February 1, 1943 (4 pages)

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents permonth 4 “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ready to guard and defend it.” — Daniel Webster Ese This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings.If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. eS ise Vol 17; No. ie Me County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT De CALIFORNIA ¥ ie Gold oe MONDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1943, Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. From Denvey, Colorado, comes the resume of an address made there by Senator James E. Murray, chairman of the Special Senate Committee on Small Business. The address was made before the Colorado Mining association. Senator Murray bitterly criticised the imadequacies of the administration’s policy with regard to the production of critical raw materials for war work. He spoke his mind plainly, unequivocally, as one miner to another, to these people gathered in Denver for the sessions of the (Mining War Councit, which is an affiliate of the American Mining \Congress. He told them, among other things, of a sort of stalemate in the raw materials situation in the War Production Board. in Washington, «where contending ideas are caught, seemingly, on different sides of ‘‘an impervious layer of bureaucrats’? which has rendered both sides impotent. The Montana Senator advanced ag a possible solution of this difficulty the suggestion of the Senate Committee on Small Business that there should be a ‘‘War Minerals Director,’ fully empowered, as Senator Murray said, ‘‘to direct coordinate the work the RFC; MPC, SWPC, BEW, DPC, USUS,-Bureau of Minfew other alphabetical independently active intals ” and of WPB, IM-RIC, es, and a agencies messing up the minerals and me program.”’ have noticed an among members mining ind‘Stry, reflected press, for the appointment of such a director,’ the Senatorcontinued. “If such, an office were created and a strong director. chosen from the industry,. much good would be accomplished. At least we would have an ultimate beyond whom the buck could not be pass-ed. As*it is, one bureaucrat throws the ball to the other, and you can’t put your finger on who is responsible for giving you the frunaround.” Speaking on the persistent forts of the Treasury Department to keep percentage depletion allowances out of the-tax bills, Senator Murray, characterized the attemps. as shortsighted, and said: “We must fight this policy to the last ditch. Unless the miner’s capital can be returned so that he may look for and develop a new mine when the one he is working is exhausted, continuation of mining production is in grave danger.”’ Referring to possible future industry closing orders, he said. that any such drastic order as the gold mine closing order should be preceded by appropriate legislation to afford relief for those affected by possible “harsh and ruinous results. The Senator posed and answered these questions:. “Are/additional, workable sourcomestic essential > ‘minerals ratte for the war effort? You and I Know they are. Will our mining industry go all out, if given reasonable support, to produce these minerals? Yau and I know it will.”’ Senator Murray quoted the WPB Vice Chairman Ferdinand Eberstadt as saying: “The material shortage is colossal,’ and charged: a “Preliminary investigaion dicates that our raw material planning has’ been, and is being done in a short sighted fashion, on a short range instead of long range basis. One excuse for this, which I do not believe to ‘be valid, is often repeated—military and lendlease requirements are too ‘fluid’ and fluctuating to permit firm figures to be known long enough in advance for concrete planning operations. It is my firm ‘conviction that the logical answer to this is: We can’t have too much of anything. Our stockpiles cannot, be too large. We cannot have too many mines operating.” Senator Murray promised to get to ‘thé very root of the problem. He declared: ‘“‘The material of war must be produced in increasing amounts and ina never-ending stream if we are to remain the war “y interest increasing the the of in man efes of in . . . . . . . . . view }under Red Cross. . WAVES . ; viewed at the Hennessy School from . VES ENSIGN GRACE REINEMAN OF THE WAVES She will meet women interested in joining the: WAVES or the SPARS next Friday from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. at the _Henessy school in Grass Valley.RECRUITS SOUGHT FOR WAVES ANDSPARS IN COUNTY Bringing women of the Nevada City area information on _ service with the WAVES, SPARS, and Navy . Nurse Corps, officers of the Wom-. en’s Naval Reserve headquarters in San Francisco will visit Grass Valley Friday. Lieut (jg) Dorothy M. Navy Nurse: Corps, and Ep-. M. Reineman of the WA the group which will meet next Davis, sign Grace head the women’s club leaders and interlocal women interested -in*joining the service. state that as a reof the women’s program to date, that quotas or both WAVES (Womens Navyal Res and SPARS (Womens Coast Guard Reserve) have phat dou-! “This new quota,’ Ensign says, that officials the Naval sult of success reserve the erve) bled. Reineman “means young cupation can now fill a vital war role} in the ranks the WAVES and . SPARS.”’ The enlistment of quogja for Navy 9 Nurses has also been raised and . Lieut. Davis will interview register. ed nurses interested in serving wiih Nurse Corps. Her visit is auspices of the American Navy the the the interwith be Applicants for service and SPARS will . m. Nurses wishing Navy Nurse Corps may meet Lieut. Davis at Hennessy School between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. An assembly, open to women and girls of Nevada City and Grass Val-. ley 1-2'6-43:57 will be held at the Grass Valley High School on Friday. Ensign Reineman and Lieut. Davis will speak at this meeting. RED CROSS MEETS WED. The regular monthly meeting of the Nevada City Chapter A RC will fbe held on Wednesday evening Fab. 3d at 7:30 at the city hall. A full attendance is requested. Reports will be presented from cémmittee chairmen. Plans will be discussed for the wir fund drive ‘which will begin March.1. Because. of the greatly increased quota this matter will require early planning and diligent committee follow up work. Alvah Hooper. Heads Peace Officers Assn. Alvah Hooper, newly elected coroner, has been chosen president of the Nevada-Sierra County-Peace Officers assocition. Other officers elected were Carl! Larsen, first: vice-president; Sam Scoville, second vice-president; W. J. O’Hara, third vice-president; H. F. Sofge, secretary-treasurer; and Gene Johnson, sergeantat-arms and range master. 9 to 4 p. to in the a, m, serve the bulwark and the arsenal of democracy. ‘We must crush forever the militaristic ambitions of the wouldibe world enslavers—the Huns ofthe West and the East. At the same time, we ‘owe it to our posterity to preserve and strengthen the institution of private enterprise under which this nation has attained its enviable position of power and influence in the world.” . Kaltman, . lott, . also ASSORTED KNIVES: MASONIC LODGE SOON LEAVE FOR SOLOMON ISLES ‘Chief of Police Max Solara has accumulated a large assortment of edged weapons now on display in the Nevada City Nugget show window. He is nearly’ ready to send off the first consignment of knives and swords in his campaign with the slogan: “‘Give a knife and save a life.” Among the steel blades displayed are an old *ashioned cavalry sword, a broadsword used by early day marines, 5 dress swords, discarded by local Knights of Pythias, 24 hunting knives, two toad stabibers, handy for in-fighting with the Japs, one machete, two bolos, and a miscellaneous assortment O€ meat choppers and ‘butcher knives. The predominance of hunting khives in the collection is due to the fact that nearly every ablé bodied man in the community hunts deer in season. Among the donors were Arthur W. Hoge, Leslie Land, Frank White, Chester White, Gove Celio, Mrs. Lulu Jones, Richard Goyne, K. M. Williamson, ‘Jack Eddy, John Richards, Andrew Larsen, M. Holmes, ‘Miss Elinor Albert Bates, Andrew W. Henry, J. A. Keleher, Irving. Long, F. E. W. Kendrick and Williams. Paul Viles of Grass Valley, drive Thursday took f twenty as-. knives down to Saomimento . to Sergeant Carl AnderLe Marines, who has A. Larsen, Mrs: Mary M. Lauren a signment making his first cons fe) sorted delivery the for son, of ;}arranged dispatch to the South Pacific by bomber. Solaro eolin expects to deliver the Marine headquarters tomorrow. lection to Sacramento LAVA CAP MINE + women from nearly every civilian oc-. ANSENIC OUTPUT 25 TONS MONTHLY superintendent of reports that this tons Otto Schiffner, the Lava Cap mine, property is now producting 25 monthly of arsenic, one of the gredients of some varieties of poison gas. This in addition to the pyhites used as a flux for other metals by the large smelting companies. There are now 325 miners ployed at the Lava Cap, Schiffner states, as compared with 360 employed two or threes years ago. Work has begun on sinking the ‘Central mine’ shaft another 400 feet from the 2700 to the 3100 level. Two new levels will be established, one on 2900 foot and another at 3100 feet. This is an inclined shaft in country rock, sunk about 50 feet from the footwall of the vein. When the level at 3100 feet is established it will be known as the 16th. Ore values, Schiffner states, running about $10 per ton, which is nearly $2.00 less than ore extracted from levels nearer the surface. Four hundred tons of ore are being milled daily. The Lava Cap is noteworthy as the only gold quartz mine of any size now operating in the Nevada City-Grass Valley area. It is permitted to operate, full capacity, by the WPB on account of its production of the flux used in smelting and because of its arsenic output. The Lava Cap is also unusual in this district, in that it also yields a large proportion of sil ver along with the gold. inemare Elks to Give Dance for Camp Beale Soldiers The Nevada City Elks Club will entertain approximately 100 soldiers from-the 496th and 497th field artillery, Camp Beale next Saturday night Richard Goyne, past exalted ruler of the lodge, is chairman of the entertainment committee. There will be dancing from 9 p. m. until 1 a. m. with refreshments served at midnight.” The Elks have invited the young women ofthe city to be their guests to assi8t in entertaining