April 8, 1938 (6 pages)

a ED a earns * ry ’ shifts. Men and women on the pickThinking Out Loud H. M. L. The explosion of Murchie miners and citizens of Nevada County in running the ClO-communist leaders out of the county may be compared with the action of a tong suffering man whose wife nags and henpecks him over interminable time. Little provocations pile up until they become a mountain. Finally the man Zoes berserk amd shoots his wife to death. We freely admit the action of the Miners and business men did not have a legal leg to stand. on, not even a crutch. If anyone wishes to blame the sheriff, it is their privilege of a free country. We dlon’t. It is too much to ask the sheriff to put one hundred and fifty angry citizens fin. a bull pen 16x20 feet in dimensions. And hack ofthe 150 citizens who acted, were probably 8,000 waiting to act if their services seemed at all necessary. The reason this newspaper shows on this occasion.a rather calloused attitude toward this incident, iis frankly because we have never read of, or witnessed any evidence that the CIO is an ‘honest labor union or organization. Its whole brief history is one of law breaking, East and West. If it proposes to reach its objectives by trampling on the Flag and the law, then by its own actions it unleashes the law ‘breaking forces every where. Efforts of Homer Martin and other CIO leaders in the East to purge the CIO ranks of communism have notably failed. The communists which control the CIO have never had any regard for the law of the land except to use it just so far as it served as shield and weapon for tearing down all law. ‘The yelp and the yawp for constitutional rights never ceases. C1O-communist leaders themselves are industriously destroying’ the fights of all of us. While the raid of the Murchie miners and Nevada (City Busincss men on ‘the picket line on the Red Dog road cannot be defended from a legal standpoint, on ithe strictly . moral side, no one at all disinterested but will grant that thas ected under great provocation. There was first of all the attempted illegal lockout, in which 23 men of the 240 men employed in the Murchie voted to strike and to close the mine until such demands as these 23 men made were satisfied. There followed the battle of January 20, when over 100 men were escorted through te picket line/ reinforced by a large number of Lava Cap CIO workers. Then came weeks of picketing. Small children, little ‘boys and girls, were taught by their parents to yell “seab’’ at the miners as they went to and fro in daily and _ nightly et line called out even more opprobious epithets. There was the beating up of a Murchie miner at LeBarr Meadows dance. There were tiousands of postal cards sent Judge Raglan Tuttle and other county authorities from ClO-commiuntst’ gathers ings far and near, ‘demanding’ the release of six arrested on charge of rioting. There was the soliciting by women auxiliaries of the communists among ‘our merchants for food and money, and always with the implicit threat of boycott unless donations were forthcoming. There was the abuse and threats against the entire community carried by the ‘Miners Viloice,’’ circulated usually between sun-down and sun-up. These are no legal grounds, we admit, for giving this peace disturbing and communistic group, the ‘bums rush.’? But the flesh is weak, The nuisance finally became unbearable, and, just as Amador county did, the long suffering community at last revolted and ushered tthe paid leaders of these trouble makers across the county borudaries, They promised not to return, and, somehow, we believe this promise will . be kept. Moreover we do not expect to see again Mr. Scott Erwin, one ‘ time ibarber, of Wallace Idaho, come West to lead our hard rock miners into the Abundant Life. His attempt to pour hair-oil on the troubled waters failed, and, according to his own statement inthe Sacramento press his escape from*an interview with Murchie miners, via several back yards in Grass Valley, was extremely narrow. When a whole community is overwrought in its efforts to restore peace by decidedly rough and ready, methods, it is, perhaps, useless to comment on individual and sporadic Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA TT gget with good motives and for justifiable ends. — Alexander Hamilton From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists si in the right to publish the Truth, = Vol. q 2 ; No. (. ) The ‘County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA The Gold Center _ FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938. Peaceful, Normal Life Of Community Resumed All is quiet along the Red Dog Road. ’ There are no pickets there and the ‘possibility of their return is remote. ; The leaders of, the ClO-Communist group which has plagued Nevada County for nearly three’ months, were ‘last night ushered under the safeconduct of Sheriff Carl Tobiassen across the county line to Colfax, where they went their several ways. There were eight in the departing «party. These leaders were Herbert F. Patton, regional director for the CIOcommunists; ‘‘Red’’ Adams, who as leader of the CIO at Boca last summer succeeded in closing down the construction work undertaken by the government for the relief of farmers in Nevada state; and Al Garesio, financial secretary of the; local C1O-communist organization. All of them departed willingly. : Scott Erwin, another ClO-communist organizer also departed, but without safe conduct. He left