August 6, 1945 (4 pages)

again be offered such an affront as The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’”’—Daniel Webster Nevada a City Nugge COVERS RICHEST SOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ aan This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. 62 NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA The Gold Comme “MONDAY, AUGUST. 6, 1945. THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. Radio commentatorg are giving voice to a “disappointment’’ in the mews budget issued ‘by the Big Three that nothing was mentioned of Russia’s entrance into the war against Japan. The commentators, 30 far as this column is concerned are yoicing their own disappointment, and probably not that of even a majority of the American people. As a matter of fact, if this country gives Japan the walloping it so richjy deserves at our hands, with some minor assistanice from the British, we will come out of the world ‘con‘flict with much more prestige than would be the case were Russia to give us an “assist’’. A good many people may conclude that we can get along without more prestige than that. already earned in Europe. We probably could, but on the other hand a victory gained over Japan, singled handed with only minor aid from the British, will probably so well establish our prowess that we shall never Pearl Harbor. I'f prestige is a good thing in world politics, and we think it is when soundly established, let us have plenty off it. What a good many American fathers and mothers are thinking is that, if the Russians ‘would enter’ the fight against Japan, it might save the lives of thousands of American . boys. Russian fathers and mothers . are very likely thinking along those general, Hiram Johnson, rior now. Fillip: Revered State Secbrand new “Order of Finnella.¥ petuating the name of the airy fairy feminine gremlin ‘will be former WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) now ‘deactivated.’ Miracle for workers. Taxed to keep step with phenomenal food demands. That’s a farmer, year.’ And with the eyes of a hungry }acle”’ produee that, lines also and it will be perfectly understandable if Stalin hesitates to impose further sacrifices on @ na-. tion wheh:the Germans had bled white. . already . We are not sure that the final assault on Japan will tbe as’ heavily fraught with bloodshed.as.a good many fear. There are indications nothing very certain to be sure, that the Japs have very few arrows left for their bows. They brag a good deal of what they will do to our invaders, but they surely would do something to stave off an invasion if they could, and they are not doing it. The suspicion grows that the Japs are nunning out of gasoline. The worse the situation gets the more the Japs brag about what they will do, and the less they actually do. Pitting school boys and old people, as is promised, against the Yanks is of course the rankest kind of nonsense, and one wonders what the Jap people themselves think of such tommyrot. ‘A good many people, taking the long view, think it would be far better for this country to win the war against the Japs than to call for help on the part of Russia. Their thought trend is that along their western boundaries the Russians have claimed and gotten a good many benefits as victors. They are running the show in the Balkans, along the Baltic and in Polétd, and we Americans generally have not Ibeen‘too concerned about it. supposing they came in the against Japan and after the war was over put in a claim for a large part of Manchuria, all of Korea, and the strategic islands off the Siberian coast that they might take a fancy too. Just supposing, wary We are not trying to raise bugaboos here, but our immediate experience is that Russia does a good job fighting, but expects and even demands to get some kind of reward for it. We don’t ask any reward in the way of teritorial gains save a few strategic spots where we can land and take off, in world war should threaeen again. But Russia intends to-get paid and stands ready to collect, if that should be necessary. case So we venture to suggest that in the long run it will be far better for us to finish this war against Japan without Russian ‘help. In fact we think it rather late in the day for ‘Russia to declare herself in. The war ig drawing to a close swiftly. We doubt if a declaration of war now by (Russia would be much more than a gesture anyway, and, she might want a very large price for making the gesture. . young California piece has pitched onto the 1945 Al‘with j}league ball player—but because he But} ¥was enjoyed by over a hunared peoWe don’t think there is the least ROUND THESTATE SD By Leone Baxter wv. Ss. Senatorship Uncovered at’ Sacramento by Secretary of State Frank ‘M. Jordan is news nearly three decades old—4with a very up to date angle. Geo. S. Patton of San Marino, father of the current news making ran for U. S. senator from California during the first World War. His republican opponent was making flaming héadlines then, a weary, broken warretary Frank C. Jorhan, father of the present popular Secretary; backed Patton. Gal Gremlins Army report has it that the good little gremlin who takes care of fly: ers instead of badgering them intg tailspins, is ‘to ‘be honored by the Per: Desperate for machinery, Strapped government orders. Straining ta meet thumibnail photo of the California Yet he outproduced all others last world on him, he intends to repeat’ in "45. Nothing is expected but a mirpoints out Ralph Taylor of the Agricultural Council. “With enough help from on high perhaps we can) too.”’ Summer Fury Racial antagonisms, out of here ‘boiling up) wartime strains and stresses . are arousing the drama critics! The! James . former <Assemblywoman Esta Broughton of Modesto, loosed some lightning shafts when he based his newest play “Summer Fury’ on L.A.’s. famous Sleepy Lagoon .case., Now, with an August 4 openine at Palo Alto the as well as the socio economists. playwright. Broughton, nephew of den award. Di Mag Sports fans who reaHy know “Joe DiMaggio, S. F. boy who made good the Yankees’ are hoping the gossips will gtill their tongues should Joe be mustered out of the army soon. It won’t be because he’s a big ean’t do full army duty eat K rations and stay out of the hospital, says sport mentar Bill Leiser, who’s checked the record, Worldwide Weekend It’s been said before—but it still startles a homebody into a travel tranice: After the war no spot on this globe will be more than a day and two nights away from California by air. Rev. and Mrs. Ralston Honored at Party A pot luck supper and program was held at the Methodist Church parlors Friday evening in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Ralston, who leave soon to take charge of the Methodist Church in Newcastle. After a bounteous supper which i ple who had gathered to greet the Ralstons. Carl Murehie was chairman of the evening. Major Salisbury of the Salvation Army and Rev. Jesse Rudkin of the ‘Methodist Church in Grass VaNey gave short talks. The following musical program, which was arranged by Lloyd Geist ‘was then given. Mrs. Campbell, accompanied by Mrs. Gordon Vance, solo; Mrs. Brown, piano solo; Mrs. Joe Day, accompanied iby Marille Day, duet; Donna Underwood, piano solo. ‘Mrs. Price Caer the Ralstons with a gift in behalf of the church. Responses were given by both Rev. and Mrs. Ralston. Mrs. Ralston wore an orchid corsage which was a gift of the ladies of the church. George Kagerer who has’ been home on sick leave, has returned to his work at the Kaiser-Ship Yards in Richmond. likelihood of war with Russia in the next hundred years. But neither do we think there will be an earthquake in the century to come. Still a good many people, especially along the Pacific Coast carry earthquake inOLD BOY TO FACE MURDER TRIAL AUBURN, Aug formal charge of murder iP a Placed against Glen Brazell, 16 year old student at the C. K. McClatchy high school in Sacramento, who was arrested at Colfax last Thuredam night for questioning in connection with the death of Fred M. Kane, 54, Southern Pacific worker, on June: 2. The warrant of arrest was issued in Colfax by Justice of the Peace John Dittemore on a complaint sworn to by Charles Silva, complaint was drawn up by C. E. Tindall, district attorney of Placer county. Decison to charge the youth with murder was made after two interrogations by Tindall. Silva and: Deputy Sheriff E. J. Kenison. After studying the transscript of the statements made by the youth, the officers considered the killing murder. Because of the youth of the accused, the case was referred to the juvenile court by Justice Dittemore. There it will be considered by Judge Lowell L. Sparks who can either dispose of it in the junevile court or turn it back to the superior court ef Placer County. It is considered improbalble any disposition will be made before the end of court vacation in September. The case broke suddenly ‘when 3razell, enroute to St. Joseph, Mo., stepped from the stage to enter 1 restaurant where he had been Kane at an early morning hour on with June 2: Miss Mary Howard, an ployee of the restaurant,’ emrecognized him, and notified John. Kauffman, . the proprietor. Kauffman called Walter Viscia, chief of police, who held the: boy for identification by Matt Kelcher, Constable J. M. MeCleary then took him to Auburn. In. the.first-auestioning by Tindall and Kenison, the youth said he struck Kane only with his fists, he struck Kane and hit him with a stick some time after daybreak June 2, boy was about to leave, after ing several hours with Kane. He denied robbing Kane of $4, known to have been in Kane’s possession when he left Colfax. He said he had accepted Kane's invitation to sleep at Kane’s cabin several miles from Colfax. In his second conference with Tindall and Sheriff Silva, he admitted robbing Kane and striking him across the ribs with a club. He contended Kane had made an advance, which he resented. Brazell told officers he know Kane had been killed. “If I had known he was dead, I would not have: got ofif the stage at Colfax,’ he said. He got off the stage for eat when it stopped. He was enroute to St. Joseph after being held at the juvenile detention home in Sacramento since June 12. He had been certified to Sacrameneo County by Nevada County after being accused of robbing a carnival worker in Grass Valley early in June. Brazell says he went to Sacramento after leaving Kane’s cabin and then proceeded to Grass Valley where he was arrested. Brazell lived at 1813 1-2 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento. His mother has been ill for some time. His grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Kall of Satrameneo visited him at the jail Saturday. In the presenice of officers She urged him to ‘‘tell the truth’’ and take the’ consequences. as the sleepimproper did not a bite to Zeibright School Annexed to N. C. Dist. The Nevada County Board of Supervisors has lapsed that portion of the Zeibright School District lying in