the soldiers Goyne states he wants to see no wall flowers among the men in uniform RAINFALL Total rainfall for. the season is now 35.85 inches, considerably more than half the average annual precipitation of 54.04 inches. Vandenbelrg, . Louw} Mel-. who “y ELECTS OFFICERS Following a big turkey dinner the . ‘Nevada Lodge, No? 13, F. and*A. M. . installed.officers for this;year. Judge George L. Jones, past grand master of Masons in California, and John L. Thomas, district deputy grand lecturer were installing officers Thenew officers are: ‘Cameron Larsen, worshipful master; Cary 3. Arbogast, senior warden; Hilmen EF. (Kijorliey junior warden; Benjamin Hall, treasurer; Jos. E. Stenger,~secretary; Walter A. Carlson, chaplain; E. Lloyd Dudley, senior deacon; (Chas. P. Elliott, junior deacon; Riaymond B. Worthley, marshall; H. F. Shaw, senior steward; Ernest OQ. Young; junior steward; John W. Darke, tyler. Benpamin Hall, James Penrose, and Joseph Stenger, trustees. Walter A. Carlson, master of ceremonies. ‘Chapter officers Cary S. Arbogast, mond V. Worthley, Lawrence, scribe; treasurer;. J. F. and principle sojourner; installed were: high priest; Rayking; Thomas W. Benjamin Hail, Stenger, secretary Thomas M. Keckler, captain of the host; Alfred Martin, royal arch captain; George; R. Carter, master of the third veil; John W. Shebley, master of the ond! . veil; H. Fred Shaw, master of the} 1st veil; R. J. Tremaine, sentinel; . Benjamin Hall, master of ceremon-. VICTORY RALLY FOR GARDENERS Leeesmiowls attorney and chairman of the Grass Valley Defense Council, asks afl ious gardeners to attend a Victory Garden rally in VetMemorial building Wednesday evening, February 3rd. The meeting sponsored by the Office of Civilian Defense and the Red Cross. ardeners who have had success have been invited} it was done. Speakers . who have accepted ae: John Martin, Oakley Johns, Mrs. John Bieber, William Argall, and Mrs. Paul Kemper. Mrs. Kemper will report on the work of the victory gardeners in Nevada City last year. Gilbert Teniis, Grass Valley high school, will discuss the garden program. in the schools, and two junior gardeners will report on their projects. There will be musical selections ‘by’ the Grass Valley high school band and by the Hennessy school chorus. Nevada City gardeners have been invited to join with their fellow. gardeners of Grass Valley in this event. UNDERGROUND MULES OF NORTH STAR NOW ONTOP Seventy mules, some of which had not looked on the green world for years, are now contentedly grazing in the pastures of the ‘North Star mining property of this city. These mules which formerly hauled ore car trains thousands of feet underground in the North Star mine -were brought ‘to the surface when the Empire-Star mines closed down in obedience to the: WPB closing order, according to William Simpkins of the Newmont Mining ‘company, which operates the Hmpire-Star mines. They were not ‘drafted’ for work in the copper mines, but a few of them were sold and in all probability are now hard working soldiers_in the Mountain Troops division. On being drawn to the surface the mules are blindfolded f6r a short time in order to become accustomed to sunlight. Simpkins states that the North, Star mules were probably the best treated of their kind in the world. They lived in electric lighted stalls, they consumed quantities of the best hay and grain obtainable, and while they belonged to no union, they very rarely worked more than an eight hour shift. . ies. William erans is Local 2 ex-. ceptional to tell how principal of the Mrs. Mary Campbell has returned from a, visit with -her sons and friends in bay area from a most enjoyable ten day visit. Mrs. Campbell has received word her son, (Carl (Campbell, has arrived safely in Africa. He is a M. P. in the medical corps. ; would not . open . like jing the obvious ernment . itee parties. . existed . . general . three members of the . classification SELECTION OF JUDGES TEST OF GOOD GOVERNORS By JOHN W. DUNLAP SACRAMENTO, Feb. One of the most important obliga-. tions of a governor is his selection of judges. No position in government . andj} calls for better qualifications solid judgment as the judicial bencn. Previous governors have met occasional criticism in the selection of judges, particularly the last-minute filling of vacancies. To dig up the more famous cases would only rehash skeletons better left ‘buried. Governor Warren has taken a big stride toward better government with! . NAVY WIFE FOUND DEAD his policy of asking the state bar to approve his judicial appointments. Such a test has been in effect for the relative rare appointments to the state supreme court: and appellate courts, but not for the frequent superior and municipal judgeships. Warren proposes to nominate judge, await the report of the board of governors of, the state bar, then jissue the commission. This has the . salutary effect of forcing a governor . to name a qualified person to avoid criticism of himself, And no nominee would accept the governor’s appointment if there was anything in his professional or private life which stand investigation. course has always governors but it War! good overlooked a bee n. seems . Such to past a instance of ‘en 