hurriedly but \willingly. The party of eight, escorted by Sheriff Carl Tobiassen and his deputies arrived at Colfax in time for the train that passes through there about 1:50 in the morning. Patton, Adams, Garesio and Mike Callizo departed for Oakland. The other four, Marvin Wilbourn, M. Van Houten, Dan McKinnon and George Mattingly, who came down originally from; Truckee to aid the local CIlO-communists in their losing battle ,departed for Truckee and roints east. 2 ‘' Of the other eight of the sixteen who were jailed at 4 o0’clock Wed nesday morning after being gassed in the CIO ‘headquarters in the Davies building four were miners of the Lava Cap, George Walzer, William Tucker, Harry Fowler and Henry Gibson. They were released in time to resume their shifts. Filmer L .Willard, A. C. Carroll, P. W. Newell and R. A. ‘Hollander, the others were given their liberty about the same time. Some of them departed for Truckee and some for Grass Valley. Garesio’s family consisting. of a wife and two young children will join him in Oakland. At the time of his departure Garesio expected to be away from Nevada City for six months. At 4:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon the Murchie miners gathered in Washington street back of ‘the sheriff’s office, in the expectation of giving the CIlO-communist leaders a large escort on their way out of the county. Sheriff Tobiassen, however, had other plans. Doors to the office were locked. The big garage door alomg side the office was guarded by an armed deputy. For a time it was believed that there might be a rush on _ the sheriff’s office ito seize thle CIO leaders: Armed deputies stood ready inside the office to repel any such invasion. 5; After some parley Garesio, Patton and Adams agreed it would be better to leave Nevada City sometime during the night than to attempt to go at that time. Sheriff Tobiassen went outside, told the nee the intention and willingness of the three leaders to leave Neva county, and shortly thereafter the miners and business men dispersd. : : During the height of the excitement outside ‘the sheriff’s Office, the for protection for his CIO miners, He wanted an escort for his miners in treir buses going on night shift. Tobiassen immediately ordered several periutties to the job. When they arrived at the Plaza, however, to take up their duties as escorts, the CIO workers refused to be accompanied by the deputies, and declared that if they were to be escorted they would refuse to go to work. Under these circumstances the sheriff, of course, withdrew his deputies from their assignment. : No one knows. what might have happened to the sixteen men who were jailed early Wednesday morning, if they had been discovered by the irate Murchie miners and business men of Nevada City, particularly if the CtO leaders had been identified. But everyone, with little dissent, agrees that Sheriff Carl Tobiassen used good judgment throughout the day. The sefest place for those men was in jail. And none of them were allowed ‘to leave until the hazard of personal injuey was removed. The sheriff and his deputies worked night and day ijto prevent any possible fatalities and to / reduce casualties to a minimum during the time that excitement ran high and many otherwise responsible citizens were apparently bereft of sound judgment. : The frantic appeals of Erwin, after his precipitate departure from 7rass Valley and arrival.in Sacramento, to Governor Merriam, Traffic Chief Raymond Cato, Deputy State Attorney General Jesse Hession, and Assistant United States Attorney G. J. Hielm. produced one notable result: The governor told Erwin that he would send more traffic patrolmen to Nevada county if necessary to preserve order. In the meantime, he said, he would not send militia unless requested to do so by Sheriff Tobiassen and District Attorney Stoll. vee On this end of the line Sheriff Tobiassen stated briefly that he had the situation well ‘n hand. _. Fourteen state trafific police are mow on duty vicinity. ! The governor also declared: “I am going.to preserve order there (Nevada County) and ‘give everyone the protection they ar entitled to under “he law, regardless of who is involved.’ He added that sending ‘more traffic patrolmen to the seat of the disturbance should satisfy the CIO leaders. A state car driven -by traffic police yesterday morning stopped quietly on Broad street, opposite a car, which had been driven into town by in Nevada City and ‘miners from the Spanish mine. The officer in charge stepped across the street, searched the car for weapons and found a revolver. The weapon was confiscated for the time being. The officer said to a reporter for this newspaper. ‘‘We were informed this man had a gun in his car. We know he is all right but he is carrying this gun without a license, and under the present conditions, we. just think it would be safer to take care of this weapon for awhile. No charges will be preferred.’’ Miss Elaine Black, Pacific Coast vice president of the International Labor Defense is quoted in Sacramento papers, as saying: ‘I hlave been assured of a motorcycle escort of traffic patrolmen from here right up to the doors of the sheriff’s office in Nevada City. One man is near death and two others were seriously injured in Jast night’s disturbances, Furthermore we cannot learn the names of all the men arrested, what they are charged with or whether they will be allowed bail.”’ Apparently the man referred to is Otto-Kron, who went with fifteen others to Landis Clinic for treatment following the Tuesday night clash. He is still wearing bandages for scalp abrasions but he was not seriously injured. = Another incident which has thus far escaped the attention of news reporters is the fact that a committee of Murchie miners went ahead of ‘the crowd on the Red Dog road Tuesday night and advised the pickets, massed on the bank ‘there, that if they would leave quietly there would be no trouble. But Otto Kron, whlo apparently assumed leadership, declared that they had a right to be there and that they would not move unless forced. EXTRA — WEDNESDAY A call for help sent out by local ClO-communist leaders to the strong forces in Truckee, late last night brought 10 men down from the top of the Sierras to assist their. hardpressed fellow members in resisting the order to leave town issued last night by Murchie miners and business men.’ The Truckee men arrived:and went to CIO headquarters in the Davies building in Commercial street and were found there at four o'clock this morning by Jim Allen, nightwatchman. Summoning help from the Chief of Police Gar(Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Two) telephone rang. It was Otto Schiffner on the line. He asked the sheriff . ALL QUIET ON RED CIO Leaders Expelled From Nevada Co. a . ROAD BEE REPORTER IS ATTACKED BY ARMED GUARD Tom Arden, Sacramento Bee reporter, was last Wednesday attacked and threatened by J. E. Clark, a man imported by the Murchie mine to guard the mime. Arden went out to the junction of the Red Dog road and the Murchie mine road in his car and parked mear the junction. After exchanging friendly. greetings with one of the mine deputies and some Murchie miners there, Arden prepared to take some pictures from the County Road, of about eight hats, battered relics of the pitched battle Tuesday, that were nailed to a telePhone pole near the road the junction. ; ' Clark, said to be head of the Murchie mine guards, drove up and commanded Arden to desist from taking any pictures near there in a belligerent manner. Arden stated he was on county property and questioned the right, of Clark, who wore no visible badge, tlo interfere At this point Clark, whose language had from the first been foul and abusive, seized Arden by the neck wtih his left hand and with his right drew a heavy combined black-jack and tear gas gun and raising it over Adren’s head, threatened to “‘conk’’ him and brea his camera if he persisted in trying to take pictures. : Arden reiterated his belief in the lack of authority of Clark, but made no resistance to the burly, two-hundred pound guard. As Arden got into his car to leave, Clark flollowed him, blackjack still in ‘hand, calling him, vile names and saying that he wished he had ‘“‘conked” ‘him in the first Murchie riot, when he said he had had a chance, HOME VISITING NURSE ATTENDS 39 PATIENTS The regular monthly meeting of the Nursing Activities committee of the American Red Cross of Grass Valley and Nevada City was held in the library building of Grass Valley on April 4. Mrs. R. R. Goyne of Nevada City, the chairman, presided. Miss Clara Sheldon, visiting nurse, gave a report of her work during the month, which included 154 visits on 69 patients. The committee thinks that the work is progressing siatisfactorily since this is an entirely new service in the community. Calls for the nurse may be placed at the Nevada City Hall and Miss Sheldon is anxious to be of help to any one who needs nursing care in their home. : SAFETY LECTURE THIS EVENING The third lecture on highway safety will be held this:evening at the Nevada City high school at eight o'clock. This is one of a series of topies on highway safety and as each topic is discussed as a separate subject those who have not attended previous lectures will not lose any. of the effect of the course by joining the class now. Registration is not required and there is no charge for attendance at any ‘of the lectures, AUTO COURT. IMPROVEMENTS The John Minarich family ‘ Charles Malcolm, owner of an auto court in the old Manzanita Diggings along the west side of the TahoeUkiah highway are making ‘several changes in the property. A deep cut made by old hydraulic operations is being partly filled in front of the auto court. At the Minarich home the hill back of the house is being cut down and levelel into the gulches. When completed the work. will give much needed level space for buildings and yards. A good many trees and manzanita shrubs have been taken out in the tearing down of the small hills. opposite . and . . TACKS ARE SPREAD ON COMMERCIAL STREET A large quantity of three quarter inch tacks were spread on Commercial street from the erstwhile CIOCommunist headquartérs down to Main street last Tuesday night. It is presumed that this cunning piece of strategy is the work of the sympathizers with the ou'sted CIO pickets. The tacks were supposedly placed there in an effort to halt the irate caravan of Murchie miners who drove into town to bid farewell to CIO organizers and’ committee men who were hastily departinig from this district. The tacks were cleaned up by a city workman. ROTARY TOLD OF ADVANTAGES OF BUILDING NOW The Nevada City. Rotary .