presented will leave. to enyear retiring Was presented the fact uble, he with a shot that was due to avails that, will they are on A going to Beryl Rob Nevada City the entitle him to the market away inson who Tuesday morning ter armed services. HFT. TAYLOR. FREED OF GERMAN PRISON CAMP Mrs. Hopkins Pitzpatrick who lives near the Empire Mine, has received a message from her brother, Lieut. E. B .Taylor, recently released by the Russians from a German prison camp in Poland that: he has landed in this country and expects to arrive in Camp Beale the latter part of next week. Lieut, Taylor was captured on the Italian front and _ for. seven months was imprisoned in Stalag No. 7 near Munich, apparently being removed to a camp in Poland during the last few months. Originally Taylor enlisted. ve the National Guard 115th Engineers recruited in Grass Valey before Pearl Harbor. He remained in this group until chosen for officers candidate school. Following his graduation as second lieutenant, he was, assigned to the infantry and dispatched overseas. He took part in the battle throughout North Africa, Siciliy and Italy. Three File Nomiantions or Grass Valley Board Orhree freuen have filed their nominating petitions for re-election to the Grass Valley Board of Education. They are Frank Bennallack, chaidman, Harry Poole and Joseph Henwood. There are three vacancies to be filled in the May 18th school election. Time for filing nominations expires April 18th. The Grass Valley Board of Education will sponsor a city wide immunization from gmallpox and diphtheria. It is proposed to immunize both school children and the general public. Local physicians will have charge of the work. The work is discussing plans for post war improvements and . additions to both the high. and elementary school buildings. Data is now being compiled so that work may start immediately the war ends. ‘Mrs. C. Boone who was operated . on in Jones Memorial Hospital early last. week will be able to return home in a day or so. Mr. and Mrs. Boone have rented a home on Park avenue, Marvin Fisk, who visited with re— latives and-friends-in-the-twin cities has returned to Sacramento. When. he left here several years ‘ago he went to Vallejo where he was in war work four years. His family are inSeattle while he is now on this apg: ial work out of Sacraments a } \ \ \

eee ee ee 2S eS = Sas 4 “dull, “a part of the tongue, in Cherokee, Passes . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”——Daniel Webster ye evada City : _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget me frie This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your nds, your neighbors, and your town, read . The Nugget. Vol. 19. No. 30 _The. County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945 JUST WONDEREN’ J-wonder at the languages of earth, ! They are so numerous and diverse, And each one sports a flock of dialects, Which make the complications even ‘worse. I wonder. if the tongues, wherever and whenever it occurred was not, in reality, a blessing in disguise. Wouldn’t is be rather if we “all used the same language? Somehow I doubt that human beings ver péssessed and used a confusion of «common speech, even in their grunting and. gesticulating prehistoric days. The study of hhman speech is both fascinating and dsefnl, for the genius of every nation is emboided and set forth in its language. In: tracing . ” a single word to its primative origin, one frequently ‘discovers vast fields of historic, romantic and cultural worth, and gains a clearer understanding of the lond and the people whom he once referred to as foreign. Our own language seems to have begun in the stone age with our grunting and gesticulating’ pre-Adamic ancestors, we make use of a number of their gutteral sounds to this day. For instance—ho, had huh and the very familiar uh huh. The nEglish language is a econ-. glomerate—and contributions to ifs growth and levelopment, have come . from every point of the compass, Its . history as revealed in ext books us-. ually begins with the early Britain . in the days of crude, unlettered iso-. Jation, when the language was bunt . and notable for the simplicity of its . vocabulary. During the centuries which followed, primative speach was enriched by conquerin Angel and Saxons, J ymans and Normans. The Armada left, . aside from } 1 many spicy words and expressions. which became in time legitimate parts .f Enelisi speech and when. England became} mistress, of the seven seas, each returning ship prought back strange, fascinating words, which were taken up and used untill they ytoo, became! we speak today. . languages, Volapuk, others, brought they Utviversal peranto and vented and public tention; but withered vine, for reasons readily understood. They were not flerible enough for diplomatic uses, and works off literary art, couched in either Volapuk or Esperanto could not compete with those written in richer