January 12, 1940 (6 pages)

rs TRIS first primrose is out on January 10. Please make a note in your 1940 diary.’’ The’ helpmeet summons up a little enthusiasm, but displays skepticism and has ‘to be shown. Each new blossom thus is hailed as'a bit of news, old mother earth communicating the secret : aspirations of towly,. herbs to.lofty humans. It is garden time again, Spring, as Mr. Roosevelt used to say about prosperity, is just around the corner, or that first primrose would not have made its bow yesterday. The Japanese quince buds are swelling with importance and will burst, not into speech, thank God, but into beauty, The language of flowers, despite those sickly sentimental interpretations that were in vogue among lovers of 1890, is a silent language. They have their say, none the less, and ‘those are dumb indeed who cannot hear their message with the spiritual ear. The gardner, as implied, to suc-ceed, must be a little daffy. He collects blooms and perfumes, as others do stamps, coins, or wampum. But he does not seek ‘to preserve his specimens. Rather he makes mental categories and sets much store by this or that color and this or that fragrance. In old age he has accumulated a huge memory herbarium of flowers which on occasion he reviews. He is likely to do this, sad to state, when he is being bored to death ' ‘by people intensely interested in themselves. He escapes only momentarily for ‘presently he suffers humiliation when he gives’ the ‘wrong answer. When a bellicose friend asks him in militant tone if taxes are not high enough, he answers, ‘“‘No.’’ Really he was having one of these inward arguments, whether or not to plant composite -florabunda in May and audibly decided: ‘‘No.”’ It was an unfortunate coincidence. . But if the gardner is oeedsionally punished for preoccupation, on the*other there are various compensations, small but _ precious, ‘ whether his friends and neighbors { live by the standards he sets for { himself, no longer irks. him, { : even_interests him. Relatives who fai as seems to him, to reach that state virtue which the tribal code prescribes, arouse very momentary indignation. For the truth is that in grappling with the . ee problems that confront him in his garden, human peccadillos have dropped into secondary place, if not insignificance. Slugs that seem to absorb delicate foliage and half opened petals through their pores while they take their slimy destructive course over the flower beds, are much more important than. whether the daughter ‘in law keeps his grandson's nose clean or ’ not. Grass hoppers, leaf hoppers, various wilts and blights, frost or blistering sun — only these can arouse his -deep and _ vengeful wrath, The garden then becomes the katarsis for all those violent emotions that human failing and frailty usually arouse. So far as his relations with other humans is coneerned, he has attained a height where serenity dwells in the sun, and wars, pestilence, politics and taxes, cannot reach him. To find a plant that will creep blooming up a hard, gray rock, becomes more important than to damn his silly fellows who pursue vain phantoms. ae Looking abroad he learns” that the earth labors and in sun. or rain produces a myriad blossoms, some of them more beguiling and far m innocent than a Spanish -dancéf;_and-often just-as_beautiful as Carmen or her song. Even gorgeous color and iridescence. In the deep shade of the redwoods blooms a perfect, small, red lily. In of --grani erags flowers the crannies sturdy little alpine pand defiantly, gayly. ij the desert has its brief season of There is hardly a spo nature does not plant a.flower specially adapted to the foil, or lack of it, to the moisture; pr lack of it, and to the heat of days and summer, or the-bitter cold of, night and winter. The gardner concludes viewing the world of men who spend so much time in argument or fighting, that in the long run the human race will probably attain the same adaptability that the “lower” animals, the trees and.’ the tlowers have already attained. © 1of $90,000 be allocated for OF. = From the Californian, Thinking e V a d. a ( 1 . t 7 N ug aC t. The abeets a the Piech consists in the right to publish the Truth, ° Out Loud wih aco ala ta To Ia By HM. L. oe COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA pie oie) NGGOd news"; geld” ihe mad Vel TA No4 The County Seat Paper . NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center__ FRIDAY, JANUARY_12, 1940. gardner to his ‘patient wife, ‘‘the ae . : we CHAMBER FIGHT FOR SAFE ROAD IS SUCCESSFUL Charles W. ‘Whitmore, engineer of district 3 of the Division of Highways, last Tuesday made an inspec, tion trip over the Nevada City-Downieville highway. The trip was for the purpose of determining where the $90,000 recently allotted by the state for the improvements of the road will be spent. Upon their return they: did not reveal where the work will be done, but it is the understanding of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce that the improvements will be made between Nevada City and the Sierra county line. ; The allocation, recently announced, was the result of a long and vigorous fight by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce under the leadership of President E. B. Gallagher-and Secretary H.