¢lub listened with interest yesterday to an address delivered at their weekly luncheon by C: D. LeMaster, editor and owner of the Western Building! Review. Clyde Gwin chairman of the commiteee which had in the charge the arrangements for the installation of the William Bull Meek chapter of E Clampus Vitus last Saturday, gave a short report of the event and especially thanked the committee memibers who had assisted in making it a success, and paid tribute to the splendid assistance of the Lord Sholto Douglas chapter of Auburn, which sent their. expert officers and picturesque bill-goat to put 96 candidates through ‘the rites of the order. “The building industry, Mr. LéMas. ter said, represents in all its ramifications fifty per cent of all industrial activity in this country. The construction cycle runs for longer than any other business cycle we know about. During the period ‘of 450 years we have never had a builaing cycle of less than 16 years nor mioore than 20 years. Business cycles generally are much shorter. Another peculiarity of building cycles is the regularity of their recurrence, “In 1920 we were building about 34 new family accomodations per month for each 10,000 families, We mow stand about 3 new family accomodations for each 10,000 families. “Today a building dollar buys! more home than ever before. Refined materials and better planning makes possible .a more livable home at a lesser price. Building today is 20 to 26 per cent cheaper than in 19261929. Homes may be built and financed in the most liberal terms ever available.’’ Lieutenant A. J. Maes, commander of the Grass Valley CCC Camp and Major Carter, District Commander of the CCC of the Sacramento district, visited Superintendent DeWitt Nelson at Tahoe National Forest headquarters yesterday. Major Carter was making an inspection of the camps and stopped over to talk over camps in the Tahoe National -Forest with Superintendent Nelson. While in this city they were guests of Mr. Nelson at Rotary. Major Carter gave a short talk on the work of the CCC which proved very interesting to all members of the club. \APPOLLO’S ARROW Of Nordic radiance and fair with Appollo’s grace he miloved God-like and young, this son of man but alas! for all his youth, an arrow loosed from the bow of fair Latona’s son pierced his mortal heart. I had rather he sped thus to God _ on swift, winged heels of youth than linger here til Time with dry decaying blast, wither his mighty frame shackle with chains of Age his nimble fleetness. ROY GRIFFITHS DERTER. e . White, $72.00; Nick Sandow, $121.SECOND BOMB EXPLODES IN CAR OF DR. STUART Several days ago Dr. U. H. Stuart who suffers from heart trouble, received another shock when some malicious person for the second time placed a tiny bomb in the wiring under the hood of his car. He parked his machine just below the Lace House and went up town for a time and while away someone unnoticed slipped down between the curb and the car and inserted the bomb. Dr. Stuart feels it was effort to break the gas screen in the car and had it been three inches lower it would have done so. In breaking the screen it would have ignited one half pint of gasoline and broke the main feed line. The car would have gone up in flames almost at once. The first time was about six weeks ago. The police are trying to find this law violator as it is against the law to touch the car of another person. Such a thing might cause death by heart failure or the car might get out into traffic and wreck other cars. CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSED PARK IMPROVEMENTS The city council last evening considered improvements to Pioneers — park. R. J. Bennetts, chainman of theparkcommission, suggested that the unsightly barn, on ‘Park avenue side of the park be removed since the city no longer used it for storage. The council agreed that this should be done. Regarding a motor for lifting the water of Little Deer creek into the filter which was constructed last year the council decided to ask Ed Uren to make an estimate of the cost of installing a motor and the expense of operating it. The city owns a 10 H. P, motor which is not now in use, Mr. Bennetts reported that the park commission is now engaged in planting 57 trees miost of which are deciduous, of beautiful foliage, especially in fall, or are blossoming varieties such as the catalpa. H. F. Dodson, residing at the end of Jordan street, asked the council to install sewer comnections. The council decided to ask Ed Uren to make a survey of the proposed connection. Mrs. Emma Foley, city treasurer reported a balance in the city treasury of $2,544, City Councilman James Penrose stated ‘that the firemen desired to install equipment for picnic suppers in the park. Mr. Bennetts declared _ that this would be greatly appreciated and the councilman said that besides the firemen, the cooking equipment would be for the use of all :picnic parties. S é The following bills were ordered paid: GENERAL FUND R. L. P. Bigelow, $100; Garfield Robsion, $125.00; Geo. H. Calanan, $20.00; Mrs. Emma Foley, $12.50; Miles P. Coughlan, $12.50; Jas. Allen, $100.00; H. S. Hallett, $150.00; Dr. E. M. Roesner, $40.00; Max Solaro, $71.50; C. H. Ninnis, $60.00; Pac. Gas and E. Co., $266.80; R. L. P. Bigelow, $2.19; Federal Laboratories, $13.38; Tom White, $63.00; Ted Sigourney, $101.25; Floyd 50; John Faruno, $13.50; H. S. Anderson, $2.10; Service Garage, $8.33; B. P. Robinson, $2.12; Grass Valley Garbage Service $10.82; Al-— pha Stores, $96.58; Nevada City Nugget, $12.25; Nevada Co. Lumber Co., \$2.63; Patrick Moses Klinker, $2.71; Twin City Clothing Co., $3. 81; \R. EB. Harris, $15.25; Pac. and Tel. Co., $10.70; Geo. W. Gile sleeve, $12.88. a oe Max Solaro $51.50; Alpha . $3.68; Pac, Tel. and Tel.