this county and has annexed it to the Nevada City Unified School District. The school wag established when: the Zeibright Mine was re-opened several years ago by Newmont interests, was closed when the mine shut down in 1942. Most of the school children formerly resided in Placer County, with the bulk of the assessible property in Nevada Gounty. The school house is just across the line in Placer County. The Placer County supervisors haye not yet acted in the surance. matter. JAP SUICIDE PILOT DESTROYS ABANDONED SHIPTREAISURE ISLAIND,. Aug. Thanks to a Jap suicide pilot, a navy deniolition crew has been spared a job off the shores of Okinawa. The story of how a Nip airman dived his explosive laden plane into a ‘beached and abandoned landing ship which previously had ‘been damaged by a mine, was revealed here ‘by survivors offf the craft who paused at Treasure Island Receiving Ship Barracks prior to entraining for home on well deserved ‘‘survivor’’ leaves. Among the members of the crew from the Twelfth Naval District who checked in at Treasure Island are: Armando Ferdinand Casillas, Pharmacist’s: Mate, First Class, US INR, 32 Octavia Street, San: Rafael. Ralph Gutirrez, Mate, Third Class, jon Street, Denver. Motor Machinists USNR, 8831 Te(Melvin Russell Ness, Coxswain, USNR, 2061 Front View Crescent. Denver. Benny Felix: Vega, Seaman, First Class, USNR, 950 South Front &t., Cutler, California. a3 who were watching from a nearby atoll, related how the Jap lilot spotted the abandoned ship as it lay completely The crewmen, stripped and piled up on an underwater reef. “That Jap evidently though he had ; spotted an anchared and unprotected . -vessel,’’ one survivor asserted. “He . peeled off in a perfect div plane and pilot went skyhigh.’’ “T’ll bet his face was plenty red when he got the full dope from his anicestors.”’ vi The landing craft was damaged originally ‘by an enemy mine near the close of the Okinawa campaign after it had put in three weeks of sferling work assisting in the bomlbardment of -the enemy shore installations. -.To eliminate a navigation menace the craft was beached ‘on the reef. Sulbsequent investigation revealed the vessel unseaworthy for a long trip back to repair yards and it was stripped of all valualble material and abandoned. Two days later the Jap airman piloted his plane into the denuded hull, thus sparing a demolition squad the ask of destroying it. Survivors of the ship once cars on their atoll for three weeks prior to ‘being sent home, During hat time they cleared the beach of debris and aided in construction work. Their ship, commissioned a year ago, previously had participated in the invasion of Iwo Jima. Home Improvement Limit Raised to $1000 Those long deferred jobs of painting, repairing, improving; enlargind or modernizing of homes and many other properties are to ‘be much simpler and easier to undertake from now on, under the relaxed regulations of government agencies governing priorities and financing. ‘Manager Horace Curnow of the ‘Nevada Ciey branch of the Bank of America has been notified that restrictions have ‘been modified = on such work, permitting expenditure ‘up to five times the former maximum amoones. In the case of homes, where only $200 worth of improvement.was permitted formerly, the limit has been raised ,to $1000 worth of materials, articles and services, without War Production Board cect or priorities. The relaxed rules now allow the installation of additional articles as air conditioning systems, furnaces and heating units, lighting fixtures, plumbing and sanitary fixtures, water heaterr and water pumps. Where the project is financed by the bank through an FHA title I loan the repayment term has been extended to a maximum of 18 mofitths on amounts up to $1500; no down payment required. The limit on property improvements on farms, hotels or apartment huildngs, formerly $1000 is now $5000, and on factories the increase is from $5000 to $25,000. On projects to cost $1501 to $2500 the re. daughter MONEY READY FOR FOREST HILL ACCESS ROAD Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of Tahoe national forest, announéed yesterday that $50,200 has been approved for the construction of the Morest Hill timber access road in Placer County. He stated that the funds are ‘available now and that the Public Road Administration has sent an engineer here'to organize the job for construc= tion by PRA forces. Rotary Governor Visits Grass Valley Club J. Ron Shannon, governor of the 105th Rotary International District, comprising 53 clubs in Northern California and Nevada, was the guést of the Grass Valley Rotary Club at luncheon today. Shannon owns and operates a ‘printing plant in Redding, Shasta @ounty, and is a memiber of standing in the Redding club. long He is one of 141 governors of Ro-. of 100,000 a month, and a persontary who supervise the activities of 5400 ‘clubs organized in 14 North and South American states, Ausralia, China, England, Finland, Guam, Iceland. India, New Zealand, ‘Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Syria, and Union of South Africa. Mother of Mrs. Deeter Passes in London Mrs. has received don, from. stating that her moth~ a cablegram England, er, Mrs. Florence M. Griffeth had . died there. The message was from ther faeher, Harry D. Griffeth, for many years a mining engineer in South Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Griffeth Visited their and: her husband in Glenwood in 1939, coming from England turning via Canada at the outbreak of war