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““God grants liberty only to those who love it; and are ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster
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COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA
Vol. 19, No. 60
NEVADA CITY
y, CALIFORNIA
‘The County Seat Paper
°:
The Gold Center_
_MONDAY, JULY 30
30, 1945
UNEMPLOYMENT ". FRANCLUSCHEN JOE OKIMOTO. JAPMARINE — STATEFAIR
INSURANCE ACT BROACHES PLAN TAKES ONE LOOK ENSIGN DRESSES BOARD INVITES
CHANGES SEPT. 15. FOR CITY BAND IT’S HIS LAST
UPFORDEATH NEVADA COUNTY
THINKING OUT
LOUD
By H.™M. L.
This boils down to a matter of
loyalties. California has been loyal to
SACRAMENTO, July
30 — The
France Luschen, music director of
(California
Department’
of
Employ-. the Nevada City High School, at the
Senator Hiram W. Johnson since he
was elected governor of: California ment today was preparing to put luncheon meeting of the Nevada City
“Joe
Okimoto’’
looking—two
rounds
later
was
looking,
minutes
and
he
was
nia
Unemployment
Insurance
Act
come United States Senator.He has voted -by the 1945 legislature
been our senator since 1917. Califorapproved by Governor Warren.
get
behind
the
organization
of
a
ani)municipal band, which might afford
see,
but
not
tell
‘Marine Corps Air Depot, Miramar,.
Like many another veteran,
109 . calif. July 80— A Marine fighter. California State Fair,. which ekato
looking at
in 1910. He served as governor for into effect provisions of the CaliforRotary Club suggested that the club ancestors. He -was the first
seven years and then resigned to be
just
about,
his pilot has returned to’
the
United . war on December 8, 1941, is beginto States who saw a Japanese in dress. ning to look forward to its honorable
navy’s blue uniform, bedecked with medals,. discharge. Since Pearl Harbor the
Jap
the
new Corsair plane. First Lieut. Dougchash his plane onto the flight deck! grounds
and buildings have been
Pioneers las M. West, USMC, Excelsior, Minn. of the USS Intrepid, off Okinawa, . used by the army as a great military
Park on summer evenings.
shot him down in the short space of . April 18,
nia has been Joyal to him all those
storage depot.
This announcement was made hy
35 years.
two minutes ang with the expendit{
Looking forward to X day when
James G. Bryant, chairman of the
Luschen said that he would be
Sheet einiene’
ure of 100 rounds from the Corsair’s
Second Lieut. Harry G. Henne;/. the army releases the fair grounds,
California Employment Stabilization willing to conduct a band if suffiesix 50 calibers.
:
berger, USMC, 21, recalled that he! the board of directors of the State
But has Senator Johnson been loy‘Commission, who said the law as ient talent was enlisted to earry all
Agricultural Society this week sent
al to us? We think entphatically he amended by the legislature has been. the instrumental parts. He said. that
Earlier versions of the gull wingwas standing in a gun mount when!
residents
fine concerts
in
greatly improved, and as a result, some of his pupils in
will
be more effective in cushioning might prove available
time rolls on we find Senator Johnthe
shock
expected when hundreds musicians enrolled.
son representing himself only\\in the
tthe
hag not been. More and& more, as
of thousands of workers shift
United States Senate. He long Since
ag
schools
adele.
ed to action—took the blow.
my airmen, but ths new version really ‘knocks ’em’’. The plane is a com
from
a letter’ to Frank J. Rowe, chairman
the carrier—which hlas since return
ed Corsair, were well known to ene
“T
posite improved«model of all the ear
watched
the
fanatical
of the Nevada County board of supervisors, inviting the board to start
Jap,— planning now far the county’s parti
‘Luschen is a skillful celloist and
cipation in the first post war fair.
has ceased to represent the people
of war to peace time occupations.
lier Corsairs. Its four bladed propelflying 30 feet off the water—mirac-.
pianist. He formerly was a member
ulously escape our ack ack fire,”.
©The military situation is developiMost
of
the
new
provisions
of
the
California. In fact we believe that due
ler, driven by a 2,100 horse power
of the Hollywood Bowl and the Los
law
affecting
employer
and
worker
Henneberger éaid: . ins to the point,’
ithe
invitation
Pratt-Whitney radial engine, measSecond . Lieut.
to habit the strongest instinct, both
“Like a magnet he
kept
coming . States, “where the directors of the
g0\into effect: Seutemlber 15, Bryant Angeles Philharmonic: Orchestra.
sures 13 feet two inches from tip to
among animals and men, we have re
turned
him
senate.
