August 2, 1943 (4 pages)

i 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 aré ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget =v a Thi S paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. ————— Vol. 17, No. 60. The Conney Seat Paper NEVADA cit’. \ CITY, CALIFORNIA _The Gold id Center aiciedanemume ete MONDAY, AUGUST f. 5194S Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. On another page we have published a report of Senator Byrd of Virginia, chairman of the Joint Committee on Reducing. Federal Expenditures, on the fecundity of bureaucracy, which ‘he calls ‘‘rabbit-wise.’’ He calls attention to the fact that when President Thomas Jefferson occupied the White House there was one federal employe for every 5,308 while today there is one for every 45 persons on our. 136,000,000 population. This report of Senator Byrd is.well worth ‘thoughtful reading. ‘We think the senator’s comparison of this enormous tax burden that that of a rabbit warren, is decidedly an understatement. It is more like a fungus attacking the living, tree of democracy, root, stock, branch and leaf, or _ like horse leeches fastening themselves to a swimmer in infested waters and rapidly sapping his life blood. Like fungi the spores of. this brood crowd each other for. living space in the body politic. Like leeches they consume _ the life fluid of our nation, our earnings and our savings. Our cattlemen put 500 head of stock in ‘the charge of one competent rder; sheep growers put a 1000 head in charge of one herder. But our government puts one petent rider; sheep growers put a us. One can’t say whether this herder is competent; he may or may not be. But if he is not competent it will require many incompetents to do the job. It now becomes very apparent that office holders under the federal government’ now hold the balance of power in“ national elections. For practically all office holders, whereas only about one in five over whom they ride herd can or does vote. In other words, one herder*has only nine voters in his little band. The figures given by Senator Byrd, he is careful to state, do not include any of our forces in uniform. They have to do only with federal employes in civjlian jobs. ‘No wonder that far-sighted members of congress, and Republicans alike, were filled with alarm when he broached his: plan for taking care of soldiers when they return from the wars. It is not that the president’s proposal will help to return the home coming soldier to a useful and happy share in the life of the country he has saved from slavery. {No one will disagree with the pesident’s, general plan. What fills all thoughtful persons with alarm is the use the president makes of such plans politically. Every single’ beneficence of the New Deal, since it ‘began ten years ago, has been an instrument to build up and perpetuate the power of the executive. As usual the president with his disdain of fiscal matters failed to say whether the pensions, grants and schools for returned veterans (and, mark you, we quite agree that what the presdent proposes in this regard should be done), will come out of further bond issues against the presumed inerhaustable credit of the United States, or will be paid out of an increase in current: taxes. That cheerful avoidance of ways and means, of mere; money raising, . of anything pertaining to the gurelling business of repayment of natioal debt that still soars toward the Milky Way, is so characteristic of our president that it is undoubtedly a waste of breath “to mention it. Gradually, however, there is creeping over the land the huge, ugly shadow of debt and the question ig beginning to be asked in raanv4t mind: how can we be a free nation while we bear the the shackles of, say, 150 billions of debt? : ‘ Please remember that it is estimated by those who make a business of figures, that to pay the interest alone on a national debt of persons , ‘Carl Kitts. LIEVT, CHAPMAN REPORTS HENS Democrats. TRUCK CRASH BURNS DRIVER FATALLY AND STARTS FOREST FIRE Albert E. Smith died this morning in the Miners Hospital as a result of burns received when his truck overturned near the bottom of Bear Valley Grade yesterday afternoon at one o'clock. The accident, as he told of it to Patrolman Carl Kitts’ was due to a failure of the brakes. The truck, belonging to Hemstreet Bell and Company of Marysville, went off the grade at about the third turn before coming to the bottom. Smith crawled out of the upper door while the truck was on its side and he Wid so the ¢abburst into flames. iHe rolled on the ground trying to extinguish the fire in his elothing and finally tried to roll down the hill about 150 feet to the irrigation ditch. He was found by a little girl, about 9 years old, who rushed down the hill and called Frank Scatena, an employe of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. He, with Albert Anthony of Sacramento went to the scene. Scatena noting that the flames were spreading into the timber ran for a telephone and notified the highway patrol office in-Hills Flai. Responding to the alarm were Hooper and Weaver ambulance, Dr. Nor-. bert Fre of this city, and Patrolman Smith, the driver, was quite conscious and gave particulars of the accident. He believed that ‘the hot brakes set fire