February 4, 1946 (4 pages)

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 evada City _CCOVERS RICHEST. GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ~ . Thi . is paper gives you compleaied coverage of all local happenings. ~ f you want to read about your — SSel ji friends, your neighbors, and your — town, read The Nugget. Vol. 20, No. _The County Seat Paper ———— NEVADA cITy, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MO ooo a NDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1946 THINKING OUT LOUD By. H. M. L. After war comes, not peace, but strikes, labor organized against management and management organized against labor. But please note the strikes almost without exception are against big organized industry. Big Steel, General Motors, and ‘the meat packers. Little businesses have few strikes. Off hand, why not make more little ‘businesses and reduce big business. This would restore the human touch. Everybody in the shop would kno'w the boss, and the boss would Know all the hands. Men don’t knuckle’ under and become part of a machine willingly. They are individuals, with individual capacities and talents. They want recognition @6 men, and not regimentation as on an assembly line. And, a boss that gets $5,000 for bossing is very likely ‘to be a lot SNOW STORM . CATCHES MANY OFF GUARD A heavy snow storm, coming on }the heels of unusually fair weather, caught residents of Grass Valley and Nevada City off guard Saturday and Sunday evening and hundreds _ automobiles had to ~be ed along roads and = occupants walked to tions. a S Under Sheriff William Woods returning from Stockton late Saturday night reported that there were eAsily a hundred ¢ars ‘between Lady Jane Manor six miles west of Grass Valley and the city limits, which had stalled, had been pulled off the road and had been abandoned for ttime being These were caught with out chains. The fall of snow varied from T°t0 10 inches, It broke off huge limbs of trees which in some places, notably in the Plaza and on Washington Street ‘blocked traffic until of albandonets while the heir destinamore sympathetic toward 50 men who work under his direction, than a . boss who gets $100,000 a year and . never sees the 50,000 men he bosses. He dosen’t know any one of them, . with the exception of his secret ary and the office boy, by their first . names. He not interested his} workers, generally speaking. He a only interested in what they produces is in Even a machine has and cleaned to And a human complicated to be oiled . anything much produce being is mor than a machine. cries out to~be considered His ills need difficulties é6on, man . as sympathy. His need consideration. father hopes will do a job in the world than he does, . may be gofng off the beam that 1] to good citizenship. <A dangerous . character may be energetically court. ing the olde and the fath. er is near a man. family . His who, the better ads st daughter, distracted. bees. with a a few under knows about these things and he -not only offers symrathy but often wise counsel to the man working for him. He makes a Joyal friend of his worker. Lovalty is a two way street. The boss has to ibe loyal to his help before he can expect the help to be loyal to him. alittle him Now men the The big boss, the $50,000 a-year whap, may have come up: from the . ranks, very frequently he does. But he has entered a kind of stratosphere which is insulated from his fellow men. in the shops. He hag no time for cultivating the friendships of 50,000 men who work with him for the success of the firm. Foreman are appointed to be sure, but as a matter of fact, they are generally chosen for their ability to get things done, and not to gain the friendship of the men who are working with them. The most miportant thing about production is thus entirely overlooked. / ‘As a rule little businesses are not much troubled with union organizers. The little boss and his helpers are friends. The walking delegate ‘of the union is an ‘“outsider.”’ He doesn’t see or feel the ‘bond of friendship that ties the whole shop together. He merely wants to get the “dough”, the dues to send away somewhere to the big chief who sits in state in a mahogany lined office, walks on plush canpets, and talks with a big wad! BA It would seem as if the best answer to the plague of dictator labor bosses, would be the dispersion of business. Henry Ford had the rgiht idea when he proposed that every workingman should own a few acres where he could spent part of his time growing things. This can’t be done in the big cities. Comparatively few working men in the big manufacalmost every worker owns his own Here in Nevada County for instance, almost every worker own his own home. Their wages have been relatively low, but, through