June 28, 1940 (6 pages)

eS 2 SEE EEG SEIT BREE Ss ae 8 ' Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada ifiable ends. ton. From the Californian, oe } March 15, 1848 ; . 11 Nuy ug . The Liberty of the Press consists in t ri lis e ! with good motives and for COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA the right to publish the Truth, just—Alexander HamilThe United States, one may see with half an eye, is headed toward a season of rigorous discipline. All the spoiled nephews and nieces of Uncle Sam are due for a course of sprouts. The big industrialist who fancied himself as an autocrat, whose word ‘was’ law among a thousand or ten thousand employes, has already undergone one part of his discipline under the New Deal. The racketeer who looked upon his fellows as sheep to be shorn is gradually being disciplined, except when he leads a double life as a labor leader and a racketeer. The law as yet has not fully caught up with all of the Bioffs, though, despite much tenderness for the fleece, occasionally the wolf is snatched from his disguise and placed where he belongs. And organized labor after its brief ascendency, in which with sit-down strikes and sabotage it wreaked reprisals upon the autocrats of industry, the economic royalists, if you like, is also being disciplined partly by threats to withdraw the very special advantages of the Wagner act, and partly by public opinion. But regardless of which party is given the national steering wheel next November, the taxpayer is the lad who will receive the most rigorous discipline. In an indifferent sort of way we have watched the nobility and landed gentry ‘of Engiand stripped of their possessions, the so-called middle classes trimmed of any fat lining, and the ‘wage earners deprived of their beer money. We hadn't. bothered much about the plight of England, but now comes a glimmering of what is going to happen to _ us. Along with the armed forces of the United States the army of tax collectors is to be augmented. We now pay, roughly, about 20 percent of our earnings or income as the case may be, under Federal, State and local tax laws. How much this is going to be upped for national defense we don’t know now, but will know next year. The German puts in practically 100 per cent of his time working for his government. We, thus far, work but twenty per cent of our _ time for our government. The new taxes will increase the hours, the days and the months that we will devote to working for Uncle Sam, but it will probably be some decades still: before we yield all our time to earning money to pay taxes. Actually the reason everyone, that is everyone but bundists. or communists, wreckers, is willing to shoulder extra taxes, is to'salvage something for himself, something of the free enterprise that made! this a great nation. But anyone with half an eye can see that the larger the ‘‘take”’ of government from private earnings, the nearer we approach to something like. collectivism or, what, to all practical purposes amounts to the same thing, totalitarianism. Naturally the more money turned over to government for its use, the more power government acquires. During the last seven years of increasing taxes which have been almost doubled, we find that the New Deal has used the money to increase its power, ‘The more money Congress votes into the control of the President, the more he is able to demand, because by the distribution of favors, the President is able to insure the allegiance of many Congressmen, especially those who buy votes with the ‘bacon they bring home.”’ What our democracy needs is more patriots and fewer politicians. When democracy fails, as it has in Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium, and, alas! France, it is because the people have employ-’ ed politicians as servants instead of patriots. Thus it is that the tax payers of this country, having turned the country over to the tender mercies of politicians for the last twenty years, are due to pay the penalty. The penalty is more taxes and taxes are a discipline, We need now a patriotic business administration of government. We may or may not get iit, but if we do not, eventually we shall lose not only our possessions as individual citizens, pouring them into the insatiable maw of government, but we will also lose our heritage of personal liberty and free enterprise. The handwriting is writ large on all. the walls of HKurope. ,quarter form of, Vol. 14, No. 52. “The County Seat Paper NEVADA CTT: Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1940. SIX MONTHS FOR MAN WHO BEAT STATE OFFICER Judge George L. Jones yesterday sentenced Walter Barnes, convicted Tuesday by a_ superior court jury. of simple assault, to six months in the county jail, the maximum penalty for the offense. Barnes and Delbert Fuller of Nevada City were charged with felonious assault for-an attack April 20 upon Special Deputy Sheriff Eugene Blake, son of Captain Joseph Blake of the California highway patrol. Fuller pleaded guilty to the felonious assault count after a jury had found him guilty last week of a charge of drunken driving. Fuller’s application for probation will be considered Monday morning by Judge Jones, In sentencing Barnes, Judge Jones denied the prisoner’s request that time already served in jail be applied as part of thesentence. The jury deliberated 40 minutes before returning the guilty of simple assault verdict against Barnes. There