August 2, 1943 (4 pages)

Page Four aameeeeniene — ee = ae By HARRY F. BYRD United States Senator from Virginia Our federal government now has mc taxpayers pay roll than the combined total of all the employees of all the 48 states phys all the employees of all the country’s county and muncipal governments. In the last war the ratio was one civilian government employe to five soldiers. The ratio now is one civilian employee to two and one half soldiers. a mes a5e-an the Fifty-five per cent of those persons are not directly engaged in the war effort. Since July, 1939, move than two Years before Pearl Harbor, the federal government has increased the number of its employees almost 50 per cent every six months. Despite repeated recommendations to the contrary from congress, the peak is nowhere in sight. These representatives of accumulated executive power have now set up shop in every state and in every noek and corner of the country. Bureaucracy, rabbit-wise, is self-multiplying. The consequences of its feeundity are everywhere apparent. This bureaucracy is not elected by the people. It is not responsible to the people. It does not answer for its acts at the polls. Let it wastes the people’s mogey, flouts the will of the people’s elected representatives and—down to the last crossroads village and farm—is extending its power over the people’s lives. IT recently received the regulations by which the Office of Price Administration proposes to govern the housewives of the nation when, this summer, they begin to can the products of their farms, orchards and the vetory gardens. These instructions fill six closely printed newspaper columns—and run to 12,000 well-chosen, highly legal words. _ At the latest count, the OP A’s regulations ‘fill five fat volumes and take 11,000,000 words. Tt, was recently pointed out that at the Office of Price Administration alone the country’s taxpayers have fbeen supporting 2,700 lawyvers—500 of them in Washington to devise the regulations. 2.200 of them throughout the country to see that they regulate. The British also have a rationing and price administration. It has worked for several years with astonishing success. Its legal staff totals ten. : When Thomas Jefferson was president there was one federal employee for every 5,308 persons. Today we! have one federal employee for every RABBIT: WISE MULTIPLIES ITSELF . . . . 45 persons—-men, women and childran—and this does not include those in uniform in the army and navy. It is of the nature of a political organism that such great and_rapid increases in size bring in their wake, a change of character. What we now have in the United States is not our former government grown bigger. What we have is a different kind of government. It is ceasing to be government of three co-equal parts: legis lative, executive, judicial. Because the executive branch has grown so vast and exercises so many powers, real and assumed, we are coming more and more to be ruled by executive and bureaucratic directives. As a result, the way in which we are governed is increasingly characterized by waste, ponderous red tape, inefficiency and irresponsibility. The combined total cost to the nation this year of the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government is $38,000,000. The executive branch spent, even before the war, almost that much for publicity and promotion: alone. There is a: current saying in Washington’s government offices: ‘‘Never write if you can send a telegram; never telegraph if you can make a long-distance phone call.” For the six months ending December 31 the bill of the executive branch of the government—chiefly for telephone, telegraph, cable—amounted to $15,573.000. The figure excludes army and navy bills) How much of this expensesive communicating could have been conducted by letter or post ecard, no one knows. : It was revealed at hearings held before the Joint Committee on Reducing Non-essential Federal Expenses that from November, 1940, through October, 1041, the National Youth Administration, an organization paralleling in part or in whole the actions of at least six other government offices, month for long-distance telephone calls. How necessary much of that telephoning must have been can be judged from the subject matter of a few of the hundreds of NYA telegrams which I have seen. Here are some samples: “Please advise if Labor Day is to ibe considered a national holiday.”’ “Requesting travel to come last to Washington to discuss annual leave, with you.”’ “No record of marriage of March 4, 1942.”’ _to Head into fall with a smart fur felt! Bound or raw e models. -Tones* to blend with your new fall topcoat! sa 5 Expert Tailoring for Seasons of Proud Géod Looks MEN'S TOWN-CLAD* SUITS 2975 Wise men invest in TOWN-CLADS for impeccable tailor. ing, lasting good looks, budget:pleasing price! All wool worsteds assure serviceable smartness for seasons to come! Marathon* Fashion Leaders FUR FELTS YOU SAVE #7 F2WEKS PEND WITH UNCLE SAM! [ quent savings t >: ‘money be utilized in the war effort. . ;Our progress has been encouraging. . ‘ures since 1942. The committee incommunications ' spent $20,000 a} “The use of typewriter for Dr. — cannot be authorized.” “4 hired as watchman today at sixty dollars monthly effective today replacing resigned.”’ The Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Hx-,. penditures, of which I am chairman, has repeatedly recommended that federal employment be drastically reduced, that waste and inefficiency . be eliminated and that the consein’ manpower Savings brought about as a result of. ' these recommendations* have totaled -$1,314,000,000 in federal expendit-, 1 . ,tends to stirpass this regord of economy in the present year. . It is a matter of no less import,ance to see to it that, while the war is being won, America—the America we have known and our fighting men believe in—is not lost. I believe. that a demand for a return to repres. "entative, responsible government can save it. Personal ‘Mr. and Mrs. H. Chatfield of Pike ICity were business visitors in Nevada City Friday. (Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Collins of Sacramento are enjoying a~vacation in Nevada City and visiting Mrs. Collins’ sister,,Mrs. Celia €lemo, Misse Lile and Bernice Clemo. and Mrs. Emma Sauvee. Glen Cleland of Reno, was a busi-' I ness visitor in Nevada City’ Friday. . He is a former resident and owns property here. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers Mills Valley enjoyed a vacation jthis district where Mrs. Myers, jartist of note, sketched ; scenes in Sierra City, land Nevada City. . . Mrs. Will Hatch went to Sausalito . . Thursday to visit her husband and . ;returned Saturday. Sse was accom. panied by her husband who spent the . week end here. . Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis of Willow . Valley have as guests, Mrs. Davis’ of . in. an! pioneer Downieville . tsister, Mrs. Maud Davis and daugh. ter . in law, Mrs. Charles Davis, of . Hazelerest suburb of Chicago. Mrs. . Maud Davis and daughter in law ;came west to visit her son, Charles ‘Davis, in camp at Pittsburg, this ‘state. Mrs. Maud Davis has visited . here before and made a number of ‘friends here who will be pleased to see her. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Welch came up from the bay district over ithe past week end to visit her par‘ents, Mr. and Mrs. their three children who are spending the summer at the Davis farm. Tom Arden, former resident, employed on the Sacramento Bee Sacramento spent Saturday in this city renewing acquaintances: He moved with his family early this spring. Mrs. Gordon Bettles of Sacramento is enjoying a visit with her daughter -and son in law and children in this city. : (Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Mason of Oakland are enjoying a visit with Mr: and Mrs. Leslie Land of Adams street. ‘Miss Alice Murchie is substituting at the local public library for Mrs. Grace Himes, who is enjoying a ten day vacation while her daughter is home. (Mrs. Charles Genasci left Friday for the bay district where she will visit her daughter and son in law, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Christiansen. Halstead Downey, gunner in the U. S. navy, arrived Thursday evening to enjoy a short visit with his mother, Mrs. George Downey and sister, Mrs. Beth Wilson and family. He ; has been taking up special work in a {camp near Washington, D. C., since. leaving here this spring. ‘Miss Margaret Tetard of Omaha, Neb., arrived Thursday to spend a few. days with her aunt, Mrs. , Eva (McKnight and cousin, Mrs. LeMar Fleming on Boulder street. Joe Cicogni of Sacramento spent the past week end in Nevada Gity with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John (Cicogni of west Spring street. Sunday morning Nevada City firemen were called to the gXopp’s cabins on Nimrod street to put out a fire in the grove of trees in the rear of the buildings. It spread rapidly guished. : Ronald Foley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ursil Foley of San Francisco, is here enjoying a vacation with his grandmother, Mrs. Emma Foley and other relatives. ‘ : Frank Wright motored to Placerville Saturda and returned with his wife who has spent the week there in the interests of the firm she is employed by the Inter County Title company. Miss Gertrude Wilde, employed by the some company in Sacramento also spent the week Placeville and accompanied Mr. and the week end with her parents. aneene : Nevada City Nugget WESTERN MINING COUNCIL ELECTS DIRECTORATE AUBURN, Aug. 2.—Dr. John W. Ross, Oroville mine operator, led in the Western Mining Council’s electhe votes were counted at a Placerville meeting’ last night. The other polled were: Judge Raymond McPlumas Co Placer County; Supervisor W. Sacramento County; Judge J. 0. Moncur, Plumas County; E. S. Van Dyck, Yuba County Reddy ‘Moroney, These will serve’ with the heads of the fifteen different organizations, ‘now in the affilation, as the complete board until October, 1944. At,a meeting which followed, President J. P. Hall announced the receipt of a letter from Governor Warren’s office in Which he gave his reason for not signing S. B. 414, the mining division reorganization Dill. He objected to a non-pay board, stating that as such it could not be held to the performance of its legal duties. The letter was turned over to Judge Raymond McIntosh of Sierra County, now working with the legislative council on the