thrift and hard work they have been able to get ahead and become in a way, capitaliste. With the universal use of electricity, the dispersal of big business, dividing up gteel fabrication, textiles, ‘and other manufacturing plants into smaller _units and distributing them through the smaller towns and vilthey could be removed. Taxi services were unable to meet the tremendously increased demand. No serious accidents were reportied -either by the police of the California Highway Patrol. “ CITY UNDER 3 FEET OF SNOW 13. YEARS AGO TODAY. This ig February 4,-1946, the 13th} anniversary of the big snow that cov1d the 4.1998; The snow ere city on February deep. The water supply gave sroups of Nevada City res out and idents, the eryone the city could muster went out daily to work clearing ditches that -led the reservoirs. firemen and ev into Many snow householders had to melt use in their homes, though there was a limited supply of water for domestic use. So_with snow only a foot deep today, let us remebber for our ‘‘marcies.”’ MRS, BEATRICE BONNER PASSES Mrs. Beatrice Bonner, wife of Edward Bonner, well known man, died this morning at o’clock in the Miners Hospital, lowing a long period of illness. Mrs. Bonner was active in the Parent Teachers association here for many years, and was a past _preai-. dent of the organization. She was the mother of two sons, Tod and Bob Bonner. She and her family in recent ‘weeks returned from Happy Camp. Siskiyou County, ‘where her husband was employed by the Newmont Company in the Gray Eagle copper mine. ‘Funeral arrangements are charge of Holmes Funeral Home. mining 8212 folin Mrs. Frank Meggerg formerly of Camptonville is in the Bnloe hospital at Chico suffering from pneumonia, Mrs. Meggers is a member ot the Chico high school faculty. oleh, lages, even creating new villages and towns in rural areas, could be the solution of a problem that grows more serious year by year. As a matter of fact this ment is making headway, Smaller plants are now supplying plants with parts, or proc ssed materials. More and more families of working men are living in the coun‘try, or in rural communities. The unions of couse will oppose any dispersal of this kind, for it would mean ultimately that working men owning their own homes in a country. environment would become independent like the farmers, who own their farms. Nobody Collects dues from farmers. We think this something for big business, the great mogsuls who draw down salaries comparable with the labor moguls, to think about. A campaign to help every man to become a home owner in the tong run, could lay the unrest that now makes unions to flourish like the green bay tree. the . was packed and. three feet . eity's-. ". cently purchased by the Grass Valley “OH, YEAH 2” FIREDIVISION IN TAHOE FOREST REESTABLISHED — Supervisor Guerdon Ellis the reestablishment separate division of. fire control the Tahoe national forest with . headquarters at Nevada City. . . fire were announced Of 84 for . the Forest } activities com-. with the engineering division J. M.: Shock, . setup Robert E. formerly \\bined under Under the new Dasmann will be in fire control assistants G. H. Vance as dis-'! . patcher and W. M. French on preven. tion. . \charge of retaining as ‘his Dasmann was in charge of tim-! ber management on the Lassen na‘tional forest prior to serving as lieu{tenant in the U, S. Navy. Ellis also stated that Fred Ahrenholz, assistant in the resource management section is being transferred to the Stanislaus national. forest at Sonora being replaced here by Theodore ‘Niehaus who has been ranger on, the Challenge,district of the Plumas national forest. SCOUT RALLY IN ROSEVILLE ‘Plans are all set for the annual scout rally of the Tahoe area council Boy Scouts of America which will take~place at the Roseville high school auditorium on Saturday evening’ February 16 etarting at 7:15 Dp. M. according to Walter V. Williams, council commissioner and rally chairman. This rally wag last held in 1942 and abandoned during the ‘war and it will be revived with this event. It is expected that nearly 500 scouts representing troops from all of Placer, Nevada and western Sierra counties will: be in attendance. The rally will be formally opened by ‘council president Lowell L. Sparks and will provide two and a_ half hours of top notch entertainment to spectators, and npetacy mate_jn the for ‘scouts who participat the can . race, knot tyipg, poe rope: ‘climbing, build District commis. sioners and comin, as activities committee personnel ate laying plans and taking on responsibilities for this activity which will be on the high lights of the 36th anniversary’ of scouting in America, which runs from the 8th to ‘the 16th. IKW TENNIS NETS Installation