December 28, 1936 (4 pages)

Out Loud COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA a bers and needs of our school chilpen, They were first a thought, an afl tag?) tient tin be. But the beauty voices caroling the old, old songs of H. M. L. > Benefactors we often think of as people with a great deal of money; who give a part of it away to help those who have little or no money to obtain food, books. better music, ‘an education, or a view of some of the great masters’ paintings. Of course there are many benefactors and many benefactions of that kind in this country, more so than in any other country, not only absolutely, but in proportion to the country’s wealth and population. The University of California is in part supported by benefactions of people who, give large sums to it while alive or leave generous bequests to it when they depart this world. Golden Gate park has beautiful monuments and buildings contributed by private donors. The national life has been enriched by Carnegie libraries and the Rockefeller Institute. As a recipient of benefactions of a high order, Nevada City probably outranks most other communities of its size in California. By that we do mean or limit benefactions to money gifts devoted to some special purpose only, but include these benefactions which flow from unselfish and devoted leadership toward goals of cultural community betterment. It is stimulating to good citizenship and community pride to think that two women so loved Nevada City that their wills -they left money for *.é ge scholarships for worthy graduates of the high school. qunisshbictiomaas 7 From a long range view, it may easily prove that it is as important to endow poor, serious and hard working students in the high school with the means of continuing their education in higher seats of learninf, as it is to build new buildings to’ care for growing numdren. The Hauber fund of $5.000 and the Fred W. Bradley Memorial fund of. $15,000 requeathed by Mrs. Virginia S. Bradley in memory of: her distinguished son, gives Nevada City’s high school an unusually large endowment for scholarships. Only a few ofus can emulate these two benefactors who took this means to aid Nevada City’s youth to wider horizons. of service, but there is a field in which many may, in personal devotion and leadership, help to raise the cultural standards of the community. From any hilltop at night this week one may look out over Nevada City and behold a beautiful spectacle. It is the living Christmas trees that glow in many colors ibeneath the lowering sky and illumine the black night. These trees and shrubs with their bright colors did not just hapidea. Someone, somewhere, had the idea of saving in some measure the young forests that each Christmas are hacked down to enhance the Christmas holiday in millions of homes. That thought of saving the young trees has not been so urgent lately because under the Forest Service no young trees are sacrificed night time ilyrmined by outtrees, ia setennae of “¥ continues its culmplatoad Gal sae \ sumas trees, and few citvely, are more lighted in Anner than Nevada City. of Christmas eve, a large group of trained singers sang carols in difderent parts of Nevada City. It was a delif-htful innovation. Fresh young English custom and Christian legend is a colorful and splendid corolary to the living Christmas trees. Life lifts a little from the humdrum and wearisome details of everyday. Thus we come to the end of this column with the conclusion that we should list among Nevada _ City’s school . Soh year there are mores ment fixing the value of the land Vol. 10, No. 117. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Centexé PER CAPITA COST OF GOV'T. IN NEV. COUNTY, $35.1 The local governments of Nevada county spent an average of $35.61 for each man, woman arid child in the county in 1934-35. according to findings of California Taxpayers’ association. Of this $35,61. $5.42 went for general government, $2.31 for protection to persons and property, 32 cents for health and sanitation. $5.53 for streets, ‘highways, and bridges, $3.97 for charities and corrections; $14.11 for education, $1,29 for recreation, 42 cents for miscellaneous, $2.24 for interest and redemption. The per ‘capita average expenditure of the local governments, cities, counties, schools, and _ special districts, for the entire state was $58.13, the association stated. Individual items averaged $4.51 for general government, $7.17 for protection to persons and_ property, $1.71 for health and_ sanitatien, $5.53 for highways, $8.02 for charities and corrections, $20.03 for education, $1.30 for recreation, $1,18 for miscellaneous, and $8.68 for debt payments. Total expenditures of all the local governments in California amounted to $370,183,809. more than a million dollars a day, the. association found. Income of the local governments was $365,696,432 for the same year. “Expenditures per capita for the several activities of the local .governments varied widely from the averages. both in the amount for each item and in the distribution of the total,’’ the association declared. “The element of efficiency, of. course enters into costs. Some