June 7, 1945 (4 pages)

bE " it eee r7in positions of power, . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’”—Daniel Webster a Nevada City Nugget CCVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ . This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. 45 The County Seat Paper ee NEVADA \ CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Peni THURSDAY, ,UNE. i. 1945, THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. LL. Reviewing the German attitude as reflected by Herr Hitler when he took his first steps on the road to universal war, we recall that Hitler and his nazi followers expressed the (belief that we Americans were soft people, strongly averse to war, weakly indulgent of .our comforts, and without intestinal fortitude. That in general was the opinion of us exPressed by: the contemptous junkers and nazis. ‘As it turns out, Germany lost the war before it began, because ‘her people lacked the moral stamina needed to control their own government. Germans have had gor more centuries than we of the United States, Christian. teaching. The Protestant Church in its many divisions stems from Martin Luther’s rebellion. In short the German people had a great Christian heritage which should have, in fhe normal course of events, turned them against Hitler and made them attempt to overthrow him long before the war began. As Waltér Lippman points, out, no element, no group in all Germany, attempted to redeem during the long rise to power and usurpation, of human rights by the mazis. There was no revolt, no attempt to unseat the maniacal leader who dragged the nation into slimy jungles of primitive man. German honor the The ig aa PAUL BARNES — TELLS OF TIMBER WEATLH Ranger Paul Barnes of the North Bloomfield district of Tahoe National Forest, in an address before the Grass Valley Rotary Club, declared that the young pine groves of Nevada (County are among the valuable assets of this region. : Barnes was guest speaker and was introduced by the program chairman William Durbrow. Timber growng is the highest farm crop on much of the land, Barnes said, due to the fact that in this region growth is more than usually rapid. In a well managed grove, he stated, an acre will increase 500 board feet annually. : «Nevada County has a large share in young forest growth, he declared, and the county is in an advantageous position due to its proximity to big markets. The county not only has gold under ground but much potential gold above ground, and under proper management this can be made to produce continuously, gold mines ultimately peter whereas out. EIGHTH GRADERS GRADUATE THIS EVENING Fifty four students of the Elemenjunker clique who tried to kill Hitler! tary School's 8th grade will gradu. get svaANnin< No 2A. only demonstrated the brute de-. ate this evening. during commence gradation ‘of the German leadership . ment ceremonies in the school’s auin the last days of the war. Any nation can produce monsters that torture and murder. But none in recent centuries, exalted them as hag Germany, and ever gave them placed them. ditorium. The program follows: March of . March, . Priests, Graduation Mendelssohn. Invocation, Rev. Cedric Porter. Ave Maria, (for} . violins). Norma Scholefield, soloist. 3ach, Blue Hills of Seotland, Scotch} Adair, Seventh and Eighth Grades; ; d tis’ vod ee Prayer of Thanksgiving, Netherlands piipcsictags pees a ne inctitboaiee ds Air. Seventh and: Highth Grades; SS OMe stan oar ere oor aia Romberg, Elementary School Orrendered unto the leader of the besieniek tat crew, the nee? side the Just @° Prayer Away, Violet ‘Coss defty, as was done for Herr Hitler. , x lalio, Arlene Ronningen. Presenta: tion of class, Mr. Lloyd M. Geist: Lacking moral stamina which) Sonata, Kuhlau, Joanne Hefelfinger. Christian teaching instills, off all restraints upon greed and lust, the German people reverted to their iprimeyal, throwing, Introductions, Mr. H. E. Kjorlie Presentation of diplomas, Dr. Bernard W. Hummelt. America, Seventh tribal. gods an amazing . Grade and Bighth Grade Chorus. phenominum, never before recorded. Benediction, Rev. Virgil Gabrielli. in human history. We shall never! March of the Priests, Mendelssohn, cease to be: astonished at this spectacle of a people reared in thé greatest musical traditions on earth, upon the poetry of Goethe and Schiller, in the philosophy of Kant, and in the learning of world known scokrs, at whose feet sat many of own eminent men in the present and in the past generation, heirs to all this, yet who descended to the depths of Buchenwald and Deschau. So it was the Germans who were soft; who were gullible, and utterly ‘ deceived by a quack, who were strong only when they could beat the weak, who weakened and cried Kamerad! and slavishly surrendered when the odds were against them. Yet it still is a matter of amazement, that so many milliong did die for the bestial ideals of the furher. They really believed they . were supermen, as Hitler said they were, that they could destroy the “weak and soft nations’’ who opposed them, mations that ought to die because fthey took up room on earth that the master race should occupy. Is there a cure for such madness?! There may be a cure, that of re-editeating a people, beginning with the youngest children, just as Hitler did But have the allies the patience, the teachers and the endurance to carry through such a system year upon tyear? Will we in the