December 14, 1934 (8 pages)

) ‘being ‘and the Federal Government with ‘= . — ONLY Hometown at, paper. worth while. Do you for it? scribe em Bo oun ae This is Nevada City’s NewsIt supports things subtt Neva a City Nugge Nevada City Nugget is a Member ot the United Press And California es Publishers Association j Y gooc paper helps comununity. adve OOO Orme s 5 our Hometown Newsbuild your Readers and . make. it. a 1 builder. rtisers & Vol. IX, No. 12. The_ County Seat Paper NEVADA_ CITY, _CALIFORNIA _The GOLD Center ce un = . FRIDAY. DEC. 14, 1934 Airport Gets More . Funds for Completion The Nevada City airport, which is constructed by Nevada City city and SERA _ funds, has _ been granted 20 more days on its request for a 30 day extension in which to complete the work. An additional allocation of $1,400 was made. « Clarence Martz, foreman, and the crew of 15 men started work at the airport Wednesday and the work will®be rushed to. completion as speedily as possible. The mosti important of SERA projects for Nevada City is the airport, which will assist in opening up this section to the business man and sportsman. It is considered the CAMPTONVILLE, Dec. QUARANTINED AT HOME) FAMILY HEAD CAMPS IN CAMPTONVILLE HALL 14.— Julius E. Pauly, genial resident of this place, is not in the dog house, but he is in the town hall, as result of Dr. Parkinson, Yuba best airport in the northern section on the east side of the Sacramento Valley by army “officials who have made an’examination of the site. With this new SERA appropria-i PPP he did, he would have to stay in, tion of $1,400 for the airport, the : = and he has too much _ to do to total expenditures upon it now approximate $18,000, Nevada City has contributed proximately $3,500. MRS, DOUGLAS HEADS NEV. CITY HOUSING SURVEY Mrs. Belje Douglas, has heen named by the county executive committee for Better, Housing, to be supervisor of a canvass to be made in this concerning home improvement needs. At a meeting of the committee with the Chamber of Commerece Tuesday evening, this. apapointment was made after Fred F. Cassidy, chairman, and Fred E. Con-! ner, vice chairman of the committee. had--explained fully the details of the survey which is to be made. Mrs. Douglas announced that her office would be in the Chamber of Commerce, and she has already made application to Mrs. Gertrude Esterly, Nevada county SERA director, for certified workers to make the survey. : According to the report of County Chairman Cassidy, Nevada City making good progress toward filling . its loan quota of $25,000, estinated . The . lo@ns totaling approximately $11,000; have been made by the local branch, ‘MOORE'S FLAT GRAVEL RICH needed for home improvement. of the. Bank of America to home owners in this city. It devel@ped in the reports made: at the Chamber of. Commerce thats funds are available for SERA work in the county for the employment etween 400 and 500 men at $35 per month, average. After a conferente Wednesday with E. B. Dudley, chairman of the county board of supervisors, J. E. Miller, ‘division engineer, and Alva Reynolds, manager of the SERA, iti ‘was announced that a special meet-! ing of the supervisors will be held Monday to discuss projects which may be. inaugurated under SERA rules. HOUSING SURVEY TO Persons wishing employment on ‘the Federal Housing Survey in this istrict, Which will probably require about a week or ten days should aP-. for his grubstake in the spring. erintendent of Schools, District At-~ ply immediately to Mrs. Esterly whe Cee ‘f§ VERY SERIOUSLY ILL torney, Probation Officer, and most 4#@ in charge of SERA work in this QUAKER HILL MINE . of the other offices which suffer ‘district. Mrs. W. W. Esterley will The nrany petande . of Mrs. W. L. fvom over-crowding. THe county certify applicants to Mrs. Belle PROPERTY LEASED: siahbev ave greatix-ehooked 14 tcarn cemetery should be cleaned up, and Douglas, in charge of the cae be i sees on Wednesday that she suffered a maintenance fund set up for its Housing Survey in the Nevada City Ed Norton, of Nevada City, andj; Paralytic stroke while at the break-. care. district. A start in the work will be three partners haye taken a lease on ltast table Wednesday morning. Mrs. The Jury advised against eensolimade this morning. Mrs. Douglas 4,6 pBrodt Brothers property of . Mobley attended the Masonic recep-. ating the offices of public: adminasks the attention and cooperation, snout 120 acres in the Quaker Hillition to Mr. William Gracey on istrator and district attormey, an@ of housewives and homeowners. Coqistrict. They have driven a 150 Tuesday evening and seemed in the the offices of sheriff and coroner. operation in the task of the enume?