July 22, 1943 (4 pages)

ees 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 Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA __ ve This paper gives your complete . coverage of all local happenings. . If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read. The Nugget. Vok 17, No.'57. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CiTy,, ¢ CALIFORNIA _The Gold Center’ _THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943. 22, 1943. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L.‘We prefer optimists, of course, to pessimists. We really admire those who consider, even in the midst of the world’s greatest and most devastating war, that this is the “best of all possible worlds’’. But lookng up at night at the twinkling stars, we seometimes wonder, if it is not possible on some of those distant spheres, that there are here and there, worlds that are more orderly and more highly developed by the beings that inhabit them, than ours. For we do have doubts that ours is the only globe in the whole galaxy of the universe that is inhabited by intelligent populations of some kind of animal, not human probably, but Martian, if you like. The trouble with optimists, generally speaking, is that they close their eyes to realities. They refuse to see that the disorders that war begets are due largely to disorderly mnds who attempt to regulate our lives in war time. The clear thinking that masters the difficulties of peace time conditions, that complies with and adapts itself, say, to the law of supply and demand, that, in governmental affairs, acts as an impartial umpire between contending.forces or factions, and produces a harmony of action and unity of purpose, in the confussions of war, simply fails to function. pacer tebestiaat Se For instance, we recall that, the last world war there were two men given great powers the equal of whom we have thus far failed to find and place in power. First there was Bernard Baruch, in charge of production for war purposes, and second there was Herbert Hoover in charge of food production and distribution. It is difficult, of course, (and odious to the present administration) to make comparisons between the eonduct of this war and the last. The magnitude of the present conflict is three times greater than the last, at least three times. But there can be no question in anyone’s mind, even in the ineurable optimist’s, if he will be governed by cool judgment for a moment, that Hoover and Baruch, were head and shoulders above any of the present war managers appointed ‘by President . Roosevelt. The difference in the conduct of +his war as Chester Rowell has been at pains to point out, amounts largely to the differences in character, personality, and deep seated convictions between Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In fact, when we refer to deepseated convictions we might al‘most say that President ‘Wilson had them, and President Roosevelt has them not. in ‘President Wilson, we must remember, was so strongly eonvinced that this country should con. tribute its share toward world security that he boldly risked, and lost, his political, prestige and future on the issue. He considered the issue far greater than himself and died a martyr to that conviction. Not even his closest friends would ever suspect President Roosevelt of such ardor: By and far our leadership in the jast war was in the hands of Hoover, Baruch and Wilson. Our failure, was not in winning the war, but in winning the peace. When we departed fom Wilson’s jeadership, when domestic politics intervened in our relations to ithe rest of the world, we lost the peace, and inevitably brought upon our heads this war. Any nation at war needs great minds, clear thinking minds to guide the nation through its travail. England has, at least one such treasure. Winston Churchill will live in history as a master of war making. But we doubt, despite our optimists, whether we have yet produced a leadership equivalent to the Churchill sovernment, or to that of the first world war, in our own, and we look forebodingly upon what our presROUTE TO CHINA . MEDICAL AID TRAVELS LONG Mrs. Jane Kohlberg, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lois Hadfield at the Myers home on Broad street, has received word through the New York Tribune of the safe arrival of her husband Alfred Kohlberg at Chungking, China. Mr. Kohlberg is a representative of the American Bureau of Medical Aid to China. He left Miami three weeks ago on his way to Natal and across to Africa with much needed medical supplies for the Chinese army. He has spent 27 years in China with headquarters at Swatow, which is 200 miles east of Canton, and his business as an importer has taken him pretty much throughout the trade centers, of that overpopulated country. Since the Jap invason, which started six years age, he has made several trips into the unoccupied areas and three years ago was wounded in the leg by a Jap bullet whle ascending one of the waterways. The Chinese are much in need, not only of medical supplies but armament of various kinds and since the closing of the Burma road have had to rely on the small amount that can be flown in by plane from India and which is a mere fraction of what they really need. . . FALL