to his cargo of butane. Smith resided in Yuba City: where . he leaves a wife and two small chil. dren. Coroner Alvah Hooper has taken charge of the remains. j The accident started a large fire in the woods above the road~-which is still burning this morning. NOT MISSING Dr. C. W. Chapman’s° grandson, Ernest Chapman, a fighter pilot in ithe Mediterranean area, has received . la letter from the boy’s mother stating that Ernest, reported in North Africa as missing in’ action, had written that he was safe and well, before his parents had been notified. that he was missing. Lieut. Ernest Chapman is the son of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Allan Chapman, now stationed in North Carolina. His message to his mother stated he was safely back with his squadron. Supposedly he was missing some time between July 10th .and July 17th. The message recited: ‘‘I am O K after a rather exciting experience and a bit of good luck. Will write details later.’ ’ The young pilot’s parents are still waiting to hear from army headduarters that their son is meme in action, BLAZING BEER TRUCK SETS 60 ACREFIRE A flaming semi-trailer and load of exploding beer blocked traffic on. the Nevada City-Auburn highway near Rattlesnake Creek, for a short time Friday afternoon. The beer consisted of 800 cases of bottled beer consigned to the Nevada City Ice Delivery. The driver, Frank Sanepa, Jr., of Pittsburg, California, stated the fire started from the exhaust backfire. Capt. Joe Blake of the California Highway Patrol, and State Fire Warden William Sharp responded to the alarms. : The fire spread over the fields and woods below the Red Hat station and burned over 60 acres. Seventy five men under Sharp finally brought it under control. Fire conditions were exceptionally bad at that point. A patrol was maintained all Friday night and until late Saturday to be sure that there was no resumption of burning. TF 150 billion dollars, will cost every man, woman and child in CaliforChester and Nevada City Chapter Of Red Cross To Meet The Nevada City Chapter of the American Red Cross will meet Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock in the production rooms on Broad street. All officers and’ committee members are expected to attend and to make their reports. W. H. Wright Recovering From Hot Weather Illness W.H. Wright, 91, who was overcome by the heat one day last week, was reported as recovering yesterday, in the Miners Hospital. A few weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Wright celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. Wright was official canoneer for Downieville in. his younger days, firing off an old Confederate canon. to celebrate political victories. or to salute distinguished visitors. Formerly a miner at Alleghany he has been retired for past fifteen years. Pet Dane Of Alta Hill Is Now Venison the { impossible to complete the monthly greases SURGICAL UNIT REPORTS 149,200 SPONGES MADE Due to the poor attendance Friday evening, the Business Professional women have decided to work on Tuesday night only from 7:30 p. m. until 9:30 p. m. There+' fore the room will be open on Tues-: day and Thursday evenings. until further notice. i The chairman received hotice that another shipment of material is being shipped to the surgical dressing unit. : Six cartons are packed and ready for shipment. They contain 32,400 sponges. It may interest many who have volunteered their services since the surgical dressing unit opened on December 8, to know how many sponges were completed each month. December 3—725; January 13— 125; February 21—-875; March 26 —52i5; April 26—845; May 17— 365; June 19—740; July 20—000. Total to date 149,200 sponges. When the chapter asked for a quota of dressings an agreement was made to complete not less than 20,000 dressings per month. Many women volunteer their services, but it is quota unless more women give their: time. The month of August will need many women to assist in making 32,025 unfinished dressings in order: to start the September allotment. A pet deer belonging to E. C. Moore on Alta Hill is dead, and Deputy Sheriff George DeSoto has shot his first deer, out of season to . be sure, but nevertheless a legal . killing. The-deer, a handsome, four point buck, during the last year had acquired a bad habit of breaking bounds and invading the neighbors. gardens. The owner decided he had, become a liability. The venison will: be consumed in’ Hospital. Nevada City Council Adopts Meat Ordinance The ‘Nevada City Council has ‘adopted an ordinance providing that all meat offered for sale in the city ‘shall bear inspection stamps“of an agent of the California Agricultural Department of U. S. The chief of police or his deputies . are authorized and: directed to make periodic inspections of meat. mar-} kets. Penalties to be imposed under the ordinance in case of violation are $300 fine, maximum, in jail or both such fine prisonment. ~ and imNot Nuggets, But Folding Money, Found In Street “{Mrs. T. W. Henderson, wife of an army officer, had often heard that money could be picked up in Nevada City and Grass Valley streets, but she\had always thought the story as referring to nuggets of gold, until on entering the city hall Saturday she picked up two bills of $10 each