It
every
six
has betcome
years
a
to
said}and as a result the Department
the
is
pernicious
making necessary changes
ministration which
halbit.
will
in
ad
carry
out
the full intent of the legislative action.
We do not believe Senator John
The one exception; he pointed out;
son’s disability, that of representing
is
himself only in the senate, has any
the
abe
which
covers
em
‘Pployees in'smaller employing. units.
thought .
This Manes covering workers in esand voted the same way fhen he was .
tablishments hiring one or more per
thing
to
with
his
age.
He
FIRE PREVENTION
COMMITTEE TO
MFET TOMORROW
straight at us. Although thegunners. State Agricultural Society a mak
tip and literally “chews holes in the
sky’ in flight. It has tremendous
speed
and
maneuverability
and
tried
communications system currently
in
pilots
who
were
stop
him,
he
ing
. low
aerial use, with its “push button”
receiving and transmitting sets.
Leatherneck
to
for the resumption of
“The
swecess of
the
California
: State Fair is largely dependent upon
“The Jap could not have crashed . exhibits from each of the individual
‘his plane at
the . as a
a more opportune time! counties
and
cities
comprising
the
number of parked planes were; state of California; within each coun
first to fly the new Corsair describe . either destroyed or damaged beyond ty displays the products and the re
25 years younger. He, with Senator s .
The Grass ValleytNevada City Red it as “one of the most powerful sin. immediate use. I was knocked down)
sons where formerly only employers
Lodge and
Borah,
strangled
the.
iCross
FirePrevention
Committee . gle seated fighters in the world.’’. . Dy the blast but escaped injury.
. hiring four or more paid the tax, is
League of Nations. We don’t say the)
provision
plunged onto the flight deck, erash-. the vanes State Pair as soon as
ing through to the hangar deck be-. Practicable.
the
radio equipment is the most modern
desperately
sources
from
which
it
receives
its
revenue.”
which jis working closely with Tahoe} Ranking marine officers feel cer tain . \
.
There was no indication from the
° “Nothing was recovered but. his
national orfest,
headquarters,
will that their new Corsairs are capahte:
board
as to when the next fair will
the .
. torso, but it could be plainly seen .
the world at peace, but we do say}
of decimating enemy _ aircraft
. be held. However, the recent appointLf;
smaHer employing units must start] hold a meeting the Red Cross chapter
that. he planned his last flight in.
. house
that it would have been worth trythere Tuesday evening,
July, when, and wherever more “Joe Oki;ment of F. M. Sandusky who was in
withholding
the
worker
eontribu-j;
i
typical
Japanese tradition. He wore
ing. It was a gallant adventure de-.
motos”
appear.
31st.
eharge of exhibits and concessions
.
; tion and be prepared to pay both
. dress blue uniform, bedecked with
nied the people of this country by!
j.at both the San Francisco
. Golden
their own and the worker contribuThe new Corsair is in ‘the 425 mile . medals. and apparently was a navy
The committee, headed by Fire}
three
partisan
senators exercising
. Gate International Exposition and
tion three months later. Although the Chief Clare Hughes, is conducting a .
an; hour class;. climb has been inUehaes
and voted the samé way when he was!
the California International Exposi. Prax eons of the law are not effect. campaign of education and informa-'! creased almost.1000
feet a minute’!
ttry desperately needed stetesman-,.
Second Lieut. Henneberger, son of tiotr’in San Diego, as manager of the
ive until January 1, Bryant said pre-! tion
con-. and ceiling has been upped enough .
throughout the county.
oe
ae
.
ship.
Mr. and«wMrs. H. C. Henneberger ‘o a eat fair, indicates they already are
‘paratory work, such as registering . cerning methods and systems of Dfe-. so that the new Corsair
will have an
11208 Weldon Avenue Baltimire, was. Preparing many new features for the
/nearly-100,000 of these smaller units! venting fires.
altitude advantage over high flying .
Johnson is the only survivor of the
one of six Marine pilots to return to} Dext fair. _
mailing
informational ° material to .
