August 8, 1947 (8 pages)

S Ww © "T) ae ee res NEVADA 3, . NE . 7 eng) aeusmed states’. . = G TY : nd We COn.] : . : ites — oo =l. ‘ ad abou; 75, Th T . Ci ° P: Ret Oe gee eee eee © highwar it «7.91. No. e Iwin Cities Paper Cat — é eS 2 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Tig arms, SS os <= a » LOCAL MEN ON Wwe STATECHAMBER \~Onresse Ban Kise LOUD oe 0 he col back on th ad ‘ : “away tron Wel —/7 . (NEVADA CITY: Thirteen “Nevada as not de ont the’ inevitable aftermaths. county leaders have been reappoint“e Fs coe jp. all countries is the.de-. ed to important comimittees of the Rg strongly ooh o of human values. Human . California State Chamber of Com] large rock . often negligible. Veterans ©5which is planning statewide and regON -ar t trained to fig and ‘kill the. ,ional programs of benefit to this j se aoe ir fo . are HORSE MAY: HAVE DROPPED GOLD +, sometimes wonder if, for : rm 4d on hae te eiaaiis William Durbrow, Grass Valley, taxes, it . would. not he ile for the government, federal, to give . veterans witest signe of moral detera reorientation course. et 2 Pi : ering « oT sae GRASS AND WORTH A LOT % PER MONTH i MORE VALLEY. Ee —., The County Seat Paper FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1947 Murderers Arrive At Nevada County Jail was again named chaigman of the tax committee by George G. Pollock, Sacramento, chairman of the Sacramento Valley Council. Other reappointments were: : Highway Committee—H. F. Sofge, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. Industrial Committee—Wesley -B. in. employed by Paul Jenks, contractor Veterans Memorial Building, and his { fellow workers, digging a basement, were talking about buried treasure (Peck Snyder, COINSPECK SNYDER FOUND GRASS VALLEY: ed their honeymoon charge of improvements in the . *2©*how relegated to museums and Fort it is believed the money may have been that flowing from the pockets of a robber on a white horse who END OF HONEYMOONFOR PAIR WHO MURDERED JAMES MCLAIN — NEVADA CITY: Two -tired and depressed prisoners, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Hardy, Jr., confessed murderers, endWednesday evening, when Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins and Coroner Alvah Hooper drove up to York Street entrance of the courthouse and turned them over to deputies. There were no. flashing bulbs of press cameras, that marked their progress from Las Vegas to Truckee. ago.we read of a ‘horsped out South Auburn Street years from three or four.curious spectators there were none present . then three others minted in 1895, yesterday morning when, strange coincidence, he dug wp a $20 gold piece, minted in 1883. He not only dug up one, presently he found another, same minting, and 1894 and 1890. Much speculation ensued regarding the original owner of the gold pieces, once 80 plenti. ful in this gold mining’ town, and recovered. ago after robbing a local bank. The children: of the James S. Hennessy School on that “day picked up many coins over: the route of the fugitive, it is reported. robery is believed to somewhere on Osborne Hill, adjacent to the Empire Mine. It was never The bulk of ibe but the sheriff's staff. PLANS FOR FINANCING NEW HOSPITAL HEARD the buried ae Donnenwirth, Grass Valley; is ble instance of the breakdown of W. Hallock ers Georse . order in Austria. A . Hallock, Grass Valley. 4 post war socia 0 ‘ z Natural Resources Committee — fanoug actor and his fiance were Walter M. B : Te abevole On. & dt lend: alter : arrett, Truckee; Guerriding a se sided don Ellis, Supervisor, Tahoe Nation: to Vienna. The couple co le OR ing cesbtant’” ‘per al Forest. with tha car of an “impo ts ge Taxation Committee — William . 1g, sheetrockiay go. They were thrown into The! Dunbrow; chairman and Hugh D. nting. diteh, writhing and moaning. The ‘Brown, both of Grass Valley. . MeCourtng “~miportant” person's chauffeur csi Travel and Recreation Committee Valley 101JMm ged the cat, the personage got, out, —Ralph D. Benham, Gordon Hooley _ milked back to the scene, gestured) Fimo B. Moriano, Max D. Williamtp the horrified spectators to draw son. Soda Srings; R. J. Kronemeywo, drew his revolv-. gerne a vs away ee vn pilin ‘isan er, Grass Valley Chamber of Comer ead merce. Loyle Freeman, Grass Valley; est. of . afed their suffering. He then en-. 