February 22, 1945 (4 pages)

SE ee ee The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.””-—Daniel Webster __ . i evada City Nugget . _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. . If you want to read about your . friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. — Vol. 19, No. 15. Ee The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA se ‘Fhe Goid Center ‘THURS DAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1945 THE FIFT H F REEDOM By EDW. C. UREN INo matter whether you are a Republican,_a New Dealer of.a Lame Duck, if you had a thousand dollars laid by and wanted to invest it with reasonable safety, would you turn it over to a visionary radical like. Henry Wallace, whose fertile brain gestated the little pigs economics, or would you place it in the hands of a successful business man like Jesse Jones, whose administration of the office of Secretary of ‘Commerce commanded the respect of the majority of Congress? That is a fair question you should ask yourself before you ballyhoo too ‘much for Wallace. When the war is ended.we will have a colossal debt of around 300 billion. dollars., That is $2300 for every man, woman and child in America. We will:have 30 billion dollars worth of plants, factories and surplus commodities to dispose of and the liquidation must be made in euch -a way that it will disclocate private business as little as possible, because business generally is. sick and will require careful mursing. To accomplish this iob successfully the best business brains in the country should be in change. Henry Wallace’certainly doesn’t fill the bill pecause he does not know the meaning of conservation. This thirty billiom dollars worth of war’s residue belongs to you and me, all of us. It was paid for with the monies we put up for incomé taxes, sales taxes and the purchase. of government bonds and we are en-! titled to the best supervision available. The Wallace episode smells. too] much like feeding fish to a seal as a reward for clapping a pair of cymbals . together. But that way. The Roosevelt likes more radical they are, the more they curry favor with the Chief. There was very jiitle publicity about it, but Harry Britiges, erdered departed ever so long ago.as an alien enemy of this country was able to show the San Francisco supervisors, in-an effortto get, them to eupport his &pplication for a rehearing before the Supreme Court, a personal invitation from Rosevelt to his jnauguration in January. Perhaps Bridges is also-a member of the now famous 1000 Club of Special Privjleges. You put up a thousand dol-. and the; member ‘boss lets you smell his socks. Jars to become a The average family that has been engaged in war. work, if they have used any judgment after getting the highest wages they ever earned, have naturally laid by a few hundred dolJars for a rainy day. So much money is available now that the savings banks are paying but one per cent, so it behooves the family to buy a few shares of stock ‘n some good, conservative. company, where they can, get from three to six per cent on their savings. But if Wallace had his. way—now would come competition against these business firms in which your money is the worst kind. With the whole financial structure of the government at his disposal, why -worry about costs when it doesn’t mean the loss of any skin from his tail? If private business however had a fair show there would be no need for worry on account of a politically run competitor. A goodly portion of the putting in their spare time shooting” craps or taking eiestas between meals, with the boss boys would be O’Dea could, hnadcuffy. However, Club at them . who was . had required O’Dea to show Club Cafe, invested. Competition of TO FILE CLAIM AGAINST CITY OF GRASS VALLEY Vayne W. Miller and Arthur De Beau Carr, Sacramento attorneys who defended Thomas .O’Dea, when a jury found not guilty of battery Tuesday announce that they will file a claim. for $12,500 against the company which gave bond for Policeman Kenneth Manuel. Miller stated that the claim would be based on false arrest, battery, false imprisonment, assault and malicious persecution. If it is not paid, suit will follow, with the city of Grass Valley named as a defendant. Miller stated that Manuel clubbed O’Dea while he was hancuffed, that had struck. back as best he marking Manuel with his Miller’ said that O’Dea was so badily beaten that he had to have medical attention. O’Dea, freed of battey charges on complaint of Policeman William Sproul who claimed O’Dea had struck’ him ‘while he was off duty in the Cafe;-also faced a -eharge ~—of battery preferred by Policeman Kenneth Manuel, who took him to jail after the row in the Club Cafe anda foleny charge of resisting an officer. District . don H. verdict stats ds i-that both these charges would be dismiséed. Attorney after the jury Miller declared that. $7,500 would) be asked for actual damages and. $5,000 exemplary. damages. During O’Dea’s trial Sproul testi‘fied that he entered the Club Cafe} for a glass of beer. He observed: O’; Dea atthe other end of the bar dem-! . onstrating jujitsuupon two of the i*tustomers. Presently O'Dea moved. up to Sproul and talked about cident of the day before when Sproul his credentials for earrying a O’Dea produced them, cording to Sproul, and as far as he was concerned, he told O’Dea, that the end of the matter. O’Dea ‘then introduced the sulbject of jujits:, concealed weapon. acclaiming he had been trained in the art. Sproul said the police had also taken lessons. About