February 1, 1945 (4 pages)

o ¢ a o% -Gold Flat Sunday _THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1945. : : IEVADA ¢ HERMAN WENZKE [PATTERSON MAY ernors who seek re-election. A brand L tential hag bobbed on the scene, new gubernatorial potoo, i . with reports that some republican OUT ON BAIL BE CANDIDATE . big Wigs, looking for a candidate . whose following crosses, party lines, Herman Wenzke, manager of. -E . are interested in the possibility that Beacon Hill Lodge, arrested Friday EOR GOVERNOR . . Roy W. en. state executive secreon a charge -of contributing to the! jtary of the California Teachers Asdelinquiney of minors, and lodged in. By CLEM WHITAKER Isociation, might make a strong canthé county: jail, after. failing to pro. fing a eer peyie poe ha. didate férsgoevernor some day. duce $2000 in bail, yestetday was) . My SRE yin ny Pes eee In the post war years. the edufreed, after his — attorney, Vernon . . "®: ‘ . cational problems olf stite whieh is Stoll of Grass Valley obtained the . ne intriguing declaration WHORE) jiretine out-at the seams ’Wwith new court’s consent to reduce the bail to. oS wre Soak seeuladen bay te Sac. ie ae $1,000. . ee Oa ve ees Bees serious problems of government, and District Attorney H. Ward Snfi-. ment of candidacy in next YOAT'S. there is no doubt as to eithet Cloud's dom stated that Wenzke would prob-. race for governor of California, vast knowledge of school affairs. nor ably be arraigned Friday. etree Om. Vote crema Pils Bel a 16 his Wee knowledge. of genWenzke was first arrested’ py, Patterson of Log Angeles in a letter . oral governmental problems. There Deputy Sheriff Tom Dolley of Truc-. to this correspondent commenting ON alsé the fact, of course, that he kee, on a charge of selling liquor ios the recent mention of his name as . has demonstrated many times, where minors to which he pleaded guilty S¥Pernatorial possibility. ‘the, schools were involved, that be and paid a fine of $250. The minors The ebullient “Pat” who served ac . knows how to win electione. involved were a group of Sacramento /i¢Utenant governor during the Olson . Cloud thus far has shrugged of? high school boys and girls who gath-. @@Ministration, and who has always . alP such suggestions, but it might ered in Beacon Hill Lodge on Sun-, nioyed strong labor pension backbe noted just for the record. that day, January 14th. Dolley charged ing, appended his hat in the ring Ellis ¢hat ‘in the ring) Patterson that some of the party of youngsters} "@a! declaration of candidacy as a. yo, once a school teseher, and that were intoxicated. postecript to his letter, apparently! former Governor C. . Young, before Wenzke’s second arrest followed. having had to work up to that boilhe entered ee was a_ high a grand jury indictment Thursday. i™s pont by degrees as he dictated. sclool sik charging him ‘with contributing té While somewhat of a southpaw in mites eee the.delinquency of minors. Two Sac. politics: Patterson's leftist twist never seems to have hampered his vote getting ability to any serious extent ramento high school before the grand jury. boys testified —and seasoned observers of, the} PEACE OFFICERS ‘DINE political arena are not taking his} = 5 gies ays prospective. candidacy lightly. It is. The Nevada County Peace Offtequite possible that his, presen straters Association enjoyed their annual dinner in Deschwanden’s Hall ‘on About fifty were present for the evening. Ay ny another egy in season, rushing the gubernatorial is designed to steal a march! evening, prospective democratic . turkey dinner was served. Thomas: «ontender. who has thus far shied! Lawrence, president presided, J.-J. ‘aWay from any early discussion of Boree, former adjutant general cf his. plans. ae \ this state gave a splendid. talk on the! Another pebble dropped in the present war and Howard Bennetts . olitical pool during ‘the past few! \ past commander of Banner Mt. Post,. waya: just to ruffle the waters, per. showed moving pictures of ; haps and keep the lads from losing . World War Two. ‘. interest is the unsupported report . on Attorney General Robert W. Ken--BOY PRISONER OF WAR EXCHANGED Mrs. Bagley who resides in the ae Distriet north of Grass Valley, has been advised by the War Department, that her son, Staff. Sargeant Douglas J. Upton. who had been a prisoner of war in Germany for has been exchanged. had been flying’ comthe 15th AAF southern Germany two. years, S2t: bat missions in . Northern Italy, Upton over . that Governor Warren may decide to. and the Balkans. On his last mission Discovery of the prehistoric horse in America was first made by Mit-. 