and=more &0phisiticated languages of times. There will be a multiplicity of tongues represented at the San Francisco conference—a confusion of tongues, fi you will, but we still hope that there will be no serious confusion of thought, no wily use of diplomatic speech, no labrynths of rhetoric and that translators will watch their linguistic steps and make all subjects clear to the little people of the world who, after all, are more deeply concerned with the outcome of various sessions, ‘than. all. the earned diplomats alive in the world today, Uncle Silas says: “Our American Jand soldiers seem to take the water thazards as skillfully as their English cousins, Hitler couldn’t jump the (English channel, but our boys could.” ~—A. Merriam Conner. have inaton thej been to modern Dan Donovan, Born Dan Donovan, day settlers on died San been one of the San early Juan Ridge, Diego Tuesday, it has by friends here. He had residing in the southern city for the past six years. He had only recently celebrated 84th birthday. Donovan was born Nevada County of migrated to California in the early 1850s. For 52 years he was employed in the butcher shop and grocery of the late Joe Holland in North San of the late J. Holland in N, San ‘Juan. Liater he drove a stage from North San Juan to Smartville, Yuba County. Funeral services and burial took place in San Diego. din learned been his at Cherokee, parents who imGR ASS VALL RY SPRING FESTIVAL The Grass Valley High School PTA will give a Sping Festival dinner next . Friday. evening in the high eafeteria. Proceeds of the will to the Red Cross. tions ma¥ be made by ringing up . school . dinner . . teserva. the . £0 high’ school,.65. bi . galls suddenly left us and told us us~to-hetp ourselves to anything we could find. For a week we lived ‘pretity well, for we found consider+ LAMAR FLEMING TELLS = OF EXPERIENCE AS PRISONER MOURNS DEATH A wivid déscription of his experiences while a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines was given here by LaMar Fleming, superintendent of the Balatoc Mine of the Benguet Mining Company at Baguio until the fall of Manila. Fleming, who was one of thousands prisoners liberated by Ameriean troops, arrived in San Francisco Sunday on a government. transport ship. There he Vas met by his wife and their 16 year.old daughter, (Mary, whom he had not seen since he spent .a brief vacation in Nevada City in 1938. Employed > For many years \prior anese invasion of the Philippines Fleming had been in charge of the mine near the summer capital of the islands. 140 miles north of Manila. He employed 3000 Filipino miners at the plant. _ On Monday he and 27 other employes of the Benguet Mining Com3000 Miners to the Jappany were the guests of John W./. Hauserman, chief stockholder of the . company at.a banquet in the Palace . Hotel, San Francisco. . He said Hauserman announced . gold production in the , company’s mines in the Philippines will be re-! sumed as conditions warrant. Experiences Are Related “Until December 4ith I was held in Santa’ Tomas University com-! pound. There were three large buildings there and they were filled but not often crowded, with civilians. . We had three army doctors, assigned tous and ocrasionally soldiersawere ;. imprisoned —with—we but in pep oe it: was a civilian prison. “We never had enough to eat. We all loSt an average of 40 pounds each. When I left camp I weighed 116 pounds. I have gained 14 pounds ; since then. Normally I weigh around 1896. The thines we lacked were food ;and medical supplies. Ths Japs had . no system of rationing.. We never. were fed even at the loW sti andard of . the Jap soldiers. “On December 4th they moved me and others to Los Banos, about 40 . miles from Manila’ in the southern . part of Luzon. After MacArthur land. ed in Lingayen Bay and began ‘to . make pregress toward Manila -our to shift for ourselves. “They left us all the keys and ‘told . able stores in our enclosure. « Then—Guards Returned ““Then just seven days after they left they were back, some of them all bandaged and all of them looking as though they had undergone some savage treatment. We surmised they had.g@me to the front to offer their services and their superiors had given them plenty of punishment for having left their posts without orders. “At any rate they were venomous. Our supply of meat disappeared completely. Dogs and cats around the camp were killed and eaten. As Mac‘Arthur’s troops approached Manila our treatment grew worse and during the: last week before our rescue we were issued no food whatever. Some of us had set aside little stores of rice, This we distributed as well as we could. “One morning I was out in the yard cooking a little rice. I looked up at the sound of planes and saw above us, rather low, three of our transports cireling. Each morning for two weeks this performance was i fighting with repeated. We thought little of it and ithe Japanese apparently thouht less . they would stack . guns and go out and take set-! for each morning their ting from up exercises about their Paratroopers Land “One morning after about two weeks, I looked up and saw what I believed was a lot of bundles dropping out of the planes. I exclaimed: ‘They are dropping chow! They are dropping chow.’ “T spoke too soon. They were paratroopers dropping down and before those Japs could reach their guns they were dead. Every Jap guard was . killed. None surrendered. The Fili. pino guerillas. helped too. They came from the woods troopers landed. It the whole 150 yards guns. just as the parawas well timed—— ‘Our boys the in attack. in planes ‘had been watching those Jang at their calesthenics every morning re -and ey \ for two ‘weeks. : Some of our people were so famished that when they got a chance they ate too much and died soon after they were liberated.’’ MR. AND MRS. J. GHIDOTT! SOON i I TO ARRIVES.F. John Ghidotti, who. left Nevada City to become superintendent of a gold mine on Masbate Island, in the Philippines, several years ago, and recently released from a Jap prigon camp, has_written his brother, Frank Ghidotti, here, that he expects return to this country very shortly bringing with him his wife, the former Miss Angelita Rochur, whom he married shortly after his release from a Jap prison camp: Mrs. Ghidotti is descendant of one of the early Spanish families’ of the! Philippines. The romance began several years ago. On. his. last visit 10 Nevada City Ghidgni showed his relatives Two of Mrs. have a picture of his fian'ce. Ghidotti’s tie U.S. Philippines and a brothers been forees in the sister, residing in this country is married to an American soldier. Afiter City graduating from the Nevada Chidotti al high school, was South are em-for sever in ica. He and the U loved Amer enroute years his. wife now States onan £62 Red brother to nited aAeeordins from San Francisco notifyhim of their ival day. AGED RE avimy Fan} fransport. ross message: expects a message ing ar any PSIDENT sree sb Funeral services were held in the Catholic Church in Sierra City -Saturday morffing for Mrs. Mollie Berger, who died in Oakland Thursday. The obsequies were directed Hooper and Weaver (Mortuary GrassValley._Interment—-was Sierra City Cemetery. Mrs. Berger was born in. Downieville, 82 years:ago. All of her life with the exception of the past few years were passed in Sierra County. Following her ‘marriage to the late T. Berger, she, and her family, lived for several years at Packar Lake, where her husband owned and operated a gold mine.It was there that one of her young sons was drowned as a result of a break in a dam. Surviving are her children: Mrs. Tillie Wright of Alameda, Mrs. Olive Messler of Sacramento, Mrs. Thelma Nichols of San Francisco, Herbert T. Berger of Oakland, Jack Berger of Elko, Nevada, and Edwin Berger of Nevada City. She leaves several grandchildren. A sister Mrs. Annie Loeffler of Sierra City ig also bereaved. by olf yin the ott Mrs. Mary Jane Vincent of Grass Valley Passes Funeral arrangements are pending with Hooper and Weaver Mortuary for Mrs. Mary Jane Vincent, who died Saturday afternoon in a Nevada City hospital illness of three months. Mrs. Vincent was a native of England, aged 61 years. For 12 years she operated the Manion Dairy. She was the wife of Leonard Vincent of this city, and leaves a daughter, Mrs. J. F. Watts, and a son, Lean both of this city. The reside at 115 East Main

Griass Walley. family Street; © CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY Majrory Myers was given a birthday party. at the home of her grandparents, Mr.-and Mrs. Charles Myers of Gold Fiat last Saturday honoring her 8th birthday. A gaily decorated cake was the central feature of a prettily arranged table. Tames “were played during the afternoon. Those present were her father, Lawrence Myers, Burlingame, Dorothy Shoecmaker, Niles, Mr., and Mrs. Wesley Etherington, Loretta Marcia ‘'GrassValley, and; her grandparents. ‘ Myers. following an. John. GRASS VALLEY OF PRESIDENT All stores, offices and public places in Grass Valley were closed Saturday in respect to the momery of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Commomerative services were held in all the churches Sunday during the morning hours of worship. Flags through the city fly at half mast. RESOLUTION OF MOURNING BY CITY COUNCIL to . All stores and professional offices and all public buildings were closed Saturday between noon and 3 p. m. in memory of President ‘Roosevelt. ; Commemorative services were. held in* Trinity Episcopal: Church’ at ‘o'clock in.the with the seervices Dy Cr at 4) pt afternoon in Washington, m. met adopted The city council affollowing Saturday and the resolution: ternoon WHEREAS, the One has removed our DeDiano as represe of the of war leader,—Frankiin the City the ision of Council local people, a political subdivthe government of which he