FROM TREE . CAUSES DEATH OF M.D. SHEA . beginning FRANK STEEL BORNE 10 REST Funeral services he late Frank Steel, former ceases treasurer, were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Moutruary. Steel passed away Saturday morning and arrangements for the obsequies were completed when his son, Lieutenant Richard Steel and his wife, arrived from Fort Wright, Washington. The service was conducted by Rev. Carl Tamblyn, rector of St. John’s Eipiscooal Church, Marysville. Interment was in Odd'Fellows Cemetery, srass Valley. FIRE DESTROYS + ROOM HOME The nine-room home of J. L. Bennetts on the Idaho Maryland road, just outside Grass Valley, burned to the ground yesterday afternoon, shortly after 4 o’clock. Both the Grass Valley fire department and the State Division of Forestry fire trucks from Nevada. City responded to the alarm but the fire had made swift progress and utmost efforts of the firemen failed. Mrs. Bennetts and her’ children’ were away when the fire was discovered, and Bennetts, an. employe.of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company had gone to Berkeley Tuesday at the . of his annual vacation. ENGLE OPPOSES Funeral services were held this morning for the late Michael D. Shea of Alleghany who died Monday evening as a result of injuries suffered June a tree while pruning it. , He was brought to Nevada City} in ambulance and it was found that! his neck had been dislocated by the fall. He seemed to be recovering but recently suffered a relapse from which he failed to rally. Shea was born.in Moore’s Flat 74 ing camp was in its heyday. After attending the public schools of Moores’ Flat and North Bloomfield Shea beecameia carpenter and moved to Alleghany where he was successful in his calling. Funeral services will take place Thursday, July 22nd, at 10 a. m. in St. Canice Church with Rev. Virgil Gabrielle officiating. Interment, under the direction of Holmes Funeral Home, will be in the Catholic Cemetery. ANTELOPE HUNT APPLICATIONS NUMBER 3,100 SAIN FPRAINCISCO, July 22.—Over 3,100 applications for permits to hunt antelope have already been 'received by the Division of Fish and Game. Of this number only 500 applicants will be issued ermits and actually allowed to hunt. The drawing of these 500 names in a ‘legal lottery” will be held in Sacramento on August 13, according to information from H. R. Dunbar, Chief of the Bureau of Licenses. The last date for filing these applications is midnight August 11. The antelope season in California is scheduled for September 11 to 20 inclusive. The territory that will be open to hunting is all that portion of Lassen County north of the Susanville’ Litchfield Pyramid) Lake road‘and east of the Susanville, Adin road as far as the junction of the Cleghorn Reservior road and thence north and east of Cleghorn Reservoir road and the Dixie Valley road and the Western Pacific Railroad to Highway 299 at Nubieber ‘and east of Highway 299 to the county line; and that portion of Modoc County east of Highway 299 from the south county line to Canby and east of the \Canby4Malin highway. ent leadersHip may bring us to in the post war world. years ago, at the time that old min. RETURN OF JAPS rere ts FOR DURATION . RED BLUFF, lon his record during the last session of législature, State Senator Clair Engle, candidate for congress in the second district, today declared that ie is “absolutely opposed to the return of the Japanese to the Pacific . Coast for the duration, and the return of the Jap alien after the war.’’ “Long before the Jap coddlers had ibbeen run to cover by.resentment over the treatment of Amercan prisoners of war, I took a strong stand on the Japanese question,’’ Engle continued. The senator pointed out that he authored the amendment to alien land law which precludes alien Japanese from using agriculture lands’ in California. “Tt is useless to win this war, if we lose to the Japs biologically in California, as it already has happened in Hawaii,’’ Engle asserted. outlaw dual citizenship, extensively practiced by the Japanese in California. GRASS VALLEY METHODISTS TO LIOUIDATE DEBT Rev. Mark Pike, pastor of First Methodist Church of be city, announces that a drive to raise the balance due the bank on _ the church property will open next Monday, July 26th. There remains to be paid on the $615,000 dollar edifice but $3888.28. Some eight committees of the church membership will participate in a house to house canvas of members to solicit gifts toward the reduction of the debt. Woman Republican Leader Is' Visitor Mrs. Jesse S. Williamson, dent Republican Women, and vice president of the National Federation of Republican Women’s clubs, of Berkeley, has been the guest of, Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Cassidy for a few days. She left Tuesday for her home. ‘Mrs. Williamson recently returned from Washington, D. C., and stated while here that she found friends of the late Congressman Harry L. Englebright, were giving enthusiastic support to the candidacy of Mrs. presifew articles’ of clothing were . by neighbors and one of two piec es . of furniture. The estimated loss $8,000. July 22 .