December 14, 1944 (4 pages)

18, 1944 ice 0 men , the Pacifie p ny now iq; ' the World hristmag 7 in the com», xes have 4, Service ¢ ‘vice Emnis Franciseo , A Varions 4, Power D list include n0Se addrey KES SERt to j committee , ertainment ains two e Of stations board and g ckers and ' ge of aria . ures, two pu a tube of g rush and , paste, 2 Do & soap box t soap, 4 veral temi the books, » $ and toile; TIVITY V j , Business n’s Club mas boxes service who i high eas n, President, s have been \drick has} of a Christmas de a dinner imrock Cafe, museum of permanent t of Diego DD Mol. 18, No. 98 ig sion—curtew for persons of. ne cack . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per ~ month ee “God rinks ace only to those who lovg it, and are a to guard and defend it"—Daniel Webster Nevada ne Bn COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA eset This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to.read about your friends, your neighbors, and your 4 town, -read The Nugget. . Out Loud ae This letter merits the attention of every fair-minded Ameritan: Honorable Clarence F. Lea, House of Representatives, Dear MrLea: In the absence of the Secretary of jWar I am replying to the motion which was approved at a meeting of an informal committee of the California delegation on. December 4, 1944 that the Secretary of War be requested to make a statement for publication on the following points: a The policy of the war department on the release and relocation of individijal Japanese under the present mass exclusion program. b Am explanation of the question of who has the authority to release individual Japanese and who would have the authority to terminate the mass exclusién of Japanese. ¢ Explanation of the legal sources of authority under which the war; department is acting. d A statement of the future policy with respect mass exclusion of Japanese. The legal authority of the mass exclusion of persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast was supplied by Extcutive Order No. 9066 and the act of March 21, 1942, both} of which are attached’ as enclosures. The executive order after reciting the necessity of protection against sabotage and espionage, authorized the secretary of war, or any military commander who was designated . by him, ito establish military areas: from which any or all persons may be excluded and with respect to which the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave may be subject to whatever restrictions the secretary of war or military commander_may impose. ‘The commanding getieral of the ‘western defense command was desigmated as military commander under the terms of this execptive order and carried out the evacuation under its authority. .° As you are doubtless aware, the program for the mass exclusion of . Persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast was instituted at a time when an attack on the west: Coast was a definite probability, and an invitation on a large scale had to be considered as a_ real possibility. In view of the difficulties of making an immediate determination of which persons of Japanese ancestry were loyal and which were fot, mass exclusion of persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast was a necessary military precaution. The military necessity which was created by the emergency with which we were faced in the spring. of 1942 and the urgency of preventing sabot-. “ge and espionage afforded the jus-. tification of this actiom It was the basis on which the supreme court in the Hirabayashi ease vs. the United States (320 US 81upheld one of the measures which preceeded excluof the basis to ese ancestry. The initial evacuation progrant in 1942, is now before the court inj Koromateu. vs. United States (iNo. 22 October term 1944) and we hope it will be sustained on the basis of the opinion in the Hirabayashi case. It is also clear from the opinion in the Hirabayashi casé, however, that continued masse exelusion can be sustained under executive order No. 9066. only so long as military necessity requires it. We are a lot further along in the war today than we were @t the time the evacuation was ordered. The war has moved. a good deal closer to Japan. Although there is a lot of fighting still to be done it can no longer be said that the west eoast is in danger of large scale invasion. At the same time it has been Possible to get information about our Japanese population and to make considerable progress in separating those who -are.apt to be dangerous from those who are loyal to this countr. One of the first steps in this direction was taken by ehe army in Selecting those persons of military ase among the Japanese who were acceptable for the army, initially as volunteers and later in selective service. Although many of these men Were inducted from relocation cen‘maces Seat Paper_ . Purpose. to despise, to flout; to uncountries. areneturally;touchy after ‘satisfactory to liberated territories, Teadjustment, ag far as the three ‘power for Russia, Britain would ex‘ism expects to be similarly smitten. ‘as the Stettinius statement on self‘both large and small question will be the greatest on the . special protective Jaws, “safeguard women in industry, might ‘be lost, in the change over.’ (ROTARY HEARS — Sierras after snow deposits have been By LEONE BAXTER Beating the Nazi“ig not the only weary challenge facing European countriés in the coming year. The cross current of allied disagreement on the Stettinius statement that the U. S. “opposes outside interference wih thé internal affairs of liberated territories” indicates that the international involvements in a world recovering from -war are almost as dangerous as war itself. After Nazi forces are rolled back where they came from, and the streets and countrysides. no longer echo the tramp of enemy feet and roar of enemy guns, the liberated countries must face their own internal battles to restore order. Answers must be found to new and pressing problems of domestic affairs and governmental policy. And Secretary of State Stettinius belief that the answers should be largely their own is a belief shared by the majority of Americans. The travail of Greece under Nazi domination, of France, of Poland and of Italysuffering unimaginable to people who did not undergo them— have created a new breed of citizens inall the overrun territories. A new mentality has emerged, geared to one dermine, to destroy authority.A new generation of youth has grown up with this ag is frist principle of life. The top men in the long subjugated dnd newly liberated areas are the men best fitted for the underground battle. Before those countries are soundly on their feet again, civil strife behind them, the progress will have to be reversed, bringing to the top those best fitted to maintain order and administer law and justice. As convalescent patients, such such devastating illness as the nazi scourge. They are not at all sure just which leaders can be trusted, either inside or outside their borders; they have learned to distrust everybody. They want help, but they feel only abhorrence and scorn for dictation. Allied attempts to select their leaders for them, or todetermine their government is thoroughly uneven though they owe their freedom to the allies. The great question of. European great powers ‘are concerned, is just a ee among nations shall end, ai where a measure of selfprotection shall begin. ‘Should communistg leadership in the liberated ‘countries build an enlarged orbit of pect to suffer economically. Should they go wholly democratic, communUntil both Russia and Britain can afford to be as altrustic in fact as government sounds, or until a world league establishes safeguards for nations, ‘the lisa rite weston Ae HYDROLOGICAL ENGINEER The Nevada City Rotary Club at its luncheon meeting in the National Hotel today heard Fred Paget, aydrological engineer of the State Department of Natural Resources, teil of the snow tests upon which a forecast of the annual water run off of the Sierras is based. The depth of snow and its water content are the two basic factors in making the forecast. The measurements are taken through .the high completed. Gordon Vance, chief fire dispatcher of the Tahoe national forest service, was program chairman taking the place of Donald MacBean ,who could not be present. j rs Tom Arden, former resident was calling on Nevada City friends Tuesday. He is now employed in the main office of the Sacramento Bee and resides in Sacramento with his fam(Continued on Page Three) (MORE WOMEN — ‘between the AFL and CIO would to the disputes which might follow ‘the organization of a womens labor ‘powerful women’s clubs are opposed jsought on the ground ‘that hard won only waiting until their men come -home to quit the shop or office and ‘THREE FROM TRUCKEE JAILED __NEVADA CI CITY, THAN MEN IN POST WAR ERA By CLEM WHITAKER ed biologists, sociologists and Hollywood scenario writers, but which has been skirted so to gpeak by the nation’s politicians, promises to become a burning issue in post war labor relations and national politics. For this man’s country, due to tors not yet clearly defined, will not have nearly enough men to go around, matrimonially speaking, when the war ends—and a million or so unattached women have capacities for creating social upheaval and economic turmoil far out of proportion to their actual number. Neither Politiciams nor labor leaders can dismiss the situation, at the war’s end, and with the ancient quip that a woman’s place is in the home, unless they are willing to sponsor a share the husband plan as an alternative to the share the work program. And even the hardiest labor mogul, in all likehilhood will lack the daring to. make such a suggestion. 