communities are undoubtedly able to get more for their money than others. In addition there is the element of local choice. One standard of service may be demanded in one area and a different one in another. .Observable differences in roads, schools, police, sanitation, and other important functions of local government in different parts of the state do not seem to justify the wide variations found in expenditure. One can -hardly escape the conclusion that much, of the difference in. per capita expenditure must refleetvarying degrees of economy and efficiency rather than the quality of government.” BAD RECORD AGAINST ACCUSED CHECK FORGER Having one of the worst criminal records that any man in the sheriftf’s custody has possessed for some time, Charles Barton is in the county jail here on fictitious check charges. Barton is charged with issuing a fictitious check at the Sierra Hotel and he must answer the charge in superior court. Judge W. L. Mobley sent Barton to jail when he was unable to put wp bail. From the State Department of Criminal Identification Sheriff Tobiassen got Barton’s record which showed he had been comtined in twelve jails and in San Quentin and Folsom in recent years. P.G. & E. WINS SUIT / IN CONDEMNATION rndemnation of a strip of land in t Grass Valley Township requiréd by the P. G. and E. for a powek line right of way was the matter in dispute in the case of Charles T. Law against the company. Law testified the land was worth $500 and the “severance value’” worth $1500. Judge Tuttle rendered judg‘interior stone work were made of store of Bennetts & Steel in Grass Valley on Christmas eve but much of the stolen goods were recovered early Christmas morning. glass window in the rear of the Mill street store and gained entrance intothe rear room in which merchandise is stored In this part of the store many wrapped packages were stored awaiting delivery, coats, a tuxedo outfit, suit of clothes, etc. These the thief helped himBODY FOUND, SNOW Coroner L. R. Jefford and loca officers were notified a man named Johnson. aged about 55 years, h been found dead about 100 yards from his cabin between the White Spot and the Lake Vera road north of Nevada City last evening. He was found by passersby at ‘about five o’clock and had been dead a day or two. Reports are death was due to heart failure. The body was snow covered. He has resided in that section about six months. DR. A. N. MORGAN CRITICALLY ILL Word was rece: in Nevada City last evening that Dr. A. N. Morgan, local dentist, is critically ill in Rideout’s hospital, Marysville. with pneumonia. A message from his bedside today states his condition is unchanged. Dr. Morgan and wife had evidently gone to Marysville to spend the holidays with his sister and he became ill. He is also a brother of Mrs. Grace Nilon.of Nevada City. BOURNE ESTATE BRINGS $225,000 SAN MATEO, Dec. 28.—It was reported today the palatial country estate Filoli, owned by the late W. B. Bourne, has been sold to W. P. Roth of the (Matson Navigation company for $225,000. The property consists of 750 acres overlooking Crystal Springs lakes. It includes a mansion, housing thousands of @ollars worth of art treasures and furnishings. The house is so large that at one time after a burglary it took several days to determine the actual loss. Bourn was one of the inost extensive property owners in California. He owned the famous Gold House at Grass Valley, whose foundations and gold bearing quartz and for years was the principal owner of the North Star mine. IDAHO MAN, WANTED T. H. Woodruff, wanted in Idaho for forgery, was picked up at the checking station beyond Truckee Saturday afternoon by traffic patrol officers who were. on the lookout for the stolen car he was driving. He was turned over to Deputy Sheriff T. Dolley of Truckee who brought him to the county jail at Nevada City. Sheriff C: J. Tobiassen took charge of the case and notified Idaho ozficers. Woodruff, who had been in California 24 hours, started his homeward journey at six o’clock last evening, THIEF ROBS CLOTHING STORE ON XMAS EVE A robbery was committed at the A thief broke through a _ small including ‘overCOVERED BY ROADSIDE FOR FORGERY, NABBED i." as tnis may sound, line is Resin od benefactors the names of Mrs. Charles E. Parsons to: whose zeal and tha aeverahos Value taken at $500 and the damages at $200. Company witnesses had given as $100. civic spirit we owe in great measure the growing and beautiful custom of outdoor Christmas trees, and Mrs. Carl Libby, whose enthusiasm and skilled leadership has resulted in the organization of trained young singers whose chorals on Christmas eve sare the ancient festival new beauty. STORM DAMAGE ive work. The first -Dan Stewart, superintendent of s division of the P. G. & E. comny states a@ message came ‘in that et s off at the Spanish mine] jg in charge of the QUEEN LIL CUSTOM ‘MILL RECONDITIONED One more day of repairing and re-conditioning the Queen Lil custon’ mill will put it in shape for actto be trucked from the Giant King mine} at. Washington and the snow storm may hold up ore trucking for a time. Hal D. Draper of Nevada City ore is ent .shington. The telephone L 