9-. for another things ZOvthat have been, xy his pedecessors. Warnote the his office While of Governor is ele speaking ouragin close cooperaNon vaeiaen Attorney General Robert opposren, it te and that of although they are of Such a friendship never Wa torney former Governor Olson. every day, incidents pop upwhere the two offices are in close agreement. There was the instance of Warren ousting private counsel in the involved Pacific States Savings and Loan company case, and having general take over. The Kenny, between rren as at and Almost the attorney savings to will be tremendous, the complete lack of politics involved. Warren acted on the advice of the in removing the state lands . commission, appointed . just before Olson went out of office. Warren felt the commission was useless, should not spend state money, and moved in quickly. He had Kenny’s investigators go to work on the state board. of chiropractic examiners when reports came in there were irregularities in the giving of examinations. When it came to drawing wp child care bill to give state aid to nurseries for children of war mothers, the attorney general’s office took the lead. Probably the most important of all, Kenny has assigned one of his chief deputies to have an office in the governor’s suite, to go over. all legislation and generally be of assistance. Waren as a previous attorney general: and district attorney has a big advantage over the usual governor. For example, while explaining to the newspapermen about his desire to clean up a certain misuse of g0overnmental authority, he swung around in his swivel chair, pulled one book out of many from his bookcase, attorney general a thumbed expertly through the penal’ code and came up in a few seconds with the exact section number and punishment for what the was explaining. That kind of familiarity with government can only come from long years of public service such as Warren has had. GRASS VALLEY FIREMEN’S BALL The firemen of Grass Valley are meeting with’a generous response this year in the sale of tickets to the annual ball which this year will fall on the evening of February 20th. Ii will be held in the Vetenans Memorial building. A canvas now being made of the Grass Valley business district resulted in a record sale of tickets. Two sets of tickets are printed, one for’ civilian patrons and another for men in uniform. The latter are sold at half price. ’ 1,--(UPj)—4 . . . . . the state seized company . not to mention +63. ey : ON TRAIN KUGENE, (Oregon)—Mrs. Martha Virginia Brinston James, 21, of Seattle, Washington, identified as the wife of Ensign Richard F. James of’ Seattle, Washington, who was found lying in a Pullman car aisle of ‘the Southern Pacific Railroad train last Saturday, which followed the Oregonian Limited on which her husband was riding. The young wife was found with a slashed juglar vein, and a description of the assailant, who was said to have been seen by a Marine private, was given to the police. Se i BAD BOYS NOW COON SOLDIERS SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1.—(UP)— Now in the nation’s armed forces are 378 boys who once were the Preston School of Industry, Ione, and the Fred C: Nelles School for Whittier, the state department institutions has been informed by superintendents of the two schools. Former Preston number Nelles serving inmates of Boys, of boys in service has contributed 3ranches of the service Ghosgen by the boys include the army, navy, marine corps, air corps, paratroops, state guard, national guard and coast guard. One is in the Canadiam,army. ‘And they have their share ‘Of chevrons, the superintendents report. y “A number of our boys have writ ten that Preston training is good training for the army.” O. H. Cloge, 315. . Preston superintendent said, “and “we get very good reports from many of . the sides dae in whose units the, boys ;are serving.’ / STATE EMPLOYES JOIN THE COLORS SACRAMENTES Fa. —_(UP Since the Japasese“attack on Pearl Harbor a total of 2,221 state employes have left their positions to join the armed forces, and 238 others have entered civilian war work, the state personnel board has rée. vealed. The military has claimed men from rankng officials of state bureaus and divisions, who left position paying ‘$400 a month and more, to junior clerks and handymen. Sixty seven of those listed as now on military leave voluntarily left positions that -had been granted draft exempt status, the board’s survey revealed. Six New Members Joii Business, Professional Women Using their beautiful candlelight ceremony the Business and Professional Women’s club . initiated six . new members at their dinner meeting in the National Hotel here. The new members are, Mrs. Mare Hdmonds, Mrs. Helen Berger, (Mrs. Genevieve Cooper, Mrs. John Chatterton, Mrs, Emily Lagerquist, and Mrs. Fred Anderson. Mrs. Ethel White and Miss Dorothy Waggoner were in charge of the dinner arrangements. The Rev. Cedric Porter was guest speaker. He dis— cussed the psychological effect of the ~ war, Mrs. John Hathaway of Grass Valley contributed two’ vocal numhers. Mrs. Geneveve Elliott played the piano selections. Mrs. Cedric Porter, Mrs. William Hutchison and Mrs. Pratti o San Francisco wefre Mr and Mrs. Henry aie arrived Sa in law, Mr. and xe Adams street. Lee

