February 15, 1937 (4 pages)

+ 2, “> . Thinking — . Out Loud H. M. L. Sit-downing is all the fashion: The President who neither approved nor disapproved of the sit-downers in private industry. at Flint, Michigan. and elsewhere, is now confronted with sit-downers in Congress. He is silent about the sit-downers who have, until now marched with him. some times feluctantly, but still, marched. There is Senator Hiram Johnson who has taken the President’s program as against. his own Republican party, time and again, but who now sits down just when most needed in the assemblyman line of a new complacent judicial system that will rubber stamp the President’s schemes. for making this a better world. Senator Norris, another so-called independent, has also seated himself, so ‘far forgetting his obligations to the President who helped mightily in electing him to the Senate, as a Nebraska Independent, as.to declare that *‘some Congress may come along after I am dead and increase it again until itis as large as Congress itself. The new court may be as bad as this one is now.”’ f Then there is Senator’ Borah, Idaho warhorse of many a charge of the light brigade, who sits down heavily and squashily when such an expert constitutionalists as he is, is most needed to grease the ways. There are others of course, among the old line Democrats who are.silting down without setting off any fireworks about it. And every Congressional sit-downer knows that he is sitting on a crown of thorns, so to speak. For vox populi has two ways of expressing itself, one is through the newspapers, which nowadays represent a minority, and the other is through the ballot box, which represents a majority that believes the capitalistic system of government is a kind of communal apiary and that they afe justified in robbing the hives of their honey and distributing it to the drones and the grasshoppers. Vox populi may denounce these sit-downers. Yet --Borah, Johnson et al Have never flinched when it came to sitting down on the schemes of an idealistic President. Wilson with his League of Nations got nowhere because these senators were more realistic than idealistic. We think they were wrong. If the United States had joined the league of nations, aided in organizing an international police ‘force to keep the peace, and adjudicated the complaints of underprivileged nations in a. world court, we would not now be facing another world war. But our judicial system with ali its faults is still the best in the world outside of Great Britain. To undermine it by planting in the highest tribunal, judges who will render decisions to suit the chief executive, no matter how wrong or right his purpose may be, is the first step toward dissolution and decay of democracy. The People’s Courts of Germany are the last word in absolutism. They are courts in which justice, as we understand it, is distorted to the whim of the Fuhrer. ‘In Germany the traditional figure of justice, blindfolded with the scales in one hand and sword in the other, is impersonated by a eruel clown, with eyes wide open scanning in one hand the conimand of the Fuhrer, and holding in the other the headsman’s axe. We are a long ways from it? Surely we are. But let us not take the first step toward it. ,So let us be thankful for our sitdowners in Congress, The machine, with its false trade mark of ‘‘Democratic party,’’ must at least pause pefore taking a step toward degrading our Supreme Court. And in ‘that pause, it is just possible that enough Congressmen will hear from ‘‘back home” that their constituents are not pleased with the President’s plan of usurping ernment, the legislative and judicial, which the Constitution withholds from him. And supposing, as. has happened, the pendulum swings and we should get @ reactionary in the Presidency. Suppose the Liberty League members should mightily resolve to spend the major portion of their accumulated wealth, in order to save and perpetuate the conditions under which it was accumulated. A reactionary President with a subservient Congress could again pack the Supreme Court to rubber stamp his measures for the good of the peepul as he saw it. COVERS RICHEST GOL D to ada City Nugget AREA IN CALIFORNIA The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population ‘ and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. therefore, Vol. 11, No. 14. two functions of gov-’ NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA PENN VALLEY DEER FEED WITH CATTLE Antone Giani of Nevada City is feeding deer with his cattle on_ his Penn Valle ranch west of Grass Valley these days. Hay is fed every other day and as his son, Peter Giant, fed the cattle from the truck last Saturday eight deer stepped out of the brush to feed. They are as tame as the cattle paying almost no attention to the automobiie and driver as he. scatters the hay about the clearing. Peter’ Giani stated he saw one large buck, several does and some yearlings in the group Saturday. Some of these deer are driven down from higher mountain ranges, but this section is noted for some of the largest and finest bpcks. LIBRARY LOANS 1993 BOOKS IN MONTH OF JAN. Mrs. Iva Williamson, city librarian reports that in January’ the number of, books borrowed for home use was 1903; fiction, 1420; juvenile, 355; miscellaneous, 128; books borrowed from state library 6. Number , of visitors to reading rooms, 1334; men, 444; women, 117; boys, 440; girls, 333. Number of borrowers, 1161; total attendance 