of new tennis nets recity council for use in the courts at Memorial Park was postponed yes-' terday due to the heavy snowfall, but Players are eagerly anticipating resumption of tennis with good weather. ualties of the war, the government taking nets of all kinds for camouflage purposes The new nets are the finst purchased by Grass Valley 11,600,000 will wage led: $4 i $eas i it i Tennis nets were one of the cas-j. in four years. VFW 10 FIGHT LOAN TO BRITAIN SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. The Veterans of Foreign Wars with a nation wide membership in: excess a militant drive congressional approval ition to Great against the of Truman adminietr: billion sponéor-. loan Britain. This fact was announced here day by Richard H. Newhall California department commander VFW. Newhall said that the national legislative committee on the overorganization met recently in Washington to map a campaign against foreign nations. of the veterans granting of loans to J. Rufus Klawans San attorney and vice @airman of committee reported to Newhall that congressional leaders will be contacted at once and told of the position taken ‘by the VEW. the The VF'W is opposed to granting of government loans or money gifts to Britain or foreign nation. any other Notwithstanding the propaganda that will be spread nationally seek-! ing to arouse public favor for the granting of this first proposed loan is against the best interests and welfare of our country and its citizens. ; , In the light of the future financial needs and rehabilitation of our veterans and service men and women and the welfare of our country and its citizens our economy is now burdened beyond the breaking point in the matter of government debt. We cannot and must not open the doors of our treasury to foreign nations now or in the future. FRANZ WERFELS LAST NOVEL IS HIS BEST LOS AINGELES, Feb. 4—<Star of the Unborn a new novel written by the late Franz Werfel was translated in English by Dd. G. O. Arlt. . “Tt is only rarely that a last work is also an author’s greatest work’”’ said Arlt “but it was given to Franz Werfel to achieve this. “‘Werfel’s Star of the Unborn is one. of-the greatest creations of ou gay a work of such rank as to entitle it to a place alongside the giant of world literature. At the same time it is appealingly human, fascinating adventurous and _ almost youthful im its directness. Austrian born and author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and The Song of Bernadette Werfel had been chosen for the Nobel prize in literature but died last year before it could 'be awarded. . ST.-VALENTINES PARTY The Elks Lodge gave its annual St. Valentine’s party Saturday evening. The event opened with a dinner at 7:30 p. m. followed by dancing at 9o’clock, . of } to-} Francisco . . was Donnelly i land of Sacramento, Edward Holland ‘MORE U.S. NISEI IN ARMY THAN FROM HAWAII SAIN FRIAINCISCO. Feb. 4—jMore . than half of persons of Japanese ancestry both alien and citizen who served in the armed forces during World War Ii came from the ‘con. tinental United States and the majority of them from California it ‘was announced today by Charles Miller supervisor for the War Relocation Authority northern California area. Quoting from an official count made by the war department Miller Said that 11,82!5 Japanese Americans were inducted from the mainland as compared with the 10,707 inducted in Hawaii during the period July 1 1940 through» ‘June 30, 1945. Enlisted personnel from Hawaii numbered 10,598 and officers 109 os compared .with nel and 142 officers from the land. Since the time the count was made hundreds more of the Nisei have entered the service. During the war the Japanese Americans served in all theatres. Service was not confined to male persons of Japanese . ancestry. Many young women served . with the Army Nurse Corps and the iS AC. Just the other day 11 girls. . Japanese ancestry flew to jan . become the first WAIC ‘land there. Male Japanese American . personnel have served months and at the Fort vice mainof . an members in others are Army Japan fot in training at serLanguage Minn., future occupation School Snelling, during the for of Japan: . association’s . ment. DEATH CALISMRS, MARY MARTIN Mrs. Mary Martin, . ; Pine Street, residing at 211 was found dead in™bad Friday morning by her son Eid'ward Holland. When his mother did mot rise at 10 o’clock the son investigated. It a. is believed Mrs. Martindied. at 8 m. While asleep. She had not complained of ill health ana was about town Thursday. Death was be“11683 enlisted person-. to . to} service} ee said it LOWER LEGAL SPEED LIMIT HAS STRONG SUPPORT Establishment of a fixed state speed limit of 50 miles per hour in California to remain in force until March, 