this = time O’Dea swung a haymaker, according to Sproul which knocked him off his stool,,He had alsomt gotten to his when a dog on a leash tripped him and he went down again. He recovered in time to assist Policeman Kenneth Manuel to put handcuffs feet on O”"Dea. O'Dea had been elub hit with a billy once during the fracas in the Sproul said, but it was only a light tap. Asked by Miller to illustrate, Sproul indicated by a snap of the wrist just how hard the blow was. It was the contention of the defense that O’Dea had been severeiy clubbed. At. the time of his arrest in November O'Dea was circulating petitions to the district attorney and the attorney general asking that Irvin DTavis be arrested and tried for the murder of William E’baugh, who was charged with the murder of Henry Lewis, World War II veteran on October 15. Davis was exonerated by a coroner’s jury who found that he killed Ebaugh while he was resisting arrest. RELIC OF HORSE Ward Srei-!} an in: BOYSTESTIFY PEACE CONCLAVE WENZKESOLD —_INS.F. OPENS NEW THEM LIQUOR CALIFORNIA ERA Four Sacramento high school boys By CLEM WHITAKER testified Tuesday before Referee E. A. McDonald of the State Board of Equalization that Herman Wenzke barkeeper and manager of Beacon Hills Lodge, had sold them liquor on Sunday January 14 while a party of 30 high school boys and girls make the lodge their headquarters while enjoying snow sports. The. hearing before the referee was to determine whether or not Beacon Hill Lodge should lose its liquor license. California in its restless quest for some distant destiny, has ‘boldly plotted the course of empire, has wined and dined presidents and visiting potenates, has staged tempestous national political conventions and has generally had a rambunctious good time, blazoning its name on the pages of history. This state’s somewhat lusty adolescence has ended, however, and its age of political maturity is full upon it. The Big Three — Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin— ‘proclaimed that momentous fact the whole Deputy Sheriff Tom Truckee, Nevada Countf the first witness, told of the arrest of Wenzke, Sunday afternoon, phone call from Dolley of following a Soda_Spings -Hotet: He entered the Beacon Hill Lodg:, saw several young people sitting around: the lobby, some of them apparently partly intoxicated, he ‘said, to one time palace of the czars at Yal ta in the Crimea, that San Francisco had been selected as the site of the United Nations Peace Conference on. but admitted later sthat they might. April 25. of been exhibiting youthful spirits. Here, on the shores of the Pacific , where less than a century ago, a He stood in the door of the Dar-. é : : . ea ; state was born, and diplmats and ;toom adjoining the lobby and saw). ; se ji ici : : s _. dignitaries from 45 united and as-; . Wenzke shake up a Tom Collings for. ; : ; e : s ‘sociated nations will seek to ulay . Eugene C. Sylvia, 17, of Sacramen-/ i P { . : Z . the foundation for-a world organ'to, After Wenzke had served it, and;. . . , : ae ' ; ization which may if its covenants tha youth had sipped, Dolly testified . i : are wisely made and honestly kept, ihe seized the glass and contents, ar-. : rested Wenzke Sylvia and and took Edward Newman, him, with} .,.,: eo . Nations failed. 17, to Hére the peace of the world may world when they announéed from the . succeed where the ill fated League of! RAY STEGERIS, WOUNDED IN EUROPE FEB. 5 A telggram was rectived from the Uy. S. Army Adjutant General by \Mrs. Margaret P. Steger yesterday reading as follows: “Regret to inform you your husband Private Raymond C. Steger was seriously wounded in action Five in Belgium. Mail address follows direct from hospital with de. tails. ULIO, the Adjuntant. Generral The soldier referred fo in the telePoe is the husband of the former . (Margaret Stevens of Nevada City and ‘is the youngest son of Mr.and Mrs. Retent G. Steger of 516 Sacramento Street, Nevada City. He 1U. S. Army on July 3 February entered the . Camp Meade, Maryland, a . ment center, and was sent overseas to Europe. The last letter \from him before he was wounded was . dated February 3, ;he was hurt, and was, received . Nevada City on February 19, 1945. Ray (Sonny) Steger was graduatbecame associated and brothers in the business, to Happy i} Camp to accept employment with the ij Newmont Mining and left to become of the assigned During several years ago, with his father carpentry went Company ‘there amember United States Army. being to the forces in Burope: the changes made he and Swinnerton and he worked for the same Island the fore accepting employment court house Linds keeper was employed bv ren timeThereafter as bookkeeper. sure in bay district bewith the Happy Camp. GRASSVALLEY FACES CLAIM i Newmont Company at Truckee: where Wenzke was arrign-! ‘ M i = : ‘ i . be decided for .generations to come . ned before Justice of.the Peace C. E.