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June 24, 1940 (4 pages)

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Out Loud Nevada City Nugget By H. M. L. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Thinking This is written on Saturday and will appear on Monday when Republican convention Philadelphia. So “to do with the opens in this has nothing what transpires be tween the-two days. These are just a few thoughts of an humble scribe on the slopes of the Sierras who reads as much ag he has time to read, of the world news and forms his own conclusions regard Vol. 4, No. 51. PRODUCTION FOR USE CANDIDATE FOR ASSEMBLY our national policies. We think the Republican party should nominate a doer than spell We a binder. rather are up with honoyed words on fed radio and the specious reasoning of spell attorney, placed nominees in the field for assembly ifornia LAST CALL FOR CHURCH EMMA NEVADA PLACERVILLE IS_75 YEARS OLD ‘SPECIALTREAT HOPED TO VISIT. FOR TROOP 24 “OLD HOME HERE: 27 prim ary election, Marlor, committed to the “‘production for use’’ program of Governor on the Democratic ticket and may be assumed to have the official sanction . One more Anh eee the final ehildren day for registration of who desire Red ‘Cross swimming lessons free has been announced. Children street, the 214 where they swimming 12 and between ate 1! may register which for begin R. R. BOARD TO HOLD HEARINGS ON P. GE. RATES Fenton, Michigan says she was a native of that city; written by I append a letter herself stating that she ‘was born at Alpha, Nevada County, California. cally Saturday morning us lo relate the story of her life as I believe to be true. A recent California they ‘Marlor is a former Utah resident and to accumulate capi investigation is reported to have been a compara Pacific Gas and Electric Co., tha without, I believe making an effort Railroad. Commission today invited to verify them. of the annual operations to work and accumulate, and in the long run, increase the number son supporters and Harry See, secre of taxpayers and the jobs. tary of the state Democratic central district to a conference to be held committee, to line up opposition to at the Court House at—Oroville,on Thurman and Seawell failed in NeThursday, June 27pat 2 p. m. Mr. Roosevelt’s complaint against business, reminds us of the farmer who starved his: cow and then com plained bitterly that she would give milk. no We see business get eight would -a like break years of abuse and roughing. to after federal vada and Placer counties. Pressure politics almost forced a Placerean to interested persons in which will be held of a serial in three chapters greatly distorting the facts, Completing her studies in Europe this Madame Nevada made an operatic tour in the United States in company with Patti and other notables, Comparing “This conference;is one of a number sort the voices of critics say that throughout the Patti two stars, excelled in power but Nevada’s voice was of the oppose Seawell but wise counseling the territor of Pacific Gas and Elecpurest coloratura soprano with very halted a? pre-doomed and. expensive campaign. : Thurman and Seawell will appear on Next, about foreign wars. We have always believer, and still be and published of tively recent Placeville arrival. Previous frantic efforts of the Olrepresentatives of 17 cities, 10 counties both the Republican and Demo cratie tickets in line with their non tric Co:, during the next fortnight.” said’ Commissioner field, who will Ray C. the 75th Bosworth at anniversary of the high the church 42 years after its found-. . other boys who do not go to camp ing in 1865. It was said of him that). will receive a recognition from the he buried 1000 people, baptised 779 ; council in the fall when meetings . and performed cated a 598 marriages. After Her debut in San Francisco was in the hear Rev. the ceremonies county Pierce. group motored cent years she was an honored guest is pursuant of Italy at the 150th anniversary of her full quota. Perhaps major European is why, on sion will be presented at the conferas a singer on that occasion, she is est. broke with such a blast in many MAY OLD AGE AID IN COUNTY TOTALS $18,154 ence and-the ‘Commission regard for our interests, should be none of our business. This is not to say we are unaffected by for eign wars. We are vitally effected by our lot with one or the other side them. But to in a military good sense, cast does in us no unless we go in and take charge of the whole show and dictate the terms of peace, Unless we