1947 as proposed in assebbly bill 145 has received first fayorable action before the legislature. The .bill by Assemblyman Michael ‘J. Burns and others was. recoommended for passage by the assembly committee on transportation and commerce. The temporary reduction in Calie fornia’s present 55 mile per hour prima facie speed limit is strongly supported by the California State Automobile association which pointed out to the assembly committee during the hearing on the measure than an absolute calling’ of 50 miles per hour beyond which it will be unlawul to drive at any time would effect considerably more than a 5 mile per hour reduction. Under. the present prima facie speed limit the speeds of 70 and 75 miles per hour . have been held to be lawful by the iss Thus the proposed 50 mile / ‘per hour ceiling wold eliminate the . possibility of higher speeds being permitted under so-called favorable conditions. ;--Sinece-VJ--day fatal traffic accid=" ents in California have increfsed 590 per cent and the number of such accidents on rural highways has in. creased more than 800 per cent the committee was advised by Edwin G. Moore manager of the automobile public safety departHe attributed this rising traf. fic toll largely to the age and condition of tries and motor vehicles the highways. During 1946 is probable that not more 20,000,000 new tires will be the 23,500,900 a in use. . now , on than . available for . mobiles now This: means less than one new tire _ per car and the majority of motor‘lists must continue to drive on tires which are definitely unsafe at high speeds, Moore said. In addition; the automobiles now operating average more than eight years of age and while they are safe at moderate speeds they become dangerous when lieved due to a heart attack. Mrs. Martin, whose maiden name is mourned by sons and daughters, 6 grandhildren and three great grandchildren. The sons, and daughters include Henry Holof Nevada City, Seniy Holland Whitley of Los Angeles, Charles Martin of Oakland. amd Louise Martin PolSlase of Nevada City., on January 2nd of this year. ‘Before she wags twenty she. married the late Jameg Robert Holland. Seven years later she married the late Richard W. Martin who paissed away in 1929. Mrs. Martin was a faitthful worker in the Red Cross in World War I and II. She has been active in the affairs of St. Canice Catholic Church and in Laurel Parlor No. 6, Native Daughters of the Golden West. Funeral services were held this morning in St. “(anice Catholic (Church, Rev. Virgil Gabrielli, officiating. Interment was in Pine Grove Cemetery. Chamber Tio Nominate 1946 Officers . The Nevada City Chamber of ‘Commerce meeting tomorrow evening in the city hall will nominate officers for 1946, and discuss and probably adopt changes in its constitution ‘and by laws. Guest speaker of the evening will pe Harold Chastain of Placer Junior College. His topic will be veterans’ rehabilitation: Historical Society Meets This Evening The Nevada County Historical Society will meet this evening in the Grass Valley public library. A museum project will be discussed. The club president Elmer Stevens has appealed to the public for old books and documents relating to the Argonaut times in! California with which it is hoped to establish small historical department of this kind in the library. driven at high speeds. Sinve VJ day tire and mechanical failures resulting in fatal accidents have increased /100 per cent. WAR RELOCATION CENTERS CLOSED SAN PRANCISCO, Feb. 4—Four of the War Relocation Authoritys , & district offices in the Northern Cale fornia area will close April 19 with the others shutting their doors on May 3 it was announced here today by Charles F. Miller area superin~ tendent. Those to be closed first are locat— ed at Santa Rosa, Watsonville, Stock-— ton and Oakland. The San; Jose, Fresno, Sacramento and San Bernar— dino district ofices will close on the latter date while May 15 has been scheduled for closing the Northern California area office located in San Francisco. The national office in. Washington will close on or before June 30. The Northern California area embraces all but the nine southernmost counties in the State. ; All major problems incidental to resettling evacuated people of Japanese ancestry in this area have been: solved or are at a stage where they . can be turned over to the individual — communities. Responsibility for the — welfare of its citizens and law abiding aliens rests with each commun‘ ity. These returning people from their homes by. military or early in 1942 and who began return when the military ben lifted January 2, have the rights and legal status as_ any other ancestry in this Less than 60% of those from Northern California . having relocated in other the United States, .