80 that no messagas.a holiday guest ‘. Nevada. Se: ‘and Mrs. Bisens Tucker hove Tucker’s . . mother, Mrs. B. Mergen ef aaa, Mrs. ‘self to and succeeded in. making his fa visit of several days om aatiade getaway. Passing through a rear residence yard the thief made his way to the Blks property on School street and cached somie of his loot under one of the cedar trees on the property. Here a man named Kelly spied the many bundles of clothing and reported ‘the same and upon investigation it was found they were the property of Bennetts & Steel. Word being sent to Joseph Bennetts of the firm he made a hasty investigation and learned that his to the value of several hundred dollars taken, i ) Mr. ae . Dick Haddy and two daughters returned Wednesday from store had been broken into and goods . HOTCHA RACKET OUITS AND MOVES The Hotcha racket moved out of Nevada City this morning with no ceremony, no oratory and no fond farewells. Van, DerKoolwyck, sponsor and promoter of this ‘“‘entertainment’’, was not here. A trailer attached to a car stopped in front of the door and the electric roulette wheel and other apparatus for extracting easy money from the easily “amused” was loaded on. The suckers ceased to: bite and the Hotcha business mosied out of town. ROGER BABSON SAYS LOOK OUT IN COMING BOOM A note of warning to businessmen who would pull profits from prosperity is sounded by Roger W. Babson, economist and statstician, in the Rotarian Magazine. “To my way of thinking’’; he says, “advertising and selling are going to play a tremendous part in the coming boom. Your sales department should be drilled into a ‘prosperity psychology.’ The minute the low point of a depression is reached, and the turn upwards toward better times comes, I become bullish on advertising. This bullinshess develops into a white heat as business.teaches the normal line. It is in the normal zone that all the constructive forces of your organization should work and work in harmony.’’ Mr. Babson’ further urges that businessmen consider these important factors: Credits should be kept in order at all times. As prosperity proceeds there will be increasing shortage of skilled workers and executives; so investment in your personnel now should pay handrome dividends. Doing business in the prosperous days ahead -without sound accounting and finance methods would be like fighting a fire with gasoline. If you must borrow, at least. be free from debt one day, of each year, Practical research in your business may mean the difference between profits and just breakless than 10 per cent of the businessmen of the United States actually pulled profits from the great 1929 boom! Remember this: ‘‘warns Mr. Babson, “whereas depression hits everybody, prosperity is always selective. Profit tickets are not ipassed out to all that enter the big tent of good times. In a period of business expansion you must work just as hard to assure profits as in a period of depression you must work hard to avert losses. “Only four times during my 35 years of studying business conditions has the Babson-chart, on. which I have spent over a million dollars in research, crossed the ‘normal line’ on its way upward. The first of these was in 1902-12, the second in 1915, and the third was 14 years ago, in 1922. The fourth has just occurred. ‘At the start of this. impending boom,” he says in conclusion, ‘“‘you all have a new set of books to open. This is the time when everybody starts from scratch but some—only scratch. The way -to eliminate competition is not to meet it but to keep ahead of it.” FOOT TRACKS IN SNOW LEAD TO SUICIDE Foot tracks in the snow led Mrs. Marie C. Webber today to the body of her husband, Herbert Harris Webber hanging from the rafters in the garage at the couple’s home on the Idaho-Maryland road here. Mrs. Webber said her husband, who had been despondent over illhealth, arose about 5 a. m. When he did not return to bed soon afterward she ‘became alarmed. She saw one-way tracks leading to the garage She followed them and made the discovery. . Webber, 45 a lifelong resident of this district, was employed at the nig ht. quest will hie he ‘in Bakersfield. are to be held “into Grass CAROL SINGERS AT —, mines. He pees pcre : ’ Superintendent Fred Garrison of the local highway division, snow plows and crews are working day and night to keep the highways open to_travel. Four feet of snow were measured at the junction of the Washington and Tahoe-Ukiah highway east of Nevada City and at the junction with number 40 above Emigrant Gap there were four and a half feet this forenoon. The Nevada City Garage of this city has towed several cars out. of Bear Valley since the storm started. . The Donner Summit and Yuba Pass are still open with five feet of snow at the Yuba Pass. Mr. Garrison warned that while all roads are open chains are needed on _ these mountain highways. The Downieville stage with-Mr. S. Fisher came through this morning and reported between 12 and 13 inches of snow on the ground jin that city. Four inches of snow fell after the snow plow went through and the grades were slippery for the stage this morning. The Alleghany stage changed to winter schedule today. one