are able to do that the best thing we can do is to stay out. By staying out we’do not mean we’ should fighting for refuse théir democracies lives every aid we are able ‘to give them short of sending ships and men fray. But when should \realize that into we do $37.99 per person. this we ed to 7,098 needly blind persons and 41,930. needy and may be called to account when Blind children aid received payments aver ies are beaten. It therefore _ be aged $48,08 per person and child aid $19.11. In Nevada county, 459 aged per hooves us to arm ourselves sons received a total of $18,154; on land, the sea and\in the air, and to do it expeidously. Whatever the cost it will be. cheaper than_ be lican platform, And please, as they affect the and service individual com works of the great Bellini and worthy of her foreign quarters here. Perhaps that WHITE AND NEGRO PICKETS ROUTED BY INJUNCTION ed until sisters today and visiting many friends. the statement he had_ negro strike at his his mother, He made settled drug store teception committee to greet her. She expressed a desire to walk about town to see if she could locate familiar places of her youth. A group of ladies young accompanied and open suspicion in re FLAMING BEDROLL SENDS MAN TO JAIL. es Citizens Committee for Jobs for cently, It seems the group are the white communist league and call themselv no and her have not applied for their first cit Presidency. We are tired of theo knowledge. The fire spread over 25 der or Friday and it was served Sat retical aches before it urday. The negroes and some whites tinkers in charge of the good church members years ago, thinking among Americans watching sing which she did, much _ to pride of her sister members of the war abroad, less among the certainly foreign there born who group. During the last few years I aliens. ‘The Italian consulates in this io country were expected, of course, to the issue laudatory statements on Mus the solini’s war declaration. A dictator’s consuls: are his oficial yes-men have often been called upon for information and have always shown the leiter she wrote me. Very recently one was extinguished. Ranger John R. Hodgson at Cisco picketed the drug store of which he four or The photographs sent me were dis tributed to her old several to the late Mrs. George Gris who gave generously to building a rested ‘the man and fought the fire. whites Maroney was. taken before Judge court order. Herbert Resner, the Nevada and often played her acRunkle in, Dutch Flat and Wheeler lawyer who defended the CIO in Necompaniments. 5 and J. D. Rafferty, the latter law vada county, was the attorney. for Her letter to me follows: enforcement officer for forest serthe league. The drug store is at the Dec. 16th, 1924 vice, presented the case in court. corner of Sunset and Peralta streets Paris, Avenue St. Philebert Maroney was semtenced to 15 days in ‘and there are many negroes living Place Chopin, PassyXVI
bers had to spend their old age on the county poor farm. That parti cular church gained, of course, but the community as a whole lost. We would like to have a man in the White House who could see not and_ this nation as a whole, special parts of it. Special interpressures group ests and their have been responsible for much of the confusion and the wastes during the past eight years. We need an Executive who will stand up for America, a man whose interast and smpathies are with all zood citizens without discrimination. We are not for just any Repub lican candidate. We need a man who can do the job, a man who cabinet eight ean call into his such men as Cordell Hull instead of one Cordell Hull and a sorry seven assortment of pinkos, golf players, blatherskites, lame ducks and renegade Republicans. Furthermore we sincerely be lieve that unless the’ Republicans do nominate a practical, far-see ing, patriotic, business man, this country is very likely to drift into a dictatorship. You will notice that whenever the President speaks he invokes the patriotic sentiment of all Americas, but very quietly the county pail for his carelessness. arrested after serving in that section. Dear CREW BURNS OFF MAY GASOLINE DRY GRASS LOTS TAX $47,25,425 Max Solaro, crew and equipment “SACRAMENTO. nS Sous 24.