.
land based Jap aircraft. “Fhey will. .
three men who did their utmost to
Lambert Thomas of Nevada City \become
the United: States after the Intrepid
:
them, and advising them how to fill!
an important part of increasbring us to World War II. His part}
was damaged.
Jap Death Toll in
j out contribution forms, as well as to . and Rev. Frank Buck of Grass Val-' ed fighter complement of earriers.
was an ignoble and bigoted share in
Marianas 52,000
. explain the purposes of the law, will . ley have circulated the two communeffective January
League of Nations would have kept;
On
that
date,
1,
1946.
employers
in
The F4U-1. The most noticeable
a political cable to break President
“Second Lieut. Henneberger, a 1942
ities with posters pamphlets and lit. start immediately.
.
Wilson, and to restore the ‘Republic-)
difference is in the four bladed Hamgraduate of Baltimore’s, Maryland,
.
Between 150,000
and
200,000 erature. Other active members of the’
an party to power. The Republican
ilton Standard Hydromatiec propeller Polytechnic Institute: who won. his
pmer kere will be covered by unemcommittee are Rev. Cedric Porter,
whilch replaces the three bladed modwings at Pensacola, Florida, in Febparty was restored to power for 12
French,
Arthur Voboom,
ployment nsurance as a result of the ‘William
el used in the earlier Corsair. Ground ruary 1943, saw the plane crash only
years, but the world went to pot. .
Juliana Weaver, Jean Davis, Quinn
. law signed by Governor Warren.
4crewmen are high in their prais@ of 50 feet from him, but hewas not the
“The Republican party gave the Dem-}
.
Exemptions of certain small, nonBonebrake and Vera eas
ocratic opposition a chance to build
the F4U-4's engine which is a Pratt only one of the. six pilots! to have
. profit organizations were repealed, .
up the biggest and most wastfeul.
and Whitney double wasp 2800 c close calls during ‘their experiences
political regime in all history. It was
®
y‘
POISON SOUIRREL
;60 that after September 15, the act
. will apply to these organizations and
so far out of line with the tradition
employees working therein will be
of democracy that it called itself the
;able to participate in the benefits of
New Deal, as: though 130 million Am_. unemployment insurance. The
or-]
ericans were sitting down to poker
. ganizations include small chambers
game, in whitch every
player
was
i commerce, and similar nonprofit
promised a good hand and at least!
. associations and corporations. Howone: jackpot during the progress of .
ever, organizations operated exclusthe game. We have had twelve years
County Agricultural Commissioner
ively for religious, charitable. and
of the-Great Illusion,
L. E. Lageson states he has a darge
educational purposes, will continue}
amount of’ poison squirrel ‘bait on
Responsible for this regime are reto be exempt.
hand for the use of farmers who
Another amendment reduced the
actionary Republicans
everywhere,
wish to set rid of these rodent pests.
fbut none more so than the once prowaiting period for unemployment inThe ‘bait is purchased by the coungressive ggovernor of California, a surance from two weeks to one week. ; ty and poison mixed in it “by Lage‘Bull Moose, who became a reactionThis amendment too is effective Sep-. son. Last year. 35,000 acres, mostly
ary, and whose voice has only been tember 15, after which unemployed in the western section of the county,
raised to demand that the clock be individuals otherwise qualified will was ‘treated with squirrel poison with
stopped and that the sun stand still. receive insurance. after serving only notably good results.
The . poison
It never occurs to the venerable senone week of uncompensated waiting mixture will be available to ranchator that the world once flat, is now period instead of two.
ers at Lageson’s office in the court
The legislature also modified disround, and that the .earth once divhouse, daily between 8:30 and 10
ided. by huge oceans is now divided qualifications for benefits under an
BAITREADY FOR
FARMERS
only by a brief time interval. Senamendment
ator Johnson lives in the dead past.
which
has
disqualifica
tions similar to the so-called GI Bill
His voice comes from the bottom of of. Rights on Veterans Allowances.
a well to which he retired a quarter With these new provisions effective
Sem:
rated at 2.00 horsepower and_ this ‘in
power can be substaninally increased
century ago.
He belongs
in
A.
C.
Kennedy
has
had
as
for
re-election
next year.
her sons, Lieut.
This is a
two
children,
and
Mrs.