United States, jnsist twenty years from now that this system of re-education be continued? Poor as we shall be, comspared to the lush years before 191+, ibe expected to do their part? If we are ever tempted to falter in this work of converting Germans into good neighbors, remember that whatever it costs it will be much cheaper than . war. ‘. jorie Ronningen, Please let us Recessional. The Elementary School Orchestra is directed ‘by Mr. Franc Luschen. The Elementary School (Chorus is directed by Miss Janice Judd. The students graduating are: *Robert Stephen Baker, Shirley ; Norene Balch, Frances Anne Barnes, *Joseph Richard Bertino, *James Kenneth Beverage, *Gloria Franices Biltoft, Wayne Elwyn Bousfield, ‘Chester Harold Brady, ricia Cozzalio, David LeRoy Dow, Raymond Walter Ellis, Frances Lee Este, Marcelene Lavern Gates, Herbert William Getchell, Julius Jacob Hafelfinger, *Jean Eloise Hall, *Joan Marjorie Hall, *Joanne Hefelfinger, *avina Bernice Heiser, Zelma Annamae Heiser, William Lemar Hoskin, *Richard MuRay Howe, Robert Paul Jamerson, William Kelly, David Kistle, *Genevieve Alene Lamson. *Violet PatBurns Jonas Larson, Kenneth Junior Launius, *Rose Edith LaValley, *Joyce Dolores Lee, Dorothea Viola Lewis, Phyllis Louise Lewis, Joseph Anthony Lloyd. “Glenn Theodore Lowry, Virginia Ruth Manley, Lavonne Eva McCormick, Charleen Rose McCune, *William Lytle Moore, Richard Carl Noren, Alice May Phelps, *Burdette Gene Risley, *Arlene Mar*Norma Dean SchoRose Sealight, Ray Francis Smart, *Stanley Stanovich, Robert Topliff, *Lloyd Frederick ‘Trautman, Sarah Ellen Usrey, Gordon Burnell Vance, Gail Willey, Donald Lee Williams, *John Lewig Zunino. * Awarded, school letter. lefield, *Betty will we -be willing to spend the i money needed, assuming that it is ice : Se 26 aeuke only one fourth of the whole, since EDWARD STEELE TO SPE ‘England, Russia and France must. ©dward Steele, manager of the Grass Valley office of the United States Employment Service, will be the guest speaker this evening at the forum meeting of the Grass Valley Business and Professional Woman’s *Bdna—Idelle Dixon, ~ FIRE TRAINING CAMP AT WHITE CLOUD JUNE 1113 On June 7 to 9 inclusvie, a meéting will be held with the Tahoe staff officers the district rangers and fire control. assistants, at which time general administrative problems will ‘be discussed and a training program completed for large fire overhead personnel. This will be followed by the annual fire training camp of the Tahoe national forest. The camp will ibe held at White Cloud on Highway 20 during June 11 to 13 inclusiye announced ‘forest, supervisor Guerdon Bilis. The training program will be under the general supervision of engineer-fire control officer, J. M. Shock, assisted by central dispatcher Gordon Vance, district ranger Warren Barnes and fire and control assistant Darwin Conover of the Bloomfield District. Training, states Ellis will ‘be scheduled to meet problems of national forest fire prevention and suppression during continued war time man power shortages. Women who serves on fire lookout ecting fires. Several women who serve as clerk-distpatchers in ranger, headquarters will ‘be given tions on fire ilsae and office practices. rangers in local fighting fires man power exhausted. The be visitor’s day, when sources have busy day of the program will . Tuesday the 12th, special demonstrations of fire towers will be given training in det-, instruc. ithree oak leaf clusters, and the par-. . over Training officers from nearby ;army camps will be guests, viewing fire fighting methods which will be! taught to troops who will assist the! whenever . ‘been . CLUB TOURS FINE GARDENS OF CITY The Nevada City Garden Club last week made its tour of community gardens. Accompaning them were a number of visitors from Graés Valley. The home of Dr. Fritz Tobias 9n Town Talk with its wealth of shrubs and flower beds was visited first. Then followed the gardens.of District Attorney H. ‘Ward Sheldon, across the road, Dr. Harry Benteen and Col. John G. Csannonhouse. From Town Talk the party went to the large private park of R. J. Bennetts, at the corner of Broad Street and the Downieville Highway, the charming garden and grove of Mrs. Jessica Carr and the wide lawns and shrub groupings of Dr. B. W. Hummelt. Especially noted during the tour was the abundance of Rhododenrons, azaleas, roses and iris. COMBAT PILOT LEADS WAR BOND SHOW HERE Lieutenant Edward D. Ulrich, AAF fighter . guished flying cross, the air medal heart—for Romania, speaker ple hair raising will be~ the today at the Nevada City exploits totary Club luncheon in the Nation-. al Hotel. Accompanying the air officer on la tour of cities in northern Califor. nia, including Grass Valley .and this . . city, are army personnel driving !eontrol equipment will be given. The . M-8 armored car and a scout car. The . }climax of the day's activities will be j4 lan after dinner program put ‘resource assistant Fred Ahrenholz}. of Nevada City. Hobart Snider of Truckee ranger -distriet will voferée the foresters versus visitors softbail game. The ball game will be followed by a camp fire program with introductions and speeches, followed by a full length motion picture. DUTCH FLIERSHAD VISITED IN TWIN CITIES Lieut, R. Baseuau killed Saturday with three companions when their B-2'5 twin engined bomber crashed near Pleasant Street in Grass Valley had visited this region in May, but was recalled