stage going out from Nevada City over the 40 mile route and one coming from Alleghany over the steepest and most dangerous road in the whole district. the Foote Grade. Snow has piled up and warnings were phoned to this city Sunday that the Foote road was the only one open and emPloyees of the Plumbago mine had to walk to the mine near the city. At the time of going to press the Washington mail carrier, E. J. Haverstock, had not made it through the snow to. Nevada City with his mail, but is expected at any time. Snow continues to fall in Nevada City and at one time it was about four inches deep -and the _ storm turned off into rain and hail. partly melting the snow. Due to dry weather moisture is all sinking into the ground and creeks are not expected to rise for some time. Steve (Matteoda, United States mail carrier between Graniteville andNevada City, came in at three o’clock this afternoon and _ states there were three feet of snow on the ground when he left and 20 inches at North Bloomfield. He said the road was not bad for traveling. Graniteville often has the deepest snow depths in Nevada county. Sometimes the snow reaches a depth of nine feet. People walk in and out of the second story windows of their homes. Very few ipeole remain for the winters any more but it is a busy little town all through the summer season. Mr. Matteoda put his stage on winter schedule November 1. A tree blew down at the first turn entering Hills Flat from the east, and broke the telephone line Valley this’ morning. Communication was resumed within two hours. The telephone lines connecting Nevada City with Downieville, Bloomfield. Graniteville and Washington. however, went out Sunday and until the time of going to press were still out. Superintendent E. E. Hoff states that he has crews tracing the line and expects to have the break mended very shortly. SACRAMENTO. Dec. 28.—Rescue of three car loads of vacationists, ‘Nala’ states ‘ed southward with heavy seas’ marooned in snow dritts on . northern shores of Lake Tahoe. ¥ reported last night. ae They were the first to be t f this season in the high Sierra blanketed with snow ranging depth from two to four feet. Of the three groups, a Los 4 geles business man, his woman panion from Carson City, Nev., and her 5 year old daughter were tra ped in the blizzard that raged along 3 the lake Saturday night and day. The driver, A. R. Munson of Angeles, tramped two miles’ through. snow drifts for help. Two more carloads were rescued last night by @ a state snow plow crew. a Driving from Carson City to Tahoe City, their auto skidded from the road and into a snow bank neal Dollar Hill, four miles northeast of’ Tahoe City. Sweeping snow mae visability impossible. . While the woman and child waited in the auto alone for more than two hours. Munson walked two miles to Bacchi’s restaurant at Lake Forest. ; ne There he telephoned A. M. Henry, Tahoe City garageman who rescued the waiting woman and child. They and Munson were taken to Tahoe Inn. They left by stage night for their homes. ; Last night a state snow plow and tow car were dispatched to Brockway to pull another auto and truck from snow drifts in which they become trapped. . In the auto were Lloyd Rees of Berkeley and another youth. Th truck was driven by Bud Mandeville of Brockway. After opening the road around the edge of the lake to Brockway, the crews were kept ready to go to the aid of others whose cars were lik ely to be blocked by snow drifts” Snowfall closed the Truckee-Tahoe highway for a time. yesterday — morning, but the road later was =. opened. 5 Last night the wind had died down a but snow continued to fall steadily. Snow at Norden, summit on the road. to Reno, was reported at 41 inches. With the precipitation in Sacra~ mento yesterday recorded at .13im. Meteorologist. E. H. Fletcher pre= dicted clearing and ‘cooler toda with showers. --—— Pe Motorists were ordered to equi their cars with chains for the d from Baxter to Truckee on ‘th ramento-Reno highway, ope one way traffic. California highway crews keeping the road open from station on the southern end of Tahoe to Tahoe City. For the first time, Nevada clearing the highway from the line toward .Carson City. Meanwhile the Pacific sté ing the coast off Los Angeles. The Mexican mail liner and several smaller craft tore from their moorings and were be ri into breakwaters. Sacramento valley. elites storm well. Telephone and E. officials last night 1 vice to be normal’again ley and mountains, Parents as well as friends of the church were present last night at the Christmas tree _ entertainment . held at eight o’clock for the members of Trinity Episcopal Sunday school. The program included more than 25 recitations and carol singers under direction of Mrs. Marian Libbey. Guests and Sunday schooi members also heard many solos and musical selections. Rey. Charles and afterwards gifts were distribut-. ed to children of the Sunday school by Santa Claus. ; Washburn made a_ short address,}1 Three differént Raglan Tuttle of the Superior Court:n Alpha Stores, $15,815. 17 a that of the 144, 27. and joyed a family reunion for Chr Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hieronimus en-j}