with Germany. ~~ Forest Worker Gaffes Stroke of Paralysis William Sadlier, forest road worker, who .arrested iby Nevada City police Saturday night charged with being intoxicated on the streets, and lodged in jail, is today recovering from a stroke of paralysis afifecting his left side, in a local hospital. Police state that Sadlier had ‘been drinking and that the stroke of para+ lysis came apparently while he. was suffering from too much alcohol. Sadlier had been employed for six weeks in the Downieville ranger district prior to ‘his illness. To Enforce Grass Valley Traffic Ordinance Overtime parking tags will be isvision of the city traffic ordinance, on and after August 6th, ‘Police Ben Jemkins announces. ordinance, the chief stated, tersections, will also be enforced. Last Rites Said for Mrs. Elizabeth Hammill the Redmens Cemetery. Empire Mine, following her life in Grass Valley. daughter, Mrs. Maggie Fawcett, of Grass Vialley, survives. Victim of Highway Crash Sues for $25,000 rea Armati, fuel dealer of Truckee seeking damages of $25,000, Runkel is at present in a Reno, Ne vada, hospital. payment term is up to 36 months. Harold Deeeer of Glenwood) Lon. ‘by way of the Panama Canal and re-. TRENDINSTATE sued to drivers who violate the proChiet of The chief commented that cars : rch parked on Mill, Main and Chureh. "ess to California.” Streets, in the morning; areoften. Secretary of State Jordan disclos‘found in the same spot in the aftermoon. Other provisions of the traffic regarding dowble parking, parking.-in yellow zones, near cross walks and inLast rites were said for MYrs. tiong qualfied was the six hundred Plizabeth Hammill, Saturday aftermillion dollar Montana copper miinnoon in the Hooper and ‘'Weaver. ing company, one of the largest out Mortuary. Rev. Jesse Rudkin ‘onducted the seervice. Interment was in Mrs. Hammill died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. J. Bennallack, at the a two day illness. She was ‘born 89 years ago in El Dorado County, but lived most of Another also ‘Miss Marguerite B. Renkel, secretary of the Los* Angeles Board of Education, has filed suit against Anand $150 per month while she is unable to work, as a result of injuries she suffered in an auto collision July 17th on the road to Lake Tahoe. Miss WAR SHIFT PUTS BIG JOB UP T0 RED CROSS WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. The changing 64 tide of military perfrom Europe to the Pacific through the United States following Germany’s capitulation has increased the tempo of the Red Cross Camp Service program throughout the country, according to Chairman Basil O'Connor of the American Red& Cross. “Servicemen returning under the army’s redeployment program anda the point system, and following liberation from, prisoner of war camps, impress a double responsibiliey on the Red Cross—that of maintaining its regular serviees in this country, and providing -new and added services for the post VE influx.’’ Chairman O’Connor said. O'Connor estimated a budget of $200.000 a month for domestic camp service to cover the cost of assfst. anite to returning troops at the rate sonnel nel increase of nearly 50 per cent in the 514 camps for able bodied troops alone. Mainly he said, assistance to * returning forces will be concentrat-: ! ed at ‘separation centers and redis_ tribution centers, where needs for Red Cross services are expected to « be greater during coming months than as sections quartering military ° personnel. who have not yet been’ overseas. mit “Red Cross.stafifs are available to . } all estalblished. separation centers’ the chairman said. “‘They serve 22 th army centers, 12 coast guard dis. charge centers, two main navy. per-*” . sonnel redistribution eenters and the? . discharge installations of the marine ; . corps.” RECONVERSION INDICATED , SACRIAMENTO, Aug. .6 — Com‘ mencement of industrial reconver~. sion to civilian merchandising and ithe prospect of reduced federal taxes on corporations today were attributed by Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan as ‘the principal reasons for the increased number of corporation : filings in California. “It is significant big business is looking westward not only toward California’s increased population but as the one important gateway to trans-Pacific trade during the post war era,’’ Jordan declared. “It is also a strong indication business . is gradually starting on its reconversion trend.”’ “The prospects of the federal government reducing the excess profits and the basic income taxes also are credited with the new influx of busied that during July 330 new corporations qualified to do business inthis state. This was the greatest number to be filed in the month of July, since the pre war years of 1940. The taxable corporations also increased with 244 being subject to tax as compared to 172 the same month a year ago. Among the 34 foreign corpora-. of state corporations permission Southern ever granted to operate in California. California received 199 of the 296 new. domestic corporations and 24 of the foreign corporations, or 67.6 per cent of the total July filings. Graveside Services for Former Resident Graveside services were held today under direction of the Holmes Funeral Home in Pine Grove Cemetery for Richard A. Huddleson, who died in Sacramento earlier in. the week. Rev. David Ralston on the service. The deceased was a graduate the Nevada City schools and ~ many years he and his family li on Coyote Street. He was the so! the late Thomas and Amelia . -. dleson. The deceased was a nativ Oregon aged 53 years. ’