1, © sofge, Nevada City fred his car and drove on. sae ox RTS S, USED ‘ E No arrests, no damages, and nO} (JF, ; Street qwlogies. Just a pair of funerals for City 587 watives to bear, already overburded with takes and grief. In this . @untry we kill maimed or, injured dogs and horses when we know they . there is no hope. of saving them. colored roag picnic a a i. serve fried long after war ends’ it strides on, sod. eating atime ‘inflicting its cruelties upon those . 1 and for who survive it. . 11 Wasleys N23, Ne According to J. Bdgar Hoover, of .ssed and del the Federal Bureau of Investigation, t 325-4 atime during and since the war has . gultiplied. To cope with it federal TED “tiestigators have been greatly inunty Saw-§§ mesed in number. An instance of erman and teemansion of the FBI, indicatine and “ook. greater activity, is the fact that fie investigators swarmed into Nefa County to join the hunt a few Weeks ago for the three Wheatland 1 Hodgson, Company, . Qwo lovers hitch-hiking their way ‘tits the continent, arrested in Time +1 Vegas, Nevada, confess to mur-! ime ting four drivers who gave them) “litt, Persons of such brutish men-. . tility cannot often be believed. They . “tiuless to four murders as many) . sates. Only one has thus far been) . Woved, but others may in time prove _ tie. The body of one of their benefactors was found in this county east . & Truckee. The confession of the} ' woman blackens his character, to be ; sit, but he is not here to defend I iF t . Nevada County is now faced with ‘ ‘trial which may cost the tax pay. ®t $10,000 or more, because two _ Mbtoniec lovers wished to come to 4 California, hitch-hiking and murderi ‘Ng a6 they came. In their various . Milétsions it is hard to detect the _ hintest trace of remorse though the . "man ‘hag had momentary spasms \v . We hope that even though this is . fe month of vacation for the two j aa killers in the county jail, Pi May have a speedy trial and, _ * Moved guilty, a speedy end. The _ Wher the lives of proved murder3 oh ended the greater the genfor law. pe Si : } — cae ee TET TL aT WINNERS TOBE. ANNOUNCED SAT. : follows: halbv show in which there are 300 entrants, in Nevada City Saturday. be made and winning Dabies presented in a pageant at Nevada City high school. The six judges for the WedThompson of Fair Oaks; Mrs. F. J. Violet of Fair Oaks, Mrs. C. E. Pas-. of Hawkins a few NEVADA CITY: Mrs. Carl J. Todascen, efairman in charge of the states that winners. will ye Posted at the show headquarters and Grass Valley vada’s new law regarding hunting fees, the Nevada County Sportemen’s ‘Club has asked the California Fish . honorazle body should not enact a. = : samilar law for California, tius plac-. creasing need for more hospital facilar rules in California for out-of. ing Nevada hunters under the samej they have placed out of state} commission by Secretary H. F. Sofge . hunters. A motion to that effect was . . unanimously passed by. our the Nevada . !bers, and I was instructed to notify . County Sportsmen's Club, July 28th, . your honorable body of our. action and urge you to pass a similar law. a law regarding . Our action has ‘been endorsed by the Sportsmen’s t, Mr. George and Game Commission to enact sim. the recent action of the State of Ne vada fees to be charged, and restrictions . Nevada placed on out-of-state deer hunters, . through their presiden was discussed and it> effect on Cali-. Halstead.” SOFGE AND SPORTSMEN PROTEST NEVADADEER HUNTING LAWS GRASS VALLEY: Three plans for firancing a community hospital were discussed yesterday at. a general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at noon at the Holbrooke Ho_. itel Dr. Daniel L. Hirsch, president NEVADA CITY: Protesting Ne-. ate hunters. The letter sent to the ; t2w At the meeting of in enacting City fornia sportsnfen deeply resented. “We can see no reason why your %of the chamber led off the discussion, with a resume of the possibilities. He emphasized the acute and in. ilities for this area. He said that the doctor’s committee investigating the situation had met with the board of directors of the group which owns the uncompleted hospital on Shaw’s Hill between Grass Valley and WNevada City. It was estimated at this meeting, he said, that $600,000 would be required to put the structure in ushle condition. Dr, Hirsch discussed various promem. Club — . (Monday evening the awards will nesday show were: Mrs. George -oe of Coalinga; Mrs. Celine Portier . Pew. of Doiwnieville, Mrs. F. Polkinghorn of San Francisco; Mrs. B. Moore of Camptonville. Mrs. Tobiassen, president of Banner