January 5, 1940 (4 pages)

Thinking Out Loud By H. M.L. Nevada City ugget. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA as, From the Californian, . March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives'and for justifiable ends: —-Alexander HamilrT oesty: *“goil conservation,” This year, 1940, will probably go down in U, S. history as‘ the year of the Great Purge in the United States. pe are rapidy coming alive to the real. meaning of various such as “communism,” ‘‘fascism,”’ which is another name for ‘Hitlerism’’ and —-yes—‘New Deal.’’ Disillusioned thousands have ceasde talking of the blessings that flow from these various isms. They now know that the Russian comMunist state, the Nazi state are __manifestations of the some totalitarian devil. Under either one the people are slaves to the state, not Citizens. So far as the New Deal is concerned Mr., Roosevelt _ has turned just as;far left as he dared on the road to totalitarian government. : The radicals; the pinks, even the honest ‘‘reds,’’ received a tremendous jolt when Stalin and Hitler got into bed together. The battle that was raging between communists' and bundsters’ in~* this country suddenly subsided. Both found themselves pandering to the same foul mistress. ‘ Since the alliance of German house painter and Russian bank robber, even our very tolerant administration in. Washington has spread its net for alien dickey birds that roost under Uncle Sam’s protecting eaves and bespatter the noble facade of democracy with their droppings. Some five or six leaders of the communist gang are under indictment for various offenses, even includm®mg the voluble ‘Earl Browder. The Bund chieftain Tanguishes in jail,. and federal police are busily tracking other subversives along their devious trails: hunt that comes with every war, . and_one may gain some idea of the mighty purgative that now courses through our national innards. But the the granddaddy greatest of purge, all cathartics, we honestly believe is coming this fall to the New Deal. Too many people own are doing their thinking. Worker nor employer, consumer nor producer, can stomach much longer Sister Perkins in the cahbinet, Her career, checkered pink, has shed no lustre even onethe New Deal. The New Deal’s fiscal Gelicy, if one may so ‘designate anything to hugely haphazard and futile, has plunged the country into debt 20 billions, to ‘‘prime the pump,’ and still we have approximately the same numberof unemployed as the day Mr. Roosevelt first put his hand to the plow. Six years. the rich land of the United States, has been -ploughed with Mr. Roosevelt’s wavering furrows. Yet today the field shows little but mustard and tares. Has prosperity been restored to the farmer; as was solemnly. promised? Hardly. Among the agricultural third of the. population, one group mourns the premature death of little pigs, another bewails the advent of Argentine beef into the domestic market, and the poor individual farmer has witnessed great corporate farm concerns receiving huge bounties for while he, received nothing. The various elixirs brewed in the fertile mind of Secretary Wallace, have left farming about where it was when the Secretary began his experiments on the agricultural industry. Has labor prospered under the New Deal? Judge for yourself. As remarked before, unemployment has been practically unchanged since the golden voice of the great magician first sounded over the radio. The Wagner Act has ‘“‘confusion worse confounded.” Where formerly 1,000,000 man _ hours were lost. through labor strife, the less has now jumped to 3,000,000 man hours. Independent unions have been practically destroyed in the interests of the big labor racketeers. The NLRB, prosecutor, jury and judge rolled into one, mortifies the galled flesh of all industry. Out of the murderous vendetta waged for recruits to organized labor has come Harry , Bridges’ march inland to California farms, with his goon squads and muscling bravos. No. Labor has not prosper"ed under the New Deal. Has anybody prospered under the New Deal? Yes, indeed. Thousands of people of mediocre talent have been put to work in the New Deal commissions, agencies and bureaus of Washington, D. C. and throughout the country, They earn their salaries two ways, by touting The American peo-. terms — Add to this aetivity-the-spy—; oar 14, No. 2. The County Seat ‘Paper: eves Cit ft, CALIF ORNIA, The Gold Center _FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940. UNEMPLOYED OF NEVADA CO. GET $16,932 IN NOV. Unemployment insurance payments to California residents during the month of November, 1939, surpassed the three and three quarters million mark according to announcement made today by Edward. E. Steele. manager of the Grass Valley office of the Department of Employment. Steele said the total payments for the state during November were $3,162,243.73, augmented by one addi; tional check writing period. The usual monthly reports contain only four check writing periods, but the November report’ represented five weeks of payments. the Nevada County district, according to Steele, a total of $16,932.08 was distributed to eligible unemployed workers, during November, compared with $6,788.17 distributed in November of 1938. Increases, of course,-resulted largely from the liberalized emergency benefit program adopted by the legislature in January of 1939. The state wide distribution for November, 1939, was nearly 90 per cent greater than the sum distributed in November, 1938, when. unemployed Californians received $1,975,851.43. This also Was a four week period. November, 1939 checks to unemployed perons totaled 361,350 against 204,692 in--November, 1938. \ This represented nearly an 80 per\ cent increase in the number of checks distributed. STORM ADDS 5.42 INCHES OF RAIN: TOTAL IS 12.67 The rains since the first of year have--brightened prospects for the gravel mine operators. orchardists and cattlemen. From the rain gauge at the home of. Mrs. Jennie Preston it was learned that the’ following ‘amounts per day had fallen: Jannary first, 67; ‘Second, 3.00 inches; third. 