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 evada City _CCOVERS RICHEST. GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ~ . Thi . is paper gives you compleaied coverage of all local happenings. ~ f you want to read about your — SSel ji friends, your neighbors, and your — town, read The Nugget. Vol. 20, No. _The County Seat Paper ———— NEVADA cITy, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MO ooo a NDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1946 THINKING OUT LOUD By. H. M. L. After war comes, not peace, but strikes, labor organized against management and management organized against labor. But please note the strikes almost without exception are against big organized industry. Big Steel, General Motors, and ‘the meat packers. Little businesses have few strikes. Off hand, why not make more little ‘businesses and reduce big business. This would restore the human touch. Everybody in the shop would kno'w the boss, and the boss would Know all the hands. Men don’t knuckle’ under and become part of a machine willingly. They are individuals, with individual capacities and talents. They want recognition @6 men, and not regimentation as on an assembly line. And, a boss that gets $5,000 for bossing is very likely ‘to be a lot SNOW STORM . CATCHES MANY OFF GUARD A heavy snow storm, coming on }the heels of unusually fair weather, caught residents of Grass Valley and Nevada City off guard Saturday and Sunday evening and hundreds _ automobiles had to ~be ed along roads and = occupants walked to tions. a S Under Sheriff William Woods returning from Stockton late Saturday night reported that there were eAsily a hundred ¢ars ‘between Lady Jane Manor six miles west of Grass Valley and the city limits, which had stalled, had been pulled off the road and had been abandoned for ttime being These were caught with out chains. The fall of snow varied from T°t0 10 inches, It broke off huge limbs of trees which in some places, notably in the Plaza and on Washington Street ‘blocked traffic until of albandonets while the heir destinamore sympathetic toward 50 men who work under his direction, than a . boss who gets $100,000 a year and . never sees the 50,000 men he bosses. He dosen’t know any one of them, . with the exception of his secret ary and the office boy, by their first . names. He not interested his} workers, generally speaking. He a only interested in what they produces is in Even a machine has and cleaned to And a human complicated to be oiled . anything much produce being is mor than a machine. cries out to~be considered His ills need difficulties é6on, man . as sympathy. His need consideration. father hopes will do a job in the world than he does, . may be gofng off the beam that 1] to good citizenship. <A dangerous . character may be energetically court. ing the olde and the fath. er is near a man. family . His who, the better ads st daughter, distracted. bees. with a a few under knows about these things and he -not only offers symrathy but often wise counsel to the man working for him. He makes a Joyal friend of his worker. Lovalty is a two way street. The boss has to ibe loyal to his help before he can expect the help to be loyal to him. alittle him Now men the The big boss, the $50,000 a-year whap, may have come up: from the . ranks, very frequently he does. But he has entered a kind of stratosphere which is insulated from his fellow men. in the shops. He hag no time for cultivating the friendships of 50,000 men who work with him for the success of the firm. Foreman are appointed to be sure, but as a matter of fact, they are generally chosen for their ability to get things done, and not to gain the friendship of the men who are working with them. The most miportant thing about production is thus entirely overlooked. / ‘As a rule little businesses are not much troubled with union organizers. The little boss and his helpers are friends. The walking delegate ‘of the union is an ‘“outsider.”’ He doesn’t see or feel the ‘bond of friendship that ties the whole shop together. He merely wants to get the “dough”, the dues to send away somewhere to the big chief who sits in state in a mahogany lined office, walks on plush canpets, and talks with a big wad! BA It would seem as if the best answer to the plague of dictator labor bosses, would be the dispersion of business. Henry Ford had the rgiht idea when he proposed that every workingman should own a few acres where he could spent part of his time growing things. This can’t be done in the big cities. Comparatively few working men in the big manufacalmost every worker owns his own Here in Nevada County for instance, almost every worker own his own home. Their wages have been relatively low, but, through thrift