—Enlarging j the} Engle also authored the bill to; of the California Council of U.S. TAX BURDEN LOOMS AL LOAD TO POSTERITY By CLEM WHITAKER Tomorrow’s tax bill—<colossal the word for it! And even that doesn’t do justice to it. Everybody knows by this time that total war is expensive, ‘but. the average taxpayer still doesn’t know the half of it. Congressman Engle of Michigan . has related the estimated post-war federal government debt of 300 billions to the general property tax. He has prorated the debt according ios population and compared it with the assessed valution of all taxable property in each of the states. California’s share, on this basis, would be about $15,000,000,000, or nearly two and a half times the assessed value of all réal estate and personal property in the state! When you try to break the figures down and decide on any practical means of retiring this staggering indebtedness, the result is anything but encouraging. Glenn W. Willaman, secretary of the California State Real Estate Association, whose organization always has been militant in its defense of the common property taxpayer, has done some figuring on the problem—-and ‘here’s what Mr. Willpata comes up with: is . “The current rate on long-term 4 . government bonds, the lowest in history, is about 2 1-2 per cent. Suppose we had to raise just the inter-. igs est on our per capita share of the . ployed, and an increase of 568. per} federal debt by a general property ltax. The tax rate for such a levy,} applied throughout California, would ibe at least $3.00 on each $100 of valuation. “This burden, for it covers only ithe interest costs, would have to be in perpetuity. vide for no reduction of the principal. If it were undertaken to pay off the debt in half a century (as well as the interest), an initial rate lof at least $12,00 per $100 would be required, and an average rate over the 50 years of about $11.10.” It is tragic enough that the nation should have to shoulder such a tremendous burden to protect its liberty— and to fight off those who would enslave the world. But more tragic is the acknowledged but little lowed indebtedness which will plague every present day American as long as he lives, was contracted long before the war to pay for the ilong list of economic follies which days j characterized the leaf-raking and dole days of depression. Under the circumstances, the American people, now that their congressmen are home taking a vacation, may want to talk seriously with «their representatives about abolishing the many departments of depression which still carry on—although they have long since outlived their usefulness. The pay off is going to be terrific. And anything that can be done to reduce it needs to be done NOW! TOTTEN HELD TO ANSWER IN ‘ SUPERIOR COURT William Totten, charged with the murder of Harvey McVean was held “to answer in the superior court. yesterday morning at his preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Charles A. Morehouse. Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen, Dr. Carl P. Jones and the defendant’s aunt, Mrs. Mary Field, were called as witnesses. The witnesses were examined by District Attorney Ward Sheldon. Totten has confessed to the shooting both to Larsen and to the district attorney. Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis of Willow Valley have as summer guests their three grandchildren, Evelyn, Bobbie and Warren Welch of Oakland. Bobbie caught a fourteen ‘inch trout early this week in Deer Creek. The children are enjoying swimming in the creek. : Grace Englebright for the office occupied by her husband. This, without regard to party lines. debt . It would pro-. understood fact that much of this! probably . 'HUGE SUM PAID TO CALIFORNIA'S WORKER ARMY SAN FRANCISCO, July 22.—Calia total of $1,473,739,000 to 691,200 age number of persons employed in all industries during the year, and an increase-of-303’ per cent in wages paid, according to studies just completed by the Research Department of the California State Chamber of Commerce. : The extemt to which California is participating in the production of war materials is revealed in the. fact that there was an average of 437,500 workers engaged last year in the metal production’ industries, which include manufacture of machinery, automobiles and transportaton equipment, aircraft, shipbuilding, and other supplies necedsary for the war. These workers were paid a total of $1,079,895,000 in wases during the year. As compared with the base year 1939, this was an increase of 455 per cent in number of workers and 823 per cent in wages paid. ji For the production of all types-of durable goods which include, in addition to the metal products, lumber, furniture, stone, clay, and glass total wages of $1,185,003,000, an average increase over 1939 of 297 ;per cent in number of workers em. . cent in wages paid. In the nondurable goods’ industries which includes food, textiles, paper, chemicals, rubber, leather, land miscellaneous products an av‘erage of 175,600 persons were emlploed during the last year, an increase of 16 per cent over 1939. ‘Wages paid to these employees for. . he year totaled $288,746,000 or ,per cent more than the 1939. total. 