'U" for U. S. Senaor next year inchell in 1826 in New Jersey. stead of being a candidate for re_ . election. The bearerg of this late! In 1943, California erodusad 33,tale argue that Warren, in the U. S. senate, would have a better chance of furthering hig national ambitions than if he tried to break the jinx which ‘usually defeats California goy812 76-pound flasks of mercury. Practically half of California’s oil wells are located in Kern County. Vy IS ALOT WHEN YOU CUT A CAKE— «4 is a lot to cut loan’costs, too @ Yes, in personal loan costs, a saving of 50% can amount to quite a bit. Remember shat when you ‘borrow. Remember, too, that the cost of a Bank of America Vimueplan personal loan, repaid at maturity in 12 equal monthly instalments, can be as much as 50% less than the cost of a similar loan arranged through many lending confpanies . . . and there are no other charges . . . no deductions. You-need not be.a.depositor to avail yourself of this bank’s prompt, friendly loan service. Here you may borrow for any purpose. A Zimeplan auto loan may be made on your cat, whether it is fully paid for or-not. The branch in your neighborhood will welcome your loan application. Hotel Clunie UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP AND COCKTAIL BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP Excellent Service—Best Food NTO, CALIFORNIA , Manager SA JACK BR 8TH AND K STREET, ; TOY AND JACOBS. NEVADA COUNTY LUMBER COMPANY “THE PIONEER LUMBER YARD” BUILDING MATERIALS _ 244 Boulder Street Telephone 500 N Calif. . his heavy bomber was brought down and the entire crew held as prisoners. The message states. that he now being repatriated and will arrive abroad the Gripsholm and will be furlopghed home as soon as sca following such hospitalization may be required. Directions are giv-} en for getting in touch with him: 9n his arrival. FINAL PAYMENT ON BRET HARTE INN SHARES Benjamin Hall, president of the Grass Valley Hotel Corporation which recently sold the Bret Harie Inn ‘to ‘Harry Handlery of Vallejo, yesterday announced that final distribution of funds resulting from the sale is being made. The first disbursement, made shortly after the sale was $185 per share. At that time a considerable sum was held: for final settlement of taxes and other expenses involved in the sale. Share holders are now receiving final payment of $17.50 per share. _ Ip his letter to stock holderg Hall remarked that-of the original 100 stock holders. but 28 are now on the list. Many of the others have died since the company was incorporated in 1917. Few stock certificates have changed hands in) that time, and most changes hate been by bequest of decedent stock heirs. is Rainbow Girls . Seat New Officers New officers of’ the Order for Rainbow Girls were installed Wednesday evening in the Masonic Hall with a large attendance present to witness the seating of Ruth Libbey, as worthy advisor, and Betty Noren as assistant worth advisor. Other officers seated were Betty Jean Young, chaplain; Marille Day, hope; Jean Anderson, faith; Mildren Ruth, drill leader; Twyla Smart, treasurer; Dorothy Borach, recorder; Marian Morgan, chaplain; Lois Beverage, confidtnaial observer; Virginia Churrh, offter observer; Genevieve Ellis, musician; » Joyce Lee, banner bearer. June Laird, retiring worthy advisor led thé installation ceremony assisted by Mrs. Jennie Morgan, the hostess; Mrs. Augusta Smith, mother advior; Beverley Schofield, recorder; Lotus Wales, chaplain; Jean Anderson, marshall; Pauline Kecand Mrs. kler, honorar marshall; Alice siicheng, ie aaead. The Panamint News, tri-weekly ‘publication of the 1870's charged $4 a month for four lines of advertising space. About 2200 BC, the Emperor Shun of China is reputed to have built a “chariot of the air’ and to have made a parachute drop. by holders ‘to their . GOD IS MY COPILOT Two Small Boys Confess Burglaries Early Day’ Resident of Nevada City Succumbs Friends have word that Mrs. Maltman, born in 1865, passed away January 29th. Mrs. Maltman was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alex Gault. Mary Nevada City in Oakland in on prominent citizen after whom the Gault bridge across Deer Creek was named. Funeral services will