7 The surplus sex, meanwhile is moving on congress and the various state legislatures with a broad equal rights program designed to give women the same guarantees of employment accorded men—and equal wages. for equal work. If they can't have husbands, at least they intend to -have jobs. amd. they are in no mood to brook interference from labor czars or unsympathetic public officials. Perhaps the most, startling aspect of the feminine workers’ post war planning is a behind the scenes, movement. by some of their advanced thinkers to organize a Women’s Federation of Labor to act as their ‘exclusive bargaining agent—and as a slap at AFL and ClO unions which have been disposed to a sort of auxiliary status. i There is ‘nothing in the national lobar relations act which prohibits women from bargaining collectively, through their own unions, and veteran labor leaders are willing to concede that the ladies would. find many employers ready and anxious to do business with them. The male labor chieftains are also willing to admit privately, that an irate union spinster, who is convinced that the world owes her a husband, would be tough competition on a picket line— and that. past jurisdictional quarrels rate ag patty waist affairs compared front. All is not unity in the women’s ranks, however. Some of the more to equal riglits legislation now being enacted to Then, too, there are thousands of married women .wogkers who are cultivate anew the delightful delusion that they are members of the weaker sex, who need big, strong men to look after them. Over the week end three persons were convicted in. Truckee of misdemeanors and lodged in the county jail. The three were Patricia Ladner 22, drunk and disorderly, 10 days; Jose Ramirez, 49, indecgnt exposure, 25 days; and Jose Martinez, 39, drunk and disorderly, 25 days. CHARGED WITH FELONY John Sturgill, laborer of Truckee was yesterday formerly © charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The complaining witness ig William Felder, also of Truckee. Both were arrested following an altercation on the Truckee streets December 2nd. Felder was: treated for numerous knife cuts at the county hospital. C. M. Hing and family who sold their grocery business recently, have moved to Oakland: to réside. They have retained the store building so TRIES TO GET MEN The relationship of the sexes heretofore a problem which has concernthe casualties of war and other fac-. . ‘}NATS. Some are casualties, others (MUSICO THERAPY ‘poral Lawrence Paris, violinist. ‘have given many. concerts in ‘ehapel in Auburn, and: ‘are assistant itwo years ago. ‘first chance to play for sometime. A CITY, CALIFORNIA — HOME FOR XMAS naval personnel who are returning from foreign duty, or who are on emergency leave, home for Christmas, according to naval transport service officials in San: Francisco and at the U. S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Oakland, These squadrons are under the command of Captain James E. Dyer, Commander; Naval Air Transport Service, West. Coast. ‘NATS planes which speed whole blood and high priority cargo to Pacific ocean destinations are on the return trip, filled with personnel from combart areas, returning to the mainland. How to get theSe returning combat men to their homes for Christmas poses a real problem for may be returning to an ailing daugh® ter or son whom they have not seen in many months. Only second to high priority munitiong cargo, combat men returning to the mainland by surface ships and airplanes, and critical emergency. leave cases are receiving first consideration for places in the big NATS transport planes leaving the Oakland station daily for inland cities and up and down the coast. On planes leaving the field an effort is made to get every possible man aboard, according to NATS priority officers. Nearly 100 persons a day are. returning to the mainland which makes the problem of speeding the men to their inland homes in time for Christmas a real one. Commercial airlines are cooperating wherever possible in giving preference to. returning military personnel and emergency leave .cases. AT DEWITT DB WITT GENERAL HOSPITAL, Dec. 11—Lieut. Clyde W. Cathey, director of ‘Musico Therapy, announces a musical concert to be givEvery effort is being made to get} OUT OF BARBER SHOP PRAISED Deploring the ejection, because he happens to be of Japanese ancestry, of a crippled American soldier from a Parker, Arizona, barber shop, the Michigan Chapter Headquarters of the Federated Organization for Bataan Relief at Pontiac, has written a letter of sympathy to Pvt. Raymond Matsudo, it was announced today by R. B. Cozzens, assistant director of the War Relocation Authority. Pvt. Matsudo, dent of Hawaii, iad served two yeafs overseas with the 100th Infantry Battalion amd the 442nd Regimental Combat Team before he was wounded in the knee last July 22. Wearer of seven army ribbons and badges, including the combat infantrymen’s badge and the Purple Heart Pvt. Matsudo had gone to the Poston Center to visit friends after having been treated at the.army’s Hammond General Hospital at Modesto. ‘Matsudo was evicted from the shop of Andy Halo who keeps a sign on his shop: “Japs keep out, you rats.’ The letter to Private ieee follows: r “Dear Private Matsudo: “Your disgraceful treatment by a barber in Poston, Arizona has been brought to our attention, We, whose sons are prisoners of the Japanese taken at the fall of Bataan and Corrogidor, some of whom are still in the Philippines, some in Japan, wish you to know that this does not meet with our approval. We are deeply incensed. : “We appreciate greatly your service to your country and to the people of this country. Tt is an act of loyalty that cannot be questioned. “It shall be one of the major ef-. forts of this chapter for Bataan Relief to see that such disgraceful acyou or other boys like you. eous consideration and treatment we wish for our own sons, and shall do all possible that you receive it. “It is our opinion that you are a much better citizen than the barbar in Arizona. ‘Best of good luck to you. en in post chapel, Tuesday, December 12 at 8 p. m. The public from the vicinity is invited to attend. Sergeant Sherman Storr and Sergeant James Weld, piano organists, will ‘be featured in the program. Appearing with these popular nrusicians will be Corporal Duncan H. Driver, baritone soloist; Private Gerald Wheeler, baritone soloist;. Sergeant Don McDonald, trumpeter and CorSergeant Storr and. ‘Sergeant Weld the directors of musico-therapy: . in the United States since 1921, liychurch choirs.and an. opera. o ; in San Jose for several years. While stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah, he resumed his musical studies and sang for a number of army camps and radio programs. Private Wheeler ig a antive of ‘Nebraska and has studied voice at Chadron’g State Teachers College. Before his illness he was an aviation cadet ‘and this ig his first opportunity to sing since coming in the army Corporal Paris of Indiana is just back from overseas, and this is his He played with the Indianapolis City Orchestra for several years before army induction. Sergeant McDonald _studied instrument at Julliard School in New York City. He was instructor in: various subjects at Providence College, Rhode Lsland. McDonald has played many radio and theatre engagements since army enlistment and was first sergeant of the army band at Walker Army Air Field in Kansas. Upon release fromthe hospital he will work in radio entertainment in the army communications system. The Musicd-therapy department is providing expression for the ial= ented musicians among the patients: The local people are ‘fortunate to attend these concerts, given twice a ily. as to return here later. PAUL DOWNING Corporal Driver, patient, is’ a nat-. docbor ive 06 ot eek See paeen le f “Hie death, at 71, brings to a close lustrial~ ing in San Jose. He has eung with} an: ‘illustrious eareer in. public utility . ‘had Ms ‘beginnings in the hard field “Sincerely. MABEL EF. ROY, Secrétary.”’ OF P. G. E. PASSES Paul M. Downing, executive vice. president’ of Pacific Gag and Electric (Company, died December 11th at of service with the one company. Downing had been away from his the past two years he had suffered recurring attacks of illness. He had held rigidly to his datly schedule of] . , ‘duty until recently when his s insisted upon his going to pital for treatment. The Gold Center THURSDAY, DECE [MBER 14. 1944 29, a former resi‘. broad, blunt ‘claws, enable him ‘ rapin. “We wish for you the same courti St. Luke’s Hospital after 43 years! ty desk only a short time although tor . . UNIV. OF NEVADA A mild, voiceless; deliberate inhabitant. of the arid sections of Nevada is the desert tortoise, which — normally lives out a -self cachavmae span of approximately 20° years in tt — : native environment. Dr. Frank Richardson, sista: es professor of biology at the University, of Nevada, is now engaged in a etudy of the desert tortoise, native to southern ore third of the state, au has found the creature 1 pl adapted for. survival in areag scant rainfall and little vegeta: Completely protected by shell ike plates which cover him abatt and abeam, the tortoise depends on plants. alone for his food, and can sitheiat on practically any variety of desert vegetation. Within the walls: of his. shell, he carries special sacs for stor: ing up water; which enables him to exist through: periods of scorching: drought. The small portion of his afatomy exposed beyond the shell is gcaly a dry. Thick, stubby legs, ending — hoof shaped feet equipped ~ : dig into the sand with rapidity. Dr. Richardson reports. 2% ‘When traveling from one Vicinity” to another, the tortoise will average perhaps four or five miles per and he frequently digs deep into the earth for protection against the si and heat, coming to the — lowing a rain. In common with other me has a. typical reptilian head, the other extremity beare a pointed tail similar to ‘thet a tions do not occur again, either to] ** until the far Pacific ated and have" had. an to rebuild, and ,Buropean work of the pioneer days of the elecold friend’ and co-worker, James B. Black, ‘president ‘of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, said: man, as big in mind and spirit as he was in physical stature. We. who were associated with him for so many years knew and ‘appreciated the unchanging + integrity of his thinking, the breadth and depth of hig « technical and executive knowledke and the rich. human qualities of courage, patience, ‘sympathy * and u with: which he was pub! ‘wellity industiy. to the a4-. vancement of which he devoted his life, ‘will stand as his memorial. His loss will be felt deeply by the induetry, by. this company, and by’ every one of our 10,000 employees who has been privileged to know him,” ” Douglass Farmer, returned from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska a short time ago, left Tuesday for Seattle. From there he where he will be employed by the U.S. Engineers. While in the. northtrical industry. Paying tribute to his} “P. M. Downing was an siimeaail San, Francisco . will sail for the Hawaiian Islands. i west he will see hie daughter in law is . [aint Matnet: Wapmas, ta: month in the chapel.