52 092 For production of food and allied, products, average employment for’ last year was 85,500 workers who received $135,116,000 in wages. The 1939 in this classification was 19 per cent and the gain in wages was approximately 6'5 per cent. Other non durable industry groups showing substantial gains included rubber™ pro. duets with an increase of 56 per cent n workers and 87 per cent in wages pad; and chemicals and petroleum products which showed a gain of 15 per cent in employees, and 50 per ‘cent in wages paid. 5 Motor vehicle owners of Nevada (City will display -windshield stickers in 1944 as evidence of registration in addition to the license plates now on their cars. According to dispatches received today by the Nugget from the Department of Motor Vehicles in Sacramento, the stickers will have a blue background with a small gold seal of the State of California in the center. Each sticker will be serially numbered. The stickers will be displayed in the lower right hand corner of the shape, taking up a space of about eight square inches. The. stickers were adopted by Director Gordon H. Garland as a means of reducing the cost and of saving precious steel for war purposes. Garland admonished motorists to take good care of the existing license plates on their vehicles in order that they may last all through 1944. The stickers will be made of a translucent ‘material which will prevent injury to or absorption of colors by shatter proof glass. They will be so constructed that it will be impossible to counterfeit them or remove them from the windshields once they are put on. Bids for the pufchase of enough stickers for approximately 2,500,000 vehicles will chasing agent. 437,500 workers were employed forimarked and that two other bridges fornia manufacturing industries on wage earners during 1942. Based on . city specially coloed to Camp Beale the prewar year, 1939, this was an military authorities: This act bridges increase of 143 per cent in the aver-!a slight hyatus in the cordial teleweight to which they are likely to . be. subjected. : During this period of misunder. standing the Camp Beale caravans ‘which regularly use the higher mounithe round ,ecrooked streets of this old mining increase of number of workers over, windshield. They will be oblong in» be called shortly by the state pur-. ‘ing through routes in colors, both te NEVADA CITY AND AND CAMP BEALE RIFT IS GENTLY CLOSED — Edwin C. Uren, city engineer, teday mailed maps of. Nevada City, with the highway route through the tions existing between Nevada City and Camp Beale, according to Uren, resulting from: the use by drivers of heavy mechanized equipment of Nevada City’s Pine streett:1 bridge, which sustains a loadof but three tons with safety. ? Mayor Ben Hall, who.lives near the Pne street bridge, became alarmed not only for. the’ safety of the bridge for the safety of scores of young soldies, on tanks heavy motorized cranes, armored amphibious. tanks and thalf tracks as they moved acoss the bridge in closé order, and . asked the city clerk; Geoge Calanan to write the Camp Beale authorities calling attention to, the danger both to the bridge and to the soldiers. Although the letter was couched in the most friendly — and cordial phrases,, it apparently created some misunderstanding at Camp — Beale, and for several days traffic of Camp Beale armored trains manned by soldiers practically ceased through Ne vada City, despite the fact that the highway through the city is plainly in this route are built to sustain any tains.for practice-purposes, detoured Nevada City, reaching their drill grounds by way of Grass Valley, Colfax and east on Highway No. 40. On trip this involved extra travel of 32 miles. , As a matter of fact the winding,. eamp has often resulteds strange ds it may seem, in the youthful drivers of jeeps and trucks becoming hopelessly lost. But with the maps, showthe Downieville :;and the Tahoe highways, it is believéd that the Camp Beale personnel, will , no longe suffer this embarrassment. RYAN’S BAIL CUT, GETS NEW HABEAS CORPUS WRIT Attorney James Snell, whose motion in the Nevada County superior court to free Ed Ryan, his client, charged with violation of .the Vehicle (Code, in habeas corpus proceedings, was denied July 12th, has obtained a writ: of habeas corpus in the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacra© mento. He states that the hearing on the writ will be held August 30. Justice Annette Adams granted the writ. Ryan is accused of driving an aus tomobile while intoxicated resulting © in -the injury and death of Michael ‘Nevins. On May 2nd he ran off the road en the Auburn highway and plunged into Rattlesnake Creek. His companion Nevins’ died of his injuries the following day. : In the hearing on the ‘writ of habeas corpus beforeJudge George L. Jones in the superor court here, the — judge refused to release the defend-ant, stating that there was soba evidence in the preliminary hearing — before Justice of the Peace Chatles (Morehouse to warrant holding _—. for trial. . Justice Annette “adams rennet: Ryan’s bail from $1000 to $100. — This was deposited Tuesda evening and Ryan is now at. liberty. = ne Mrs. Fannie “Adams and twin grandchildren, -Doralee and Maralee, of Sacramento are enjoying ation until the first of August in the Wesley Davig,jomé. in Willow ° ley. Mrs. Adams is delighted this district. It is her cat, this section. S WHITMORE —Be Nevada County, July Captain and Mere a son.

