March 20, 1939 (4 pages)

Ss Pee ae Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. eva da City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with .good motives and for justifiable ends. —-Alexander Hamilton. From the Calif. March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists We are more than ever convinced that the late Woodrow Wilson proposed the only just and satisfactory method of establishing and maintaining world peace. The league of nations was his creation. It was modified, of course, from ‘his conception of it, but not sufficiently to hiave destroyed its fundamental rightness. The league has never reached its goal, because a few stubborn isolationists in the U. S. Senate, balked at permitting the United States membership in it, Senators Hiram Johnson and the late Henry Cabot Lodge, were mainly responsible for that defeat of a plan ithat might have preserved world peace. Today we reap the bad harvest of that refusal to ratify the Wilson plan. Germany again raises an ugly truculent head, and proceeds to ‘‘take’’ what it can. Treaties again become scraps of paper. Nations repudiate their obligations. Minorities are not only oppressed, they are cruelly beaten and robbed as’ individuals. Czecho-Slavakia, has vanished. Austria has been swallowed by the same big, ‘baid wolf, that the United States helped to whip twenty years ago. We do not attempt to come to any judgment regarding the rights or wrongs of Czecho-Slavakia, or even of the Jews soatrociously used, in Germany. It may be that the Jews abused their citizenship priviliges as doctors, merchants, scientific researchers, and teachers in Germany, as it is charged, and now must pay the dreadful penalty Hitler imposes. The whole story this generation will probably never know. History will sometime tell it. But the fragmentary parts of the story we ‘do thear outrage our sense of decency and justice. But the league of nations as coneeived and finally established, provided for reviews of the questions, before tribunals set up for that purpose, that were formerly answered by test of arms. International law was to have become world law, and machinery for its administration was provided. It is quite possible, even probable, that in modifying the ‘Wilson plan, many faults developed in the league structure. But in time with an earnest effort on the part of league adherents these could have tbelen cured, just as we today cure the faults of our Constitution by ‘amendment, We do not regard it as too late, even with all the wars now going forward, to re-establish a new frame work of world peace, justly enforced. If for instance England, France and the United States, were to pool their interests and say to the rest of the world, and mean it; “There shall bie no more war,” the first thing to happen, with a practical program offered to put a stop to war, would be ‘the enrollment of Belgium, HolJand, the Scandinavian countries, South and Central America, and other nations that preserve in practice, or ‘at least in form, the democratic principles of government. The establishment of muttually advantageous trading relations among the participants in this plan, the mere fact that preponderance of the world’s wealth and armed forces would be. under control of the new international association, would in ‘a short time force the dictatorships into memberships, without, in all probability, resort to war. Under the old league plan, if the United States had once wholeheartedly given its allegiance, .it was quite possible for Germany or any other aggrieved nation to pring its complaint into a great world court and there have it adjudicated. Adjustments of the Versailles treaty could have made, conflicts of economic interests ironed out, trade relationships given sanctions of tinternational law, boundary disputes settled, “minority claims recognized and adjusted, plebescites held to determine regional preferences and a. whole new order of world peace under international law establisheg. That was President Wilson’s dream, and a war ridden world hailed him as a Messiah. Today, because a small group of Repub’ licans in the United States Senate refused to ratify the leaigue covenant our ‘Congress is voting hundreds of millions for armament. Because our Congress for a halfcentury or more have bungled our trade relations with other nations, international , Vel 13, No24. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MARCH 20, 19 REPUBLICANS IN FIGHT TO HOLD DOWN TAXES SACRAMENTO, (March 20.