} 3 : . : ; . or here, if the conference fails, the Smith. paces e 2 . W orld War IJ] may: be spawned. Sylvia first of the four-boys_to pe. Here, too, looking far out over the jealled said that he first changed aj Pacific. toward Pearl Harbor, ¢ the leounle of: half dollars and played the, statesmen and military strategists . slot machines, then walked over :o. mMay take the final steps to blot out’ ‘the bar-andordered a Tom-Coltina. that day of infamy which plunged . e corroborated Dolley’s statements} America into war and may finally ;regarding the seizure of his drink . determine the fate of Japan, the and the arrest. ‘land of the setting sun. In less than 100 years. California! vernon Stell, sormer: 0a *'-\has shed its swaddline clothes, left . cE Lorney,. who is defending . Wenz “\its rodwy swashbuckling days behind jasked Sylvia how many were in his. ,onieyed a place of dominance in the party. Sylvia said there eight.zho nation and ‘now, with the world’s! left Sacramento in*a five seated Ford eyes suddenly upon it, looks out at car, the Pacific knowing that there lies “We left Sacramento at 8:15 and. its destiny. got to Soda Springs at about 10:30” There is much more vital signifiSilvia said. : eance in the selection of San Frana es 1 ; cisco as the site of the United Naee : ad o pace ye uae ms se tions peace conference than the eer Nae Oe! ——s setae plain inference that the European “not that I know of.’ é Se : = : +phase of the war is in its last stages Edward Newman, 17, said that while the war against Japan may be more prolonged. There is also shortly °afternoon he ordered a gin fizz and about 20 minutes later: dered a second, that both drinks were served by Wenzke. He said he saw Edward Casey at the bar drinking whiskey. Asked whether there was a bottle in the car among the party with whom he made the triu, he said he knew of none. However, questioned about drinks prior to the ginn fizzes, young Newman said : I had a dring on the ski course. Someone passed ‘a bottle of whiskey around and I took a drink.” Asked if he had ever, had a gin fizz before, Newman said: ‘No, I never had, but I had heard about them.”’ Kenneth Dobel, 17, admitted buying a bottle of beer and drinking it in the lobby by the fire after returning from the ski course. He testified there were eight youngsters in his ear on the trip from Sacramento. Edward Casey, 18, the fourth youth to be examined said that he ‘bought two glasses of whiskey from Wenzke, Asked if he drank it straight, he-said he did. In opening the examination of each of the four boys, Referee MecDonald asked if Wenzke, before se!lOf recognition that while the old-world lapped by the Atlantic has long dominated the earth’s affairs, there is a new world coming of age, bordered by the Parcifie and that California is the gateway of the American continent to new horizons which cannot be ignored in fashioning any world security organization. The Big Three have said, in effect: ‘Go west young man’’. And if the course of history is running true, young men.and old and men of all nationg will be coming here, not for the United Nations peace conference on April 25 but for generations ‘on end. — : CARTER FAMILY HEARS FROM WAR PRISONER Carter, received a. message from niece, Mrs. Barbara Carter, George former has +, thur sheriff, his . that she} FOR $12,500 for $12,500 was filed against the city of Grass Valley yesterday by E. Vayne Miller and ArDeB. Carr, Sacramento attorneys, on behalf of their client, Thomas O'Dea, whom they charge suffered injuries at the hands of ‘Policeman Kenneth Manuel and William J. Sproul. A claim A jury found O'Dea not guilty of battery Tuesday in the justice of the peace court here. O’Dea was arrested November 15th on complaints of the two policemen who alleged he slugged them. Sproul “claimed that O’Dea knocked him off a stool at the bar in the Club Cafe. Manuel signed a complaint alleging O’Dea hit him while he was booking him at the city jail after the altercation with Sproul. Yesterday District Attorney H. Ward Sheldon announced that remaining charges of battery and resisting and officer against him would be dismissed. Among other charges made in the claim of Miller and Carr against the city, was that a splinter of glass was extracted from O’Dea’s head, as a result of rough handling given by Manuel while booking him and placing him in a cell. It is alleged he was thrown against a glass door in the struggle and a piece of the shat1944 com-. } . pleted his basic training was sent vO . replace. . Sa, two days before: in. to the Nevada County firm at Trea-; a freight ; teams . Marysville ;age. ‘HYDRAULIC PARLOR HOLDS INITIATION Hyaraulic Parlor,’N. S. G. W. held a most enjoyable sans Tuesday evening in Elks Hall. Fine delegations_-were present from Colusa, Sutter, Rocklin Parlor, Roseville and Quart Parlor of Grass Valley. An initiatory team made up of the various parlors initiated five candidates into the order. The joint meeting was followed by a meeting cf Fred H. Greeley, Assembly Past Presidents and was ‘presided over by Tony Casci of Grass Valley who is govern or of the assembly. The meeting was followed by a turkey banquet. Be-tween fifty and sixty members were present. for the enthussiastic meeting. R. J. Power, post master of Coluwho is gfand second vice presi‘dent made an official visit to Hyreceived . draulic and Quartz Parlors and vhe joint meeting was being held for that purpose. Powers gave a lucid statement in regard to the return of Japs and their status as citizens. Alfred Kneebone Of . ed from the Nevada City high school . Bridgeport Passes Alfred A. Kneebone died Monday night at his home at Bridgeport on the South Yuba River where he lived during many ef which he conducted a:summer resort there. for 35 years The deceased ‘was son Mr. and Mrs. owned large of the late Andrew Kneebone who ranch properties at Spenceville Nevada County whereAlfred Kneebone was. born. Andrew Kneebone for years conducted driving 24 mule freight wagons from to Downieville, North San Juan and-allthe San Juan Ridge many business and . country. Alfred Kneebone was 53 years of He leaves his wife Mrs. Lucey Kneebone of Bridgeport, two