Mt. Auxiliary No. 2655, Veterans of Foreign Wars, sponsoring or. ganization, presided at the show. . Special awardg Will be made for red heads and three sets of twins. The show was divided into two sections. the first being infants aud the second, young children. } i AT ALLEGHANY STORE NEVADA CITY: Joseph and Mae Sbaffi have purchased the business of the general store in Alleghany in respect to certain lines of merchandise. Alpha Hardware Co: retains other lines of supplies at the same store. a The ‘business was formerly owned by R. P: Hawkins. After the death irs ago the Dusiness was taken over by the Alpha Sierra Co., a. conporation. business of Alpha Stores Ltd., the new company also aequired the Alpha Gierra Co. Mr. and Mrs. Sbaffi have designated their business as the Aleghany Supply Co: ‘ 5S 4 New Members — Jerry Brust’s Peaberty, : vA : J. D. am : : Manzanita Par-' GRASS VALLEY: vauzihte peng Ps this city was~ cited yesterday a y evening initiated driving without a license, when fence following the car crashed 2 pig a _j. on West Main Street. off a fire hydrant at Tellam saserted the lett. frost brake locked as he was coming down hill on a cupve, of control. It went into the property When Alpha Haw. Co. bousht the. shows the blazing rear of the Miner's mento Street structure. Firemen, battling for over buildings. The building was a two hours, preserved the adjacent FLAMES CONSUME MINER'S HOME the Broad Street bridge, this photograph Home, ancient Sacracomplete loss. cedures for raising funds for a. community hospital ‘untter the following headings: (1) subscription of donated funds by a local’ organigation; (2) raising funds locally by using a professional’ fund—raising firm; (3) establishing a ‘‘hospital’’ district, where in funds would be ‘furnished in a proportion of one-third each, by county, state and federal government, Mrs. Marie Williford, of the Business and Professional Women's Club, said that she thought her group could sparkplug the fund-raising campaign. She remarked that if the chamber would decide which method lof financing a community hospital it preferred, her organization would get to work to support the program. The qualifications of various profersional fund-raising . firms ‘were 4s using government funds if available. ing. , / of July celebration. tar cell. Hunt Hardy, was placed in the women’s quarters on top. floor, Mrs. Effie Goering, prison matron was summoned to attend her: mid who discussed Wesley Donnenwirth expressed himself as being in favor of O. P. Steele spoke in favor of keeping financing purely local. Ray J. Kronemeéyer read statistics pertinent to community: hospital financAt the conclusion of the meeting, Dr. Hirech showed colored movies and still transparencies of the 4th BEB eA PON BA Hardy, 24, wasplaced in a soliHis bride of week, Lois District Attorney Ward Sheldon, conducted the preliminaryhearing yesterday in the townehip court of Justice of the Peace R. .N. Little in Truckee yestrday stated he did not know whether,.as reported in Truckee, the pair were ready te. plead guilty on arrignment in the superior court. But in any event, he said he did not-believe any judge in Galifornia. would be willing to ac: cept such a plea unless the defendants were represented by courgel. isc “Most states require that the defendant be represented by attorney in capital cases,” said Sreldon, “California does not. But in any event It would think it highly improbable — that any judge would pronounce sentence on a plea of guilty, unless the/defendants were represented im court by an attorney.” The Hardys confessed to the mur— der of James MoLain, a bay ares elevator operator, in a sordid ver-. the head by Hardy while Mrs, eray held McLain’ in her arms. ¢*AID RECREATION COMMISSION NEVADA CITY: At its regular session last night, the City Council _ began the meeting with the focus of Ben attention on youth recreation. ~— 44 City Clerk George Calanan swore in as members of the Recreation // Commission Frank. Stewart, Harold Berliner, “Slim” Thompson, Thomés H. Taylor and William C. Briggs.‘Calanan informed the recreation commission that there was in existence a atate recreation organization designed to aid local groups. Hewston reported that the due to the efforts of: ‘were in some degree ready for They have been equipped with ping pong tables, and . eo. ie ‘ Little 12 year ‘ang relays to an all-out championship competition will follow at ten. Trophies will be presented to winLarry Gallegher