-. foot tunnel into an old tunnel and! very best of health and spirits. Mrs. . However, they recommended that an ators and other members of the are now running a raise. ‘Plans are . Mobley is still seriously ill and her expert be called in, im the matter of ; committee is earnestly requested. tg run branch drifts in order to test . many friends are hoping for her resimplifying county offices. The Jury ®his -will #faciliate their work and the gravel. They have encountered . covery. Dr. W. B. Hummelt is the . 2/50 stated that the grounds and {. the information gained will help not some good gravel in their develop-, attending physician. building of the court house were in only in this drive but will give. much valuable data to ‘keep on file ,the future. WM. CRACEY HONORED GUEST OF . C0 -WORKER At a dinner dinners in the last few days. —#¢ is . START IMMEDIATELY for S. ae FORMER DOWNIEVILLE RESIDENT PASSES ON given at Gene's Place ied this evening, Mrs. ‘Babyface’ Held by U. S. Believed at large after her escape from a gunbattle in which two federal agents died and her Nelson (alias Lester Gillis) received his death wounds, Mrs. . Helen Gillis, apove, 21, has been held in Chicago by federal men, . it was announced recently. Federal authorities are seeking the man who escaped with her. i { . husband, George ‘*Babyface’”’ . ;} L. A. Gibson, who has been work. ing the streams around Moore’s Flat,, was a Nevada City visitor on Tuesday and disposed of some gold and nuggets he had taken operations. He said he has a good cabin in the Moore’s Flat section, but he was frozen out as the water bucket in the mornings had an inch and a half of ice on it and the frost jand ice in the. canyons lay all day in shaded places. Under these con‘ditions working the gravel on the } streams was difficut. Mr. Gibson has made a living all through the summer way to Napa Valley for und will return in the spring. of the winter season coming on. ment program. The old ehanne! ha been traced for a distance of abou / 2,000 feet on the property. An ( Careuthas feature of the work is th i cutting of a number . gers in their operations which ¢ fine values. of which sum,’ an-. in his! but was on his the’ winter He 3aid practically all the snipers had left Moore’s Flat section on account Aj { small bottle of nuggets he reserved . inof quartz strin-: “How High Are We?” Read. Bronze Plates county health officer, tacking a red card on the door of his home while Julius was away. of course, Julius could go in, but if spend three weeks in solitary confinement. Being equal to the situation, Julius, a member of a Lake Almanor annual fishing pilgrimmage, had his bed all rolled for the next year’s trip. This was tossed out to him, and with this equipment, he set up camp in the local Masonic Town Hal! of which building he has charge, and is living very comfortably. it LLOYD ROOT IS BACK FROM NOME: Lloyd Root, former state minerologist, who was at one time interested in the old Alcalde mine below Grass Valley, which is now known as the Mattie, paid the property a visit this week. He has just relturned from Nome, Alaska, having made an examination of a gravel property for San Francisco interests ‘thern California . high ithe 18th Annual Older Boys’ audpioas of Nevada City high school. 'day, near Nome. Mr. Root stated new airline service and Nome it now hours to make the trip. He aiso said Nome residents were pretty { well housed, considering the terrible fire that practically destroyed their city this fall. CHAMBER WILL AID. CHRISTMAS MAILING: that with the requires but 241 Mrs. Betty West, Nevada City Postmaster, announced yesterday that a branch office of the post ofifice will be.established in the Cham-! ber of Commerce quarters, during the 17th to 24th of December inelusive, to accommodate and relieve ‘the Christmas rush and congestion. The branch office will be frorn 1 to 4 p. m., on the above days. The branch office will take care of the out-going parcel post, the insured -parcel post, and the sale of postage stamps. There will be two elerks on duty. Mrs. West requests that Nevada City people take advantage of this office to send out all out-going parcels, and refieve the congestion in the main office. The office has been established for convenience and service to post office patrons of this: city and surreundings. GRAND JURY IN between Seattle ie , crowding and inadequate facilities jalso recommended that the county ‘ hospital be enlarged: sufficiently to ; county s t George Levee, P. G. E., ditch tensection, MRS. WALTER L. MOBLEY. "CONVENE IN NEY. . . CITY TOMORROW . Tomorrow starting at about ten ! o'clock in the morning, nearly one. hundred boys and advisors will be. gin to arrive from twenty-five Norschools for. Con. ,yheld this year under the: ; ference At a high last ‘ ! school assembly . Tuesday, Mr. Duckles, Northern Cal{fornia Y. M. C. A. Secretary, spoke and announced the program of tne Older Boys’ Conference. The program is as follows: satus.) 