64, and fourth. 1.08, making a total of 5.42 for this month and more rain is indicated. Added to the 7.25 inches that had fallen during the fall months this gives 12.67 inches. It was also-learned that more rain fell last fall than in the past two seasons or for January 1, 1938 there was 7.12 inches. January 1, 1939 brought 6.37 inches and January 1, 1940 is 7.25 inches. The -heavy storm on also brought 5.7 inches of rain Downieville. the the second to TRUCKEE CITIZENS: AT ODDS A petition is being circulated in Truckee requesting the supervisors of Nevada .county to call a special election on incorporating the city. A petition was presented the board of supervisors Tuesday asking the board not to call a special election for the incorporation of the town of Truckee. The supervisors took no action on the petition. their, employer, the New Deal, and by, performing functions in the various New Deal experiments. The first, until the Hatch act, was more important than the last. In the magnificent capital of the country, the population has -been augmented by more than 200,000 bureaucratic employes. Tt is a bustling city. Business is good, thank you, and over the radio we hear gospel singing and praying for the New Deal to go on forever, with Elder Ickes exhorting the press to the sinners bench. Let us grant that among the chaff there is good wheat, but it will require a Republican regime ‘to separate the New Deal wheat from ‘the chaff, to balance the budget, to restore sanity to spending, to purge the rascality the New Deal has fathered. We believe this purge is due and imminent. And when it comes, brother, all the vermin that nest in the seams of the New Deal’s cloak, will disappear as by magic. For-that cloak coverered with hypocrisy and bunkum will presently be sent to the clean_ In terms of money distributed in . to relinquish their monopoly of powon the power of rulers. PIKE CITY GOLD STRIKE OF $80,000 REPORTED It was repowied. it in Nevida City yesterday that a rich strike or pockbeen taken out on leased ground adjoining the old Alaska mine at Pike City by Warren Godfrey and partners. When the discovery was made the lease had only a few days to run. The men. worked 24 hours. straight ‘to recover the gold before expiration of the lease, RUSSIAN RULE BY-DESPOT LEADS TO REVOLUTION LOS AINGELES, Jan. 4.—Fellowtravelers who have recently been alighting as best they could from the onrushing Marxian locomotive of history might have saved themselves a few ideological bumps if they had studied a Bolshevik time table, published twenty years ago by Bertrand Russell. Russell, who is now professor of Philosophy on the Los’ Angeles ‘campus of the University of California, wrote in 1920, “The Bolshevik theory requires that every country, ooner. or later, shoul o through what Russia is going. t ugh now. And in every ‘country in ‘such a condition, we may expect to find the government falling into the hands of ruthless men, who have not by nature any love for freedom, and who will see little importance in hastening the transition from dictatorship to freedom. Is it not almost inevitable that men placed as the Bolsheviks are placed in Russia——will be loath er, and will find reasons for remaining until some new revolution ousts them?” n\his book, Power, 1938, Russell stated published in his belief that tyranny ‘and oppression will never be ended until the whole world adopts a stable form of democracy in’ Which there are effective checks “Tt is difficult, to regard one-party ‘000 and capital and surplus in exgovernments as a step toward democracy,’’ the philosopher declares, ‘‘for one party officials are likely to be fanatics; being fanatics, theywill be severe; being severe, they will be opposed; being opposed, they will be more severe. Hence the rack and the stake, the Gestapo and _ the Cheka.”’ But, Russell says, democracy must be established for a long before it becomes stable. ‘‘Cromwell, Napoleon and Hitler appeared in the early days of democracy in their reSpective countries; in view of the first two, the third should be in no way, surprising. Nor is there reason to suppose.that he will be more permanent than his predecessors.’’ FINANCE CO. OF — NEVADA. PLACER CHANGES HANDS Snodgrass: president of ne Acceptance Corporation of California, automobile financing concern, announces the purchase for cash of the business of the Finance Company of Nevada and Placer counties. The finance company was organized in 1925 and is headquartered in Auburn with branches in Grass Valley and Nevada City.” " @he' most recent financial state. ment of the finance company showed resources of approximately $460,time cess of $248,000. Alvin F. Carveth, secretary and manager of the finabee company, has been elected a vicepresident of Mercantile Acceptance Corporation and*will head the staff m the continued operation of finance company offices as branches of Mercantile. The Mercantile’s’ last published statement showed resources of over $6,000,000, With the addition of the three offices of the finance company the corporation will have 13 branches located throughout-northern:-California and Oregon. Harry Browning and. family of Berkeley spent the New Year holidays with Browning’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arno Browning in French Corral. Harry’s grandmother, Mrs.Annie Browning of Nevada City joined ers. et estimated to be worth $80,000 had’ J ficial-of the P. G. & E. “stationed at ‘vehicles. tional average of $9.25. the} {Shop and his bride has been employ‘ed at the Sharmock Cafe for! a time. . They plan to return today and will [ROTARIANS ARE ENTERTAINED BY COLOR PICTURES Color and sound motion pictures of the great Drum division—of—the Pacific Gas and Electrie company’s power-system,extending over Nevada, Sierra, Placer and El Dorado counties, were shown to the Rotary Club today by Bill Hutchinson, ofAuburn. The picture graphically illustrated the diverse occupations served by the utility company in the four counties. Mines in the Nevada City-Gra-s Valley area, the famous 16-to-1 at Alleghany and many others in the Gold Country; the apple and pear ‘harvest in this vicinity and the huge railroad yards and ice house in Placer county were shown at the luncheon meeting: The sources of power, including lakes and dams created by the P. G. & E. and the power houses’ which converts the power into electrical energy were reproduced in color and sound. Carroll Coughlan was program chairman. WORK SUSPE AT NARROWS DAM DUE TO STORM Due to the sudden rise of the Yuba River at the Narrows Wednesday from heavy storms on the North, Middle and South Yuba branches, all work was suspended on the dam until the water recedes. There are 250 men employed at-the dam. The heavy flow of water far exceeded the bypass capacity but no damage is expected to occur except where there were temporary structures. Concrete pouring started about six weeks ago. The heavy current damage according to Superintendent William Evans. , g AUTO LICENSE FEE LOWEST IN UNITED STATES SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4.—California’s annual $3 registration fee for motor vehicles is the lowest in the nation and offly one other _ state, Washington, has:a similar low rate, according to the department of motor vehicles: Kentucky -has a flat ‘rate of $4.50, while Kansas has a minimum $4 rate with an additional fee of 25 cents per hundred weight when the vehicle is over 2,000 pounds, In both Oregon and Utah the flat rate is $5, whereas in North Dakota one will pay from $12.50«to $150 to register a new passenger car. ee A number of states still retain the gross weight rates with New York setting 50 cents per hundredweight on vehicles of 3500 pounds or less. Wisconsin’s gross weight tax is based on a $10 minimum. In Pennsylvania motor car owners pay on horsepower at 40 cents per. horsepower and a minimum of $10. California’s registration fee is accompanied by a vehicle licensé fee of $1.75 on each $100 valuation as} fixed by the department of motor ‘Many other states have similar fees. During 1938 the average California car owner paid a total fee’ of $7.68 against a corresponding. naNEVADA CITY COUPLE ARE MARRIED IN RENO Francis Nothen and Miss Lavetra Noonan of Nevada City were married in Reno. Both young people are from Placerville and have lived here about two months. Nothen has charge of the Bottle make this city their home. ‘! Napa and Miss Hazel Jones, teacher in the Pacific Grove schools, left to resume their duties Monday after a vacation here with their mother, ‘him in French, Corral. . TREE BLOWS OVER ON ‘. News. In later years he has been enwill cause slight] now by the forest service, the ChamMiss Mary Jones;-who—teaches—in-+ HOUSE DURING STORM Sometime Wednesday night ‘the heavy rain and wind storm evidently blew down a large pine tree and it fell across, the rear portion of the Henry D. Wilkinson home low Valley. The.tree mashed the back bedroom. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson are in Sacramento and were notified as Soon as the destruction was noted, Mr. Wilkinson came up last evening. The home is near the H. F. Sofge home on Mosquito Creek. NEW JUSTICE OF PEACE IS GEORGE GILDERSLEEVE George Ww. (Giderciecs., for twenty. years prominent in Nevada county’s fraternal and civic affairs, was on ‘Wednesday appointed by the county board of supervisors to the post of justice of the peace for Ne}vada township, a positino§ recently made vacant through the death of Judge, Walter L. Mobley. The newly appointed justice will fill out the three year unexpired term of his predecessor. He brings to his post several terms of experience in the office, gained years ago in the St. Helena justice court where he lived before coming to Nevada City to establish here the Nevada City gaged in commercial printing. WAR VET SUCCUMBS — AT COUNTY HOSPITAL Harry eran Hopkinson, world war vetwho was frightfully wounded.) in service overseas during, the war, passed away at the courtty hospital yesterday afternoon, He has resided in. Nevada City about five years and was contented even though he carried a pass to the veterans hospital for care at any time he wished to go. Several months ago he joined the Banner Mt. Post. V. F. W., Hopkinson was known to his many friends as ‘‘Happy”’ for his cheery smile although his life