18, 1944 ice 0 men , the Pacifie p ny now iq; ' the World hristmag 7 in the com», xes have 4, Service ¢ ‘vice Emnis Franciseo , A Varions 4, Power D list include n0Se addrey KES SERt to j committee , ertainment ains two e Of stations board and g ckers and ' ge of aria . ures, two pu a tube of g rush and , paste, 2 Do & soap box t soap, 4 veral temi the books, » $ and toile; TIVITY V j , Business n’s Club mas boxes service who i high eas n, President, s have been \drick has} of a Christmas de a dinner imrock Cafe, museum of permanent t of Diego DD Mol. 18, No. 98 ig sion—curtew for persons of. ne cack . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per ~ month ee “God rinks ace only to those who lovg it, and are a to guard and defend it"—Daniel Webster Nevada ne Bn COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA eset This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to.read about your friends, your neighbors, and your 4 town, -read The Nugget. . Out Loud ae This letter merits the attention of every fair-minded Ameritan: Honorable Clarence F. Lea, House of Representatives, Dear MrLea: In the absence of the Secretary of jWar I am replying to the motion which was approved at a meeting of an informal committee of the California delegation on. December 4, 1944 that the Secretary of War be requested to make a statement for publication on the following points: a The policy of the war department on the release and relocation of individijal Japanese under the present mass exclusion program. b Am explanation of the question of who has the authority to release individual Japanese and who would have the authority to terminate the mass exclusién of Japanese. ¢ Explanation of the legal sources of authority under which the war; department is acting. d A statement of the future policy with respect mass exclusion of Japanese. The legal authority of the mass exclusion of persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast was supplied by Extcutive Order No. 9066 and the act of March 21, 1942, both} of which are attached’ as enclosures. The executive order after reciting the necessity of protection against sabotage and espionage, authorized the secretary of war, or any military commander who was designated . by him, ito establish military areas: from which any or all persons may be excluded and with respect to which the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave may be subject to whatever restrictions the secretary of war or military commander_may impose. ‘The commanding getieral of the ‘western defense command was desigmated as military commander under the terms of this execptive order and carried out the evacuation under its authority. .° As you are doubtless aware, the program for the mass exclusion of . Persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast was instituted at a time when an attack on the west: Coast was a definite probability, and an invitation on a large scale had to be considered as a_ real possibility. In view of the difficulties of making an immediate determination of which persons of Japanese ancestry were loyal and which were fot, mass exclusion of persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast was a necessary military precaution. The military necessity which was created by the emergency with which we were faced in the spring. of 1942 and the urgency of preventing sabot-. “ge and espionage afforded the jus-. tification of this actiom It was the basis on which the supreme court in the Hirabayashi ease vs. the United States (320 US 81upheld one of the measures which preceeded excluof the basis to ese ancestry. The initial evacuation progrant in 1942, is now before the court inj Koromateu. vs. United States (iNo. 22 October term 1944) and we hope it will be sustained on the basis of the opinion in the Hirabayashi case. It is also clear from the opinion in the Hirabayashi casé, however, that continued masse exelusion can be sustained under executive order No. 9066. only so long as military necessity requires it. We are a lot further along in the war today than we were @t the time the evacuation was ordered. The war has moved. a good deal closer to Japan. Although there is a lot of fighting still to be done it can no longer be said that the west eoast is in danger of large scale invasion. At the same time it has been Possible to get information about our Japanese population and to make considerable progress in separating those who -are.apt to be dangerous from those who are loyal to this countr. One of the first steps in this direction was taken by ehe army in Selecting those persons of military ase among the Japanese who were acceptable for the army, initially as volunteers and later in selective service. Although many of these men Were inducted from relocation cen‘maces Seat Paper_ . Purpose. to despise, to flout; to uncountries. areneturally;touchy after ‘satisfactory to liberated territories, Teadjustment, ag far as the three ‘power for Russia, Britain would ex‘ism expects to be similarly smitten. ‘as the Stettinius statement on self‘both large and small question will be the greatest on the . special protective Jaws, “safeguard women in industry, might ‘be lost, in the change over.’ (ROTARY HEARS — Sierras after snow deposits have been By LEONE BAXTER Beating the Nazi“ig not the only weary challenge facing European countriés in the coming year. The cross current of allied disagreement on the Stettinius statement that the U. S. “opposes outside interference wih thé internal affairs of liberated territories” indicates that the international involvements in a world recovering from -war are almost as dangerous as war itself. After Nazi forces are rolled back where they came from, and the streets and countrysides. no longer echo the tramp of enemy feet and roar of enemy guns, the liberated countries must face their own internal battles to restore order. Answers must be found to new and pressing problems of domestic affairs and governmental policy. And Secretary of State Stettinius belief that the answers should be largely their own is a belief shared by the majority of Americans. The travail of Greece under Nazi domination, of France, of Poland and of Italysuffering unimaginable to people who did not undergo them— have created a new breed of citizens inall the overrun territories. A new mentality has emerged, geared to one dermine, to destroy authority.A new generation of youth has grown up with this ag is frist principle of life. The top men in the long subjugated dnd newly liberated areas are the men best fitted for the underground battle. Before those countries are soundly on their feet again, civil strife behind them, the progress will have to be reversed, bringing to the top those best fitted to maintain order and administer law and justice. As convalescent patients, such such devastating illness as the nazi scourge. They are not at all sure just which leaders can be trusted, either inside or outside their borders; they have learned to distrust everybody. They want help, but they feel only abhorrence and scorn for dictation. Allied attempts to select their leaders for them, or todetermine their government is thoroughly uneven though they owe their freedom to the allies. The great question of. European great powers ‘are concerned, is just a ee among nations shall end, ai where a measure of selfprotection shall begin. ‘Should communistg leadership in the liberated ‘countries build an enlarged orbit of pect to suffer economically. Should they go wholly democratic, communUntil both Russia and Britain can afford to be as altrustic in fact as government sounds, or until a world league establishes safeguards for nations, ‘the lisa rite weston Ae HYDROLOGICAL ENGINEER The Nevada City Rotary Club at its luncheon meeting in the National Hotel today heard Fred Paget, aydrological engineer of the State Department of Natural Resources, teil of the snow tests upon which a forecast of the annual water run off of the Sierras is based. The depth of snow and its water content are the two basic factors in making the forecast. The measurements are taken through .the high completed. Gordon Vance, chief fire dispatcher of the Tahoe national forest service, was program chairman taking the place of Donald MacBean ,who could not be present. j rs Tom Arden, former resident was calling on Nevada City friends Tuesday. He is now employed in the main office of the Sacramento Bee and resides in Sacramento with his fam(Continued on Page Three) (MORE WOMEN — ‘between the AFL and CIO would to the disputes which might follow ‘the organization of a womens labor ‘powerful women’s clubs are opposed jsought on the ground ‘that hard won only waiting until their men come -home to quit the shop or office and ‘THREE FROM TRUCKEE JAILED __NEVADA CI CITY, THAN MEN IN POST WAR ERA By CLEM WHITAKER ed biologists, sociologists and Hollywood scenario writers, but which has been skirted so to gpeak by the nation’s politicians, promises to become a burning issue in post war labor relations and national politics. For this man’s country, due to tors not yet clearly defined, will not have nearly enough men to go around, matrimonially speaking, when the war ends—and a million or so unattached women have capacities for creating social upheaval and economic turmoil far out of proportion to their actual number. Neither Politiciams nor labor leaders can dismiss the situation, at the war’s end, and with the ancient quip that a woman’s place is in the home, unless they are willing to sponsor a share the husband plan as an alternative to the share the work program. And even the hardiest labor mogul, in all likehilhood will lack the daring to. make such a suggestion. 7 The surplus sex, meanwhile is moving on congress and the various state legislatures with a broad equal rights program designed to give