10:00, boys and advisors arrive } and are registered. 12:15 a confer. Hl LEADERS TO ‘Bank of America To — Hold Public Reception in New Home Tomorrow ence luncheon at the high school, . ’ provided by Miss home economics classes. After the! luncheon will follow speeches on } the theme -“‘Builders’’ and _ afterwards a. group discussion period, \ then will come a recreation period directed by Mr. Barron and Mervin} Doolittle, and lasting until five} o'clock. ~ THEME: “BUILDERS” : 12:15 Opening Luncheon. Presiding, Earle Smith, Colusa. Jud Carmen Conference Song; Leader. ' Introductions and Songs. Welcome; Warren Mooers, ent Body and H. E. Kjorlie, Faculty. Stud: Response by Acting President. { . ¢€ontinuedon Page Five-) The Nevada “County Grand pane handed the 193 yesterday in Ye: . port with several Lenina mes Most important of these was the advice to enlarge the county hospital, i especially the women’s ward, which is at present suffering from _ over for handling the many cases which come there for attention. The Jury house a Juvenile Detention Ward, P which in the opinion Mr.McGagin, county. probation officer, and Mrs. Heffelinger, county nurse, is highly necessary, in view of. the number of juvenile delinquency cases in the county. The Jury recommended the estab+ lishment of a County Emergency Relief Organization and welfare service) to effect immediate action in ‘need and destitute cases where immedi-. ate relief is imperative. The Jury, as it has done in man¥ years past,,, advised the building of an elevator . in the county court house. Thcy also advised the acquisition by the of adequate parking space near the court house, as the presert needs. The Jury recommended the enlarging of the offices of the Supspace is sadly inadequate to present . Bartholomew’s . « N.C.CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT PROPOSES ZONING ORDINANCE HERE in a special i zoning The proposed ordinance was drawn up and presented to the council by Attorney W. E. Wright. Its object is 16 jor erect any building ithat moved up the coast from Baja. excellent shape, an@ complimented Charles Guenther Harold W. thereon. Robinson was foreman a recent Nevada City visitor. . . . bons ot the Bear Valley was oF of the Jury. . ‘correct altitude have been set along ee ee a sanaiaee oa aS 578 = . . F jore is showing up well. ‘Sesakarsiep His, Believes Byrns votes have been Sufficient’ pledged to lim to assure his election:as speaker of the House of Representatives, Representative Joseph: Byrns, above, of Tennessee, has: announced. Byrns’ principal. opponent for the post is: Representative Sam Rayburn: of. Texas. night consider a ORY: The City Council’ 3 met last meeting to ordinance for Nevada prevent: Eke future ruination residential districts by undesirabie business. Following are some of the features of the proposed ordinance: That a business district shall be marked out on much the same lines as now, and that the rest of the city: shall be: sirbjected to these restrictions. That: it shall be unlawful to use in the residential district for other than apartment, tenement, or family dwelling places; and that it shall be a misdemeanor: for anyone to do so, subjecting them to a fine of not more than $300. This: ordinance will be an emergency ordinance to prevent the evasion of the future zoning Iaws to be drawn ap by a Nevada City Planning Board soon. MORE R: AIN SCHEDULED Thursday storm was wet to Oregon by a Catifornia from Mexico California, according to a broadcast, contrary te the usual arrival of rain storms from the north Pacific. Rains }) are scheduled to continue’ today with snow falling on the higher elevations of the Sierra mountains. MATTIE Crews are drifting the 600 foot level on the vein in the Mattie Valley. The distance of MINE " and raising old on work. has for a 200 feet and the The main shaft is 730 feet deep. ! y vada City, of: Alcalde mine below Grass progressed Development work is to centinue at BY E. M. RECTOR: afternoon; Saturday, December 15th, Bank of America will throw open to the public its handsome new bank building and” offices at the corner of Broad’ and Pine streets, Nevada City; and there will be a public reception: im honor of the occasion, between the