drafting of a new Dill. Judge Mvintosh also reFOUR PILOTS — HOME FROM CHINESE FRONT Four U. S. Army Air Force pilots racenfly returned ,to this country and Dorothy , Siskiyoo County. ! after 13 months of duty in the and tion of nine directors at large when ,China-India-Burma theater of oper, ations have joined in the coast wide , salute being paid civilian volunteers ‘eight selected in the order of votes ‘of the Aircraft Warning Service this;rect charge for the Sacramento of/week, which Governor Earl Warren Intosh, Sierra County; O. H. Griggs, , has proclaimed as “Aircraft bi aay ty; J. G. KempcanEe,,. ing Service Week.” T.) : nty; H Rel rd, . , ae, oo Coy re . \E. Smith, and Lieutenants 'w. Griffin, Harold K. The four airmen, Captain Robert Joseph Stuart and Frank W. Ladd, piled up a total of 400 combat hours on 237 combat missions and bagged eight Jap planes, six zeros and two bombers. Speaking of the Chinese Aircraft Warning Service, the pilots were unanimous in their estimates of its efficiency and importance. The Chinese have such an effective system, they report, that American pilots are informed of the number and_ direction of flight of the enemy planes immediately after the enemy takes to the air. As they put it: ‘Such operations give us a most welcome advantage over the enemy, for though the work of the Aircraft Warning Service we are able to intercept the Japs long before they reach their bombng targets. And too, the warnOFFICERS ARRIVE — Monday, August Zz 1943 TO DIRECT ARMY HOSPITAL WOKK AUBURN, Aug. 2.—Construction at the government hospital near Auburn is progressing on schedule with Clarence Johnson resident engineer in charge of operations.‘ported on his attendance at a disjeussion of the Scrugham stockpiling . ducing during war time should be} ; acceptable operators. Senator Serug-. Will Davis, and . in. to Sacramento in pine leaves but was soon extin-. in. Mrs. Wright to Nevada City to spend . ing keeps us from being caught on the ground.” bill, S. 1160, before the mining committee of the Commonwealth Club in. ! ps San Francisco on Monday. He said . Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of Tathe council’s principal objection of. !hoe National Forest, is spending a holding ‘‘eligible operators” to those . ortnight with District Ranger Warwho begin furnishing strategic min-. ren Barnes at Great Bend. Ellis and erals during the war, was met with, Barnes are making an examination Senator Scrugham’s statement that . of the entire district. Col. R. C. Hunter,.who is in difice of the U. S. Army Engineers was in Auburn last week on a tour of inspection of the project. The large reservoir which impounds 3 1-2 million gallons of water was filled several days ago. Many of the buildings have been completed as far as exterior building is concerned and work has started on several additional buildings. Concrete is being poured for the large steam heating plant which will furnish the heat fo all of the buildings: Three army officers who will serve as administrative officials when the hospital is placed in operation have arrived. They include, Major Paul Winfred Ransom, medical corps officer; ‘Captain George William Shirley, medical corps; and Captain Raymond Guy White, medical corps. Col. W. H. Smith who has been named directing head of the hospital is expected to arrive in the next few days. Y ROLAND GARWOOD AWARDED ; MEDAL Pvt. Roland Garwood, the son of (Mr. ‘and Mrs. Clyde Garwood of t city has received a medal, aw for swimming underwater at Ord for 60 yards. Young Garwood i, an expert swimmer was life guard at ‘pool. it was the sense of the senate cue. business committee that those who . went through the hardships of pro. . haw said that the bill had been en. . dorsed by every mining organization in the country and that the only opposition developed so far came from Cordell Hull’s state department, due . to the fact that it might interfere with the good neighbor policy. He urged continued work for the passage of. the bill. SICILY INVASION. CALLS FOR HUGE SUPPLY TONNAGE The invasion of such a point as . Sicily, where all facilities for prosecution of the war must be water borne, involved the use of approximately 2000 vessels of all types. The spectacular phases of the attack were generally credited to the naval craft which laid down a protective barrage to cover the landings. But, 4 Sh. 99» 8 SS SV SS = ° beh. troops and the great quantities of materials needed to secure the beach heads. Although no figures have been released on the numiber.of men or the number of men or the amount of equipment placed ashore, the engagement was fundamentally one of. sea borne transportation. The North African invasion is typical of such operations according } to figures compiled by the American throughout the West. y the unsung wheel horses of the joint . 