to McClelland field before his leave had expired. He returned however, a few days before the fatal flight and purchased dresees for his daughter and wife, who are in Ausaralia, since such articles require ration points there: His. job was that of transport pilot of lendlease equipment from the United States to the combat fronts in the Pacific. Lieuts. B. J. DeVries and C. C. Jaeger, are also remembered by many twin city residents, since they were in the last group to spend their vacations here nearly two years ago. The fourth officer killed was Sgt. Robert Soejipto. EIGHTY FOUR TO GRADUATE IN GRASS VALLEY At commencement ceremonies tomorrow evening in the Grass Valley High School auditorium 84 students will receive diplomas. program follows. Selections, High School Band; National Anthem, Assembly; Invocation, Rev. Frank Buck; Cornet solo, Wally Trathen, ‘Gaiety Polka’; Address, Jacquelyn Knight, Education for Democracy; Duet, Marshall Ruhl, baritone, Ralph Reid, cornet; Eleana Polka; Address, Phyllis Greentree, Youth Faces the Future; Vocal solo, Miriam Prisk, The Wren; Presentation of awards and diplomas, principal. W. M. Wilson; Vocal ensemble, Senior girls chorus; senior The Concert Club in Bret Harte Inn. His topic. The Lords Prayer, Sweethearts on will be Service to Veterans. Parade; Aloha . party spent the morning in. furthe on bv . ing bond sales in this city. High in the skies over Buchrest. Roumania, sixteen P-38 fighter planes” of the United States AAF were roaring toward a rendezvous with a squadron of heavy bombers. The day was May 31, 1944. Suddenly without warning they were attacked from above by a swarm of 50 ar more enemy fighters, ME.109 and FW 190. In the dog fight that:-ensured the two American fighter planes guarding the flanks of the 38 formation were disabled and forced down. One of the pilots was Lt. Edward D. Ulrich, of Hollywood. Successive bursts of enemy fire ‘behaved like coyote puppies’’. They ive 20mm shells. Out of control, he went into a steep spin. After falling 5000 feet Ulrich was able to level off only to find that ten enemy fighttrs had followed him down and were attacking from all angles. : had riddled hig aircraft with exploscaught fire and smoke was filling the cockpit. Ulrich prepared to “hail out’’ but just ag he was ready to go an enemy plane attacked from _below, coming up directly. in front of his sights. Lt. Ulrich squeezed his trigger and the enemy plane, a FW190 exploded before his eyes. With that final gesture, he “hit the silk’’. Seconds later he found himself flat on his back in the middle of a great field surrounded by hundreds of Roumanian peasants who had paused in their chohes to watch the air battle above. Suddenly one cld man came charging at ‘him with a pitch fork. Stunned in landing, Ulrich could offer only feeble resistance. And there begins the story of three months inearceration in a Roumanian prisoner of war camp at Bucharest culminat-j ing with the Russian drice to capture the city in August 1944. Lt. Ulrich now assigned to the Fourth Air Force at Ontario Army Air Field, fill be here in person next to speak at the 7th War Loan Drive Bond rally. : CHMA TO MEET . HERE SUNDAY The California Hydraulic Mining Association will hold its June meeting in National Hotel Sunday. There ‘will be the usual luncheon to which all memlbers are invited at 1 p. m. Three questions to be discussed, as announced by W. W. Esterly, secretary, are: How Soon Can We Get to Work? What About the Price of Gold? and Will Government Restric-. tions Continue? pilot, who wears the distin. guest ; RETURNED SEA BEERELATES JAP MASS SUICIDE E. H. Robinson of the Navy Sea Bees, is home with an honorable discharge following five months in the hospital as a result of being shaken up by Jap bombs on Tinian Island. The ‘bombs he states, all but ruined his digestive organs. Robinson, formerly émpftoyed in the Murchie Mine here was with a detachment of the Sea Bees who landed -with the Marines on Tinian Island, which is only a short distance from the better, known Saipan. Besides handling the heavy eqiupment used for making airfields in a hurry the Sea Bees have to do much of thei own fighting before beginning construction work. It was on Tinian Island, Robinson relates, that both Jap military and personnel, men, women and children, committed mag suicide by civilian jumping over the-bluff into the sea. another kiss of a yard or twa. “You should have seen water around In zooming upward over the Pleasthat island,’ said Robinson. jant Street ridge, the wing tip hit a “Little children led out of caves . Chestnut vee ee ee ee by our Marines,’ Robinson stateq! 