hours. of 2:30 and. 6 p. m. Giiests will be escorted through the premises and afforded ample opportunity of inspecting the commodious new quarters, and modern. banking equipment. The usual morning’ banking hours and routing, up to Saturday noon closing time, will’ be observed in the present banking office in the National Hotel builditig, but commencing with Monday morning, December 17th, the bank’ will be permanently located in the new building, where all future business will be. transacted. The completion of this substantia: new bank structure marks«a’ forward’ step in the business annals of Neand is the Bank of America’s answer to the need of larger quarters and better facilities for a busy branch in a busy ‘town. Archi~ tecturally, the new building is of modernistic design throughout, and is of solid reinforced concrete conustruction, facing 38 feet on Broaé street, with a depth: of 72 feet on Pine. All of this space, together with complete concrete basement underneath, is devoted to banking purposes with the exception of & store on’ the Broad. street front, twelve feet wide and“40 feet deep. INTERIOR DECORATIONS The banking room, finished in warm colors by one’ ef San Francisco’s léading decorators, is featured both as to walls and ceiling in duo tone panels of accoustical plaster, a new sound deadening material. The lebby is of liberal proportions, paved in marbleized in-laid linoleum, with counter screen done in dark tone mahogany of . modern design, and supported by black marble base. . Eight wickets covering lers, notes, exchange, safe deposit and book keepers wihdows insure adequate counter «service. Five splendid. largewindows: on the: PineTomorrow (Continued on Page Four) TRUCK CONSUMED BY FLAMES, TOTAL LOSS A Chevrolet truck owned, by Frank Donnelly, Grass Valley trucking and” wood man, was demolished early-last night when it got out of the control of Charles Swisher, the a steep bank between Tamblyn . ; House and Nevada City. The truck, foaded with four tier at wood, got out of control on the ‘rade and though Swisher made Sioa efforts to keep on the road ‘soon ran over the bank. Swisher ‘jumped in time to avoid the crasn, ‘The gasoline tank split in the smash up, an@ the whole truck was immedlately eonsumed by flames. Searcely anything can be recovered from the ‘wreck as what was not ruined by the crash was burned or melted beyond any haope of future use, NEW AIRPLANE FOR GRASS VALLEY MEN the property. manager of the Company, Errol Mac Bovie. 0 Idaho-Maryland Mines Ltd., and Dr. Carl P. Jones, both of trass Valley, have traded a sixplace cabin Bellanca monoplane for a new. ten-place low wing Vultee ‘on lower Broad street William Gracey, chief clerk, of the} ae Tahoe. National Forest Service will Dr. Albrecht O. Eckhardt, former. A U. S. Geological Survey party)the highway every.two miles. be the guest of honor. Covers laid}ly of Downievillé, Sierra ~ county ‘fof six are making Nevada City their Today--aplate willbe~-set-on the+ for thirty guests will include the lo-. passed away on Monday. ae headquarters while they are engagnew Bank-of, America building ot al forest service staff, rangers and. Ee was .a native of Germany, : : -jthe, corner of Pine and_. Broad a few invited friends. : was 69 years old and practiced nic 24 in. SunanS em accurate. iene pt streets. Another is: on the granite, Mr. Gracey “is leaving in a few}. profession in Dow nieville for a num_ levels: jcolumn at the: entrance to. the} days for San Francisco where he has. ber of years.” He is survived by ee . The levels were’ started from}court house and still another near aecepted a position in the head of. widow, Mrs. Sophie Eckhardt, two. Truckee and have been carried over. the tennis court at the high school. tice of the Forest. Service. Mr. andjdaughters, Mrs. Walter Bell, of; Yuba Pass through Downieville and The party will run a line of levels . Mrs. Gracey have been the recipients Crockett, and Mrs. Rosali Rather, of ;}down the highway. “ to Colfax over the highway and ther € of a number of farewell parties and . San Francisco, and a son, Ernest’ AlBronze plates stamped with the. continue on to Marysville over the . brecht Eckhardt, of! Los Angeles, Tahoe Ukiah hig ghwey. pane. Delivery was made . week when Pilot L. A. Perrett landed the ship on the new Loma Rica lairport on Mac Boyle’s property. i VOTERS, NOT VOTING, DROPPED FROMR . R. N. McCormack, county cl . reports that 1,765 names have been tonretd from ‘the voting ri ‘ cause they voted at neither the . nary or General Elections. The . tal registration is now 7,828 artistically ° . paying and’ receiving tel— . driver; and plunged over the side of this ©