had been wrecked by the war. He had planned to start in newspaper work in the east when th2 in Wil-] / CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS PIN BALL DEVICES Proposed licensing of pin-ball machines in Nevada City was deferred Tast night by the city council at its regular meeting until legal advice on the question has been obtained. Some doubt was expressed as to the legality of the device. Objections were raised to the practice of double parking on Broad street. One instance was cited of — more than a dozen cars being delayed for several minutes on the main thoroughfare It was recommended to Chief of Police Garfield Robson. that.all offenders be warned the first time and if they continued the pr tice be given a citation. ; Proposals were also submitted for closing th¢ Nevada City-Grass Valley road between Nevada City and Town Talk to feavy trucks. It was pointed out that he road passes in front of the high ¢chool-and the new hospital. It was suSgested to convert the Lower Grass Valley road into a_ truck route.The proposition will be investigated further. The following bills were ordered paid: GENERAL FUND Jas Allen $125.00; H. S. Hallett $150.00; R. L. Bigelow $100.00; Garfield Robson $150.00; Geo. H. Calanan $20.00; Max Solaro $71.50; Dr. E. M. Roesner $40.00; Mrs. BE. M. Foley $12.50; Miles P. Coughlan $12.50; Lin Davies $125.00; Eugene Blake $35.00; B. P. Robinson $7.64; Pacific Gas and Electric Co. $275.71; Glenn H, Cleland $12.77; Tom White $63.00; Hemstreet & Bell L-gR 2 « The Waxinate Co. $16.67; Sam Hooper $2.05; Henry Conti $102.94; A. L. (Dick) Lane $11.81; Andy’s Associated Service $9.61) Sunny Side Green House $5.15;' Saeramento. Pipe Works $205.47; Alpha Store Ltd. $88.58; W. S. Williamson $17.08; Nevada City Nugget $5.15; Emil G. Allen $13.50; Dick James $93:94; Byron Landrigan $103.50; “Roy Hosken $112.50; Ernest Young $112.50; Ted Sigourney $117.00; Omar Simmons $111.38; Ingersoll Rand Co. 30c; \Pac. Tel. and Tel. Co. $16.35; Carveth Insurance Agency $63.35; Standard Oil Co. of. California $2.54; Gladding, McBean and war broke out. About—two months ago he received a medaY for bravery in service. He has relatives residing in the east, one sister living in Salt Lake City. The body is at Holmes Funeral Home awaiting word from relatives in regard to funeral arrangements. FOREST SERVICE WILL COOPERATE ON SKI COURSE DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest, Wednesday night pledged 100 per cent cooperation with the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce in promoting the new Nevada City Ski Course. Nelson—and Leland S. Smith -appeared before the chamber and outlined the requirements of the chamber, which is sponsoring the new winter recreation center. The new course will be named ‘“Nevada—_Ski Course on Omega Hill.”’ Arrangements are being made nd the Nevada City city’ council to build four lavatories. They will not. be ready for this year, but it is valiered that a shelter of some sort will oe for next season. The course will be open to th public since it is locatéd on government ground. : ber of Commerce : FAMILY REUNION ~The Will Davis family in Willow Valley held a most enjoyable family reunion and dinner party during the holidays with eighteen present. in. the party were, Miss Bertha Rush, John Rush, Fresno; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dillie and two children of Carruthers, all cousins of Mrs. Davis. Mr.” and Mrs. Fred Tourtelotte, Big Creek;.Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Welch and children: Their son. Wesley Davis and family spent the holidays’ in San Francisco. Mrs, Harrison Randall, who was stricken with influenza the latter part of last week, still remains at Co. $398.95; Marysville Tractor and Equip. Co. $4.03; Plaza Garage $17.07; Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 44c; Nick Sandow $117.00; Ed GC. ~ Uren $20.00; Catherine McMichael $16.80; Nevada Irrigation Dist. $250.05. Total $3,246.15. FIRE FUND Max Solaro $51.50; Capital Fire Equipment Co. $11.90. Total $63.40. RECEIPTS To water collections $1881.85; to city marshal, licenses $887.00; to taxes delinquent $59.25; to city recorder, fines $35.00; penalties and costs, miscellaneous $7.24, Miscellaneous $93. 91—$2964. ~ 25. Total $18088.46. DISBURSEMENTS By warrants paid on general fund $3033.85; by warrants paid on fire fund $51.50; by warrants paid on library fund $138.71—$3224.06. By balance’in treasury $15864.40. To balance in fire fund $832.44. To balance in library fund $1646.26%. To balance in general fund $12385.69 1%. TWO GUILTY OF . LAW VIOLATION George Jacobs, arrested by Police Officer Lionell Davies’ and charged with driving on the wrong gjde of the street, plead guilty of the charge and was fined $25 or ten days in jail by City Judge Miles D. Coughlan. The sentence was suspended on condition . the defendant cause the oftic: further truoble. The time for passing. iideeeeae on Harry Silva was continued for one ‘week by Judge Coughlan. Silva plead guilty to the charge of disturbing the peace, allegedly committed ina cafe on Sacramento street. city marshal, Thomas. Bigelow and family of Woodland on Sunday visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Garrison. Bigelow will take Garrison’s place as district superintendemt on January 5 in a trans fer: Mr. Garrison while muc proved still remains in Landis hospital in Grass Valley recovering hoe Mrs. Lulu Jones of Nevada street. . home quite ill. an attack of pneumonia.