—Determination to reduce ‘California’s largest state ‘budget, submitted by the governor in the unprecedented sum of $557,163,355, was expressed here today. by a group of state legislators led by Assemblyman Gardiner Johnson of Berkeley. “We are determined to scrutinize every item in this budget to ascertain its necessity,’ Assemblyman Johnson/ said. ‘“‘We want to eliminate every unnecessary expenditure. ‘Mounting costs of state government hit the middle class of our people more heavily than “any other class. The small businessman has received far too little consideration. Adiditional 'taxes have to be ‘paid by the smiall businessman directly. He cannot as a rule pass them on to the ultimate consumer.” Particularly bad is the inclination of some of our officials to present bills that would impose additional payroll taxes, Johnson said. This tendency will prolong or even aggravate unhealthly business conditions as many small ‘business men operate on ‘an annual return of around six per cent and, ‘‘there are bills peniding which, if all were approved, would place a total of more than six per cent payroll taxes on every small businessman employing four or more people,” the solon stated. ‘‘Also,” he added, ‘“‘the payroll deductions from employees’ salaries would increase ‘in many cases to the point of hardship.” Senator John Phillips of Banning supplemented. Johnson’s statement with the ‘declaration that protection for the farmer as well as the small businessman will be a major objective of the legislature session. “It is a poor time to be talking about raising the salaries of state officials, most of whom are being adequately paid now, when our farmers are itacing a fight for survival,” he said. “Taxes are a burden to the small farmer as well as the small businessman, and upon the welfare of these classes, the prosperity of everyone in the state depends to a large measure.” GEORGE LEGG DONATES STREET STRIP TO CITY George Legg has donated to the city a strip of land along Union street, which will enable the council to widen the street by as much as ten feet in some places, It will take a bow out of the street alignment so that persons entering the street ean see to the other end without obstruction. This is a much needed improvement. It is also proposed, according to City Engineer Ed Uren, to ‘build a new sidewalk along the forest service lot on ‘tthe northern side of the street, from which a WPA crew recently extracted some old poular stumps. BOWMAN MINE Carl Johnson of Nevada.City and Harold Casey of Alleghany have ‘started to work their property the ‘Bowman mine at Plum Valley. In the early fall considerable sluicing was done but snow filled the long ditch ‘preventing them from making a final cleanup. There is about a fott of snow on the ground and as soon as it melts work. on. the gravel. channel will be resumed. In the meantime Casey and Johnson with two other men are cleaning out a long tunnel driven on tthe vein. Im their last operations they started a cross cut near the mouth of the tunnel in slate formation where splendid ore has been mined in the past. Mrs. Stanley Sills of Brookfield, Harry Cooper and Miss Carolyn Fuller of Oakland grove up from the bay region yesterday and spent the day with Mys. Belle Douglass. All three are cousins of Mrs. Douglass. Miss Blaine Mobley of Auburn spent ‘the week end in Nevada City. She came to visit her father who is at the Nevada City Sanitarium. we are discriminated against and suffer a nine year depression for this, and of course, for the war we won and lost. As a member of an international body, the United States, could have saved, not only ‘billions in taxes for relief and for armament, but probably could have converted most of the world. to the democratic ideals we cherish. . Ject superintendent V. J. Wilson and CHAMBER TO MEET The Nevada City Chamber of Commerce will meet tomorrow evening in their quarters in the city hall at eight o’clock. The president, E. B. Gallagher requests that all members be in attenidanice as there are several matters of importance to be considered. The directors will meet at 7: 15 for transaction of (business. CC CORPS WILL CELEBRATE 6TH BIRTHDAY SOON The Civilian Conservation Corps will be six years old on April 5, and according to word received by the Tahoe National Forest headquarters ‘at Nevada City; Director Robert Fechner has requested that army officials in charge of COC work, and the technical services involved cooperate in the observance of the annivarsary some time during the period March 31 to April 15, preferably ‘by holding ‘‘fopen house’ celebrations to which the public would be invited and given an opportunity