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June 4, 1934 (8 pages)

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ee ONLY paper, It support s Hometown scribe for it? Ws 00 Our ue worth while. Do you sub< Newsthings . Nevada City Nugget is a Member of the Cited Pr Nevada City ugget ess And California Newspaper Publishers Association { Your Hometown News. paper helps build your . community. Readers and ; advertisers make it a . good builder. i i Vol. VIII, No. 59 . The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD. Center MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1934 Girls’ Camps at Lake Vera to Open June 13 Mrs. Snyder, in charge of Camp Girl activities, has been in NeCity a few days arranging for arrival of about -30 girls, the froup, from Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley on June 13th. She placed orders for groceries, ice cream, . Kire vada the first eream, milk and other necessary supplies to be used during the summer and left for the bay district this afternoon. Miss Rhea Rupert,who is in charge of the Piedmont Camp Fire TREASURY MAKES BOND OFFERING OF 800 MILLION Girls, is exuected to arrive today or See . SAN.. FRANCISCC 2. 4—-The tomoricw +> is -up-the camp-for-the \ FRANCISCO, . June. 4—The arrival o ‘coup of Camp Fire Girls . U. Se Treasury is today offering for in the near future. 1 subseription at par and accrued in+ : : i . The Mills College camp, which was . terest, through the Federal Reserve {rented by the Camp Girls Reserve of . Ranks, $300,000,000 or thereabouts, the W. C--T—t.—wil-epen_June_18 with 100 girls. : The Lake Vera-section will present a busy, happy scene for ‘several weeks as relays of. girls come for their annual vacations. of 1946-48, and .$500,000,000, -or thereabouts 5-year 214 per cent Treasury notes of series A-1939, witti the right reserved to the Secretary of the Tréasury to increase the offering YELLOW JACKETS, RED ANTS ATTACK MINER Ted Shields, mining man, who working a gravel claim two . miles from North Columbia, had a harrowing experience last week while building a fence about his property. Busy cutting a trait through brush, he disturbed a nest! of yellow jackets that fiercely attacked him. He rushed to the house. doused his wounds with baking soda and returning, decided to detour the nest. In doing so he suddenly found himself in the midst of a red ants’ tenement. They' ran up his trouser legs biting fiercely at every pause in their ascent. Shields shucked out of his clothes and ran to his cabin and used up the rest of. the Can of soda. He came into town ‘Saturday to replenish the soda supply. DR. VORONOFF T0 STUDY stew ives _ BAGDAD CENLENARIANS LONDON, Voronoff, June. 4.—Dr. Serg: famous tejuvenation expert, has been studying why people can live to be-100. had heard that those cities had many centenarians. In particular, a community of old people living near Teheran, who have apparently discovered the secret of long: life, aroused Dr. Vooronoff's interest. ‘People’s ages are often exaggerated in the East,’’ he said, “but I have received . authentie information from unbiased . French doctors in the region many of these people show strong proof of being more than 130 years! old. Only in Ireland have I heard! of cases approaching this. People there, I believe, have lived to be} £20." fat EEE NE ee a at TREATY OF UNION Ss BURNED IN PUBLIC EDINBURGH, June large 4.—While a and played, Miss Wendy Wood set fire te crowd cheered bagpipes. a paraffin-soaked copy of the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England, burgh, in Parliament Square, EdinScotland, recently. The meeting was that of the Democratie Scottish Self-Government Organization, and the destruction of the document was described as bonfire.’’ fs Garty, a miner, presided. The burning followed the placing on the door of the‘ol@ Parliament House a notice stating that the treaty had been broken. Miss Wood “Scotland's best of Treasury bonds by an amount sufficient to allot in full all subscriptions for which payment is tendered in Treasury certificates of indebtedness of Series TJ 1934,. maturing UPWARD TREND: June 15; 1934, or Treasury notes of @ . Series B-1934, maturing August 1, ‘ 11934, ; : DESPITE STRIKES The Treasury bonds will be dated }June 15, 1934, and will. bear interest from that date at the rate of 3 per Main problem of industry hasn’t . .