was a question in the jurors minds whether Barnes knew the younger Blake was an, officer. James C. Tyrrell was the foreman of the jury. The other members Superior were John B. Stennett, Faith DJones, Byron A. Douglass, Fred G. Coombs, Ben S. MeLintock, Lucille J. Hamilton, Howard Wasley, Walter Fletcher, Clarence Welch, Sadie A. Bennetts and Mildred Johnson. WAR IN EUROPE INCREASES JOBS IN CALIFORNIA Despite a decline during the first of the year, district industrial activity in April was considerably higher-than a year earlier and turned upward in May. The higher rate of operations in recent months and the upturn in May are traceable principally to developments associated with the war in Europe and to the sustained high level of residential building in the district as well as elsewhere in the United States. More recently the large domestic armament program now being developed has become a prominent influence in the business’ situation through assuring a strong demand for armaments and related products over the next several years. Some of these products such as aircraft are now. produced in important volume in the twelfth district. The influence of such large armament expenditures as have been proposed would, however, be felt in this region principally through indirect channels, such as stimulation of demand for agricultural and miscellaneous industrial products growing out of a general rise in business levels. The rise in industrial operations in May was accompanied by advances in factory employment and _ payrolls, greater than seasonal gains taking place in both the Pacific Northwest and California, At the mid-month, the number of wage earners in the three Pacific Coast states was 13 per cent higher than a year earlier while payrolls showed an increase of 16 per cent. The year-period gains and the increase in May in Oregon and Washington primarily reflected increased operations in the lumber and the pulp and paper industries, while the gains in California resulted chiefly from expansion in the aircraft industry and in metal industries which supply requirements of the -aircraft manufacturers. THREE CCC BOYS PUT OUT SMOKER BLAZE CCC enrollees, Al Rico, John Gonzales and Ted Brown were responsible for extinguishing a smoker fire on the Tahoe Ukiah highway, according to a report from a Tahoe national forest officer at Nevada City. The boys were on their way into Nevada City to work when they discovered the fire along the highway in the vicinity of the Five-Mile House. Evidently it was started by a cigarette “‘flipper.’’ Tacoma Visitors— ‘Mrs. Malcolm Adams and daugh-. : ter, Bernice of Tacoma, left today af‘tter.a shott visit with Mrs. Adams’ sister, Mrs. -A._H. = of Park Avenue. . HORACE A. CURNOW _ IS SERIOUSLY ILL Much concern is expressed by the many friends of Horace. A. Curnow, manager and vice president of the Nevada City branch of the Bank o7 America, who was stricken last Sunday with a hear attack and is now under observation in the Miners Hospital. He seemed to have recovered Monday morning but his physician Dr. W. W. Reed insisted he go to the Miners hospital for, @xamination. He returned to the KOme of his mother, Mrs. Phillip Curnow, but on Tuesday suffered a series of attacks. His wife who was visiting in San Francisco was summoned. A specialist from Sacramento came up Tuesday and consulted with Dr. Reed. He was reported yesterday as somewhat improved. Mrs. Willard Winder of Riverside and Miss Ruth Curnow of San Jose arrived Tuesday night to be near their father, H. A. Curnow, who is quite ill but reported as quite cheerful and holding his own yesterday forenoon. : FISHERMAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK Herman Donald Meeker, 46 years of age, died suddenly in camp at Lake Faucherie in the high Sierras yesterday morning. He had gone on a fishing trip with his brother, Louis Meeker of Portland, Oregon, and brother in law, Fred Bitney of Bitney’s service station west of Grass Valley. He was in the cabin when a heart attack occurred and Dr. Richard P. Landis was hurriedly summoned. But Meeker died before he reached the camp. Meeker was formerly of Los Angeles and had come to Grass Valley three months ago for his health. His wife, Mrs. Veda Meeker, conducts the fountain Lunch in Nevada City. Coroner A. M. Holmes was~noti= fied and the body was moved to the. Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley. He leaves, besides his wife, brothers and sisters as follows: Mrs, Fred Bitney and Frank Meeker, Grass V4iley; H. Meeker, Redding; (Louis Meeker, Portland; John Meeker and Mrs. Effie Hamilton, Aberdeen;. Mrs. Lottie Kessler and Thomas Meeker, Seattle. NEV. CITY BALL TEAM DEFEATED The Nevada Gly. City baseball team were defeated last Sunday by a 10 to 11 score in the playoff game at Neweastle last Sunday. The local team led 10 to 5 until the eighth inning when Newcastle put in a new pitcher. This makes Newcastle leaders in the first half of the series of games. Captain Bill Clark of the Nevada City team states the local boys will play Camp Forest Hill CCC boys at Forest Hill next Sunday. BIRTHRATE OF STATE GOING UP SACRAMENTO, June 27—(UP)— California’s birth rate increased by 6.4 per cent during the first two months of this year over the same period last year, the state department of’ public health reported today. Department statistics compiled from county reports showed _ that deaths increased by .3 per cent during the same