) ‘being ‘and the Federal Government with ‘= . — ONLY Hometown at, paper. worth while. Do you for it? scribe em Bo oun ae This is Nevada City’s NewsIt supports things subtt Neva a City Nugge Nevada City Nugget is a Member ot the United Press And California es Publishers Association j Y gooc paper helps comununity. adve OOO Orme s 5 our Hometown Newsbuild your Readers and . make. it. a 1 builder. rtisers & Vol. IX, No. 12. The_ County Seat Paper NEVADA_ CITY, _CALIFORNIA _The GOLD Center ce un = . FRIDAY. DEC. 14, 1934 Airport Gets More . Funds for Completion The Nevada City airport, which is constructed by Nevada City city and SERA _ funds, has _ been granted 20 more days on its request for a 30 day extension in which to complete the work. An additional allocation of $1,400 was made. « Clarence Martz, foreman, and the crew of 15 men started work at the airport Wednesday and the work will®be rushed to. completion as speedily as possible. The mosti important of SERA projects for Nevada City is the airport, which will assist in opening up this section to the business man and sportsman. It is considered the CAMPTONVILLE, Dec. QUARANTINED AT HOME) FAMILY HEAD CAMPS IN CAMPTONVILLE HALL 14.— Julius E. Pauly, genial resident of this place, is not in the dog house, but he is in the town hall, as result of Dr. Parkinson, Yuba best airport in the northern section on the east side of the Sacramento Valley by army “officials who have made an’examination of the site. With this new SERA appropria-i PPP he did, he would have to stay in, tion of $1,400 for the airport, the : = and he has too much _ to do to total expenditures upon it now approximate $18,000, Nevada City has contributed proximately $3,500. MRS, DOUGLAS HEADS NEV. CITY HOUSING SURVEY Mrs. Belje Douglas, has heen named by the county executive committee for Better, Housing, to be supervisor of a canvass to be made in this concerning home improvement needs. At a meeting of the committee with the Chamber of Commerece Tuesday evening, this. apapointment was made after Fred F. Cassidy, chairman, and Fred E. Con-! ner, vice chairman of the committee. had--explained fully the details of the survey which is to be made. Mrs. Douglas announced that her office would be in the Chamber of Commerce, and she has already made application to Mrs. Gertrude Esterly, Nevada county SERA director, for certified workers to make the survey. : According to the report of County Chairman Cassidy, Nevada City making good progress toward filling . its loan quota of $25,000, estinated . The . lo@ns totaling approximately $11,000; have been made by the local branch, ‘MOORE'S FLAT GRAVEL RICH needed for home improvement. of the. Bank of America to home owners in this city. It devel@ped in the reports made: at the Chamber of. Commerce thats funds are available for SERA work in the county for the employment etween 400 and 500 men at $35 per month, average. After a conferente Wednesday with E. B. Dudley, chairman of the county board of supervisors, J. E. Miller, ‘division engineer, and Alva Reynolds, manager of the SERA, iti ‘was announced that a special meet-! ing of the supervisors will be held Monday to discuss projects which may be. inaugurated under SERA rules. HOUSING SURVEY TO Persons wishing employment on ‘the Federal Housing Survey in this istrict, Which will probably require about a week or ten days should aP-. for his grubstake in the spring. erintendent of Schools, District At-~ ply immediately to Mrs. Esterly whe Cee ‘f§ VERY SERIOUSLY ILL torney, Probation Officer, and most 4#@ in charge of SERA work in this QUAKER HILL MINE . of the other offices which suffer ‘district. Mrs. W. W. Esterley will The nrany petande . of Mrs. W. L. fvom over-crowding. THe county certify applicants to Mrs. Belle PROPERTY LEASED: siahbev ave greatix-ehooked 14 tcarn cemetery should be cleaned up, and Douglas, in charge of the cae be i sees on Wednesday that she suffered a maintenance fund set up for its Housing Survey in the Nevada City Ed Norton, of Nevada City, andj; Paralytic stroke while at the break-. care. district. A start in the work will be three partners haye taken a lease on ltast table Wednesday morning. Mrs. The Jury advised against eensolimade this morning. Mrs. Douglas 4,6 pBrodt Brothers property of . Mobley attended the Masonic recep-. ating the offices of public: adminasks the attention and cooperation, snout 120 acres in the Quaker Hillition to Mr. William Gracey on istrator and district attormey, an@ of housewives and homeowners. Coqistrict. They have driven a 150 Tuesday evening and seemed in the the offices of sheriff and coroner. operation in the task of the enume?