¢)¢ per annum, payable semi-annualchanged the last few iy eet eeh cee ly on June 15th and December 15th that problem is strikes. Activities in each year. in Toledo, where the national guard They will mature June 15, 1948 was called out, several men killed but may be redeemed atthe sation and many ‘badly injured, have stun-{o¢ the United States on and afer June ned the public. At this writing, Pa-115, 1946. cific Coast commerce is tied up solid . The Treasury notes will be dated with the longshoremen’s and sea. fuse 15, 1934, and will bear interest men’s strikes. Outside of this, little . trom that date at the rate of 2% per that is especially noteworthy has . happened to industry. <A brief rei view follows: each year. They will mature June 12-T4-year 3 per cent Treasury “bonds . jtered 400 feet away March 22 Me, icen pef annum, payable semi-annual 000\a . ly on June 15, and December 15, in. is still being removed from the scene THREE STRIKES AT CARSON HILL ‘School and MINE REPORTED MELONES, June 4—Three recent strikes of rich ore, two within the past week, have helped the Carson Hill mine at Melones ‘to attain its . Members of former position as one of the leading twill ae i mining proper Hes_in California. beties “commencement The two most recent strikes were the discovery of high grade -aré in . Friday evening. The theme of the the Calaveras open pit and the un“The covering of high grade on the north! School and the Community.” The end of the Morgan Glory hole, 400 . speakers on thig general. theme and feet from the find of ‘‘jewelry’”’ rock their special topics will be: : March 12. 1. ‘‘What the School Owes. the Of the discovery at the Calaveras . Community,” by Gove Celio. Open pit, Lawrence Monte Verda, 2. “What Our Community Vice president of the Carson Hill . the School,” Gold Mining Corporation, Bayse The t. .2), ore is showing galena “and values . Citizenship,” are running high. Some samples 4. the graduating class provide the entire program for exercises next commencement will be: Owes by Helen Arbogast. “Our School a: Laboratory of by Beryl Godfrey. “What a High School Student To Be Senior Topic At Commencement Community’ 5. “If We Go No Further,’ by Margaret Phariss. The Valedictorian this--year —is 3eryl Godfrey and the Salutatorian is Margaret Phariss. The awards of the Hauber Scholarship to a student. about to enter the .University, and: the’ 6: I, B. scholarship have. not-yet been made. Helen Arbogast and Beryl Godfrey, aside from the many. honors won in scholarship, have a 100 per cent reeord of attendance for the four years they have attended high school. Musician.numbers on Friday eveprovided by ‘talented ning will be reach $30 a ton.’ Ore previously taken from the Calaveras sit of steam Should Represent,’’ by Ben Sweeney. members of the senior class. shovel operations averaged from $4 to $5 a ton. Two hundred tons of . : the higher grade ore are being re-j moved by steam shovel every day, : Monte Verda said. Some ore being taken out from the north end of the Morgan Glory hole is “equally as good as that encounBids closed today at 10 o’eloek the wrecking of the buildings on the site recently purchased in Nevada City by the Bank of America for their.new building. These bids were received by the Capital Company in San Francisco. of the first strike, some still running . were fer Monte Verda states. The’March 12 discovery . yielded ore ranging from $80,000 to $150,ton. Value-bearing quartz ! STEEL—Production has Mehl 1939, and will not be subject to (ed, recently touching 59 per cent of \ capacity. Industry believes. that fsummer seasonal trends will force a . }slackening soon. bere for redemption prior to that; ‘date, : i . AS more’ specifically stated in the, ;the rails remains comparatively good. } est, who never heard of monkey’s glands 