Thinking Out Loud By H. M.L. Nevada City ugget. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA as, From the Californian, . March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives'and for justifiable ends: —-Alexander HamilrT oesty: *“goil conservation,” This year, 1940, will probably go down in U, S. history as‘ the year of the Great Purge in the United States. pe are rapidy coming alive to the real. meaning of various such as “communism,” ‘‘fascism,”’ which is another name for ‘Hitlerism’’ and —-yes—‘New Deal.’’ Disillusioned thousands have ceasde talking of the blessings that flow from these various isms. They now know that the Russian comMunist state, the Nazi state are __manifestations of the some totalitarian devil. Under either one the people are slaves to the state, not Citizens. So far as the New Deal is concerned Mr., Roosevelt _ has turned just as;far left as he dared on the road to totalitarian government. : The radicals; the pinks, even the honest ‘‘reds,’’ received a tremendous jolt when Stalin and Hitler got into bed together. The battle that was raging between communists' and bundsters’ in~* this country suddenly subsided. Both found themselves pandering to the same foul mistress. ‘ Since the alliance of German house painter and Russian bank robber, even our very tolerant administration in. Washington has spread its net for alien dickey birds that roost under Uncle Sam’s protecting eaves and bespatter the noble facade of democracy with their droppings. Some five or six leaders of the communist gang are under indictment for various offenses, even includm®mg the voluble ‘Earl Browder. The Bund chieftain Tanguishes in jail,. and federal police are busily tracking other subversives along their devious trails: hunt that comes with every war, . and_one may gain some idea of the mighty purgative that now courses through our national innards. But the the granddaddy greatest of purge, all cathartics, we honestly believe is coming this fall to the New Deal. Too many people own are doing their thinking. Worker nor employer, consumer nor producer, can stomach much longer Sister Perkins in the cahbinet, Her career, checkered pink, has shed no lustre even onethe New Deal. The New Deal’s fiscal Gelicy, if one may so ‘designate anything to hugely haphazard and futile, has plunged the country into debt 20 billions, to ‘‘prime the pump,’ and still we have approximately the same numberof unemployed as the day Mr. Roosevelt first put his hand to the plow. Six years. the rich land of the United States, has been -ploughed with Mr. Roosevelt’s wavering furrows. Yet today the field shows little but mustard and tares. Has prosperity been restored to the farmer; as was solemnly. promised? Hardly. Among the agricultural third of the. population, one group mourns the premature death of little pigs, another bewails the advent of Argentine beef into the domestic market, and the poor individual farmer has witnessed great corporate farm concerns receiving huge bounties for while he, received nothing. The various elixirs brewed in the fertile mind of Secretary Wallace, have left farming about where it was when the Secretary began his experiments on the agricultural industry. Has labor prospered under the New Deal? Judge for yourself. As remarked before, unemployment has been practically unchanged since the golden voice of the great magician first sounded over the radio. The Wagner Act has ‘“‘confusion worse confounded.” Where formerly 1,000,000 man _ hours were lost. through labor strife, the less has now jumped to 3,000,000 man hours. Independent unions have been practically destroyed in the interests of the big labor racketeers. The NLRB, prosecutor, jury and judge rolled into one, mortifies the galled flesh of all industry. Out of the murderous vendetta waged for recruits to organized labor has come Harry , Bridges’ march inland to California farms, with his goon squads and muscling bravos. No. Labor has not prosper"ed under the New Deal. Has anybody prospered under the New Deal? Yes, indeed. Thousands of people of mediocre talent have been put to work in the New Deal commissions, agencies and bureaus of Washington, D. C. and throughout the country, They earn their salaries two ways, by touting The American peo-. terms — Add to this aetivity-the-spy—; oar 14, No. 2. The County Seat ‘Paper: eves Cit ft, CALIF ORNIA, The Gold Center _FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940. UNEMPLOYED OF NEVADA CO. GET $16,932 IN NOV. Unemployment insurance payments to California residents during the month of November, 1939, surpassed the three and three quarters million mark according to announcement made today by Edward. E. Steele. manager of the Grass Valley office of the Department of Employment. Steele said the total payments for the state during November were $3,162,243.73, augmented by one addi; tional check writing period. The usual monthly reports contain only four check writing periods, but the November report’ represented five weeks of payments. the Nevada County district, according to Steele, a total of $16,932.08 was distributed to eligible unemployed workers, during November, compared with $6,788.17 distributed in November of 1938. Increases, of course,-resulted largely from the liberalized emergency benefit program adopted by the legislature in January of 1939. The state wide distribution for November, 1939, was nearly 90 per cent greater than the sum distributed in November, 1938, when. unemployed Californians received $1,975,851.43. This also Was a four week period. November, 1939 checks to unemployed perons totaled 361,350 against 204,692 in--November, 1938. \ This represented nearly an 80 per\ cent increase in the number of checks distributed. STORM ADDS 5.42 INCHES OF RAIN: TOTAL IS 12.67 The rains since the first of year have--brightened prospects for the gravel mine operators. orchardists and cattlemen. From the rain gauge at the home of. Mrs. Jennie Preston it was learned that the’ following ‘amounts per day had fallen: Jannary first, 67; ‘Second, 3.00 inches; third. 64, and fourth. 1.08, making a total of 5.42 for this month and more rain is indicated. Added to the 7.25 inches that had fallen during the fall months this gives 12.67 inches. It was also-learned that more rain fell last fall than in the past two seasons or for January 1, 1938 there was 7.12 inches. January 1, 1939 brought 6.37 inches and January 1, 1940 is 7.25 inches. The -heavy storm on also brought 5.7 inches of rain Downieville. the the second to TRUCKEE CITIZENS: AT ODDS A petition is being circulated in Truckee requesting the supervisors of Nevada .county to call a special election on incorporating the city. A petition was presented the board of supervisors Tuesday asking the board not to call a special election for the incorporation of the town of Truckee. The supervisors took no action on the petition. their, employer, the New Deal, and by, performing functions in the various New Deal experiments. The first, until the Hatch act, was more important than the last. In the magnificent capital of the country, the population has -been augmented by more than 200,000 bureaucratic employes. Tt is a bustling city. Business is good, thank you, and over the radio we hear gospel singing and praying for the New Deal to go on forever, with Elder Ickes exhorting the press to the sinners bench. Let us grant that among the chaff there is good wheat, but it will require a Republican regime ‘to separate the New Deal wheat from ‘the chaff, to balance the budget, to restore sanity to spending, to purge the rascality the New Deal has fathered. We believe this purge is due and imminent. And when it comes, brother, all the vermin that nest in the seams of the New Deal’s cloak, will disappear as by magic. For-that cloak coverered with hypocrisy and bunkum will presently be sent to the clean_ In terms of money distributed in . to relinquish their monopoly of powon the power of rulers. PIKE CITY GOLD STRIKE OF $80,000 REPORTED It was repowied. it in Nevida City yesterday that a rich strike or pockbeen taken out on leased ground adjoining the old Alaska mine at Pike City by Warren Godfrey and partners. When the discovery was made the lease had only a few days to run. The men. worked 24 hours. straight ‘to recover the gold before expiration of the lease, RUSSIAN RULE BY-DESPOT LEADS TO REVOLUTION LOS AINGELES, Jan. 4.—Fellowtravelers who have recently been alighting as best they could from the onrushing Marxian locomotive of history might have saved themselves a few ideological bumps if they had studied a Bolshevik time table, published twenty years ago by Bertrand Russell. Russell, who is now professor of Philosophy on the Los’ Angeles ‘campus of the University of California, wrote in 1920, “The Bolshevik theory requires that every country, ooner. or later, shoul o through what Russia is going. t ugh now. And in every ‘country in ‘such a condition, we may expect to find the government falling into the hands of ruthless men, who have not by nature any love for freedom, and who will see little importance in hastening the transition from dictatorship to freedom. Is it not almost inevitable that men placed as the Bolsheviks are placed in Russia——will be loath er, and will find reasons for remaining until some new revolution ousts them?” n\his book, Power, 1938, Russell stated published in his belief that tyranny ‘and oppression will never be ended until the whole world adopts a stable form of democracy in’ Which there are effective checks “Tt is difficult, to regard one-party ‘000 and capital and surplus in exgovernments as a step toward democracy,’’ the philosopher declares, ‘‘for one party officials are likely to be fanatics; being fanatics, theywill be severe; being severe, they will be opposed; being opposed, they will be more severe. Hence the rack and the stake, the Gestapo and _ the Cheka.”’ But, Russell says, democracy must be established for a long before it becomes stable. ‘‘Cromwell, Napoleon and Hitler appeared in the early days of democracy in their reSpective countries; in view of the first two, the third should be in no way, surprising. Nor is there reason to suppose.that he will be more permanent than his predecessors.’’ FINANCE CO. OF — NEVADA. PLACER CHANGES HANDS Snodgrass: president of ne Acceptance Corporation of California, automobile financing concern, announces the purchase for cash of the business of the Finance Company of Nevada and Placer counties. The finance company was organized in 1925 and is headquartered in Auburn with branches in Grass Valley and Nevada City.” " @he' most recent financial state. ment of the finance company showed resources of approximately $460,time cess of $248,000. Alvin F. Carveth, secretary and manager of the finabee company, has been elected a vicepresident of Mercantile Acceptance Corporation and*will head the staff m the continued operation of finance company offices as branches of Mercantile. The Mercantile’s’ last published statement showed resources of over $6,000,000, With the addition of the three offices of the finance company the corporation will have 13 branches located throughout-northern:-California and Oregon.

Harry Browning and. family of Berkeley spent the New Year holidays with Browning’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arno Browning in French Corral. Harry’s grandmother, Mrs.Annie Browning of Nevada City joined ers. et estimated to be worth $80,000 had’ J ficial-of the P. G. & E. “stationed at ‘vehicles. tional average of $9.25. the} {Shop and his bride has been employ‘ed at the Sharmock Cafe for! a time. . They plan to return today and will [ROTARIANS ARE ENTERTAINED BY COLOR PICTURES Color and sound motion pictures of the great Drum division—of—the Pacific Gas and Electrie company’s power-system,extending over Nevada, Sierra, Placer and El Dorado counties, were shown to the Rotary Club today by Bill Hutchinson, ofAuburn. The picture graphically illustrated the diverse occupations served by the utility company in the four counties. Mines in the Nevada City-Gra-s Valley area, the famous 16-to-1 at Alleghany and many others in the Gold Country; the apple and pear ‘harvest in this vicinity and the huge railroad yards and ice house in Placer county were shown at the luncheon meeting: The sources of power, including lakes and dams created by the P. G. & E. and the power houses’ which converts the power into electrical energy were reproduced in color and sound. Carroll Coughlan was program chairman. WORK SUSPE AT NARROWS DAM DUE TO STORM Due to the sudden rise of the Yuba River at the Narrows Wednesday from heavy storms on the North, Middle and South Yuba branches, all work was suspended on the dam until the water recedes. There are 250 men employed at-the dam. The heavy flow of water far exceeded the bypass capacity but no damage is expected to occur except where there were temporary structures. Concrete pouring started about six weeks ago. The heavy current damage according to Superintendent William Evans. , g AUTO LICENSE FEE LOWEST IN UNITED STATES SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4.—California’s annual $3 registration fee for motor vehicles is the lowest in the nation and offly one other _ state, Washington, has:a similar low rate, according to the department of motor vehicles: Kentucky -has a flat ‘rate of $4.50, while Kansas has a minimum $4 rate with an additional fee of 25 cents per hundred weight when the vehicle is over 2,000 pounds, In both Oregon and Utah the flat rate is $5, whereas in North Dakota one will pay from $12.50«to $150 to register a new passenger car. ee A number of states still retain the gross weight rates with New York setting 50 cents per hundredweight on vehicles of 3500 pounds or less. Wisconsin’s gross weight tax is based on a $10 minimum. In Pennsylvania motor car owners pay on horsepower at 40 cents per. horsepower and a minimum of $10. California’s registration fee is accompanied by a vehicle licensé fee of $1.75 on each $100 valuation as} fixed by the department of motor ‘Many other states have similar fees. During 1938 the average California car owner paid a total fee’ of $7.68 against a corresponding. naNEVADA CITY COUPLE ARE MARRIED IN RENO Francis Nothen and Miss Lavetra Noonan of Nevada City were married in Reno. Both young people are from Placerville and have lived here about two months. Nothen has charge of the Bottle make this city their home. ‘! Napa and Miss Hazel Jones, teacher in the Pacific Grove schools, left to resume their duties Monday after a vacation here with their mother, ‘him in French, Corral. . TREE BLOWS OVER ON ‘. News. In later years he has been enwill cause slight] now by the forest service, the ChamMiss Mary Jones;-who—teaches—in-+ HOUSE DURING STORM Sometime Wednesday night ‘the heavy rain and wind storm evidently blew down a large pine tree and it fell across, the rear portion of the Henry D. Wilkinson home low Valley. The.tree mashed the back bedroom. Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson are in Sacramento and were notified as Soon as the destruction was noted, Mr. Wilkinson came up last evening. The home is near the H. F. Sofge home on Mosquito Creek. NEW JUSTICE OF PEACE IS GEORGE GILDERSLEEVE George Ww. (Giderciecs., for twenty. years prominent in Nevada county’s fraternal and civic affairs, was on ‘Wednesday appointed by the county board of supervisors to the post of justice of the peace for Ne}vada township, a positino§ recently made vacant through the death of Judge, Walter L. Mobley. The newly appointed justice will fill out the three year unexpired term of his predecessor. He brings to his post several terms of experience in the office, gained years ago in the St. Helena justice court where he lived before coming to Nevada City to establish here the Nevada City gaged in commercial printing. WAR VET SUCCUMBS — AT COUNTY HOSPITAL Harry eran Hopkinson, world war vetwho was frightfully wounded.) in service overseas during, the war, passed away at the courtty hospital yesterday afternoon, He has resided in. Nevada City about five years and was contented even though he carried a pass to the veterans hospital for care at any time he wished to go. Several months ago he joined the Banner Mt. Post. V. F. W., Hopkinson was known to his many friends as ‘‘Happy”’ for his cheery smile although his life