July 8, 1940 (4 pages)

Thinking Out . Loud By H. M. L. Jr. { Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget . . with zood ifiable ends. from the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press: consists the right to publish the Truth, motives and for just—Alexander HamilThis column is written by a substitute writer. So those of you who are settling down in comfortable chairs. about—to-enjoy—the—philosophy of the editor you know so well-can unsettle yourselves right now and prepare for the lesser mental reactions of a more recent edition of the same mind. The ‘writer has come home to Nevada City for a few days as so many have recently done on the Fourth. The savor and tang of the mountain air stir the memories of all the good one time residents of the city. Thoughts of the past enjoyments of the calm pace of life in this small and closely knit community, are tinged too often with thoughts-of remorse. at the-infrequency with which we are able to come and. enjoy the pleasures of the mountains. The golden sun in azure skl flooding the forest with light is a dynamic contrast to the grey life in clanging rushing cities. We wish we could some home more often, Nevada City, calmly busy now in a setting of rural peace, remembers a history as booming and surging as any epic of the west can be. The growth of the town from a mere location described as being Dr. Caldwell’s Upper. Store on Deer Creek to the minute modern metropolis whose present spirit is symbolized by the stark white court house shooting up from wu placid hill like a frozen white architectural blitzkrieg, is truly an epic. The colorful and exciting history of the town is a match for any in the Sierra Nevadas. Placerville, Angels Camp, Jackson, none of these has a more fascinating history than Nevada City. Senator George Hearst, Senator from ‘Nevada William Morris Stewart, Aaron Sargent, dauntless editor, Niles Searls, pillar of the early California Supreme _ Court, these famous men of the west got their first footholds during the boom days of forty-nine, fifty, and fifty-one, here in Nevada _ City. Hearst and Stewart went on to fight for the spoils of the Comstock Lode. Both became senators, Hearst from California, and Stewart the first to get to Washington from Nevada. Both made fabulous fortunes. Aaron Sargent, was long political leader of this part of the state then with the San Juan Ridge, the third most influential. center of population. Niles Searls became one of the leading western jurists. Searls and William Morris Stewart, through an odd quirk of fate, were the last to see Lincoln before he drove with Mary Lincoln to Ford’s Theatre on that fatal night. The incident is not well known but appears in Stewart’s Reminiscences, published in a small edition long ago, a book that contained many interesting aqnecdotes about ‘the boom days in Nevada City. Niles Searls was on a trip to Washington, and-had cleared up his business affairs, but one thing remained—-he wanted to see and talk to President Lincoln before he departed for the West. Senator William Stewart knew Lincoln very well and agreed to arrange an interview. Together Searls and Stewart went to the White House where they found Lincoln in a rush. of business, too busy to see them, but genial enough to invite them to return in the evening. They came back that night to find that President and Mrs. Lincoln were on the point of leaving for Ford’s Theatre. Never bashful, Senator Stewart, seeing a carriage waiting for the President stopped to introduce his friend Searls,.As the President got into the carriage Stewart spoke to Lincoln, introducing Searls. The great president exchanged a word or two with the western jurist. Thus two famous men who had deep roots: in this community of ours from their experience: and life here, figured in an incident-of the evening that was to ring of tragedy through the years. There is a wealth of color and excitement in the history of such men as Stewart, Searls and their robust contemporaries of the period, in Nevada City. The history of the boom times is a riot of robust action, an epic lying fallow in musty books. It is a fast moving history’ that ought to be the personal property of everyone who can claim Nevada City and its Argonaut past as their own. — fete (Continued on Page Two) Vol: 14. No. 54. The County Seat Paper . NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA,The Gold Center MONDAY, JULY 8, 1940. THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS AT CITY’S FOURTH Nevada City’s Fourth of July celebration is history but the recollection of the joyous and successful fete will long linger in the memories of the’ thousands of persons. who came from far and near to observe the nation’s birthday. The parades, both the torchlight of the night of the 8rd and the procession of the morning of the 4th, the j literary program, the soap box derby, the air show and the sporting events, the rodeo, all were voted a big success. Thousands lined the streets to witness .the patriotic parade, in which approximately 60 units took part. Some of the outstanding floats and divisions included the Goddess of Liberty Gertrude Wllde, Miss Columbia Catherine Tognaelli, the Native Sons float, in which Elza Kilroy portrayed George Washington and R. L. Bigelow Uncle Sam, and the sheriff's posse, consisting of a group of 20 deputy sheriffs, led by Sheriff Carl Tobiassen mounted on horses and 20 others walking. Dr. Walter Hawkins was the grand marshall. Many of the Grass