ees 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 Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA __ ve This paper gives your complete . coverage of all local happenings. . If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read. The Nugget. Vok 17, No.'57. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CiTy,, ¢ CALIFORNIA _The Gold Center’ _THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1943. 22, 1943. Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L.‘We prefer optimists, of course, to pessimists. We really admire those who consider, even in the midst of the world’s greatest and most devastating war, that this is the “best of all possible worlds’’. But lookng up at night at the twinkling stars, we seometimes wonder, if it is not possible on some of those distant spheres, that there are here and there, worlds that are more orderly and more highly developed by the beings that inhabit them, than ours. For we do have doubts that ours is the only globe in the whole galaxy of the universe that is inhabited by intelligent populations of some kind of animal, not human probably, but Martian, if you like. The trouble with optimists, generally speaking, is that they close their eyes to realities. They refuse to see that the disorders that war begets are due largely to disorderly mnds who attempt to regulate our lives in war time. The clear thinking that masters the difficulties of peace time conditions, that complies with and adapts itself, say, to the law of supply and demand, that, in governmental affairs, acts as an impartial umpire between contending.forces or factions, and produces a harmony of action and unity of purpose, in the confussions of war, simply fails to function. pacer tebestiaat Se For instance, we recall that, the last world war there were two men given great powers the equal of whom we have thus far failed to find and place in power. First there was Bernard Baruch, in charge of production for war purposes, and second there was Herbert Hoover in charge of food production and distribution. It is difficult, of course, (and odious to the present administration) to make comparisons between the eonduct of this war and the last. The magnitude of the present conflict is three times greater than the last, at least three times. But there can be no question in anyone’s mind, even in the ineurable optimist’s, if he will be governed by cool judgment for a moment, that Hoover and Baruch, were head and shoulders above any of the present war managers appointed ‘by President . Roosevelt. The difference in the conduct of +his war as Chester Rowell has been at pains to point out, amounts largely to the differences in character, personality, and deep seated convictions between Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In fact, when we refer to deepseated convictions we might al‘most say that President ‘Wilson had them, and President Roosevelt has them not. in ‘President Wilson, we must remember, was so strongly eonvinced that this country should con. tribute its share toward world security that he boldly risked, and lost, his political, prestige and future on the issue. He considered the issue far greater than himself and died a martyr to that conviction. Not even his closest friends would ever suspect President Roosevelt of such ardor: By and far our leadership in the jast war was in the hands of Hoover, Baruch and Wilson. Our failure, was not in winning the war, but in winning the peace. When we departed fom Wilson’s jeadership, when domestic politics intervened in our relations to ithe rest of the world, we lost the peace, and inevitably brought upon our heads this war. Any nation at war needs great minds, clear thinking minds to guide the nation through its travail. England has, at least one such treasure. Winston Churchill will live in history as a master of war making. But we doubt, despite our optimists, whether we have yet produced a leadership equivalent to the Churchill sovernment, or to that of the first world war, in our own, and we look forebodingly upon what our presROUTE TO CHINA . MEDICAL AID TRAVELS LONG Mrs. Jane Kohlberg, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lois Hadfield at the Myers home on Broad street, has received word through the New York Tribune of the safe arrival of her husband Alfred Kohlberg at Chungking, China. Mr. Kohlberg is a representative of the American Bureau of Medical Aid to China. He left Miami three weeks ago on his way to Natal and across to Africa with much needed medical supplies for the Chinese army. He has spent 27 years in China with headquarters at Swatow, which is 200 miles east of Canton, and his business as an importer has taken him pretty much throughout the trade centers, of that overpopulated country. Since the Jap invason, which started six years age, he has made several trips into the unoccupied areas and three years ago was wounded in the leg by a Jap bullet whle ascending one of the waterways. The Chinese are much in need, not only of medical supplies but armament of various kinds and since the closing of the Burma road have had to rely on the small amount that can be flown in by plane from India and which is a mere fraction of what they really need. . . FALL