224 Pleasant Streets, and lost an the SeaBees have to do much of their . elevator, alter severing the ame [had been taught to believe that we. near the top. From that moment on lwodld ait thelr throats” ; the plane was out of control. It . . crashed to the north of Pleasant Robinson said that Max Solaro,. Street, after raking and wrecking former chief. of police in Nevada City the rear of two houses, and exploded now on Saipan, will probably be re-!in a pine grove, in which stands The leased by the navy in three or four . Retreat, used by Catholic clergy, amonths. The two enlisted in the Sea. two story building. This, splashed, . Bees together, two years ago. Both! with gasoline burned to the ground. have wives and children residing] . ; ere j All four men manning the plane G. V. CHAMBER TALKS OVER GEN. ABBOTT’S APPEAL At the close of the luncheon meeting of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce yesterday there was a moment of reverent silence for the four Dutch fliers who lost their lives Saturday when their plane crashed near Pleasant Street. Taking up the Brig. Gen. Oscar Beale at the Brown requests made by A'lbbott of Camp meeting, Hugh chairman of the committee which is seeking additional housing for Grass Valley, reported to ‘the chamiber that the prospect was good but thus far he could not report anything definite. last Gilbert Tennis, day nursery committee, stated that a field investigator from Berkeley was coming up to go over the project next week. He stated, however, he had learned that no more federal funds were’ available for financing it. Tennis said that he had _ascertained that about 40 working mothers would avail themselves of a day nursery were one to be established. It was decided to call a meeting of merchants and let them come to an agreement, regarding a one night a week open store plan to accommodate workers in Camp Beale and De ‘Witt General Hospital, who have no opportunity to shop during usual store hours. Regarding .the fourth request made by Gen. Abbott, members of the chamber opined that there was no use in establisling a rental agency #0 long as practically every house in the city, at all suitable for military personnel, was already rented. Strauch Held to Answer on Fictitious Checks ‘Melvin L. Sartuch, 27, was held to answer in the*superior court yesterday by Justice of the Peace Geo. Gildersleeve, following a_ preliminary examination on a charge of passing fictitious checks. Still_pending against Strauch is a charge of stealing an automobile. Esther Messner, arrested ‘with Strauch a week ago in North San Juan, was freed after an investigation by District Attorney H. Wald Sheldon, indicated that she had no knowledge of the crimes charged against Strauch. Strauch is a soldier ‘in the U. S. Army and is reported to be absent without leave from the ;army hospital at Modesto where he was employed. q . . . . \ . ee ‘STUNT FLYING FATAL TO FOUR An informal investigation by dep uties in the sheriff’s office and peaceofficers, indicates that the four Dutch fliers killed Saturday when their plane crashed late in the afternoon a few yards from Pleasant Street, came to their deaths as a re. sult of stunt flying over Nevada City and Grass Valley, while heavily loaded with gas and ready to fly the Pacific span from San Francisco to Hawaii. The assumption that their plane may have been in mechanical trouble is disproved by a great many eyewitnesses who were thrilled and shocked by their low level flying over the two cities. According to the gheriff’s deputies, one of: whom lives but a few blocks from. the scene of the tragedy, the plane returning from Nevada City dived for the Bret Harte Inn and apparently missed the roof by a few feet. It zoomed upward, returned, dived again and gave it were instantly killed, and the plane . disintegrated into small pieces. The peace officers state that they ‘believe the Dutch flyers were loaded for their trans-Pacific flight, be;cause among the debris were found chairman of the. an ioe rts of suitcases and clothing that indicated a long trip was contemoO by’ the owners. They believe e pilot over estimated the lift capia of his plane and its load of gasoline in attemping to zoom over the Pleasant Street ridge. The police point out that U. S. Army fliers are fined and grounded whenever they break rules regarding low level flying, but no. such control exists over Dutch fliers and their lend-lease equipment. Two years ago 2 iarge group of Dutch air firce officers spent a fortnight in Grass Valley at the Bret Harte Inn. There were 90 in the firgt group and about half that) number in the second. They were given a warm welcome by residents of Nevada City Grass Valley, invited to dinners, picpics and cocktail parties. soe Since then, whenever any of them have returned from their comba duty in the Pacific, to MeClelland Field, their first flights have been to Nevada County, to salute their former hosts by dipping and diving over their homes. In coming over Nevada City, for instance, Saturday, the ill starred plane and its crew flew so low oyer the city hall, that the flag staff vibrated with ‘the wind stream of the propellers. ‘Military police were withdra'wn Sunday night from the scene of the plane crash below -Pleasant Street. Army trucks carried off every tiny bit of the exploded plane that could be found. But spectators were still flocking to the charred pine grove where four men perished and a B-25 bom'ber was blown to pieces. Notable Ceremony in Evangeline Chapter OES At the regular meeting of BEvangeline Chapter Tuesday evening four candidates were initiated, among them being the mother and sister of Worthy Patron Albert Polglase. It isn’t often that a Worthy Patron has the honor of initiating his mother and sister at the same meeting. There was a large attendance of members and visitors from Grass Valley and Roseville. With initiatory — ceremonies and regular business of the evening over, all were invited to the banquet room where refreshments were served under the chair-— manship of Mrs. Luella Anderson and her committee. At the next meeting Evangeline Chapter will celebrate its 72nd anniversary with Mrs. Dorothy Gwin in charge of oT ments for the riba