in the street outside. ‘Reporting the find to City Clerk George Calanan a search: for’ the owner was begun. A group of men about the door was questioned. None reported a loss. of $20, but on second count of his wallet contents, William Veale, veteran employe of the city, found that “he had lost $20. The money was returned to him. Mrs. Ida Hooner Prisk Is Borne To Rest the Nevada County: inspectors. ! three months; To those who find the room un‘comfortable in the afternoon, try and arrange to come in the morning while. . the room is cool. . \ . t was gratifying to. see so many .of the wives of the army personinet . ‘so well represented on Thursday and ito those who hesitate coming to the! jroom, a cordial invitation is extend-. ed to all and Mrs. Savage will be) happy to instruct those willing to . work. . Bach dressing made goes to cover ‘the wound of some soldier. After. making several dressings you~ will leave with a feeling of satisfaction ' -lin knowing that you will not only, help one, but many. For those who cannot give their: services in any other way, it is a patriotic duty to make some effort to help and let that be the surgical dressing unit American Red Cross. RATION FACTS FOR CONSUMERS By MRS. H. BE. KJORLIE LOCAL RATION BOARD \Coffee—Coffee is not to be rationed_any longer. Normal buying will keep it off the ration list in the future. Alarm ‘Clocks—A limited supply of alarm clocks will be on the mar‘ket very soon. The ceiling price is to be $1.65. — Shoe Swap Center—A swap center is a place where boys and girls can obtain shoes which have been outgrown by other youngsters. Such a center will put a lot of idle shoes to work. It is a wartime conservation measure, aimed at making the supply of shoes on the home front go as far as possible. Suggestions for setting up a center can be secured from your local board at the city hall. Tires—-Used passenger tires that are not fit for recapping can be made serviceable for emergency use by temporary repairs, branded with an “O” on the sidewall and sold. The August supply of tires Grade 1 and Funeral services were held Satur-} day afternoon for the late Mrs. Ida . Hooper Prisk who. passed away. Thursday afternoon at her home, 231 Race street, Grass Valley. The services were conducted by Rev. Cedric Porter of Trinity Church, Nevada City, in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery, Grass Valley. (Mrs. Prisk was aged 71 years and a native of Grass Valley. She had been in failing health since her husband Henry Prisk \passed away in January, 1942. She was affiliated with the local Temple of Pythian Sisters. ~ Six children survive her: Henry, onard Prisk of Grass Valley, Mrs/Adelma King of Arden, Nevada, Ralph Prisk of St. Louis, Missouri, and Mrs. Chandler Church nia $300 a year. of Grass Valley. Grade III are further restricted. Gasoline—Holders of ‘‘B”’ and “C”’ supplemerital rations and ‘‘B” and “R’’ may continue using their stamps until they are exhausted, unless there is a change in the purposes and uses to which the book, was issued. The first series in the second rationing books—-A-7 is good _ for four gallons during the next two months. Please endorse all of the stamps. Servicemen’s Food Rations—Mem-: bers of the armed forces on leave or furlough may go to any, board to obtain extra food certificates. Stamps—Blue stamps N, P, Q are valid until August 7th. Stamps R, S. and 'T are valid until September 7th. Red Stamp T valid to August 31, beginning August 1. U valid from August 8th to 81st. V valid from August 15th to 31st. W valid from August 22nd to 31st. X valid from TRIAL OF TOTTEN SET FOR SEPT. 13 William Totten, charged with the murder of Harve McVean of Hills Flat, July 15th, on arraignment in, on the superior court here Friday plead-. and ed not guilty and not guilty by rea-'H. Spaulding, ,Son of insanity. He was represented ‘by Attorney George E. Foote and E. R. Vaughn of Sacramento. District Attorney Ward Sheldon appeared for ;the people. Judge George L. Jones trial or Seutember 13th. set his . ROYAL COLLEGE HONORS NEVADA CITY NATIVE BERKELEY, Aug. 2.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Dr. How-' ard C. Naffziger, a native of Nevada . City and professor of surgery on the San Francisco campus of the University of ‘California, have been made honorary fellows in the Royal, College of Surgeons, according to word just received from England. — The ceremony took place in the Great Hall of Lincoln’s Inn, on July: ,21, the centenary of the founding of the honorary fellowships of the Royal College. The candidates to be honored were chosen tion of the president and council on July 9. Dr. Naffziger is visiting English civilian and military hospitals under the official title of Consultant for ; the Office of Seentific Research Deelopment This is a part of the ex-. rehange of scientific help-and ideas , between the United States and Great Britain. As chairman of the committee of neurological surgery of the National Research Council Dr. Naffziger re‘cently inspected the work being done by scientist members of the committee in thospitals in various sections. of the United States. Also in this « capacity he. acted as host to two British doctors, John Z, Young from Oxford, famous for researches on the; Geoffrey . peripheral nerves, and Jefferson who recently lectured in Toland Hall on the San Francesco \campus. SAVANT WRITES NOVEL ON NAZI CRIME TRIAL BERKELEY, Aug. 2.