-F.Sofge. A -delegation of chamber members represented the city at a hearing of the highway commission in Sacramento. Shortly afterward commission members Iener Nielsen and Amerigo Bozzanni made an inspection trip of the highway at the request of the chamber. Their findings oie Mr. Nielsen, at the subsequent meeting of the commission, to move that the sum the purpose of straightening out some of the bad curves in order safety factor. The motion was. seconded by Mr. Bozzanni. The motion . was passed and the engineers were sent te make a preliminary survey. A delegation of Nevada City civic leaders is expected to be present at the next meeting of the highway commission to give that body recommendations as to the specific parts of the road to be improved, EX-MAIL ROBBER ONCE LIVED IN NEVADA COUNTY Roy Gardner, notorious mail robber and escape artist who killed himself with poison gas in San Francisco Wednesday night, was once a friendly and popular resident of Nevada county, it was revealed by former friends of the quiet, mild mannered ex-convict Shortly after his release-from the prison in 1938 he purehased the Costa ranch on the Downieville highway in Indian Flat. . Many strange tales arose from hds actions at his home. Neighbors reported that they saw Gardner digging in various ed the rumor.that the enormous loot from his mail robberies was buried there. Although Gardner had no known source of income, he was never short of money during his short residence here. Shortly. over a year ago an oil lamp upset and burned the dwelling to the ground. Gardner lost all his possessions, and-a short time later he left this vicinity. P. T. A. WILL MEET TODAY Members of the High School P. T. A. will hold their regular meeting at three o’clock today at the _ high school. Mrs. George Legg will give a talk on current books and Ralph Smith will contribute several musical selections. A: good attendance is desired. MAN, 62, LEARNS TO FLY George Miller, 62 years of age and native of Nevada City, who resides on Gold Flat. will. on ‘Friday January 12 go to Marysville to get his license as an airplane pilot. He started taking lessons in flying on the Nevada City airport under ‘the instruction of J. DeNeal of the DeNeal flying service this summer and it was not long until he was flying solo. Visitors at the airport were astonished to see this gYray haired man with his cigar continually in his mouth taking lessons: Mr. Miller stated -he had always. taken an in-. terest in“aviation and as soon as his children _were all. grown .he started taking lessons. Mrs. Hattie Legg, one of Nevada City’s oldest and most highly esteemed pioneers who suffered a broken leg several weeks ago, is. making a good recovery. It is reported the cast Was.removed from her leg this week. é as to increase the : 5 .gressing nicely. places on his property, which start-. < : ‘. AAA WOULD OUTLAW IRRESPONSIBLE DRIVERS The ‘Ameen Aut Automobile “Association will start a drive early this year to legally force all financially irresponsible drivers off the roads of the United States and Canada. The AAA hopes to make it impossible for any driver who has been involved in. an accident to operate an:-automobile again until he-furnishes proof he can pay for any future damage. Under the model law the association will sponsor in all state and province legislatures, drivers‘ licenses would be taken from any person convicted of a major motor vehicle law violation until proof is furnished of ability to pay for any damage caused by future violations. The law further provides for the suspension of the license of any driver who has a judgment against him for damages arising from an: automobile accident until the matter is settled, and for an interchange of information between states and Canadian provinces to bar all ‘‘outlaw” drivers from the highway. JUNIOR COLLEGE WILL REGISTER JANUARY 22, 23 cey ‘Junior Wh Geilees of Auburn will register students for the second semester January 22 and 23 at Auburn, according to announcement by Dean Wyman E. Olson. Class instruction in both the college LDS and courses will commence January 24. New students will be accepted in the college preparatory department and in vocational courses in agriculture, mining, and radio and electricity. Dean Olson announces he will be glad to interview prospective students at any time during the week ending January 19. co Several junior-college students will complete their work for the degree; Associate in Arts, at the end of the present semester,.but no formal commencement exercises. will be held until the-end of the second semester when degeers will be conferred on a class of about 75 students, BUSINESS MAN HAS FAITH IN COMMUNITY Harry E. Bolton, local business man who views the outlook for Nevada City as a city with a good future, has taken a lease on the*Morgan and Powell building, at the corner of’ Pine and Broad streets. A thorough job of renovating, remodeling, streamlining and painting in the most up to date method is proThere will be all new shelving and show cases and when the interior is completed it will be one of the most modern of the 5 and 10 cent variety stores in the northern part of the state. Mr. Bolton stated yesterday he plans later on to put in a mezzanine .floor and the huge basement will he reconditioned to give more display space for stock. New lines of stock will also be added as space permits, Carpenters, electricians and painters will complete their work in a few weeks and it is expected the store will open in the new location early in the spring. SERVICES FOR MRS. BESSLER WILL BE SAT. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Washington Bessler, native and lifelong resident of Downieville who died Wednesday afternoon at her home in Downieville, will be held tomorrow’ morning at 1 o’clock with a mags by Rev. Father O’Reilly of the Catholic church in Nevada City. Mrs. Bessler was born February 22, 1892. Her death culminated an illness of about three months. — Surviving are her husband, Leo Bessler; sisters, Mrs. Mary Watson of Downieville and Mrs. Carrie Merroux of Oakland and uncle, Fred Busch of Downieville. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs William Busch the former ‘at one time sheriff of the county, Funeral arrangements (are charge of the Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada City., vocational . -taxes that sap he buying in] GE. MITCHELL PROMOTED TO F. 5. ENGINEER Gerald E. Mitchell. has been ap‘pointed to the position of forest engineer on the Tahoe national forest according to Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson at Nevada City. Mitchell has been serving as acting engineer since the transfer of former forest engineer, W. P. Lee to the Shasta national forest. Mitchell will have charge of all engineering. According to Nelson, Mitchell first entered the employ of the forest service as truck trail foreman on the Sierra forest at North Fork, California. He was transferred to Santa Barbara in 1933, and transferred to the. Stanislaus as chief truck trail locater in 1934, coming to the Tahoe forest in February 1934 as assistant forest engineer, ATTENDS SISTER MARY AGNES ANNIVERSARY Father P. J. O'Reilly, of St. Canice Catholic Church in Nevada City, was one of the thirty priets of Northern California who attended the Diamond Jubilee of the religious profession ot Sister Mary Agnes, of the Sisters of Mercy, Mount St. Mary’s academy in Grass Valley, Monday. Many other prominent persons from Nevada City were also present to congratulate Sister 'Mary Agnes Ryan on the completion of sixty years service, most of which time was spent in St. Marys orphanage, in Grass Valley before the transfer to Sacramento. She is more than 80 years of age. WOMEN JOINING NCTC STUDY OF “FAMILY TAXES Mrs. Everett Robinson, of Nevada City, today was named chairman of a National Consumers Tax Commission unit to be formed among women here for the study of taxes which “undermine living standards.” _ Announcement of the appointment was made by Mrs.Dorothy M. Arnold of La Canada, NCTC state director. The Nevada City unit is the 70th to become active throughout the state, the announcement said. The movement in California is led by Mrs.\Arnold and Mrs. James E. Wales of ‘Berkeley, national committee member: “NCTC ‘groups in 5,000 cities and towns in 45 states are conducting unbiased, non-partisan studies of power of household budgets,’ Mrs. Arnold stated, “To make\ practical application of their studies, many of our groups are carrying on public-spirited programs designed to promote increased efficiency in their own municipal governments as a means of cutting taxes.” Citing municipal economy as a “primary goal’ of the commission in 1940, Mrs. Arnold declared that only through tax knowledge ‘‘can we fully exercise our rights as citizens to combat the ever increasing inroads of taxes on the family buying power.’’ The tax movement is led nationally by Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, of Chicago, a former national president -ofthe American Legion auxiliary. IDAHO-MARYLAND. TUNNEL A tunnel between the IdahoMaryland mine and the New Brunswick mine was holed through recently and a huge iron door installed midway in it this week. The tunnel is a safety feature. Heavy currents of air were noted passing from one tunnel to the other and the door will]. prevent this. The tunnel was driven on the 2,000 foot level in the IdahoMaryland mine and came out on the 2,300 foot level in the New Brunswick. CHMA TO MEET SATURDAY The California Hydraulic Mining Association will hold a meeting in Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley Saturday afternoon. As there is a lot of business to come up’in the session a full attendance of members is urged. _ » aun Thomas Bigelow mining man of Columbia Hill was a business visitor in Nevada City yesterday. NEVADA CITY ANTLERS HOSTS MONDAY NIGHT Nevada City Lodge of Antlers witli be hosts to Chico Lodge, and, Elks from that city, Grass Valley and Nevada City Monday night. Officers of the Antlers lodge who have been drilling on the ritualistic work every night for more than a week will initiate a class into membership. Todd Bonner, past exalted: Antler is in charge of the social session committee which will go into action immediately after the lodge session. RELIEF MUDDLE IS RELATED BY ‘TAX DELINQUENT By CLEM WHITAKER An agent of the Internal Revenue Bureau, assigned to the job of rounding up illusive income tax evaders, told the writer a story several evenings ago which seems to warrant repeating—if for no other reason, just as a significant bit of current history. Said the government investigator: “A big,;—burly chap was. brought into my office who, we had reason to know, as a single man, with no dependents, had a taxable income. When one of our agents caught up with him, he had simply blustered and refused to pay. The government, he said, couldn’t tax him. And so he was brought in. : “In answer to my opening questidn, inquiring as to his occupation, he said that he was a foreman on a relief project—a fact which we had already determined. His salary, he said, somewhat proudly, was $1600 per year. “T asked him: ‘Why -haven’t you paid your tax; you know, of course, that any single man, earning more than $1000 a year, is taxable? But his. answer almost floored me. . He said: “I am on relief; the, government .gives me this money, why should I give part of it back to the government?’’ And that, said the government income tax investigator, seemed an almost irrefutable argument. Why indeed, should the government grant a person relief and then tax the dole it had given him? But most.of all, why should it pay him so much that he was subject to the income tax? That seemed to be laying it on a bit thick, even for the most generous ‘state, in the most generous nation, in the whole cock eyed world. That simple story, to this write:, points the picture which confronts the state legislature, when it meets in special session on January 29, much more eloquently than. all the deficit figures and financial tabulations that allythe state’s fisca.] agents can submit to the harried lawmakers. Relief costs have doubled and trebled, even as business conditions have improved. Yet the average taxpayer, who foots the relief bill, does not begin to earn as much as the belligerent relief recipient (described by the income tax investigator) who was given $1600 for being one of the So-called needy and-unfortunate. Relief, in California,’’ said the income tax man, “is a farce—but a farce without comedy. When we start collecting income taxes from reliefers, it ceases to be funny. It’s a trag. ic travesty.”’ So don’t be surprised if the forthcoming special session of the legislature turns out to be a modern: day counterpart of the Boston Tea Party. If relief has become a racket, as many of the lawmakers believe, it’s a racket soon to be ended! DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE Two men, G. C. Goggan and Johnson, were arrested by Chief of Police man: Lorris Richards late last evemen were allegedly too drunk. to drive their car from its parking place in front ofthe New York hotel on Broad street, The Yuba River at’ the Narrows Dam.is a raging torrent and with continued rain has risen a foot higher early yesterday forenoon and was still rising. No damage had been done to: the cement poured for the foundation of the dam. The loss from delay on work will be considerable. There are 250 men on the payroll, many of them from Nevada City. ‘. were three reels of motion pictures, $57. It is asserted Brown gave a bill -high elevations. Indications are that Garfield Robson and highway patrol-. ning and lodged in the city jail. The: ‘health, in fact has gained 20 pound: L. SMITH TELLS ROTARY ABOUT WINTER SPORTS Leland S. Smith, associate supervisor onNthe Tahoe national forest, yesterday told the Nevada City Rotary club of the tremendous.impetugs. i given to skiing by the forest service. Smith informed the members ‘that use of national forest area by winter sports enthusiasts has more than doubled in the last six yeafs. Also included on: the program =a two of which were loaned by Jacw Conway of Grass Valley. They showed many beautiful scenes of wihter sports in Yosemite and various parts of California and the~United States. Mr. Smith is in charge of recréational activities of the forest end is an accomplished skiier. POLICE ARREST SRY SUSPECT IN MINE ROBBERY iv Seown Was t was taken into cus tody in Grass Valley yesterday by officers for assertedly being a third party in the sale of equipment from the Sunrise mine in the Indian Hills district south of. Grass Valley recently. Avery Lyndon, Sacramentotruck driver and Walter Woods, . were apprehended in ‘Roseville earlier in the week on the same alleged offense. On the truck at time of the arrest. Was a boiler or air conditioner which had been sold to the Pacifie Machine Shops in Sacramento. On the previous day the same company had bought the double drum hoist for ‘ of sale for the air conditioner. for\. $12.50 to the truck man, The arrests were made through the California highway patrol on information. furnished by Capt. J. -E. Blake of this district over radio station KAPI short wave broadcast. All three men are held in the county jail. Avery is held with bail fixed at $2,000 which he was unable to furnish. Oe ; RAINFALL TOTAL FOR VICINITY IS TWENTY INCHES Up to time of going to press it is } estimated Nevada City had received about 20 inches of,rain for the season. Rain has fallen every day so far in the new year. Mrs. Preston’s rain gauge gives the following amounts since the last issue of the paper, Tuesday 2.09 inches; Wednesday .2& and 1.14 inches up until 7:30 yester‘ day morning, or a total of 3.45 to add to. the 16.04 on Monday. The Tahoe national forest reports rain for the 24 hour period up to 7:30 yesterday morning: North Bloomfield 1.20 inches; Downieville 1.73. Downieville now has close to 30 inches of rain for the season, 15 inches of this rain coming this week. Forest Hill, approximately 15 inches for the season and a little above the average to date. The snow line is just above Sierra City and there is a snow pack of 12 inches at ‘Bassetts and 36 inches on Yuba Pass. ; From the local state division of highways it was learned that there is a.six foot snow pack on Donner and Echo summits. There is no snow on the Tahoe Ukiah highway east of Nevada City and warm rains yesterday were coming down heavily at the new storm along the coast is les: sening.in intensity and. this section may not have the heavy. storm promised earlier, Charles Ninnis, who was on the local police force for several ‘months until illness compelled him to lay off, was down in the business district _ of Nevada City yesterday. He-was in Jones Memorial hospital for several weeks and is much “improved . .e in weight. Sheriff Dewey Johnson and higl way patrolmar Downieville, Sierra county, business visitors in Nevade Oy terday. '