and hard work they have been able to get ahead and become in a way, capitaliste. With the universal use of electricity, the dispersal of big business, dividing up gteel fabrication, textiles, ‘and other manufacturing plants into smaller _units and distributing them through the smaller towns and vilthey could be removed. Taxi services were unable to meet the tremendously increased demand. No serious accidents were reportied -either by the police of the California Highway Patrol. “ CITY UNDER 3 FEET OF SNOW 13. YEARS AGO TODAY. This ig February 4,-1946, the 13th} anniversary of the big snow that cov1d the 4.1998; The snow ere city on February deep. The water supply gave sroups of Nevada City res out and idents, the eryone the city could muster went out daily to work clearing ditches that -led the reservoirs. firemen and ev into Many snow householders had to melt use in their homes, though there was a limited supply of water for domestic use. So_with snow only a foot deep today, let us remebber for our ‘‘marcies.”’ MRS, BEATRICE BONNER PASSES Mrs. Beatrice Bonner, wife of Edward Bonner, well known man, died this morning at o’clock in the Miners Hospital, lowing a long period of illness. Mrs. Bonner was active in the Parent Teachers association here for many years, and was a past _preai-. dent of the organization. She was the mother of two sons, Tod and Bob Bonner. She and her family in recent ‘weeks returned from Happy Camp. Siskiyou County, ‘where her husband was employed by the Newmont Company in the Gray Eagle copper mine. ‘Funeral arrangements are charge of Holmes Funeral Home. mining 8212 folin Mrs. Frank Meggerg formerly of Camptonville is in the Bnloe hospital at Chico suffering from pneumonia, Mrs. Meggers is a member ot the Chico high school faculty. oleh, lages, even creating new villages and towns in rural areas, could be the solution of a problem that grows more serious year by year. As a matter of fact this ment is making headway, Smaller plants are now supplying plants with parts, or proc ssed materials. More and more families of working men are living in the coun‘try, or in rural communities. The unions of couse will oppose any dispersal of this kind, for it would mean ultimately that working men owning their own homes in a country. environment would become independent like the farmers, who own their farms. Nobody Collects dues from farmers. We think this something for big business, the great mogsuls who draw down salaries comparable with the labor moguls, to think about. A campaign to help every man to become a home owner in the tong run, could lay the unrest that now makes unions to flourish like the green bay tree. the . was packed and. three feet . eity's-. ". cently purchased by the Grass Valley “OH, YEAH 2” FIREDIVISION IN TAHOE FOREST REESTABLISHED — Supervisor Guerdon Ellis the reestablishment separate division of. fire control the Tahoe national forest with . headquarters at Nevada City. . . fire were announced Of 84 for . the Forest } activities com-. with the engineering division J. M.: Shock, . setup Robert E. formerly \\bined under Under the new Dasmann will be in fire control assistants G. H. Vance as dis-'! . patcher and W. M. French on preven. tion. . \charge of retaining as ‘his Dasmann was in charge of tim-! ber management on the Lassen na‘tional forest prior to serving as lieu{tenant in the U, S. Navy. Ellis also stated that Fred Ahrenholz, assistant in the resource management section is being transferred to the Stanislaus national. forest at Sonora being replaced here by Theodore ‘Niehaus who has been ranger on, the Challenge,district of the Plumas national forest. SCOUT RALLY IN ROSEVILLE ‘Plans are all set for the annual scout rally of the Tahoe area council Boy Scouts of America which will take~place at the Roseville high school auditorium on Saturday evening’ February 16 etarting at 7:15 Dp. M. according to Walter V. Williams, council commissioner and rally chairman. This rally wag last held in 1942 and abandoned during the ‘war and it will be revived with this event. It is expected that nearly 500 scouts representing troops from all of Placer, Nevada and western Sierra counties will: be in attendance. The rally will be formally opened by ‘council president Lowell L. Sparks and will provide two and a_ half hours of top notch entertainment to spectators, and npetacy mate_jn the for ‘scouts who participat the can . race, knot tyipg, poe rope: ‘climbing, build District commis. sioners and comin, as activities committee personnel ate laying plans and taking on responsibilities for this activity which will be on the