Valley business firms as well as civic and fraternal organizations had floats in the pdrade. Council Frank Davies, chairman of the parade committee, was assisted by Harry Poole of Grass. Valley in getting the parade’ under way. The soap box derby was won by Donald Dougherty, with Lauren Moody taking second place. The-air show at the Nevada City airport and an exhibition by the Columbia Park boys received enthusiastic acclaim. Dick Ryan’s Wild West Show and Thrill Circus at Pioneer Park = attracted approximately 2000 persons. At the literary program, held on the dance platform constructed on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company lot on Coyote Street, Justice-of the Peace: George Gildersleeve delivered an address on the flag. A Bear flag was presented to the Nevada County Superior Court by the Native Sons Lodge and a United States Flag presented by the Nevada City Elks. The flags were accepted for the superior court by Chairman Cary. Arbogast of the Board-of Supervsors. Superior Judge George L. Jones made the arrangements for the literary program. : The celebration acted as an incentive for the return to Nevada City of scores of former residents. FAMILY OF 12 UPSET IN CAR AND TRAILER -One member of a family of 12 was injured Friday night when an automobile aud trailer got out of control going down Bear Valley grade and crashed into the bank. : The car, containing 10 children, five of then under six years of age, and the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willjam King, narrowly missed going into the steep canyon, which would probably meant death for all of them, Highway Patrolman Carl _ Kitts brought James King, 14, into Nevada City for treatment of severe cuts and bruises. Both the automobile and the trailer turned over, throwing bedding, household goods and_ foodstuffs all over the highway and the mountainside. When Officer Kitts arrived he found Mrs. King making biscuits over an open fire while the father and Charles King, 18 ,oldest of the children, attempted to restore order to the confusion. NOBODY CARES T0 RUN AGAINST ENGLEBRIGHT Congressman Harry L. Englebright of Nevada City is the only member of the house of representatives from California who has no opposition in the August primary. Congressman Englebright, who is ‘the Republican whip in the house, filed on the Democratic, Republican, Townsend and Progressive tickets. . Englebright’s district comprises 18 counties in California and is one of the largest in the United States: RANCHER TO FACE TRIAL FOR ASSAULT . court . here for William Cole, Wolf district . The trial in thesuperior rancher, charged with assault wich a deadly weapon with intent. to commit murder, has been set by Superior Judge George L. Jones for July 18. Cole pleaded not guilty to the charge when arraigned Friday. He was represented by Attorney. Frank ‘Finnegan of this city -The rancher is accused of shooting Albert Rodda in a dispute involving the use ofa gate on the Rodda ranch property. Rodda was able to leave the Landis-Lang Clinic in Grass Valley Friday, after being hospitalized for two weeks recovering from the bullet wound from the .22 caliber rifle reportedly wielded by Cole. CHIEF ROBSON RESIGNS POST T0 RESTORE PEACE The Nevada City city council will meet Wednesday night to name a successor for Chief of Police W. G. Robson, who resigned last Friday night: after completing his seventh year as head of the local police department. ~The resignation of Robson was accepted unanimously by the council. Chief Robson submitted both verbal and written resignations. In resigning verbally he said he was taking such action because ‘‘for sometime it has been a well known fact the head of the police has not had the full cooperation of the council.” He said he believed it was for the best interests of the council and the police department to eliminate the contention existing between some of the councilmen and the head of the police and therefare he was tendering his resignation. : Max Solaro, city fireman and Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen were mentioned at the meeting as successors to Robson. Councilman Frank Davies and Dr. John Ivey expressed the opinion ‘Solaro, although he probably would make a good chief of police, is more valuable to the city in the position he ‘now holds. Solaro said he would accept the job if he could remain in the living quarters at the city hall. He said he could handle the night fire department calls but it would be necessary for the council and fire delegates to select. a fireman for day work. Mayor Benjamin Hall and Councilman Robert Nye expressed themselves at the meeting in the selection of Solaro as favor of Robson’s successor. ‘Robson's written resignation to the council follows: sJuly 5th 1940. To the Honorable Mayor and City ‘Council. Gentlemen: ‘As I have recently completed my seventh year of serving your city as its chief of police, during that period there has been several changes in councilmen. : Seemingly some members of the present council are dissatisfied with the administration policie of the police department, and have voiced the same among the citizens of our city. Notwithstanding the fact that the duties of the office have grown with the increase of our population, with out the cooperation of the entire board, office administration becomes more difficult. With the above comments, I herewith tender my resignation to become effective at the earliest possible moment. In doing so Mr. Mayor, I wish, to thank