—The story of what might happen if Hitler and his Nazi henchmen were to stand before a court of justice as common prisoners accused of the non-politicai crime of murder is told in The Day of Reckoning. Written by Dr. Max Radin, professor of law on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, the work has just been published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. : ‘Presented in the style of a novel, it is composed of a series of realistic courtroom scenes laid in Luxembourg in the year 1945; the seven most powerful Nazis stand accused of murdering three “little people” of . Europe—a Frenchman, a'Czech, and! a Russian. The battle of legal wits between the prosecution and the defense of the Nazi leaders as common crminals reflects in miniature the present world conflict between the forces of good and evil. Author of eleven books on law, various magazine articles and short storoes, Dr. Radin has taught legal theory at Columbia University, the College of the City of New: York, and Yale Unsrersity in addition to his work on the Berkeley campus. He was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1939, and a year later was awarded the Townsend Harris Medal, which given to distinguished graduates of New York’s City ‘College by the Alumni Association. a ‘Miss Madeline Hime of San Francisco arrived Saturday evening for a week’s vacation with her mother, Mrs. Grace Himes, and many friends. Miss Himes is in the employ of a fedéral public. relations bureau. August ‘29 to September 4th. by recommenda-, is . ’ DOWNIEVILLE — NATIVE DIES IN BELVEDERE DOWNIEVILLE, Aug. 2.—William widely known veteran of the California Bar and member of the legal staff of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, died from a heart attack Thursday morning, July . 22, at his home at Belvedere, California. While he had on two or three peeeeving ak suffered slightly from a . heart ailment, he had recently been . apparently in excellent health and ;had spent the day prior to the fatal ‘attack at work as usual in his office. His wife entered his bedrooth to call ‘him * ‘for breakfast and found him ly-' ling dead and partially dressed acrose . the bed. Mr. Spaulding was born in Downie 'ville on October 10, 1877. He was i graduated from the University of . \California in 1899, and after attendling Harvard Law school returned to San Francisco and began hig practice in the office of the late Guy Earle. He was attorney and secretary of the Great Western Power Company of ‘California from its formation more ;than thirty years ago until it was merged with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1930, since _which time he has been with the latiter organization. He was president of the San Francisco School of Law and vice president of the board of (directors of the California School of Mechanical Arts. He belonged to the’ Olympic Club of San Francisco and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Surviving are his widow, the former Viela Burroughs, whom he married in 1919, and who is a daughter of Abbott Lawrence Burroughs and a granddaughter of James Cass, pioneers of San Luis Obispo county; a daughter, Carol, 23, a recent Stanford graduate; a daughter, Lorna, 22, a student at the University of (California at Los Angeles; and a son, William H. Jr., 17, now in the South Pacific with the merchant marine service. : Mr. Spaulding made his home in :Oakland continuously from 1866 until 1929 when he moved to Belvedere where he haas since. lived. — Downieville Mountain Messenger. FREIGHT MUST BE DELIVERED SIX DAYS A WEEK L. R. McNamara, district manager of the Office of Defense Transport’ ation, Division of Motor Transport ‘for 19 superior California counties . has called on all receivers of freight to arrange immediately for full six day a week receipt of car load and less than car load shipments. This announcement follows a joint appeal made by Joseph B. Eastman, Director of Defense Transportation, and Interstate Commerce Commissioner L. M. Johnson, who is incharge of car service matters for the I. C. C. The appeal was promptedby pene current practice of many manufacturing establishments, commercialhouses, and stores of refusing to receive freight on Saturdays and re. stricting the hours for its receipt on other days of the week. ; McNamara emphasized the refusal to receive car loads and leéss-than carload freight on ‘various days of the week, particularly Saturday, dir-ectly contributes to congestion of the freight houses and ties up cars un-* necessarily. In these times when every)car is needed and manpower — ‘is short in the freight houses, nothing should be done by the receivers — of freight which would tend in any way to impede its free and speedy: movement. ; ‘McNamara said further, in view of the fact that a great part of the nation’s industry is working on a six-. day, 48 hour week, we are askin, all receivers of freight to make ar rangements so that the railroad the motor carriers can make tre deliyeries at any time of the during the full six day week. must be done to relieve con and speed up the movem nt even though the particular « ment is not open throughout the entire week