rs TRIS first primrose is out on January 10. Please make a note in your 1940 diary.’’ The’ helpmeet summons up a little enthusiasm, but displays skepticism and has ‘to be shown. Each new blossom thus is hailed as'a bit of news, old mother earth communicating the secret : aspirations of towly,. herbs to.lofty humans. It is garden time again, Spring, as Mr. Roosevelt used to say about prosperity, is just around the corner, or that first primrose would not have made its bow yesterday. The Japanese quince buds are swelling with importance and will burst, not into speech, thank God, but into beauty, The language of flowers, despite those sickly sentimental interpretations that were in vogue among lovers of 1890, is a silent language. They have their say, none the less, and ‘those are dumb indeed who cannot hear their message with the spiritual ear. The gardner, as implied, to suc-ceed, must be a little daffy. He collects blooms and perfumes, as others do stamps, coins, or wampum. But he does not seek ‘to preserve his specimens. Rather he makes mental categories and sets much store by this or that color and this or that fragrance. In old age he has accumulated a huge memory herbarium of flowers which on occasion he reviews. He is likely to do this, sad to state, when he is being bored to death ' ‘by people intensely interested in themselves. He escapes only momentarily for ‘presently he suffers humiliation when he gives’ the ‘wrong answer. When a bellicose friend asks him in militant tone if taxes are not high enough, he answers, ‘“‘No.’’ Really he was having one of these inward arguments, whether or not to plant composite -florabunda in May and audibly decided: ‘‘No.”’ It was an unfortunate coincidence. . But if the gardner is oeedsionally punished for preoccupation, on the*other there are various compensations, small but _ precious, ‘ whether his friends and neighbors { live by the standards he sets for { himself, no longer irks. him, { : even_interests him. Relatives who fai as seems to him, to reach that state virtue which the tribal code prescribes, arouse very momentary indignation. For the truth is that in grappling with the . ee problems that confront him in his garden, human peccadillos have dropped into secondary place, if not insignificance. Slugs that seem to absorb delicate foliage and half opened petals through their pores while they take their slimy destructive course over the flower beds, are much more important than. whether the daughter ‘in law keeps his grandson's nose clean or ’ not. Grass hoppers, leaf hoppers, various wilts and blights, frost or blistering sun — only these can arouse his -deep and _ vengeful wrath, The garden then becomes the katarsis for all those violent emotions that human failing and frailty usually arouse. So far as his relations with other humans is coneerned, he has attained a height where serenity dwells in the sun, and wars, pestilence, politics and taxes, cannot reach him. To find a plant that will creep blooming up a hard, gray rock, becomes more important than to damn his silly fellows who pursue vain phantoms. ae Looking abroad he learns” that the earth labors and in sun. or rain produces a myriad blossoms, some of them more beguiling and far m innocent than a Spanish -dancéf;_and-often just-as_beautiful as Carmen or her song. Even gorgeous color and iridescence. In the deep shade of the redwoods blooms a perfect, small, red lily. In of --grani erags flowers the crannies sturdy little alpine pand defiantly, gayly. ij the desert has its brief season of There is hardly a spo nature does not plant a.flower specially adapted to the foil, or lack of it, to the moisture; pr lack of it, and to the heat of days and summer, or the-bitter cold of, night and winter. The gardner concludes viewing the world of men who spend so much time in argument or fighting, that in the long run the human race will probably attain the same adaptability that the “lower” animals, the trees and.’ the tlowers have already attained. © 1of $90,000 be allocated for OF.. = From the Californian, Thinking e V a d. a ( 1 . t 7 N ug aC t. The abeets a the Piech consists in the right to publish the Truth, ° Out Loud wih aco ala ta To Ia By HM. L. oe COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA pie oie) NGGOd news"; geld” ihe mad Vel TA No4 The County Seat Paper . NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center__ FRIDAY, JANUARY_12, 1940. gardner to his ‘patient wife, ‘‘the ae . : we CHAMBER FIGHT FOR SAFE ROAD IS SUCCESSFUL Charles W. ‘Whitmore, engineer of district 3 of the Division of Highways, last Tuesday made an inspec, tion trip over the Nevada City-Downieville highway. The trip was for the purpose of determining where the $90,000 recently allotted by the state for the improvements of the road will be spent. Upon their return they: did not reveal where the work will be done, but it is the understanding of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce that the improvements will be made between Nevada City and the Sierra county line. ; The allocation, recently announced, was the result of a long and vigorous fight by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce under the leadership of President E. B. Gallagher-and Secretary H.