2 operations were hundreds of merSy chant ships, enlisted in a_ great @ The choice of hy measure from the American merc= fi chant marine fleet to carry’ the wise home-owners ALPHA STORES, Ltd. o% 4 % Merchant Marine Institute. Each in-, fantry division expends about 542 tons of ammunition in a single day. A single armored division eats up, about 78,000 pounds of food each day. A mechanized division consumes 18,000 gallons of gasoline for every ~ Hotel Clunie hour on the move. An army the size of that used in the Tunisian campatgn will exhaust 2000 rubber tires daily through wear and normal hazards of war. For personal comfort of the troop and to keep them supplied with materials of war, merchant vessels must carry approximately 700,000 different items. Those items range UNDER NEW IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP AND COCKTAIL BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP Excellent Service—Best Food MANAGEMENT « from tanks, trucks and airplanes to water purifiers, needles and thread, printing presses, buttons, blankets, typewriters and even traffic signs. 8TH AND K STREET, TOY AND JACOBS. JACK BRUNO, Manager SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA They are all carried by. merchant ships, most of them American. _ NEVADA CITY ASSAY County Recorder John Nettell and son of Grass Valley left Saturday for the bay region where they will spend their vacation. (Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Jackson had as week end guests: Mrs. Jackson’s mother, Mrs. Frank Pearce, sisters, 'Miss Ada Pearce, Mrs. Rogers and . husband, Sacramento; brothers, Gene Pearce, wife and daughter, San \Wraneiseo and Glen Pearce and .wife. Gridley. E. JN. OTT. Practical mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold percentages of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. Mail ordér check work promptly attended to. Assays made for gold, Agent for New York-California Underwriter-, Westchester and Delaware Underweiters Insurance “ompanies. Automobile Insurance AND REFINING OFFICE silver, lead and copper. ‘ Proprietor h 4. . % Jf v

Page Four aameeeeniene — ee = ae By HARRY F. BYRD United States Senator from Virginia Our federal government now has mc taxpayers pay roll than the combined total of all the employees of all the 48 states phys all the employees of all the country’s county and muncipal governments. In the last war the ratio was one civilian government employe to five soldiers. The ratio now is one civilian employee to two and one half soldiers. a mes a5e-an the Fifty-five per cent of those persons are not directly engaged in the war effort. Since July, 1939, move than two Years before Pearl Harbor, the federal government has increased the number of its employees almost 50 per cent every six months. Despite repeated recommendations to the contrary from congress, the peak is nowhere in sight. These representatives of accumulated executive power have now set up shop in every state and in every noek and corner of the country. Bureaucracy, rabbit-wise, is self-multiplying. The consequences of its feeundity are everywhere apparent. This bureaucracy is not elected by the people. It is not responsible to the people. It does not answer for its acts at the polls. Let it wastes the people’s mogey, flouts the will of the people’s elected representatives and—down to the last crossroads village and farm—is extending its power over the people’s lives. IT recently received the regulations by which the Office of Price Administration proposes to govern the housewives of the nation when, this summer, they begin to can the products of their farms, orchards and the vetory gardens. These instructions fill six closely printed newspaper columns—and run to 12,000 well-chosen, highly legal words. _ At the latest count, the OP A’s regulations ‘fill five fat volumes and take 11,000,000 words. Tt, was recently pointed out that at the Office of Price Administration alone the country’s taxpayers have fbeen supporting 2,700 lawyvers—500 of them in Washington to devise the regulations. 2.200 of them throughout the country to see that they regulate. The British also have a rationing and price administration. It has worked for several years with astonishing success. Its legal staff totals ten. : When Thomas Jefferson was president there was one federal employee for every 5,308 persons. Today we! have one federal employee for every RABBIT: WISE MULTIPLIES ITSELF . . . . 45 persons—-men, women and childran—and this does not include those in uniform in the army and navy. It is of the nature of a political organism that such great and_rapid increases in size bring in their wake, a change of character. What we now have in the United States is not our former government grown bigger. What we have is a different kind of government. It is ceasing to be government of three co-equal parts: legis lative, executive, judicial. Because the executive branch has grown so vast and exercises so many powers, real and assumed, we are coming more and more to be ruled by executive and bureaucratic directives. As a result, the way in which we are governed is increasingly characterized by waste, ponderous red tape, inefficiency and irresponsibility. The combined total cost to the nation this year of the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government is $38,000,000. The executive branch spent, even before the war, almost that much for publicity and promotion: alone. There is a: current saying in Washington’s government offices: ‘‘Never write if you can send a telegram; never telegraph if you can make a long-distance phone call.” For the six