you for your hearty cooperdation and support, and it has been a pleasure to work for and with you, during the past years. Submitted, “W. G. ROBSON. SECL’S CIGARETTES TO BOYS, FINED $25 conhere Riley, operator of a cession booth at the carnival for the July Fourth celebration, was sentenced to 80 days in jail or pay a $25 fine Saturday on a charge of supplying cigarettes to minors. The sentence was imposed by Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve. Riley was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Fred Williford for giving cigarettes and boxes of matches to minors when they knocked the articles over with a popgun. rank S. F, Visitor— 5 Lorraine Dolan of San Francisco visited family members here during the Fourth of July holiday. CARS COLLIDE ON TOWN TALK Albert Krasevac, 29, and Miss Evelyn Gliko, 22, both of Grass Valley, were injured in a collision at Town Talk early Friday morning between machines operated by Krasevac and James Handy, 24, of Browns, Valley. Handy escaped unhurt. Krasevac and Miss Gliko sustained severe cuts and bruises. RECKLESS WOMAN DRIVER FINED Arlene Lundy, 28, waitress: from Southern California, on her vacation in Nevada County, was fined and Placed under a suspended jail sentence by City Judge Miles Coughlin when she pleaded guilty of reckless driving here last Wednesday. Due to faulty brakes, a car she had just purchased got out of control and knocked an awning post down at North Pine and Commercial streets last Tuesday. The post struck and injured Mrs, Martin VanBerg, Miss Lundy’s car continued down the Street, striking an automobile owned by Samuel D, McWilliams of Vallejo. McWilliams’ car, propelled by the force of the collision, crashed into a machine owned by Floyd BE. Wells of the Peardale district. Judge Coughlin fined Miss Lundy $100, half of which was suspended On condition she pay for the expense of treating the injuries to Mrs. VanBerg. ‘A thirty day jail sentence was suspended. MRS. OLIVER OF NEVADA CITY IS CALLED TO REST Final rites:will be held at 2 o’clock tomorrow. afternoon at the HooperWeaver Mortuary, Inc., in Grass Valley for Mrs. Sophie Oliver, 69, of Nevada City, who died in the Miners Hospital Saturday after a long illness. Mrs, Oliver was the widow of Thomas Oliver, former local constable, Rev. Herschel Fravel of the Grass Valley Congregatioal Church will conduct the funeral services for the esteemed .Nevada City matron, who was born in Gold Flat and lived her entire life in this district. Mrs. Oliver was extremely active in the Laurel Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West of Nevada City and succeeded in interesting her . ’ daughters and granddaughters in joining the lodge. At the time of her death three of her daughters and three granddaughters were: members of Laurel Parlor. : Since the death of her husband approximately two years ago, Mrs. Oliyer has been in semi-retirement and for several months past has been in ill health. The deceased leaves four daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Bolton of Nevada City, Mrs. Eunice Cobeldick of.Grass Valley, Mrs. ‘Phyllis Katzer and Mrs. Ruth Sinnock of Colfax. James Rosewall of Oakland is a brother. The body of Mrs, Oliver will. be interred in the Nevada City Odd Fellows Cemetery. COVERED WAGON PIONEER PASSES Funeral services were held Saturday for Mrs, Mary Gregory Whiting, 93, of Grass Valley, who came across the plains with her parents in 1860, first settling in Nevada City. Mrs. Whiting died at the: home of . her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Kingham, in Grass Valley. The services were held at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary, Inc, Mrs. Whiting’s activities in the Hastern Star Lodge made her Many friends in Nevada City. , MILLWRIGHT IS VISITOR Walter Merrigan, former: Nevada City contractor and millwright, and now field superintendent for the O. Scherer Company, general engineering contractors, visited with his family here during the . Fourth . of July holiday, Merrigan announced he recently completed work on the new Densmore mill near Angels Camp for the Crosby-Keanne interests of Alaska, Brother Accused of . . Jerry Wear % Siete Slaying PARK BOARD IS NOW OVERBOARD The city council abolished the park} commission at Friday night’s meet-. ing; naming Councilman Robert Nye, . and Dr. John Ivey to handle the park affairs. The action was taken by the council because of the difficulty in obtaining permanent members for the park commission. Chairman Tony Rore and Secre-. tary Fred Garrison were the latest to submit resignations. City Water Collector Samuel Hoop-. er, who had been working on a tem-! porary basis, was given a permanent appointment by the council, which expressed satisfaction of Hooper’s work since he succeeded R. L. Bigelow several months ago. ——Tire council renamed. the Lower Grass Valley Road Searls Avenue in honor of the prominent pioneer Nevada City family. (Continued--on-Page Twe) FUNERAL SERVICE FOR TED HOWARD Private funeral services were held in the Holmes. Funeral. Home in Grass Valley last week for Ronald (Ted), Howard 32, Nevada City native who died in i Fairfied of injuries suffered in a fall from a train near Elmira. Interment was in the Elm Ridge Cemetery. Howard had lived in Grass Valley and Nevada City practically his entime life. About a year ago he moved to Sacramento, where he was employed. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Leona Howard of Grass Valley, his father Frank Howard of Fresno; two sisters, Mrs. Peggy Hogan of Sacramento and Mrs. Elaine Haago of Grass Valley and three brothers, Kenneth Howard of New York, Allen Howard of San Francisco and Ray Howard of Grass Valley. UNCLE DROWNS IN ATTEMPT TO ‘SAVE NEPHEW Andrew J. Finnegan, 54, Sacramento city employe, who drowned in the Boca reservoir, near Truckee on the Fourth of July, is an uncle of Frank Finnegan, Nevada City attorney. Finnegan drowned during an unsuccessful attempt to save the life of Laurence Kearney, 7, a nephew, who had stepped into a deep hole while wading. The Reno Fire Department rushed a pulmotor to Boca but efforts to revive the pair were unsuccessful. The boy is a cousin of Attorney Finnegan. The tragedy occurred only three mies from.'Finnegan’s birthplace. A member of a pioneer Nevada County family, Finnegan was born at. Martis Creek, where his father, the late Jus.tice of the Peace Francis Finnegan, was employed in a sawmill. The funeral services were to be held in Sacramento today. Attorney Finnegan and others from here left early today to attend the services. TWELVE ACRES BURN IN WILLOW VALLEY A brush fire, believed to have been started either intentionally or by a discarded cigarette, burned over 12 acres in the Willow Valley district before it was brought under control last night by combined crews of the Scotts Flat dam workers, State Division of Forestry and Tahoe National Forest. E Lawrence Gallez of Grass Valley, ‘member of the state’s Shady Creek fire fighting crew, suffered arm burns when he fell into the fire while attempting to avoid the flames. The fire burned to the ~ TahoeUkiah highway from its start on the banks of the Snow Mountain Ditch. It was. stopped at the highway with] the use of tank trucks of the State Robert Wear, 56, is held in the Nevada County Jail on suspicion of” . fratiricide while authorities continue their investigation into the death a week ago of his brothe, Jerry Wear, in the Nevdaa County Hospial. The arrest of Robert followed the exhuming of the body of his brother. An autopsy by Dr. Harry’ Benteen . showed he had died of a fracture «f . the . the result of alcoholism, as. attaches skull instead of meningitis as at the county hospital had believed. The exhumation and subsequent . arrest of the brother was made after . County W. W. Reed reJerry had been Physician ceived information . struck on the head with a jug by his ' brother. The information came from.a woman, whose name has been withheld by the officers. The woman purportedly was an eyewitness to a quarrel between the brothers-on June 10, while Robert was enroute to a spring for water, carrying two half gallon jugs. The woman told the officers during the argument Robert struck his brother on the head with one of the jugs. Jerry was taken to the hospital on June 15, five days after the asserted attack. Officers said he had apparently been wandering in a dazed condition for five days. Robert denies having struck his brother. In a statement issued to District Attorney Vernon Stoll and Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen he said his brother while running down hill accidentally struck his head on a tree, The brother’s story has been corroborated by acquaintances. Developments in the death of Jerry broke fast after Dr. Reed refused to sign a death certificate he died of acute alcoholism. The Hooper-Weaver Mortuary, Ine, which conducted the funeral services and burial, had left the death certificate on Dr. Reed's desk for his signature and continued with interment arrangements. The mortuary firm knew nothing of Dr Reed’s refusal to sign the certificate until after the burial. Coroner A. M. Holmes was forced to have the body of Wear exhumed in the light of the unidentified woman’s story the deceased had been wouned in a battle with his brother. The body was reinterred after the autopsy. : Coroner Holmes said he was not called into the case until after Wear’s burial. He said in his capacity as coroner and also as secretary of the state board of funeral directors and embalmers, it will be necessary for him to report the burial without a certificate to the state board. WIFE DIES AND . HUSBAND HURT IN CAR CRASH Archie R. Pitts, of Brighton Street Grass Valley, critically injured near Auburn Saturday night in an automobile accident which claimed the life of his wife, Blanche Viola Pitts, 50, was brought to the Miners Hospital here from Auburn: yesterday by the Hooper-Weaver ambulance. Pitts, a pumpman at the North Star Mine, was returning to his home after a two weeks vacation when the accident occurred. The automobile he was driving collided with one driven by C. C. Neville of Lincoln, who was enroute home after a fishing trip. Neville, his 15 year old son and Jean Collins, 4, granddaughter of the Pitts’ escaped serious injury. The body of Mrs. Pitts is at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley, where funeral services are to be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday, afternoon. : ASKS PROBATION After pleading guilty, Z. A. Beall, Truckee carpenter, charged with passing a fictitious check, asked for probation in the SUperior court here. Superior Judge George L. Jones referred the application to. Probation Officer A. W. McGagin for a report. Appendectomy— : Roy Toms of Grass Valley is recovering: in the Miners Hospital from an.appenrdicitis operation, performed by Dr. W. W. Reed and Dr. Norbert Frey. Division of Forestry and Tahoe Na: tional Forest Service. The blaze was the most serious. this season in this vicinity. seen RRM ME AARELEN SE HNN