bE " it eee r7in positions of power, . The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.’”—Daniel Webster a Nevada City Nugget CCVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ . This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, No. 45 The County Seat Paper ee NEVADA \ CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Peni THURSDAY, ,UNE. i. 1945, THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. LL. Reviewing the German attitude as reflected by Herr Hitler when he took his first steps on the road to universal war, we recall that Hitler and his nazi followers expressed the (belief that we Americans were soft people, strongly averse to war, weakly indulgent of .our comforts, and without intestinal fortitude. That in general was the opinion of us exPressed by: the contemptous junkers and nazis. ‘As it turns out, Germany lost the war before it began, because ‘her people lacked the moral stamina needed to control their own government. Germans have had gor more centuries than we of the United States, Christian. teaching. The Protestant Church in its many divisions stems from Martin Luther’s rebellion. In short the German people had a great Christian heritage which should have, in fhe normal course of events, turned them against Hitler and made them attempt to overthrow him long before the war began. As Waltér Lippman points, out, no element, no group in all Germany, attempted to redeem during the long rise to power and usurpation, of human rights by the mazis. There was no revolt, no attempt to unseat the maniacal leader who dragged the nation into slimy jungles of primitive man. German honor the The ig aa PAUL BARNES — TELLS OF TIMBER WEATLH Ranger Paul Barnes of the North Bloomfield district of Tahoe National Forest, in an address before the Grass Valley Rotary Club, declared that the young pine groves of Nevada (County are among the valuable assets of this region. : Barnes was guest speaker and was introduced by the program chairman William Durbrow. Timber growng is the highest farm crop on much of the land, Barnes said, due to the fact that in this region growth is more than usually rapid. In a well managed grove, he stated, an acre will increase 500 board feet annually. : «Nevada County has a large share in young forest growth, he declared, and the county is in an advantageous position due to its proximity to big markets. The county not only has gold under ground but much potential gold above ground, and under proper management this can be made to produce continuously, gold mines ultimately peter whereas out. EIGHTH GRADERS GRADUATE THIS EVENING Fifty four students of the Elemenjunker clique who tried to kill Hitler! tary School's 8th grade will gradu. get svaANnin< No 2A. only demonstrated the brute de-. ate this evening. during commence gradation ‘of the German leadership . ment ceremonies in the school’s auin the last days of the war. Any nation can produce monsters that torture and murder. But none in recent centuries, exalted them as hag Germany, and ever gave them placed them. ditorium. The program follows: March of . March, . Priests, Graduation Mendelssohn. Invocation, Rev. Cedric Porter. Ave Maria, (for} . violins). Norma Scholefield, soloist. 3ach, Blue Hills of Seotland, Scotch} Adair, Seventh and Eighth Grades; ; d tis’ vod ee Prayer of Thanksgiving, Netherlands piipcsictags pees a ne inctitboaiee ds Air. Seventh and: Highth Grades; SS OMe stan oar ere oor aia Romberg, Elementary School Orrendered unto the leader of the besieniek tat crew, the nee? side the Just @° Prayer Away, Violet ‘Coss defty, as was done for Herr Hitler. , x lalio, Arlene Ronningen. Presenta: tion of class, Mr. Lloyd M. Geist: Lacking moral stamina which) Sonata, Kuhlau, Joanne Hefelfinger. Christian teaching instills, off all restraints upon greed and lust, the German people reverted to their iprimeyal, throwing, Introductions, Mr. H. E. Kjorlie Presentation of diplomas, Dr. Bernard W. Hummelt. America, Seventh tribal. gods an amazing . Grade and Bighth Grade Chorus. phenominum, never before recorded. Benediction, Rev. Virgil Gabrielli. in human history. We shall never! March of the Priests, Mendelssohn, cease to be: astonished at this spectacle of a people reared in thé greatest musical traditions on earth, upon the poetry of Goethe and Schiller, in the philosophy of Kant, and in the learning of world known scokrs, at whose feet sat many of own eminent men in the present and in the past generation, heirs to all this, yet who descended to the depths of Buchenwald and Deschau. So it was the Germans who were soft; who were gullible, and utterly ‘ deceived by a quack, who were strong only when they could beat the weak, who weakened and cried Kamerad! and slavishly surrendered when the odds were against them. Yet it still is a matter of amazement, that so many milliong did die for the bestial ideals of the furher. They really believed they . were supermen, as Hitler said they were, that they could destroy the “weak and soft nations’’ who opposed them, mations that ought to die because fthey took up room on earth that the master race should occupy. Is there a cure for such madness?! There may be a cure, that of re-editeating a people, beginning with the youngest children, just as Hitler did But have the allies the patience, the teachers and the endurance to carry through such a system year upon tyear? Will we in the United