months ending December 31 the bill of the executive branch of the government—chiefly for telephone, telegraph, cable—amounted to $15,573.000. The figure excludes army and navy bills) How much of this expensesive communicating could have been conducted by letter or post ecard, no one knows. : It was revealed at hearings held before the Joint Committee on Reducing Non-essential Federal Expenses that from November, 1940, through October, 1041, the National Youth Administration, an organization paralleling in part or in whole the actions of at least six other government offices, month for long-distance telephone calls. How necessary much of that telephoning must have been can be judged from the subject matter of a few of the hundreds of NYA telegrams which I have seen. Here are some samples: “Please advise if Labor Day is to ibe considered a national holiday.”’ “Requesting travel to come last to Washington to discuss annual leave, with you.”’ “No record of marriage of March 4, 1942.”’ _to Head into fall with a smart fur felt! Bound or raw e models. -Tones* to blend with your new fall topcoat! sa 5 Expert Tailoring for Seasons of Proud Géod Looks MEN'S TOWN-CLAD* SUITS 2975 Wise men invest in TOWN-CLADS for impeccable tailor. ing, lasting good looks, budget:pleasing price! All wool worsteds assure serviceable smartness for seasons to come! Marathon* Fashion Leaders FUR FELTS YOU SAVE #7 F2WEKS PEND WITH UNCLE SAM! [ quent savings t >: ‘money be utilized in the war effort. . ;Our progress has been encouraging. . ‘ures since 1942. The committee incommunications ' spent $20,000 a} “The use of typewriter for Dr. — cannot be authorized.” “4 hired as watchman today at sixty dollars monthly effective today replacing resigned.”’ The Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Hx-,. penditures, of which I am chairman, has repeatedly recommended that federal employment be drastically reduced, that waste and inefficiency . be eliminated and that the consein’ manpower Savings brought about as a result of. ' these recommendations* have totaled -$1,314,000,000 in federal expendit-, 1 . ,tends to stirpass this regord of economy in the present year. . It is a matter of no less import,ance to see to it that, while the war is being won, America—the America we have known and our fighting men believe in—is not lost. I believe. that a demand for a return to repres. "entative, responsible government can save it. Personal ‘Mr. and Mrs. H. Chatfield of Pike ICity were business visitors in Nevada City Friday. (Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Collins of Sacramento are enjoying a~vacation in Nevada City and visiting Mrs. Collins’ sister,,Mrs. Celia €lemo, Misse Lile and Bernice Clemo. and Mrs. Emma Sauvee. Glen Cleland of Reno, was a busi-' I ness visitor in Nevada City’ Friday. . He is a former resident and owns property here. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers Mills Valley enjoyed a vacation jthis district where Mrs. Myers, jartist of note, sketched ; scenes in Sierra City, land Nevada City. . . Mrs. Will Hatch went to Sausalito . . Thursday to visit her husband and . ;returned Saturday. Sse was accom. panied by her husband who spent the . week end here. . Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis of Willow . Valley have as guests, Mrs. Davis’ of . in. an! pioneer Downieville . tsister, Mrs. Maud Davis and daugh. ter . in law, Mrs. Charles Davis, of . Hazelerest suburb of Chicago. Mrs. . Maud Davis and daughter in law ;came west to visit her son, Charles ‘Davis, in camp at Pittsburg, this ‘state. Mrs. Maud Davis has visited . here before and made a number of ‘friends here who will be pleased to see her. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Welch came up from the bay district over ithe past week end to visit her par‘ents, Mr. and Mrs. their three children who are spending the summer at the Davis farm. Tom Arden, former resident, employed on the Sacramento Bee Sacramento spent Saturday in this city renewing acquaintances: He moved with his family early this spring. Mrs. Gordon Bettles of Sacramento is enjoying a visit with her daughter -and son in law and children in this city. : (Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Mason of Oakland are enjoying a visit with Mr: and Mrs. Leslie Land of Adams street. ‘Miss Alice Murchie is substituting at the local public library for Mrs. Grace Himes, who is enjoying a ten day vacation while her daughter is home. (Mrs. Charles Genasci left Friday for the bay district where she will visit her daughter and son in law, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Christiansen. Halstead Downey, gunner in the U. S. navy, arrived Thursday evening to enjoy a short visit with his mother, Mrs. George Downey and sister, Mrs. Beth Wilson and family. He ; has been taking up special work in a {camp near Washington, D. C., since. leaving here this spring. ‘Miss Margaret Tetard of Omaha, Neb., arrived Thursday to spend a few. days with her aunt, Mrs. , Eva (McKnight and cousin, Mrs. LeMar Fleming on Boulder street. Joe Cicogni of Sacramento spent the past week end in Nevada Gity with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John (Cicogni of west Spring street.