6495, daily attendance 100. Twelve adult and six cards. were issued and four cards surrendered, present registration 1078. Sixteen books were purchased and twelve donated, present accession 10415. ~The books purchased are: That Man is Mine, Faith Baldwin; Pay Streak, John Barakwana; The Mystery of the Farm, Carolyn Wells; The Spur of Pride, Percival C. Wren; The Door Between, Ellery Queen; April’s Swing, Rosemary Rees; Unseen, Albert Payson Terhune; Our Avenue, Ruby M,. Ayres; Figure Away, Phoebe Atwood Toylar; Spotlight, Clarence Buddington Kelland; juvenile Lancere at Large, Francis Yeats Brown; Fish in the Sea, Elizabeth Carefree; The D. A. Calls It Murder, Erle Stanley Gardner; The Sound of Running Feet, Josephine Lawrence; I Was a_ Probationer, Corrinne Johnson Kern, and Without Charm, Please, Louise Platt Hauck. Our gifts are ,from the Womans Civic Club of Nevada City. Man’s Own Show, Civilization, George A. Dorsey; The Price of Peace, Frank S. Simonds and Brooks Jnemy, Challenge; Behind the Face of Japan, Upton Slose; Russia’s Iron Age, Willis Henry Chanholm and Sweden, the Middle May, Marquis W. Childs. From Walter Sullivan we received My Lady of the North, Randall Parrish. The Gun Brand, James B. Hendrix; Captain Country, Edward Childs, The Trail of the Ninetyeight,A Northern Romance, Robert W. Service; Gold and the Mounted, James B. Hendryx.: The Wife Shin Woman, Hugh Pendexter. Thirty books were taken from the rent shelf and placed in general circulation. Our collections, finej, $4.82; rentals, $24.20; total $29.02. GUESTS REGISTERED AT NATIONAL HOTEL Recent arrivals at the National Hotel are as follows: Cc: A. Kalkling, W. H. McLeod, Nevada City; Eliz. Kingham, Grass Valley; J. B. McKinney and wife, of Chico; R. E. MacBeth, Sacrameto; Mrs. T. R. Christensen, Sacramento; E. J. Sall, Sacramento; G. S. Jagerson, Sacramento; C. J. Rudy and wife, Rena; J. Enos, Sacramento; Virginia R. Evans, Nevada City; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnston, Piedmont; J. E, Little, Whittier; Ray McCullough, North San Juan; Geo. Gilbert, Washington; John Connell, Alleghany; Mr, and Mrs. O. Paulson, San Francisco. A. Dodge, F. Dodge, G. Wuland? E:-Auburger, San -Francisco; J. H. Matchett, Oakland; H. Tyrwhite,“San Franciseo; P. J. Murphy, . Sacramento; Ruben Nathan, Sacramento; Wm. S, Walker, Sacramento; Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Ribble, Washington; Milt Davidson, San Francisco; Vilma F. Koef, Grass Valley; Jack Wittmer, Sacramento; F. PF, O’Conner, f William B. Celio, who has ‘been seriously ill at his home on Boulder street is improving which is good news to his many friends. The County Seat Paper USE OF GAS FUND AT BAY OPPOSED BY CHAMBERS Definite recommendations weré made last Friday evening at the joint meeting of the Nevada City and Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce regarding pending legislation affecting the bay bridge and the Carquinez bridge. . Pending bills to give each county the option of whether it will surrender all its roads to the State Highway commission or leave them under control of boards of supervisors, was debated, but it was decided that since the bill provides for .a county wide vote on the proposal, no recommendation was necessary. The representatives of the two chambers voted unanimously against either lowering the rates on the San Francisco bridge, or .purchasinge the Carquinez bridge, out of gas tax money. It was stated that the vast cost of completing the approaches to the Golden Gate bridge has al‘ready depleted the funds that might have been used to improve or extend reads in the mountain districts. The chamber will meet this evening and discuss routine matters. Tomorrow evening there will be a joint dinner meeting of the two chambers of commerce in the Bret Harte Inn, Grass Valley, at which Senator. Jerrold Seawell will be the guest of honor. He will explain the peding legislation and advise the two chambers how this will affect the county. FORREST B. RISLEY TO HAVE NEW QUARTERS Forrest B. Risley, who has cessfully conducted a cleaning tailoring establishmnt in Nevada City since May 1932, will move from his present location in the Bost Buildings on Broad street to the Masonic Building on Pine street. Remodeling is being done and Mr. Risley will move March first. He has built up a fine trade since coming to Nevada City. His many frieds wish for him continued success. BILL TO BAR ALL SIT-DOWNERS IN _ STATE PENDING SACRAMENTO, Feb. TSS “*Sitdown strikes’, which have had the nation’s industrial front in an uproar for several weeks past, may shortly be outlawed in California as “criminal trespass’’! The red-hot issue bobs up in California in a bill by Senator Harry Parkman of San Mateo, introduced in the legislature before the 30-day recess, but which apparently escaped attention until a few days ago. Under the Parkman act, **sitdown strikers’ would be declared guilty of “criminal trespass’”’ and would be subject to prosecution under the penal code. The act amends the definition of “criminal trespass’? to include any person who “enters upon the real property in the possession of another, or remains thereon,’’ without the consent of the owner. Fear that “sit-down strikes’’ may spread to California business and industry—and possibly to California farms during the harvest season-—— is said to have prompted the proposed legislation. ESTEEMED LIBRARIAN PASSED AWAY SUN ‘Miss Mary Nolan, assistant librarian of Nevada City, died Sunday at the home of Miss Mary Warnecke, where she had been seriously ill for several. weeks. She is the last member. of. the. family which consisted of her parents and three sisters, Mrs. Kate Allen, Miss Maggie Nolan and Miss. Lena Nolan, the latter passing away about a year ago. Her parents owned and the family always resided in the home on Pine street in this city. Miss Nolan. was a patient sweet and kindlywoman, whom everyone loved and respected. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in St. Canice Catholic church with Holmes Funeral Home in charge of services. suecand BERT WILMERTON IN FEDERAL SERVICE AGAIN Bert Wilmerton, of the Bosworth Furniture Company of this city, has been called into the federal service again as a construction superintendent. He is completing the unemployment camp at North Columbia where 300 men are living. The camp will house 400 men when completed which will be about March first. Wilmerton will superintend work on five camps from Fresno to the Oregon state line, if sufficient federal funds are appropriated. He was in charge of construction of the camp at North Bloomfield two.years ago. Wilmerton has the authority to call on unemployed men in the camps to assist in construction of these camps, or place them to do other work, outside the camp, if need arises. He was a Nevada City visitor today. A. M. HOLMES AGAIN ON STATE FUNERAL BOARD A. M. Holmes, secretary of the State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers has been reappointed as a member of the board by Governor Frank Merriam. Holmes was appointed a year ago to fill.an unexpired term but his present reappointment is for a full term of four years. He is head of the Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada City and the Holmes Hooper Funeral Home of Grass Valley. PRESIDENT MAY BES. F. GUEST AT BRIDGE OPENING SAN FRANCISCO, Fob. » ib-A formal invitation wasdelivered to President Roosevelt at the White House this week to attend and participate in person at the Golden Gate bridge opening and attendant fiesta in San Francisco from May 20 to 23. The invitatio was presented personally by Supervisvr Arthur M, Brown, Jr., genera) chairman of the Golden Gate bridge fiesta, and Supervisor James B, McSheehy, delegated by the San Francisco board of supervisors to represent the city with Brown. Members of the California congressional delegation joined in the invitation ceremonies, The interview with President Roosevelt had been -arranged in advanee through Mayor Angelo J., Rossi of San Francisco, honorary chairman of the fiesta committee. The invitation was an hand painted drawing on vellum, adorned with scenic views of tne great bridge and the Redwood Empire, and was signed by Mayor Rossi, Supervisor Brown and William P. Filmer, president of the Golden Gate bridge. and Highway district. The invitation -was painted by Chesley Bonestell, internationally known California artist, whose work and art studies of the Golden Gate bridge, have won him fame in the art galleries of the world. It read as follows: “Greetings: The citizens of San Francisco and the Redwood Empire of California cordially “invite the Honorable, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States to be present at the opening of the longest single span in the world, the Golden Gate bridge, and the attending fiesta in celebration of this historic event—a fiesta of gayety, carnival and pageantry with brilliant and spectacular fetes on land, air and sea. San Francisco, California, May twentieth to twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.?’ The signatures of Mayor Rossi, . Filmer and Supervisor Brown followed “aiid the invitation’ bore the official seal of the city and county of San Francisco. While in Washington, Supervisors Brown ad McSheehy extended official invitations to the Golden. Gate bridge fiesta to Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President’s mother, and Cabinet officers and other dignitaries. Mayor Fiorello Le Guardia of New York, Mayor Howard J. Kelly of Chicago were likewise invited. Before returning to San Francisco Supervisor Brown will make a swing of the entire country, inviting governors of various states, and mayors and other dignitaries to come to San Francisco fvr. the bridge opeuing celebration. elaborate Washington (irocer Chides Chamber for Sending in Supplies Here develops a comedy of errors. Fred E. Conner, president of the Chamber of Commerce, has received a letter from Washington, Nevada county, declaring that all the activities, ramifying from {Washiington, to Nevada City to Roseville, Sacramento and back again, with Senator Jerry Seawell, Earl Lee Kelly, ‘the Plaza Grocery, the Penrose Grocery, the Jackson Grocery; and others doing a quick “‘assist,’’ to use a baseball term, amounted just simply, to nothing more or less than love’s labor lost. The chamber “did a neighborly and humane act in rushing food to Washington, Nevada county, that was not needed, according to the letter which follows: Washington, Nevada County, February. 12,1937. Mr. F. E, Conner, President, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Dear Mr. Conner: In answer to the letter published in the Morning Union, of February 7, stating we were all out of groceries,in our store, I hereby wish to deny this statement, as we still have plenty of stable groceries for a good many meals yet. We were out of butter, eggs, bacon, coffee and bread, but we cannot be expected to stock too many perishables, as they would’ be unfit to be eaten if kept on hand! for long periods. Our order for SUD{. yet established that Washington was plies was in Nevada City waiting for Mr. ilaverstock to bring it o'i> to us. At no time, to my knowledge, was there anyone really in need of food. If there were the people here surely would have been glad to share with them till such time as there were additional supplies brought in. In justice to ourselves and to others who have volunteered to sign this letter, I request that vou publish this denial. Thanking you I remain Sincerely yours Washington Grocery, ' By John A. Crowley. H, O. Kohler, R. C. -Fontz, Charles Blay, Roy Walch, Mervin R, Tracy, J. C. Kane. H. Hagen, Mrs. Boden, Frank Nelson. The letter Mr. Crowley refers to The Gold Center. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1937. was one written by George F. Lowe who runs a restaurant in Washington, in which he stated that the two stores in town were out of the folflour, coffee, bread, or anything else. It is probably that ‘or anything the two In some lowing foods, sugar, else’’ that moved one of store owners to protest. particulars the two letters do coincide. Crowley acknowledges that his store was out of butter, eggs, bacon, and bread. Lowe fails to mention the dearth of eggs and baand ‘coffee, con but does-mention sugar flour. Apparently there is a rift in the lute in Washington. A fact finding committee is needed. On this end of the line, however, with no telephone to. Washington working, Nevada City did its humane duty, which was to believe the letter sent in by Mr. Lowe and rush matters so that the highway was opened and $60 worth of perishables, butter, eggs, bacon, etc. were taken into Washington toa relieve, if, not all the Washington’ people, at least those who were customers of Mr. Lowe. On board ship the crew is often put through fire drills, against the day of an actual fire. While it is not suffering from lack of food, it is certain, since both letter writers agree, it was sadly needing certain foods. And if were established that the first letter was somewhat of an alarmist nature, it still hurts nothing that the Chamber of Commerce went through its fire drill, and at least made all the motions of affording relief. It also speeded up the work of clearing the Tahoe-Ukiah highway, which should have been done in any event. It is a very dangerous thing to permit the highways to be closed at any time. Lives often depend on communications. It is to be hoped“that the sufferers of Mississippi and Ohio River floods will not undertake to rebuke the Red Cross for the outpouring of food, medical supplies and clothing which has been made on their behalf. TOWNSENDITE SERIOUSLY. HURT INCAR CRASH Miles Tilden, North San Juan Congressional District Organizer of the Townsend Club of this district, who attended a meeting inLos Molinos last Saturday suffered a broken leg in an auto accident when returning home and is in a Marysville hospital. Mr. Tilden accompanied Mr. Washburn of French Corral, Mr. Thomas, president of the Townsend club of Grass Valley, and Joe Davidson, laundryman of Grass Valley on the trip. There was a pouring rain and Mr. Washburn closed his mewly purchased car closely. He was driving and it is suspected carbon monoxide developed in the ‘machine. Washburn stated he really didn’t know what happened, but it seems he struck a bridge instead of crossing it. Mr. Tilden was the only one injured in the accident, but Washburn’s new car was badly damaged. TRINITY CHURCH WILL HOLD WED. SERVICES Lenten--services—-wilbe. held in Trinity—Episcopal_each Wednesday evening at 7:30 during. Lent. Rev. Charles ashburn wishes to call the attention of all and friends to these services. parisoners EDWARDS GRADE IMPASSABLE The Edwards Grade on the South Yuba is so badly washed out that it is now impassable to traffic of any kind according to Supervisor Cary Arbogast who warns travelers not tu try to take this route. SIGNS OF SPRING IN SKY AND STREAM An arrow head of wild geese winged; their way over Nevada City several days ago in their flight from the Sacramento Valley to their summer feeding grounds in the north; Friday robins ‘were cheerily announcing their arrival in this city and Sunday a brilliant balmy day, the lusty croaking of a frog on Little Deer Creek on Park Avenue, joined in the chorus. “Spring is Just Around the Corner.’’ Snow that has been on the ground the past six weeks is rapidly melting, showing green grass about the lawns in Nevada City and a general clearing up of colds and flu is encouraging allto look forward to promises of a fine spring. The last storm which was over a four day period precipitated 5.39 in-" ‘ches of rain at Nevada City. A total of 12.34 inches of rain has fallen so . far this month giving almost an inch per day. The total for the season is about 27 inches. Last year the rainfall to February 12 amounted to 3.5.43 inches, CAMPFIRE GIRLS AT LAKE VERA. WEEK END Thirty eight Camp Fire Girls accompanied by Miss Rhea Rupert and — Mrs. Scott came up from Piedmont — last’“Phursday evening and spent the week end at Camp Augusta on Lake Vera. The group tried the Nevada City-Grass Valley sgi.course Friday and decided to try Ciseo Saturday. A pouring rain succeeded in getting: them all soaking ‘Wet, nevertheless — they claimed to have had a . fine’ time over the holiday. Oakland and Piedmont Camp Fire Girls will come up this week end to visit, the lodge on Lake Vera. ae oo

+ 2, “> . Thinking — . Out Loud H. M. L. Sit-downing is all the fashion: The President who neither approved nor disapproved of the sit-downers in private industry. at Flint, Michigan. and elsewhere, is now confronted with sit-downers in Congress. He is silent about the sit-downers who have, until now marched with him. some times feluctantly, but still, marched. There is Senator Hiram Johnson who has taken the President’s program as against. his own Republican party, time and again, but who now sits down just when most needed in the assemblyman line of a new complacent judicial system that will rubber stamp the President’s schemes. for making this a better world. Senator Norris, another so-called independent, has also seated himself, so ‘far forgetting his obligations to the President who helped mightily in electing him to the Senate, as a Nebraska Independent, as.to declare that *‘some Congress may come along after I am dead and increase it again until itis as large as Congress itself. The new court may be as bad as this one is now.”’ f Then there is Senator’ Borah, Idaho warhorse of many a charge of the light brigade, who sits down heavily and squashily when such an expert constitutionalists as he is, is most needed to grease the ways. There are others of course, among the old line Democrats who are.silting down without setting off any fireworks about it. And every Congressional sit-downer knows that he is sitting on a crown of thorns, so to speak. For vox populi has two ways of expressing itself, one is through the newspapers, which nowadays represent a minority, and the other is through the ballot box, which represents a majority that believes the capitalistic system of government is a kind of communal apiary and that they afe justified in robbing the hives of their honey and distributing it to the drones and the grasshoppers. Vox populi may denounce these sit-downers. Yet --Borah, Johnson et al Have never flinched when it came to sitting down on the schemes of an idealistic President. Wilson with his League of Nations got nowhere because these senators were more realistic than idealistic. We think they were wrong. If the United States had joined the league of nations, aided in organizing an international police ‘force to keep the peace, and adjudicated the complaints of underprivileged nations in a. world court, we would not now be facing another world war. But our judicial system with ali its faults is still the best in the world outside of Great Britain. To undermine it by planting in the highest tribunal, judges who will render decisions to suit the chief executive, no matter how wrong or right his purpose may be, is the first step toward dissolution and decay of democracy. The People’s Courts of Germany are the last word in absolutism. They are courts in which justice, as we understand it, is distorted to the whim of the Fuhrer. ‘In Germany the traditional figure of justice, blindfolded with the scales in one hand and sword in the other, is impersonated by a eruel clown, with eyes wide open scanning in one hand the conimand of the Fuhrer, and holding in the other the headsman’s axe. We are a long ways from it? Surely we are. But let us not take the first step toward it. ,So let us be thankful for our sitdowners in Congress, The machine, with its false trade mark of ‘‘Democratic party,’’ must at least pause pefore taking a step toward degrading our Supreme Court. And in ‘that pause, it is just possible that enough Congressmen will hear from ‘‘back home” that their constituents are not pleased with the President’s plan of usurping ernment, the legislative and judicial, which the Constitution withholds from him. And supposing, as. has happened, the pendulum swings and we should get @ reactionary in the Presidency. Suppose the Liberty League members should mightily resolve to spend the major portion of their accumulated wealth, in order to save and perpetuate the conditions under which it was accumulated. A reactionary President with a subservient Congress could again pack the Supreme Court to rubber stamp his measures for the good of the peepul as he saw it. COVERS RICHEST GOL D to ada City Nugget AREA IN CALIFORNIA The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population ‘ and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. therefore, Vol. 11, No. 14. two functions of gov-’ NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA PENN VALLEY DEER FEED WITH CATTLE Antone Giani of Nevada City is feeding deer with his cattle on_ his Penn Valle ranch west of Grass Valley these days. Hay is fed every other day and as his son, Peter Giant, fed the cattle from the truck last Saturday eight deer stepped out of the brush to feed. They are as tame as the cattle paying almost no attention to the automobiie and driver as he. scatters the hay about the clearing. Peter’ Giani stated he saw one large buck, several does and some yearlings in the group Saturday. Some of these deer are driven down from higher mountain ranges, but this section is noted for some of the largest and finest bpcks. LIBRARY LOANS 1993 BOOKS IN MONTH OF JAN. Mrs. Iva Williamson, city librarian reports that in January’ the number of, books borrowed for home use was 1903; fiction, 1420; juvenile, 355; miscellaneous, 128; books borrowed from state library 6. Number , of visitors to reading rooms, 1334; men, 444; women, 117; boys, 440; girls, 333. Number of borrowers, 1161; total attendance 6495, daily attendance 100. Twelve adult and six cards. were issued and four cards surrendered, present registration 1078. Sixteen books were purchased and twelve donated, present accession 10415. ~The books purchased are: That Man is Mine, Faith Baldwin; Pay Streak, John Barakwana; The Mystery of the Farm, Carolyn Wells; The Spur of Pride, Percival C. Wren; The Door Between, Ellery Queen; April’s Swing, Rosemary Rees; Unseen, Albert Payson Terhune; Our Avenue, Ruby M,. Ayres; Figure Away, Phoebe Atwood Toylar; Spotlight, Clarence Buddington Kelland; juvenile Lancere at Large, Francis Yeats Brown; Fish in the Sea, Elizabeth Carefree; The D. A. Calls It Murder, Erle Stanley Gardner; The Sound of Running Feet, Josephine Lawrence; I Was a_ Probationer, Corrinne Johnson Kern, and Without Charm, Please, Louise Platt Hauck. Our gifts are ,from the Womans Civic Club of Nevada City. Man’s Own Show, Civilization, George A. Dorsey; The Price of Peace, Frank S. Simonds and Brooks Jnemy, Challenge; Behind the Face of Japan, Upton Slose; Russia’s Iron Age, Willis Henry Chanholm and Sweden, the Middle May, Marquis W. Childs. From Walter Sullivan we received My Lady of the North, Randall Parrish. The Gun Brand, James B. Hendrix; Captain Country, Edward Childs, The Trail of the Ninetyeight,A Northern Romance, Robert W. Service; Gold and the Mounted, James B. Hendryx.: The Wife Shin Woman, Hugh Pendexter. Thirty books were taken from the rent shelf and placed in general circulation. Our collections, finej, $4.82; rentals, $24.20; total $29.02. GUESTS REGISTERED AT NATIONAL HOTEL Recent arrivals at the National Hotel are as follows: Cc: A. Kalkling, W. H. McLeod, Nevada City; Eliz. Kingham, Grass Valley; J. B. McKinney and wife, of Chico; R. E. MacBeth, Sacrameto; Mrs. T. R. Christensen, Sacramento; E. J. Sall, Sacramento; G. S. Jagerson, Sacramento; C. J. Rudy and wife, Rena; J. Enos, Sacramento; Virginia R. Evans, Nevada City; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Johnston, Piedmont; J. E, Little, Whittier; Ray McCullough, North San Juan; Geo. Gilbert, Washington; John Connell, Alleghany; Mr, and Mrs. O. Paulson, San Francisco. A. Dodge, F. Dodge, G. Wuland? E:-Auburger, San -Francisco; J. H. Matchett, Oakland; H. Tyrwhite,“San Franciseo; P. J. Murphy, . Sacramento; Ruben Nathan, Sacramento; Wm. S, Walker, Sacramento; Mr. and Mrs. D. K. Ribble, Washington; Milt Davidson, San Francisco; Vilma F. Koef, Grass Valley; Jack Wittmer, Sacramento; F. PF, O’Conner, f William B. Celio, who has ‘been seriously ill at his home on Boulder street is improving which is good news to his many friends. The County Seat Paper USE OF GAS FUND AT BAY OPPOSED BY CHAMBERS Definite recommendations weré made last Friday evening at the joint meeting of the Nevada City and Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce regarding pending legislation affecting the bay bridge and the Carquinez bridge. . Pending bills to give each county the option of whether it will surrender all its roads to the State Highway commission or leave them under control of boards of supervisors, was debated, but it was decided that since the bill provides for .a county wide vote on the proposal, no recommendation was necessary. The representatives of the two chambers voted unanimously against either lowering the rates on the San Francisco bridge, or .purchasinge the Carquinez bridge, out of gas tax money. It was stated that the vast cost of completing the approaches to the Golden Gate bridge has al‘ready depleted the funds that might have been used to improve or extend reads in the mountain districts. The chamber will meet this evening and discuss routine matters. Tomorrow evening there will be a joint dinner meeting of the two chambers of commerce in the Bret Harte Inn, Grass Valley, at which Senator. Jerrold Seawell will be the guest of honor. He will explain the peding legislation and advise the two chambers how this will affect the county. FORREST B. RISLEY TO HAVE NEW QUARTERS Forrest B. Risley, who has cessfully conducted a cleaning tailoring establishmnt in Nevada City since May 1932, will move from his present location in the Bost Buildings on Broad street to the Masonic Building on Pine street. Remodeling is being done and Mr. Risley will move March first. He has built up a fine trade since coming to Nevada City. His many frieds wish for him continued success. BILL TO BAR ALL SIT-DOWNERS IN _ STATE PENDING SACRAMENTO, Feb. TSS “*Sitdown strikes’, which have had the nation’s industrial front in an uproar for several weeks past, may shortly be outlawed in California as “criminal trespass’’! The red-hot issue bobs up in California in a bill by Senator Harry Parkman of San Mateo, introduced in the legislature before the 30-day recess, but which apparently escaped attention until a few days ago. Under the Parkman act, **sitdown strikers’ would be declared guilty of “criminal trespass’”’ and would be subject to prosecution under the penal code. The act amends the definition of “criminal trespass’? to include any person who “enters upon the real property in the possession of another, or remains thereon,’’ without the consent of the owner. Fear that “sit-down strikes’’ may spread to California business and industry—and possibly to California farms during the harvest season-—— is said to have prompted the proposed legislation. ESTEEMED LIBRARIAN PASSED AWAY SUN ‘Miss Mary Nolan, assistant librarian of Nevada City, died Sunday at

the home of Miss Mary Warnecke, where she had been seriously ill for several. weeks. She is the last member. of. the. family which consisted of her parents and three sisters, Mrs. Kate Allen, Miss Maggie Nolan and Miss. Lena Nolan, the latter passing away about a year ago. Her parents owned and the family always resided in the home on Pine street in this city. Miss Nolan. was a patient sweet and kindlywoman, whom everyone loved and respected. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock in St. Canice Catholic church with Holmes Funeral Home in charge of services. suecand BERT WILMERTON IN FEDERAL SERVICE AGAIN Bert Wilmerton, of the Bosworth Furniture Company of this city, has been called into the federal service again as a construction superintendent. He is completing the unemployment camp at North Columbia where 300 men are living. The camp will house 400 men when completed which will be about March first. Wilmerton will superintend work on five camps from Fresno to the Oregon state line, if sufficient federal funds are appropriated. He was in charge of construction of the camp at North Bloomfield two.years ago. Wilmerton has the authority to call on unemployed men in the camps to assist in construction of these camps, or place them to do other work, outside the camp, if need arises. He was a Nevada City visitor today. A. M. HOLMES AGAIN ON STATE FUNERAL BOARD A. M. Holmes, secretary of the State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers has been reappointed as a member of the board by Governor Frank Merriam. Holmes was appointed a year ago to fill.an unexpired term but his present reappointment is for a full term of four years. He is head of the Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada City and the Holmes Hooper Funeral Home of Grass Valley. PRESIDENT MAY BES. F. GUEST AT BRIDGE OPENING SAN FRANCISCO, Fob. » ib-A formal invitation wasdelivered to President Roosevelt at the White House this week to attend and participate in person at the Golden Gate bridge opening and attendant fiesta in San Francisco from May 20 to 23. The invitatio was presented personally by Supervisvr Arthur M, Brown, Jr., genera) chairman of the Golden Gate bridge fiesta, and Supervisor James B, McSheehy, delegated by the San Francisco board of supervisors to represent the city with Brown. Members of the California congressional delegation joined in the invitation ceremonies, The interview with President Roosevelt had been -arranged in advanee through Mayor Angelo J., Rossi of San Francisco, honorary chairman of the fiesta committee. The invitation was an hand painted drawing on vellum, adorned with scenic views of tne great bridge and the Redwood Empire, and was signed by Mayor Rossi, Supervisor Brown and William P. Filmer, president of the Golden Gate bridge. and Highway district. The invitation -was painted by Chesley Bonestell, internationally known California artist, whose work and art studies of the Golden Gate bridge, have won him fame in the art galleries of the world. It read as follows: “Greetings: The citizens of San Francisco and the Redwood Empire of California cordially “invite the Honorable, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States to be present at the opening of the longest single span in the world, the Golden Gate bridge, and the attending fiesta in celebration of this historic event—a fiesta of gayety, carnival and pageantry with brilliant and spectacular fetes on land, air and sea. San Francisco, California, May twentieth to twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirty-seven.?’ The signatures of Mayor Rossi, . Filmer and Supervisor Brown followed “aiid the invitation’ bore the official seal of the city and county of San Francisco. While in Washington, Supervisors Brown ad McSheehy extended official invitations to the Golden. Gate bridge fiesta to Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President’s mother, and Cabinet officers and other dignitaries. Mayor Fiorello Le Guardia of New York, Mayor Howard J. Kelly of Chicago were likewise invited. Before returning to San Francisco Supervisor Brown will make a swing of the entire country, inviting governors of various states, and mayors and other dignitaries to come to San Francisco fvr. the bridge opeuing celebration. elaborate Washington (irocer Chides Chamber for Sending in Supplies Here develops a comedy of errors. Fred E. Conner, president of the Chamber of Commerce, has received a letter from Washington, Nevada county, declaring that all the activities, ramifying from {Washiington, to Nevada City to Roseville, Sacramento and back again, with Senator Jerry Seawell, Earl Lee Kelly, ‘the Plaza Grocery, the Penrose Grocery, the Jackson Grocery; and others doing a quick “‘assist,’’ to use a baseball term, amounted just simply, to nothing more or less than love’s labor lost. The chamber “did a neighborly and humane act in rushing food to Washington, Nevada county, that was not needed, according to the letter which follows: Washington, Nevada County, February. 12,1937. Mr. F. E, Conner, President, Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Dear Mr. Conner: In answer to the letter published in the Morning Union, of February 7, stating we were all out of groceries,in our store, I hereby wish to deny this statement, as we still have plenty of stable groceries for a good many meals yet. We were out of butter, eggs, bacon, coffee and bread, but we cannot be expected to stock too many perishables, as they would’ be unfit to be eaten if kept on hand! for long periods. Our order for SUD{. yet established that Washington was plies was in Nevada City waiting for Mr. ilaverstock to bring it o'i> to us. At no time, to my knowledge, was there anyone really in need of food. If there were the people here surely would have been glad to share with them till such time as there were additional supplies brought in. In justice to ourselves and to others who have volunteered to sign this letter, I request that vou publish this denial. Thanking you I remain Sincerely yours Washington Grocery, ' By John A. Crowley. H, O. Kohler, R. C. -Fontz, Charles Blay, Roy Walch, Mervin R, Tracy, J. C. Kane. H. Hagen, Mrs. Boden, Frank Nelson. The letter Mr. Crowley refers to The Gold Center. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1937. was one written by George F. Lowe who runs a restaurant in Washington, in which he stated that the two stores in town were out of the folflour, coffee, bread, or anything else. It is probably that ‘or anything the two In some lowing foods, sugar, else’’ that moved one of store owners to protest. particulars the two letters do coincide. Crowley acknowledges that his store was out of butter, eggs, bacon, and bread. Lowe fails to mention the dearth of eggs and baand ‘coffee, con but does-mention sugar flour. Apparently there is a rift in the lute in Washington. A fact finding committee is needed. On this end of the line, however, with no telephone to. Washington working, Nevada City did its humane duty, which was to believe the letter sent in by Mr. Lowe and rush matters so that the highway was opened and $60 worth of perishables, butter, eggs, bacon, etc. were taken into Washington toa relieve, if, not all the Washington’ people, at least those who were customers of Mr. Lowe. On board ship the crew is often put through fire drills, against the day of an actual fire. While it is not suffering from lack of food, it is certain, since both letter writers agree, it was sadly needing certain foods. And if were established that the first letter was somewhat of an alarmist nature, it still hurts nothing that the Chamber of Commerce went through its fire drill, and at least made all the motions of affording relief. It also speeded up the work of clearing the Tahoe-Ukiah highway, which should have been done in any event. It is a very dangerous thing to permit the highways to be closed at any time. Lives often depend on communications. It is to be hoped“that the sufferers of Mississippi and Ohio River floods will not undertake to rebuke the Red Cross for the outpouring of food, medical supplies and clothing which has been made on their behalf. TOWNSENDITE SERIOUSLY. HURT INCAR CRASH Miles Tilden, North San Juan Congressional District Organizer of the Townsend Club of this district, who attended a meeting inLos Molinos last Saturday suffered a broken leg in an auto accident when returning home and is in a Marysville hospital. Mr. Tilden accompanied Mr. Washburn of French Corral, Mr. Thomas, president of the Townsend club of Grass Valley, and Joe Davidson, laundryman of Grass Valley on the trip. There was a pouring rain and Mr. Washburn closed his mewly purchased car closely. He was driving and it is suspected carbon monoxide developed in the ‘machine. Washburn stated he really didn’t know what happened, but it seems he struck a bridge instead of crossing it. Mr. Tilden was the only one injured in the accident, but Washburn’s new car was badly damaged. TRINITY CHURCH WILL HOLD WED. SERVICES Lenten--services—-wilbe. held in Trinity—Episcopal_each Wednesday evening at 7:30 during. Lent. Rev. Charles ashburn wishes to call the attention of all and friends to these services. parisoners EDWARDS GRADE IMPASSABLE The Edwards Grade on the South Yuba is so badly washed out that it is now impassable to traffic of any kind according to Supervisor Cary Arbogast who warns travelers not tu try to take this route. SIGNS OF SPRING IN SKY AND STREAM An arrow head of wild geese winged; their way over Nevada City several days ago in their flight from the Sacramento Valley to their summer feeding grounds in the north; Friday robins ‘were cheerily announcing their arrival in this city and Sunday a brilliant balmy day, the lusty croaking of a frog on Little Deer Creek on Park Avenue, joined in the chorus. “Spring is Just Around the Corner.’’ Snow that has been on the ground the past six weeks is rapidly melting, showing green grass about the lawns in Nevada City and a general clearing up of colds and flu is encouraging allto look forward to promises of a fine spring. The last storm which was over a four day period precipitated 5.39 in-" ‘ches of rain at Nevada City. A total of 12.34 inches of rain has fallen so . far this month giving almost an inch per day. The total for the season is about 27 inches. Last year the rainfall to February 12 amounted to 3.5.43 inches, CAMPFIRE GIRLS AT LAKE VERA. WEEK END Thirty eight Camp Fire Girls accompanied by Miss Rhea Rupert and — Mrs. Scott came up from Piedmont — last’“Phursday evening and spent the week end at Camp Augusta on Lake Vera. The group tried the Nevada City-Grass Valley sgi.course Friday and decided to try Ciseo Saturday. A pouring rain succeeded in getting: them all soaking ‘Wet, nevertheless — they claimed to have had a . fine’ time over the holiday. Oakland and Piedmont Camp Fire Girls will come up this week end to visit, the lodge on Lake Vera. ae oo