Out Loud COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA a bers and needs of our school chilpen, They were first a thought, an afl tag?) tient tin be. But the beauty voices caroling the old, old songs of H. M. L. > Benefactors we often think of as people with a great deal of money; who give a part of it away to help those who have little or no money to obtain food, books. better music, ‘an education, or a view of some of the great masters’ paintings. Of course there are many benefactors and many benefactions of that kind in this country, more so than in any other country, not only absolutely, but in proportion to the country’s wealth and population. The University of California is in part supported by benefactions of people who, give large sums to it while alive or leave generous bequests to it when they depart this world. Golden Gate park has beautiful monuments and buildings contributed by private donors. The national life has been enriched by Carnegie libraries and the Rockefeller Institute. As a recipient of benefactions of a high order, Nevada City probably outranks most other communities of its size in California. By that we do mean or limit benefactions to money gifts devoted to some special purpose only, but include these benefactions which flow from unselfish and devoted leadership toward goals of cultural community betterment. It is stimulating to good citizenship and community pride to think that two women so loved Nevada City that their wills -they left money for *.é ge scholarships for worthy graduates of the high school. qunisshbictiomaas 7 From a long range view, it may easily prove that it is as important to endow poor, serious and hard working students in the high school with the means of continuing their education in higher seats of learninf, as it is to build new buildings to’ care for growing numdren. The Hauber fund of $5.000 and the Fred W. Bradley Memorial fund of. $15,000 requeathed by Mrs. Virginia S. Bradley in memory of: her distinguished son, gives Nevada City’s high school an unusually large endowment for scholarships. Only a few ofus can emulate these two benefactors who took this means to aid Nevada City’s youth to wider horizons. of service, but there is a field in which many may, in personal devotion and leadership, help to raise the cultural standards of the community. From any hilltop at night this week one may look out over Nevada City and behold a beautiful spectacle. It is the living Christmas trees that glow in many colors ibeneath the lowering sky and illumine the black night. These trees and shrubs with their bright colors did not just hapidea. Someone, somewhere, had the idea of saving in some measure the young forests that each Christmas are hacked down to enhance the Christmas holiday in millions of homes. That thought of saving the young trees has not been so urgent lately because under the Forest Service no young trees are sacrificed night time ilyrmined by outtrees, ia setennae of “¥ continues its culmplatoad Gal sae \ sumas trees, and few citvely, are more lighted in Anner than Nevada City. of Christmas eve, a large group of trained singers sang carols in difderent parts of Nevada City. It was a delif-htful innovation. Fresh young English custom and Christian legend is a colorful and splendid corolary to the living Christmas trees. Life lifts a little from the humdrum and wearisome details of everyday. Thus we come to the end of this column with the conclusion that we should list among Nevada _ City’s school . Soh year there are mores ment fixing the value of the land Vol. 10, No. 117. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Centexé PER CAPITA COST OF GOV'T. IN NEV. COUNTY, $35.1 The local governments of Nevada county spent an average of $35.61 for each man, woman arid child in the county in 1934-35. according to findings of California Taxpayers’ association. Of this $35,61. $5.42 went for general government, $2.31 for protection to persons and property, 32 cents for health and sanitation. $5.53 for streets, ‘highways, and bridges, $3.97 for charities and corrections; $14.11 for education, $1,29 for recreation, 42 cents for miscellaneous, $2.24 for interest and redemption. The per ‘capita average expenditure of the local governments, cities, counties, schools, and _ special districts, for the entire state was $58.13, the association stated. Individual items averaged $4.51 for general government, $7.17 for protection to persons and_ property, $1.71 for health and_ sanitatien, $5.53 for highways, $8.02 for charities and corrections, $20.03 for education, $1.30 for recreation, $1,18 for miscellaneous, and $8.68 for debt payments. Total expenditures of all the local governments in California amounted to $370,183,809. more than a million dollars a day, the. association found. Income of the local governments was $365,696,432 for the same year. “Expenditures per capita for the several activities of the local .governments varied widely from the averages. both in the amount for each item and in the distribution of the total,’’ the association declared. “The element of efficiency, of. course enters into costs. Some communities are