to inspect the camp facilities for the welfare, education and training of enrollees, and the work projects being carried on by the enrollees under the supervision of the technical services. In this way the public can become acquainted with what the corps is doing toward the conservation of American human resources and its contribution to the conservation of natural resources of the nation. At 9 p. m. on April 3 Director Fechner will participate in ‘the Washington Eveneng Star’s radio forum, which ‘will go over the coast to coast Blue network of the National Broadcasting Company, originating from WMAL, Washington. At 12:35 p.m. ‘on April 7, over tthe National Broadcasting Company’s Farm and Home Hour, ranger program will be a celebration of the sixth anniversary. Two camps are located on the Tahoe National forest; ‘according to officials at Nevada City, Camp Grass Valley, near the town of Grass Valley, in change of Lieut. Paul Bellamy, and Camp Bradley, near Forest Hill, in charge of Lieut. Galvan. ProLeon G. Johnson are in charge of forest ‘service conservation projects in connection with the two camps. JOHN D. MEYER OF CHICAGO PARK PASSES AWAY John D. Meyer, 69, died at his home in Chicago Park today.He was a fruit grower and had come to this section from his native land Germany ‘when a youth, He was married in 1905 and leaves besides a wife two children, Mrs. Paula MHoeger, Sacramento and Rudolph Meyer of Chicago Park. Three sisters in Germany. Holmes Hooper Funeral Home have charge of funeral arrangements. Services will be held Wednesday with interment being. made in the Chicago Park cemetery. Capt. George A. Nihell came into ‘Nevada City today from his home in the Banner Mountain section where he had. been snowed in about two months. The iast storm ‘brought about 30 inches of snow which is practically all gone now. Two bro-}-. thers have leased Capt. Nihell’s mining ground from the Deer Creek Union mining company. They installed pumps and are unwatering the shaft. Liltle Beryl Robinson, Jr., _ fell down' the steep steps at his home on Sacramento street last Thursday and broke his right arm. He is carrying his arm in a cast. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Duhane of Sacramento spent Sunday in Nevada City as guests of Mr. and Mrs, James F. Dolan. Mr Dolan and Mr, Duhane worked ‘together years ago while they were employed by the P. G. & E. comipany. Miss Helen Jones of Sunnyvale and Miss Nancy Jones of Marysville spent the past week énd at the home of their parents, Judge and Mrs. George L. Jones. They enjoyed snow sports while here, TOMORROW NIGHT) ‘. will mark the Uncle Sam’s forest . . ‘two towns. CLAMPERS GET READY T0600 NOR. SAN JUAN Clyde Gwin, chairman of the E Clampus Vitus committee in charge of the big “let-there-be-light’”’ celebration at North San Juan, which advent of electric lighting ,inthe historic old placer mining center, has set Saturday night April 29, as the date for tthe big event. It was a year ago, April 2, 1938, that the. William Bull Meek chapter of E Clampus Vitus organized with 10 poor blind candidates for Deer Creek Diggin’s. It is understood that almost thirty candidates are being groomed for an initiation to be held in Twamley hall in North San Juan following the parade and “speechifying.’’ Several of these are pioneers from the early day lodge at Sierra City. The Pacific Gas and Electric company’s crew is now engaged in setting up a pole line from Cherokee junction to North San Juan. This will be ia branch of the line recently erected along the Ridge to carry current into Alleghany. Prior to the big celebration in North San Juan, the Clampers will hold an election of officers This will take place, probably, on the night c April 1, “All Fools Night,” and will be conducted with the usual Clamper dignity and decorum It is understood that the class of candidates at North San Juan are unusually upstanding and well endowed muscularly. For this event, therefore, the Clamper initiatory team is fondly currying a the-demon goat. The animal has gone into training near North Bloomfield. This goat, it is whispered, keeps in form by butting holes through the old brick walls of some of the abandoned buildings there. CAR CHECK OF SKIERS REVEALS MOST FROM BAY Nearly three fourths of the snow sports visitors to ‘the Donner Summit recreation area come from the San Francisco bay region, and Sacramento county, according to a recent random check of Suniday morning’s snow sponts traffic made by District Ranger J. R. Hodgson of the Tahoe national forest. Hodgson checked 190 cars ‘between