was the head, hereby give expression to the wniversal: expression of an hi nis appalled. its personal We deep ldss by untimely Nac De ing. are Humanity has lost of ‘devoted leaders We had long one since belonged not alone to ourselives but the whole world. He long ,alone to the winning of had sinee belonged not } the war but ito the establishment of ‘an organiza. tion that had for its aims and pur; poses the elimination of all future wars. to the sea of of blood and the which destroyed. young men, throughout the world. That has been brought about by the pirates of the modern world. This was the perfection of humanity’s impulse. Unfortunately he over estimated his strength. The _ spirit was willing, but weary and worn he stepped to the roadside to rest, and his spirit winged its way to the unknown shore—the 31st president of our country, everyone of whom have been men of. finest talents and attainments. And a few who have earned the title of the world’s greatest characters and statesmen and whose utterances are classed as of the world’s finest literature. His place in history will be large. His passing at this time was a calamity, his personal contacts with the leaders of the world who are to meet in our state would have been invaluable. But regardless of this great calamity it is ours to dedicate our moral support to the great task to which he gave the full measure of his devotion. To aid in binding up the nation‘s wounds, and assisting the maimed and shlattered remnants %f the returning soldiers on their road to happiness and manhood we dedieate all that is sacred in life. We earnestly request the closing of the business houses as a mark of respect today while the funeral is in progress from 12 noon until 3 p.m. IRVINE SEAIMAIN, Acting Mayor. Councilmen Antone $Rore. Irving Long, A. S. Bates. GEORGE CAILANAN, City Clerk. MRS.. GOLDSMITH HONORED Mrs. Belknap C. Goldsmith, was guest of honor at a luncheon given last Thursday in Trinity Parish Hall by those who have worked in the Girl Scout. movement. Mrs. Goldsmith has been secretary of the Girl Seont Council for a number of years, and with her husband is leaving shortly for Los Gatos, where they have pur‘chased a residence. Mrs, Eldon Kendrick, missioner of Girl Scouts hostess. This was his answer tears, the mountains river of explosives, deputy comwas linchThere were sixteen members of the council and leaders eon present. St. Agnes Guild served—a delightful luncheon. John rigely, fire suppression erew assistant of Tahoe national forest and wife of Camptonville spert Saturday .in this city on business. ‘ one . coincident . casualties . valiant . ‘Roosevelt. : } ee ntative of] 'three scientists in the fish research “Search associates, and Fred Yerman, SERVICESIN = TRINITY HONOR LATE PRESIDENT Trinity Episcopal, Church was filled and many. were unable to obtain seats at the-—services in which the entire community participated Sav-. urday afternoon in memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Rev. Cedric Porter, opening the service, said: ‘‘We give our solemn .greeting at this community . rector, memorial service conducted at. an hour when men and women of all ages throughout the nation and the world pause in reverent tribute to a man who lived and worked among us bupt a few short houhs ago. He was a fellow citizen, the president of the United States of America, Franklin . D. Roosevelt. “A world mounrs, will carry.on. A that world great man dies but there is triumph and no sadness the knowledge that the principles for which he stood, of his greatness, but in that. were the secret can never die, can never be imprisoned within a fragije human shell.’ Participating in the service were members of the National Forest Ser. vice, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and representatives. of all civie and fra. ternal organizations of the city. In’ addition to several hymns known to be favorites of the late president, the choir. sang Kipline’s recessional’’ with Car! Libbey, solo. ist, and his wife directing the choi G@orge Gildersleeve led in the congregation’ in the pled all iance to the flag-—Rev. David Ralston pastor of the Methodist Church read St. Paul’s first enistle to the Corinthian Representing the community thespeakers were H. S. Foreman: president of the Nevada City Gham . ber of Commerce, Hi FE; Kjorlie, sup;erintendent of the © unified schoo! . district, and Georgé Calanan, city clerk. . rs ‘Dp SPOILED FISH TESTED WITH SAN FRAINCISCO, April A new instrument known as a rte meter, which acts like a mechanical nose and is used to sniff the odor of spoiled fish, has been developed by laboratory at Hooper Foundation on the San Francisco campus of the University of California. The stinkometer was devised byDre Ou WwW Land and Dr. Lionel Farber, reprincipal laboratory assistant, who claim .that it is more sensitive than the educated . nose of the trained fish inspector. Tests for