undoubtedly able to get more for their money than others. In addition there is the element of local choice. One standard of service may be demanded in one area and a different one in another. .Observable differences in roads, schools, police, sanitation, and other important functions of local government in different parts of the state do not seem to justify the wide variations found in expenditure. One can -hardly escape the conclusion that much, of the difference in. per capita expenditure must refleetvarying degrees of economy and efficiency rather than the quality of government.” BAD RECORD AGAINST ACCUSED CHECK FORGER Having one of the worst criminal records that any man in the sheriftf’s custody has possessed for some time, Charles Barton is in the county jail here on fictitious check charges. Barton is charged with issuing a fictitious check at the Sierra Hotel and he must answer the charge in superior court. Judge W. L. Mobley sent Barton to jail when he was unable to put wp bail. From the State Department of Criminal Identification Sheriff Tobiassen got Barton’s record which showed he had been comtined in twelve jails and in San Quentin and Folsom in recent years. P.G. & E. WINS SUIT / IN CONDEMNATION rndemnation of a strip of land in t Grass Valley Township requiréd by the P. G. and E. for a powek line right of way was the matter in dispute in the case of Charles T. Law against the company. Law testified the land was worth $500 and the “severance value’” worth $1500. Judge Tuttle rendered judg‘interior stone work were made of store of Bennetts & Steel in Grass Valley on Christmas eve but much of the stolen goods were recovered early Christmas morning. glass window in the rear of the Mill street store and gained entrance intothe rear room in which merchandise is stored In this part of the store many wrapped packages were stored awaiting delivery, coats, a tuxedo outfit, suit of clothes, etc. These the thief helped himBODY FOUND, SNOW Coroner L. R. Jefford and loca officers were notified a man named Johnson. aged about 55 years, h been found dead about 100 yards from his cabin between the White Spot and the Lake Vera road north of Nevada City last evening. He was found by passersby at ‘about five o’clock and had been dead a day or two. Reports are death was due to heart failure. The body was snow covered. He has resided in that section about six months. DR. A. N. MORGAN CRITICALLY ILL Word was rece: in Nevada City last evening that Dr. A. N. Morgan, local dentist, is critically ill in Rideout’s hospital, Marysville. with pneumonia. A message from his bedside today states his condition is unchanged. Dr. Morgan and wife had evidently gone to Marysville to spend the holidays with his sister and he became ill. He is also a brother of Mrs. Grace Nilon.of Nevada City. BOURNE ESTATE BRINGS $225,000 SAN MATEO, Dec. 28.—It was reported today the palatial country estate Filoli, owned by the late W. B. Bourne, has been sold to W. P. Roth of the (Matson Navigation company for $225,000. The property consists of 750 acres overlooking Crystal Springs lakes. It includes a mansion, housing thousands of @ollars worth of art treasures and furnishings. The house is so large that at one time after a burglary it took several days to determine the actual loss. Bourn was one of the inost extensive property owners in California. He owned the famous Gold House at Grass Valley, whose foundations and gold bearing quartz and for years was the principal owner of the North Star mine. IDAHO MAN, WANTED T. H. Woodruff, wanted in Idaho for forgery, was picked up at the checking station beyond Truckee Saturday afternoon by traffic patrol officers who were. on the lookout for the stolen car he was driving. He was turned over to Deputy Sheriff T. Dolley of Truckee who brought him to the county jail at Nevada City. Sheriff C: J. Tobiassen took charge of the case and notified Idaho ozficers. Woodruff, who had been in California 24 hours, started his homeward journey at six o’clock last evening, THIEF ROBS CLOTHING STORE ON XMAS EVE A robbery was committed at the A thief broke through a _ small including ‘overCOVERED BY ROADSIDE FOR FORGERY, NABBED i.." as tnis may sound, line is Resin od benefactors the names of Mrs. Charles E. Parsons to: whose zeal and tha aeverahos Value taken at $500 and the damages at $200. Company witnesses had given as $100. civic spirit we owe in great measure the growing and beautiful custom of outdoor Christmas trees, and Mrs. Carl Libby, whose enthusiasm and skilled leadership has resulted in the organization of trained young singers whose chorals on Christmas eve sare the ancient festival new beauty. STORM DAMAGE ive work. The first -Dan Stewart, superintendent of s division of the P. G. & E. comny states a@ message came ‘in that et s off at the Spanish mine] jg in charge of the QUEEN LIL CUSTOM ‘MILL RECONDITIONED One more day of repairing and re-conditioning the Queen Lil custon’ mill will put it in shape for actto be trucked from the Giant King mine} at. Washington and the snow storm may hold up ore trucking for a time. Hal D. Draper of Nevada City ore is ent .shington. The telephone L 80 that no messagas.a holiday guest ‘. Nevada. Se: ‘and Mrs. Bisens Tucker hove Tucker’s . . mother, Mrs. B. Mergen ef aaa, Mrs. ‘self to and succeeded in. making his fa visit of several days om aatiade getaway. Passing through a rear residence yard the thief made his way to the Blks property on School street and cached somie of his loot under