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents permonth 4 “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ready to guard and defend it.” — Daniel Webster Ese This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings.If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. eS ise Vol 17; No. ie Me County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT De CALIFORNIA ¥ ie Gold oe MONDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1943, Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. From Denvey, Colorado, comes the resume of an address made there by Senator James E. Murray, chairman of the Special Senate Committee on Small Business. The address was made before the Colorado Mining association. Senator Murray bitterly criticised the imadequacies of the administration’s policy with regard to the production of critical raw materials for war work. He spoke his mind plainly, unequivocally, as one miner to another, to these people gathered in Denver for the sessions of the (Mining War Councit, which is an affiliate of the American Mining \Congress. He told them, among other things, of a sort of stalemate in the raw materials situation in the War Production Board. in Washington, «where contending ideas are caught, seemingly, on different sides of ‘‘an impervious layer of bureaucrats’? which has rendered both sides impotent. The Montana Senator advanced ag a possible solution of this difficulty the suggestion of the Senate Committee on Small Business that there should be a ‘‘War Minerals Director,’ fully empowered, as Senator Murray said, ‘‘to direct coordinate the work the RFC; MPC, SWPC, BEW, DPC, USUS,-Bureau of Minfew other alphabetical independently active intals ” and of WPB, IM-RIC, es, and a agencies messing up the minerals and me program.”’ have noticed an among members mining ind‘Stry, reflected press, for the appointment of such a director,’ the Senatorcontinued. “If such, an office were created and a strong director. chosen from the industry,. much good would be accomplished. At least we would have an ultimate beyond whom the buck could not be pass-ed. As*it is, one bureaucrat throws the ball to the other, and you can’t put your finger on who is responsible for giving you the frunaround.” Speaking on the persistent forts of the Treasury Department to keep percentage depletion allowances out of the-tax bills, Senator Murray, characterized the attemps. as shortsighted, and said: “We must fight this policy to the last ditch. Unless the miner’s capital can be returned so that he may look for and develop a new mine when the one he is working is exhausted, continuation of mining production is in grave danger.”’ Referring to possible future industry closing orders, he said. that any such drastic order as the gold mine closing order should be preceded by appropriate legislation to afford relief for those affected by possible “harsh and ruinous results. The Senator posed and answered these questions:. “Are/additional, workable sourcomestic essential > ‘minerals ratte for the war effort? You and I Know they are. Will our mining industry go all out, if given reasonable support, to produce these minerals? Yau and I know it will.”’ Senator Murray quoted the WPB Vice Chairman Ferdinand Eberstadt as saying: “The material shortage is colossal,’ and charged: a “Preliminary investigaion dicates that our raw material planning has’ been, and is being done in a short sighted fashion, on a short range instead of long range basis. One excuse for this, which I do not believe to ‘be valid, is often repeated—military and lendlease requirements are too ‘fluid’ and fluctuating to permit firm figures to be known long enough in advance for concrete planning operations. It is my firm ‘conviction that the logical answer to this is: We can’t have too much of anything. Our stockpiles cannot, be too large. We cannot have too many mines operating.” Senator Murray promised to get to ‘thé very root of the problem. He declared: ‘“‘The material of war must be produced in increasing amounts and ina never-ending stream if we are to remain the war “y interest increasing the the of in man efes of in . . . . . . . . . view }under Red Cross. . WAVES . ; viewed at the Hennessy School from . VES ENSIGN GRACE REINEMAN OF THE WAVES She will meet women interested in joining the: WAVES or the SPARS next Friday from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. at the _Henessy school in Grass Valley.RECRUITS SOUGHT FOR WAVES ANDSPARS IN COUNTY Bringing women of the Nevada City area information on _ service with the WAVES, SPARS, and Navy . Nurse Corps, officers of the Wom-. en’s Naval Reserve headquarters in San Francisco will visit Grass Valley Friday. Lieut (jg) Dorothy M. Navy Nurse: Corps, and Ep-. M. Reineman of the WA the group which will meet next Davis, sign Grace head the women’s club leaders and interlocal women interested -in*joining the service. state that as a reof the women’s program to date, that quotas or both WAVES (Womens Navyal Res and SPARS (Womens Coast Guard Reserve) have phat dou-! “This new quota,’ Ensign says, that officials the Naval sult of success reserve the erve) bled. Reineman “means young cupation can now fill a vital war role} in the ranks the WAVES and . SPARS.”’ The enlistment of quogja for Navy 9 Nurses has also been raised and . Lieut. Davis will interview register. ed nurses interested in serving wiih Nurse Corps. Her visit is auspices of the American Navy the the the interwith be Applicants for service and SPARS will . m. Nurses wishing Navy Nurse Corps may meet Lieut. Davis at Hennessy School between 9 a. m. and 4 p. m. An assembly, open to women and girls of Nevada City and Grass Val-. ley 1-2'6-43:57 will be held at the Grass Valley High School on Friday. Ensign Reineman and Lieut. Davis will speak at this meeting. RED CROSS MEETS WED. The regular monthly meeting of the Nevada City Chapter A RC will fbe held on Wednesday evening Fab. 3d at 7:30 at the city hall. A full attendance is requested. Reports will be presented from cémmittee chairmen. Plans will be discussed for the wir fund drive ‘which will begin March.1. Because. of the greatly increased quota this matter will require early planning and diligent committee follow up work. Alvah Hooper. Heads Peace Officers Assn. Alvah Hooper, newly elected coroner, has been chosen president of the Nevada-Sierra County-Peace Officers assocition. Other officers elected were Carl! Larsen, first: vice-president; Sam Scoville, second vice-president; W. J. O’Hara, third vice-president; H. F. Sofge, secretary-treasurer; and Gene Johnson, sergeantat-arms and range master. 9 to 4 p. to in the a, m, serve the bulwark and the arsenal of democracy. ‘We must crush forever the militaristic ambitions of the wouldibe world enslavers—the Huns ofthe West and the East. At the same time, we ‘owe it to our posterity to preserve and strengthen the institution of private enterprise under which this nation has attained its enviable position of power and influence in the world.” . Kaltman, . lott, . also ASSORTED KNIVES: MASONIC LODGE SOON LEAVE FOR SOLOMON ISLES ‘Chief of Police Max Solara has accumulated a large assortment of edged weapons now on display in the Nevada City Nugget show window. He is nearly’ ready to send off the first consignment of knives and swords in his campaign with the slogan: “‘Give a knife and save a life.” Among the steel blades displayed are an old *ashioned cavalry sword, a broadsword used by early day marines, 5 dress swords, discarded by local Knights of Pythias, 24 hunting knives, two toad stabibers, handy for in-fighting with the Japs, one machete, two bolos, and a miscellaneous assortment O€ meat choppers and ‘butcher knives. The predominance of hunting khives in the collection is due to the fact that nearly every ablé bodied man in the community hunts deer in season. Among the donors were Arthur W. Hoge, Leslie Land, Frank White, Chester White, Gove Celio, Mrs. Lulu Jones, Richard Goyne, K. M. Williamson, ‘Jack Eddy, John Richards, Andrew Larsen, M. Holmes, ‘Miss Elinor Albert Bates, Andrew W. Henry, J. A. Keleher, Irving. Long, F. E. W. Kendrick and Williams. Paul Viles of Grass Valley, drive Thursday took f twenty as-. knives down to Saomimento . to Sergeant Carl AnderLe Marines, who has A. Larsen, Mrs: Mary M. Lauren a signment making his first cons fe) sorted delivery the for son, of ;}arranged dispatch to the South Pacific by bomber. Solaro eolin expects to deliver the Marine headquarters tomorrow. lection to Sacramento LAVA CAP MINE + women from nearly every civilian oc-. ANSENIC OUTPUT 25 TONS MONTHLY superintendent of reports that this tons Otto Schiffner, the Lava Cap mine, property is now producting 25 monthly of arsenic, one of the gredients of some varieties of poison gas. This in addition to the pyhites used as a flux for other metals by the large smelting companies. There are now 325 miners ployed at the Lava Cap, Schiffner states, as compared with 360 employed two or threes years ago. Work has begun on sinking the ‘Central mine’ shaft another 400 feet from the 2700 to the 3100 level. Two new levels will be established, one on 2900 foot and another at 3100 feet. This is an inclined shaft in country rock, sunk about 50 feet from the footwall of the vein. When the level at 3100 feet is established it will be known as the 16th. Ore values, Schiffner states, running about $10 per ton, which is nearly $2.00 less than ore extracted from levels nearer the surface. Four hundred tons of ore are being milled daily. The Lava Cap is noteworthy as the only gold quartz mine of any size now operating in the Nevada City-Grass Valley area. It is permitted to operate, full capacity, by the WPB on account of its production of the flux used in smelting and because of its arsenic output. The Lava Cap is also unusual in this district, in that it also yields a large proportion of sil ver along with the gold. inemare Elks to Give Dance for Camp Beale Soldiers The Nevada City Elks Club will entertain approximately 100 soldiers from-the 496th and 497th field artillery, Camp Beale next Saturday night Richard Goyne, past exalted ruler of the lodge, is chairman of the entertainment committee. There will be dancing from 9 p. m. until 1 a. m. with refreshments served at midnight.” The Elks have invited the young women ofthe city to be their guests to assi8t in entertaining the soldiers Goyne states he wants to see no wall flowers among the men in uniform