-. foot tunnel into an old tunnel and! very best of health and spirits. Mrs. . However, they recommended that an ators and other members of the are now running a raise. ‘Plans are . Mobley is still seriously ill and her expert be called in, im the matter of ; committee is earnestly requested. tg run branch drifts in order to test . many friends are hoping for her resimplifying county offices. The Jury ®his -will #faciliate their work and the gravel. They have encountered . covery. Dr. W. B. Hummelt is the . 2/50 stated that the grounds and {. the information gained will help not some good gravel in their develop-, attending physician. building of the court house were in only in this drive but will give. much valuable data to ‘keep on file ,the future. WM. CRACEY HONORED GUEST OF . C0 -WORKER At a dinner dinners in the last few days. —#¢ is . START IMMEDIATELY for S. ae FORMER DOWNIEVILLE RESIDENT PASSES ON given at Gene's Place ied this evening, Mrs. ‘Babyface’ Held by U. S. Believed at large after her escape from a gunbattle in which two federal agents died and her Nelson (alias Lester Gillis) received his death wounds, Mrs. . Helen Gillis, apove, 21, has been held in Chicago by federal men, . it was announced recently. Federal authorities are seeking the man who escaped with her. i { . husband, George ‘*Babyface’”’ . ;} L. A. Gibson, who has been work. ing the streams around Moore’s Flat,, was a Nevada City visitor on Tuesday and disposed of some gold and nuggets he had taken operations. He said he has a good cabin in the Moore’s Flat section, but he was frozen out as the water bucket in the mornings had an inch and a half of ice on it and the frost jand ice in the. canyons lay all day in shaded places. Under these con‘ditions working the gravel on the } streams was difficut. Mr. Gibson has made a living all through the summer way to Napa Valley for und will return in the spring. of the winter season coming on. ment program. The old ehanne! ha been traced for a distance of abou / 2,000 feet on the property. An ( Careuthas feature of the work is th i cutting of a number . gers in their operations which ¢ fine values. of which sum,’ an-. in his! but was on his the’ winter He 3aid practically all the snipers had left Moore’s Flat section on account Aj { small bottle of nuggets he reserved . inof quartz strin-: “How High Are We?” Read. Bronze Plates county health officer, tacking a red card on the door of his home while Julius was away. of course, Julius could go in, but if spend three weeks in solitary confinement. Being equal to the situation, Julius, a member of a Lake Almanor annual fishing pilgrimmage, had his bed all rolled for the next year’s trip. This was tossed out to him, and with this equipment, he set up camp in the local Masonic Town Hal! of which building he has charge, and is living very comfortably. it LLOYD ROOT IS BACK FROM NOME: Lloyd Root, former state minerologist, who was at one time interested in the old Alcalde mine below Grass Valley, which is now known as the Mattie, paid the property a visit this week. He has just relturned from Nome, Alaska, having made an examination of a gravel property for San Francisco interests ‘thern California . high ithe 18th Annual Older Boys’ audpioas of Nevada City high school. 'day, near Nome. Mr. Root stated new airline service and Nome it now hours to make the trip. He aiso said Nome residents were pretty { well housed, considering the terrible fire that practically destroyed their city this fall. CHAMBER WILL AID. CHRISTMAS MAILING: that with the requires but 241 Mrs. Betty West, Nevada City Postmaster, announced yesterday that a branch office of the post ofifice will be.established in the Cham-! ber of Commerce quarters, during the 17th to 24th of December inelusive, to accommodate and relieve ‘the Christmas rush and congestion. The branch office will be frorn 1 to 4 p. m., on the above days. The branch office will take care of the out-going parcel post, the insured -parcel post, and the sale of postage stamps. There will be two elerks on duty. Mrs. West requests that Nevada City people take advantage of this office to send out all out-going parcels, and refieve the congestion in the main office. The office has been established for convenience and service to post office patrons of this: city and surreundings. GRAND JURY IN between Seattle ie , crowding and inadequate facilities jalso recommended that the county ‘ hospital be enlarged: sufficiently to ; county s t George Levee, P. G. E., ditch tensection, MRS. WALTER L. MOBLEY. "CONVENE IN NEY. . . CITY TOMORROW . Tomorrow starting at about ten ! o'clock in the morning, nearly one. hundred boys and advisors will be. gin to arrive from twenty-five Norschools for. Con. ,yheld this year under the: ; ference