i 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 aré ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget =v a Thi S paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. ————— Vol. 17, No. 60. The Conney Seat Paper NEVADA cit’. \ CITY, CALIFORNIA _The Gold id Center aiciedanemume ete MONDAY, AUGUST f. 5194S Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. On another page we have published a report of Senator Byrd of Virginia, chairman of the Joint Committee on Reducing. Federal Expenditures, on the fecundity of bureaucracy, which ‘he calls ‘‘rabbit-wise.’’ He calls attention to the fact that when President Thomas Jefferson occupied the White House there was one federal employe for every 5,308 while today there is one for every 45 persons on our. 136,000,000 population. This report of Senator Byrd is.well worth ‘thoughtful reading. ‘We think the senator’s comparison of this enormous tax burden that that of a rabbit warren, is decidedly an understatement. It is more like a fungus attacking the living, tree of democracy, root, stock, branch and leaf, or _ like horse leeches fastening themselves to a swimmer in infested waters and rapidly sapping his life blood. Like fungi the spores of. this brood crowd each other for. living space in the body politic. Like leeches they consume _ the life fluid of our nation, our earnings and our savings. Our cattlemen put 500 head of stock in ‘the charge of one competent rder; sheep growers put a 1000 head in charge of one herder. But our government puts one petent rider; sheep growers put a us. One can’t say whether this herder is competent; he may or may not be. But if he is not competent it will require many incompetents to do the job. It now becomes very apparent that office holders under the federal government’ now hold the balance of power in“ national elections. For practically all office holders, whereas only about one in five over whom they ride herd can or does vote. In other words, one herder*has only nine voters in his little band. The figures given by Senator Byrd, he is careful to state, do not include any of our forces in uniform. They have to do only with federal employes in civjlian jobs. ‘No wonder that far-sighted members of congress, and Republicans alike, were filled with alarm when he broached his: plan for taking care of soldiers when they return from the wars. It is not that the president’s proposal will help to return the home coming soldier to a useful and happy share in the life of the country he has saved from slavery. {No one will disagree with the pesident’s, general plan. What fills all thoughtful persons with alarm is the use the president makes of such plans politically. Every single’ beneficence of the New Deal, since it ‘began ten years ago, has been an instrument to build up and perpetuate the power of the executive. As usual the president with his disdain of fiscal matters failed to say whether the pensions, grants and schools for returned veterans (and, mark you, we quite agree that what the presdent proposes in this regard should be done), will come out of further bond issues against the presumed inerhaustable credit of the United States, or will be paid out of an increase in current: taxes. That cheerful avoidance of ways and means, of mere; money raising, . of anything pertaining to the gurelling business of repayment of natioal debt that still soars toward the Milky Way, is so characteristic of our president that it is undoubtedly a waste of breath “to mention it. Gradually, however, there is creeping over the land the huge, ugly shadow of debt and the question ig beginning to be asked in raanv4t mind: how can we be a free nation while we bear the the shackles of, say, 150 billions of debt? : ‘ Please remember that it is estimated by those who make a business of figures, that to pay the interest alone on a national debt of persons , ‘Carl Kitts. LIEVT, CHAPMAN REPORTS HENS Democrats. TRUCK CRASH BURNS DRIVER FATALLY AND STARTS FOREST FIRE Albert E. Smith died this morning in the Miners Hospital as a result of burns received when his truck overturned near the bottom of Bear Valley Grade yesterday afternoon at one o'clock. The accident, as he told of it to Patrolman Carl Kitts’ was due to a failure of the brakes. The truck, belonging to Hemstreet Bell and Company of Marysville, went off the grade at about the third turn before coming to the bottom. Smith crawled out of the upper door while the truck was on its side and he Wid so the ¢abburst into flames. iHe rolled on the ground trying to extinguish the fire in his elothing and finally tried to roll down the hill about 150 feet to the irrigation ditch. He was found by a little girl, about 9 years old, who rushed down the hill and called Frank Scatena, an employe of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. He, with Albert Anthony of Sacramento went to the scene. Scatena noting that the flames were spreading into the timber ran for a telephone and notified the highway patrol office in-Hills Flai. Responding to the alarm were Hooper and Weaver ambulance, Dr. Nor-. bert Fre of this city, and Patrolman Smith, the driver, was quite conscious and gave particulars of the accident. He believed that ‘the hot brakes set fire to his cargo of butane. Smith resided in Yuba City: where . he leaves a wife and two small chil. dren. Coroner Alvah Hooper has taken charge of the remains. j The accident started a large fire in the woods above the road~-which is still burning this morning. NOT MISSING Dr. C. W. Chapman’s° grandson, Ernest Chapman, a fighter pilot in ithe Mediterranean area, has received . la letter from the boy’s mother stating that Ernest, reported in North Africa as missing in’ action, had written that he was safe and well, before his parents had been notified. that he was missing. Lieut. Ernest Chapman is the son of Lieut. Col. and Mrs. Allan Chapman, now stationed in North Carolina. His message to his mother stated he was safely back with his squadron. Supposedly he was missing some time between July 10th .and July 17th. The message recited: ‘‘I am O K after a rather exciting experience and a bit of good luck. Will write details later.’ ’ The young pilot’s parents are still waiting to hear from army headduarters that their son is meme in action, BLAZING BEER TRUCK SETS 60 ACREFIRE A flaming semi-trailer and load of exploding beer blocked traffic on. the Nevada City-Auburn highway near Rattlesnake Creek, for a short time Friday afternoon. The beer consisted of 800 cases of bottled beer consigned to the Nevada City Ice Delivery. The driver, Frank Sanepa, Jr., of Pittsburg, California, stated the fire started from the exhaust backfire. Capt. Joe Blake of the California Highway Patrol, and State Fire Warden William Sharp responded to the alarms. : The fire spread over the fields and woods below the Red Hat station and burned over 60 acres. Seventy five men under Sharp finally brought it under control. Fire conditions were exceptionally bad at that point. A patrol was maintained all Friday night and until late Saturday to be sure that there was no resumption of burning. TF 150 billion dollars, will cost every man, woman and child in CaliforChester and Nevada City Chapter Of Red Cross To Meet The Nevada City Chapter of the American Red Cross will meet Wednesday night at 7:30 o’clock in the production rooms on Broad street. All officers and’ committee members are expected to attend and to make their reports. W. H. Wright Recovering From Hot Weather Illness W.H. Wright, 91, who was overcome by the heat one day last week, was reported as recovering yesterday, in the Miners Hospital. A few weeks ago Mr. and Mrs. Wright celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. Wright was official canoneer for Downieville in. his younger days, firing off an old Confederate canon. to celebrate political victories. or to salute distinguished visitors. Formerly a miner at Alleghany he has been retired for past fifteen years. Pet Dane Of Alta Hill Is Now Venison the { impossible to complete the monthly greases SURGICAL UNIT REPORTS 149,200 SPONGES MADE Due to the poor attendance Friday evening, the Business Professional women have decided to work on Tuesday night only from 7:30 p. m. until 9:30 p. m. There+' fore the room will be open on Tues-: day and Thursday evenings. until further notice. i The chairman received hotice that another shipment of material is being shipped to the surgical dressing unit. : Six cartons are packed and ready for shipment. They contain 32,400 sponges. It may interest many who have volunteered their services since the surgical dressing unit opened on December 8, to know how many sponges were completed each month. December 3—725; January 13— 125; February 21—-875; March 26 —52i5; April 26—845; May 17— 365; June 19—740; July 20—000. Total to date 149,200 sponges. When the chapter asked for a quota of dressings an agreement was made to complete not less than 20,000 dressings per month. Many women volunteer their services, but it is quota unless more women give their: time. The month of August will need many women to assist in making 32,025 unfinished dressings in order: to start the September allotment. A pet deer belonging to E. C. Moore on Alta Hill is dead, and Deputy Sheriff George DeSoto has shot his first deer, out of season to . be sure, but nevertheless a legal . killing. The-deer, a handsome, four point buck, during the last year had acquired a bad habit of breaking bounds and invading the neighbors. gardens. The owner decided he had, become a liability. The venison will: be consumed in’ Hospital. Nevada City Council Adopts Meat Ordinance The ‘Nevada City Council has ‘adopted an ordinance providing that all meat offered for sale in the city ‘shall bear inspection stamps“of an agent of the California Agricultural Department of U. S. The chief of police or his deputies . are authorized and: directed to make periodic inspections of meat. mar-} kets. Penalties to be imposed under the ordinance in case of violation are $300 fine, maximum, in jail or both such fine prisonment. ~ and imNot Nuggets, But Folding Money, Found In Street “{Mrs. T. W. Henderson, wife of an army officer, had often heard that money could be picked up in Nevada City and Grass Valley streets, but she\had always thought the story as referring to nuggets of gold, until on entering the city hall Saturday she picked up two bills of $10 each in the street outside.