RAINFALL Total rainfall for. the season is now 35.85 inches, considerably more than half the average annual precipitation of 54.04 inches. Vandenbelrg, . Louw} Mel-. who “y ELECTS OFFICERS Following a big turkey dinner the . ‘Nevada Lodge, No? 13, F. and*A. M. . installed.officers for this;year. Judge George L. Jones, past grand master of Masons in California, and John L. Thomas, district deputy grand lecturer were installing officers Thenew officers are: ‘Cameron Larsen, worshipful master; Cary 3. Arbogast, senior warden; Hilmen EF. (Kijorliey junior warden; Benjamin Hall, treasurer; Jos. E. Stenger,~secretary; Walter A. Carlson, chaplain; E. Lloyd Dudley, senior deacon; (Chas. P. Elliott, junior deacon; Riaymond B. Worthley, marshall; H. F. Shaw, senior steward; Ernest OQ. Young; junior steward; John W. Darke, tyler. Benpamin Hall, James Penrose, and Joseph Stenger, trustees. Walter A. Carlson, master of ceremonies. ‘Chapter officers Cary S. Arbogast, mond V. Worthley, Lawrence, scribe; treasurer;. J. F. and principle sojourner; installed were: high priest; Rayking; Thomas W. Benjamin Hail, Stenger, secretary Thomas M. Keckler, captain of the host; Alfred Martin, royal arch captain; George; R. Carter, master of the third veil; John W. Shebley, master of the ond! . veil; H. Fred Shaw, master of the} 1st veil; R. J. Tremaine, sentinel; . Benjamin Hall, master of ceremon-. VICTORY RALLY FOR GARDENERS Leeesmiowls attorney and chairman of the Grass Valley Defense Council, asks afl ious gardeners to attend a Victory Garden rally in VetMemorial building Wednesday evening, February 3rd. The meeting sponsored by the Office of Civilian Defense and the Red Cross. ardeners who have had success have been invited} it was done. Speakers . who have accepted ae: John Martin, Oakley Johns, Mrs. John Bieber, William Argall, and Mrs. Paul Kemper. Mrs. Kemper will report on the work of the victory gardeners in Nevada City last year. Gilbert Teniis, Grass Valley high school, will discuss the garden program. in the schools, and two junior gardeners will report on their projects. There will be musical selections ‘by’ the Grass Valley high school band and by the Hennessy school chorus. Nevada City gardeners have been invited to join with their fellow. gardeners of Grass Valley in this event. UNDERGROUND MULES OF NORTH STAR NOW ONTOP Seventy mules, some of which had not looked on the green world for years, are now contentedly grazing in the pastures of the ‘North Star mining property of this city. These mules which formerly hauled ore car trains thousands of feet underground in the North Star mine -were brought ‘to the surface when the Empire-Star mines closed down in obedience to the: WPB closing order, according to William Simpkins of the Newmont Mining ‘company, which operates the Hmpire-Star mines. They were not ‘drafted’ for work in the copper mines, but a few of them were sold and in all probability are now hard working soldiers_in the Mountain Troops division. On being drawn to the surface the mules are blindfolded f6r a short time in order to become accustomed to sunlight. Simpkins states that the North, Star mules were probably the best treated of their kind in the world. They lived in electric lighted stalls, they consumed quantities of the best hay and grain obtainable, and while they belonged to no union, they very rarely worked more than an eight hour shift. . ies. William erans is Local 2 ex-. ceptional to tell how principal of the Mrs. Mary Campbell has returned from a, visit with -her sons and friends in bay area from a most enjoyable ten day visit. Mrs. Campbell has received word her son, (Carl (Campbell, has arrived safely in Africa. He is a M. P. in the medical corps. ; would not . open . like jing the obvious ernment . itee parties. . existed . . general . three members of the . classification SELECTION OF JUDGES TEST OF GOOD GOVERNORS By JOHN W. DUNLAP SACRAMENTO, Feb. One of the most important obliga-. tions of a governor is his selection of judges. No position in government . andj} calls for better qualifications solid judgment as the judicial bencn. Previous governors have met occasional criticism in the selection of judges, particularly the last-minute filling of vacancies. To dig up the more famous cases would only rehash skeletons better left ‘buried. Governor Warren has taken a big stride toward better government with! . NAVY WIFE FOUND DEAD his policy of asking the state bar to approve his judicial appointments. Such a test has been in effect for the relative rare appointments to the state supreme court: and appellate courts, but not for the frequent superior and municipal judgeships. Warren proposes to nominate judge, await the report of the board of governors of, the state bar, then jissue the commission. This has the . salutary effect of forcing a governor . to name a qualified person to avoid criticism of himself, And no nominee would accept the governor’s appointment if there was anything in his professional or private life which stand investigation. course has always governors but it War! good overlooked a bee n. seems . Such to past a instance of ‘en 9-. for another