S Ww © "T) ae ee res NEVADA 3, . NE . 7 eng) aeusmed states’. . = G TY : nd We COn.] : . : ites — oo =l. ‘ ad abou; 75, Th T . Ci ° P: Ret Oe gee eee eee © highwar it «7.91. No. e Iwin Cities Paper Cat — é eS 2 NEVADA CITY-GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA Tig arms, SS os <= a » LOCAL MEN ON Wwe STATECHAMBER \~Onresse Ban Kise LOUD oe 0 he col back on th ad ‘ : “away tron Wel —/7 . (NEVADA CITY: Thirteen “Nevada as not de ont the’ inevitable aftermaths. county leaders have been reappoint“e Fs coe jp. all countries is the.de-. ed to important comimittees of the Rg strongly ooh o of human values. Human . California State Chamber of Com] large rock . often negligible. Veterans ©5which is planning statewide and regON -ar t trained to fig and ‘kill the. ,ional programs of benefit to this j se aoe ir fo . are HORSE MAY: HAVE DROPPED GOLD +, sometimes wonder if, for : rm 4d on hae te eiaaiis William Durbrow, Grass Valley, taxes, it . would. not he ile for the government, federal, to give . veterans witest signe of moral detera reorientation course. et 2 Pi : ering « oT sae GRASS AND WORTH A LOT % PER MONTH i MORE VALLEY. Ee —., The County Seat Paper FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1947 Murderers Arrive At Nevada County Jail was again named chaigman of the tax committee by George G. Pollock, Sacramento, chairman of the Sacramento Valley Council. Other reappointments were: : Highway Committee—H. F. Sofge, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. Industrial Committee—Wesley -B. in. employed by Paul Jenks, contractor Veterans Memorial Building, and his { fellow workers, digging a basement, were talking about buried treasure (Peck Snyder, COINSPECK SNYDER FOUND GRASS VALLEY: ed their honeymoon charge of improvements in the . *2©*how relegated to museums and Fort it is believed the money may have been that flowing from the pockets of a robber on a white horse who END OF HONEYMOONFOR PAIR WHO MURDERED JAMES MCLAIN — NEVADA CITY: Two -tired and depressed prisoners, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Hardy, Jr., confessed murderers, endWednesday evening, when Sheriff Richard W. Hoskins and Coroner Alvah Hooper drove up to York Street entrance of the courthouse and turned them over to deputies. There were no. flashing bulbs of press cameras, that marked their progress from Las Vegas to Truckee. ago.we read of a ‘horsped out South Auburn Street years from three or four.curious spectators there were none present . then three others minted in 1895, yesterday morning when, strange coincidence, he dug wp a $20 gold piece, minted in 1883. He not only dug up one, presently he found another, same minting, and 1894 and 1890. Much speculation ensued regarding the original owner of the gold pieces, once 80 plenti. ful in this gold mining’ town, and recovered. ago after robbing a local bank. The children: of the James S. Hennessy School on that “day picked up many coins over: the route of the fugitive, it is reported. robery is believed to somewhere on Osborne Hill, adjacent to the Empire Mine. It was never The bulk of ibe but the sheriff's staff. PLANS FOR FINANCING NEW HOSPITAL HEARD the buried ae Donnenwirth, Grass Valley; is ble instance of the breakdown of W. Hallock ers Georse . order in Austria. A . Hallock, Grass Valley. 4 post war socia 0 ‘ z Natural Resources Committee — fanoug actor and his fiance were Walter M. B : Te abevole On. & dt lend: alter : arrett, Truckee; Guerriding a se sided don Ellis, Supervisor, Tahoe Nation: to Vienna. The couple co le OR ing cesbtant’” ‘per al Forest. with tha car of an “impo ts ge Taxation Committee — William . 1g, sheetrockiay go. They were thrown into The! Dunbrow; chairman and Hugh D. nting. diteh, writhing and moaning. The ‘Brown, both of Grass Valley. . MeCourtng “~miportant” person's chauffeur csi Travel and Recreation Committee Valley 101JMm ged the cat, the personage got, out, —Ralph D. Benham, Gordon Hooley _ milked back to the scene, gestured) Fimo B. Moriano, Max D. Williamtp the horrified spectators to draw son. Soda Srings; R. J. Kronemeywo, drew his revolv-. gerne a vs away ee vn pilin ‘isan er, Grass Valley Chamber of Comer ead merce. Loyle Freeman, Grass Valley; est. of . afed their suffering. He then en-. 