Thinking Out . Loud By H. M. L. Jr. { Nevada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget . . with zood ifiable ends. from the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press: consists the right to publish the Truth, motives and for just—Alexander HamilThis column is written by a substitute writer. So those of you who are settling down in comfortable chairs. about—to-enjoy—the—philosophy of the editor you know so well-can unsettle yourselves right now and prepare for the lesser mental reactions of a more recent edition of the same mind. The ‘writer has come home to Nevada City for a few days as so many have recently done on the Fourth. The savor and tang of the mountain air stir the memories of all the good one time residents of the city. Thoughts of the past enjoyments of the calm pace of life in this small and closely knit community, are tinged too often with thoughts-of remorse. at the-infrequency with which we are able to come and. enjoy the pleasures of the mountains. The golden sun in azure skl flooding the forest with light is a dynamic contrast to the grey life in clanging rushing cities. We wish we could some home more often, Nevada City, calmly busy now in a setting of rural peace, remembers a history as booming and surging as any epic of the west can be. The growth of the town from a mere location described as being Dr. Caldwell’s Upper. Store on Deer Creek to the minute modern metropolis whose present spirit is symbolized by the stark white court house shooting up from wu placid hill like a frozen white architectural blitzkrieg, is truly an epic. The colorful and exciting history of the town is a match for any in the Sierra Nevadas. Placerville, Angels Camp, Jackson, none of these has a more fascinating history than Nevada City. Senator George Hearst, Senator from ‘Nevada William Morris Stewart, Aaron Sargent, dauntless editor, Niles Searls, pillar of the early California Supreme _ Court, these famous men of the west got their first footholds during the boom days of forty-nine, fifty, and fifty-one, here in Nevada _ City. Hearst and Stewart went on to fight for the spoils of the Comstock Lode. Both became senators, Hearst from California, and Stewart the first to get to Washington from Nevada. Both made fabulous fortunes. Aaron Sargent, was long political leader of this part of the state then with the San Juan Ridge, the third most influential. center of population. Niles Searls became one of the leading western jurists. Searls and William Morris Stewart, through an odd quirk of fate, were the last to see Lincoln before he drove with Mary Lincoln to Ford’s Theatre on that fatal night. The incident is not well known but appears in Stewart’s Reminiscences, published in a small edition long ago, a book that contained many interesting aqnecdotes about ‘the boom days in Nevada City. Niles Searls was on a trip to Washington, and-had cleared up his business affairs, but one thing remained—-he wanted to see and talk to President Lincoln before he departed for the West. Senator William Stewart knew Lincoln very well and agreed to arrange an interview. Together Searls and Stewart went to the White House where they found Lincoln in a rush. of business, too busy to see them, but genial enough to invite them to return in the evening. They came back that night to find that President and Mrs. Lincoln were on the point of leaving for Ford’s Theatre. Never bashful, Senator Stewart, seeing a carriage waiting for the President stopped to introduce his friend Searls,.As the President got into the carriage Stewart spoke to Lincoln, introducing Searls. The great president exchanged a word or two with the western jurist. Thus two famous men who had deep roots: in this community of ours from their experience: and life here, figured in an incident-of the evening that was to ring of tragedy through the years. There is a wealth of color and excitement in the history of such men as Stewart, Searls and their robust contemporaries of the period, in Nevada City. The history of the boom times is a riot of robust action, an epic lying fallow in musty books. It is a fast moving history’ that ought to be the personal property of everyone who can claim Nevada City and its Argonaut past as their own. — fete (Continued on Page Two) Vol: 14. No. 54. The County Seat Paper . NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA,The Gold Center MONDAY, JULY 8, 1940. THOUSANDS OF SPECTATORS AT CITY’S FOURTH Nevada City’s Fourth of July celebration is history but the recollection of the joyous and successful fete will long linger in the memories of the’ thousands of persons. who came from far and near to observe the nation’s birthday. The parades, both the torchlight of the night of the 8rd and the procession of the morning of the 4th, the j literary program, the soap box derby, the air show and the sporting events, the rodeo, all were voted a big success. Thousands lined the streets to witness .the patriotic parade, in which approximately 60 units took part. Some of the outstanding floats and divisions included the Goddess of Liberty Gertrude Wllde, Miss Columbia Catherine Tognaelli, the Native Sons float, in which Elza Kilroy portrayed George Washington and R. L. Bigelow Uncle Sam, and the sheriff's posse, consisting of a group of 20 deputy sheriffs, led by Sheriff Carl Tobiassen mounted on horses and 20 others walking. Dr. Walter Hawkins was the grand marshall. Many of the Grass