daughters, Mrs, Lucille Brandt of Stockton, Mrs. Alfreda Knowton of Oildale, Kern County, three brothers, Joe R. of Berkeley, Chas. A. of Lincoln, and James Butts Kneebone of Fair Oaks. Funeral services will be held Fri-. day morning at 10:30 o’clock at the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. : at President Of Spring Hill Mine Company Passes * Friends of D. E. McLaughlin, the president of the Spring Hill Mining Company, have been apprised of his. death in San Francisco February 17. Funeral services were held in Hillsboro February 19. Prior to the war and the closing of gold mines, McLaughlin was a frequent visitor in Grass Valley. He ex= hibited, a deep faith in the future of this county‘s gold mining industry in the eventual’ success of the Spring Hill which he equipped with the most. modern facilities’ for mining. McLaughlin was interested. in the steamship anid steel business. C. G. Cushwa is manager and engineer of the Spring Hill Mine which lies a little way off the highway between Grass Valley and Nevada City. Funeral Services For Mrs. Rosie M. Dallea afraid to fire them on account of} i"f . ing them liquor, had inquired their. and her baby, have been released) ‘ered Slase hata eee ee ect ent ah ie, Ren ee their GIO affiliation or fear of the ND BUGG DAYS rage. All replied that he had not. ‘from the Japanese prison camp at? The aeeare fey Se their hese nan alSs ot. Gikeatn ae ae pr goon squad and the long sought goal , sg Naat Wenzke, a witness in his own beo. S Santo Tomas, Manilla, and are safe. Epenene vi this pPites auth SUrrere A paca Vallex. komottal Seuall “freedom From. Work’ would ba n half, declared he had not sold liq-. Mrs. Barbara Carter is the wife of. Physical and mental injury. The Ragin wed diesmblads r nearer an accomplished fact. FOUND IN ELM uor to any~of the boys. pone Carter anh dughter in law of; City Clerk Everett Deward stated Hooper and. Weaver Mortuary took i ; : Russel B. Farley, law enforcement} Will Carter, mining man employed] that the city council will meet Tuesplace in St. Patrick’s Gatholie SIX LOCAL MEN DONATE BLOOD. I” interesting relic of Nevada’ officer for the State Board of Equal-. in the gold mines of the Philippines, . gg i h i rill bel, ; . ae ; Hikes y evening when the claim will be. Chureh at 10 o'clock this morni City’s horse and buggy era was dis-. ization, examined the boys following. and the message from her gave no ees A group of Tahoe National Forest service headquarters staff went ‘4 Vallejo Monday and noated blood. The six men left Grass Valley in 4 Red Cross station. wagon with! driver that went to Vallejo where they met the Red Cross travel unit. In this party were, William French, law enforcement officer; L. LL. Land, forest roads supervisor; Wood, assistant supervisor; Gordon Vance, chief fire dispatcher. Walter Carlson ‘county supernitendent of schools, accompanied the ‘party and also donated blood. covered yesterday afternoon by Ed} Eddington, engaged in making fire wood of an elm tree that stood in front of the residence -of R. J. Bennetts on Broad Street. In splitting, the block open, Addiington discovered a piece of hitching rope embedded in the wood. A count of the rings of the stump. indicated ;. that the tree was 45, years and the Joe Forsher, shop foreman; Harlow hitching rope had: apparently. been tied around the tree when it was £5 years old. The wood had completed enveloped the rope which was well preserved and exhibited almost the same tensile strength as a new rope. ated that Lodge because they knew get liquor there. But the referee refused to admit anything. but direct evidence in the record to that effect. District Attorney H. Ward Sheldon was in interested observed at the hearing. Wenzke faces trial in the superior court on an indictment by the grandjury, charging him with eontributing to the delinquency of Minors. The trial is sét for March 20th. He is at liberty on $1,000 cash bail. they could the referees q’uestioning. He indie-. word of either. It is assumed that the the party had gone from. Soda Springs ‘Hotel to Beacon Hill! men were separated from the women and children, and imprisoned else-. considered. He also said that Manuel and Sproul are not under bond. Attorney Miller stated yesterday that the claim“would be against the bond where by Japs, prior to the invas-. of the two policemen, and in event ion of General MacArthur’s troops,. the claim is not paid the bonding and the rescue. of prisoners in the University of Santo Tomas. As yet no message has yet been LaMar all known to be prisoners of Japs following the fall of Manila in 1942. They were mining engineers and supthe Philippines, with families or \relatreceived-from John Ghidotti, Fleming or Merton Downey erintenents of gold mines in ives in Nevada City. company and the city, as the employer, will be sued. Apparently the claim must lie against the city solely. ‘ ‘Miss Emma Ramm left Monday for by the death of her grandniece. She plans to remain in San Francisco until the middle of next week. . .child. Two of her grandsons are serSan Francisco having been called the} Rev. Patrick O’Reilly officiating. Interment was in the Catholic Cemetery. Mary Dallea, aged 76 was a nat~ ive of Italy. She had lived in Chicago Park section and in Nevada ‘County for 54 years. She leaves her husband, Morris H. Dallea and two sons Antonio Dallea and John Orzalli, both of Grass Valley, four grandchildren and one great grandving in the armed forces abroad. Mrs. Simon Hieronimus of Sac mento street is quite ill with a ere attack of influenza,