be held in Oakland tomorrow and the remains will rest beside those of her husband, the late Albert Maltman, in a Los Angeles cemetery. : Surviving is ‘her daughter, Mrs. Frank Haynie of Oakland;-Mrs. Lucien Kahn of Hamilton, Ohio, Mrs: Michael Serro amd Mrs. Fred Black of Oakland, are granddaughters. There are two great grandchildren. * Last Rites Said for , Mrs. Sarah N. Hagler Last rites were said yesterday afternoon in the Holes and Myers Funeral Home -in Grass Valley for Mrs. Sarah N. Hagler, of Butler Street, who died Sunday in Sacramento. Rev. O. A. Hall.of the Seventh Day Adventists conducted the service. Interment was in the Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Hagler was, born in Mississippi 61 years ago. She spent her early life in Texas and was educated there: She had been a resident of Grass Valley for seven yearg and was deeply interested in her home, garden and in church work. Surviying her is her husband, D. G. Hagler of this city. PTA CELEBRATES FOUNDERS DAY Founders Day will Friday afternoon by the Grass Valley’ High School P¥A with a program of addresses and music in Mises Dillingers room in the high school annex. Mrs. Doris Anderson, president will be in charge of the program, ' The high school chorus will sing a be celebrated of Harold George. Mrs. William Mitchell accompanied by Mrs. Camille Cornish will be heard in a solo. Mrs. . Earl Cosper will lead . Founders Day prayer. The annual’ candle lighting cereniony will be enacted by Mrs. Doris Anderson, Mrs. Harold Eldridge, Mrs. William Mitchell and Mrs. Vera Ingram. e in a special PAPER DRIV E IN ‘GRASS VALLEY The Cadet Corps of the Grass Valley High School today this afternoon will systematically collect the Grass Valleys waste paper from every residential and business block. The drive will start at 3 p. m. and continue ut@ dark. Residents will place their bundles of paper at the curbs. The entire city was subdivided into dtsiricts and each district will be canvassed by a combat team of the cadets. More than a hundred participated in the drive. BIRTH MENEAR—In Grasg Valley, Nevada County, January 25, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Loren Menear, a daughter. JONES—iIn Grass Valley, Nevada County, January 27, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jones, a son. CASELLI—In Grass Valley, Nevada County, January 23, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Florida Caselli, a daughter. KOSKINEN—In Grasse Valley, Nevada County, January 24, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Koskinen, a son. AREY—In Nevada City, Nevada ‘County, January 25, 1945, to Dr. and Mrs. Norbert Frey, a son. ~~ early day mayor of Nevada City, and! number of songs under the direction . . Responding to complaint Mond that someome was discharging fi arms in the vicinity of the Gold, Fle: School, Game Warden Earl Hise: and Deputy Sheriff-Carl Larsen engaged in a hunt, which resulted tn apprehending two small boys 10 and 11 years of age. aw, The boys confessed to robbie’ tv vacant homes’ belonging to® Harold Herring and Roy Granholm. The boys entered: Granholm’s home way of a rear window and purloined a double barreled shotgun. Entering the-Herring house by the «ame means they stole two 22 rifles. The boys confessed their thefts and were placed in the custody of Probation Officer A. W. McGagin. Among other . adventures to which they admitt2d was entering the Gold Flat School} and dumping 10 .gallons of paint, they found there, on the echo! . room floors. 4 «first _Page Three CHAPTER XIX But on the day when he finally got out on his way to what he wanted to do’ most, the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor. Ajax had just landed: at Wake Island, and, soldier that he was, he had reported to the Marine Commander ‘ae duty. He.was having breakfa: e with the CO (CO means Comnrtaridings Officer), Major Devereaux, w attack came to Ws the Japanese Ajax used to say that the unusual realest. gth he demonstrated that morning was due to the heavy supply. of eae pills he had taken. As the bomb hit the runway of the field, he ran with the others for the door and the safety of the slit trenches on the outside. The door opened inward, but Ajax opened it outward, taking the screen, the door, and most of that end of the flimsy building with him. Part of the glass hit him in the face—and that cut was the only wound he received: in the bombing. But