-F.Sofge. A -delegation of chamber members represented the city at a hearing of the highway commission in Sacramento. Shortly afterward commission members Iener Nielsen and Amerigo Bozzanni made an inspection trip of the highway at the request of the chamber. Their findings oie Mr. Nielsen, at the subsequent meeting of the commission, to move that the sum the purpose of straightening out some of the bad curves in order safety factor. The motion was. seconded by Mr. Bozzanni. The motion . was passed and the engineers were sent te make a preliminary survey. A delegation of Nevada City civic leaders is expected to be present at the next meeting of the highway commission to give that body recommendations as to the specific parts of the road to be improved, EX-MAIL ROBBER ONCE LIVED IN NEVADA COUNTY Roy Gardner, notorious mail robber and escape artist who killed himself with poison gas in San Francisco Wednesday night, was once a friendly and popular resident of Nevada county, it was revealed by former friends of the quiet, mild mannered ex-convict Shortly after his release-from the prison in 1938 he purehased the Costa ranch on the Downieville highway in Indian Flat. . Many strange tales arose from hds actions at his home. Neighbors reported that they saw Gardner digging in various ed the rumor.that the enormous loot from his mail robberies was buried there. Although Gardner had no known source of income, he was never short of money during his short residence here. Shortly. over a year ago an oil lamp upset and burned the dwelling to the ground. Gardner lost all his possessions, and-a short time later he left this vicinity. P. T. A. WILL MEET TODAY Members of the High School P. T. A. will hold their regular meeting at three o’clock today at the _ high school. Mrs. George Legg will give a talk on current books and Ralph Smith will contribute several musical selections. A: good attendance is desired. MAN, 62, LEARNS TO FLY George Miller, 62 years of age and native of Nevada City, who resides on Gold Flat. will. on ‘Friday January 12 go to Marysville to get his license as an airplane pilot. He started taking lessons in flying on the Nevada City airport under ‘the instruction of J. DeNeal of the DeNeal flying service this summer and it was not long until he was flying solo. Visitors at the airport were astonished to see this gYray haired man with his cigar continually in his mouth taking lessons: Mr. Miller stated -he had always. taken an in-. terest in“aviation and as soon as his children _were all. grown .he started taking lessons. Mrs. Hattie Legg, one of Nevada City’s oldest and most highly esteemed pioneers who suffered a broken leg several weeks ago, is. making a good recovery. It is reported the cast Was.removed from her leg this week. é as to increase the : 5 .gressing nicely. places on his property, which start-. < : ‘. AAA WOULD OUTLAW IRRESPONSIBLE DRIVERS The ‘Ameen Aut Automobile “Association will start a drive early this year to legally force all financially irresponsible drivers off the roads of the United States and Canada. The AAA hopes to make it impossible for any driver who has been involved in. an accident to operate an:-automobile again until he-furnishes proof he can pay for any future damage. Under the model law the association will sponsor in all state and province legislatures, drivers‘ licenses would be taken from any person convicted of a major motor vehicle law violation until proof is furnished of ability to pay for any damage caused by future violations. The law further provides for the suspension of the license of any driver who has a judgment against him for damages arising from an: automobile accident until the matter is settled, and for an interchange of information between states and Canadian provinces to bar all ‘‘outlaw” drivers from the highway. JUNIOR COLLEGE WILL REGISTER JANUARY 22, 23 cey ‘Junior Wh Geilees of Auburn will register students for the second semester January 22 and 23 at Auburn, according to announcement by Dean Wyman E. Olson. Class instruction in both the college LDS and courses will commence January 24. New students will be accepted in the college preparatory department and in vocational courses in agriculture, mining, and radio and electricity. Dean Olson announces he will be glad to interview prospective students at any time during the week ending January 19. co Several junior-college students will complete their work for the degree; Associate in Arts, at the end of the present semester,.but no formal commencement exercises. will be held until the-end of the second semester when degeers will be conferred on a class of about 75 students, BUSINESS MAN HAS FAITH IN COMMUNITY Harry E. Bolton, local business man who views the outlook for Nevada City as a city with a good future, has taken a lease on the*Morgan and Powell building, at the corner of’ Pine and Broad streets. A thorough job of renovating, remodeling, streamlining and painting in the most up to date method is proThere will be all new shelving and show cases and when the interior is completed it will be one of the most modern of the 5 and 10 cent variety stores in the northern part of the state. Mr. Bolton stated yesterday he plans later on to put in a mezzanine .floor and the huge basement will he reconditioned to give more display space for stock. New lines of stock will also be added as space permits, Carpenters, electricians and painters will complete their work in a few weeks and it is expected the store will open in the new location early in the spring. SERVICES FOR MRS. BESSLER WILL BE SAT. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Washington Bessler, native and lifelong resident of Downieville who died Wednesday afternoon at her home in Downieville, will be held tomorrow’ morning at 1 o’clock with a mags by Rev. Father O’Reilly of the Catholic church in Nevada City. Mrs. Bessler was born February 22, 1892. Her death culminated an