SE ee ee The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.””-—Daniel Webster __ . i evada City Nugget . _COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. . If you want to read about your . friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. — Vol. 19, No. 15. Ee The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA se ‘Fhe Goid Center ‘THURS DAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1945 THE FIFT H F REEDOM By EDW. C. UREN INo matter whether you are a Republican,_a New Dealer of.a Lame Duck, if you had a thousand dollars laid by and wanted to invest it with reasonable safety, would you turn it over to a visionary radical like. Henry Wallace, whose fertile brain gestated the little pigs economics, or would you place it in the hands of a successful business man like Jesse Jones, whose administration of the office of Secretary of ‘Commerce commanded the respect of the majority of Congress? That is a fair question you should ask yourself before you ballyhoo too ‘much for Wallace. When the war is ended.we will have a colossal debt of around 300 billion. dollars., That is $2300 for every man, woman and child in America. We will:have 30 billion dollars worth of plants, factories and surplus commodities to dispose of and the liquidation must be made in euch -a way that it will disclocate private business as little as possible, because business generally is. sick and will require careful mursing. To accomplish this iob successfully the best business brains in the country should be in change. Henry Wallace’certainly doesn’t fill the bill pecause he does not know the meaning of conservation. This thirty billiom dollars worth of war’s residue belongs to you and me, all of us. It was paid for with the monies we put up for incomé taxes, sales taxes and the purchase. of government bonds and we are en-! titled to the best supervision available. The Wallace episode smells. too] much like feeding fish to a seal as a reward for clapping a pair of cymbals . together. But that way. The Roosevelt likes more radical they are, the more they curry favor with the Chief. There was very jiitle publicity about it, but Harry Britiges, erdered departed ever so long ago.as an alien enemy of this country was able to show the San Francisco supervisors, in-an effortto get, them to eupport his &pplication for a rehearing before the Supreme Court, a personal invitation from Rosevelt to his jnauguration in January. Perhaps Bridges is also-a member of the now famous 1000 Club of Special Privjleges. You put up a thousand dol-. and the; member ‘boss lets you smell his socks. Jars to become a The average family that has been engaged in war. work, if they have used any judgment after getting the highest wages they ever earned, have naturally laid by a few hundred dolJars for a rainy day. So much money is available now that the savings banks are paying but one per cent, so it behooves the family to buy a few shares of stock ‘n some good, conservative. company, where they can, get from three to six per cent on their savings. But if Wallace had his. way—now would come competition against these business firms in which your money is the worst kind. With the whole financial structure of the government at his disposal, why -worry about costs when it doesn’t mean the loss of any skin from his tail? If private business however had a fair show there would be no need for worry on account of a politically run competitor. A goodly portion of the putting in their spare time shooting” craps or taking eiestas between meals, with the boss boys would be O’Dea could, hnadcuffy. However, Club at them . who was . had required O’Dea to show Club Cafe, invested. Competition of TO FILE CLAIM AGAINST CITY OF GRASS VALLEY Vayne W. Miller and Arthur De Beau Carr, Sacramento attorneys who defended Thomas .O’Dea, when a jury found not guilty of battery Tuesday announce that they will file a claim. for $12,500 against the company which gave bond for Policeman Kenneth Manuel. Miller stated that the claim would be based on false arrest, battery, false imprisonment, assault and malicious persecution. If it is not paid, suit will follow, with the city of Grass Valley named as a defendant. Miller stated that Manuel clubbed O’Dea while he was hancuffed, that had struck. back as best he marking Manuel with his Miller’ said that O’Dea was so badily beaten that he had to have medical attention. O’Dea, freed of battey charges on complaint of Policeman William Sproul who claimed O’Dea had struck’ him ‘while he was off duty in the Cafe;-also faced a -eharge ~—of battery preferred by Policeman Kenneth Manuel, who took him to jail after the row in the Club Cafe anda foleny charge of resisting an officer. District . don H. verdict stats ds i-that both these charges would be dismiséed. Attorney after the jury Miller declared that. $7,500 would) be asked for actual damages and. $5,000 exemplary. damages. During O’Dea’s trial Sproul testi‘fied that he entered the Club Cafe} for a glass of beer. He observed: O’; Dea atthe other end of the bar dem-! . onstrating jujitsuupon two of the i*tustomers. Presently O'Dea moved. up to Sproul and talked about cident of the day before when Sproul his credentials for earrying a O’Dea produced them, cording to Sproul, and as far as he was concerned, he told O’Dea, that the end of the matter. O’Dea ‘then introduced the sulbject of jujits:, concealed weapon. acclaiming he had been trained in the art. Sproul said the police had also taken lessons. About this = time O’Dea