period. The number of-births in the state during January and February was 16,648 compared to 15,638 in the same two months of 1939. Deaths totalled 13,842 in the 1940 period and 13,801 in the 1939 period. The department also noted a decrease of 36 per cent in marriages during the month of April. ‘The decrease, from 17,218 to 11,014, is attributed to the law requiring premarital tests for syphilis. Home from San Francisco— Mrs. Lyda Talbot’ returned Tuesday from a visit in San Francisco with her sister and brother in law. Birthday Party— Mrs. Will Davis of, Willow Valley entertained several little friends Wednesday afternoon honoring the fourth birthday of her little granddaughter, Evelyn Welch. ’ BID ON WRONG MAYFLOWER MINE ON TAX SALE: bid of $300 a mine at a tax a a . . Charles Graleae wi the Mayflower here yesterday. But Graham’s elation over what . he believed was a great bargain was short-lived. He had not successfully bid in the famous Mayflower mine near Nevada City, but a little known quartz property, also known as the Mayflower, near Graniteville. The Nevada City Mayflower property had been redeemed shortly before the tax sale opened. Graham was unaware of that and he believed he was bidding for the valuable Mayflower mine near here. Byron Bastman, Nevada City mining engineer, also had designs on the Graniteville Mayflower, only knew what he was bidding for. The bidding started out at $10 which séems a fair price for an undeveloped mining claim. Graham, thinking Treasurer Frank Steel was conducting the sale on the _ noted Nevada City~district producer, kept raising Eastman’s bid. Finally Graham got the mine at $300 and then learned it wasn’t the mine he wanted. Now Graham is seeking to arrange a deal whereby Eastman can take over the Graniteville Mayflower. Tax Collector Frank Steel reported at a late hour yesterday no depoist on the mine had yet been made. PRODUCTION OF WAR MINERALS SHOWS INCREASE SACRAMENTO, June 27—(UP)—Production of strategic minerals in California took its biggest jump in 1939 since world war days the state division of mines reported today. In one mineral, molybdenum ore, production in 1939 was greater than for all previous years, the department said. New highs also were recorded in production of gypsum, lithia minerals, lime, tale and soapstone and soda. Antimony production was the highest since 1916, chromite since 1919, and tungsten since 1918. The 1939 gold output was_ the highest year’s value since 1856 and the largest number of’ fine ounces since 1862, with the differences being accounted for by the increased price of gold. Lode mines set an alltime high. ° STATE’S YOUNG JOB SEEKERS TOTAL 44,653 SACRAMENTO, June 27—(UP)— About 11 per cent of the persons seeking work in California are under 25 years of age, the state department of employment reported today. The department said that there are 44,653 ‘‘juniors’’ registered as seeking pobs, out of a total registration of 413,140 unemployed. Included in this group were 27,150 applicants under 21 years of age and 17,503 between 21 and 25, the department said. The majority of junior workers registered had less than six months full time paid experience in private industry. Clerical, service and unskilled occupations were sought mainly by the younger applicants, while only eight per cent of those recorded applied for jobs in skilled occupations. CUTS PALM CAMPTONVILLE, June 27.—Leon Hinds the youngest son of Mrs. Nellie Hinds cut the palm of his hand very badly last week when he fell on a piece of broken glass. First aid was rendered, but the glass had cut an artery and the incision was in such a difficult place that it was almost impossible to stop the bleeding and the boy was rushed to the Nevada County Hospital for medical attention and remained there two days. CAMP FIRE GIRLS ARRIVE The second truck load of Camp Fire Girls for the week passed through town yesterday the latter group coming from Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. They will spend their vacations in camp on Lake Vera north of Nevada City. Old Time, Big Time s Fourth for Nev. City MURDERER FOUND BUT WITNESSES HAVE VANISHED Because no witnesses are avail-. able, Louis Jiminez will escape prosecution on a nine year old Nevada, County murder charge. Chief of Police Earl B. Lentz of Santa Ana, Orange County, notified . Nevada (County authorities a man held in Santa Ana on a traffic count answered the description of Jiminez, who is accused of shooting a fellow . Mexican in Truckee in 1931. Addi-. tional communications convinced local officers Jiminez was the man sought for the murder and District Attorney Vernon Stoll began an immediate search.for witnesses. The quest was unsuccessful—even the original murder complaint, made} out by a deceased Truckee justice) of the peace, has disappeared—so . Wednesday Chief Lentz was notfied. ‘Nevada County did not want to bring Jiminez to Nevada City to stand trial. The murder was committed when George. R. Carter was sheriff. The slayer and his victim were ‘both members of a railroad section gang. Jiminez fled after the shooting and Carter sent circulars to all western states peace officers. When Jiminez was picked up in Santa Ana on the traffic charge Chief Lentz recognized him as the murder suspect from the circular. MUSIC PROGRAM IN ROTARY CLUB Clyde Gwin, president of the Rotary club, presided for the last time at yesterday’s luncheon meeting. At the next meeting, a week from July Fourth, Walter Carlson, newly elected president, will take over the club reins. Bill Tamblyn was program chairman yesterday and provided musical entertainment. Billy Tobiassen, the sheriff’ s son, in clear treble sang two engaging selections, and Bob Wilson, club pianist rendered two or three very delightful numbers on the piano. WATER INJUNCTION SOUGHT IN KINGVALE Martin and Laura E, Ludwig yesterday sought an injunction in the superior court in Nevada City to prevent P. G. Loyth and Scena Loyth from diverting the natural flow of water between their properties in the Kingvale district near Truckee. The suit charges the defendants on July 1, 1938 erected a dam that submerges a great portion of the plaintiff’s property. They also claim the natural flow of the water is being unlawfully obstructed and causes damage to timber and vegetation on the Ludwig property. NORTH BLOOMFIELD. RESIDENT IS DEAD Lewis Hamilton Watson of North Bloomfield passed’ away at four o’clock yesterday morning. He was a native of Quincy, Ill., and aged 70 years. Nearly all of his life had been spent in the Graniteville and North Bloomfield district where he followed mining. Surviving are his sister, Miss Katherine Watson of North Bloomfield and. niece, Miss Margaret Pierce of Los Molinos. The body is at Holmes Funeral Home in ‘Nevada City pending funeral arrangements, FALSE ALARM Huge clouds of smoke and flames racing along the ridge at Town Talk west of the Nevada City Grass Valley highway caused considerable excitement Wednesday evening. A permit had been secured to burn grass on the Hubbard and Tobias properties and the fire ‘was started when the wind was low. The state fire truck went to the scene as well as the Nevada City fire truck and many motorists. No damage was done and the blaze was under eontrol at all times. With Fourth only a week away committees under general committeeman, George Gildersleeve, are working hard to put on an all Ameriean celebration. July The California Hydraulic Mining Association and the Clampers will have charge of the celebration the evening of the third. This’ is to be one of gaiety and fun throughout. Plans have been made for fully 500 marchers in a torch light parade. . They will rally around the American flag at the corners of Broad and Pine streets and the Plaza. Laurel Parlor, N. D. G. W. will put on a beautiful drill just after the torchlight procession. Thomas Coan will drive a truck load of men_singers and Bert Fore= man will have a truck: loaded with women singers, the two bands traveling about the city singing appropriate songs. A jolly bunch of old fashioned “‘horribles” will also ‘parade. é Merry-Go-Round A carnival with merry-go-round and other concessions will be set up . } on the lot of George Legg on Main street and will be open to the publie for several evenings. Another unit in the parade on the third. will be a group of men with plug hats and swallow tail coats. Dr. W. P. Hawkins has been selected to be grand marshall of the parade on the morning of the Fourth. Miss Gertrude Wilde has been selected as Goddess of Liberty and Miss Catherine Tognarelli will ride on a float as Columbia. DeNeal Flying Service will put on a surprise feature over the city just before the parade starts first plax ing ‘‘The Star Spangled Banner” over a special loud speaker: system. Then there will be an air show just after the parade by DeNeal. Tug of War There will be tug of war and water fights at the Plaza, the Southern Pacific company offering to send a team. The thrill of a rodeo will add to the celebration on the afternoon of the Fourth in Pioneers Park basebaH diamond. The crowds will enjoy the broncho riding, steer riding, autos rolling over and over, besides many other fancy stunts. Horse Trough. : An old fashioned horse trough is being “secured to water the horses taking part in the parade and it will set in some old time favorite haunt. Horses in the different divisions will be given time for a drink. The DeNeal Flying. Service has been secured to make an hour and @ half cireuit of nearby towns and broadcast the big celebration of the Third and Fourth. Floats All citizens are urged to get into the parade of the third. Emmett Gallagher, publicity chairman, also wishes all business men and citizengato decorate stores and homes for the big event. General Chairman George Gildersleeve wishes all those preparing units or floats for the parade to notify him or Frank Davies, chairman of the parade. Emmett Gallagher, publicity chairman states that there are plenty of banners for automobiles and they can be secured in his store free of charge. Soap Box Derby The soap box derby for all kiddies is gathering like a snow ball and promises to be one of the big events. Every day brings a number of entries: and it should provide considerable excitement for the youngsters. MINE ASSESSMENT WORK MUST BE DONE Congress has. taken no action to suspend or to extend the time for doing the current year’s assessment work on mining claims. Walter W. Bradley, State Mineralogist, warns all owners of claims held by location to have their assesment work completed by noon July 1, the end of the assessment year, or at least to commence it before then and continue it thereafter with “due diligence” untiu completed. ‘From San Francisco— Mrs. Annie Dolan of San veanieih arrived in Nevada City Sunday and is visiting her brother-in-law and ¢ ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James Dolan. :