he carried the scar with him when I last saw him. in China. Baumler. got out of Wake Island the next day on the last clipper, but to join the AVG he was no longer . going West. ‘It was now necessary to go all the way back and around the other way, towards the East. MEA Anyway he managed to go by way . of Washington and got promoted to Captain. I believe if ‘Ajax had stayed in Washington just one more day, he would have been a Major. After seeing Ajax Baumler in a few -fights, I wish that he had gotten to be a Major before he came to China, for he certainly was a fighter pilot. During the month of our battle of Hengyang, I saw Captain Baumler do some of the nerviest things I’ve ever seen any man accomplish. We had a-few ships that had been strafed badly on the ground; some of them had been shot to pieces, and in others the engines or hydraulic systems had been damaged. In most cases these zame ships couldn’t be got off the ground when the Japs came over; caught three or four times by Zeros, and consequently they were in:a continual state of repair, : One of these was old Number 104, the ship that Ajax had been flying. The ground crew had worked on it for days, but whenever they’d have . sometimes they were . it just about ready to be taken back . to the factory in Kunming for overhaul, the Japs would catch it again. Finally one morning Ajax must have . : said, ‘‘The hell with it.”’ For when the “‘Jin-bao’”’ came he went and got into the crippled fighter to take off before the Japs could get there to strafe it again. He told me later that he was tired of seeing it sitting on the ground as a target; whether it would fly or not, he was’ going to get it taxying as fast as it would go and at least make it harder to hit than .it had been in the revetment. Well, Ajax did better than taxy—he got off. But the story of it all reached me later on. I was on the ground that day, and didn’t see it. But I heard Ajax talking on the radio, and I heard his six . guns when he caught one of the Zeros. Just a little later I saw’ the trail of black smoke that marked the enemy ship going down. I was glad to hear Ajax talking that morning; for a minute I’d thought that smoke might be he, going down in that luckless Number 104. All the time he’d been flying the ship he’d been having to pump the landinggear up manually, ‘for the hydraulic system had been shot up by the Jap strafer days before. Added to this, an exertion which is no pleasant task at fighting altitudes, was a more painful experience. The cards were stacked even more _ heavily against Ajax in this jinx ship, for his electrical system was shorting out. On his take-off from Hengyang, as he gave the ship the gun Baumler had felt a terrible electrical shock through his sweaty hand on the stick control. He couldn’t turn the stick loose or the ship would have crashed in the take-off run; so he grimly held on. Take hold of the spark plug of your car some time while the engine is running, and you’ll feel just about what Ajax felt. But he kept holding it until he was at an altitude where it was safe to turn the stick loose, get out his handkerchief, and wrap it around the stick. Even after he had been through the fight and: came in to land at Lingling he had to take some more of the shock cure, for by that time the handkerchief was damp and the electricity was jumping through it. He *touldn’t stay long on this last field, for the Japs were on the way back in waves; so he reserviced and taxied out to take off. Though the engine was now missing badly, Ajax couldn’t wait—the Japs would be there in a matter of minutes. He tried a take-off with the current going through ‘his arms again and the engine spitting and sputtering—and at the end of the runway he still hadn’t enough speed to get in the air. He would swerve the ship about and try the other direction. Finally after three ‘runs he got the fighter plane in the air, pumped the wheels up by hand and continued doing it for five hundred miles—and so flew back to Kunming. He told me later it didn’t matter what he did now; when he got in jdil they'd never be able to electrocute him in the chair if the old P-40. Number 104 had failed to do it that August morning. But it wasn’t all hard work. and no play in China. Some evenings we used to sit in our cave down at Kweilin and listen to the Tokyo radio. They would give us reports on the . (TO. 