the freshness of fish in the canning industry have depended on the sense of smell, since no one other method was: found to be reliable in all cases, the authors say. However, they point olit that smell is not alwawys accurate in borderline cases because it is’ subject to fatigue, personal opinion and _ bias. The stinkometer is based on the fact that. the substances responsible for the odors of decaying gases which are known to chemists as oxidizable, and are oxidized by other, chemicals such as potassium permanganate, the authors explain. In the stinkometer, washed air is bubbled through juice squeezed from fish, and is then passed through the colored permanganate solution, grad-} ually changing it from purple to green. Experiments have shown that the instrument is not only applicable to substances which develop odors as they spoil, but also to materials like coffee and spices that loose their fragrance as they deteriorate. i NEW “BFWC PRESIDENT The Grass~*Valley Business and Professional Women’s Club will install new officers Wednesday evening, April 18th, at a formal dinner meeting in Bret Harte Inn at 7 p. m. ‘Mrs. Veda Meeker chosen president to succeed Miss Betty Eldredge, whose term expires, will be. seated and will preside over the last half of the meeting. ‘Mrs. Thelma Sah] will have charge of the program which, it is promised will be of unusual interest, A full . H. Ward Sheldon, ' Kendrick fish are}, attendance of members is erpected. ee J.P. SIEGFRIED HEADS NEVADA CITY ELKS The Nevada City Elks Lodge . ‘Thursday night installed J. F. Sieg. fried and other.officers in office. The ceremony was in charge of Ray Clinch of. Grass Valley Lodge and his corps of officers. During the evening. George H. \Calanian, délivered a splendid eulogy on thé late President Roosevelt. A lodge of sorrow was held in memory of the chief executive who. be-. longed to New York Lodge No. 1. J. C. Tyrrell of Grass Valley also gave a brief and appropriate message to the assembly. The following officers. ‘were installed to assist Siegfried in his administration during the coming year ‘steemed Leading Knight; William Wasley, Esteemed Loyal Knight; Irving Long, Esteemed Lecturing :Knight; Lambert Thomas, Secretary; H. A. Curnow, Treasurer; J. F. Colley, Trustee, Eldon Kendrick, alternate delegate to Grand Lodge,.Charles Parsons, Es= quire; Rev. Cedric Porter, Chaplain; William V. Tamblyn, Tyler, Lloyd Penrose, inner guard. In appreciation of his faithful service during the past Eldon the exalted ruler sun, but guns were not given a certificate one when again. cift was presented will leave. to enyear retiring Was presented the fact uble, he with a shot that was due to avails that, will they are on A going to Beryl Rob Nevada City the entitle him to the market away inson who Tuesday morning ter armed services. HFT. TAYLOR. FREED OF GERMAN PRISON CAMP Mrs. Hopkins Pitzpatrick who lives near the Empire Mine, has received a message from her brother, Lieut. E. B .Taylor, recently released by the Russians from a German prison camp in Poland that: he has landed in this country and expects to arrive in Camp Beale the latter part of next week. Lieut, Taylor was captured on the Italian front and _ for. seven months was imprisoned in Stalag No. 7 near Munich, apparently being removed to a camp in Poland during the last few months. Originally Taylor enlisted. ve the National Guard 115th Engineers recruited in Grass Valey before Pearl Harbor. He remained in this group until chosen for officers candidate school. Following his graduation as second lieutenant, he was, assigned to the infantry and dispatched overseas. He took part in the battle throughout North Africa, Siciliy and Italy. Three File Nomiantions or Grass Valley Board Orhree freuen have filed their nominating petitions for re-election to the Grass Valley Board of Education. They are Frank Bennallack, chaidman, Harry Poole and Joseph Henwood. There are three vacancies to be filled in the May 18th school election. Time for filing nominations expires April 18th. The Grass Valley Board of Education will sponsor a city wide immunization from gmallpox and diphtheria. It is proposed to immunize both school children and the general public. Local physicians will have charge of the work. The work is discussing plans for post war improvements and . additions to both the high. and elementary school buildings. Data is now being compiled so that work may start immediately the war ends. ‘Mrs. C. Boone who was operated . on in Jones Memorial Hospital early last. week will be able to return home in a day or so. Mr. and Mrs. Boone have rented a home on Park avenue, Marvin Fisk, who visited with re— latives and-friends-in-the-twin cities has returned to Sacramento. When. he left here several years ‘ago he went to Vallejo where he was in war work four years. His family are inSeattle while he is now on this apg: ial work out of Sacraments a } \ \ \