eS 2 SEE EEG SEIT BREE Ss ae 8 ' Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada ifiable ends. ton. From the Californian, oe } March 15, 1848 ; . 11 Nuy ug . The Liberty of the Press consists in t ri lis e ! with good motives and for COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA the right to publish the Truth, just—Alexander HamilThe United States, one may see with half an eye, is headed toward a season of rigorous discipline. All the spoiled nephews and nieces of Uncle Sam are due for a course of sprouts. The big industrialist who fancied himself as an autocrat, whose word ‘was’ law among a thousand or ten thousand employes, has already undergone one part of his discipline under the New Deal. The racketeer who looked upon his fellows as sheep to be shorn is gradually being disciplined, except when he leads a double life as a labor leader and a racketeer. The law as yet has not fully caught up with all of the Bioffs, though, despite much tenderness for the fleece, occasionally the wolf is snatched from his disguise and placed where he belongs. And organized labor after its brief ascendency, in which with sit-down strikes and sabotage it wreaked reprisals upon the autocrats of industry, the economic royalists, if you like, is also being disciplined partly by threats to withdraw the very special advantages of the Wagner act, and partly by public opinion. But regardless of which party is given the national steering wheel next November, the taxpayer is the lad who will receive the most rigorous discipline. In an indifferent sort of way we have watched the nobility and landed gentry ‘of Engiand stripped of their possessions, the so-called middle classes trimmed of any fat lining, and the ‘wage earners deprived of their beer money. We hadn't. bothered much about the plight of England, but now comes a glimmering of what is going to happen to _ us. Along with the armed forces of the United States the army of tax collectors is to be augmented. We now pay, roughly, about 20 percent of our earnings or income as the case may be, under Federal, State and local tax laws. How much this is going to be upped for national defense we don’t know now, but will know next year. The German puts in practically 100 per cent of his time working for his government. We, thus far, work but twenty per cent of our _ time for our government. The new taxes will increase the hours, the days and the months that we will devote to working for Uncle Sam, but it will probably be some decades still: before we yield all our time to earning money to pay taxes. Actually the reason everyone, that is everyone but bundists. or communists, wreckers, is willing to shoulder extra taxes, is to'salvage something for himself, something of the free enterprise that made! this a great nation. But anyone with half an eye can see that the larger the ‘‘take”’ of government from private earnings, the nearer we approach to something like. collectivism or, what, to all practical purposes amounts to the same thing, totalitarianism. Naturally the more money turned over to government for its use, the more power government acquires. During the last seven years of increasing taxes which have been almost doubled, we find that the New Deal has used the money to increase its power, ‘The more money Congress votes into the control of the President, the more he is able to demand, because by the distribution of favors, the President is able to insure the allegiance of many Congressmen, especially those who buy votes with the ‘bacon they bring home.”’ What our democracy needs is more patriots and fewer politicians. When democracy fails, as it has in Norway, Denmark, Holland, and Belgium, and, alas! France, it is because the people have employ-’ ed politicians as servants instead of patriots. Thus it is that the tax payers of this country, having turned the country over to the tender mercies of politicians for the last twenty years, are due to pay the penalty. The penalty is more taxes and taxes are a discipline, We need now a patriotic business administration of government. We may or may not get iit, but if we do not, eventually we shall lose not only our possessions as individual citizens, pouring them into the insatiable maw of government, but we will also lose our heritage of personal liberty and free enterprise. The handwriting is writ large on all. the walls of HKurope. ,quarter form of, Vol. 14, No. 52. “The County Seat Paper NEVADA CTT: Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1940. SIX MONTHS FOR MAN WHO BEAT STATE OFFICER Judge George L. Jones yesterday sentenced Walter Barnes, convicted Tuesday by a_ superior court jury. of simple assault, to six months in the county jail, the maximum penalty for the offense. Barnes and Delbert Fuller of Nevada City were charged with felonious assault for-an attack April 20 upon Special Deputy Sheriff Eugene Blake, son of Captain Joseph Blake of the California highway patrol. Fuller pleaded guilty to the felonious assault count after a jury had found him guilty last week of a charge of drunken driving. Fuller’s application for probation will be considered Monday morning by Judge Jones, In sentencing Barnes, Judge Jones denied the prisoner’s request that time already served in jail be applied as part of thesentence. The jury deliberated 40 minutes before returning the guilty of simple assault verdict against Barnes. There was a question