3 He recently vis. the wholesale commodity level touchited Bagdad and Teheran because he j}@d the highest mark of the year. A ‘steady, slow advance is noticeable. that . ing their ; MOTORS-—Beginning in late April! wjy) be exempt, a decline in production began and it) and interest, fro has continued. Late weekly reports estate or inh 11,000 units from Three companies! The interest on bo out of +5 showed slight gains. ; the second liberty bond-act) i CARLOADINGS—On May 4, load‘$5000 of prinei ings were almost 2,000,000 cars over! pwne will same period lastyear. -A slight de-j. cline is appearing, but the position of lpreceding week. rship be exempt from 7empt both as to principal and interCOMMODITY PRICES—Recentty . or inheritance taxes, Bearer bonds with pons attached and as to principal and issued in interest bonds interest will COAL-—Production, though tending downward, is much heavier than in previous two ears. SECURITIES—tThe stock market has been generally quiet, with few changes from the level. reached last March. Recently average _ prices have fallen, with utilities alone holdground. Average prices have likewise been lower. tETAIL TRADE-—A rather sharp drop has oecurred in this field. Lateht official data indicates that the decline is greater than seasonal experience would have indicated. GENERAL BUSINESS INDEX During most of this year, the rise has been greater than seasonal.. Part ot that has been lost. through late decline, but the index is . still far ahead of last year. denominations of $50, j $100, $500, $1000, $5000, $10,000 and $100,000. sued in bearer form only, with $10,000 and $100,000. REUNION FOR FOR bond FOR FORMER The seventh annual reunion of the Sacramento Association of former Nevada county. residents will be held at the State Fair Grounds on Sunday, June 10. During the lunch hours from 11:30 a. Mm. to 1:20 -p, om, there will’ be music and entertainment, and from 1:30. -to:. 3: rfont of the grand stand there will be boxing and an exhibition by the athletes of the Sacramento Turn-Verien: also acHELD FOR D. C. BEIGHTOL ,cordian music by pupils of John Ne. ronde. improvement 30° DF omy in The late D. the in Pine Grove cemetery on Friday.'4ay and will call upon prominent NeAt the Little Chureh Funeral Home! vada county and Sacramento citia beautiful zens for short talks. Bring lunch, cups and a container for coffee. The
C. Beightol was buried George Radcliff is chairman of sermon was preached in his memory by his old friend, Rev. O. H. Fuller. Mrs. Katherine Celio, . @8sociation will furnish the coffee accompanied by Mrs. Gibson, feel-}from 11:30 a. m., to 1:30. ingly sang the ‘hymns, “‘Vale”’ and A four piece orchestra will furnish music for dancing from 3:30 to p,. 6:30 px» m. ‘Come, spend the day “Christian’s Goodnight.” The pall bearers were: 0; made herself known last year by leading a party which hauled down! the Union Jack from Stirling Castle and hoisted a Scottish flag. before the eyes of a surprised sentry. JEWELRY ROCK FOUND AT COPPEROPOLIS COPPERAPOLIS, June 4.— In sinking ‘a shaft on the Bonanza mine in the Keystone district, four miles east of Copperopolis, ‘jewelry’ ore has been struck by W. D. Hicks, Logs Angeles mining man. Hicks recently leased the property from MReusser and Son, and lost no time in starting operations. Surface ;Strangberg, A. J. et. S. Arbogast, Clayton Chatfield and W. R. Jefford and Son were in . charge of arrangements. 'er’s Night next Wednesday evening, with us and bring your friends. The committee members will do everything in their power to make the day enjoyable for you,’’ declares T. B. Monk, president, and Blizabeth Carey, A. Hartung, J. F. Stenger. official circulars, the Treasury bonds! amounted to $350,000, Monte Verda coe ees: both as to principal ;@nnounces. Ore treated during April } mall taxation except . eritance taxes, surtaxes, ; excess profits and par profits taxes.