—Gasoare burning grass on lots about Neline sales throughout California durvada City today and burned the Aling May were approximately the len-Celio lots on Boulder street this same as those of the same month afternoon. A fire there last year for the previous year, the State thought to have been set by a smokBoard of Equalization reported toer called the fire department out two? day. or three times before the blaze was Based on the distribution of 157,controlled. Two fire trucks and crew 514,167 gallons of ° gasoline, the were called to a grass and brush fire board assessed a total tax of $4,on the southern end of Nimrod 725,425.01. This: represented a gain street near the Peard place Sunday. of $22,874.13 or .49 per cent over This total also was slightly higher than the April tax PEACE OFFICERS ARE to $4,694,037.07. SPONSORING DANCE which amounted The May report was the fourteenThe Nevada-Sierra Peace Officers th consecutive month for which the association are sponsoring a benefit . gasoline tax income was greater than dance to be held Saturday evening, June 29 at Lake Olympia. They have Mrs. Douglass: Your letter was for the same months of preceding years. secured Otto Salcedo and his band BLUE TENT SCHOOL CLOSES to: play for the dance, There will be The Blue Tent elementary school special prize waltz features during closed last Friday with a party and the evening. program. (Mrs. Lydia Gleason is Roy Walsh was a business visitor teacher in the school and served re-: in Nevada City Saturday. He return freshments the closing day. All par ed to Washington a month ago after ents of the students happy affair aes spending ten months n Nevada. attended S22. headquarters. Any information the troop committee. ROAD OPEN TO FORDYCE LAKE ‘Wisleomen who have hee impat ient to get into Lake Fordyce-this abroad. The remark of Acting Conseason had their sul General Antonio totalitarian, Toscani-Millo, anti-democratic des Italians wishes themselves if they don’t. satisfied during the past week, according to forest officials. The road, kept closed from the summit during the past two weeks in order to prevent ex cessive damage on account conditions, has been of wet declared open all the way to the lake. While considerable damage was done by the the past winter, the road is entirely passable the ES ican citizen—even a naturalized one. Questioned on ranger station. Two or three over his stand in possible zealous individuals took extreme war, F. A. Montani, member of the measures to circumvent the efforts Sons of ({[taly—and presumably a of the forest service to preserve the citizen, for he is a San Francisco road, Hodgson says, but in general bank employe—replied, according to the public cooperated very well. the press: forwarded to me here where we have returned to our old home where we _ have spent the greater part of our lives, May of 1939. “Cavaleade” in five sell, her cousin. Mrs. Alison F. Watt But it was not the kind of stateto the lake, according to John Hodgthe attended Mills College with Emma ment to be expected from an Amerson, forest ranger at the Big Bend church impoverished their families so that some mem othe acquaintances, will-echo aloud if they dare, and to unusual flood conditions has. charge. He had thereby at sired by parents may ‘be obtained is from Charles Ellliott, chairman of And by the city and asked to be taken there. The have become citizens. same token, there is probably none resida into made been had church those who’ remain ence by the late E. T. R. Powell. Mrs. at all among her am. their arrangements made from camp tionals, the streets. She told of her first pubic appearance ‘at the age of three years, in the Baptist church of this Powell’s sister Nina (Woon) Dorsey one of our local volacists was present ier and enjoy a full Sunday extra in which all the scouts meet for the are 23,021 British subjects living in only assembly of the day. NaBoys going first period will have California, and 5,736 French If there is little absolutely neutral and Protective Assistant Wheeler ar and from Pahatsi will stop at Auburn at 7 a. m. and pick up all the Nevada City scouts al citizens of the Fathérland. There Vida. Maroney, itinerant with a Negroes. This group went about the at San Francisco that ‘‘Mussolini bedroll, spread his bed near the litcit demanding that the business men said it all and made me proud! He pares ‘i tle town of Blue Canon last week fire white men and employ negroe3. young lady from. Southern California spoke for all Italians!’’ was about We hope, too, that the RepubWhile smoking and evidently a spark according to Hogan. The league was asked to have a photostatic copy of the only thing he could say — and _ licans will nominate a practical) \. from ‘his cigarette or pipe fell on not a union. When the rgoup became it which was done in Grass Valley keep his job. for the ‘man as their candidate the bed setting it on fire without his aggressive Hogan got out a court orwith excellent effect. His was a statement that all pronation’s economy. It reminds us of ial arrangement as a result of wining the contest. On July 6, the bus izenship papers, and as far as inter her husband, Dr. Palmer, through the and Madame Nevada asked \ : pussyfooting. that the Ne is the reason for tenseness and the carrying the scouts watchfulness some foreign areas of our cities, fame. : Cecil Klee, resident camp director munities.” In any case the figures are worth planning to go to camp, these boys Another favorite opera was The Thursday’s conference will include Magic Flute, by Mozart in which her studying. Here is the situation in will ieave their packs at a special the following municipalities: Biggs, voice echoed the trills .of tHe flute California, as good a testing ground spot in Auburn, and make the trip to Chico, Corning, Grass Valley, Gridbefore she appeared on the state, as any: i the fair, then on the return the packs ley, Marysville, Nevada City, Orgiving a dramatic and beautiful efOf 107,249 Italian born residents will be picked up and the boys will land, Oroville, Red Bluff, Redding, fect that brought down the house. in this state, 51,355 are still aliens, go through to Pahatsi one day earl Gerald L. Hogan sean of Berkeley came the assistance payments. Great was given an ovation rates. to Nevada City Sunday and remain tific Helping company’s 19 ing reduced to slavery by scienbarbarians. the blind persons $950, and 139 children $2,431, The federal government, the state and counties cooperate in making Britain now may save us a great many billions of dollars\later on. We would like a fothright declaration on this.matter in the Repub the to fourth ‘session, born in Germany, 11,662 are yet leg The. payments averaged A total of $341,236 was distribut democrac suggestions as to matters pertaining had enhanced The boys have paid their registra tion fee and have filled the quota of places allowed. If any other boys de partment of social welfare, announced today, $801,491. if the who James Morrison, Clyde Cook, Ernest Helme, and Stephen Martin. camp. Lunch will be furnished by the national law is concerned, still owe council at the fair which will be in their allegiance to Il Duce. full swing celebrating “Scout Day.”’ Of 81,840 ‘California residents There are to be special exercises at ring the ‘hatred of the autocracies the war is \over recorded as one is Nelson, Bill Tobiassen, Stanley Foreman, Wallace Krill, Clayton Allen, Walter Davis) Edwin Berger, SACRAMENTO, June 24.—(UP)— Tehama, Wheatland, Williams, WilI well remember the concert tour A total of 140,261 aged persons in lows Yuba City, and the counties of of 1902 when Nevada City was visLassen, Neited by the great singer. Laurel ParCaliornia received $5,328,528 in old Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter, Telor N. D. G. W. decorated her rooms age assistance during May, Miss M. vada, Plumas, Shasta, A. Chickering, director of the dehama and Yuba, at the National Hotel and formed a the we are incur will seek _ , United States, and ended without Leroy ond period camp will have this spec preliminary findings of the Commis wasteful state legislation. may not have been on the program Lystrup, declaration of war, the verbal temp economy bloc in halting radical and the Bob vada (City boys who are going to sec lieve that foreign ’wars, which are consulting Smith, Italy’s started without Leland Curry, Bill Jones, John Hoskins, Lew at Pahatsi announced that Soda sire to go, it is possible to make ar resentatives of ‘Commission’s at reprangements for the first or third or belligerents it appears California has the to the Pahatsi Jim Merrill, Tom Barry, Ben Bar By LEONE B BAXTER Counting noses among local partisan policies as members of the policy of utility rate regulation. The the composer’s birth and while she Nevada ry, Don Dougherty, Edward McGivern, Arnold Price, Robert Sharpe, ALIEN BORN OF STATE ARE IN TIGHT SPOT the camp from as going Nevada Somnambula, by Bellini.-In very reé to The following boys City are registered Lake Ta the to hoe and enjoyed a supper. range, Wake placque to the ing. “‘The investigation of the utility preside at will start once more. The All local civic and fraternal organiza-' council Springs: tions were present. periodical given chance, tended fr. Native Daughters of Placerville dedi The press. dispatches given of the purge-minded administration. Nearing completion of its Mrs.