in the jurors minds whether Barnes knew the younger Blake was an, officer. James C. Tyrrell was the foreman of the jury. The other members Superior were John B. Stennett, Faith DJones, Byron A. Douglass, Fred G. Coombs, Ben S. MeLintock, Lucille J. Hamilton, Howard Wasley, Walter Fletcher, Clarence Welch, Sadie A. Bennetts and Mildred Johnson. WAR IN EUROPE INCREASES JOBS IN CALIFORNIA Despite a decline during the first of the year, district industrial activity in April was considerably higher-than a year earlier and turned upward in May. The higher rate of operations in recent months and the upturn in May are traceable principally to developments associated with the war in Europe and to the sustained high level of residential building in the district as well as elsewhere in the United States. More recently the large domestic armament program now being developed has become a prominent influence in the business’ situation through assuring a strong demand for armaments and related products over the next several years. Some of these products such as aircraft are now. produced in important volume in the twelfth district. The influence of such large armament expenditures as have been proposed would, however, be felt in this region principally through indirect channels, such as stimulation of demand for agricultural and miscellaneous industrial products growing out of a general rise in business levels. The rise in industrial operations in May was accompanied by advances in factory employment and _ payrolls, greater than seasonal gains taking place in both the Pacific Northwest and California, At the mid-month, the number of wage earners in the three Pacific Coast states was 13 per cent higher than a year earlier while payrolls showed an increase of 16 per cent. The year-period gains and the increase in May in Oregon and Washington primarily reflected increased operations in the lumber and the pulp and paper industries, while the gains in California resulted chiefly from expansion in the aircraft industry and in metal industries which supply requirements of the -aircraft manufacturers. THREE CCC BOYS PUT OUT SMOKER BLAZE CCC enrollees, Al Rico, John Gonzales and Ted Brown were responsible for extinguishing a smoker fire on the Tahoe Ukiah highway, according to a report from a Tahoe national forest officer at Nevada City. The boys were on their way into Nevada City to work when they discovered the fire along the highway in the vicinity of the Five-Mile House. Evidently it was started by a cigarette “‘flipper.’’ Tacoma Visitors— ‘Mrs. Malcolm Adams and daugh-. : ter, Bernice of Tacoma, left today af‘tter.a shott visit with Mrs. Adams’ sister, Mrs. -A._H. = of Park Avenue. . HORACE A. CURNOW _ IS SERIOUSLY ILL Much concern is expressed by the many friends of Horace. A. Curnow, manager and vice president of the Nevada City branch of the Bank o7 America, who was stricken last Sunday with a hear attack and is now under observation in the Miners Hospital. He seemed to have recovered Monday morning but his physician Dr. W. W. Reed insisted he go to the Miners hospital for, @xamination. He returned to the KOme of his mother, Mrs. Phillip Curnow, but on Tuesday suffered a series of attacks. His wife who was visiting in San Francisco was summoned. A specialist from Sacramento came up Tuesday and consulted with Dr. Reed. He was reported yesterday as somewhat improved. Mrs. Willard Winder of Riverside and Miss Ruth Curnow of San Jose arrived Tuesday night to be near their father, H. A. Curnow, who is quite ill but reported as quite cheerful and holding his own yesterday forenoon. : FISHERMAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK Herman Donald Meeker, 46 years of age, died suddenly in camp at Lake Faucherie in the high Sierras yesterday morning. He had gone on a fishing trip with his brother, Louis Meeker of Portland, Oregon, and brother in law, Fred Bitney of Bitney’s service station west of Grass Valley. He was in the cabin when a heart attack occurred and Dr. Richard P. Landis was hurriedly summoned. But Meeker died before he reached the camp. Meeker was formerly of Los Angeles and had come to Grass Valley three months ago for his health. His wife, Mrs. Veda Meeker, conducts the fountain Lunch in Nevada City. Coroner A. M. Holmes was~noti= fied and the body was moved to the. Holmes Funeral Home in Grass Valley. He leaves, besides his wife, brothers and sisters as follows: Mrs, Fred Bitney and Frank Meeker, Grass V4iley; H. Meeker, Redding; (Louis Meeker, Portland; John Meeker and Mrs. Effie Hamilton, Aberdeen;. Mrs. Lottie Kessler and Thomas Meeker, Seattle. NEV. CITY BALL TEAM DEFEATED The Nevada Gly. City baseball team were defeated last Sunday by a 10 to 11 score in the playoff game at Neweastle last Sunday. The local team led 10 to 5 until the eighth inning when Newcastle put in a new pitcher. This makes Newcastle leaders in the first half of the series of games. Captain Bill Clark of the Nevada City team states the local boys will play Camp Forest Hill CCC boys at Forest Hill next Sunday. BIRTHRATE OF STATE GOING UP SACRAMENTO, June 27—(UP)— California’s birth rate increased by 6.4 per cent during the first two months of this year over the same period last year, the state department of’ public health reported today. Department statistics compiled from county reports showed _ that deaths increased by .3 per cent during the same period. The number of-births in the state during January and February was 16,648 compared to 15,638 in the same two months of 1939. Deaths totalled 13,842 in the 1940 period and 13,801 in the 1939 period. The department also noted a decrease of 36 per cent in marriages during the month of April. ‘The decrease, from 17,218 to 11,014, is attributed to the law requiring premarital tests for syphilis.