the Summit and the Blue Canyon airport and by checqing license numbers with the Department of Motor Vehicles, found that 40 per cent of them came from the bay area. 27 per cent from Sacramento county, 8 per cent from Placer county, 3 pé cent from Nevada county and the remainder were scattered over seventeen counties of the state, Hodgson states that this represented about 14 per cent of the use for that particular day, which would indicate a total of 1400 cars visiting the area. It was estimated that approximately half of the visitors travelled through Sacramento county and over half through Auburn,.and the cities between Auburn and Sacramento on their way to the snow playfields. Hodgson found that 8 per cent travelled .through Grass Valley and Nevada City and was of the opinion that further improvement of the Tahoe Ukiah highway would tend to increase the traffic through those STEEL CO, AGENT CONFERS WITH CITY COUNCIL Mr. Rudy, ‘representative of ithe Columibia Steel company,: of San Francisco met with the city council this afternoon and presented a plan for an all steel grate floor for the Gault bridge. The council considered the cost which was considerably more than they had planned. Rudy also stated the cement covering as Planned was too heavy for the present. bridge structure. At time of going to press the council was in session with Mr. Rudy. A marriage license was issued today March 20, 1939 to Ira Roy Burton, 46, and Edna Eppright 44, both To Death, A complaint hasbeen signed by ‘Mrs. Charles Cowles, against her son Herbert Cowles, 32, who is alleged to have beaten his father, Charles Cowles, Wednesday night at their Indian Flat cabin, so severely that he died of his injuries Saturday night. Since the arrest of Herbert Cowles, it develops that he has a long criminal career. Herbert Cowles’ criminal career began in Placer county in 1925 when-he was arrested and served a county jail term for disturbing the peace. In 1926 he was arrested on a samilar charge in Placer county. On July 31, 1926, Cowles was given a San Quentin prison term on a charge of grand theft. Following his release from that prison he was arrested in North Sacramento on a misdemeanor charge. Shortly there after he was sentenced to Folsom Prison on a charge of grand theft from Yuba wounty. That was in October 1932. After he was released on a pardon from Folsom he was arrested in Chiico, then in Sacramento. In November, 1937 the Nevada county authorities arrested him on a petty theft charge brought by Mike Kendrick. He served six months folJowing his conviction by a jury. According to the sittory told Undersheriff Bill Woods by Mrs. Cowles, her son came home at midnight WedSon, Who Beat Father Record Of Crime Has Long nesday intoxicated. He woke up his father and asked him to'go out and find a hound that had been released from the cabin earlier in the evening. The father refused to go, whereupon the son dragged him from his bed nid beat him on the head leaving him insensible upon the floor. ¢ Herbert, according to his mother’s story then ordered him to cook a meal for him, which she said, she did. After eating, she stated, her son returned to his father, lying unconscious on the floor lifted him up and again struck him a crushing blow on the head. She reports that she thought he used nothing but his fists, but-admitted he may have had. something in his hand. The father never regained ‘consciousness, and remained unattended until noon, Thursday, when Dr. W. W. Reed was called. Cowles was then taken to the county hospital.where he died of a (brain hemmorhage, as revealed when Drs. Reed and Benteen performed an autopsy. x Herbert Cowles was arrested on Thursday anid has remained in jail” since then. Mrs. Cowles is reported ~ to suffered conivulsions from fright and was treated at the county hospital Thursday. Cowles will have this preliminary hearing as soon as District Attorney Stoll returns from San Francisco. PICTURES OF EXPOSITION T0 BE SHOWN WED. Mrs. ~ Alfred McLaughlin of San Francisco, chairman of the Women’s County committes for the Golden’ Gate International Exposition will meet with the Nevada County chairman and committee members at the Hennessey school in Grass Valley on Wednesday night at 8 p. m. Mrs. McLaughlin will give a talk and picture various !phases of the fair. She will bring mictures of some of the most interesting features of the ‘fair. Committee members and memibers of the various service clubs of the county who are interested are invited to attend the meeting which begins at 8 o’clock. GHIDOTTI AND LANE GET READY