high lights of the 36th anniversary’ of scouting in America, which runs from the 8th to ‘the 16th. IKW TENNIS NETS Installation of new tennis nets recity council for use in the courts at Memorial Park was postponed yes-' terday due to the heavy snowfall, but Players are eagerly anticipating resumption of tennis with good weather. ualties of the war, the government taking nets of all kinds for camouflage purposes The new nets are the finst purchased by Grass Valley 11,600,000 will wage led: $4 i $eas i it i Tennis nets were one of the cas-j. in four years. VFW 10 FIGHT LOAN TO BRITAIN SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. The Veterans of Foreign Wars with a nation wide membership in: excess a militant drive congressional approval ition to Great against the of Truman adminietr: billion sponéor-. loan Britain. This fact was announced here day by Richard H. Newhall California department commander VFW. Newhall said that the national legislative committee on the overorganization met recently in Washington to map a campaign against foreign nations. of the veterans granting of loans to J. Rufus Klawans San attorney and vice @airman of committee reported to Newhall that congressional leaders will be contacted at once and told of the position taken ‘by the VEW. the The VF'W is opposed to granting of government loans or money gifts to Britain or foreign nation. any other Notwithstanding the propaganda that will be spread nationally seek-! ing to arouse public favor for the granting of this first proposed loan is against the best interests and welfare of our country and its citizens. ; , In the light of the future financial needs and rehabilitation of our veterans and service men and women and the welfare of our country and its citizens our economy is now burdened beyond the breaking point in the matter of government debt. We cannot and must not open the doors of our treasury to foreign nations now or in the future. FRANZ WERFELS LAST NOVEL IS HIS BEST LOS AINGELES, Feb. 4—<Star of the Unborn a new novel written by the late Franz Werfel was translated in English by Dd. G. O. Arlt. . “Tt is only rarely that a last work is also an author’s greatest work’”’ said Arlt “but it was given to Franz Werfel to achieve this. “‘Werfel’s Star of the Unborn is one. of-the greatest creations of ou gay a work of such rank as to entitle it to a place alongside the giant of world literature. At the same time it is appealingly human, fascinating adventurous and _ almost youthful im its directness. Austrian born and author of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and The Song of Bernadette Werfel had been chosen for the Nobel prize in literature but died last year before it could 'be awarded. . ST.-VALENTINES PARTY The Elks Lodge gave its annual St. Valentine’s party Saturday evening. The event opened with a dinner at 7:30 p. m. followed by dancing at 9o’clock, . of } to-} Francisco . . was Donnelly i land of Sacramento, Edward Holland ‘MORE U.S. NISEI IN ARMY THAN FROM HAWAII SAIN FRIAINCISCO. Feb. 4—jMore . than half of persons of Japanese ancestry both alien and citizen who served in the armed forces during World War Ii came from the ‘con. tinental United States and the majority of them from California it ‘was announced today by Charles Miller supervisor for the War Relocation Authority northern California area. Quoting from an official count made by the war department Miller Said that 11,82!5 Japanese Americans were inducted from the mainland as compared with the 10,707 inducted in Hawaii during the period July 1 1940 through» ‘June 30, 1945. Enlisted personnel from Hawaii numbered 10,598 and officers 109 os compared .with nel and 142 officers from the land. Since the time the count was made hundreds more of the Nisei have entered the service. During the war the Japanese Americans served in all theatres. Service was not confined to male persons of Japanese . ancestry. Many young women served . with the Army Nurse Corps and the iS AC. Just the other day 11 girls. . Japanese ancestry flew to jan . become the first WAIC ‘land there. Male Japanese American . personnel have served months and at the Fort vice mainof . an members in others are Army Japan fot in training at serLanguage Minn., future occupation School Snelling, during the for of Japan: . association’s . ment. DEATH CALISMRS, MARY MARTIN Mrs. Mary Martin, . ; Pine Street, residing at 211 was found dead in™bad Friday morning by her son Eid'ward Holland. When his mother did mot rise at 10 o’clock the son investigated. It a. is believed Mrs. Martindied. at 8 m. While asleep. She had not complained of ill health ana was about town Thursday. Death was be“11683 enlisted person-. to . to} service} ee said it LOWER LEGAL SPEED LIMIT HAS STRONG SUPPORT Establishment of a fixed state speed limit of 50 miles per hour in California to remain in force until March, 1947 as