At a high last ‘ ! school assembly . Tuesday, Mr. Duckles, Northern Cal{fornia Y. M. C. A. Secretary, spoke and announced the program of tne Older Boys’ Conference. The program is as follows: satus.) 10:00, boys and advisors arrive } and are registered. 12:15 a confer. Hl LEADERS TO ‘Bank of America To — Hold Public Reception in New Home Tomorrow ence luncheon at the high school, . ’ provided by Miss home economics classes. After the! luncheon will follow speeches on } the theme -“‘Builders’’ and _ afterwards a. group discussion period, \ then will come a recreation period directed by Mr. Barron and Mervin} Doolittle, and lasting until five} o'clock. ~ THEME: “BUILDERS” : 12:15 Opening Luncheon. Presiding, Earle Smith, Colusa. Jud Carmen Conference Song; Leader. ' Introductions and Songs. Welcome; Warren Mooers, ent Body and H. E. Kjorlie, Faculty. Stud: Response by Acting President. { . ¢€ontinuedon Page Five-) The Nevada “County Grand pane handed the 193 yesterday in Ye: . port with several Lenina mes Most important of these was the advice to enlarge the county hospital, i especially the women’s ward, which is at present suffering from _ over for handling the many cases which come there for attention. The Jury house a Juvenile Detention Ward, P which in the opinion Mr.McGagin, county. probation officer, and Mrs. Heffelinger, county nurse, is highly necessary, in view of. the number of juvenile delinquency cases in the county. The Jury recommended the estab+ lishment of a County Emergency Relief Organization and welfare service) to effect immediate action in ‘need and destitute cases where immedi-. ate relief is imperative. The Jury, as it has done in man¥ years past,,, advised the building of an elevator . in the county court house. Thcy also advised the acquisition by the of adequate parking space near the court house, as the presert needs. The Jury recommended the enlarging of the offices of the Supspace is sadly inadequate to present . Bartholomew’s . « N.C.CITY COUNCIL ANNUAL REPORT PROPOSES ZONING ORDINANCE HERE in a special i zoning The proposed ordinance was drawn up and presented to the council by Attorney W. E. Wright. Its object is 16 jor erect any building ithat moved up the coast from Baja. excellent shape, an@ complimented Charles Guenther Harold W. thereon. Robinson was foreman a recent Nevada City visitor. . . . bons ot the Bear Valley was oF of the Jury. . ‘correct altitude have been set along ee ee a sanaiaee oa aS 578 = . . F jore is showing up well. ‘Sesakarsiep His, Believes Byrns votes have been Sufficient’ pledged to lim to assure his election:as speaker of the House of Representatives, Representative Joseph: Byrns, above, of Tennessee, has: announced. Byrns’ principal. opponent for the post is: Representative Sam Rayburn: of. Texas. night consider a ORY: The City Council’ 3 met last meeting to ordinance for Nevada prevent: Eke future ruination residential districts by undesirabie business. Following are some of the features of the proposed ordinance: That a business district shall be marked out on much the same lines as now, and that the rest of the city: shall be: sirbjected to these restrictions. That: it shall be unlawful to use in the residential district for other than apartment, tenement, or family dwelling places; and that it shall be a misdemeanor: for anyone to do so, subjecting them to a fine of not more than $300. This: ordinance will be an emergency ordinance to prevent the evasion of the future zoning Iaws to be drawn ap by a Nevada City Planning Board soon. MORE R: AIN SCHEDULED Thursday storm was wet to Oregon by a Catifornia from Mexico California, according to a broadcast, contrary te the usual arrival of rain storms from the north Pacific. Rains }) are scheduled to continue’ today with snow falling on the higher elevations of the Sierra mountains. MATTIE Crews are drifting the 600 foot level on the vein in the Mattie Valley. The distance of MINE " and raising old on work. has for a 200 feet and the The main shaft is 730 feet deep. ! y vada City, of: Alcalde mine below Grass progressed Development work is to centinue at BY E. M. RECTOR: afternoon; Saturday, December 15th, Bank of America will throw open to the public its handsome new bank building and” offices at the corner of Broad’ and Pine streets, Nevada City; and there will be a public reception: im honor of the occasion, between the hours. of 2:30 and. 6 p. m. Giiests