one of the cedar trees on the property. Here a man named Kelly spied the many bundles of clothing and reported ‘the same and upon investigation it was found they were the property of Bennetts & Steel. Word being sent to Joseph Bennetts of the firm he made a hasty investigation and learned that his to the value of several hundred dollars taken, i ) Mr. ae . Dick Haddy and two daughters returned Wednesday from store had been broken into and goods . HOTCHA RACKET OUITS AND MOVES The Hotcha racket moved out of Nevada City this morning with no ceremony, no oratory and no fond farewells. Van, DerKoolwyck, sponsor and promoter of this ‘“‘entertainment’’, was not here. A trailer attached to a car stopped in front of the door and the electric roulette wheel and other apparatus for extracting easy money from the easily “amused” was loaded on. The suckers ceased to: bite and the Hotcha business mosied out of town. ROGER BABSON SAYS LOOK OUT IN COMING BOOM A note of warning to businessmen who would pull profits from prosperity is sounded by Roger W. Babson, economist and statstician, in the Rotarian Magazine. “To my way of thinking’’; he says, “advertising and selling are going to play a tremendous part in the coming boom. Your sales department should be drilled into a ‘prosperity psychology.’ The minute the low point of a depression is reached, and the turn upwards toward better times comes, I become bullish on advertising. This bullinshess develops into a white heat as business.teaches the normal line. It is in the normal zone that all the constructive forces of your organization should work and work in harmony.’’ Mr. Babson’ further urges that businessmen consider these important factors: Credits should be kept in order at all times. As prosperity proceeds there will be increasing shortage of skilled workers and executives; so investment in your personnel now should pay handrome dividends. Doing business in the prosperous days ahead -without sound accounting and finance methods would be like fighting a fire with gasoline. If you must borrow, at least. be free from debt one day, of each year, Practical research in your business may mean the difference between profits and just breakless than 10 per cent of the businessmen of the United States actually pulled profits from the great 1929 boom! Remember this: ‘‘warns Mr. Babson, “whereas depression hits everybody, prosperity is always selective. Profit tickets are not ipassed out to all that enter the big tent of good times. In a period of business expansion you must work just as hard to assure profits as in a period of depression you must work hard to avert losses. “Only four times during my 35 years of studying business conditions has the Babson-chart, on. which I have spent over a million dollars in research, crossed the ‘normal line’ on its way upward. The first of these was in 1902-12, the second in 1915, and the third was 14 years ago, in 1922. The fourth has just occurred. ‘At the start of this. impending boom,” he says in conclusion, ‘“‘you all have a new set of books to open. This is the time when everybody starts from scratch but some—only scratch. The way -to eliminate competition is not to meet it but to keep ahead of it.” FOOT TRACKS IN SNOW LEAD TO SUICIDE Foot tracks in the snow led Mrs. Marie C. Webber today to the body of her husband, Herbert Harris Webber hanging from the rafters in the garage at the couple’s home on the Idaho-Maryland road here. Mrs. Webber said her husband, who had been despondent over illhealth, arose about 5 a. m. When he did not return to bed soon afterward she ‘became alarmed. She saw one-way tracks leading to the garage She followed them and made the discovery. . Webber, 45 a lifelong resident of this district, was employed at the nig ht. quest will hie he ‘in Bakersfield. are to be held “into Grass CAROL SINGERS AT —, mines. He pees pcre : ’ Superintendent Fred Garrison of the local highway division, snow plows and crews are working day and night to keep the highways open to_travel. Four feet of snow were measured at the junction of the Washington and Tahoe-Ukiah highway east of Nevada City and at the junction with number 40 above Emigrant Gap there were four and a half feet this forenoon. The Nevada City Garage of this city has towed several cars out. of Bear Valley since the storm started. . The Donner Summit and Yuba Pass are still open with five feet of snow at the Yuba Pass. Mr. Garrison warned that while all roads are open chains are needed on _ these mountain highways. The Downieville stage with-Mr. S. Fisher came through this morning and reported between 12 and 13 inches of snow on the ground jin that city. Four inches of snow fell after the snow plow went through and the grades were slippery for the stage this morning. The Alleghany stage changed to winter schedule today. one stage going