1, © sofge, Nevada City fred his car and drove on. sae ox RTS S, USED ‘ E No arrests, no damages, and nO} (JF, ; Street qwlogies. Just a pair of funerals for City 587 watives to bear, already overburded with takes and grief. In this . @untry we kill maimed or, injured dogs and horses when we know they . there is no hope. of saving them. colored roag picnic a a i. serve fried long after war ends’ it strides on, sod. eating atime ‘inflicting its cruelties upon those . 1 and for who survive it. . 11 Wasleys N23, Ne According to J. Bdgar Hoover, of .ssed and del the Federal Bureau of Investigation, t 325-4 atime during and since the war has . gultiplied. To cope with it federal TED “tiestigators have been greatly inunty Saw-§§ mesed in number. An instance of erman and teemansion of the FBI, indicatine and “ook. greater activity, is the fact that fie investigators swarmed into Nefa County to join the hunt a few Weeks ago for the three Wheatland 1 Hodgson, Company, . Qwo lovers hitch-hiking their way ‘tits the continent, arrested in Time +1 Vegas, Nevada, confess to mur-! ime ting four drivers who gave them) “litt, Persons of such brutish men-. . tility cannot often be believed. They . “tiuless to four murders as many) . sates. Only one has thus far been) . Woved, but others may in time prove _ tie. The body of one of their benefactors was found in this county east . & Truckee. The confession of the} ' woman blackens his character, to be ; sit, but he is not here to defend I iF t . Nevada County is now faced with ‘ ‘trial which may cost the tax pay. ®t $10,000 or more, because two _ Mbtoniec lovers wished to come to 4 California, hitch-hiking and murderi ‘Ng a6 they came. In their various . Milétsions it is hard to detect the _ hintest trace of remorse though the . "man ‘hag had momentary spasms \v . We hope that even though this is . fe month of vacation for the two j aa killers in the county jail, Pi May have a speedy trial and, _ * Moved guilty, a speedy end. The _ Wher the lives of proved murder3 oh ended the greater the genfor law. pe Si : } — cae ee TET TL aT WINNERS TOBE. ANNOUNCED SAT. : follows: halbv show in which there are 300 entrants, in Nevada City Saturday. be made and winning Dabies presented in a pageant at Nevada City high

school. The six judges for the WedThompson of Fair Oaks; Mrs. F. J. Violet of Fair Oaks, Mrs. C. E. Pas-. of Hawkins a few NEVADA CITY: Mrs. Carl J. Todascen, efairman in charge of the states that winners. will ye Posted at the show headquarters and Grass Valley vada’s new law regarding hunting fees, the Nevada County Sportemen’s ‘Club has asked the California Fish . honorazle body should not enact a. = : samilar law for California, tius plac-. creasing need for more hospital facilar rules in California for out-of. ing Nevada hunters under the samej they have placed out of state} commission by Secretary H. F. Sofge . hunters. A motion to that effect was . . unanimously passed by. our the Nevada . !bers, and I was instructed to notify . County Sportsmen's Club, July 28th, . your honorable body of our. action and urge you to pass a similar law. a law regarding . Our action has ‘been endorsed by the Sportsmen’s t, Mr. George and Game Commission to enact sim. the recent action of the State of Ne vada fees to be charged, and restrictions . Nevada placed on out-of-state deer hunters, . through their presiden was discussed and it> effect on Cali-. Halstead.” SOFGE AND SPORTSMEN PROTEST NEVADADEER HUNTING LAWS GRASS VALLEY: Three plans for firancing a community hospital were discussed yesterday at. a general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at noon at the Holbrooke Ho_. itel Dr. Daniel L. Hirsch, president NEVADA CITY: Protesting Ne-. ate hunters. The letter sent to the ; t2w At the meeting of in enacting City fornia sportsnfen deeply resented. “We can see no reason why your %of the chamber led off the discussion, with a resume of the possibilities. He emphasized the acute and in. ilities for this area. He said that the doctor’s committee investigating the situation had met with the board of directors of the group which owns the uncompleted hospital on Shaw’s Hill between Grass Valley and WNevada City. It was estimated at this meeting, he said, that $600,000 would be required to put the structure in ushle condition. Dr, Hirsch discussed various promem. Club — . (Monday evening the awards will nesday show were: Mrs. George -oe of Coalinga; Mrs. Celine Portier . Pew. of Doiwnieville, Mrs. F. Polkinghorn of San Francisco; Mrs. B. Moore of Camptonville. Mrs. Tobiassen, president of Banner Mt. Auxiliary No. 