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o ¢ a o% -Gold Flat Sunday _THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1945. : : IEVADA ¢ HERMAN WENZKE [PATTERSON MAY ernors who seek re-election. A brand L tential hag bobbed on the scene, new gubernatorial potoo, i . with reports that some republican OUT ON BAIL BE CANDIDATE . big Wigs, looking for a candidate . whose following crosses, party lines, Herman Wenzke, manager of. -E . are interested in the possibility that Beacon Hill Lodge, arrested Friday EOR GOVERNOR . . Roy W. en. state executive secreon a charge -of contributing to the! jtary of the California Teachers Asdelinquiney of minors, and lodged in. By CLEM WHITAKER Isociation, might make a strong canthé county: jail, after. failing to pro. fing a eer peyie poe ha. didate férsgoevernor some day. duce $2000 in bail, yestetday was) . My SRE yin ny Pes eee In the post war years. the edufreed, after his — attorney, Vernon . . "®: ‘ . cational problems olf stite whieh is Stoll of Grass Valley obtained the . ne intriguing declaration WHORE) jiretine out-at the seams ’Wwith new court’s consent to reduce the bail to. oS wre Soak seeuladen bay te Sac. ie ae $1,000. . ee Oa ve ees Bees serious problems of government, and District Attorney H. Ward Snfi-. ment of candidacy in next YOAT'S. there is no doubt as to eithet Cloud's dom stated that Wenzke would prob-. race for governor of California, vast knowledge of school affairs. nor ably be arraigned Friday. etree Om. Vote crema Pils Bel a 16 his Wee knowledge. of genWenzke was first arrested’ py, Patterson of Log Angeles in a letter . oral governmental problems. There Deputy Sheriff Tom Dolley of Truc-. to this correspondent commenting ON alsé the fact, of course, that he kee, on a charge of selling liquor ios the recent mention of his name as . has demonstrated many times, where minors to which he pleaded guilty S¥Pernatorial possibility. ‘the, schools were involved, that be and paid a fine of $250. The minors The ebullient “Pat” who served ac . knows how to win electione. involved were a group of Sacramento /i¢Utenant governor during the Olson . Cloud thus far has shrugged of? high school boys and girls who gath-. @@Ministration, and who has always . alP such suggestions, but it might ered in Beacon Hill Lodge on Sun-, nioyed strong labor pension backbe noted just for the record. that day, January 14th. Dolley charged ing, appended his hat in the ring Ellis ¢hat ‘in the ring) Patterson that some of the party of youngsters} "@a! declaration of candidacy as a. yo, once a school teseher, and that were intoxicated. postecript to his letter, apparently! former Governor C. . Young, before Wenzke’s second arrest followed. having had to work up to that boilhe entered ee was a_ high a grand jury indictment Thursday. i™s pont by degrees as he dictated. sclool sik charging him ‘with contributing té While somewhat of a southpaw in mites eee the.delinquency of minors. Two Sac. politics: Patterson's leftist twist never seems to have hampered his vote getting ability to any serious extent ramento high school before the grand jury. boys testified —and seasoned observers of, the} PEACE OFFICERS ‘DINE political arena are not taking his} = 5 gies ays prospective. candidacy lightly. It is. The Nevada County Peace Offtequite possible that his, presen straters Association enjoyed their annual dinner in Deschwanden’s Hall ‘on About fifty were present for the evening. Ay ny another egy in season, rushing the gubernatorial is designed to steal a march! evening, prospective democratic . turkey dinner was served. Thomas: «ontender. who has thus far shied! Lawrence, president presided, J.-J. ‘aWay from any early discussion of Boree, former adjutant general cf his. plans. ae \ this state gave a splendid. talk on the! Another pebble dropped in the present war and Howard Bennetts . olitical pool during ‘the past few! \ past commander of Banner Mt. Post,. waya: just to ruffle the waters, per. showed moving pictures of ; haps and keep the lads from losing . World War Two. ‘. interest is the unsupported report . on Attorney General Robert W. Ken--BOY PRISONER OF WAR EXCHANGED Mrs. Bagley who resides in the ae Distriet north of Grass Valley, has been advised by the War Department, that her son, Staff. Sargeant Douglas J. Upton. who had been a prisoner of war in Germany for has been exchanged. had been flying’ comthe 15th AAF southern Germany two. years, S2t: bat missions in . Northern Italy, Upton over . that Governor Warren may decide to. and the Balkans. On his last mission Discovery of the prehistoric horse in America was first made by Mit-. 