a ED a earns * ry ’ shifts. Men and women on the pickThinking Out Loud H. M. L. The explosion of Murchie miners and citizens of Nevada County in running the ClO-communist leaders out of the county may be compared with the action of a tong suffering man whose wife nags and henpecks him over interminable time. Little provocations pile up until they become a mountain. Finally the man Zoes berserk amd shoots his wife to death. We freely admit the action of the Miners and business men did not have a legal leg to stand. on, not even a crutch. If anyone wishes to blame the sheriff, it is their privilege of a free country. We dlon’t. It is too much to ask the sheriff to put one hundred and fifty angry citizens fin. a bull pen 16x20 feet in dimensions. And hack ofthe 150 citizens who acted, were probably 8,000 waiting to act if their services seemed at all necessary. The reason this newspaper shows on this occasion.a rather calloused attitude toward this incident, iis frankly because we have never read of, or witnessed any evidence that the CIO is an ‘honest labor union or organization. Its whole brief history is one of law breaking, East and West. If it proposes to reach its objectives by trampling on the Flag and the law, then by its own actions it unleashes the law ‘breaking forces every where. Efforts of Homer Martin and other CIO leaders in the East to purge the CIO ranks of communism have notably failed. The communists which control the CIO have never had any regard for the law of the land except to use it just so far as it served as shield and weapon for tearing down all law. ‘The yelp and the yawp for constitutional rights never ceases. C1O-communist leaders themselves are industriously destroying’ the fights of all of us. While the raid of the Murchie miners and Nevada (City Busincss men on ‘the picket line on the Red Dog road cannot be defended from a legal standpoint, on ithe strictly . moral side, no one at all disinterested but will grant that thas ected under great provocation. There was first of all the attempted illegal lockout, in which 23 men of the 240 men employed in the Murchie voted to strike and to close the mine until such demands as these 23 men made were satisfied. There followed the battle of January 20, when over 100 men were escorted through te picket line/ reinforced by a large number of Lava Cap CIO workers. Then came weeks of picketing. Small children, little ‘boys and girls, were taught by their parents to yell “seab’’ at the miners as they went to and fro in daily and _ nightly et line called out even more opprobious epithets. There was the beating up of a Murchie miner at LeBarr Meadows dance. There were tiousands of postal cards sent Judge Raglan Tuttle and other county authorities from ClO-commiuntst’ gathers ings far and near, ‘demanding’ the release of six arrested on charge of rioting. There was the soliciting by women auxiliaries of the communists among ‘our merchants for food and money, and always with the implicit threat of boycott unless donations were forthcoming. There was the abuse and threats against the entire community carried by the ‘Miners Viloice,’’ circulated usually between sun-down and sun-up. These are no legal grounds, we admit, for giving this peace disturbing and communistic group, the ‘bums rush.’? But the flesh is weak, The nuisance finally became unbearable, and, just as Amador county did, the long suffering community at last revolted and ushered tthe paid leaders of these trouble makers across the county borudaries, They promised not to return, and, somehow, we believe this promise will . be kept. Moreover we do not expect to see again Mr. Scott Erwin, one ‘ time ibarber, of Wallace Idaho, come West to lead our hard rock miners into the Abundant Life. His attempt to pour hair-oil on the troubled waters failed, and, according to his own statement inthe Sacramento press his escape from*an interview with Murchie miners, via several back yards in Grass Valley, was extremely narrow. When a whole community is overwrought in its efforts to restore peace by decidedly rough and ready, methods, it is, perhaps, useless to comment on individual and sporadic Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA TT gget with good motives and for justifiable ends. — Alexander Hamilton From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists si in the right to publish the Truth, = Vol. q 2 ; No. (. ) The ‘County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY. CALIFORNIA The Gold Center _ FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1938. Peaceful, Normal Life Of Community Resumed All is quiet along the Red Dog Road. ’ There are no pickets there and the ‘possibility of their return is remote. ; The leaders of, the ClO-Communist group which has plagued Nevada County for nearly three’ months, were ‘last night ushered under the safeconduct of Sheriff Carl Tobiassen across the county line to Colfax, where they went their several ways. There were eight in the departing «party. These leaders were Herbert F. Patton, regional director for the CIOcommunists; ‘‘Red’’ Adams, who as leader of the CIO at Boca last summer succeeded in closing down the construction work undertaken by the government for the relief of farmers in Nevada state; and Al Garesio, financial secretary of the; local C1O-communist organization. All of them departed willingly. : Scott Erwin, another ClO-communist organizer also departed, but without safe conduct. He left hurriedly