‘Reporting the find to City Clerk George Calanan a search: for’ the owner was begun. A group of men about the door was questioned. None reported a loss. of $20, but on second count of his wallet contents, William Veale, veteran employe of the city, found that “he had lost $20. The money was returned to him. Mrs. Ida Hooner Prisk Is Borne To Rest the Nevada County: inspectors. ! three months; To those who find the room un‘comfortable in the afternoon, try and arrange to come in the morning while. . the room is cool. . \ . t was gratifying to. see so many .of the wives of the army personinet . ‘so well represented on Thursday and ito those who hesitate coming to the! jroom, a cordial invitation is extend-. ed to all and Mrs. Savage will be) happy to instruct those willing to . work. . Bach dressing made goes to cover ‘the wound of some soldier. After. making several dressings you~ will leave with a feeling of satisfaction ' -lin knowing that you will not only, help one, but many. For those who cannot give their: services in any other way, it is a patriotic duty to make some effort to help and let that be the surgical dressing unit American Red Cross. RATION FACTS FOR CONSUMERS By MRS. H. BE. KJORLIE LOCAL RATION BOARD \Coffee—Coffee is not to be rationed_any longer. Normal buying will keep it off the ration list in the future. Alarm ‘Clocks—A limited supply of alarm clocks will be on the mar‘ket very soon. The ceiling price is to be $1.65. — Shoe Swap Center—A swap center is a place where boys and girls can obtain shoes which have been outgrown by other youngsters. Such a center will put a lot of idle shoes to work. It is a wartime conservation measure, aimed at making the supply of shoes on the home front go as far as possible. Suggestions for setting up a center can be secured from your local board at the city hall. Tires—-Used passenger tires that are not fit for recapping can be made serviceable for emergency use by temporary repairs, branded with an “O” on the sidewall and sold. The August supply of tires Grade 1 and Funeral services were held Satur-} day afternoon for the late Mrs. Ida . Hooper Prisk who. passed away. Thursday afternoon at her home, 231 Race street, Grass Valley. The services were conducted by Rev. Cedric Porter of Trinity Church, Nevada City, in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery, Grass Valley. (Mrs. Prisk was aged 71 years and a native of Grass Valley. She had been in failing health since her husband Henry Prisk \passed away in January, 1942. She was affiliated with the local Temple of Pythian Sisters. ~ Six children survive her: Henry, onard Prisk of Grass Valley, Mrs/Adelma King of Arden, Nevada, Ralph Prisk of St. Louis, Missouri, and Mrs. Chandler Church nia $300 a year. of Grass Valley. Grade III are further restricted. Gasoline—Holders of ‘‘B”’ and “C”’ supplemerital rations and ‘‘B” and “R’’ may continue using their stamps until they are exhausted, unless there is a change in the purposes and uses to which the book, was issued. The first series in the second rationing books—-A-7 is good _ for four gallons during the next two months. Please endorse all of the stamps. Servicemen’s Food Rations—Mem-: bers of the armed forces on leave or furlough may go to any, board to obtain extra food certificates. Stamps—Blue stamps N, P, Q are valid until August 7th. Stamps R, S. and 'T are valid until September 7th. Red Stamp T valid to August 31, beginning August 1. U valid from August 8th to 81st. V valid from August 15th to 31st. W valid from August 22nd to 31st. X valid from TRIAL OF TOTTEN SET FOR SEPT. 13 William Totten, charged with the murder of Harve McVean of Hills Flat, July 15th, on arraignment in, on the superior court here Friday plead-. and ed not guilty and not guilty by rea-'H. Spaulding, ,Son of insanity. He was represented ‘by Attorney George E. Foote and E. R. Vaughn of Sacramento. District Attorney Ward Sheldon appeared for ;the people. Judge George L. Jones trial or Seutember 13th. set his . ROYAL COLLEGE HONORS NEVADA CITY NATIVE BERKELEY, Aug. 2.—Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Dr. How-' ard C. Naffziger, a native of Nevada . City and professor of surgery on the San Francisco campus of the University of ‘California, have been made honorary fellows in the Royal, College of Surgeons, according to word just received from England. — The ceremony took place in the Great Hall of Lincoln’s Inn, on July: ,21, the centenary of the founding of the honorary fellowships of the Royal College. The candidates to be honored were chosen tion of the president and council on July 9. Dr. Naffziger is visiting English civilian and military hospitals under the official title of Consultant for ; the Office of Seentific Research Deelopment This is a part of the ex-. rehange of scientific help-and ideas , between the United States and Great Britain. As chairman of the committee of neurological surgery of the National Research Council Dr. Naffziger re‘cently inspected the work being done by scientist members of the committee in thospitals in various sections. of the United States. Also in this « capacity he. acted as host to two British doctors, John Z, Young from Oxford, famous for researches on the; Geoffrey . peripheral nerves, and Jefferson who recently lectured in Toland Hall on the San Francesco \campus. SAVANT WRITES NOVEL ON NAZI CRIME TRIAL BERKELEY, Aug. 2.