2655, Veterans of Foreign Wars, sponsoring or. ganization, presided at the show. . Special awardg Will be made for red heads and three sets of twins. The show was divided into two sections. the first being infants aud the second, young children. } i AT ALLEGHANY STORE NEVADA CITY: Joseph and Mae Sbaffi have purchased the business of the general store in Alleghany in respect to certain lines of merchandise. Alpha Hardware Co: retains other lines of supplies at the same store. a The ‘business was formerly owned by R. P: Hawkins. After the death irs ago the Dusiness was taken over by the Alpha Sierra Co., a. conporation. business of Alpha Stores Ltd., the new company also aequired the Alpha Gierra Co. Mr. and Mrs. Sbaffi have designated their business as the Aleghany Supply Co: ‘ 5S 4 New Members — Jerry Brust’s Peaberty, : vA : J. D. am : : Manzanita Par-' GRASS VALLEY: vauzihte peng Ps this city was~ cited yesterday a y evening initiated driving without a license, when fence following the car crashed 2 pig a _j. on West Main Street. off a fire hydrant at Tellam saserted the lett. frost brake locked as he was coming down hill on a cupve, of control. It went into the property When Alpha Haw. Co. bousht the. shows the blazing rear of the Miner's mento Street structure. Firemen, battling for over buildings. The building was a two hours, preserved the adjacent FLAMES CONSUME MINER'S HOME the Broad Street bridge, this photograph Home, ancient Sacracomplete loss. cedures for raising funds for a. community hospital ‘untter the following headings: (1) subscription of donated funds by a local’ organigation; (2) raising funds locally by using a professional’ fund—raising firm; (3) establishing a ‘‘hospital’’ district, where in funds would be ‘furnished in a proportion of one-third each, by county, state and federal government, Mrs. Marie Williford, of the Business and Professional Women's Club, said that she thought her group could sparkplug the fund-raising campaign. She remarked that if the chamber would decide which method lof financing a community hospital it preferred, her organization would get to work to support the program. The qualifications of various profersional fund-raising . firms ‘were 4s using government funds if available. ing. , / of July celebration. tar cell. Hunt Hardy, was placed in the women’s quarters on top. floor, Mrs. Effie Goering, prison matron was summoned to attend her: mid who discussed Wesley Donnenwirth expressed himself as being in favor of O. P. Steele spoke in favor of keeping financing purely local. Ray J. Kronemeéyer read statistics pertinent to community: hospital financAt the conclusion of the meeting, Dr. Hirech showed colored movies and still transparencies of the 4th BEB eA PON BA Hardy, 24, wasplaced in a soliHis bride of week, Lois District Attorney Ward Sheldon, conducted the preliminaryhearing yesterday in the townehip court of Justice of the Peace R. .N. Little in Truckee yestrday stated he did not know whether,.as reported in Truckee, the pair were ready te. plead guilty on arrignment in the superior court. But in any event, he said he did not-believe any judge in Galifornia. would be willing to ac: cept such a plea unless the defendants were represented by courgel. isc “Most states require that the defendant be represented by attorney in capital cases,” said Sreldon, “California does not. But in any event It would think it highly improbable — that any judge would pronounce sentence on a plea of guilty, unless the/defendants were represented im court by an attorney.” The Hardys confessed to the mur— der of James MoLain, a bay ares elevator operator, in a sordid ver-. the head by Hardy while Mrs, eray held McLain’ in her arms. ¢*AID RECREATION COMMISSION NEVADA CITY: At its regular session last night, the City Council _ began the meeting with the focus of Ben attention on youth recreation.. ~— 44 City Clerk George Calanan swore in as members of the Recreation // Commission Frank. Stewart, Harold Berliner, “Slim” Thompson, Thomés H. Taylor and William C. Briggs.‘Calanan informed the recreation commission that there was in existence a atate recreation organization designed to aid local groups. Hewston reported that the due to the efforts of: ‘were in some degree ready for They have been equipped with ping pong tables, and . eo. ie ‘ Little 12 year ‘ang relays to an all-out championship competition will follow at ten. Trophies will be presented to winLarry Gallegher