FROM TREE . CAUSES DEATH OF M.D. SHEA . beginning FRANK STEEL BORNE 10 REST Funeral services he late Frank Steel, former ceases treasurer, were held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Moutruary. Steel passed away Saturday morning and arrangements for the obsequies were completed when his son, Lieutenant Richard Steel and his wife, arrived from Fort Wright, Washington. The service was conducted by Rev. Carl Tamblyn, rector of St. John’s Eipiscooal Church, Marysville. Interment was in Odd'Fellows Cemetery, srass Valley. FIRE DESTROYS + ROOM HOME The nine-room home of J. L. Bennetts on the Idaho Maryland road, just outside Grass Valley, burned to the ground yesterday afternoon, shortly after 4 o’clock. Both the Grass Valley fire department and the State Division of Forestry fire trucks from Nevada. City responded to the alarm but the fire had made swift progress and utmost efforts of the firemen failed. Mrs. Bennetts and her’ children’ were away when the fire was discovered, and Bennetts, an. employe..of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company had gone to Berkeley Tuesday at the . of his annual vacation. ENGLE OPPOSES Funeral services were held this morning for the late Michael D. Shea of Alleghany who died Monday evening as a result of injuries suffered June a tree while pruning it. , He was brought to Nevada City} in ambulance and it was found that! his neck had been dislocated by the fall. He seemed to be recovering but recently suffered a relapse from which he failed to rally. Shea was born.in Moore’s Flat 74 ing camp was in its heyday. After attending the public schools of Moores’ Flat and North Bloomfield Shea beecameia carpenter and moved to Alleghany where he was successful in his calling. Funeral services will take place Thursday, July 22nd, at 10 a. m. in St. Canice Church with Rev. Virgil Gabrielle officiating. Interment, under the direction of Holmes Funeral Home, will be in the Catholic Cemetery. ANTELOPE HUNT APPLICATIONS NUMBER 3,100 SAIN FPRAINCISCO, July 22.—Over 3,100 applications for permits to hunt antelope have already been 'received by the Division of Fish and Game. Of this number only 500 applicants will be issued ermits and actually allowed to hunt. The drawing of these 500 names in a ‘legal lottery” will be held in Sacramento on August 13, according to information from H. R. Dunbar, Chief of the Bureau of Licenses. The last date for filing these applications is midnight August 11. The antelope season in California is scheduled for September 11 to 20 inclusive. The territory that will be open to hunting is all that portion of Lassen County north of the Susanville’ Litchfield Pyramid) Lake road‘and east of the Susanville, Adin road as far as the junction of the Cleghorn Reservior road and thence north and east of Cleghorn Reservoir road and the Dixie Valley road and the Western Pacific Railroad to Highway 299 at Nubieber ‘and east of Highway 299 to the county line; and that portion of Modoc County east of Highway 299 from the south county line to Canby and east of the \Canby4Malin highway. ent leadersHip may bring us to in the post war world. years ago, at the time that old min. RETURN OF JAPS rere ts FOR DURATION . RED BLUFF, lon his record during the last session of législature, State Senator Clair Engle, candidate for congress in the second district, today declared that ie is “absolutely opposed to the return of the Japanese to the Pacific . Coast for the duration, and the return of the Jap alien after the war.’’ “Long before the Jap coddlers had ibbeen run to cover by.resentment over the treatment of Amercan prisoners of war, I took a strong stand on the Japanese question,’’ Engle continued. The senator pointed out that he authored the amendment to alien land law which precludes alien Japanese from using agriculture lands’ in California. “Tt is useless to win this war, if we lose to the Japs biologically in California, as it already has happened in Hawaii,’’ Engle asserted. outlaw dual citizenship, extensively practiced by the Japanese in California. GRASS VALLEY METHODISTS TO LIOUIDATE DEBT Rev. Mark Pike, pastor of First Methodist Church of be city, announces that a drive to raise the balance due the bank on _ the church property will open next Monday, July 26th. There remains to be paid on the $615,000 dollar edifice but $3888.28. Some eight committees of the church membership will participate in a house to house canvas of members to solicit gifts toward the reduction of the debt. Woman Republican Leader Is' Visitor Mrs. Jesse S. Williamson, dent Republican Women, and vice president of the National Federation of Republican Women’s clubs, of Berkeley, has been the guest of, Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Cassidy for a few days. She left Tuesday for her home. ‘Mrs. Williamson recently returned from Washington, D. C., and stated while here that she found friends of the late Congressman Harry L. Englebright, were giving enthusiastic support to the candidacy of Mrs.