out from Nevada City over the 40 mile route and one coming from Alleghany over the steepest and most dangerous road in the whole district. the Foote Grade. Snow has piled up and warnings were phoned to this city Sunday that the Foote road was the only one open and emPloyees of the Plumbago mine had to walk to the mine near the city. At the time of going to press the Washington mail carrier, E. J. Haverstock, had not made it through the snow to. Nevada City with his mail, but is expected at any time. Snow continues to fall in Nevada City and at one time it was about four inches deep -and the _ storm turned off into rain and hail. partly melting the snow. Due to dry weather moisture is all sinking into the ground and creeks are not expected to rise for some time. Steve (Matteoda, United States mail carrier between Graniteville andNevada City, came in at three o’clock this afternoon and _ states there were three feet of snow on the ground when he left and 20 inches at North Bloomfield. He said the road was not bad for traveling. Graniteville often has the deepest snow depths in Nevada county. Sometimes the snow reaches a depth of nine feet. People walk in and out of the second story windows of their homes. Very few ipeole remain for the winters any more but it is a busy little town all through the summer season. Mr. Matteoda put his stage on winter schedule November 1. A tree blew down at the first turn entering Hills Flat from the east, and broke the telephone line Valley this’ morning. Communication was resumed within two hours. The telephone lines connecting Nevada City with Downieville, Bloomfield. Graniteville and Washington. however, went out Sunday and until the time of going to press were still out. Superintendent E. E. Hoff states that he has crews tracing the line and expects to have the break mended very shortly. SACRAMENTO. Dec. 28.—Rescue of three car loads of vacationists, ‘Nala’ states ‘ed southward with heavy seas’ marooned in snow dritts on . northern shores of Lake Tahoe. ¥ reported last night. ae They were the first to be t f this season in the high Sierra blanketed with snow ranging depth from two to four feet. Of the three groups, a Los 4 geles business man, his woman panion from Carson City, Nev., and her 5 year old daughter were tra ped in the blizzard that raged along 3 the lake Saturday night and day. The driver, A. R. Munson of Angeles, tramped two miles’ through. snow drifts for help. Two more carloads were rescued last night by @ a state snow plow crew. a Driving from Carson City to Tahoe City, their auto skidded from the road and into a snow bank neal Dollar Hill, four miles northeast of’ Tahoe City. Sweeping snow mae visability impossible. . While the woman and child waited in the auto alone for more than two hours. Munson walked two miles to Bacchi’s restaurant at Lake Forest. ; ne There he telephoned A. M. Henry, Tahoe City garageman who rescued the waiting woman and child. They and Munson were taken to Tahoe Inn. They left by stage night for their homes. ; Last night a state snow plow and tow car were dispatched to Brockway to pull another auto and truck from snow drifts in which they become trapped. . In the auto were Lloyd Rees of Berkeley and another youth. Th truck was driven by Bud Mandeville of Brockway. After opening the road around the edge of the lake to Brockway, the crews were kept ready to go to the aid of others whose cars were lik ely to be blocked by snow drifts” Snowfall closed the Truckee-Tahoe highway for a time. yesterday — morning, but the road later was =. opened. 5 Last night the wind had died down a but snow continued to fall steadily. Snow at Norden, summit on the road. to Reno, was reported at 41 inches. With the precipitation in Sacra~ mento yesterday recorded at .13im. Meteorologist. E. H. Fletcher pre= dicted clearing and ‘cooler toda with showers. --—— Pe Motorists were ordered to equi their cars with chains for the d from Baxter to Truckee on ‘th ramento-Reno highway, ope one way traffic. California highway crews keeping the road open from station on the southern end of Tahoe to Tahoe City. For the first time, Nevada clearing the highway from the line toward .Carson City. Meanwhile the Pacific sté ing the coast off Los Angeles. The Mexican mail liner and several smaller craft tore from their moorings and were be ri into breakwaters. Sacramento valley. elites storm well. Telephone and E. officials last night 1 vice to be normal’again ley and mountains, Parents as well as friends of the church were present last night at the Christmas tree _ entertainment . held at eight o’clock for the members of Trinity Episcopal Sunday school. The program included more than 25 recitations and carol singers under direction of Mrs. Marian Libbey. Guests and Sunday schooi members also heard many solos and musical selections. Rey. Charles and afterwards gifts were distribut-. ed to children of the Sunday school by Santa Claus. ; Washburn made a_ short address,}1 Three differént Raglan Tuttle of the Superior Court:n Alpha Stores, $15,815. 17 a that of the 144, 27. and joyed a family reunion for Chr Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hieronimus en-j}