will be escorted through the premises and afforded ample opportunity of inspecting the commodious new quarters, and modern. banking equipment. The usual morning’ banking hours and routing, up to Saturday noon closing time, will’ be observed in the present banking office in the National Hotel builditig, but commencing with Monday morning, December 17th, the bank’ will be permanently located in the new building, where all future business will be. transacted. The completion of this substantia: new bank structure marks«a’ forward’ step in the business annals of Neand is the Bank of America’s answer to the need of larger quarters and better facilities for a busy branch in a busy ‘town. Archi~ tecturally, the new building is of modernistic design throughout, and is of solid reinforced concrete conustruction, facing 38 feet on Broaé street, with a depth: of 72 feet on Pine. All of this space, together with complete concrete basement underneath, is devoted to banking purposes with the exception of & store on’ the Broad. street front, twelve feet wide and“40 feet deep. INTERIOR DECORATIONS The banking room, finished in warm colors by one’ ef San Francisco’s léading decorators, is featured both as to walls and ceiling in duo tone panels of accoustical plaster, a new sound deadening material. The lebby is of liberal proportions, paved in marbleized in-laid linoleum, with counter screen done in dark tone mahogany of . modern design, and supported by black marble base. . Eight wickets covering lers, notes, exchange, safe deposit and book keepers wihdows insure adequate counter «service. Five splendid. largewindows: on the: PineTomorrow (Continued on Page Four) TRUCK CONSUMED BY FLAMES, TOTAL LOSS A Chevrolet truck owned, by Frank Donnelly, Grass Valley trucking and” wood man, was demolished early-last night when it got out of the control of Charles Swisher, the a steep bank between Tamblyn . ; House and Nevada City.. The truck, foaded with four tier at wood, got out of control on the ‘rade and though Swisher made Sioa efforts to keep on the road ‘soon ran over the bank. Swisher ‘jumped in time to avoid the crasn, ‘The gasoline tank split in the smash up, an@ the whole truck was immedlately eonsumed by flames. Searcely anything can be recovered from the ‘wreck as what was not ruined by the crash was burned or melted beyond any haope of future use, NEW AIRPLANE FOR GRASS VALLEY MEN the property. manager of the Company, Errol Mac Bovie. 0 Idaho-Maryland Mines Ltd., and Dr. Carl P. Jones, both of trass Valley, have traded a sixplace cabin Bellanca monoplane for a new. ten-place low wing Vultee ‘on lower Broad street William Gracey, chief clerk, of the} ae Tahoe. National Forest Service will Dr. Albrecht O. Eckhardt, former. A U. S. Geological Survey party)the highway every.two miles. be the guest of honor. Covers laid}ly of Downievillé, Sierra ~ county ‘fof six are making Nevada City their Today--aplate willbe~-set-on the+ for thirty guests will include the lo-. passed away on Monday. ae headquarters while they are engagnew Bank-of, America building ot al forest service staff, rangers and. Ee was .a native of Germany, : : -jthe, corner of Pine and_. Broad a few invited friends. : was 69 years old and practiced nic 24 in. SunanS em accurate. iene pt streets. Another is: on the granite, Mr. Gracey “is leaving in a few}. profession in Dow nieville for a num_ levels: jcolumn at the: entrance to. the} days for San Francisco where he has. ber of years.” He is survived by ee . The levels were’ started from}court house and still another near aecepted a position in the head of. widow, Mrs. Sophie Eckhardt, two. Truckee and have been carried over. the tennis court at the high school. tice of the Forest. Service. Mr. andjdaughters, Mrs. Walter Bell, of; Yuba Pass through Downieville and The party will run a line of levels . Mrs. Gracey have been the recipients Crockett, and Mrs. Rosali Rather, of ;}down the highway. “ to Colfax over the highway and ther € of a number of farewell parties and . San Francisco, and a son, Ernest’ AlBronze plates stamped with the. continue on to Marysville over the . brecht Eckhardt, of! Los Angeles, Tahoe Ukiah hig ghwey. pane. Delivery was made . week when Pilot L. A. Perrett landed the ship on the new Loma Rica lairport on Mac Boyle’s property. i VOTERS, NOT VOTING, DROPPED FROMR . R. N. McCormack, county cl . reports that 1,765 names have been tonretd from ‘the voting ri ‘ cause they voted at neither the . nary or General Elections. The . tal registration is now 7,828 artistically ° . paying and’ receiving tel— . driver; and plunged over the side of this ©