but \willingly. The party of eight, escorted by Sheriff Carl Tobiassen and his deputies arrived at Colfax in time for the train that passes through there about 1:50 in the morning. Patton, Adams, Garesio and Mike Callizo departed for Oakland. The other four, Marvin Wilbourn, M. Van Houten, Dan McKinnon and George Mattingly, who came down originally from; Truckee to aid the local CIlO-communists in their losing battle ,departed for Truckee and roints east. 2 ‘' Of the other eight of the sixteen who were jailed at 4 o0’clock Wed nesday morning after being gassed in the CIO ‘headquarters in the Davies building four were miners of the Lava Cap, George Walzer, William Tucker, Harry Fowler and Henry Gibson. They were released in time to resume their shifts. Filmer L .Willard, A. C. Carroll, P. W. Newell and R. A. ‘Hollander, the others were given their liberty about the same time. Some of them departed for Truckee and some for Grass Valley. Garesio’s family consisting. of a wife and two young children will join him in Oakland. At the time of his departure Garesio expected to be away from Nevada City for six months. At 4:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon the Murchie miners gathered in Washington street back of ‘the sheriff’s office, in the expectation of giving the CIlO-communist leaders a large escort on their way out of the county. Sheriff Tobiassen, however, had other plans. Doors to the office were locked. The big garage door alomg side the office was guarded by an armed deputy. For a time it was believed that there might be a rush on _ the sheriff’s office ito seize thle CIO leaders: Armed deputies stood ready inside the office to repel any such invasion. 5; After some parley Garesio, Patton and Adams agreed it would be better to leave Nevada City sometime during the night than to attempt to go at that time. Sheriff Tobiassen went outside, told the nee the intention and willingness of the three leaders to leave Neva county, and shortly thereafter the miners and business men dispersd. : : During the height of the excitement outside ‘the sheriff’s Office, the for protection for his CIO miners, He wanted an escort for his miners in treir buses going on night shift. Tobiassen immediately ordered several periutties to the job. When they arrived at the Plaza, however, to take up their duties as escorts, the CIO workers refused to be accompanied by the deputies, and declared that if they were to be escorted they would refuse to go to work. Under these circumstances the sheriff, of course, withdrew his deputies from their assignment. : No one knows. what might have happened to the sixteen men who were jailed early Wednesday morning, if they had been discovered by the irate Murchie miners and business men of Nevada City, particularly if the CtO leaders had been identified. But everyone, with little dissent, agrees that Sheriff Carl Tobiassen used good judgment throughout the day. The sefest place for those men was in jail. And none of them were allowed ‘to leave until the hazard of personal injuey was removed. The sheriff and his deputies worked night and day ijto prevent any possible fatalities and to / reduce casualties to a minimum during the time that excitement ran high and many otherwise responsible citizens were apparently bereft of sound judgment. : The frantic appeals of Erwin, after his precipitate departure from 7rass Valley and arrival.in Sacramento, to Governor Merriam, Traffic Chief Raymond Cato, Deputy State Attorney General Jesse Hession, and Assistant United States Attorney G. J. Hielm. produced one notable result: The governor told Erwin that he would send more traffic patrolmen to Nevada county if necessary to preserve order. In the meantime, he said, he would not send militia unless requested to do so by Sheriff Tobiassen and District Attorney Stoll. vee On this end of the line Sheriff Tobiassen stated briefly that he had the situation well ‘n hand. _. Fourteen state trafific police are mow on duty vicinity. ! The governor also declared: “I am going.to preserve order there (Nevada County) and ‘give everyone the protection they ar entitled to under “he law, regardless of who is involved.’ He added that sending ‘more traffic patrolmen to the seat of the disturbance should satisfy the CIO leaders. A state car driven -by traffic police yesterday morning stopped quietly on Broad street, opposite a car, which had been driven into town by in Nevada City and ‘miners from the Spanish mine. The officer in charge stepped across the street, searched the car for weapons and found a revolver. The weapon was confiscated for the time being. The officer said to a reporter for this newspaper. ‘‘We were informed this man had a gun in his car. We know he is all right but he is carrying this gun without a license, and under the present conditions, we. just think it would be safer to take care of this weapon for awhile. No charges will be preferred.’’ Miss Elaine Black, Pacific Coast vice president of the International Labor Defense is quoted in Sacramento papers, as saying: ‘I hlave been assured of a motorcycle escort of traffic patrolmen from here right up to the doors of the sheriff’s office in Nevada City. One man is near death and two others were seriously injured in Jast night’s disturbances, Furthermore we cannot learn the names of all the men arrested, what they are charged with or whether they will be allowed bail.”’ Apparently the man referred to is Otto-Kron, who went with fifteen others to Landis Clinic for treatment following the Tuesday night clash. He is still wearing bandages for scalp abrasions but he was not seriously injured. = Another incident which has thus far escaped the attention of news reporters is the fact that a committee of Murchie miners went ahead of ‘the crowd on the Red Dog road Tuesday night and advised the pickets, massed on the bank ‘there, that if they would leave quietly there would be no trouble. But Otto Kron, whlo apparently assumed leadership, declared that they had a right to be there and that they would not move unless forced. EXTRA — WEDNESDAY A call for help sent out by local ClO-communist leaders to the strong forces in Truckee, late last night brought 10 men down from the top of the Sierras to assist their. hardpressed fellow members in resisting the order to leave town issued last night by Murchie miners and business men.’ The Truckee men arrived:and went to CIO headquarters in the Davies building in Commercial street and were found there at four o'clock this morning by Jim Allen, nightwatchman. Summoning help from the Chief of Police Gar(Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Two) telephone rang. It was Otto Schiffner on the line. He asked the sheriff . ALL QUIET ON RED CIO Leaders Expelled From Nevada Co. a . ROAD BEE REPORTER IS ATTACKED BY ARMED GUARD Tom Arden, Sacramento Bee reporter, was last Wednesday attacked and threatened by J. E. Clark, a man imported by the Murchie mine to guard the mime. Arden went out to the junction of the Red Dog road and the Murchie mine road in his car and parked mear the junction. After exchanging friendly. greetings with one of the mine deputies and some Murchie miners there, Arden prepared to take some pictures from the County Road, of about eight hats, battered relics of the pitched battle Tuesday, that were nailed to a telePhone pole near the road

the junction. ; ' Clark, said to be head of the Murchie mine guards, drove up and commanded Arden to desist from taking any pictures near there in a belligerent manner. Arden stated he was on county property and questioned the right, of Clark, who wore no visible badge, tlo interfere At this point Clark, whose language had from the first been foul and abusive, seized Arden by the neck wtih his left hand and with his right drew a heavy combined black-jack and tear gas gun and raising it over Adren’s head, threatened to “‘conk’’ him and brea his camera if he persisted in trying to take pictures. : Arden reiterated his belief in the lack of authority of Clark, but made no resistance to the burly, two-hundred pound guard. As Arden got into his car to leave, Clark flollowed him, blackjack still in ‘hand, calling him, vile names and saying that he wished he had ‘“‘conked” ‘him in the first Murchie riot, when he said he had had a chance, HOME VISITING NURSE ATTENDS 39 PATIENTS The regular monthly meeting of the Nursing Activities committee of the American Red Cross of Grass Valley and Nevada City was held in the library building of Grass Valley on April 4. Mrs. R. R. Goyne of Nevada City, the chairman, presided. Miss Clara Sheldon, visiting nurse, gave a report of her work during the month, which included 154 visits on 69 patients. The committee thinks that the work is progressing siatisfactorily since this is an entirely new service in the community. Calls for the nurse may be placed at the Nevada City Hall and Miss Sheldon is anxious to be of help to any one who needs nursing care in their home. : SAFETY LECTURE THIS EVENING The third lecture on highway safety will be held this:evening at the Nevada City high school at eight o'clock. This is one of a series of topies on highway safety and as each topic is discussed as a separate subject those who have not attended previous lectures will not lose any. of the effect of the course by joining the class now. Registration is not required and there is no charge for attendance at any ‘of the lectures, AUTO COURT. IMPROVEMENTS The John Minarich family ‘ Charles Malcolm, owner of an auto court in the old Manzanita Diggings along the west side of the TahoeUkiah highway are making ‘several changes in the property. A deep cut made by old hydraulic operations is being partly filled in front of the auto court. At the Minarich home the hill back of the house is being cut down and levelel into the gulches. When completed the work. will give much needed level space for buildings and yards. A good many trees and manzanita shrubs have been taken out in the tearing down of the small hills. opposite . and . . TACKS ARE SPREAD ON COMMERCIAL STREET A large quantity of three quarter inch tacks were spread on Commercial street from the erstwhile CIOCommunist headquartérs down to Main street last Tuesday night. It is presumed that this cunning piece of strategy is the work of the sympathizers with the ou'sted CIO pickets. The tacks were supposedly placed there in an effort to halt the irate caravan of Murchie miners who drove into town to bid farewell to CIO organizers and’ committee men who were hastily departinig from this district. The tacks were cleaned up by a city workman. ROTARY TOLD OF ADVANTAGES OF BUILDING NOW The Nevada City. Rotary .¢lub listened with interest yesterday to an address delivered at their weekly luncheon by C: D. LeMaster, editor and owner of the Western Building! Review. Clyde Gwin chairman of the commiteee which had in the charge the arrangements for the installation of the William Bull Meek chapter of E Clampus Vitus last Saturday, gave a short report of the event and especially thanked the committee memibers who had assisted in making it a success, and paid tribute to the splendid assistance of the Lord Sholto Douglas chapter of Auburn, which sent their. expert officers and picturesque bill-goat to put 96 candidates through ‘the rites of the order. “The building industry, Mr. LéMas. ter said, represents in all its ramifications fifty per cent of all industrial activity in this country. The construction cycle runs for longer than any other business cycle we know about. During the period ‘of 450 years we have never had a builaing cycle of less than 16 years nor mioore than 20 years. Business cycles generally are much shorter. Another peculiarity of building cycles is the regularity of their recurrence, “In 1920 we were building about 34 new family accomodations per month for each 10,000 families, We mow stand about 3 new family accomodations for each 10,000 families. “Today a building dollar buys! more home than ever before. Refined materials and better planning makes possible .a more livable home at a lesser price. Building today is 20 to 26 per cent cheaper than in 19261929. Homes may be built and financed in the most liberal terms ever available.’’ Lieutenant A. J. Maes, commander of the Grass Valley CCC Camp and Major Carter, District Commander of the CCC of the Sacramento district, visited Superintendent DeWitt Nelson at Tahoe National Forest headquarters yesterday. Major Carter was making an inspection of the camps and stopped over to talk over camps in the Tahoe National -Forest with Superintendent Nelson. While in this city they were guests of Mr. Nelson at Rotary. Major Carter gave a short talk on the work of the CCC which proved very interesting to all members of the club. \APPOLLO’S ARROW Of Nordic radiance and fair with Appollo’s grace he miloved God-like and young, this son of man but alas! for all his youth, an arrow loosed from the bow of fair Latona’s son pierced his mortal heart. I had rather he sped thus to God _ on swift, winged heels of youth than linger here til Time with dry decaying blast, wither his mighty frame shackle with chains of Age his nimble fleetness. ROY GRIFFITHS DERTER. e . White, $72.00; Nick Sandow, $121.SECOND BOMB EXPLODES IN CAR OF DR. STUART Several days ago Dr. U. H. Stuart who suffers from heart trouble, received another shock when some malicious person for the second time placed a tiny bomb in the wiring under the hood of his car. He parked his machine just below the Lace House and went up town for a time and while away someone unnoticed slipped down between the curb and the car and inserted the bomb. Dr. Stuart feels it was effort to break the gas screen in the car and had it been three inches lower it would have done so. In breaking the screen it would have ignited one half pint of gasoline and broke the main feed line. The car would have gone up in flames almost at once. The first time was about six weeks ago. The police are trying to find this law violator as it is against the law to touch the car of another person. Such a thing might cause death by heart failure or the car might get out into traffic and wreck other cars. CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSED PARK IMPROVEMENTS The city council last evening considered improvements to Pioneers — park. R. J. Bennetts, chainman of theparkcommission, suggested that the unsightly barn, on ‘Park avenue side of the park be removed since the city no longer used it for storage. The council agreed that this should be done. Regarding a motor for lifting the water of Little Deer creek into the filter which was constructed last year the council decided to ask Ed Uren to make an estimate of the cost of installing a motor and the expense of operating it. The city owns a 10 H. P, motor which is not now in use, Mr. Bennetts reported that the park commission is now engaged in planting 57 trees miost of which are deciduous, of beautiful foliage, especially in fall, or are blossoming varieties such as the catalpa. H. F. Dodson, residing at the end of Jordan street, asked the council to install sewer comnections. The council decided to ask Ed Uren to make a survey of the proposed connection. Mrs. Emma Foley, city treasurer reported a balance in the city treasury of $2,544, City Councilman James Penrose stated ‘that the firemen desired to install equipment for picnic suppers in the park. Mr. Bennetts declared _ that this would be greatly appreciated and the councilman said that besides the firemen, the cooking equipment would be for the use of all :picnic parties. S é The following bills were ordered paid: GENERAL FUND R. L. P. Bigelow, $100; Garfield Robsion, $125.00; Geo. H. Calanan, $20.00; Mrs. Emma Foley, $12.50; Miles P. Coughlan, $12.50; Jas. Allen, $100.00; H. S. Hallett, $150.00; Dr. E. M. Roesner, $40.00; Max Solaro, $71.50; C. H. Ninnis, $60.00; Pac. Gas and E. Co., $266.80; R. L. P. Bigelow, $2.19; Federal Laboratories, $13.38; Tom White, $63.00; Ted Sigourney, $101.25; Floyd 50; John Faruno, $13.50; H. S. Anderson, $2.10; Service Garage, $8.33; B. P. Robinson, $2.12; Grass Valley Garbage Service $10.82; Al-— pha Stores, $96.58; Nevada City Nugget, $12.25; Nevada Co. Lumber Co., \$2.63; Patrick Moses Klinker, $2.71; Twin City Clothing Co., $3. 81; \R. EB. Harris, $15.25; Pac. and Tel. Co., $10.70; Geo. W. Gile sleeve, $12.88. a oe Max Solaro $51.50; Alpha . $3.68; Pac, Tel. and Tel.