Springtime is in the air and fishing season is just around the corner! Frank Ghidotti and Whispering Dick Lane are making preparations for a bigger and better fishing season when it opens May first. The two young business men had a nice boat built last season and this year will get a lot of pleasure with. it on akon in the high’ Sierra; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Viles left today by airplame for Flint, Michigan to take delivery of tlirée of the new Buick ¢ars he has sold recently, Mrs. Viles will assist in driving the cars back to California. SPANISH MINE mine was ‘buried in the recent fire and it was brought to Nevada City and repaired. Timbers about the motor in the hoist room were burned at the 1600 level in the 1800 foot deep shaft and have been replaced. A burned cable was also replaced. The company has run a raise from the 1600 foot level to the 1000 foot level and a motor train carries ore to ithe mill. BE. .M. Stone and family moved down from ‘Truckee last Thursday and he will start work as fire dispatcher for the Tahoe National forwith plenty of skiing. Miss Therese O’Connor.and_ sister Miss Kathryn O’Connor, brother Arthur T. O’Connor and Mr. Sitton of Birchville motored to Nevada City nor left during the afternoon — for Sacramento where she will visit a week with relatives. She has been elected delegate to the N: D. G. W. Past Presidents Association convenOnly one motor at the Spanish . GRASS: j est Saturday. Mr, Stone stated it had] been a delightful winter at Truckee] this forenoon. Miss Therese O’Conos CALIFORNIA NOW LEADS IN AUTO REGISTRATIONS California again leads its cidenat” rival, New York, in total regisitrations of vehicles for the year 1938. The New York figures were just received by Registrar Howard E. Deems at Sacramento revealing that California exceeded its rival with a total of 30,188 vehicles of all types registered during the past twelve months. California’s total was 2,698,997 vehicles. ‘ The Golden State continues to maintain its low average cost per vehicles of $7.10 as compared with the New York average cost per vehicle of $16.50. Only seven states have a lower average cost of registration for ‘automobiles, trucks, trailers and busses. These states are Georgia, Nebraska,, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada anid Massachusetts. . Only one of these states has a total registration ‘in excess of 1,000,000 vehicles. Figures compiled by Registrar Deems for the average fee per — vehicle were arrived at by dividing” the total number of vehicles into the total fees collected to accomplish the registration of all types of vehicles: during 1938. California registration collections amounted to $22,332,421 for past year ‘including the “in lieu” fees which were approximately same amount for the calendar year as the registration fees collected. BEAT N. C. BOW The Elks bowling t taumnasiiale be completed next Sunday and ft proved keenly interesting to the sh x teams entered, Plans are for anot one.\-Oroville has asked that_ bowling team may enter the ¢ Yesterday Grass Valley carried two points while Nevada City one. This gives Nevada City 11 Grass Valley 10. Marysville with Chico previous to y game Marysville will come . City next Sunday for the final Ferne Lunette /Leonard Exekbont, we tion in Santa Rosa. and of Nevada City: Application to wed =e was made last: week. f

Ss Pee ae Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. eva da City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with .good motives and for justifiable ends. —-Alexander Hamilton. From the Calif. March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists We are more than ever convinced that the late Woodrow Wilson proposed the only just and satisfactory method of establishing and maintaining world peace. The league of nations was his creation. It was modified, of course, from ‘his conception of it, but not sufficiently to hiave destroyed its fundamental rightness. The league has never reached its goal, because a few stubborn isolationists in the U. S. Senate, balked at permitting the United States membership in it, Senators Hiram Johnson and the late Henry Cabot Lodge, were mainly responsible for that defeat of a plan ithat might have preserved world peace. Today we reap the bad harvest of that refusal to ratify the Wilson plan. Germany again raises an ugly truculent head, and proceeds to ‘‘take’’ what it can. Treaties again become scraps of paper. Nations repudiate their obligations. Minorities are not only oppressed, they are cruelly beaten and robbed as’ individuals. Czecho-Slavakia, has