Valley business firms as well as civic and fraternal organizations had floats in the pdrade. Council Frank Davies, chairman of the parade committee, was assisted by Harry Poole of Grass. Valley in getting the parade’ under way. The soap box derby was won by Donald Dougherty, with Lauren Moody taking second place. The-air show at the Nevada City airport and an exhibition by the Columbia Park boys received enthusiastic acclaim. Dick Ryan’s Wild West Show and Thrill Circus at Pioneer Park = attracted approximately 2000 persons. At the literary program, held on the dance platform constructed on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company lot on Coyote Street, Justice-of the Peace: George Gildersleeve delivered an address on the flag. A Bear flag was presented to the Nevada County Superior Court by the Native Sons Lodge and a United States Flag presented by the Nevada City Elks. The flags were accepted for the superior court by Chairman Cary. Arbogast of the Board-of Supervsors. Superior Judge George L. Jones made the arrangements for the literary program. : The celebration acted as an incentive for the return to Nevada City of scores of former residents. FAMILY OF 12 UPSET IN CAR AND TRAILER -One member of a family of 12 was injured Friday night when an automobile aud trailer got out of control going down Bear Valley grade and crashed into the bank. : The car, containing 10 children, five of then under six years of age, and the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willjam King, narrowly missed going into the steep canyon, which would probably meant death for all of them, Highway Patrolman Carl _ Kitts brought James King, 14, into Nevada City for treatment of severe cuts and bruises. Both the automobile and the trailer turned over, throwing bedding, household goods and_ foodstuffs all over the highway and the mountainside. When Officer Kitts arrived he found Mrs. King making biscuits over an open fire while the father and Charles King, 18 ,oldest of the children, attempted to restore order to the confusion. NOBODY CARES T0 RUN AGAINST ENGLEBRIGHT Congressman Harry L. Englebright of Nevada City is the only member of the house of representatives from California who has no opposition in the August primary. Congressman Englebright, who is ‘the Republican whip in the house, filed on the Democratic, Republican, Townsend and Progressive tickets. . Englebright’s district comprises 18 counties in California and is one of the largest in the United States: RANCHER TO FACE TRIAL FOR ASSAULT . court . here for William Cole, Wolf district . The trial in thesuperior rancher, charged with assault wich a deadly weapon with intent. to commit murder, has been set by Superior Judge George L. Jones for July 18. Cole pleaded not guilty to the charge when arraigned Friday. He was represented by Attorney. Frank ‘Finnegan of this city -The rancher is accused of shooting Albert Rodda in a dispute involving the use ofa gate on the Rodda ranch property. Rodda was able to leave the Landis-Lang Clinic in Grass Valley Friday, after being hospitalized for two weeks recovering from the bullet wound from the .22 caliber rifle reportedly wielded by Cole. CHIEF ROBSON RESIGNS POST T0 RESTORE PEACE The Nevada City city council will meet Wednesday night to name a successor for Chief of Police W. G. Robson, who resigned last Friday night: after completing his seventh year as head of the local police department. ~The resignation of Robson was accepted unanimously by the council. Chief Robson submitted both verbal and written resignations. In resigning verbally he said he was taking such action because ‘‘for sometime it has been a well known fact the head of the police has not had the full cooperation of the council.” He said he believed it was for the best interests of the council and the police department to eliminate the contention existing between some of the councilmen and the head of the police and therefare he was tendering his resignation. : Max Solaro, city fireman and Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen were mentioned at the meeting as successors to Robson. Councilman Frank Davies and Dr. John Ivey expressed the opinion ‘Solaro, although he probably would make a good chief of police, is more valuable to the city in the position he ‘now holds. Solaro said he would accept the job if he could remain in the living quarters at the city hall. He said he could handle the night fire department calls but it would be necessary for the council and fire delegates to select. a fireman for day work. Mayor Benjamin Hall and Councilman Robert Nye expressed themselves at the meeting in the selection of Solaro as favor of Robson’s successor. ‘Robson's written resignation to the council follows: sJuly 5th 1940. To the Honorable Mayor and City ‘Council. Gentlemen: ‘As I have recently completed my seventh year of serving your city as its chief of police, during that period there has been several changes in councilmen. : Seemingly some members of the present council are dissatisfied with the administration policie of the police department, and have voiced the same among the citizens of our city. Notwithstanding the fact that the duties of the office have grown with the increase of our population, with out the cooperation of the entire board, office administration becomes more difficult. With the above comments, I herewith tender my resignation to become effective at the earliest possible moment. In doing so Mr. Mayor, I wish, to thank you for your hearty cooperdation and support, and it has been a pleasure to work for and with you, during the past years. Submitted, “W. G. ROBSON. SECL’S CIGARETTES TO BOYS, FINED $25 conhere Riley, operator of a cession booth at the carnival