swung a haymaker, according to Sproul which knocked him off his stool,,He had alsomt gotten to his when a dog on a leash tripped him and he went down again. He recovered in time to assist Policeman Kenneth Manuel to put handcuffs feet on O”"Dea. O'Dea had been elub hit with a billy once during the fracas in the Sproul said, but it was only a light tap. Asked by Miller to illustrate, Sproul indicated by a snap of the wrist just how hard the blow was. It was the contention of the defense that O’Dea had been severeiy clubbed. At. the time of his arrest in November O'Dea was circulating petitions to the district attorney and the attorney general asking that Irvin DTavis be arrested and tried for the murder of William E’baugh, who was charged with the murder of Henry Lewis, World War II veteran on October 15. Davis was exonerated by a coroner’s jury who found that he killed Ebaugh while he was resisting arrest. RELIC OF HORSE Ward Srei-!} an in: BOYSTESTIFY PEACE CONCLAVE WENZKESOLD —_INS.F. OPENS NEW THEM LIQUOR CALIFORNIA ERA Four Sacramento high school boys By CLEM WHITAKER testified Tuesday before Referee E. A. McDonald of the State Board of Equalization that Herman Wenzke barkeeper and manager of Beacon Hills Lodge, had sold them liquor on Sunday January 14 while a party of 30 high school boys and girls make the lodge their headquarters while enjoying snow sports. The. hearing before the referee was to determine whether or not Beacon Hill Lodge should lose its liquor license. California in its restless quest for some distant destiny, has ‘boldly plotted the course of empire, has wined and dined presidents and visiting potenates, has staged tempestous national political conventions and has generally had a rambunctious good time, blazoning its name on the pages of history. This state’s somewhat lusty adolescence has ended, however, and its age of political maturity is full upon it. The Big Three — Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin— ‘proclaimed that momentous fact the whole Deputy Sheriff Tom Truckee, Nevada Countf the first witness, told of the arrest of Wenzke, Sunday afternoon, phone call from Dolley of following a Soda_Spings -Hotet: He entered the Beacon Hill Lodg:, saw several young people sitting around: the lobby, some of them apparently partly intoxicated, he ‘said, to one time palace of the czars at Yal ta in the Crimea, that San Francisco had been selected as the site of the United Nations Peace Conference on. but admitted later sthat they might. April 25. of been exhibiting youthful spirits. Here, on the shores of the Pacific , where less than a century ago, a He stood in the door of the Dar-. é : : . ea ; state was born, and diplmats and ;toom adjoining the lobby and saw).. ; se ji ici : : s _.. dignitaries from 45 united and as-; . Wenzke shake up a Tom Collings for. ; : ; e : s ‘sociated nations will seek to ulay . Eugene C. Sylvia, 17, of Sacramen-/ i P { . : Z . the foundation for-a world organ'to, After Wenzke had served it, and;. . . , : ae ' ; ization which may if its covenants tha youth had sipped, Dolly testified . i : are wisely made and honestly kept, ihe seized the glass and contents, ar-. : rested Wenzke Sylvia and and took Edward Newman, him, with} .,.,: eo . Nations failed. 17, to Hére the peace of the world may world when they announéed from the . succeed where the ill fated League of! RAY STEGERIS, WOUNDED IN EUROPE FEB. 5 A telggram was rectived from the Uy. S. Army Adjutant General by \Mrs. Margaret P. Steger yesterday reading as follows: “Regret to inform you your husband Private Raymond C. Steger was seriously wounded in action Five in Belgium. Mail address follows direct from hospital with de. tails. ULIO, the Adjuntant. Generral The soldier referred fo in the telePoe is the husband of the former . (Margaret Stevens of Nevada City and ‘is the youngest son of Mr.and Mrs. Retent G. Steger of 516 Sacramento Street, Nevada City. He 1U. S. Army on July 3 February entered the . Camp Meade, Maryland, a . ment center, and was sent overseas to Europe. The last letter \from him before he was wounded was . dated February 3, ;he was hurt, and was, received . Nevada City on February 19, 1945. Ray (Sonny) Steger was graduatbecame associated and brothers in the business, to Happy i} Camp to accept employment with the ij Newmont Mining and left to become of the assigned During several years ago, with his father carpentry went Company ‘there amember United States Army. being to the forces in Burope: the

changes made he and Swinnerton and he worked for the same Island the fore accepting employment court house Linds keeper was employed bv ren timeThereafter as bookkeeper. sure in bay district bewith the Happy Camp. GRASSVALLEY FACES CLAIM i Newmont Company at Truckee: where Wenzke was arrign-! ‘ M i = : ‘ i . be decided for .generations to come . ned before Justice of.the Peace C. E.