vanished. Austria has been swallowed by the same big, ‘baid wolf, that the United States helped to whip twenty years ago. We do not attempt to come to any judgment regarding the rights or wrongs of Czecho-Slavakia, or even of the Jews soatrociously used, in Germany. It may be that the Jews abused their citizenship priviliges as doctors, merchants, scientific researchers, and teachers in Germany, as it is charged, and now must pay the dreadful penalty Hitler imposes. The whole story this generation will probably never know. History will sometime tell it. But the fragmentary parts of the story we ‘do thear outrage our sense of decency and justice. But the league of nations as coneeived and finally established, provided for reviews of the questions, before tribunals set up for that purpose, that were formerly answered by test of arms. International law was to have become world law, and machinery for its administration was provided. It is quite possible, even probable, that in modifying the ‘Wilson plan, many faults developed in the league structure. But in time with an earnest effort on the part of league adherents these could have tbelen cured, just as we today cure the faults of our Constitution by ‘amendment, We do not regard it as too late, even with all the wars now going forward, to re-establish a new frame work of world peace, justly enforced. If for instance England, France and the United States, were to pool their interests and say to the rest of the world, and mean it; “There shall bie no more war,” the first thing to happen, with a practical program offered to put a stop to war, would be ‘the enrollment of Belgium, HolJand, the Scandinavian countries, South and Central America, and other nations that preserve in practice, or ‘at least in form, the democratic principles of government. The establishment of muttually advantageous trading relations among the participants in this plan, the mere fact that preponderance of the world’s wealth and armed forces would be. under control of the new international association, would in ‘a short time force the dictatorships into memberships, without, in all probability, resort to war. Under the old league plan, if the United States had once wholeheartedly given its allegiance, .it was quite possible for Germany or any other aggrieved nation to pring its complaint into a great world court and there have it adjudicated. Adjustments of the Versailles treaty could have made, conflicts of economic interests ironed out, trade relationships given sanctions of tinternational law, boundary disputes settled, “minority claims recognized and adjusted, plebescites held to determine regional preferences and a. whole new order of world peace under international law establisheg. That was President Wilson’s dream, and a war ridden world hailed him as a Messiah. Today, because a small group of Repub’ licans in the United States Senate refused to ratify the leaigue covenant our ‘Congress is voting hundreds of millions for armament. Because our Congress for a halfcentury or more have bungled our trade relations with other nations, international , Vel 13, No24. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, MARCH 20, 19 REPUBLICANS IN FIGHT TO HOLD DOWN TAXES SACRAMENTO, (March 20.—Determination to reduce ‘California’s largest state ‘budget, submitted by the governor in the unprecedented sum of $557,163,355, was expressed here today. by a group of state legislators led by Assemblyman Gardiner Johnson of Berkeley. “We are determined to scrutinize every item in this budget to ascertain its necessity,’ Assemblyman Johnson/ said. ‘“‘We want to eliminate every unnecessary expenditure. ‘Mounting costs of state government hit the middle class of our people more heavily than “any other class. The small businessman has received far too little consideration. Adiditional 'taxes have to be ‘paid by the smiall businessman directly. He cannot as a rule pass them on to the ultimate consumer.” Particularly bad is the inclination of some of our officials to present bills that would impose additional payroll taxes, Johnson said. This tendency will prolong or even aggravate unhealthly business conditions as many small ‘business men operate on ‘an annual return of around six per cent and, ‘‘there are bills peniding which, if all were approved, would place a total of more than six per cent payroll taxes on every small businessman employing four or more people,” the solon stated. ‘‘Also,” he added, ‘“‘the payroll deductions from employees’ salaries would increase ‘in many cases to the point of