Home from San Francisco— Mrs. Lyda Talbot’ returned Tuesday from a visit in San Francisco with her sister and brother in law. Birthday Party— Mrs. Will Davis of, Willow Valley entertained several little friends Wednesday afternoon honoring the fourth birthday of her little granddaughter, Evelyn Welch. ’ BID ON WRONG MAYFLOWER MINE ON TAX SALE: bid of $300 a mine at a tax a a . . Charles Graleae wi the Mayflower here yesterday. But Graham’s elation over what . he believed was a great bargain was short-lived. He had not successfully bid in the famous Mayflower mine near Nevada City, but a little known quartz property, also known as the Mayflower, near Graniteville. The Nevada City Mayflower property had been redeemed shortly before the tax sale opened. Graham was unaware of that and he believed he was bidding for the valuable Mayflower mine near here. Byron Bastman, Nevada City mining engineer, also had designs on the Graniteville Mayflower, only knew what he was bidding for. The bidding started out at $10 which séems a fair price for an undeveloped mining claim. Graham, thinking Treasurer Frank Steel was conducting the sale on the _ noted Nevada City~district producer, kept raising Eastman’s bid. Finally Graham got the mine at $300 and then learned it wasn’t the mine he wanted. Now Graham is seeking to arrange a deal whereby Eastman can take over the Graniteville Mayflower. Tax Collector Frank Steel reported at a late hour yesterday no depoist on the mine had yet been made. PRODUCTION OF WAR MINERALS SHOWS INCREASE SACRAMENTO, June 27—(UP)—Production of strategic minerals in California took its biggest jump in 1939 since world war days the state division of mines reported today. In one mineral, molybdenum ore, production in 1939 was greater than for all previous years, the department said. New highs also were recorded in production of gypsum, lithia minerals, lime, tale and soapstone and soda. Antimony production was the highest since 1916, chromite since 1919, and tungsten since 1918. The 1939 gold output was_ the highest year’s value since 1856 and the largest number of’ fine ounces since 1862, with the differences being accounted for by the increased price of gold. Lode mines set an alltime high. ° STATE’S YOUNG JOB SEEKERS TOTAL 44,653 SACRAMENTO, June 27—(UP)— About 11 per cent of the persons seeking work in California are under 25 years of age, the state department of employment reported today. The department said that there are 44,653 ‘‘juniors’’ registered as seeking pobs, out of a total registration of 413,140 unemployed. Included in this group were 27,150 applicants under 21 years of age and 17,503 between 21 and 25, the department said. The majority of junior workers registered had less than six months full time paid experience in private industry. Clerical, service and unskilled occupations were sought mainly by the younger applicants, while only eight per cent of those recorded applied for jobs in skilled occupations. CUTS PALM CAMPTONVILLE, June 27.—Leon Hinds the youngest son of Mrs. Nellie Hinds cut the palm of his hand very badly last week when he fell on a piece of broken glass. First aid was rendered, but the glass had cut an artery and the incision was in such a difficult place that it was almost impossible to stop the bleeding and the boy was rushed to the Nevada County Hospital for medical attention and remained there two days. CAMP FIRE GIRLS ARRIVE The second truck load of Camp Fire Girls for the week passed through town yesterday the latter group coming from Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. They will spend their vacations in camp on Lake Vera north of Nevada City. Old Time, Big Time s Fourth for Nev. City MURDERER FOUND BUT WITNESSES HAVE VANISHED Because no witnesses are avail-. able, Louis Jiminez will escape prosecution on a nine year old Nevada, County murder charge. Chief of Police Earl B. Lentz of Santa Ana, Orange County, notified . Nevada (County authorities a man held in Santa Ana on a traffic count answered the description of Jiminez, who is accused of shooting a fellow . Mexican in Truckee in 1931. Addi-. tional communications convinced local officers Jiminez was the man sought for the murder and District Attorney Vernon Stoll began an immediate search.for witnesses. The quest was unsuccessful—even the original murder complaint, made} out by a deceased Truckee justice) of the peace, has disappeared—so . Wednesday Chief Lentz was notfied. ‘Nevada County did not want to bring Jiminez to Nevada City to stand trial. The murder was committed when George. R. Carter was sheriff. The slayer and his victim were ‘both members of a railroad section gang. Jiminez fled after the shooting and Carter sent circulars to all western states peace officers. When Jiminez was picked up in Santa Ana on the traffic charge Chief Lentz recognized him as the murder suspect from the circular. MUSIC PROGRAM IN ROTARY CLUB Clyde Gwin, president of the Rotary club, presided for the last time at yesterday’s luncheon meeting. At the next meeting, a week from July Fourth, Walter