presifew articles’ of clothing were . by neighbors and one of two piec es . of furniture. The estimated loss $8,000. July 22 .—Enlarging j the} Engle also authored the bill to; of the California Council of U.S. TAX BURDEN LOOMS AL LOAD TO POSTERITY By CLEM WHITAKER Tomorrow’s tax bill—<colossal the word for it! And even that doesn’t do justice to it. Everybody knows by this time that total war is expensive, ‘but. the average taxpayer still doesn’t know the half of it. Congressman Engle of Michigan . has related the estimated post-war federal government debt of 300 billions to the general property tax. He has prorated the debt according ios population and compared it with the assessed valution of all taxable property in each of the states. California’s share, on this basis, would be about $15,000,000,000, or nearly two and a half times the assessed value of all réal estate and personal property in the state! When you try to break the figures down and decide on any practical means of retiring this staggering indebtedness, the result is anything but encouraging. Glenn W. Willaman, secretary of the California State Real Estate Association, whose organization always has been militant in its defense of the common property taxpayer, has done some figuring on the problem—-and ‘here’s what Mr. Willpata comes up with: is . “The current rate on long-term 4 . government bonds, the lowest in history, is about 2 1-2 per cent. Suppose we had to raise just the inter-. igs est on our per capita share of the . ployed, and an increase of 568. per} federal debt by a general property ltax. The tax rate for such a levy,} applied throughout California, would ibe at least $3.00 on each $100 of valuation. “This burden, for it covers only ithe interest costs, would have to be in perpetuity. vide for no reduction of the principal. If it were undertaken to pay off the debt in half a century (as well as the interest), an initial rate lof at least $12,00 per $100 would be required, and an average rate over the 50 years of about $11.10.” It is tragic enough that the nation should have to shoulder such a tremendous burden to protect its liberty— and to fight off those who would enslave the world. But more tragic is the acknowledged but little lowed indebtedness which will plague every present day American as long as he lives, was contracted long before the war to pay for the ilong list of economic follies which days j characterized the leaf-raking and dole days of depression. Under the circumstances, the American people, now that their congressmen are home taking a vacation, may want to talk seriously with «their representatives about abolishing the many departments of depression which still carry on—although they have long since outlived their usefulness. The pay off is going to be terrific. And anything that can be done to reduce it needs to be done NOW! TOTTEN HELD TO ANSWER IN ‘ SUPERIOR COURT William Totten, charged with the murder of Harvey McVean was held “to answer in the superior court. yesterday morning at his preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Charles A. Morehouse. Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen, Dr. Carl P. Jones and the defendant’s aunt, Mrs. Mary Field, were called as witnesses. The witnesses were examined by District Attorney Ward Sheldon. Totten has confessed to the shooting both to Larsen and to the district attorney. Mr. and Mrs. Will Davis of Willow Valley have as summer guests their three grandchildren, Evelyn, Bobbie and Warren Welch of Oakland. Bobbie caught a fourteen ‘inch trout early this week in Deer Creek. The children are enjoying swimming in the creek. : Grace Englebright for the office occupied by her husband. This, without regard to party lines. debt . It would pro-. understood fact that much of this! probably . 'HUGE SUM PAID TO CALIFORNIA'S WORKER ARMY SAN FRANCISCO, July 22.—Calia total of $1,473,739,000 to 691,200 age number of persons employed in all industries during the year, and an increase-of-303’ per cent in wages paid, according to studies just completed by the Research Department of the California State Chamber of Commerce. : The extemt to which California is participating in the production of war materials is revealed in the. fact that there was an average of 437,500 workers engaged last year in the metal production’ industries, which include manufacture of machinery, automobiles and transportaton equipment, aircraft, shipbuilding, and other supplies necedsary for the war. These workers were paid a total of $1,079,895,000 in wases during the year. As compared with the base year 1939, this was an increase of 455 per cent in number of workers and 823 per cent in wages paid. ji For the production of all types-of durable goods which include, in addition to the metal products, lumber, furniture, stone, clay, and glass total wages of $1,185,003,000, an average increase over 1939 of 297 ;per cent in number of workers em. . cent in wages paid. In the nondurable goods’ industries which includes food, textiles, paper, chemicals, rubber, leather, land miscellaneous products an av‘erage of 175,600 persons were emlploed during the last year, an increase of 16 per cent over 1939. ‘Wages paid to these employees for. . he year totaled $288,746,000 or ,per cent more than the 1939. total. 