States, jnsist twenty years from now that this system of re-education be continued? Poor as we shall be, comspared to the lush years before 191+, ibe expected to do their part? If we are ever tempted to falter in this work of converting Germans into good neighbors, remember that whatever it costs it will be much cheaper than . war. ‘. jorie Ronningen, Please let us Recessional. The Elementary School Orchestra is directed ‘by Mr. Franc Luschen. The Elementary School (Chorus is directed by Miss Janice Judd. The students graduating are: *Robert Stephen Baker, Shirley ; Norene Balch, Frances Anne Barnes, *Joseph Richard Bertino, *James Kenneth Beverage, *Gloria Franices Biltoft, Wayne Elwyn Bousfield, ‘Chester Harold Brady, ricia Cozzalio, David LeRoy Dow, Raymond Walter Ellis, Frances Lee Este, Marcelene Lavern Gates, Herbert William Getchell, Julius Jacob Hafelfinger, *Jean Eloise Hall, *Joan Marjorie Hall, *Joanne Hefelfinger, *avina Bernice Heiser, Zelma Annamae Heiser, William Lemar Hoskin, *Richard MuRay Howe, Robert Paul Jamerson, William Kelly, David Kistle, *Genevieve Alene Lamson. *Violet PatBurns Jonas Larson, Kenneth Junior Launius, *Rose Edith LaValley, *Joyce Dolores Lee, Dorothea Viola Lewis, Phyllis Louise Lewis, Joseph Anthony Lloyd. “Glenn Theodore Lowry, Virginia Ruth Manley, Lavonne Eva McCormick, Charleen Rose McCune, *William Lytle Moore, Richard Carl Noren, Alice May Phelps, *Burdette Gene Risley, *Arlene Mar*Norma Dean SchoRose Sealight, Ray Francis Smart, *Stanley Stanovich, Robert Topliff, *Lloyd Frederick ‘Trautman, Sarah Ellen Usrey, Gordon Burnell Vance, Gail Willey, Donald Lee Williams, *John Lewig Zunino. * Awarded, school letter. lefield, *Betty will we -be willing to spend the i money needed, assuming that it is ice : Se 26 aeuke only one fourth of the whole, since EDWARD STEELE TO SPE ‘England, Russia and France must. ©dward Steele, manager of the Grass Valley office of the United States Employment Service, will be the guest speaker this evening at the forum meeting of the Grass Valley Business and Professional Woman’s *Bdna—Idelle Dixon, ~ FIRE TRAINING CAMP AT WHITE CLOUD JUNE 1113 On June 7 to 9 inclusvie, a meéting will be held with the Tahoe staff officers the district rangers and fire control. assistants, at which time general administrative problems will ‘be discussed and a training program completed for large fire overhead personnel. This will be followed by the annual fire training camp of the Tahoe national forest. The camp will ibe held at White Cloud on Highway 20 during June 11 to 13 inclusiye announced ‘forest, supervisor Guerdon Bilis. The training program will be under the general supervision of engineer-fire control officer, J. M. Shock, assisted by central dispatcher Gordon Vance, district ranger Warren Barnes and fire and control assistant Darwin Conover of the Bloomfield District. Training, states Ellis will ‘be scheduled to meet problems of national forest fire prevention and suppression during continued war time man power shortages. Women who serves on fire lookout ecting fires. Several women who serve as clerk-distpatchers in ranger, headquarters will ‘be given tions on fire ilsae and office practices. rangers in local fighting fires man power exhausted. The be visitor’s day, when sources have busy day of the program will . Tuesday the 12th, special demonstrations of fire towers will be given training in det-, instruc. ithree oak leaf clusters, and the par-. . over Training officers from nearby ;army camps will be guests, viewing fire fighting methods which will be! taught to troops who will assist the! whenever . ‘been . CLUB TOURS FINE GARDENS OF CITY The Nevada City Garden Club last week made its tour of community gardens. Accompaning them were a number of visitors from Graés Valley. The home of Dr. Fritz Tobias 9n Town Talk with its wealth of shrubs and flower beds was visited first. Then followed the gardens.of District Attorney H. ‘Ward Sheldon, across the road, Dr. Harry Benteen and Col. John G. Csannonhouse. From Town Talk the party went to the large private park of R. J. Bennetts, at the corner of Broad Street and the Downieville Highway, the charming garden and grove of Mrs. Jessica Carr and the wide lawns and shrub groupings of Dr. B. W. Hummelt. Especially noted during the tour was the abundance of Rhododenrons, azaleas, roses and iris. COMBAT PILOT LEADS WAR BOND SHOW HERE Lieutenant Edward D. Ulrich, AAF fighter . guished flying cross, the air medal heart—for Romania, speaker ple hair raising will be~ the today at the Nevada City exploits totary Club luncheon in the Nation-. al Hotel. Accompanying the air officer on la tour of cities in northern Califor. nia, including Grass Valley .and this . . city, are army personnel driving !eontrol equipment will be given. The . M-8 armored car and a scout car. The .