} 3 : . : ; . or here, if the conference fails, the Smith. paces e 2 . W orld War IJ] may: be spawned. Sylvia first of the four-boys_to pe. Here, too, looking far out over the jealled said that he first changed aj Pacific. toward Pearl Harbor, ¢ the leounle of: half dollars and played the, statesmen and military strategists . slot machines, then walked over :o. mMay take the final steps to blot out’ ‘the bar-andordered a Tom-Coltina. that day of infamy which plunged . e corroborated Dolley’s statements} America into war and may finally ;regarding the seizure of his drink . determine the fate of Japan, the and the arrest. ‘land of the setting sun. In less than 100 years. California! vernon Stell, sormer: 0a *'-\has shed its swaddline clothes, left . cE Lorney,. who is defending . Wenz “\its rodwy swashbuckling days behind jasked Sylvia how many were in his. ,onieyed a place of dominance in the party. Sylvia said there eight.zho nation and ‘now, with the world’s! left Sacramento in*a five seated Ford eyes suddenly upon it, looks out at car, the Pacific knowing that there lies “We left Sacramento at 8:15 and. its destiny. got to Soda Springs at about 10:30” There is much more vital signifiSilvia said. : eance in the selection of San Frana es 1 ; cisco as the site of the United Naee : ad o pace ye uae ms se tions peace conference than the eer Nae Oe! ——s setae plain inference that the European “not that I know of.’ é Se : = : +phase of the war is in its last stages Edward Newman, 17, said that while the war against Japan may be more prolonged. There is also shortly °afternoon he ordered a gin fizz and about 20 minutes later: dered a second, that both drinks were served by Wenzke. He said he saw Edward Casey at the bar drinking whiskey. Asked whether there was a bottle in the car among the party with whom he made the triu, he said he knew of none. However, questioned about drinks prior to the ginn fizzes, young Newman said : I had a dring on the ski course. Someone passed ‘a bottle of whiskey around and I took a drink.” Asked if he had ever, had a gin fizz before, Newman said: ‘No, I never had, but I had heard about them.”’ Kenneth Dobel, 17, admitted buying a bottle of beer and drinking it in the lobby by the fire after returning from the ski course. He testified there were eight youngsters in his ear on the trip from Sacramento. Edward Casey, 18, the fourth youth to be examined said that he ‘bought two glasses of whiskey from Wenzke, Asked if he drank it straight, he-said he did. In opening the examination of each of the four boys, Referee MecDonald asked if Wenzke, before se!lOf recognition that while the old-world lapped by the Atlantic has long dominated the earth’s affairs, there is a new world coming of age, bordered by the Parcifie and that California is the gateway of the American continent to new horizons which cannot be ignored in fashioning any world security organization. The Big Three have said, in effect: ‘Go west young man’’. And if the course of history is running true, young men.and old and men of all nationg will be coming here, not for the United Nations peace conference on April 25 but for generations ‘on end. — : CARTER FAMILY HEARS FROM WAR PRISONER Carter, received a. message from niece, Mrs. Barbara Carter, George former has +, thur sheriff, his . that she} FOR $12,500 for $12,500 was filed against the city of Grass Valley yesterday by E. Vayne Miller and ArDeB. Carr, Sacramento attorneys, on behalf of their client, Thomas O'Dea, whom they charge suffered injuries at the hands of ‘Policeman Kenneth Manuel and William J. Sproul. A claim A jury found O'Dea not guilty of battery Tuesday in the justice of the peace court here. O’Dea was arrested November 15th on complaints of the two policemen who alleged he slugged them. Sproul “claimed that O’Dea knocked him off a stool at the bar in the Club Cafe. Manuel signed a complaint alleging O’Dea hit him while he was booking him at the city jail after the altercation with Sproul. Yesterday District Attorney H. Ward Sheldon announced that remaining charges of battery and resisting and officer against him would be dismissed. Among other charges made in the claim of Miller and Carr against the city, was that a splinter of glass was extracted from O’Dea’s head, as a result of rough handling given by Manuel while booking him and placing him in a cell. It is alleged he was thrown against a glass door in the struggle and a piece of the shat1944 com-. } . pleted his basic training was sent vO . replace. . Sa, two days before: in. to the Nevada County firm at Trea-; a freight ; teams . Marysville ;age. ‘HYDRAULIC PARLOR HOLDS INITIATION Hyaraulic Parlor,’N. S. G. W. held a most enjoyable sans Tuesday evening in Elks Hall. Fine delegations_-were present from Colusa, Sutter, Rocklin Parlor, Roseville and Quart Parlor of Grass Valley. An initiatory team made up of the various parlors initiated five candidates into the order. The joint meeting was followed by a meeting cf Fred H. Greeley, Assembly Past Presidents and was ‘presided over by Tony Casci of Grass Valley who is govern or of the assembly. The meeting was followed by a turkey banquet. Be-tween fifty and sixty members were present. for the enthussiastic meeting. R. J. Power, post master of Coluwho is gfand second vice presi‘dent made an official visit to Hyreceived . draulic and Quartz Parlors and vhe joint meeting was being held for that purpose. Powers gave a lucid statement in regard to the return of Japs and their status as citizens. Alfred Kneebone Of . ed from the Nevada City high school . Bridgeport Passes Alfred A. Kneebone died Monday night at his home at Bridgeport on the South Yuba River where he lived during many ef which he conducted a:summer resort there. for 35 years The deceased ‘was son Mr. and Mrs. owned large of the late Andrew Kneebone who ranch properties at Spenceville Nevada County whereAlfred Kneebone was. born. Andrew Kneebone for years conducted driving 24 mule freight wagons from to Downieville, North San Juan and-allthe San Juan Ridge many business and . country. Alfred Kneebone was 53 years of He leaves his wife Mrs. Lucey Kneebone of Bridgeport, two daughters, Mrs, Lucille