52 092 For production of food and allied, products, average employment for’ last year was 85,500 workers who received $135,116,000 in wages. The 1939 in this classification was 19 per cent and the gain in wages was approximately 6'5 per cent. Other non durable industry groups showing substantial gains included rubber™ pro. duets with an increase of 56 per cent n workers and 87 per cent in wages pad; and chemicals and petroleum products which showed a gain of 15 per cent in employees, and 50 per ‘cent in wages paid. 5 Motor vehicle owners of Nevada (City will display -windshield stickers in 1944 as evidence of registration in addition to the license plates now on their cars. According to dispatches received today by the Nugget from the Department of Motor Vehicles in Sacramento, the stickers will have a blue background with a small gold seal of the State of California in the center. Each sticker will be serially numbered. The stickers will be displayed in the lower right hand corner of the shape, taking up a space of about eight square inches. The. stickers were adopted by Director Gordon H. Garland as a means of reducing the cost and of saving precious steel for war purposes. Garland admonished motorists to take good care of the existing license plates on their vehicles in order that they may last all through 1944. The stickers will be made of a translucent ‘material which will prevent injury to or absorption of colors by shatter proof glass. They will be so constructed that it will be impossible to counterfeit them or remove them from the windshields once they are put on. Bids for the pufchase of enough stickers for approximately 2,500,000 vehicles will chasing agent. 437,500 workers were employed forimarked and that two other bridges fornia manufacturing industries on wage earners during 1942. Based on . city specially coloed to Camp Beale the prewar year, 1939, this was an military authorities: This act bridges increase of 143 per cent in the aver-!a slight hyatus in the cordial teleweight to which they are likely to . be. subjected. : During this period of misunder. standing the Camp Beale caravans ‘which regularly use the higher mounithe round ,ecrooked streets of this old mining increase of number of workers over, windshield. They will be oblong in» be called shortly by the state pur-. ‘ing through routes in colors, both te NEVADA CITY AND AND CAMP BEALE RIFT IS GENTLY CLOSED — Edwin C. Uren, city engineer, teday mailed maps of. Nevada City, with the highway route through the tions existing between Nevada City and Camp Beale, according to Uren, resulting from: the use by drivers of heavy mechanized equipment of Nevada City’s Pine streett:1 bridge, which sustains a loadof but three tons with safety. ? Mayor Ben Hall, who.lives near the Pne street bridge, became alarmed not only for. the’ safety of the bridge for the safety of scores of young soldies, on tanks heavy motorized cranes, armored amphibious. tanks and thalf tracks as they moved acoss the bridge in closé order, and . asked the city clerk; Geoge Calanan to write the Camp Beale authorities calling attention to, the danger both to the bridge and to the soldiers. Although the letter was couched in the most friendly — and cordial phrases,, it apparently created some misunderstanding at Camp — Beale, and for several days traffic of Camp Beale armored trains manned by soldiers practically ceased through Ne vada City, despite the fact that the highway through the city is plainly in this route are built to sustain any tains.for practice-purposes, detoured Nevada City, reaching their drill grounds by way of Grass Valley, Colfax and east on Highway No. 40. On trip this involved extra travel of 32 miles. , As a matter of fact the winding,. eamp has often resulteds strange ds it may seem, in the youthful drivers of jeeps and trucks becoming hopelessly lost. But with the maps, showthe Downieville :;and the Tahoe highways, it is believéd that the Camp Beale personnel, will , no longe suffer this embarrassment. RYAN’S BAIL CUT, GETS NEW HABEAS CORPUS WRIT Attorney James Snell, whose motion in the Nevada County superior court to free Ed Ryan, his client, charged with violation of .the Vehicle (Code, in habeas corpus proceedings, was denied July 12th, has obtained a writ: of habeas corpus in the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacra© mento. He states that the hearing on the writ will be held August 30. Justice Annette Adams granted the writ. Ryan is accused of driving an aus tomobile while intoxicated resulting © in -the injury and death of Michael ‘Nevins. On May 2nd he ran off the road en the Auburn highway and plunged into Rattlesnake Creek. His companion Nevins’ died of his injuries the following day. : In the hearing on the ‘writ of habeas corpus beforeJudge George L. Jones in the superor court here, the — judge refused to release the defend-ant, stating that there was soba evidence in the preliminary hearing — before Justice of the Peace Chatles (Morehouse to warrant holding _—. for trial. . Justice Annette “adams rennet: Ryan’s bail from $1000 to $100. — This was deposited Tuesda evening and Ryan is now at. liberty. = ne Mrs. Fannie “Adams and twin grandchildren, -Doralee and Maralee, of Sacramento are enjoying ation until the first of August in the Wesley Davig,jomé. in Willow ° ley. Mrs. Adams is delighted this district. It is her cat, this section. S WHITMORE —Be Nevada County, July Captain and Mere a son.