had been wrecked by the war. He had planned to start in newspaper work in the east when th2 in Wil-] / CITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS PIN BALL DEVICES Proposed licensing of pin-ball machines in Nevada City was deferred Tast night by the city council at its regular meeting until legal advice on the question has been obtained. Some doubt was expressed as to the legality of the device. Objections were raised to the practice of double parking on Broad street. One instance was cited of — more than a dozen cars being delayed for several minutes on the main thoroughfare It was recommended to Chief of Police Garfield Robson. that.all offenders be warned the first time and if they continued the pr tice be given a citation. ; Proposals were also submitted for closing th¢ Nevada City-Grass Valley road between Nevada City and Town Talk to feavy trucks. It was pointed out that he road passes in front of the high ¢chool-and the new hospital. It was suSgested to convert the Lower Grass Valley road into a_ truck route.The proposition will be investigated further. The following bills were ordered paid: GENERAL FUND Jas Allen $125.00; H. S. Hallett $150.00; R. L. Bigelow $100.00; Garfield Robson $150.00; Geo. H. Calanan $20.00; Max Solaro $71.50; Dr. E. M. Roesner $40.00; Mrs. BE. M. Foley $12.50; Miles P. Coughlan $12.50; Lin Davies $125.00; Eugene Blake $35.00; B. P. Robinson $7.64; Pacific Gas and Electric Co. $275.71; Glenn H, Cleland $12.77; Tom White $63.00; Hemstreet & Bell L-gR 2 « The Waxinate Co. $16.67; Sam Hooper $2.05; Henry Conti $102.94; A. L. (Dick) Lane $11.81; Andy’s Associated Service $9.61) Sunny Side Green House $5.15;' Saeramento. Pipe Works $205.47; Alpha Store Ltd. $88.58; W. S. Williamson $17.08; Nevada City Nugget $5.15; Emil G. Allen $13.50; Dick James $93:94; Byron Landrigan $103.50; “Roy Hosken $112.50; Ernest Young $112.50; Ted Sigourney $117.00; Omar Simmons $111.38; Ingersoll Rand Co. 30c; \Pac. Tel. and Tel. Co. $16.35; Carveth Insurance Agency $63.35; Standard Oil Co. of. California $2.54; Gladding, McBean and war broke out. About—two months ago he received a medaY for bravery in service. He has relatives residing in the east, one sister living in Salt Lake City. The body is at Holmes Funeral Home awaiting word from relatives in regard to funeral arrangements. FOREST SERVICE WILL COOPERATE ON SKI COURSE DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest, Wednesday night pledged 100 per cent cooperation with the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce in promoting the new Nevada City Ski Course. Nelson—and Leland S. Smith -appeared before the chamber and outlined the requirements of the chamber, which is sponsoring the new winter recreation center. The new course will be named ‘“Nevada—_Ski Course on Omega Hill.”’ Arrangements are being made nd the Nevada City city’ council to build four lavatories. They will not. be ready for this year, but it is valiered that a shelter of some sort will oe for next season. The course will be open to th public since it is locatéd on government ground. : ber of Commerce : FAMILY REUNION ~The Will Davis family in Willow Valley held a most enjoyable family reunion and dinner party during the holidays with eighteen present. in. the party were, Miss Bertha Rush, John Rush, Fresno; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dillie and two children of Carruthers, all cousins of Mrs. Davis. Mr.” and Mrs. Fred Tourtelotte, Big Creek;.Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Welch and children: Their son. Wesley Davis and family spent the holidays’ in San Francisco. Mrs, Harrison Randall, who was stricken with influenza the latter part of last week, still remains at Co. $398.95; Marysville Tractor and Equip. Co. $4.03; Plaza Garage $17.07; Pacific Gas and Electric Co. 44c; Nick Sandow $117.00; Ed GC. ~ Uren $20.00; Catherine McMichael $16.80; Nevada Irrigation Dist. $250.05. Total $3,246.15. FIRE FUND Max Solaro $51.50; Capital Fire Equipment Co. $11.90. Total $63.40. RECEIPTS To water collections $1881.85; to city marshal, licenses $887.00; to taxes delinquent $59.25; to city recorder, fines $35.00; penalties and costs, miscellaneous $7.24, Miscellaneous $93. 91—$2964. ~ 25. Total $18088.46. DISBURSEMENTS By warrants paid on general fund $3033.85; by warrants paid on fire fund $51.50; by warrants paid on library fund $138.71—$3224.06. By balance’in treasury $15864.40. To balance in fire fund $832.44. To balance in library fund $1646.26%. To balance in general fund $12385.69 1%. TWO GUILTY OF . LAW VIOLATION George Jacobs, arrested by Police Officer Lionell Davies’ and charged with driving on the wrong gjde of the street, plead guilty of the charge and was fined $25 or ten days in jail by City Judge Miles D. Coughlan. The sentence was suspended on condition . the defendant cause the oftic: further truoble. The time for passing. iideeeeae on Harry Silva was continued for one ‘week by Judge Coughlan. Silva plead guilty to the charge of disturbing the peace, allegedly committed ina cafe on Sacramento street. city marshal, Thomas. Bigelow and family of Woodland on Sunday visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Garrison. Bigelow will take Garrison’s place as district superintendemt on January 5 in a trans fer: Mr. Garrison while muc proved still remains in Landis hospital in Grass Valley recovering hoe Mrs. Lulu Jones of Nevada street. . home quite ill. an attack of pneumonia.