women the same guarantees of employment accorded men—and equal wages. for equal work. If they can't have husbands, at least they intend to -have jobs. amd. they are in no mood to brook interference from labor czars or unsympathetic public officials. Perhaps the most, startling aspect of the feminine workers’ post war planning is a behind the scenes, movement. by some of their advanced thinkers to organize a Women’s Federation of Labor to act as their ‘exclusive bargaining agent—and as a slap at AFL and ClO unions which have been disposed to a sort of auxiliary status. i There is ‘nothing in the national lobar relations act which prohibits women from bargaining collectively, through their own unions, and veteran labor leaders are willing to concede that the ladies would. find many employers ready and anxious to do business with them. The male labor chieftains are also willing to admit privately, that an irate union spinster, who is convinced that the world owes her a husband, would be tough competition on a picket line— and that. past jurisdictional quarrels rate ag patty waist affairs compared front. All is not unity in the women’s ranks, however. Some of the more to equal riglits legislation now being enacted to Then, too, there are thousands of married women .wogkers who are cultivate anew the delightful delusion that they are members of the weaker sex, who need big, strong men to look after them. Over the week end three persons were convicted in. Truckee of misdemeanors and lodged in the county jail. The three were Patricia Ladner 22, drunk and disorderly, 10 days; Jose Ramirez, 49, indecgnt exposure, 25 days; and Jose Martinez, 39, drunk and disorderly, 25 days. CHARGED WITH FELONY John Sturgill, laborer of Truckee was yesterday formerly © charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The complaining witness ig William Felder, also of Truckee. Both were arrested following an altercation on the Truckee streets December 2nd. Felder was: treated for numerous knife cuts at the county hospital. C. M. Hing and family who sold their grocery business recently, have moved to Oakland: to réside. They have retained the store building so TRIES TO GET MEN The relationship of the sexes heretofore a problem which has concernthe casualties of war and other fac-. . ‘}NATS. Some are casualties, others (MUSICO THERAPY ‘poral Lawrence Paris, violinist. ‘have given many. concerts in ‘ehapel in Auburn, and: ‘are assistant itwo years ago. ‘first chance to play for sometime. A CITY, CALIFORNIA — HOME FOR XMAS naval personnel who are returning from foreign duty, or who are on emergency leave, home for Christmas, according to naval transport service officials in San: Francisco and at the U. S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Oakland, These squadrons are under the command of Captain James E. Dyer, Commander; Naval Air Transport Service, West. Coast. ‘NATS planes which speed whole blood and high priority cargo to Pacific ocean destinations are on the return trip, filled with personnel from combart areas, returning to the mainland. How to get theSe returning combat men to their homes for Christmas poses a real problem for may be returning to an ailing daugh® ter or son whom they have not seen in many months. Only second to high priority munitiong cargo, combat men returning to the mainland by surface ships and airplanes, and critical emergency. leave cases are receiving first consideration for places in the big NATS transport planes leaving the Oakland station daily for inland cities and up and down the coast. On planes leaving the field an effort is made to get every possible man aboard, according to NATS priority officers. Nearly 100 persons a day are. returning to the mainland which makes the problem of speeding the men to their inland homes in time for Christmas a real one. Commercial airlines are cooperating wherever possible in giving preference to. returning military personnel and emergency leave .cases. AT DEWITT DB WITT GENERAL HOSPITAL, Dec. 11—Lieut. Clyde W. Cathey, director of ‘Musico Therapy, announces a musical concert to be givEvery effort is being made to get} OUT OF BARBER SHOP PRAISED Deploring the ejection, because he happens to be of Japanese ancestry, of a crippled American soldier from a Parker, Arizona, barber shop, the Michigan Chapter Headquarters of the Federated Organization for Bataan Relief at Pontiac, has written a letter of sympathy to Pvt. Raymond Matsudo, it was announced today by R. B. Cozzens, assistant director of the War Relocation Authority. Pvt. Matsudo, dent of Hawaii, iad served two yeafs overseas with the 100th Infantry Battalion amd the 442nd Regimental Combat Team before he was wounded in the knee last July 22. Wearer of seven army ribbons and badges, including the combat infantrymen’s badge and the Purple Heart Pvt. Matsudo had gone to the Poston Center to visit friends after having been treated at the.army’s Hammond General Hospital at Modesto. ‘Matsudo was evicted from the shop of Andy Halo who keeps a sign on his shop: “Japs keep out, you rats.’ The letter to Private ieee follows: r “Dear Private Matsudo: “Your disgraceful treatment by a barber in Poston, Arizona has been brought to our attention, We, whose sons are prisoners of the Japanese taken at the fall of Bataan and Corrogidor, some of whom are still in the Philippines, some in Japan, wish you to know that this does not meet with our approval. We are deeply incensed. : “We appreciate greatly your service to your country and to the people of this country. Tt is an act of loyalty that cannot be questioned. “It shall be one of the major ef-. forts of this chapter for Bataan Relief to see that such disgraceful acyou or other boys like you. eous consideration and treatment we wish for our own sons, and shall do all possible that you receive it. “It is our opinion that you are a much better citizen than the barbar in Arizona. ‘Best of good luck to you. en in post chapel, Tuesday, December 12 at 8 p. m. The public from the vicinity is invited to attend. Sergeant Sherman Storr and Sergeant James Weld, piano organists, will ‘be featured in the program. Appearing with these popular nrusicians will be Corporal Duncan H. Driver, baritone soloist; Private Gerald Wheeler, baritone soloist;. Sergeant Don McDonald, trumpeter and CorSergeant Storr and. ‘Sergeant Weld the directors of musico-therapy: . in the United States since 1921, liychurch choirs.and an. opera. o ; in San Jose for several years. While stationed at Fort Douglas, Utah, he resumed his musical studies and sang for a number of army camps and radio programs. Private Wheeler ig a antive of ‘Nebraska and has studied voice at Chadron’g State Teachers College. Before his illness he was an aviation cadet ‘and this ig his first opportunity to sing since coming in the army Corporal Paris of Indiana is just back from overseas, and this is his He played with the Indianapolis City Orchestra for several years before army induction. Sergeant McDonald _studied instrument at Julliard School in New York City. He was instructor in: various subjects at Providence College, Rhode Lsland. McDonald has played many radio and theatre engagements since army enlistment and was first sergeant of the army band at Walker Army Air Field in Kansas. Upon release fromthe hospital he will work in radio entertainment in the army communications system. The Musicd-therapy department is providing expression for the ial= ented musicians among the patients: The local people are ‘fortunate to attend these concerts, given twice a ily. as to return here later. PAUL DOWNING Corporal Driver, patient, is’ a nat-. docbor ive 06 ot eek See paeen le f “Hie death, at 71, brings to a close lustrial~ ing in San Jose. He has eung with} an: ‘illustrious eareer in. public utility . ‘had Ms ‘beginnings in the hard field “Sincerely. MABEL EF. ROY, Secrétary.”’ OF P. G. E. PASSES Paul M. Downing, executive vice. president’ of Pacific Gag and Electric (Company, died December 11th at of service with the one company. Downing had been away from his the past two years he had suffered recurring attacks of illness. He had held rigidly to his datly schedule of] . , ‘duty until recently when his s insisted upon his going to pital for treatment. The Gold Center THURSDAY, DECE [MBER 14. 1944 29, a former resi‘. broad, blunt ‘claws, enable him ‘ rapin. “We wish for you the same courti St. Luke’s Hospital after 43 years! ty desk only a short time although tor . . UNIV. OF NEVADA A mild, voiceless; deliberate inhabitant. of the arid sections of Nevada is the desert tortoise, which — normally lives out a -self cachavmae span of approximately 20° years in tt — : native environment. Dr. Frank Richardson, sista: es professor of biology at the University, of Nevada, is now engaged in a etudy of the desert tortoise, native to southern ore third of the state, au has found the creature 1 pl adapted for. survival in areag scant rainfall and little vegeta: Completely protected by shell ike plates which cover him abatt and abeam, the tortoise depends on plants. alone for his food, and can sitheiat on practically any variety of desert vegetation. Within the walls: of his. shell, he carries special sacs for stor: ing up water; which enables him to exist through: periods of scorching: drought. The small portion of his afatomy exposed beyond the shell is gcaly a dry. Thick, stubby legs, ending — hoof shaped feet equipped ~ : dig into the sand with rapidity. Dr. Richardson reports. 2% ‘When traveling from one Vicinity” to another, the tortoise will average perhaps four or five miles per and he frequently digs deep into the earth for protection against the si and heat, coming to the — lowing a rain. In common with other me has a. typical reptilian head, the other extremity beare a pointed tail similar to ‘thet a tions do not occur again, either to] ** until the far Pacific ated and have" had. an to rebuild, and ,Buropean work of the pioneer days of the elecold friend’ and co-worker, James B. Black, ‘president ‘of Pacific Gas and Electric Company, said: man, as big in mind and spirit as he was in physical stature. We. who were associated with him for so many years knew and ‘appreciated the unchanging + integrity of his thinking, the breadth and depth of hig « technical and executive knowledke and the rich. human qualities of courage, patience, ‘sympathy * and u with: which he was pub! ‘wellity industiy. to the a4-. vancement of which he devoted his life, ‘will stand as his memorial. His loss will be felt deeply by the induetry, by. this company, and by’ every one of our 10,000 employees who has been privileged to know him,” ” Douglass Farmer, returned from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska a short time ago, left Tuesday for Seattle. From there he where he will be employed by the U.S. Engineers. While in the. northtrical industry. Paying tribute to his} “P. M. Downing was an siimeaail San, Francisco . will sail for the Hawaiian Islands. i west he will see hie daughter in law is . [aint Matnet: Wapmas, ta: month in the chapel.