illness of about three months. — Surviving are her husband, Leo Bessler; sisters, Mrs. Mary Watson of Downieville and Mrs. Carrie Merroux of Oakland and uncle, Fred Busch of Downieville. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs William Busch the former ‘at one time sheriff of the county, Funeral arrangements (are charge of the Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada City., vocational . -taxes that sap he buying in] GE. MITCHELL PROMOTED TO F. 5. ENGINEER Gerald E. Mitchell. has been ap‘pointed to the position of forest engineer on the Tahoe national forest according to Forest Supervisor DeWitt Nelson at Nevada City. Mitchell has been serving as acting engineer since the transfer of former forest engineer, W. P. Lee to the Shasta national forest. Mitchell will have charge of all engineering. According to Nelson, Mitchell first entered the employ of the forest service as truck trail foreman on the Sierra forest at North Fork, California. He was transferred to Santa Barbara in 1933, and transferred to the. Stanislaus as chief truck trail locater in 1934, coming to the Tahoe forest in February 1934 as assistant forest engineer, ATTENDS SISTER MARY AGNES ANNIVERSARY Father P. J. O'Reilly, of St. Canice Catholic Church in Nevada City, was one of the thirty priets of Northern California who attended the Diamond Jubilee of the religious profession ot Sister Mary Agnes, of the Sisters of Mercy, Mount St. Mary’s academy in Grass Valley, Monday. Many other prominent persons from Nevada City were also present to congratulate Sister 'Mary Agnes Ryan on the completion of sixty years service, most of which time was spent in St. Marys orphanage, in Grass Valley before the transfer to Sacramento. She is more than 80 years of age. WOMEN JOINING NCTC STUDY OF “FAMILY TAXES Mrs. Everett Robinson, of Nevada City, today was named chairman of a National Consumers Tax Commission unit to be formed among women here for the study of taxes which “undermine living standards.” _ Announcement of the appointment was made by Mrs..Dorothy M. Arnold of La Canada, NCTC state director. The Nevada City unit is the 70th to become active throughout the state, the announcement said. The movement in California is led by Mrs.\Arnold and Mrs. James E. Wales of ‘Berkeley, national committee member: “NCTC ‘groups in 5,000 cities and towns in 45 states are conducting unbiased, non-partisan studies of power of household budgets,’ Mrs. Arnold stated, “To make\ practical application of their studies, many of our groups are carrying on public-spirited programs designed to promote increased efficiency in their own municipal governments as a means of cutting taxes.” Citing municipal economy as a “primary goal’ of the commission in 1940, Mrs. Arnold declared that only through tax knowledge ‘‘can we fully exercise our rights as citizens to combat the ever increasing inroads of taxes on the family buying power.’’ The tax movement is led nationally by Mrs. Melville Mucklestone, of Chicago, a former national president -ofthe American Legion auxiliary. IDAHO-MARYLAND. TUNNEL A tunnel between the IdahoMaryland mine and the New Brunswick mine was holed through recently and a huge iron door installed midway in it this week. The tunnel is a safety feature. Heavy currents of air were noted passing from one tunnel to the other and the door will]. prevent this. The tunnel was driven on the 2,000 foot level in the IdahoMaryland mine and came out on the 2,300 foot level in the New Brunswick. CHMA TO MEET SATURDAY The California Hydraulic Mining Association will hold a meeting in Bret Harte Inn in Grass Valley Saturday afternoon. As there is a lot of business to come up’in the session a full attendance of members is urged. _ » aun Thomas Bigelow mining man of Columbia Hill was a business visitor in Nevada City yesterday. NEVADA CITY ANTLERS HOSTS MONDAY NIGHT Nevada City Lodge of Antlers witli be hosts to Chico Lodge, and, Elks from that city, Grass Valley and Nevada City Monday night. Officers of the Antlers lodge who have been drilling on the ritualistic work every night for more than a week will initiate a class into membership. Todd Bonner, past exalted: Antler is in charge of the social session committee which will go into action immediately after the lodge session. RELIEF MUDDLE IS RELATED BY ‘TAX DELINQUENT By CLEM WHITAKER An agent of the Internal Revenue Bureau, assigned to the job of rounding up illusive income tax evaders, told the writer a story several evenings ago which seems to warrant repeating—if for no other reason, just as a significant bit of current history. Said the government investigator: “A big,;—burly chap was. brought into my office who, we had reason to know, as a single man, with no dependents, had a taxable income. When one of our agents caught up with him, he had simply blustered and refused to pay. The government, he said, couldn’t tax him. And so he was brought in. : “In answer to my opening questidn, inquiring as to his occupation, he said that he was a foreman on a relief project—a fact which we had already determined. His salary, he said, somewhat proudly, was $1600 per year. “T asked him: ‘Why -haven’t you paid your tax; you know, of course, that any single man, earning more than $1000 a year, is taxable? But his. answer almost floored me. . He said: “I am on relief; the, government .gives me this money, why should I give part of it back to the government?’’ And that, said the government income tax investigator, seemed an almost irrefutable argument. Why indeed, should the government grant a person relief and then tax the dole it had given him? But most.of all, why should it pay him so much that he was subject to the income tax? That seemed to be laying it on a bit thick, even for the most generous ‘state, in the most generous nation, in the whole cock eyed world. That simple story, to this write:, points the picture which confronts the state legislature, when it meets in special session on January 29, much more eloquently than. all the deficit figures and financial tabulations that allythe state’s fisca.] agents can submit to the harried lawmakers. Relief costs have doubled and trebled, even as business conditions have improved. Yet the average taxpayer, who foots the relief bill, does not begin to earn as much as the belligerent relief recipient (described by the income tax investigator) who was given $1600 for being one of the So-called needy and-unfortunate. Relief, in California,’’ said the income tax man, “is a farce—but a farce without comedy. When we start collecting income taxes from reliefers, it ceases to be funny. It’s a trag. ic travesty.”’ So don’t be surprised if the forthcoming special session of the legislature turns out to be a modern: day counterpart of the Boston Tea Party. If relief has become a racket, as many of the lawmakers believe, it’s a racket soon to be ended! DRUNK DRIVING CHARGE Two men, G. C. Goggan and Johnson, were arrested by Chief of Police man: Lorris Richards late last evemen were allegedly too drunk. to drive their car from its parking place in front ofthe New York hotel on Broad street, The Yuba River at’ the Narrows Dam.is a raging torrent and with continued rain has risen a foot higher early yesterday forenoon and was still rising. No damage had been done to: the cement poured for the foundation of the dam. The loss from delay on work will be considerable. There are 250 men on the payroll, many of them from Nevada City. ‘. were three reels of motion pictures, $57. It is asserted Brown gave a bill -high elevations. Indications are that Garfield Robson and highway patrol-. ning and lodged in the city jail. The: ‘health, in fact has gained 20 pound: L. SMITH TELLS ROTARY ABOUT WINTER SPORTS Leland S. Smith, associate supervisor onNthe Tahoe national forest, yesterday told the Nevada City Rotary club of the tremendous.impetugs. i given to skiing by the forest service. Smith informed the members ‘that use of national forest area by winter sports enthusiasts has more than doubled in the last six yeafs. Also included on: the program =a two of which were loaned by Jacw Conway of Grass Valley. They showed many beautiful scenes of wihter sports in Yosemite and various parts of California and the~United States. Mr. Smith is in charge of recréational activities of the forest end is an accomplished skiier. POLICE ARREST SRY SUSPECT IN MINE ROBBERY iv Seown Was t was taken into cus tody in Grass Valley yesterday by officers for assertedly being a third party in the sale of equipment from the Sunrise mine in the Indian Hills district south of. Grass Valley recently.. Avery Lyndon, Sacramentotruck driver and Walter Woods, . were apprehended in ‘Roseville earlier in the week on the same alleged offense. On the truck at time of the arrest. Was a boiler or air conditioner which had been sold to the Pacifie Machine Shops in Sacramento. On the previous day the same company had bought the double drum hoist for ‘ of sale for the air conditioner. for\. $12.50 to the truck man, The arrests were made through the California highway patrol on information. furnished by Capt. J. -E. Blake of this district over radio station KAPI short wave broadcast. All three men are held in the county jail. Avery is held with bail fixed at $2,000 which he was unable to furnish. Oe ; RAINFALL TOTAL FOR VICINITY IS TWENTY INCHES Up to time of going to press it is } estimated Nevada City had received about 20 inches of,rain for the season. Rain has fallen every day so far in the new year. Mrs. Preston’s rain gauge gives the following amounts since the last issue of the paper, Tuesday 2.09 inches; Wednesday .2& and 1.14 inches up until 7:30 yester‘ day morning, or a total of 3.45 to add to. the 16.04 on Monday. The Tahoe national forest reports rain for the 24 hour period up to 7:30 yesterday morning: North Bloomfield 1.20 inches; Downieville 1.73. Downieville now has close to 30 inches of rain for the season, 15 inches of this rain coming this week. Forest Hill, approximately 15 inches for the season and a little above the average to date. The snow line is just above Sierra City and there is a snow pack of 12 inches at ‘Bassetts and 36 inches on Yuba Pass. ; From the local state division of highways it was learned that there is a.six foot snow pack on Donner and Echo summits. There is no snow on the Tahoe Ukiah highway east of Nevada City and warm rains yesterday were coming down heavily at the new storm along the coast is les: sening.in intensity and. this section may not have the heavy. storm promised earlier, Charles Ninnis, who was on the local police force for several ‘months until illness compelled him to lay off, was down in the business district _ of Nevada City yesterday. He-was in Jones Memorial hospital for several weeks and is much “improved . .e in weight. Sheriff Dewey Johnson and higl way patrolmar Downieville, Sierra county, business visitors in Nevade Oy terday. '