Carlson, newly elected president, will take over the club reins. Bill Tamblyn was program chairman yesterday and provided musical entertainment. Billy Tobiassen, the sheriff’ s son, in clear treble sang two engaging selections, and Bob Wilson, club pianist rendered two or three very delightful numbers on the piano. WATER INJUNCTION SOUGHT IN KINGVALE Martin and Laura E, Ludwig yesterday sought an injunction in the superior court in Nevada City to prevent P. G. Loyth and Scena Loyth from diverting the natural flow of water between their properties in the Kingvale district near Truckee. The suit charges the defendants on July 1, 1938 erected a dam that submerges a great portion of the plaintiff’s property. They also claim the natural flow of the water is being unlawfully obstructed and causes damage to timber and vegetation on the Ludwig property. NORTH BLOOMFIELD. RESIDENT IS DEAD Lewis Hamilton Watson of North Bloomfield passed’ away at four o’clock yesterday morning. He was a native of Quincy, Ill., and aged 70 years. Nearly all of his life had been spent in the Graniteville and North Bloomfield district where he followed mining. Surviving are his sister, Miss Katherine Watson of North Bloomfield and. niece, Miss Margaret Pierce of Los Molinos. The body is at Holmes Funeral Home in ‘Nevada City pending funeral arrangements, FALSE ALARM Huge clouds of smoke and flames racing along the ridge at Town Talk west of the Nevada City Grass Valley highway caused considerable excitement Wednesday evening. A permit had been secured to burn grass on the Hubbard and Tobias properties and the fire ‘was started when the wind was low. The state fire truck went to the scene as well as the Nevada City fire truck and many motorists. No damage was done and the blaze was under eontrol at all times. With Fourth only a week away committees under general committeeman, George Gildersleeve, are working hard to put on an all Ameriean celebration. July The California Hydraulic Mining Association and the Clampers will have charge of the celebration the evening of the third. This’ is to be one of gaiety and fun throughout. Plans have been made for fully 500 marchers in a torch light parade. . They will rally around the American flag at the corners of Broad and Pine streets and the Plaza. Laurel Parlor, N. D. G. W. will put on a beautiful drill just after the torchlight procession. Thomas Coan will drive a truck load of men_singers and Bert Fore= man will have a truck: loaded with women singers, the two bands traveling about the city singing appropriate songs. A jolly bunch of old fashioned “‘horribles” will also ‘parade. é Merry-Go-Round A carnival with merry-go-round and other concessions will be set up . } on the lot of George Legg on Main street and will be open to the publie for several evenings. Another unit in the parade on the third. will be a group of men with plug hats and swallow tail coats. Dr. W. P. Hawkins has been selected to be grand marshall of the parade on the morning of the Fourth. Miss Gertrude Wilde has been selected as Goddess of Liberty and Miss Catherine Tognarelli will ride on a float as Columbia. DeNeal Flying Service will put on a surprise feature over the city just before the parade starts first plax ing ‘‘The Star Spangled Banner” over a special loud speaker: system. Then there will be an air show just after the parade by DeNeal. Tug of War There will be tug of war and water fights at the Plaza, the Southern Pacific company offering to send a team. The thrill of a rodeo will add to the celebration on the afternoon of the Fourth in Pioneers Park basebaH diamond. The crowds will enjoy the broncho riding, steer riding, autos rolling over and over, besides many other fancy stunts. Horse Trough. : An old fashioned horse trough is being “secured to water the horses taking part in the parade and it will set in some old time favorite haunt. Horses in the different divisions will be given time for a drink. The DeNeal Flying. Service has been secured to make an hour and @ half cireuit of nearby towns and broadcast the big celebration of the Third and Fourth. Floats All citizens are urged to get into the parade of the third. Emmett Gallagher, publicity chairman, also wishes all business men and citizengato decorate stores and homes for the big event. General Chairman George Gildersleeve wishes all those preparing units or floats for the parade to notify him or Frank Davies, chairman of the parade. Emmett Gallagher, publicity chairman states that there are plenty of banners for automobiles and they can be secured in his store free of charge. Soap Box Derby The soap box derby for all kiddies is gathering like a snow ball and promises to be one of the big events. Every day brings a number of entries: and it should provide considerable excitement for the youngsters. MINE ASSESSMENT WORK MUST BE DONE Congress has. taken no action to suspend or to extend the time for doing the current year’s assessment work on mining claims. Walter W. Bradley, State Mineralogist, warns all owners of claims held by location to have their assesment work completed by noon July 1, the end of the assessment year, or at least to commence it before then and continue it thereafter with “due diligence” untiu completed. ‘From San Francisco— Mrs. Annie Dolan of San veanieih arrived in Nevada City Sunday and is visiting her brother-in-law and ¢ ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James Dolan. :