}climax of the day's activities will be j4 lan after dinner program put ‘resource assistant Fred Ahrenholz}. of Nevada City. Hobart Snider of Truckee ranger -distriet will voferée the foresters versus visitors softbail game. The ball game will be followed by a camp fire program with introductions and speeches, followed by a full length motion picture. DUTCH FLIERSHAD VISITED IN TWIN CITIES Lieut, R. Baseuau killed Saturday with three companions when their B-2'5 twin engined bomber crashed near Pleasant Street in Grass Valley had visited this region in May, but was recalled to McClelland field before his leave had expired. He returned however, a few days before the fatal flight and purchased dresees for his daughter and wife, who are in Ausaralia, since such articles require ration points there: His. job was that of transport pilot of lendlease equipment from the United States to the combat fronts in the Pacific. Lieuts. B. J. DeVries and C. C. Jaeger, are also remembered by many twin city residents, since they were in the last group to spend their vacations here nearly two years ago. The fourth officer killed was Sgt. Robert Soejipto. EIGHTY FOUR TO GRADUATE IN GRASS VALLEY At commencement ceremonies tomorrow evening in the Grass Valley High School auditorium 84 students will receive diplomas. program follows. Selections, High School Band; National Anthem, Assembly; Invocation, Rev. Frank Buck; Cornet solo, Wally Trathen, ‘Gaiety Polka’; Address, Jacquelyn Knight, Education for Democracy; Duet, Marshall Ruhl, baritone, Ralph Reid, cornet; Eleana Polka; Address, Phyllis Greentree, Youth Faces the Future; Vocal solo, Miriam Prisk, The Wren; Presentation of awards and diplomas, principal. W. M. Wilson; Vocal ensemble, Senior girls chorus; senior The Concert Club in Bret Harte Inn. His topic. The Lords Prayer, Sweethearts on will be Service to Veterans. Parade; Aloha . party spent the morning in. furthe on bv . ing bond sales in this city. High in the skies over Buchrest. Roumania, sixteen P-38 fighter planes” of the United States AAF were roaring toward a rendezvous with a squadron of heavy bombers. The day was May 31, 1944. Suddenly without warning they were attacked from above by a swarm of 50 ar more enemy fighters, ME.109 and FW 190. In the dog fight that:-ensured the two American fighter planes guarding the flanks of the 38 formation were disabled and forced down. One of the pilots was Lt. Edward D. Ulrich, of Hollywood. Successive bursts of enemy fire ‘behaved like coyote puppies’’. They ive 20mm shells. Out of control, he went into a steep spin. After falling 5000 feet Ulrich was able to level off only to find that ten enemy fighttrs had followed him down and were attacking from all angles. : had riddled hig aircraft with exploscaught fire and smoke was filling the cockpit. Ulrich prepared to “hail out’’ but just ag he was ready to go an enemy plane attacked from _below, coming up directly. in front of his sights. Lt. Ulrich squeezed his trigger and the enemy plane, a FW190 exploded before his eyes. With that final gesture, he “hit the silk’’. Seconds later he found himself flat on his back in the middle of a great field surrounded by hundreds of Roumanian peasants who had paused in their chohes to watch the air battle above. Suddenly one cld man came charging at ‘him with a pitch fork. Stunned in landing, Ulrich could offer only feeble resistance. And there begins the story of three months inearceration in a Roumanian prisoner of war camp at Bucharest culminat-j ing with the Russian drice to capture the city in August 1944. Lt. Ulrich now assigned to the Fourth Air Force at Ontario Army Air Field, fill be here in person next to speak at the 7th War Loan Drive Bond rally. : CHMA TO MEET . HERE SUNDAY The California Hydraulic Mining Association will hold its June meeting in National Hotel Sunday. There ‘will be the usual luncheon to which all memlbers are invited at 1 p. m. Three questions to be discussed, as announced by W. W. Esterly, secretary, are: How Soon Can We Get to Work? What About the Price of Gold? and Will Government Restric-. tions Continue? pilot, who wears the distin. guest ; RETURNED SEA BEERELATES JAP MASS SUICIDE E. H. Robinson of the Navy Sea Bees, is home with an honorable discharge following five months in the hospital as a result of being shaken up by Jap bombs on Tinian Island. The ‘bombs he states, all but ruined his digestive organs. Robinson, formerly émpftoyed in the Murchie Mine here was with a detachment of the Sea Bees who landed -with the Marines on Tinian Island, which is only a short distance from the better, known Saipan. Besides handling the heavy eqiupment used for making airfields in a hurry the Sea Bees have to do much of thei own fighting before beginning construction work. It was on Tinian Island, Robinson relates, that both Jap military and personnel, men, women and children, committed mag suicide by civilian jumping over the-bluff into the sea. another kiss of a yard or twa. “You should have seen water around In zooming upward over the Pleasthat island,’ said Robinson. jant Street ridge, the wing tip hit a “Little children led out of caves . Chestnut vee ee ee ee by our Marines,’ Robinson stateq! 