Sunday morning Nevada City firemen were called to the gXopp’s cabins on Nimrod street to put out a fire in the grove of trees in the rear of the buildings. It spread rapidly guished. : Ronald Foley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ursil Foley of San Francisco, is here enjoying a vacation with his grandmother, Mrs. Emma Foley and other relatives. ‘ : Frank Wright motored to Placerville Saturda and returned with his wife who has spent the week there in the interests of the firm she is employed by the Inter County Title company. Miss Gertrude Wilde, employed by the some company in Sacramento also spent the week Placeville and accompanied Mr. and the week end with her parents. aneene : Nevada City Nugget WESTERN MINING COUNCIL ELECTS DIRECTORATE AUBURN, Aug. 2.—Dr. John W. Ross, Oroville mine operator, led in the Western Mining Council’s electhe votes were counted at a Placerville meeting’ last night. The other polled were: Judge Raymond McPlumas Co Placer County; Supervisor W. Sacramento County; Judge J. 0. Moncur, Plumas County; E. S. Van Dyck, Yuba County Reddy ‘Moroney, These will serve’ with the heads of the fifteen different organizations, ‘now in the affilation, as the complete board until October, 1944. At,a meeting which followed, President J. P. Hall announced the receipt of a letter from Governor Warren’s office in Which he gave his reason for not signing S. B. 414, the mining division reorganization Dill. He objected to a non-pay board, stating that as such it could not be held to the performance of its legal duties. The letter was turned over to Judge Raymond McIntosh of Sierra County, now working with the legislative council on the drafting of a new Dill. Judge Mvintosh also reFOUR PILOTS — HOME FROM CHINESE FRONT Four U. S. Army Air Force pilots racenfly returned ,to this country and Dorothy , Siskiyoo County. ! after 13 months of duty in the and tion of nine directors at large when ,China-India-Burma theater of oper, ations have joined in the coast wide , salute being paid civilian volunteers ‘eight selected in the order of votes ‘of the Aircraft Warning Service this;rect charge for the Sacramento of/week, which Governor Earl Warren Intosh, Sierra County; O. H. Griggs, , has proclaimed as “Aircraft bi aay ty; J. G. KempcanEe,,. ing Service Week.” T.) : nty; H Rel rd, . , ae, oo Coy re . \E. Smith, and Lieutenants 'w. Griffin, Harold K. The four airmen, Captain Robert Joseph Stuart and Frank W. Ladd, piled up a total of 400 combat hours on 237 combat missions and bagged eight Jap planes, six zeros and two bombers. Speaking of the Chinese Aircraft Warning Service, the pilots were unanimous in their estimates of its efficiency and importance. The Chinese have such an effective system, they report, that American pilots are informed of the number and_ direction of flight of the enemy planes immediately after the enemy takes to the air. As they put it: ‘Such operations give us a most welcome advantage over the enemy, for though the work of the Aircraft Warning Service we are able to intercept the Japs long before they reach their bombng targets. And too, the warnOFFICERS ARRIVE — Monday, August Zz 1943 TO DIRECT ARMY HOSPITAL WOKK AUBURN, Aug. 2.—Construction at the government hospital near Auburn is progressing on schedule with Clarence Johnson resident engineer in charge of operations.‘ported on his attendance at a disjeussion of the Scrugham stockpiling . ducing during war time should be} ; acceptable operators. Senator Serug-. Will Davis, and . in. to Sacramento in pine leaves but was soon extin-. in. Mrs. Wright to Nevada City to spend . ing keeps us from being caught on the ground.” bill, S. 1160, before the mining committee of the Commonwealth Club in. ! ps San Francisco on Monday. He said . Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of Tathe council’s principal objection of. !hoe National Forest, is spending a holding ‘‘eligible operators” to those . ortnight with District Ranger Warwho begin furnishing strategic min-. ren Barnes at Great Bend. Ellis and erals during the war, was met with, Barnes are making an examination Senator Scrugham’s statement that . of the entire district. Col. R. C. Hunter,.who is in difice of the U. S. Army Engineers was in Auburn last week on a tour of inspection of the project. The large reservoir which impounds 3 1-2 million gallons of water was filled several days ago. Many of the buildings have been completed as far as exterior building is concerned and work has started on several additional buildings. Concrete is being poured for the large steam heating plant which will furnish the heat fo all of the buildings: Three army officers who will serve as administrative officials when the hospital is placed in operation have arrived. They include, Major Paul Winfred Ransom, medical corps officer; ‘Captain George William Shirley, medical corps; and Captain Raymond Guy White, medical corps. Col. W. H. Smith who has been named directing head of the hospital is expected to arrive in the next few days. Y ROLAND GARWOOD AWARDED ; MEDAL Pvt. Roland Garwood, the son of (Mr. ‘and Mrs. Clyde Garwood of t city has received a medal, aw for swimming underwater at Ord for 60 yards. Young Garwood i, an expert swimmer was life guard at ‘pool. it was the sense of the senate cue. business committee that those who . went through the hardships of pro. . haw said that the bill had been en. . dorsed by every mining organization in the country and that the only opposition developed so far came from Cordell Hull’s state department, due . to the fact that it might interfere with the good neighbor policy. He urged continued work for the passage of. the bill. SICILY INVASION. CALLS FOR HUGE SUPPLY TONNAGE The invasion of such a point as . Sicily, where all facilities for prosecution of the war must be water borne, involved the use of approximately 2000 vessels of all types. The spectacular phases of the attack were generally credited to the naval craft which laid down a protective barrage to cover the landings. But, 4 Sh. 99» 8 SS SV SS = ° beh. troops and the great quantities of materials needed to secure the beach heads. Although no figures have been released on the numiber.of men or the number of men or the amount of equipment placed ashore, the engagement was fundamentally one of. sea borne transportation. The North African invasion is typical of such operations according } to figures compiled by the American throughout the West. y the unsung wheel horses of the joint . 2 operations were hundreds of merSy chant ships, enlisted in a_ great @ The choice of hy measure from the American merc= fi chant marine fleet to carry’ the wise home-owners ALPHA STORES, Ltd. o% 4 % Merchant Marine Institute. Each in-, fantry division expends about 542 tons of ammunition in a single day. A single armored division eats up, about 78,000 pounds of food each day. A mechanized division consumes 18,000 gallons of gasoline for every ~ Hotel Clunie hour on the move. An army the size of that used in the Tunisian campatgn will exhaust 2000 rubber tires daily through wear and normal hazards of war. For personal comfort of the troop and to keep them supplied with materials of war, merchant vessels must carry approximately 700,000 different items. Those items range UNDER NEW IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP AND COCKTAIL BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP Excellent Service—Best Food MANAGEMENT « from tanks, trucks and airplanes to water purifiers, needles and thread, printing presses, buttons, blankets, typewriters and even traffic signs. 8TH AND K STREET, TOY AND JACOBS. JACK BRUNO, Manager SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA They are all carried by. merchant ships, most of them American. _ NEVADA CITY ASSAY County Recorder John Nettell and son of Grass Valley left Saturday for the bay region where they will spend their vacation. (Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Jackson had as week end guests: Mrs. Jackson’s mother, Mrs. Frank Pearce, sisters, 'Miss Ada Pearce, Mrs. Rogers and . husband, Sacramento; brothers, Gene Pearce, wife and daughter, San \Wraneiseo and Glen Pearce and .wife. Gridley. E. JN. OTT. Practical mining tests from 75 to 1000 pounds, giving the free gold percentages of sulphurets, value of sulphurets and tailings. Mail ordér check work promptly attended to. Assays made for gold, Agent for New York-California Underwriter-, Westchester and Delaware Underweiters Insurance “ompanies. Automobile Insurance AND REFINING OFFICE silver, lead and copper. ‘ Proprietor h 4. . % Jf v