-C. By y BELLE DOUGLASS . thems at the colorful and impress. year, that Troop 24 will have a spee-— The passing of Madame Emma Ne. ive service. The Rev. Bart Barron . . ial treat in store for the boys who go vada will probably revive the ‘conconducted the services honoring the 'to camp. These boys will go by bus troversy as to her birth place. NeChurch of Our-Savior and the’ first. te-Treasure Island on Saturday, July vada state claims that distinction. rector the Rev. Pierce who served. ‘as the guests of the council. Those Commercial! lessons and Word was received here Saturday *lacerville esterday. Mrs. Bosworth} is a member of the Grass Valley Epis-. that as qa reward for winning the TaCouncil Advancement for the . copal choir, The group sang the an-! hoe have not yet registered must appear Wednesday Mr. . founding of the Episcopal church in who desire to accumulate more. If a Chinaman’s MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1940. The Gold Center FREE SWIM LESSONS on July 8. coun payers are the thrifty people who tal and give other people a chance eae and mountain Culbert O]son and Sinclairism, filed will continle ag foothill ties as the incumbent and capable A. G. (Scoop). Thurman had filed out preying on the taxpayers. Tax have accumulated something and é two man of the sixth district of ten Cal previously for the August binders. We would like a candidate who would-do something to restore this. country to prosperity with NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, Last minute filing of T. S. Marlor, o-clock ‘pe ms Placerville j . ! . he County Seat Paper next ing the relation of news events to . The Liberty of the Press consists ir 1 the right to publish the Truth, Ww ith good motives and for justif iable ends. —Alexander Hamiltoyn. — . : From the Californian, March 15, 1848: BOY, LOST OVERNIGHT, “USES SCOUT LORE same as if my wife asked me to fight “To ask Italians here to fight for the United States against Italy is the We His Boy Scout tra training came in handy to Dick Williams of Camptonville recently. According to a report by Frank Meggers, Tahoe National Forest ranger at Camptonville, Dick had gone on a fishing trip down hazardous Oregon Creek and did not of show up at night. A small group of and which we left during the war my mother!’’ The Italian years. I was born in Alpha and I am proud of it.I am a California ive at Miami had the same problem to face. His code of honor dictated a different decision Said he: “‘We are girl in every sense of the word, I American citizens! left Alpha as a wee baby to go to Nevada City. And then we moved to Austin, state of Nevada where I remanied until I went to Mills College. From this college I gradu homes and our liyes are here! consular representat Our duty, our are not Americans by accident Arbor, Michigan, and he practiced birth, but because we selected AmCamptonville men started a search erica for our home!” at 9o’clock but failed to find him. Then he resigned his post. For At day break a posse started out-unin a dictatorship there’s no room ou der the guidance of forest officers a staff for a man who doesn’t click and one group, enrouté to the creek, his heels and agree loudly with the met Dick coming up’the hill as fast his profession of physician up to, Boss. the me in ated and then came to Europe. My father was a graduate time he came of to join -Ann Europe. In taking the name of Nevada I hoped to do honor to both the state of Nevada and the city in California. My daughter, who is now a fam as he could walk. He had fished further down the creek than he realizSUFFERS NASAL HEMORRHAGE ed and darkness overtook him before Judge Raglan. Tuttle of Sacramenhe had been able to rejain his famto is confined to his home a few ily. Realizing that in the extremely days recuperating from a_ nasal rough terrain, traveling in the dark hemorrhage. He was the former superor judge of Nevada county and is third district ous singer, was born in Paris. My {now justice of the court of appeals. Judge Tuttle sufhusband is English but how could fered a severe hemorrhage last Frithe daughter of Emma Nevada da evening just before he was to deever be anything but an Americliver the address to the graduating an?! class of MsGeorge College of Law in She is making a_ sensation the Sacramento Memorial. Auditorre ere was hazardous, he lay down under a tree and slept until daybreak. By noon all were back and voted Dick a sénsible boy who had used hid head. Salinas Guests— Miss Iola Barnes sat mother of Salinas wererecent * (Nevada City