—The story of what might happen if Hitler and his Nazi henchmen were to stand before a court of justice as common prisoners accused of the non-politicai crime of murder is told in The Day of Reckoning. Written by Dr. Max Radin, professor of law on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, the work has just been published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. : ‘Presented in the style of a novel, it is composed of a series of realistic courtroom scenes laid in Luxembourg in the year 1945; the seven most powerful Nazis stand accused of murdering three “little people” of . Europe—a Frenchman, a'Czech, and! a Russian. The battle of legal wits between the prosecution and the defense of the Nazi leaders as common crminals reflects in miniature the present world conflict between the forces of good and evil. Author of eleven books on law, various magazine articles and short storoes, Dr. Radin has taught legal theory at Columbia University, the College of the City of New: York, and Yale Unsrersity in addition to his work on the Berkeley campus. He was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 1939, and a year later was awarded the Townsend Harris Medal, which given to distinguished graduates of New York’s City ‘College by the Alumni Association. a ‘Miss Madeline Hime of San Francisco arrived Saturday evening for a week’s vacation with her mother, Mrs. Grace Himes, and many friends. Miss Himes is in the employ of a fedéral public. relations bureau. August ‘29 to September 4th. by recommenda-, is . ’ DOWNIEVILLE — NATIVE DIES IN BELVEDERE DOWNIEVILLE, Aug. 2.—William widely known veteran of the California Bar and member of the legal staff of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, died from a heart attack Thursday morning, July . 22, at his home at Belvedere, California. While he had on two or three peeeeving ak suffered slightly from a . heart ailment, he had recently been . apparently in excellent health and ;had spent the day prior to the fatal ‘attack at work as usual in his office. His wife entered his bedrooth to call ‘him * ‘for breakfast and found him ly-' ling dead and partially dressed acrose . the bed. Mr. Spaulding was born in Downie 'ville on October 10, 1877. He was i graduated from the University of . \California in 1899, and after attendling Harvard Law school returned to San Francisco and began hig practice in the office of the late Guy Earle. He was attorney and secretary of the Great Western Power Company of ‘California from its formation more ;than thirty years ago until it was merged with the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in 1930, since _which time he has been with the latiter organization. He was president of the San Francisco School of Law and vice president of the board of (directors of the California School of Mechanical Arts. He belonged to the’ Olympic Club of San Francisco and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Surviving are his widow, the former Viela Burroughs, whom he married in 1919, and who is a daughter of Abbott Lawrence Burroughs and a granddaughter of James Cass, pioneers of San Luis Obispo county; a daughter, Carol, 23, a recent Stanford graduate; a daughter, Lorna, 22, a student at the University of (California at Los Angeles; and a son, William H. Jr., 17, now in the South Pacific with the merchant marine service. : Mr. Spaulding made his home in :Oakland continuously from 1866 until 1929 when he moved to Belvedere where he haas since. lived. — Downieville Mountain Messenger. FREIGHT MUST BE DELIVERED SIX DAYS A WEEK L. R. McNamara, district manager of the Office of Defense Transport’ ation, Division of Motor Transport ‘for 19 superior California counties . has called on all receivers of freight to arrange immediately for full six day a week receipt of car load and less than car load shipments. This announcement follows a joint appeal made by Joseph B. Eastman, Director of Defense Transportation, and Interstate Commerce Commissioner L. M. Johnson, who is incharge of car service matters for the I. C. C. The appeal was promptedby pene current practice of many manufacturing establishments, commercialhouses, and stores of refusing to receive freight on Saturdays and re. stricting the hours for its receipt on other days of the week. ; McNamara emphasized the refusal to receive car loads and leéss-than carload freight on ‘various days of the week, particularly Saturday, dir-ectly contributes to congestion of the freight houses and ties up cars un-* necessarily. In these times when every)car is needed and manpower — ‘is short in the freight houses, nothing should be done by the receivers — of freight which would tend in any way to impede its free and speedy: movement. ; ‘McNamara said further, in view of the fact that a great part of the nation’s industry is working on a six-. day, 48 hour week, we are askin, all receivers of freight to make ar rangements so that the railroad the motor carriers can make tre deliyeries at any time of the during the full six day week. must be done to relieve con and speed up the movem nt even though the particular « ment is not open throughout the entire week