George
Voluntarily quitting a job without Thompson, of Lake County:and Bey
according to figures re—
Headquarters
in
Guam;
of
these, 14,000 were killed during the
mopping
up operations after the ‘isLargest number of casualties were
Okinawa
on
ed
the
northern
coast
Saipan,
of. 2453
taken
with
27,000
prisoner.
On
killed and
Guam
18,
intto
increased
speed, climb, and
z
an
“«
~1these ships opened, up, but the ene-/en prisoner.
coin: pidge of the tour Mares aN my plane continued on his course.
Of the total number dead, 37,917
ee of ae Damn Dents me ie * So did Ist Lieut. Krum’s plane—. were killed
before the islands were
So
teey with which her the
close
HSS NAVARRO
HAS SHORT BUT
EXCITING CAREER
POU and ¥4U4 are well supplied.
Built
in
the
Richmond,
and
Kaiser
ship yards
commissioned
behind
the
Japs.
A
hundred! secured.
brought down the enemy.
in
14,000
have
been
. Guam on 937 on Tinian.
The next day this same pilot bagged
two Jap planes.
Second Lieut. Taylor
once
shot
Miss Dérothy Thompson
to Marry David Moore
Mrs. John Huber of Gold Flat, ad
down two planes and shared a third . joining Nevada City, has announce
d
with another American pilot in one!ithe ‘bethrothal of her daughter
Miss
action.
at
last
her short life. The Navarro originally designed as a motor cargo vessel,
operation
Nearly
feet above the
water(
streaking; killed since the islands have been
through the flak, the American pilot . secured—56 42 on .Saipan, 7353 on
a
ator Johnson will not be a candidate without good cause.
vanced
“It all happened so quickly that
it seemed almost automatic,’’ he said.
His Corsair was not toched.
GUESTS OF MRS. A. C. KENNEDY ‘Navarro has seen alot of action in
‘Mrs.
killed
April 11 when a Jap. 000 were dead and 1071 prisoners of
new Corsair, so nearaly all the addplane dived’ on
four American des-;war, and on Tinian. smallest of the
ed porgie vor has been transformtroyers. The eniiaineratt batteries of. three, 7000 were
killed and 851 tak
‘November, the attack transport, USS
guests recently
were.
leased ‘by the U. S. Pacific Fleet Ad
on
little werent
(jg)
September 15, claimants may be disReginald Kennédy, and Oliver A. landed more.than a thousand Marinmuseum with the spinning wheel and qualified-for from two to. five weeks Kennedy, torpedo mate Ist class, es and navy men on Blue Beach, Okdepending upon the case, for any of Donald C. Miller, grandson; from the jinawa just four months after comthe buggy.
x
4
the following reasons:
(College of the Pacific, also in the missioning comipleting her. part -in
Refusal of suitable employment navy, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Brown and the toughest and largest amphibious
It is good news, if true, that Sen
of a
campaigns,
First Lieut. Krumm was flying his
off
to the
Japs
lands were secured.
Corsair
added
52,000
the Pacific.
by the use of water injection#ATery
:
5
has been
(Nearly
during the Saipan, Guam .and. Tinian
CPL. ROBT. DAVIES
LEYTEVETERAN—
the Pacific war
Dorothy Thompson, to David Moore
of Grass Valley.
(‘Miss Thompson graduated from
the Grass Valley High
School
in
1944 and from Mount St.
Mary’s
Business School in
the
following
June. She“is employed in a Grass
Valley real estate office.
Moore graduated from the Grass
Valley High School in 1942 and has
been manager of the Allison Ranch
Dairy. The couple expect to be married this fall.
Twenty eight landing craft of var
many ie SUCCUMBS
erly Pechinino of Watsonville. They ious types and sizes,
Gridley ‘Max
Man Hurt
Dismissal from a job for misconwere week end guests.
likely to turn out to be true. We the
and hundreds of tons of mmunition :
News was received here Saturday
When
Tire
Exnlodes
supplies, rations, medical equipmen tlof the death of Cpl. Robert Eugene
people need to be represented in the duct.