again be offered such an affront as The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’”’—Daniel Webster Nevada a City Nugge COVERS RICHEST SOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ aan This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. 62 NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA The Gold Comme “MONDAY, AUGUST. 6, 1945. THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. L. Radio commentatorg are giving voice to a “disappointment’’ in the mews budget issued ‘by the Big Three that nothing was mentioned of Russia’s entrance into the war against Japan. The commentators, 30 far as this column is concerned are yoicing their own disappointment, and probably not that of even a majority of the American people. As a matter of fact, if this country gives Japan the walloping it so richjy deserves at our hands, with some minor assistanice from the British, we will come out of the world ‘con‘flict with much more prestige than would be the case were Russia to give us an “assist’’. A good many people may conclude that we can get along without more prestige than that. already earned in Europe. We probably could, but on the other hand a victory gained over Japan, singled handed with only minor aid from the British, will probably so well establish our prowess that we shall never Pearl Harbor. I'f prestige is a good thing in world politics, and we think it is when soundly established, let us have plenty off it. What a good many American fathers and mothers are thinking is that, if the Russians ‘would enter’ the fight against Japan, it might save the lives of thousands of American . boys. Russian fathers and mothers . are very likely thinking along those general, Hiram Johnson, rior now. Fillip: Revered State Secbrand new “Order of Finnella.¥ petuating the name of the airy fairy feminine gremlin ‘will be former WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) now ‘deactivated.’ Miracle for workers. Taxed to keep step with phenomenal food demands. That’s a farmer, year.’ And with the eyes of a hungry }acle”’ produee that, lines also and it will be perfectly understandable if Stalin hesitates to impose further sacrifices on @ na-. tion wheh:the Germans had bled white. . already . We are not sure that the final assault on Japan will tbe as’ heavily fraught with bloodshed.as.a good many fear. There are indications nothing very certain to be sure, that the Japs have very few arrows left for their bows. They brag a good deal of what they will do to our invaders, but they surely would do something to stave off an invasion if they could, and they are not doing it. The suspicion grows that the Japs are nunning out of gasoline. The worse the situation gets the more the Japs brag about what they will do, and the less they actually do. Pitting school boys and old people, as is promised, against the Yanks is of course the rankest kind of nonsense, and one wonders what the Jap people themselves think of such tommyrot. ‘A good many people, taking the long view, think it would be far better for this country to win the war against the Japs than to call for help on the part of Russia. Their thought trend is that along their western boundaries the Russians have claimed and gotten a good many benefits as victors. They are running the show in the Balkans, along the Baltic and in Polétd, and we Americans generally have not Ibeen‘too concerned about it. supposing they came in the against Japan and after the war was over put in a claim for a large part of Manchuria, all of Korea, and the strategic islands off the Siberian coast that they might take a fancy too. Just supposing, wary We are not trying to raise bugaboos here, but our immediate experience is that Russia does a good job fighting, but expects and even demands to get some kind of reward for it. We don’t ask any reward in the way of teritorial gains save a few strategic spots where we can land and take off, in world war should threaeen again. But Russia intends to-get paid and stands ready to collect, if that should be necessary. case So we venture to suggest that in the long run it will be far better for us to finish this war against Japan without Russian ‘help. In fact we think it rather late in the day for ‘Russia to declare herself in. The war ig drawing to a close swiftly. We doubt if a declaration of war now by (Russia would be much more than a gesture anyway, and, she might want a very large price for making the gesture. . young California piece has pitched onto the 1945 Al‘with j}league ball player—but because he But} ¥was enjoyed by over a hunared peoWe don’t think there is the least ROUND THESTATE SD By Leone Baxter wv. Ss. Senatorship Uncovered at’ Sacramento by Secretary of State Frank ‘M. Jordan is news nearly three decades old—4with a very up to date angle. Geo. S. Patton of San Marino, father of the current news making ran for U. S. senator from California during the first World War. His republican opponent was making flaming héadlines then, a weary, broken warretary Frank C. Jorhan, father of the present popular Secretary; backed Patton. Gal Gremlins Army report has it that the good little gremlin who takes care of fly: ers instead of badgering them intg tailspins, is ‘to ‘be honored by the Per: Desperate for machinery, Strapped government orders. Straining ta meet thumibnail photo of the California Yet he outproduced all others last world on him, he intends to repeat’ in "45. Nothing is expected but a mirpoints out Ralph Taylor of the Agricultural Council. “With enough help from on high perhaps we can) too.”’ Summer Fury Racial antagonisms, out of here ‘boiling up) wartime strains and stresses . are arousing the drama critics! The! James . former <Assemblywoman Esta Broughton of Modesto, loosed some lightning shafts when he based his newest play “Summer Fury’ on L.A.’s. famous Sleepy Lagoon .case., Now, with an August 4 openine at Palo Alto the as well as the socio economists. playwright. Broughton, nephew of den award. Di Mag Sports fans who reaHy know “Joe DiMaggio, S. F. boy who made good the Yankees’ are hoping the gossips will gtill their tongues should Joe be mustered out of the army soon. It won’t be because he’s a big ean’t do full army duty eat K rations and stay out of the hospital, says sport mentar Bill Leiser, who’s checked the record, Worldwide Weekend It’s been said before—but it still startles a homebody into a travel tranice: After the war no spot on this globe will be more than a day and two nights away from California by air. Rev. and Mrs. Ralston Honored at Party A pot luck supper and program was held at the Methodist Church parlors Friday evening in honor of Rev. and Mrs. Ralston, who leave soon to take charge of the Methodist Church in Newcastle. After a bounteous supper which i ple who had gathered to greet the Ralstons. Carl Murehie was chairman of the evening. Major Salisbury of the Salvation Army and Rev. Jesse Rudkin of the ‘Methodist Church in Grass VaNey gave short talks. The following musical program, which was arranged by Lloyd Geist ‘was then given. Mrs. Campbell, accompanied by Mrs. Gordon Vance, solo; Mrs. Brown, piano solo; Mrs. Joe Day, accompanied iby Marille Day, duet; Donna Underwood, piano solo. ‘Mrs. Price Caer the Ralstons with a gift in behalf of the church. Responses were given by both Rev. and Mrs. Ralston. Mrs. Ralston wore an orchid corsage which was a gift of the ladies of the church. George Kagerer who has’ been home on sick leave, has returned to his work at the Kaiser-Ship Yards in Richmond. likelihood of war with Russia in the next hundred years. But neither do we think there will be an earthquake in the century to come. Still a good many people, especially along the Pacific Coast carry earthquake inOLD BOY TO FACE MURDER TRIAL AUBURN, Aug formal charge of murder iP a Placed against Glen Brazell, 16 year old student at the C. K. McClatchy high school in Sacramento, who was arrested at Colfax last Thuredam night for questioning in connection with the death of Fred M. Kane, 54, Southern Pacific worker, on June: 2. The warrant of arrest was issued in Colfax by Justice of the Peace John Dittemore on a complaint sworn to by Charles Silva, complaint was drawn up by C. E. Tindall, district attorney of Placer county. Decison to charge the youth with murder was made after two interrogations by Tindall. Silva and: Deputy Sheriff E. J. Kenison. After studying the transscript of the statements made by the youth, the officers considered the killing murder. Because of the youth of the accused, the case was referred to the juvenile court by Justice Dittemore. There it will be considered by Judge Lowell L. Sparks who can either dispose of it in the junevile court or turn it back to the superior court ef Placer County. It is considered improbalble any disposition will be made before the end of court vacation in September. The case broke suddenly ‘when 3razell, enroute to St. Joseph, Mo., stepped from the stage to enter 1 restaurant where he had been Kane at an early morning hour on with June 2: Miss Mary Howard, an ployee of the restaurant,’ emrecognized him, and notified John. Kauffman, . the proprietor. Kauffman called Walter Viscia, chief of police, who held the: boy for identification by Matt Kelcher, Constable J. M. MeCleary then took him to Auburn. In. the.first-auestioning by Tindall and Kenison, the youth said he struck Kane only with his fists, he struck Kane and hit him with a stick some time after daybreak June 2, boy was about to leave, after ing several hours with Kane. He denied robbing Kane of $4, known to have been in Kane’s possession when he left Colfax. He said he had accepted Kane's invitation to sleep at Kane’s cabin several miles from Colfax. In his second conference with Tindall and Sheriff Silva, he admitted robbing Kane and striking him across the ribs with a club. He contended Kane had made an advance, which he resented. Brazell told officers he know Kane had been killed. “If I had known he was dead, I would not have: got ofif the stage at Colfax,’ he said. He got off the stage for eat when it stopped. He was enroute to St. Joseph after being held at the juvenile detention home in Sacramento since June 12. He had been certified to Sacrameneo County by Nevada County after being accused of robbing a carnival worker in Grass Valley early in June. Brazell says he went to Sacramento after leaving Kane’s cabin and then proceeded to Grass Valley where he was arrested. Brazell lived at 1813 1-2 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento. His mother has been ill for some time. His grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Kall of Satrameneo visited him at the jail Saturday. In the presenice of officers She urged him to ‘‘tell the truth’’ and take the’ consequences. as the

sleepimproper did not a bite to Zeibright School Annexed to N. C. Dist. The Nevada County Board of Supervisors has lapsed that portion of the Zeibright School District lying in this county and has annexed it to the Nevada City Unified School District. The school wag established when: the Zeibright Mine was re-opened several years ago by Newmont interests, was closed when the mine shut down in 1942. Most of the school children formerly resided in Placer County, with the bulk of the assessible property in Nevada Gounty. The school house is just across the line in Placer County. The Placer County supervisors haye not yet acted in the surance. matter. JAP SUICIDE PILOT DESTROYS ABANDONED SHIPTREAISURE ISLAIND,. Aug. Thanks to a Jap suicide pilot, a navy deniolition crew has been spared a job off the shores of Okinawa. The story of how a Nip airman dived his explosive laden plane into a ‘beached and abandoned landing ship which previously had ‘been damaged by a mine, was revealed here ‘by survivors offf the craft who paused at Treasure Island Receiving Ship Barracks prior to entraining for home on well deserved ‘‘survivor’’ leaves. Among the members of the crew from the Twelfth Naval District who checked in at Treasure Island are: Armando Ferdinand Casillas, Pharmacist’s: Mate, First Class, US INR, 32 Octavia Street, San: Rafael. Ralph Gutirrez, Mate, Third Class, jon Street, Denver. Motor Machinists USNR, 8831 Te(Melvin Russell Ness, Coxswain, USNR, 2061 Front View Crescent. Denver. Benny Felix: Vega, Seaman, First Class, USNR, 950 South Front &t., Cutler, California. a3 who were watching from a nearby atoll, related how the Jap lilot spotted the abandoned ship as it lay completely The crewmen, stripped and piled up on an underwater reef. “That Jap evidently though he had ; spotted an anchared and unprotected . -vessel,’’ one survivor asserted. “He . peeled off in a perfect div plane and pilot went skyhigh.’’ “T’ll bet his face was plenty red when he got the full dope from his anicestors.”’ vi The landing craft was damaged originally ‘by an enemy mine near the close of the Okinawa campaign after it had put in three weeks of sferling work assisting in the bomlbardment of -the enemy shore installations. -.To eliminate a navigation menace the craft was beached ‘on the reef. Sulbsequent investigation revealed the vessel unseaworthy for a long trip back to repair yards and it was stripped of all valualble material and abandoned. Two days later the Jap airman piloted his plane into the denuded hull, thus sparing a demolition squad the ask of destroying it. Survivors of the ship once cars on their atoll for three weeks prior to ‘being sent home, During hat time they cleared the beach of debris and aided in construction work. Their ship, commissioned a year ago, previously had participated in the invasion of Iwo Jima. Home Improvement Limit Raised to $1000 Those long deferred jobs of painting, repairing, improving; enlargind or modernizing of homes and many other properties are to ‘be much simpler and easier to undertake from now on, under the relaxed regulations of government agencies governing priorities and financing. ‘Manager Horace Curnow of the ‘Nevada Ciey branch of the Bank of America has been notified that restrictions have ‘been modified = on such work, permitting expenditure ‘up to five times the former maximum amoones. In the case of homes, where only $200 worth of improvement.was permitted formerly, the limit has been raised ,to $1000 worth of materials, articles and services, without War Production Board cect or priorities. The relaxed rules now allow the installation of additional articles as air conditioning systems, furnaces and heating units, lighting fixtures, plumbing and sanitary fixtures, water heaterr and water pumps. Where the project is financed by the bank through an FHA title I loan the repayment term has been extended to a maximum of 18 mofitths on amounts up to $1500; no down payment required. The limit on property improvements on farms, hotels or apartment huildngs, formerly $1000 is now $5000, and on factories the increase is from $5000 to $25,000. On projects to cost $1501 to $2500 the re. daughter MONEY READY FOR FOREST HILL ACCESS ROAD Guerdon Ellis, supervisor of Tahoe national forest, announéed yesterday that $50,200 has been approved for the construction of the Morest Hill timber access road in Placer County. He stated that the funds are ‘available now and that the Public Road Administration has sent an engineer here'to organize the job for construc= tion by PRA forces. Rotary Governor Visits Grass Valley Club J. Ron Shannon, governor of the 105th Rotary International District, comprising 53 clubs in Northern California and Nevada, was the guést of the Grass Valley Rotary Club at luncheon today. Shannon owns and operates a ‘printing plant in Redding, Shasta @ounty, and is a memiber of standing in the Redding club. long He is one of 141 governors of Ro-. of 100,000 a month, and a persontary who supervise the activities of 5400 ‘clubs organized in 14 North and South American states, Ausralia, China, England, Finland, Guam, Iceland. India, New Zealand, ‘Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Syria, and Union of South Africa. Mother of Mrs. Deeter Passes in London Mrs. has received don, from. stating that her moth~ a cablegram England, er, Mrs. Florence M. Griffeth had . died there. The message was from ther faeher, Harry D. Griffeth, for many years a mining engineer in South Africa. Mr. and Mrs. Griffeth Visited their and: her husband in Glenwood in 1939, coming from England turning via Canada at the outbreak of war with Germany. ~~ Forest Worker Gaffes Stroke of Paralysis William Sadlier, forest road worker, who .arrested iby Nevada City police Saturday night charged with being intoxicated on the streets, and lodged in jail, is today recovering from a stroke of paralysis afifecting his left side, in a local hospital. Police state that Sadlier had ‘been drinking and that the stroke of para+ lysis came apparently while he. was suffering from too much alcohol. Sadlier had been employed for six weeks in the Downieville ranger district prior to ‘his illness. To Enforce Grass Valley Traffic Ordinance Overtime parking tags will be isvision of the city traffic ordinance, on and after August 6th, ‘Police Ben Jemkins announces. ordinance, the chief stated, tersections, will also be enforced. Last Rites Said for Mrs. Elizabeth Hammill the Redmens Cemetery. Empire Mine, following her life in Grass Valley. daughter, Mrs. Maggie Fawcett, of Grass Vialley, survives. Victim of Highway Crash Sues for $25,000 rea Armati, fuel dealer of Truckee seeking damages of $25,000, Runkel is at present in a Reno, Ne vada, hospital. payment term is up to 36 months. Harold Deeeer of Glenwood) Lon. ‘by way of the Panama Canal and re-. TRENDINSTATE sued to drivers who violate the proChiet of The chief commented that cars : rch parked on Mill, Main and Chureh. "ess to California.” Streets, in the morning; areoften. Secretary of State Jordan disclos‘found in the same spot in the aftermoon. Other provisions of the traffic regarding dowble parking, parking.-in yellow zones, near cross walks and inLast rites were said for MYrs. tiong qualfied was the six hundred Plizabeth Hammill, Saturday aftermillion dollar Montana copper miinnoon in the Hooper and ‘'Weaver. ing company, one of the largest out Mortuary. Rev. Jesse Rudkin ‘onducted the seervice. Interment was in Mrs. Hammill died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. J. Bennallack, at the a two day illness. She was ‘born 89 years ago in El Dorado County, but lived most of Another also ‘Miss Marguerite B. Renkel, secretary of the Los* Angeles Board of Education, has filed suit against Anand $150 per month while she is unable to work, as a result of injuries she suffered in an auto collision July 17th on the road to Lake Tahoe. Miss WAR SHIFT PUTS BIG JOB UP T0 RED CROSS WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. The changing 64 tide of military perfrom Europe to the Pacific through the United States following Germany’s capitulation has increased the tempo of the Red Cross Camp Service program throughout the country, according to Chairman Basil O'Connor of the American Red& Cross. “Servicemen returning under the army’s redeployment program anda the point system, and following liberation from, prisoner of war camps, impress a double responsibiliey on the Red Cross—that of maintaining its regular serviees in this country, and providing -new and added services for the post VE influx.’’ Chairman O’Connor said. O'Connor estimated a budget of $200.000 a month for domestic camp service to cover the cost of assfst. anite to returning troops at the rate sonnel nel increase of nearly 50 per cent in the 514 camps for able bodied troops alone. Mainly he said, assistance to * returning forces will be concentrat-: ! ed at ‘separation centers and redis_ tribution centers, where needs for Red Cross services are expected to « be greater during coming months than as sections quartering military ° personnel. who have not yet been’ overseas. mit “Red Cross.stafifs are available to . } all estalblished. separation centers’ the chairman said. “‘They serve 22 th army centers, 12 coast guard dis. charge centers, two main navy. per-*” . sonnel redistribution eenters and the? . discharge installations of the marine ; . corps.” RECONVERSION INDICATED , SACRIAMENTO, Aug. .6 — Com‘ mencement of industrial reconver~. sion to civilian merchandising and ithe prospect of reduced federal taxes on corporations today were attributed by Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan as ‘the principal reasons for the increased number of corporation : filings in California. “It is significant big business is looking westward not only toward California’s increased population but as the one important gateway to trans-Pacific trade during the post war era,’’ Jordan declared. “It is also a strong indication business . is gradually starting on its reconversion trend.”’ “The prospects of the federal government reducing the excess profits and the basic income taxes also are credited with the new influx of busied that during July 330 new corporations qualified to do business inthis state. This was the greatest number to be filed in the month of July, since the pre war years of 1940. The taxable corporations also increased with 244 being subject to tax as compared to 172 the same month a year ago. Among the 34 foreign corpora-. of state corporations permission Southern ever granted to operate in California. California received 199 of the 296 new. domestic corporations and 24 of the foreign corporations, or 67.6 per cent of the total July filings. Graveside Services for Former Resident Graveside services were held today under direction of the Holmes Funeral Home in Pine Grove Cemetery for Richard A. Huddleson, who died in Sacramento earlier in. the week. Rev. David Ralston on the service. The deceased was a graduate the Nevada City schools and ~ many years he and his family li on Coyote Street. He was the so! the late Thomas and Amelia . -. dleson. The deceased was a nativ Oregon aged 53 years. ’