for the July Fourth celebration, was sentenced to 80 days in jail or pay a $25 fine Saturday on a charge of supplying cigarettes to minors. The sentence was imposed by Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve. Riley was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Fred Williford for giving cigarettes and boxes of matches to minors when they knocked the articles over with a popgun. rank S. F, Visitor— 5 Lorraine Dolan of San Francisco visited family members here during the Fourth of July holiday. CARS COLLIDE ON TOWN TALK Albert Krasevac, 29, and Miss Evelyn Gliko, 22, both of Grass Valley, were injured in a collision at Town Talk early Friday morning between machines operated by Krasevac and James Handy, 24, of Browns, Valley. Handy escaped unhurt. Krasevac and Miss Gliko sustained severe cuts and bruises. RECKLESS WOMAN DRIVER FINED Arlene Lundy, 28, waitress: from Southern California, on her vacation in Nevada County, was fined and Placed under a suspended jail sentence by City Judge Miles Coughlin when she pleaded guilty of reckless driving here last Wednesday. Due to faulty brakes, a car she had just purchased got out of control and knocked an awning post down at North Pine and Commercial streets last Tuesday. The post struck and injured Mrs, Martin VanBerg, Miss Lundy’s car continued down the Street, striking an automobile owned by Samuel D, McWilliams of Vallejo. McWilliams’ car, propelled by the force of the collision, crashed into a machine owned by Floyd BE. Wells of the Peardale district. Judge Coughlin fined Miss Lundy $100, half of which was suspended On condition she pay for the expense of treating the injuries to Mrs. VanBerg. ‘A thirty day jail sentence was suspended. MRS. OLIVER OF NEVADA CITY IS CALLED TO REST Final rites:will be held at 2 o’clock tomorrow. afternoon at the HooperWeaver Mortuary, Inc., in Grass Valley for Mrs. Sophie Oliver, 69, of Nevada City, who died in the Miners Hospital Saturday after a long illness. Mrs, Oliver was the widow of Thomas Oliver, former local constable, Rev. Herschel Fravel of the Grass Valley Congregatioal Church will conduct the funeral services for the esteemed .Nevada City matron, who was born in Gold Flat and lived her entire life in this district. Mrs. Oliver was extremely active in the Laurel Parlor, Native Daughters of the Golden West of Nevada City and succeeded in interesting her . ’ daughters and granddaughters in joining the lodge. At the time of her death three of her daughters and three granddaughters were: members of Laurel Parlor. : Since the death of her husband approximately two years ago, Mrs. Oliyer has been in semi-retirement and for several months past has been in ill health. The deceased leaves four daughters, Mrs. Eleanor Bolton of Nevada City, Mrs. Eunice Cobeldick of.Grass Valley, Mrs. ‘Phyllis Katzer and Mrs. Ruth Sinnock of Colfax. James Rosewall of Oakland is a brother. The body of Mrs, Oliver will. be interred in the Nevada City Odd Fellows Cemetery. COVERED WAGON PIONEER PASSES Funeral services were held Saturday for Mrs, Mary Gregory Whiting, 93, of Grass Valley, who came across the plains with her parents in 1860, first settling in Nevada City. Mrs. Whiting died at the: home of . her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Kingham, in Grass Valley. The services were held at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary, Inc, Mrs. Whiting’s activities in the Hastern Star Lodge made her Many friends in Nevada City. , MILLWRIGHT IS VISITOR Walter Merrigan, former: Nevada City contractor and millwright, and now field superintendent for the O. Scherer Company, general engineering contractors, visited with his family here during the . Fourth . of July holiday, Merrigan announced he recently completed work on the new Densmore mill near Angels Camp for the Crosby-Keanne interests of Alaska, Brother Accused of . . Jerry Wear % Siete Slaying PARK BOARD IS NOW OVERBOARD The city council abolished the park} commission at Friday night’s meet-. ing; naming Councilman Robert Nye, . and Dr. John Ivey to handle the park affairs. The action was taken by the council because of the difficulty in obtaining permanent members for the park commission. Chairman Tony Rore and Secre-. tary Fred Garrison were the latest to submit resignations. City Water Collector Samuel Hoop-. er, who had been working on a tem-! porary basis, was given a permanent appointment by the council, which expressed satisfaction of Hooper’s work since he succeeded R. L. Bigelow several months ago. ——Tire council renamed. the Lower Grass Valley Road Searls Avenue in honor of the prominent pioneer Nevada City family. (Continued--on-Page Twe) FUNERAL SERVICE FOR TED HOWARD Private funeral services were held in the Holmes. Funeral. Home in Grass Valley last week for Ronald (Ted), Howard 32, Nevada City native who died in i Fairfied of injuries suffered in a fall from a train near Elmira. Interment was in the Elm Ridge Cemetery. Howard had lived in Grass Valley and Nevada City practically his entime life. About a year ago he moved to Sacramento, where he was employed. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Leona Howard of Grass Valley, his father Frank Howard of Fresno; two sisters, Mrs. Peggy Hogan of Sacramento and Mrs. Elaine Haago of Grass Valley and three brothers, Kenneth Howard of New York, Allen Howard of San Francisco and Ray Howard of Grass Valley. UNCLE DROWNS IN ATTEMPT TO ‘SAVE NEPHEW Andrew J. Finnegan, 54, Sacramento city employe, who drowned in the Boca reservoir, near Truckee on the Fourth of July, is an uncle of Frank Finnegan, Nevada City attorney. Finnegan drowned during an unsuccessful attempt to save the life of Laurence Kearney, 7, a nephew, who had stepped into a deep hole while wading. The Reno Fire Department rushed a pulmotor to Boca but efforts to revive the pair were unsuccessful. The boy is a cousin of Attorney Finnegan. The tragedy occurred only three mies from.'Finnegan’s birthplace. A member of a pioneer Nevada County family, Finnegan was born at. Martis Creek, where his father, the late Jus.tice of the Peace Francis Finnegan, was employed in a sawmill. The funeral services were to be held in Sacramento today. Attorney Finnegan and others from here left early today to attend the services. TWELVE ACRES BURN IN WILLOW VALLEY A brush fire, believed to have been started either intentionally or by a discarded cigarette, burned over 12 acres in the Willow Valley district before it was brought under control last night by combined crews of the Scotts Flat dam workers, State Division of Forestry and Tahoe National Forest. E Lawrence Gallez of Grass Valley, ‘member of the state’s Shady Creek fire fighting crew, suffered arm burns when he fell into the fire while attempting to avoid the flames. The fire burned to the ~ TahoeUkiah highway from its start on the banks of the Snow Mountain Ditch. It was. stopped at the highway with] the use of tank trucks of the State Robert Wear, 56, is held in the Nevada County Jail on suspicion of” . fratiricide while authorities continue their investigation into the death a week ago of his brothe, Jerry Wear, in the Nevdaa County Hospial. The arrest of Robert followed the exhuming of the body of his brother. An autopsy by Dr. Harry’ Benteen . showed he had died of a fracture «f . the . the result of alcoholism, as. attaches skull instead of meningitis as at the county hospital had believed. The exhumation and subsequent . arrest of the brother was made after . County W. W. Reed reJerry had been Physician ceived information . struck on the head with a jug by his ' brother. The information came from.a woman, whose name has been withheld by the officers. The woman purportedly was an eyewitness to a quarrel between the brothers-on June 10, while Robert was enroute to a spring for water, carrying two half gallon jugs. The woman told the officers during the argument Robert struck his brother on the head with one of the jugs. Jerry was taken to the hospital on June 15, five days after the asserted attack. Officers said he had apparently been wandering in a dazed condition for five days. Robert denies having struck his brother. In a statement issued to District Attorney Vernon Stoll and Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen he said his brother while running down hill accidentally struck his head on a tree, The brother’s story has been corroborated by acquaintances. Developments in the death of Jerry broke fast after Dr. Reed refused to sign a death certificate he died of acute alcoholism. The Hooper-Weaver Mortuary, Ine, which conducted the funeral services and burial, had left the death certificate on Dr. Reed's desk for his signature and continued with interment arrangements. The mortuary firm knew nothing of Dr Reed’s refusal to sign the certificate until after the burial. Coroner A. M. Holmes was forced to have the body of Wear exhumed in the light of the unidentified woman’s story the deceased had been wouned in a battle with his brother. The body was reinterred after the autopsy. : Coroner Holmes said he was not called into the case until after Wear’s burial. He said in his capacity as coroner and also as secretary of the state board of funeral directors and embalmers, it will be necessary for him to report the burial without a certificate to the state board. WIFE DIES AND . HUSBAND HURT IN CAR CRASH Archie R. Pitts, of Brighton Street Grass Valley, critically injured near Auburn Saturday night in an automobile accident which claimed the life of his wife, Blanche Viola Pitts, 50, was brought to the Miners Hospital here from Auburn: yesterday by the Hooper-Weaver ambulance. Pitts, a pumpman at the North Star Mine, was returning to his home after a two weeks vacation when the accident occurred. The automobile he was driving collided with one driven by C. C. Neville of Lincoln, who was enroute home after a fishing trip. Neville, his 15 year old son and Jean Collins, 4, granddaughter of the Pitts’ escaped serious injury. The body of Mrs. Pitts is at the Hooper-Weaver Mortuary in Grass Valley, where funeral services are to be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday, afternoon. : ASKS PROBATION After pleading guilty, Z. A. Beall, Truckee carpenter, charged with passing a fictitious check, asked for probation in the SUperior court here. Superior Judge George L. Jones referred the application to. Probation Officer A. W. McGagin for a report. Appendectomy— : Roy Toms of Grass Valley is recovering: in the Miners Hospital from an.appenrdicitis operation, performed by Dr. W. W. Reed and Dr. Norbert Frey. Division of Forestry and Tahoe Na: tional Forest Service. The blaze was the most serious. this season in this vicinity. seen RRM ME AARELEN SE HNN