Brandt of Stockton, Mrs. Alfreda Knowton of Oildale, Kern County, three brothers, Joe R. of Berkeley, Chas. A. of Lincoln, and James Butts Kneebone of Fair Oaks. Funeral services will be held Fri-. day morning at 10:30 o’clock at the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery. : at President Of Spring Hill Mine Company Passes * Friends of D. E. McLaughlin, the president of the Spring Hill Mining Company, have been apprised of his. death in San Francisco February 17. Funeral services were held in Hillsboro February 19. Prior to the war and the closing of gold mines, McLaughlin was a frequent visitor in Grass Valley. He ex= hibited, a deep faith in the future of this county‘s gold mining industry in the eventual’ success of the Spring Hill which he equipped with the most. modern facilities’ for mining. McLaughlin was interested. in the steamship anid steel business. C. G. Cushwa is manager and engineer of the Spring Hill Mine which lies a little way off the highway between Grass Valley and Nevada City. Funeral Services For Mrs. Rosie M. Dallea afraid to fire them on account of} i"f . ing them liquor, had inquired their. and her baby, have been released) ‘ered Slase hata eee ee ect ent ah ie, Ren ee their GIO affiliation or fear of the ND BUGG DAYS rage. All replied that he had not. ‘from the Japanese prison camp at? The aeeare fey Se their hese nan alSs ot. Gikeatn ae ae pr goon squad and the long sought goal , sg Naat Wenzke, a witness in his own beo. S Santo Tomas, Manilla, and are safe. Epenene vi this pPites auth SUrrere A paca Vallex. komottal Seuall “freedom From. Work’ would ba n half, declared he had not sold liq-. Mrs. Barbara Carter is the wife of. Physical and mental injury. The Ragin wed diesmblads r nearer an accomplished fact. FOUND IN ELM uor to any~of the boys. pone Carter anh dughter in law of; City Clerk Everett Deward stated Hooper and. Weaver Mortuary took i ; : Russel B. Farley, law enforcement} Will Carter, mining man employed] that the city council will meet Tuesplace in St. Patrick’s Gatholie SIX LOCAL MEN DONATE BLOOD. I” interesting relic of Nevada’ officer for the State Board of Equal-. in the gold mines of the Philippines, . gg i h i rill bel, ; . ae ; Hikes y evening when the claim will be. Chureh at 10 o'clock this morni City’s horse and buggy era was dis-. ization, examined the boys following. and the message from her gave no ees A group of Tahoe National Forest service headquarters staff went ‘4 Vallejo Monday and noated blood. The six men left Grass Valley in 4 Red Cross station. wagon with! driver that went to Vallejo where they met the Red Cross travel unit. In this party were, William French, law enforcement officer; L. LL. Land, forest roads supervisor; Wood, assistant supervisor; Gordon Vance, chief fire dispatcher. Walter Carlson ‘county supernitendent of schools, accompanied the ‘party and also donated blood. covered yesterday afternoon by Ed} Eddington, engaged in making fire wood of an elm tree that stood in front of the residence -of R. J. Bennetts on Broad Street. In splitting, the block open, Addiington discovered a piece of hitching rope embedded in the wood. A count of the rings of the stump. indicated ;. that the tree was 45, years and the Joe Forsher, shop foreman; Harlow hitching rope had: apparently. been tied around the tree when it was £5 years old. The wood had completed enveloped the rope which was well preserved and exhibited almost the same tensile strength as a new rope. ated that Lodge because they knew get liquor there. But the referee refused to admit anything. but direct evidence in the record to that effect. District Attorney H. Ward Sheldon was in interested observed at the hearing. Wenzke faces trial in the superior court on an indictment by the grandjury, charging him with eontributing to the delinquency of Minors. The trial is sét for March 20th. He is at liberty on $1,000 cash bail. they could the referees q’uestioning. He indie-. word of either. It is assumed that the the party had gone from. Soda Springs ‘Hotel to Beacon Hill! men were separated from the women and children, and imprisoned else-. considered. He also said that Manuel and Sproul are not under bond. Attorney Miller stated yesterday that the claim“would be against the bond where by Japs, prior to the invas-. of the two policemen, and in event ion of General MacArthur’s troops,. the claim is not paid the bonding and the rescue. of prisoners in the University of Santo Tomas. As yet no message has yet been LaMar all known to be prisoners of Japs following the fall of Manila in 1942. They were mining engineers and supthe Philippines, with families or \relatreceived-from John Ghidotti, Fleming or Merton Downey erintenents of gold mines in ives in Nevada City. company and the city, as the employer, will be sued. Apparently the claim must lie against the city solely. ‘ ‘Miss Emma Ramm left Monday for by the death of her grandniece. She plans to remain in San Francisco until the middle of next week. . .child. Two of her grandsons are serSan Francisco having been called the} Rev. Patrick O’Reilly officiating. Interment was in the Catholic Cemetery. Mary Dallea, aged 76 was a nat~ ive of Italy. She had lived in Chicago Park section and in Nevada ‘County for 54 years. She leaves her husband, Morris H. Dallea and two sons Antonio Dallea and John Orzalli, both of Grass Valley, four grandchildren and one great grandving in the armed forces abroad. Mrs. Simon Hieronimus of Sac mento street is quite ill with a ere attack of influenza,