Harry Young whose wife complain‘without
good
cause,
he
could
be
disMaking
a
false
statement,
or
wilseniate. We need a vigorous and forand other gear were also unloaded a t . Davies Wednesday following severof Gridley, was
treated at a Grass
information
in qualified or two weeks only. Howthe beachhead by
ward looking Republican on the jod. fully withholding
crew
members, al.months of illness due to malaria Valley hospital Tuesday
evening for
Sheridan Downey, with his finger) connection with filing an insurance ever, he could be disqualified for as whose skipper is Commander.-Fred E.
eqntracted in the South Seas. He was, Peace George Gildersleeve Friday,
much as six weeks if his unemployAngrick, USNR, of 115 Ulloa Street,
‘
wetted for every breeze, alone reclaim,
rumor to be sure, but this time, it is
good cause.
among the first troops, units of the
Principal change in the disqualifiment resulted from discharge for San Francisco. Important among the
flects no credit, let alone splendor
U.S. Army Engineers to land on LeyRepeating cations in the law is revision of the misconduct. Under the old law, the figkterS landed on the beach wae a
ion the Golden’
State. »
te. A weakenedheart condition was
of
suitable
employment maximum disqualification for .mak‘platoon of marine corps war dogs.
an old saying, we need a man to. refusal.
the
immediate causg of deah. He had
match our mountains, And we need clause. The state supreme court ruling false or misleading statements
The Navarro hasn’t even a scratch
been a patient for several months in
was
four
weeks.
him just as soon as we can get him. ed some time ago that if a worker reto show for her hazardous part in
the Birmingham Army Hospital at
Some thirty bills
were
passed the Okinawa campaign, although on
fused suitable-employment, it would
Funeral Services for
Ronald Andrews
ibe necessary for him to build up ad
which
made
technical
and
proced
€. Van Nuys, Log Angeles County.
crew member was injured by a shell
Opl. Davies was born in Forest,
ditional earnings before he could ural changes in the alet. These changfragment. So effective were screenSierra County, 35 years ago. He leavFuneral sereises were held Fridraw insurance. Under ‘terms of the es will facilitate collection of delining and air cover that the gun crews
es his wife, Mrs. Pauline Davies,
employers,
will of the vessel were required to fir
day afternoon in the Holmes Funerliberalized act, this will be unnecesquent taxes from
e
Lone Pine, Inyo County, sisters, Miss
provide more clear
alHome
for
Ronald.
Andrews,
12,
sary, and after serving the disquali
cut and conven
at enemy craft only on three occas
Mary Davies, of Nevada City, Miss
may .be ient procedures for handling dis-. sions.
who died Tuesday in Richmond, Confication period, the worker’
Veronica Davies.of Sacramento, Mrs.
The ship was named for Navarr
tra Costa County. Rev. Cedric Portpaid insurance regardless of whethputes on assessments and tax rates,
°. McMichael and Mrs. George Harserroneous benefit County, Texas.
er conducted the service. Interment er he has worked in the meantime. for recovery of
when the front tire of his motorcycle exploded. He was rendered unconscious.
The accident happened at the turn
in Highway 49. near LeBarr Mea-doms. Evans was pitched onto his
head and skidded on his head and ~
chest. He was brought to Grass Valley by ambulance. As soon as his
lacerations were stitched, he insisted on continuing his. trip, but promised to return-for a check-up later. —
PIONIC IN PIONEER PARK
The Welcome
Strangers
Bible
City, and
Additional
disqualifications
not ‘payments, and will correct a number
was in the Pine Grove Cemetery.
Class
Friday evening held a picnic
brothers, Cpl. Robert Davies of the
‘Leland Smith, Jr., RT 2-c who is
The boy was born in this city and exceeding eight weeks may be imof technical defects in the law.
U. S. Army, stationed at Fort Ord, in Pioneers Park in the grove of
Two bills were enacted which will stationed at San Bruno, Calif. visite2d
until his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Malposed in cases of successive disqualpines and cedars on Little Dee
Richard Davies of Sierraville, ‘Sierra
colm Andrews removed to \ Richifications. These new provisoins reassure payment of insurance to the} his parents over the week end. He
Creek. Members brought their
County and Gerald Davies of Lodi.
mond two years ago, had lived here. place varied and inconsistent proclaimants in cases where claims have; ‘was accompanied by a friend
R. ©.
suppers and dishes, but coffee
He was the grandson of Mrs, Leila visions in the act, Bryantysaid. Prebeen allowed, but are being contestPlunkett R. T. 1-c whose native stat e
Funeral services will take place the desert were provided
by
viously when a worker quit his job ed by appeals filed by employers.
Harry of Commercial Street.
is New York,
in Van Nuys.
Methodist Church,
2.5
}
barger, both of Nevada
: