March 12, 1937 (6 pages)

Thinking Out Loud Ai. M.-L. ‘Listening Tuesday evening to the President’s voice over the radio in another appeal for popular support . for his plan to make over the United States Supreme Court, we were impressed by two aspects of the talk: A studied avoidance of his usual dramatics, and a continued deft use of the tar brush. According to press dispatches he carefully had gone over this address to make it so simple that the man in the street could understand it. But thé President’s addresses are always easy to understand. All public speakers have this gift in less or greater degree. Unless they are able to.make the common man understand, their message remains to all practical purposes undelivered. While the President again declared in effect that only the economic and political groups were opposing his Supreme Court plan that opposed him in the last election, anyone who reads the newspapers knows that that is not true. The fact is that Senator Norris of Nebraska, Senator Bailey of North Carolina, and Senator Wheeler of Montana, are the head and shoulders a movement in the Democratic Party to defeat this revamping plan. Senator: Norris, nominally an Independent; to all practically purposes, for the last twelve years has been a Democrat, and latterly a New Deéaler. Senator Hiram Johnson, a Republican, has supported practically all of the New Deal legislation, except this Supreme Court plan. The President did in his address seek to make a distinction between those who honestly opposed the plan, for disinterested and patriotic motives, and those who feared it, because of what they had to lose. But’ ta’the listener, the man in the street, it would be hard to tell where the tar brush merged into snowy whiteness of exoneration. The line of demarcation was not clear. Though he cleverly quoted from dissenting opinions of the Supreme Court judges themselves, though he again called upon the ‘people to renew their faith in his good intentjons, and appealed to the American characteristic demand for action, mow, one thing the President gid mot answer, which seems to us ‘unanswerable, That. was the argument of Senator Norris, who declared in effect, that he opposed the plan of adding six new justices to the Supreme Court, because if Roosevelt was permitted to establish this precedent, other. Presidents in the course of years might add to the number of judges, until it. became, bigger than Congress itself. Of coudse this was an exaggeration for the purpose of émphasis. But suppose one of the DuPonts, during some great ne tional crisis, brought on perhaps by unbearable taxation, should be chosen President. Suppose the New Deal judges, appointed by Roosevelt stood in the way of drastic reactionary legislation. Then with this precedent to support him he might, with a subservient (rubber stamp) Congress, name to the court enough reactionary judges to put through ‘his reactionary legislation. The President refuses to take the long view. Along in 1926, 1927, a ‘great deal of printers ink was splashed by columnists and cartoonists depicting Old Man High Cost of living. For several years this old gentleman disappeard from circulation. But he is back with us again, not as robust as he once was, but still easy to recognize. In fact a little analysis will show that this ancient trouble maker is at the bottom of most of the strikes now taking place. . A dollar is only worth what it will buy and when its purchasing power drops, there is instantly a demand for more dollars. Back in 1931, 1932 and 1933 we were caught in the downward spiral of depression, now the motion has been reversed and we are lifted in the upward spiral of inflation. The New Deal hates that dreadful word, “put inflation’ is exactly -what it is. The reason for the hatred of the word inflation, and for the fact of inflation, is merely this, that inflation always preceeds a crash. It would be a pity after spending some fifteen billions to lift us out of the depression, if, before that unthinkable sum could be repaid to the people who loaned it, we should take another. header in the abysmal depths of another depression. The President himself alluded to that danger in his Tuesday gah, Sh address. COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA The Nevada City Nugget helps . city and county to grow in popu and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, the you help yourself. Vol 11, No. 21. The Se Seat Paper NEVADA CI CITY: CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, MARCH . 12, "1937 e COURT OF HONOR MEETS TO} Nevada City Boy "apy ‘Scouts will ho} a Court of Honor this evening in Seaman’s lodge in Pioneer Park with Judge Raglan Tuttle presiding. Both Grass Valley and Nevada City Scouts will receive all honors planned for this meeting. Both groups are also leaving Saturday morning to spend the week end at Camp Pahatsi. MAN. SUFFERS STROKE AT RIVERS EDGE Sheriff Carl J. 1 J, Pobiassen called Alvah Hooper, of the Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada City and the ambulance at an early hour yesterday morning to go to the South Yuba river on the Downieville highway to bring out John Lawrence, an Indian who had suffered a stroke down at the water’s edge. Lawrence owns a’ small mining claim about 400 or 500 yards above the Yuba river bridge. He lives at the Indian Campoodie west of Nevada City and when he failed to return home his friends became alarmed and went to search for him, and found him helpless, his: whole left side being paralyzed. The sheriff was notified and left immediately to bring him out. It was 4 terrific effort for the four men to carry the injured man out over big rocks and up steep banks to the roadway. He was taken to the county hospital and is resting as comfortably as can be expected. CHAMBER TO ELECT OFFICERS MARCH 29 The next meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of ‘Commerce, it was announced yesterday by the president, Fred EB. Conner, will take place Monday evening, March 29. This will be an important meeting, since new officers are to be elected, and there are several matters that must be discussed before turning the ¢thamber over to’ the new officers. HYDRAULIC MINERS TO MEET HERE SATURDAY The California Hy Hydraulic Miners association will meet tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon in the National Hotel at 2 o’clock. This meeting is of utmost importance to the mining industry and all those interested in it are cordially invited to attend. EMPIRE STAR WILL APPEAL COURT DECISION It is understood that the Empire Star Mining company will appeal the decision made in the suit against the Bullion. This was an apex case in which the Bullion was given the decision by Federal Judge St. Sure. When all is said and done, it would seem as if we were witnessing in the national administration, one of the characteristic and typical mis“From shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves’ in one, or two generations, is a ‘favorite saying. The father rolling up his shirt sleeves builds a fortune. The son dissipates it, and returns to shirt sleeves. The speculator overstays his market. The industrialist overplays his hand. In good years the farmer mortgages his property and bays more land, and in due time loses cil. Many a man potters field. vast sums of the peoples money by the New Deal has ‘brought us‘ out of the depression, even though many an economist will declare that we survived other depressions without the tremendous cost, the question arises: is there anyone “at the wheel of national affairs who. knows when to put on the brakes. Six governors go to the White House and demand that in their states there sh in WPA funds. From all over ‘the land, comes the ery to continue the benefactions of the New Deal. Is there any human being, given the powers that reside in the White House, who could summon the courage to. “tarn a. deaf ear to this outcry? And so we wome to the crest of the hill -and plunge over the other side, with never a foot on the brake. takes so often made in private Am-} @rican life. has ‘built, one, two, or three fortun-. " .es, and then has been interred in the Granting that the expenditure of} ll] be no ut CAT SPITS WHEN BAD TOOTH IS EXTRACTED . Bill Williamson, owner of the) ‘service station at the corner of Pine and Spring streets, and his yellow cat, ‘Gilmore’ created much interest Tuesday when he developed a badly ulcerated tooth. “Gilmore”’’ came to the service station a year ago in an emaciated condition and made friends immediately. Soon the cat followed Bill like a dog, being present for car greasing, changing tires, in fact at all activities ‘about the place until the became a mascot. U. H, Stewart veternarian was summoned and with a special equipment designed for cat anatomy, and fine forceps he grappled with the tooth and removed it. The cat did a lot of spitting after the operation. HI THESPIANS The Class of 37, N. C. H. S. will present Booth Tarkington’s ‘‘Seventeen’’ at the Nevada Theatre on Tuesday afternoon and_ evening, March 16. Tickets are now on sale and may be exchanged for reserved seats at Foley’s confectionery. The play is one of the summer time and love and youth at the important age of seventeen. William Sylvanus Baxter is in the throes of young love, of deep consciousness of his dignity, and of distress that his family are not aware of it. A brat sister, an unsympathetic father, and a fickle sweetheart play havoc with his tender sensibilities, which only this mother can understand. 3 Booth Tarkington’s penetrating insight into the ways of youth is a guarantee of the appeal of*thisplay to any audience, and the cast are well fitted to give a strikingly lifelife representation of their roles. TRANSAMERICA PROFITS IN 1936 ARE $25,016,200 Consolidated net profit of Transamerica Corporation, controlling the Giannini enterprises on the Pacific Coast, totaled $25,016,200 in1936. as compared with $20,319,276 in 1935, a gain of 23 per cent, according to the corporation’s audited annual report made public today. Earnings last year equalled $1.08 a share on the 23,181,568 shares outstanding on December 31, last, as contrasted with 87.65 cents a share earned on the same number of shares in the preceding year. The official preliminary estimate of earnings, given to stockholders on January 30 last, was $24,400,000. 2 In “his letter to stockholders, John /M. Grant, president of the corporation, reported an enhancement in in‘305,452 before giving effect to dividends paid last year. The inerement .consisted of net profit for the year, 1 $25, 016,200; inerease in consolidat‘ed paid-in surplus, $5,307,430; increase in general reserve, $3,500,000 and increase in unrealized appreciation in portfolio $4,481,822. On January 30; last, the corpaoradividend in stock of BancamericaBlair Corporation having a market' value on that date: of $5,557,140, making a total distribution of $10,188,091, or 44 cents a share, as compared with $5,788,268, or 25 cents a share, paid in January, 1936. _The—-corporation’s__ consolidated. balance sheet shows that marketable securities carried at $34,680,848. had an indicated market value on December 31, last, of $42,339,562, a net appreciation of $7,658,714. ICE CREAM REFIGERATOR _ An ice cream refrigerator has been installed in the Prouse DriveIn Market on the highway opposite the state highway headquarters, which will provide facilities for supplying all customers with thiis delic‘lacy. Pints and quarts will be sold. . SELF DEFENSE . Then Mrs. Munchauser was arrestfthe back of the house, if this. story trinsic value during 1936: of $38,-] some other locality where better con‘ditions may be obtained for herself tion paid a regular semi-annual cash}. ft dididend of $4,630,951 and an extra} MAY BE PLEADED FOR BOY SLAYER District Kitowiey Vi ‘Vernon Stoll and Sheriff Carl Tobiassen on Wednesday heard 13-year-old Buddy Munchauser repeat his story of the shooting and killing of Oscar E. Jacks, Sunday evening, February 21. This is the ‘same story he told last Monday to George E. Carter, former sheriff and Ward Sheldon, attorney for Mrs. Munchauser, mother of the ‘boy under indictment for the murder. Self defense may be pleaded for the boy. Though the murder occurred Sunday evening, no arrests were made until Tuesday following the inquest at which the jury decided that murder, and not suicide had been done. ed. In 'the meantime she had had ample opportunity to drill her children -in the suicide story. She stuck by tthe story even after the grand jury had indicted her for murder. Bhe facts as they have been developed by, Carter, employed as: an investigator by Attorney Sheldon and Mrs. Munchauser, his client, seems to have been sustained by such evidence as has been gathered. Sunday ‘afternoon of the shooting Jacks returned drunk to the cabin in Dead Man’s Flat where he had been living as the common law spouse of Mrs. Munchauser. A quarrel between himself and Mrs. Munchauser took place in which he knocked her down, blackening one eye which was in evidence when she was finally Arrested. According to Buddy Munchauser,. he beat the boy and hurled him outthe door and threatened to kill the whole family. The boy rushed down the car and took from it the 38-55 rifle, known ‘to be there, ran back of the, house and climbed a short ladder to the roof, Jacks went out the front door as the boy was climbing the roof, at is true, reached into the car and got hold of the jack, and had turned toward the house. The iboy accustomed to fire arms fired and the bullet tore through his. heart killing him instantly. ‘The little girl, nine years old, subnormal according to all accounts, tried to rouse her mother from the stupor caused by the blow Jacks had given her, and tried to raise her to her feet. Gail said: ‘‘Buddy has shot Mr. Jacks.’”’ The mother now thoroughly aroused to the danger to Buddy decided upon the suicide story and drilled the children in it. While in jail, however, she asked her attorney what would happen to aj} boy, Buddy’s age, if he had committed a murder. Following this tip, Sheldon and Carter examined the two boys, Buddy and a younger brother Monday, and after recovering from fright, both, examinedseparately, told the same story. Meantime Mrs. (Munchauser_remains in jail under indictment of murder until the authorities are satisfied that the boy’s story is true. If the boy is brought before the court in a. juvenile hearing, it is probable that a plea of self defense will be made. Francis Jacks, son of Mrs. Munchauser by a former marriage, has come from Oregon where he is empleyed as a plasterer. He hopes to take his mother and her family to and her children. CAMPTONVILLE, March 11.— The Camptonville union grammar school started the spring term Tuesday after: the winter vacation. A ‘good attendance was reported and the children were glad to be back at school after the long season of deep snow. The elementary school is in charge of Mrs. Grace Pauly and the primary with Mrs.°Constance Pfiffer. Louie Marquardt and William A. Lang continue to — the bus lines. The local branch, ol the Marysville union high school was to start also on this date, but due to the death of Mrs: whose daughter, Miss Lesta.H. Jonbert is the teacher, the opening was for the party.The entire club memMartha. C. Joubert, . _ EMERGENCY BAND IS ORGANIZED TO KEEP PEACE Steps were taken Wednesday night to organize a Nevada County Emergency Patrol composed of men between the ages of -25 and 45 to help peace officers preserve public peace and safety in the event of trouble from the attempts of the Committee for Industrial Organization Mine, Mill and Smeiters Union to organize here. The emergency patrol will be selected from the ranks of the committee of 5000 which was organized at a mass meeting last week to ‘‘see that the rights of the Nevada County Mine Workers Protective League are protected in the event of labor trouble. The protoctwe league; formed ‘in 1919, is the only organization recognized for collective bargaining by mine operators in this district. The executive committee of the committee of 5000 announced that approximately 400 will be enrolled in the emergency patrol and wil’ be trained along military lines, with units and headquarters, both in Grass Valley and Nevada City. The plans of the committee also eall for an armored truck section, ambulance section; a communication section and possibly a mounted troop. The following statement was made by the executive committee of which John Truseott is chairman: The Nevada County Emergency Patro! will in no sense be a vigilante organization, though doubtless the charge will be made from time to time. We wish to reiterate that it will be quasiofficial organization, just as is our volunteer fire department, except that the patrol will bear an even greater official character. Every member will have to qualify as, and be officially appointed and sworn in as a deputy sheriff. None of the members of the patrol wilt be called upon or permitted to function as a peace officer’ except directly under the orders of the sheriff and only when the sheriff decides that a state of emergency exists which demands the services of others than his regular force of paid deputies. When such an emergency exists, however, every member of the force will be clothed with all the power that the state of California confers upon its peace officers. CARD PARTY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR LIBRARY SHELVES The Nevada City Womans Civie Club held a regular meeting at the Brand Studio Monday night. Besides caring for routine business several new projects were considered. ‘Mrs, James Penrose was elected delegate and Mrs. Arthur Hoge, Jr., alternate, to the Northern District Convention to be held in Woodland on Aprif‘1, 2, and 3. Mts. A. M. Hoge gave a report of the library committee and described the ‘improvements, including’ new shelves, which the club has undertake to install. The improvements ‘are more extensive and more expen-. sive than at first estimated and the club women have decided to hold an evening card party during the first week after Easter to meet this expense. The library committee consisting of Mrs. A. M. Hoge, Mrs. 'W.} P. Sawyer and Mrs. Leland Smith will have charge of arrangements bership will assist and it is hoped. that all interested in ‘the will help. Those wishing to donate. prizes for the affair please phone. _ W. P. Saw-} lyer or Mrs. Leland Smith. . _ =f Mrs, A. M. Hoge, Mrs. A committee consisting of ‘Mrs. H. E. Kjorlie, Mrs. R. E. Harris and Mrs. W. P. Lee was appointed to study what might be done for the youth of the community and to present its findings to the club. This} committee hopes to confer apd work . ‘ting early syphilis by Dr. J. H. ‘library . ROTARY H TALK ON Bill McCandlish of the Hercules Powder company was the speaker at yesterday’s Rotary luncheon in the National Hotel. He has recently returned from a business trip to the Philippines and gave the club an interesting account of the gold mining operations there. ; It was announced that the nex: meeting of the club will be a dinner meeting with the Grass Valley Rotarians at Bret Harte Inn, to which the ladies of both clubs are invited. A moving picture of the redwood will be presented. This meetin will take place next Monday evening. McCandlish stated that in 1936 the Philippines produced $22,000,000 in gold, ranking second with California in the gold output of the United States. He said that the Philippines were still regarded as @ part of the United. States, since the islands will be dependent on this country for nine more years. Balatoe and Benquet mines produce the maj<4 or part of the Philippine gold, but during August, September and October of 1936 78 new mining compan; ‘ies were registered as against 212 mines previously .recorded. All the mining, except one property is in quartz, and the exception is a dredger operation which last year produced $300,000 in gold. There is some copper and iron mining, and the Japanesé purchase the output of these mines. The best miners are the Igorotes and they generaly refuse to leave their highlands for the mines in the lowlands. The wage scale is from 50 cents to 75 cents per day, which enables mining companies to work low grade properties, but as a matter of fact the day’s labor output is low compared to American standards. 3 Some of the Philippine miners are so short that in placing the high shots in the breast of the ore, one sits on the shoulders of another while -he operates the jackhammer.: On the return trip McCandlish boarded a clipper airplane from Manila to Honolulu. He gave interesting figures regarding these great seaplanes. He found it monotonous since there was nothing except clouds and water. Owing to high head winds the cruising speed over a part of the distance was only 100 miles an hour, as against the normal speed of 140 miles an hour. ‘ P.T. A.ENTERS _ Grammar School P. T. A. met Friday afternoon and in aecordance with the request of the National Bureau of Education and Bureau.of Public Health Service the Washington National P T. A. is joining wit other welfare organizations in the nation wide campaign against the scourge of social ‘disease. The Wa ington. grammar school had at 2 meeting ‘County School Health Suj This was followed: by a dis by teachers and parents present — to the best possible procedure to operate in this ~ etusetons! ei paign. Reprints have been pihered: distribution of. the article I es of the United States P Health service in the. March issue. the Readers Digest. given a party whi h 4 ed Ee the class m with representatives of other local Sie eas organizations. oe Mrs. eee Browning ‘of French : Corral Visited” her daughter — other’ relatives in = City Wedcole

Thinking Out Loud Ai. M.-L. ‘Listening Tuesday evening to the President’s voice over the radio in another appeal for popular support . for his plan to make over the United States Supreme Court, we were impressed by two aspects of the talk: A studied avoidance of his usual dramatics, and a continued deft use of the tar brush. According to press dispatches he carefully had gone over this address to make it so simple that the man in the street could understand it. But thé President’s addresses are always easy to understand. All public speakers have this gift in less or greater degree. Unless they are able to.make the common man understand, their message remains to all practical purposes undelivered. While the President again declared in effect that only the economic and political groups were opposing his Supreme Court plan that opposed him in the last election, anyone who reads the newspapers knows that that is not true. The fact is that Senator Norris of Nebraska, Senator Bailey of North Carolina, and Senator Wheeler of Montana, are the head and shoulders a movement in the Democratic Party to defeat this revamping plan. Senator: Norris, nominally an Independent; to all practically purposes, for the last twelve years has been a Democrat, and latterly a New Deéaler. Senator Hiram Johnson, a Republican, has supported practically all of the New Deal legislation, except this Supreme Court plan. The President did in his address seek to make a distinction between those who honestly opposed the plan, for disinterested and patriotic motives, and those who feared it, because of what they had to lose. But’ ta’the listener, the man in the street, it would be hard to tell where the tar brush merged into snowy whiteness of exoneration. The line of demarcation was not clear. Though he cleverly quoted from dissenting opinions of the Supreme Court judges themselves, though he again called upon the ‘people to renew their faith in his good intentjons, and appealed to the American characteristic demand for action, mow, one thing the President gid mot answer, which seems to us ‘unanswerable, That. was the argument of Senator Norris, who declared in effect, that he opposed the plan of adding six new justices to the Supreme Court, because if Roosevelt was permitted to establish this precedent, other. Presidents in the course of years might add to the number of judges, until it. became, bigger than Congress itself. Of coudse this was an exaggeration for the purpose of émphasis. But suppose one of the DuPonts, during some great ne tional crisis, brought on perhaps by unbearable taxation, should be chosen President. Suppose the New Deal judges, appointed by Roosevelt stood in the way of drastic reactionary legislation. Then with this precedent to support him he might, with a subservient (rubber stamp) Congress, name to the court enough reactionary judges to put through ‘his reactionary legislation. The President refuses to take the long view. Along in 1926, 1927, a ‘great deal of printers ink was splashed by columnists and cartoonists depicting Old Man High Cost of living. For several years this old gentleman disappeard from circulation. But he is back with us again, not as robust as he once was, but still easy to recognize. In fact a little analysis will show that this ancient trouble maker is at the bottom of most of the strikes now taking place. . A dollar is only worth what it will buy and when its purchasing power drops, there is instantly a demand for more dollars. Back in 1931, 1932 and 1933 we were caught in the downward spiral of depression, now the motion has been reversed and we are lifted in the upward spiral of inflation. The New Deal hates that dreadful word, “put inflation’ is exactly -what it is. The reason for the hatred of the word inflation, and for the fact of inflation, is merely this, that inflation always preceeds a crash. It would be a pity after spending some fifteen billions to lift us out of the depression, if, before that unthinkable sum could be repaid to the people who loaned it, we should take another. header in the abysmal depths of another depression. The President himself alluded to that danger in his Tuesday gah, Sh address. COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA The Nevada City Nugget helps . city and county to grow in popu and prosperity. By subscribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, the you help yourself. Vol 11, No. 21. The Se Seat Paper NEVADA CI CITY: CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, MARCH . 12, "1937 e COURT OF HONOR MEETS TO} Nevada City Boy "apy ‘Scouts will ho} a Court of Honor this evening in Seaman’s lodge in Pioneer Park with Judge Raglan Tuttle presiding. Both Grass Valley and Nevada City Scouts will receive all honors planned for this meeting. Both groups are also leaving Saturday morning to spend the week end at Camp Pahatsi. MAN. SUFFERS STROKE AT RIVERS EDGE Sheriff Carl J. 1 J, Pobiassen called Alvah Hooper, of the Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada City and the ambulance at an early hour yesterday morning to go to the South Yuba river on the Downieville highway to bring out John Lawrence, an Indian who had suffered a stroke down at the water’s edge. Lawrence owns a’ small mining claim about 400 or 500 yards above the Yuba river bridge. He lives at the Indian Campoodie west of Nevada City and when he failed to return home his friends became alarmed and went to search for him, and found him helpless, his: whole left side being paralyzed. The sheriff was notified and left immediately to bring him out. It was 4 terrific effort for the four men to carry the injured man out over big rocks and up steep banks to the roadway. He was taken to the county hospital and is resting as comfortably as can be expected. CHAMBER TO ELECT OFFICERS MARCH 29 The next meeting of the Nevada City Chamber of ‘Commerce, it was announced yesterday by the president, Fred EB. Conner, will take place Monday evening, March 29. This will be an important meeting, since new officers are to be elected, and there are several matters that must be discussed before turning the ¢thamber over to’ the new officers. HYDRAULIC MINERS TO MEET HERE SATURDAY The California Hy Hydraulic Miners association will meet tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon in the National Hotel at 2 o’clock. This meeting is of utmost importance to the mining industry and all those interested in it are cordially invited to attend. EMPIRE STAR WILL APPEAL COURT DECISION It is understood that the Empire Star Mining company will appeal the decision made in the suit against the Bullion. This was an apex case in which the Bullion was given the decision by Federal Judge St. Sure. When all is said and done, it would seem as if we were witnessing in the national administration, one of the characteristic and typical mis“From shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves’ in one, or two generations, is a ‘favorite saying. The father rolling up his shirt sleeves builds a fortune. The son dissipates it, and returns to shirt sleeves. The speculator overstays his market. The industrialist overplays his hand. In good years the farmer mortgages his property and bays more land, and in due time loses cil. Many a man potters field. vast sums of the peoples money by the New Deal has ‘brought us‘ out of the depression, even though many an economist will declare that we survived other depressions without the tremendous cost, the question arises: is there anyone “at the wheel of national affairs who. knows when to put on the brakes. Six governors go to the White House and demand that in their states there sh in WPA funds. From all over ‘the land, comes the ery to continue the benefactions of the New Deal. Is there any human being, given the powers that reside in the White House, who could summon the courage to. “tarn a. deaf ear to this outcry? And so we wome to the crest of the hill -and plunge over the other side, with never a foot on the brake. takes so often made in private Am-} @rican life. has ‘built, one, two, or three fortun-. " .es, and then has been interred in the Granting that the expenditure of} ll] be no ut CAT SPITS WHEN BAD TOOTH IS EXTRACTED . Bill Williamson, owner of the) ‘service station at the corner of Pine and Spring streets, and his yellow cat, ‘Gilmore’ created much interest Tuesday when he developed a badly ulcerated tooth. “Gilmore”’’ came to the service station a year ago in an emaciated condition and made friends immediately. Soon the cat followed Bill like a dog, being present for car greasing, changing tires, in fact at all activities ‘about the place until the became a mascot. U. H, Stewart veternarian was summoned and with a special equipment designed for cat anatomy, and fine forceps he grappled with the tooth and removed it. The cat did a lot of spitting after the operation. HI THESPIANS The Class of 37, N. C. H. S. will present Booth Tarkington’s ‘‘Seventeen’’ at the Nevada Theatre on Tuesday afternoon and_ evening, March 16. Tickets are now on sale and may be exchanged for reserved seats at Foley’s confectionery. The play is one of the summer time and love and youth at the important age of seventeen. William Sylvanus Baxter is in the throes of young love, of deep consciousness of his dignity, and of distress that his family are not aware of it. A brat sister, an unsympathetic father, and a fickle sweetheart play havoc with his tender sensibilities, which only this mother can understand. 3 Booth Tarkington’s penetrating insight into the ways of youth is a guarantee of the appeal of*thisplay to any audience, and the cast are well fitted to give a strikingly lifelife representation of their roles. TRANSAMERICA PROFITS IN 1936 ARE $25,016,200 Consolidated net profit of Transamerica Corporation, controlling the Giannini enterprises on the Pacific Coast, totaled $25,016,200 in1936. as compared with $20,319,276 in 1935, a gain of 23 per cent, according to the corporation’s audited annual report made public today. Earnings last year equalled $1.08 a share on the 23,181,568 shares outstanding on December 31, last, as contrasted with 87.65 cents a share earned on the same number of shares in the preceding year. The official preliminary estimate of earnings, given to stockholders on January 30 last, was $24,400,000. 2 In “his letter to stockholders, John /M. Grant, president of the corporation, reported an enhancement in in‘305,452 before giving effect to dividends paid last year. The inerement .consisted of net profit for the year, 1 $25, 016,200; inerease in consolidat‘ed paid-in surplus, $5,307,430; increase in general reserve, $3,500,000 and increase in unrealized appreciation in portfolio $4,481,822. On January 30; last, the corpaoradividend in stock of BancamericaBlair Corporation having a market' value on that date: of $5,557,140, making a total distribution of $10,188,091, or 44 cents a share, as compared with $5,788,268, or 25 cents a share, paid in January, 1936. _The—-corporation’s__ consolidated. balance sheet shows that marketable securities carried at $34,680,848. had an indicated market value on December 31, last, of $42,339,562, a net appreciation of $7,658,714. ICE CREAM REFIGERATOR _ An ice cream refrigerator has been installed in the Prouse DriveIn Market on the highway opposite the state highway headquarters,

which will provide facilities for supplying all customers with thiis delic‘lacy. Pints and quarts will be sold. . SELF DEFENSE . Then Mrs. Munchauser was arrestfthe back of the house, if this. story trinsic value during 1936: of $38,-] some other locality where better con‘ditions may be obtained for herself tion paid a regular semi-annual cash}. ft dididend of $4,630,951 and an extra} MAY BE PLEADED FOR BOY SLAYER District Kitowiey Vi ‘Vernon Stoll and Sheriff Carl Tobiassen on Wednesday heard 13-year-old Buddy Munchauser repeat his story of the shooting and killing of Oscar E. Jacks, Sunday evening, February 21. This is the ‘same story he told last Monday to George E. Carter, former sheriff and Ward Sheldon, attorney for Mrs. Munchauser, mother of the ‘boy under indictment for the murder. Self defense may be pleaded for the boy. Though the murder occurred Sunday evening, no arrests were made until Tuesday following the inquest at which the jury decided that murder, and not suicide had been done. ed. In 'the meantime she had had ample opportunity to drill her children -in the suicide story. She stuck by tthe story even after the grand jury had indicted her for murder. Bhe facts as they have been developed by, Carter, employed as: an investigator by Attorney Sheldon and Mrs. Munchauser, his client, seems to have been sustained by such evidence as has been gathered. Sunday ‘afternoon of the shooting Jacks returned drunk to the cabin in Dead Man’s Flat where he had been living as the common law spouse of Mrs. Munchauser. A quarrel between himself and Mrs. Munchauser took place in which he knocked her down, blackening one eye which was in evidence when she was finally Arrested. According to Buddy Munchauser,. he beat the boy and hurled him outthe door and threatened to kill the whole family. The boy rushed down the car and took from it the 38-55 rifle, known ‘to be there, ran back of the, house and climbed a short ladder to the roof, Jacks went out the front door as the boy was climbing the roof, at is true, reached into the car and got hold of the jack, and had turned toward the house. The iboy accustomed to fire arms fired and the bullet tore through his. heart killing him instantly. ‘The little girl, nine years old, subnormal according to all accounts, tried to rouse her mother from the stupor caused by the blow Jacks had given her, and tried to raise her to her feet. Gail said: ‘‘Buddy has shot Mr. Jacks.’”’ The mother now thoroughly aroused to the danger to Buddy decided upon the suicide story and drilled the children in it. While in jail, however, she asked her attorney what would happen to aj} boy, Buddy’s age, if he had committed a murder. Following this tip, Sheldon and Carter examined the two boys, Buddy and a younger brother Monday, and after recovering from fright, both, examinedseparately, told the same story. Meantime Mrs. (Munchauser_remains in jail under indictment of murder until the authorities are satisfied that the boy’s story is true. If the boy is brought before the court in a. juvenile hearing, it is probable that a plea of self defense will be made. Francis Jacks, son of Mrs. Munchauser by a former marriage, has come from Oregon where he is empleyed as a plasterer. He hopes to take his mother and her family to and her children. CAMPTONVILLE, March 11.— The Camptonville union grammar school started the spring term Tuesday after: the winter vacation. A ‘good attendance was reported and the children were glad to be back at school after the long season of deep snow. The elementary school is in charge of Mrs. Grace Pauly and the primary with Mrs.°Constance Pfiffer. Louie Marquardt and William A. Lang continue to — the bus lines. The local branch, ol the Marysville union high school was to start also on this date, but due to the death of Mrs: whose daughter, Miss Lesta.H. Jonbert is the teacher, the opening was for the party.The entire club memMartha. C. Joubert, . _ EMERGENCY BAND IS ORGANIZED TO KEEP PEACE Steps were taken Wednesday night to organize a Nevada County Emergency Patrol composed of men between the ages of -25 and 45 to help peace officers preserve public peace and safety in the event of trouble from the attempts of the Committee for Industrial Organization Mine, Mill and Smeiters Union to organize here. The emergency patrol will be selected from the ranks of the committee of 5000 which was organized at a mass meeting last week to ‘‘see that the rights of the Nevada County Mine Workers Protective League are protected in the event of labor trouble. The protoctwe league; formed ‘in 1919, is the only organization recognized for collective bargaining by mine operators in this district. The executive committee of the committee of 5000 announced that approximately 400 will be enrolled in the emergency patrol and wil’ be trained along military lines, with units and headquarters, both in Grass Valley and Nevada City. The plans of the committee also eall for an armored truck section, ambulance section; a communication section and possibly a mounted troop. The following statement was made by the executive committee of which John Truseott is chairman: The Nevada County Emergency Patro! will in no sense be a vigilante organization, though doubtless the charge will be made from time to time. We wish to reiterate that it will be quasiofficial organization, just as is our volunteer fire department, except that the patrol will bear an even greater official character. Every member will have to qualify as, and be officially appointed and sworn in as a deputy sheriff. None of the members of the patrol wilt be called upon or permitted to function as a peace officer’ except directly under the orders of the sheriff and only when the sheriff decides that a state of emergency exists which demands the services of others than his regular force of paid deputies. When such an emergency exists, however, every member of the force will be clothed with all the power that the state of California confers upon its peace officers. CARD PARTY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR LIBRARY SHELVES The Nevada City Womans Civie Club held a regular meeting at the Brand Studio Monday night. Besides caring for routine business several new projects were considered. ‘Mrs, James Penrose was elected delegate and Mrs. Arthur Hoge, Jr., alternate, to the Northern District Convention to be held in Woodland on Aprif‘1, 2, and 3. Mts. A. M. Hoge gave a report of the library committee and described the ‘improvements, including’ new shelves, which the club has undertake to install. The improvements ‘are more extensive and more expen-. sive than at first estimated and the club women have decided to hold an evening card party during the first week after Easter to meet this expense. The library committee consisting of Mrs. A. M. Hoge, Mrs. 'W.} P. Sawyer and Mrs. Leland Smith will have charge of arrangements bership will assist and it is hoped. that all interested in ‘the will help. Those wishing to donate. prizes for the affair please phone. _ W. P. Saw-} lyer or Mrs. Leland Smith. . _ =f Mrs, A. M. Hoge, Mrs. A committee consisting of ‘Mrs. H. E. Kjorlie, Mrs. R. E. Harris and Mrs. W. P. Lee was appointed to study what might be done for the youth of the community and to present its findings to the club. This} committee hopes to confer apd work . ‘ting early syphilis by Dr. J. H. ‘library . ROTARY H TALK ON Bill McCandlish of the Hercules Powder company was the speaker at yesterday’s Rotary luncheon in the National Hotel. He has recently returned from a business trip to the Philippines and gave the club an interesting account of the gold mining operations there. ; It was announced that the nex: meeting of the club will be a dinner meeting with the Grass Valley Rotarians at Bret Harte Inn, to which the ladies of both clubs are invited. A moving picture of the redwood will be presented. This meetin will take place next Monday evening. McCandlish stated that in 1936 the Philippines produced $22,000,000 in gold, ranking second with California in the gold output of the United States. He said that the Philippines were still regarded as @ part of the United. States, since the islands will be dependent on this country for nine more years. Balatoe and Benquet mines produce the maj<4 or part of the Philippine gold, but during August, September and October of 1936 78 new mining compan; ‘ies were registered as against 212 mines previously .recorded. All the mining, except one property is in quartz, and the exception is a dredger operation which last year produced $300,000 in gold. There is some copper and iron mining, and the Japanesé purchase the output of these mines. The best miners are the Igorotes and they generaly refuse to leave their highlands for the mines in the lowlands. The wage scale is from 50 cents to 75 cents per day, which enables mining companies to work low grade properties, but as a matter of fact the day’s labor output is low compared to American standards. 3 Some of the Philippine miners are so short that in placing the high shots in the breast of the ore, one sits on the shoulders of another while -he operates the jackhammer.: On the return trip McCandlish boarded a clipper airplane from Manila to Honolulu. He gave interesting figures regarding these great seaplanes. He found it monotonous since there was nothing except clouds and water. Owing to high head winds the cruising speed over a part of the distance was only 100 miles an hour, as against the normal speed of 140 miles an hour. ‘ P.T. A.ENTERS _ Grammar School P. T. A. met Friday afternoon and in aecordance with the request of the National Bureau of Education and Bureau.of Public Health Service the Washington National P T. A. is joining wit other welfare organizations in the nation wide campaign against the scourge of social ‘disease. The Wa ington. grammar school had at 2 meeting ‘County School Health Suj This was followed: by a dis by teachers and parents present — to the best possible procedure to operate in this ~ etusetons! ei paign. Reprints have been pihered: distribution of. the article I es of the United States P Health service in the. March issue. the Readers Digest. given a party whi h 4 ed Ee the class m with representatives of other local Sie eas organizations. oe Mrs. eee Browning ‘of French : Corral Visited” her daughter — other’ relatives in = City Wedcole