{DPlant, now under way nds (issued under!to be completed by October 1, and, up-to! -when fintshed; Willmean_a_considerpal amount under one . able increase in tonnage treated ana . North Star propery, below Grass Val-. all : taxation, and the notes wili be ex-! ‘a i from all taxation except estate; to be erected by June 1. cou. dered. f . registered be ij : ! The notes will be is-{the 1600 and 1350 foot levels ‘line, . in. terest coupons attached in denomin. ations of $100, $500, $1000, $5000, . NEVADA CITY FOLKS! Stone, secretary. % P. T. A. Will Celebrate “Father's Night’’ Wednesday At Friday's meeting of the P. T. A., it was decided to hold the FathSEVERAL SCHOOLS HOLD . GRADUATION EXERCISES 4 Diplomas were granted Saturday’ June 6. A_ splendid program in, to the 8th grade pupils of Truckee, which the second, third and fourth. Chicago Park, North Bloomfield and grades will take part, is scheduled . Oakland or Gold Flat schools.. The for the evenings entertainment. Cap-. diplomas this year are gold covers of tain Joe Blake, of the traffic patrol;!natural leather for the case and a gave a splendid talk on accidents, colored leaflet with the regular avoidance ete, dfpioma inside. Each year County Superintendent mM indications Were promising and with! William Bray, who with Mrs. Bray, . El grown. has been the guest of the latter’s It is the inten-! mother, Mrs. Fred Searls, left yestion of the operator to place machin. terday depth the large ledge has richer and richer, ery on the property after a definite ‘ore tonnage has been assured. y la M. Austin tries to make the . diplomas different the covers varying in colors, one being a beautiful blue, for San Francisco. Mrs. . but the gold color is the most attracBray will remain until early in the . tive so far, as they seem suitable to week visiting with her mother. ithis section of California. -and Larry Seiker, of Grass Valley,!vada City Saturday. ’ “very high’ in value, accordi ee ODOR phciler image 2, ; n& tO) several local general contractors and the eer nent. sub contractors have sent in bids on Since the mine was reopened Octothis work and an answer is looked . ber 1, 1933, total production has ae a ‘PHOENIX MINE SHAFT Additions to the mill and cyanide NOW DOWN 300 FEET tlret . i 1 eel ,_are expected j . . The: Phoenix mine, west of employment. ew tanks have been ordered se tions are being made to sink again. the cyanide plant and This is one of the newly opened; With a . ‘ley, is now down 300 feet. 1 1 i i aie . i Prepara-j; . . . are expected } New steel . Properties of this: year. . door classifiers also have been or,large acreage acquired in +months it promises well. TwentyNew cables have been purchased; five men are employed under Suand it is planned to open the bottom . perintendent T. S. Davey. of the mine at 3000 feet, Monte Ver. da states. A raise is being run from the 200: Ore is now coming from foot level’ to: cut the Riley-Hurley The corporation states it is increasi ing the capacity of the mill from 600 to 1000 tons daily, an investment approximating $250,000. mec ey! Senne ese YOUNG HITCHHIKERS RETURNED TO PARENTS Two young lads about fourteen or City Friday afternoon after a *hitch-hike Four shifts of men are working. . The company purchased the eae . estate of 137 acres recently. NEVADA CITY AIRPORT ATTRACTING TRAFFIC While the Nevada City .airport is} . not complete, able to land on one runway. Without! difficulty, Sat. urday with a plane landed there and . considered pilots. are thereabouts. landed. in Nevada it was demonstrated from the maddening crowds of San Krancisco. They greeted. by probation officer A. W. McGagin and given the hospitality of part of the court house. The officers succeeded took off easily. Not Jong since a big . Were plane used in the airmailservice be. tween Seattle and. Alaskan points . landed .at the field with ‘Mr. Mrs.. James Donahue of Cordova, . and their guest Miss Lucille Dur-. brow, daughter. of Mr. and Mrs, Will! Durbrow, of Town Talk, as the upper and . in getting , in touch with the parents of the two yg : > ry P boys, and one of them, Leo Ribkoff, passenwas sent to his home in San F ran! gers, The pilot was Harold Gielan. cisco yesterday. The other boy, . re eNO Ch eta ORIN i 4 y ape rac QV < 7 “ i ene i * Kimball Anderson, was today taken ARRESTED FOR DISTURBING THE to Downieville, where his mother is PEACE staying temporarily. Both boys ‘3 2 were on their way to Irving Hooper was arrested Sunday by Officer Grass Valley eee . and brought to the county jail where IN SPAULDING LAKE “"“* *°"" Se Gre) . Mr. W. F. Roddy, of Reno, Nev., A fishing party composed of Mr. . came to Nevada City Saturday. Mrs. and Mrs. U. S. Simonds, of Burlin. Roddy will return to Reno with him game, Mrs. C. Muscardini, Mr. and . 