'U" for U. S. Senaor next year inchell in 1826 in New Jersey. stead of being a candidate for re_ . election. The bearerg of this late! In 1943, California erodusad 33,tale argue that Warren, in the U. S. senate, would have a better chance of furthering hig national ambitions than if he tried to break the jinx which ‘usually defeats California goy812 76-pound flasks of mercury. Practically half of California’s oil wells are located in Kern County. Vy IS ALOT WHEN YOU CUT A CAKE— «4 is a lot to cut loan’costs, too @ Yes, in personal loan costs, a saving of 50% can amount to quite a bit. Remember shat when you ‘borrow. Remember, too, that the cost of a Bank of America Vimueplan personal loan, repaid at maturity in 12 equal monthly instalments, can be as much as 50% less than the cost of a similar loan arranged through many lending confpanies . . . and there are no other charges . . . no deductions. You-need not be.a.depositor to avail yourself of this bank’s prompt, friendly loan service. Here you may borrow for any purpose. A Zimeplan auto loan may be made on your cat, whether it is fully paid for or-not. The branch in your neighborhood will welcome your loan application. Hotel Clunie UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT IT’S FAMOUS COFFEE SHOP AND COCKTAIL BAR ARE RENOWNED IN CALIFORNIA RATES FROM $1.50 UP Excellent Service—Best Food NTO, CALIFORNIA , Manager SA JACK BR 8TH AND K STREET, ; TOY AND JACOBS. NEVADA COUNTY LUMBER COMPANY “THE PIONEER LUMBER YARD” BUILDING MATERIALS _ 244 Boulder Street Telephone 500 N Calif. . his heavy bomber was brought down and the entire crew held as prisoners. The message states. that he now being repatriated and will arrive abroad the Gripsholm and will be furlopghed home as soon as sca following such hospitalization may be required. Directions are giv-} en for getting in touch with him: 9n his arrival. FINAL PAYMENT ON BRET HARTE INN SHARES Benjamin Hall, president of the Grass Valley Hotel Corporation which recently sold the Bret Harie Inn ‘to ‘Harry Handlery of Vallejo, yesterday announced that final distribution of funds resulting from the sale is being made. The first disbursement, made shortly after the sale was $185 per share. At that time a considerable sum was held: for final settlement of taxes and other expenses involved in the sale. Share holders are now receiving final payment of $17.50 per share. _ Ip his letter to stock holderg Hall remarked that-of the original 100 stock holders. but 28 are now on the list. Many of the others have died since the company was incorporated in 1917. Few stock certificates have changed hands in) that time, and most changes hate been by bequest of decedent stock heirs. is Rainbow Girls . Seat New Officers New officers of’ the Order for Rainbow Girls were installed Wednesday evening in the Masonic Hall with a large attendance present to witness the seating of Ruth Libbey, as worthy advisor, and Betty Noren as assistant worth advisor. Other officers seated were Betty Jean Young, chaplain; Marille Day, hope; Jean Anderson, faith; Mildren Ruth, drill leader; Twyla Smart, treasurer; Dorothy Borach, recorder; Marian Morgan, chaplain; Lois Beverage, confidtnaial observer; Virginia Churrh, offter observer; Genevieve Ellis, musician; » Joyce Lee, banner bearer. June Laird, retiring worthy advisor led thé installation ceremony assisted by Mrs. Jennie Morgan, the hostess; Mrs. Augusta Smith, mother advior; Beverley Schofield, recorder; Lotus Wales, chaplain; Jean Anderson, marshall; Pauline Kecand Mrs. kler, honorar marshall; Alice siicheng, ie aaead. The Panamint News, tri-weekly ‘publication of the 1870's charged $4 a month for four lines of advertising space. About 2200 BC, the Emperor Shun of China is reputed to have built a “chariot of the air’ and to have made a parachute drop. by holders ‘to their . GOD IS MY COPILOT Two Small Boys Confess Burglaries Early Day’ Resident of Nevada City Succumbs Friends have word that Mrs. Maltman, born in 1865, passed away January 29th. Mrs. Maltman was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alex Gault. Mary Nevada City in Oakland in on prominent citizen after whom the Gault bridge across Deer Creek was named. Funeral services