proposed in assebbly bill 145 has received first fayorable action before the legislature. The .bill by Assemblyman Michael ‘J. Burns and others was. recoommended for passage by the assembly committee on transportation and commerce. The temporary reduction in Calie fornia’s present 55 mile per hour prima facie speed limit is strongly supported by the California State Automobile association which pointed out to the assembly committee during the hearing on the measure than an absolute calling’ of 50 miles per hour beyond which it will be unlawul to drive at any time would effect considerably more than a 5 mile per hour reduction. Under. the present prima facie speed limit the speeds of 70 and 75 miles per hour . have been held to be lawful by the iss Thus the proposed 50 mile / ‘per hour ceiling wold eliminate the . possibility of higher speeds being permitted under so-called favorable conditions. ;--Sinece-VJ--day fatal traffic accid=" ents in California have increfsed 590 per cent and the number of such accidents on rural highways has in. creased more than 800 per cent the committee was advised by Edwin G. Moore manager of the automobile public safety departHe attributed this rising traf. fic toll largely to the age and condition of tries and motor vehicles the highways. During 1946 is probable that not more 20,000,000 new tires will be the 23,500,900 a in use. . now , on than . available for . mobiles now This: means less than one new tire _ per car and the majority of motor‘lists must continue to drive on tires which are definitely unsafe at high speeds, Moore said. In addition; the automobiles now operating average more than eight years of age and while they are safe at moderate speeds they become dangerous when lieved due to a heart attack. Mrs. Martin, whose maiden name is mourned by sons and daughters, 6 grandhildren and three great grandchildren. The sons, and daughters include Henry Holof Nevada City, Seniy Holland Whitley of Los Angeles, Charles Martin of Oakland. amd Louise Martin PolSlase of Nevada City., on January 2nd of this year. ‘Before she wags twenty she. married the late Jameg Robert Holland. Seven years later she married the late Richard W. Martin who paissed away in 1929. Mrs. Martin was a faitthful worker in the Red Cross in World War I and II. She has been active in the affairs of St. Canice Catholic Church and in Laurel Parlor No. 6, Native Daughters of the Golden West. Funeral services were held this morning in St. “(anice Catholic (Church, Rev. Virgil Gabrielli, officiating. Interment was in Pine Grove Cemetery. Chamber Tio Nominate 1946 Officers . The Nevada City Chamber of ‘Commerce meeting tomorrow evening in the city hall will nominate officers for 1946, and discuss and probably adopt changes in its constitution ‘and by laws. Guest speaker of the evening will pe Harold Chastain of Placer Junior College. His topic will be veterans’ rehabilitation: Historical Society Meets This Evening The Nevada County Historical Society will meet this evening in the Grass Valley public library. A museum project will be discussed. The club president Elmer Stevens has appealed to the public for old books and documents relating to the Argonaut times in! California with which it is hoped to establish small historical department of this kind in the library. driven at high speeds. Sinve VJ day tire and mechanical failures resulting in fatal accidents have increased /100 per cent. WAR RELOCATION CENTERS CLOSED SAN PRANCISCO, Feb. 4—Four of the War Relocation Authoritys , & district offices in the Northern Cale fornia area will close April 19 with the others shutting their doors on May 3 it was announced here today by Charles F. Miller area superin~ tendent. Those to be closed first are locat— ed at Santa Rosa, Watsonville, Stock-— ton and Oakland. The San; Jose, Fresno, Sacramento and San Bernar— dino district ofices will close on the latter date while May 15 has been scheduled for closing the Northern California area office located in San Francisco. The national office in. Washington will close on or before June 30. The Northern California area embraces all but the nine southernmost counties in the State. ; All major problems incidental to resettling evacuated people of Japanese ancestry in this area have been: solved or are at a stage where they . can be turned over to the individual — communities. Responsibility for the — welfare of its citizens and law abiding aliens rests with each commun‘ ity. These returning people from their homes by. military or early in 1942 and who began return when the military ben lifted January 2, have the rights and legal status as_ any other ancestry in this Less than 60% of those from Northern California . having relocated in other the United States, .