things ZOvthat have been, xy his pedecessors. Warnote the his office While of Governor is ele speaking ouragin close cooperaNon vaeiaen Attorney General Robert opposren, it te and that of although they are of Such a friendship never Wa torney former Governor Olson. every day, incidents pop upwhere the two offices are in close agreement. There was the instance of Warren ousting private counsel in the involved Pacific States Savings and Loan company case, and having general take over. The Kenny, between rren as at and Almost the attorney savings to will be tremendous, the complete lack of politics involved. Warren acted on the advice of the in removing the state lands . commission, appointed . just before Olson went out of office. Warren felt the commission was useless, should not spend state money, and moved in quickly. He had Kenny’s investigators go to work on the state board. of chiropractic examiners when reports came in there were irregularities in the giving of examinations. When it came to drawing wp child care bill to give state aid to nurseries for children of war mothers, the attorney general’s office took the lead. Probably the most important of all, Kenny has assigned one of his chief deputies to have an office in the governor’s suite, to go over. all legislation and generally be of assistance. Waren as a previous attorney general: and district attorney has a big advantage over the usual governor. For example, while explaining to the newspapermen about his desire to clean up a certain misuse of g0overnmental authority, he swung around in his swivel chair, pulled one book out of many from his bookcase, attorney general a thumbed expertly through the penal’ code and came up in a few seconds with the exact section number and punishment for what the was explaining. That kind of familiarity with government can only come from long years of public service such as Warren has had. GRASS VALLEY FIREMEN’S BALL The firemen of Grass Valley are meeting with’a generous response this year in the sale of tickets to the annual ball which this year will fall on the evening of February 20th. Ii will be held in the Vetenans Memorial building. A canvas now being made of the Grass Valley business district resulted in a record sale of tickets. Two sets of tickets are printed, one for’ civilian patrons and another for men in uniform. The latter are sold at half price. ’ 1,--(UPj)—4 . . . . . the state seized company . not to mention +63. ey : ON TRAIN KUGENE, (Oregon)—Mrs. Martha Virginia Brinston James, 21, of Seattle, Washington, identified as the wife of Ensign Richard F. James of’ Seattle, Washington, who was found lying in a Pullman car aisle of ‘the Southern Pacific Railroad train last Saturday, which followed the Oregonian Limited on which her husband was riding. The young wife was found with a slashed juglar vein, and a description of the assailant, who was said to have been seen by a Marine private, was given to the police. Se i BAD BOYS NOW COON SOLDIERS SACRAMENTO, Feb. 1.—(UP)— Now in the nation’s armed forces are 378 boys who once were the Preston School of Industry, Ione, and the Fred C: Nelles School for Whittier, the state department institutions has been informed by superintendents of the two schools. Former Preston number Nelles serving inmates of Boys, of boys in service has contributed 3ranches of the service Ghosgen by the boys include the army, navy, marine corps, air corps, paratroops, state guard, national guard and coast guard. One is in the Canadiam,army. ‘And they have their share ‘Of chevrons, the superintendents report. y “A number of our boys have writ ten that Preston training is good training for the army.” O. H. Cloge, 315. . Preston superintendent said, “and “we get very good reports from many of . the sides dae in whose units the, boys ;are serving.’ / STATE EMPLOYES JOIN THE COLORS SACRAMENTES Fa. —_(UP Since the Japasese“attack on Pearl Harbor a total of 2,221 state employes have left their positions to join the armed forces, and 238 others have entered civilian war work, the state personnel board has rée. vealed. The military has claimed men from rankng officials of state bureaus and divisions, who left position paying ‘$400 a month and more, to junior clerks and handymen. Sixty seven of those listed as now on military leave voluntarily left positions that -had been granted draft exempt status, the board’s survey revealed. Six New Members Joii Business, Professional Women Using their beautiful candlelight ceremony the Business and Professional Women’s club . initiated six . new members at their dinner meeting in the National Hotel here. The new members are, Mrs. Mare Hdmonds, Mrs. Helen Berger, (Mrs. Genevieve Cooper, Mrs. John Chatterton, Mrs, Emily Lagerquist, and Mrs. Fred Anderson. Mrs. Ethel White and Miss Dorothy Waggoner were in charge of the dinner arrangements. The Rev. Cedric Porter was guest speaker. He dis— cussed the psychological effect of the ~ war, Mrs. John Hathaway of Grass Valley contributed two’ vocal numhers. Mrs. Geneveve Elliott played the piano selections. Mrs. Cedric Porter, Mrs. William Hutchison and Mrs. Pratti o San Francisco wefre Mr and Mrs. Henry aie arrived Sa in law, Mr. and xe Adams street. Lee