will be held in Oakland tomorrow and the remains will rest beside those of her husband, the late Albert Maltman, in a Los Angeles cemetery. : Surviving is ‘her daughter, Mrs. Frank Haynie of Oakland;-Mrs. Lucien Kahn of Hamilton, Ohio, Mrs: Michael Serro amd Mrs. Fred Black of Oakland, are granddaughters. There are two great grandchildren. * Last Rites Said for , Mrs. Sarah N. Hagler Last rites were said yesterday afternoon in the Holes and Myers Funeral Home -in Grass Valley for Mrs. Sarah N. Hagler, of Butler Street, who died Sunday in Sacramento. Rev. O. A. Hall.of the Seventh Day Adventists conducted the service. Interment was in the Greenwood Cemetery. Mrs. Hagler was, born in Mississippi 61 years ago. She spent her early life in Texas and was educated there: She had been a resident of Grass Valley for seven yearg and was deeply interested in her home, garden and in church work. Surviying her is her husband, D. G. Hagler of this city. PTA CELEBRATES FOUNDERS DAY Founders Day will Friday afternoon by the Grass Valley’ High School P¥A with a program of addresses and music in Mises Dillingers room in the high school annex. Mrs. Doris Anderson, president will be in charge of the program, ' The high school chorus will sing a be celebrated of Harold George. Mrs. William Mitchell accompanied by Mrs. Camille Cornish will be heard in a solo. Mrs. . Earl Cosper will lead . Founders Day prayer. The annual’ candle lighting cereniony will be enacted by Mrs. Doris Anderson, Mrs. Harold Eldridge, Mrs. William Mitchell and Mrs. Vera Ingram. e in a special PAPER DRIV E IN ‘GRASS VALLEY The Cadet Corps of the Grass Valley High School today this afternoon will systematically collect the Grass Valleys waste paper from every residential and business block. The drive will start at 3 p. m. and continue ut@ dark. Residents will place their bundles of paper at the curbs. The entire city was subdivided into dtsiricts and each district will be canvassed by a combat team of the cadets. More than a hundred participated in the drive. BIRTH MENEAR—In Grasg Valley, Nevada County, January 25, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Loren Menear, a daughter. JONES—iIn Grass Valley, Nevada County, January 27, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Jones, a son. CASELLI—In Grass Valley, Nevada County, January 23, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Florida Caselli, a daughter. KOSKINEN—In Grasse Valley, Nevada County, January 24, 1945, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Koskinen, a son. AREY—In Nevada City, Nevada ‘County, January 25, 1945, to Dr. and Mrs. Norbert Frey, a son. ~~ early day mayor of Nevada City, and! number of songs under the direction . .

Responding to complaint Mond that someome was discharging fi arms in the vicinity of the Gold, Fle: School, Game Warden Earl Hise: and Deputy Sheriff-Carl Larsen engaged in a hunt, which resulted tn apprehending two small boys 10 and 11 years of age. aw, The boys confessed to robbie’ tv vacant homes’ belonging to® Harold Herring and Roy Granholm. The boys entered: Granholm’s home way of a rear window and purloined a double barreled shotgun. Entering the-Herring house by the «ame means they stole two 22 rifles. The boys confessed their thefts and were placed in the custody of Probation Officer A. W. McGagin. Among other . adventures to which they admitt2d was entering the Gold Flat School} and dumping 10 .gallons of paint, they found there, on the echo! . room floors. 4 «first _Page Three CHAPTER XIX But on the day when he finally got out on his way to what he wanted to do’ most, the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor. Ajax had just landed: at Wake Island, and, soldier that he was, he had reported to the Marine Commander ‘ae duty. He.was having breakfa: e with the CO (CO means Comnrtaridings Officer), Major Devereaux, w attack came to Ws the Japanese Ajax used to say that the unusual realest. gth he demonstrated that morning was due to the heavy supply. of eae pills he had taken. As the bomb hit the runway of the field, he ran with the others for the door and the safety of the slit trenches on the outside. The door opened inward, but Ajax opened it outward, taking the screen, the door, and most of that end of the flimsy building with him. Part of the glass hit him in the face—and that cut was the only wound he received: in the bombing. But he carried