224 Pleasant Streets, and lost an the SeaBees have to do much of their . elevator, alter severing the ame [had been taught to believe that we. near the top. From that moment on lwodld ait thelr throats” ; the plane was out of control. It . . crashed to the north of Pleasant Robinson said that Max Solaro,. Street, after raking and wrecking former chief. of police in Nevada City the rear of two houses, and exploded now on Saipan, will probably be re-!in a pine grove, in which stands The leased by the navy in three or four . Retreat, used by Catholic clergy, amonths. The two enlisted in the Sea. two story building. This, splashed, . Bees together, two years ago. Both! with gasoline burned to the ground. have wives and children residing] . ; ere j All four men manning the plane G. V. CHAMBER TALKS OVER GEN. ABBOTT’S APPEAL At the close of the luncheon meeting of the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce yesterday there was a moment of reverent silence for the four Dutch fliers who lost their lives Saturday when their plane crashed near Pleasant Street. Taking up the Brig. Gen. Oscar Beale at the Brown requests made by A'lbbott of Camp meeting, Hugh chairman of the committee which is seeking additional housing for Grass Valley, reported to ‘the chamiber that the prospect was good but thus far he could not report anything definite. last Gilbert Tennis, day nursery committee, stated that a field investigator from Berkeley was coming up to go over the project next week. He stated, however, he had learned that no more federal funds were’ available for financing it. Tennis said that he had _ascertained that about 40 working mothers would avail themselves of a day nursery were one to be established. It was decided to call a meeting of merchants and let them come to an agreement, regarding a one night a week open store plan to accommodate workers in Camp Beale and De ‘Witt General Hospital, who have no opportunity to shop during usual store hours. Regarding .the fourth request made by Gen. Abbott, members of the chamber opined that there was no use in establisling a rental agency #0 long as practically every house in the city, at all suitable for military personnel, was already rented. Strauch Held to Answer on Fictitious Checks ‘Melvin L. Sartuch, 27, was held to answer in the*superior court yesterday by Justice of the Peace Geo. Gildersleeve, following a_ preliminary examination on a charge of passing fictitious checks. Still_pending against Strauch is a charge of stealing an automobile. Esther Messner, arrested ‘with Strauch a week ago in North San Juan, was freed after an investigation by District Attorney H. Wald Sheldon, indicated that she had no knowledge of the crimes charged against Strauch. Strauch is a soldier ‘in the U. S. Army and is reported to be absent without leave from the ;army hospital at Modesto where he was employed. q . . . . \ . ee ‘STUNT FLYING FATAL TO FOUR An informal investigation by dep uties in the sheriff’s office and peaceofficers, indicates that the four Dutch fliers killed Saturday when their plane crashed late in the afternoon a few yards from Pleasant Street, came to their deaths as a re. sult of stunt flying over Nevada City and Grass Valley, while heavily loaded with gas and ready to fly the Pacific span from San Francisco to Hawaii. The assumption that their plane may have been in mechanical trouble is disproved by a great many eyewitnesses who were thrilled and shocked by their low level flying over the two cities. According to the gheriff’s deputies, one of: whom lives but a few blocks from. the scene of the tragedy, the plane returning from Nevada City dived for the Bret Harte Inn and apparently missed the roof by a few feet. It zoomed upward, returned, dived again and gave it were instantly killed, and the plane . disintegrated into small pieces. The peace officers state that they ‘believe the Dutch flyers were loaded for their trans-Pacific flight, be;cause among the debris were found chairman of the. an ioe rts of suitcases and clothing that indicated a long trip was contemoO by’ the owners. They believe e pilot over estimated the lift capia of his plane and its load of gasoline in attemping to zoom over the Pleasant Street ridge. The police point out that U. S. Army fliers are fined and grounded whenever they break rules regarding low level flying, but no. such control exists over Dutch fliers and their lend-lease equipment. Two years ago 2 iarge group of Dutch air firce officers spent a fortnight in Grass Valley at the Bret Harte Inn. There were 90 in the firgt group and about half that) number in the second. They were given a warm welcome by residents of Nevada City Grass Valley, invited to dinners, picpics and cocktail parties. soe Since then, whenever any of them have returned from their comba duty in the Pacific, to MeClelland Field, their first flights have been to Nevada County, to salute their former hosts by dipping and diving over their homes. In coming over Nevada City, for instance, Saturday, the ill starred plane and its crew flew so low oyer the city hall, that the flag staff vibrated with ‘the wind stream of the propellers. ‘Military police were withdra'wn Sunday night from the scene of the plane crash below -Pleasant Street. Army trucks carried off every tiny bit of the exploded plane that could be found. But spectators were still flocking to the charred pine grove where four men perished and a B-25 bom'ber was blown to pieces. Notable Ceremony in Evangeline Chapter OES At the regular meeting of BEvangeline Chapter Tuesday evening four candidates were initiated, among them being the mother and sister of Worthy Patron Albert Polglase. It isn’t often that a Worthy Patron has the honor of initiating his mother and sister at the same meeting. There was a large attendance of members and visitors from Grass Valley and Roseville. With initiatory — ceremonies and regular business of the evening over, all were invited to the banquet room where refreshments were served under the chair-— manship of Mrs. Luella Anderson and her committee. At the next meeting Evangeline Chapter will celebrate its 72nd anniversary with Mrs. Dorothy Gwin in charge of oT ments for the riba