0n Monday for a few weeks stay. Mrs. Larson Henwood and children,. Mr. E. L. Patton and Mr. H. C. and Elisha Curtis, of Nevada City, Werner, of You Bet, were in NeDownieville . when halteq in Nevada City. \ Fraser, ‘of enjoyed Sunday at Lake Spaulding. . They caught several nice trout and a Striped bass, the latter being a surPrise as they had no idea bass. were in the lake. They also saw another large bass in shallow water near the shore, which refused to bite. p. Mrs. W. H. McClish and her son, of Nevada City, attended the graduation exercises at the North Bloomfield school on Friday evening. Mrs. McClishe’s daughter is the teacher ‘of the school. nes * TWENTY MEN EMPLOYED Bes Hate purer gh ee IN ZEIBRIGHT MINE vada City, spent several days in Nevada City last week as the guests of ——_ 'Miss Minnie Brand and Mrs. Belle There are about 20 men employed . Dotiglas. They were here for the at the Zeibright mine in Bear Valley . Memorial Day exercises and left Frinear Emigrant Gap. At present day for their home'in the Bay seccrews are cross cutting in the tunnel . tion. “ in development of the property. The pee flotation mill is running part time Mr. and Mrs. William Hatch spent on ore taken from development work . the week end on a trip to Tonopah, in progress, where he attended to business. . Eis trial was set for June 26. Branch 'was arrested by Captain J. E. Blake THREE FOX PUPS ARE CAPTURED BY PICKELL. F. M. Pickell, of Pick’s Retreat, two miles above Camptonville, has three fox pups that provide endless amusement for his guests. Pickell while fishing a short time ago noticed two foxes hovering around a pile of stones. Investigating he found the pair refused to leave the pile except to keep out of his reach. He began delving into the rock pile andpresently discerned the den with the pups in it. The parents now approached and displayed a peevish temper. With one. hand Pickell . battled off the Reynard and. wife and with the other captured the three pups. They are now fairly domesticated and: their antics provide the chief center of interest in his camp. ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVER PLEADS. Elmer Branch pleaded not guilty to the charge of driving. while drunk before the court on Friday morning. after a collision with a telegraph pole. The defendent has retained Attorney Frank G. Finnegan. FUNERAL WEDNESDAY FOR MERLE HARLESS Funeral service from the Holmes Funeral Parlor, in Grass Valley, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’elock for Merle William Harless, a youth 21 years old, ‘who was killed early Sunday morning when his car turned over while he was making aturn in Boston Ravine. Harless is survived by his mother, Mrs. Effie Fippin, of,the Rough and Ready district. He was born in Colorado and would have been 21 years of age on June 17. KEYSTONE CROSS CUTS TO PICK UP LEDGE The Keystone mine, west of Grass Valley, has passed the 100 foot level in sinking operations and are now drifting to cut the ledge. The three compartment shaft was sunk perpendicularly and at the 60 foot depth they were out of the ledge. Im cross cutting, they expect to.pick up the ledge. M. B. Rapp, of Santa Monica and associates, recently took over the property, which lies in a promising section near the Empress mine. : % FOR COUNTY TRAPPER The Board of County Supervisors at their montly meeting today, im response to the petition of a group ~ of farmers from the southern section of the county, agreed to continue the — work of the county trapper wars against predatory a They budgeted $1250 for the tr for the next fiscal year. . so 4 Ey le i *