the scar with him when I last saw him. in China. Baumler. got out of Wake Island the next day on the last clipper, but to join the AVG he was no longer . going West. ‘It was now necessary to go all the way back and around the other way, towards the East. MEA Anyway he managed to go by way . of Washington and got promoted to Captain. I believe if ‘Ajax had stayed in Washington just one more day, he would have been a Major. After seeing Ajax Baumler in a few -fights, I wish that he had gotten to be a Major before he came to China, for he certainly was a fighter pilot. During the month of our battle of Hengyang, I saw Captain Baumler do some of the nerviest things I’ve ever seen any man accomplish. We had a-few ships that had been strafed badly on the ground; some of them had been shot to pieces, and in others the engines or hydraulic systems had been damaged. In most cases these zame ships couldn’t be got off the ground when the Japs came over; caught three or four times by Zeros, and consequently they were in:a continual state of repair, : One of these was old Number 104, the ship that Ajax had been flying. The ground crew had worked on it for days, but whenever they’d have . sometimes they were . it just about ready to be taken back . to the factory in Kunming for overhaul, the Japs would catch it again. Finally one morning Ajax must have . : said, ‘‘The hell with it.”’ For when the “‘Jin-bao’”’ came he went and got into the crippled fighter to take off before the Japs could get there to strafe it again. He told me later that he was tired of seeing it sitting on the ground as a target; whether it would fly or not, he was’ going to get it taxying as fast as it would go and at least make it harder to hit than .it had been in the revetment. Well, Ajax did better than taxy—he got off. But the story of it all reached me later on. I was on the ground that day, and didn’t see it. But I heard Ajax talking on the radio, and I heard his six . guns when he caught one of the Zeros. Just a little later I saw’ the trail of black smoke that marked the enemy ship going down. I was glad to hear Ajax talking that morning; for a minute I’d thought that smoke might be he, going down in that luckless Number 104. All the time he’d been flying the ship he’d been having to pump the landinggear up manually, ‘for the hydraulic system had been shot up by the Jap strafer days before. Added to this, an exertion which is no pleasant task at fighting altitudes, was a more painful experience. The cards were stacked even more _ heavily against Ajax in this jinx ship, for his electrical system was shorting out. On his take-off from Hengyang, as he gave the ship the gun Baumler had felt a terrible electrical shock through his sweaty hand on the stick control. He couldn’t turn the stick loose or the ship would have crashed in the take-off run; so he grimly held on. Take hold of the spark plug of your car some time while the engine is running, and you’ll feel just about what Ajax felt. But he kept holding it until he was at an altitude where it was safe to turn the stick loose, get out his handkerchief, and wrap it around the stick. Even after he had been through the fight and: came in to land at Lingling he had to take some more of the shock cure, for by that time the handkerchief was damp and the electricity was jumping through it. He *touldn’t stay long on this last field, for the Japs were on the way back in waves; so he reserviced and taxied out to take off. Though the engine was now missing badly, Ajax couldn’t wait—the Japs would be there in a matter of minutes. He tried a take-off with the current going through ‘his arms again and the engine spitting and sputtering—and at the end of the runway he still hadn’t enough speed to get in the air. He would swerve the ship about and try the other direction. Finally after three ‘runs he got the fighter plane in the air, pumped the wheels up by hand and continued doing it for five hundred miles—and so flew back to Kunming. He told me later it didn’t matter what he did now; when he got in jdil they'd never be able to electrocute him in the chair if the old P-40. Number 104 had failed to do it that August morning. But it wasn’t all hard work. and no play in China. Some evenings we used to sit in our cave down at Kweilin and listen to the Tokyo radio. They would give us reports on the . (TO. 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