hardship.” Senator John Phillips of Banning supplemented. Johnson’s statement with the ‘declaration that protection for the farmer as well as the small businessman will be a major objective of the legislature session. “It is a poor time to be talking about raising the salaries of state officials, most of whom are being adequately paid now, when our farmers are itacing a fight for survival,” he said. “Taxes are a burden to the small farmer as well as the small businessman, and upon the welfare of these classes, the prosperity of everyone in the state depends to a large measure.” GEORGE LEGG DONATES STREET STRIP TO CITY George Legg has donated to the city a strip of land along Union street, which will enable the council to widen the street by as much as ten feet in some places, It will take a bow out of the street alignment so that persons entering the street ean see to the other end without obstruction. This is a much needed improvement. It is also proposed, according to City Engineer Ed Uren, to ‘build a new sidewalk along the forest service lot on ‘tthe northern side of the street, from which a WPA crew recently extracted some old poular stumps. BOWMAN MINE Carl Johnson of Nevada.City and Harold Casey of Alleghany have ‘started to work their property the ‘Bowman mine at Plum Valley. In the early fall considerable sluicing was done but snow filled the long ditch ‘preventing them from making a final cleanup. There is about a fott of snow on the ground and as soon as it melts work. on. the gravel. channel will be resumed. In the meantime Casey and Johnson with two other men are cleaning out a long tunnel driven on tthe vein. Im their last operations they started a cross cut near the mouth of the tunnel in slate formation where splendid ore has been mined in the past. Mrs. Stanley Sills of Brookfield, Harry Cooper and Miss Carolyn Fuller of Oakland grove up from the bay region yesterday and spent the day with Mys. Belle Douglass. All three are cousins of Mrs. Douglass. Miss Blaine Mobley of Auburn spent ‘the week end in Nevada City. She came to visit her father who is at the Nevada City Sanitarium. we are discriminated against and suffer a nine year depression for this, and of course, for the war we won and lost. As a member of an international body, the United States, could have saved, not only ‘billions in taxes for relief and for armament, but probably could have converted most of the world. to the democratic ideals we cherish. . Ject superintendent V. J. Wilson and CHAMBER TO MEET The Nevada City Chamber of Commerce will meet tomorrow evening in their quarters in the city hall at eight o’clock. The president, E. B. Gallagher requests that all members be in attenidanice as there are several matters of importance to be considered. The directors will meet at 7: 15 for transaction of (business. CC CORPS WILL CELEBRATE 6TH BIRTHDAY SOON The Civilian Conservation Corps will be six years old on April 5, and according to word received by the Tahoe National Forest headquarters ‘at Nevada City; Director Robert Fechner has requested that army officials in charge of COC work, and the technical services involved cooperate in the observance of the annivarsary some time during the period March 31 to April 15, preferably ‘by holding ‘‘fopen house’ celebrations to which the public would be invited and given an opportunity to inspect the camp facilities for the welfare, education and training of enrollees, and the work projects being carried on by the enrollees under the supervision of the technical services. In this way the public can become acquainted with what the corps is doing toward the conservation of American human resources and its contribution to the conservation of natural resources of the nation. At 9 p. m. on April 3 Director Fechner will participate in ‘the Washington Eveneng Star’s radio forum, which ‘will go over the coast to coast Blue network of the National Broadcasting Company, originating from WMAL, Washington. At 12:35 p.m. ‘on April 7, over tthe National Broadcasting Company’s Farm and Home Hour, ranger program will be a celebration of the sixth anniversary. Two camps are located on the Tahoe National forest; ‘according to officials at Nevada City, Camp Grass Valley, near the town of Grass Valley, in change of Lieut. Paul Bellamy, and Camp Bradley, near Forest Hill, in charge of Lieut. Galvan. ProLeon G. Johnson are in charge of forest ‘service conservation projects in connection with the two camps. JOHN D. MEYER OF CHICAGO PARK PASSES AWAY John D. Meyer, 69, died at his home in Chicago Park today.He was a fruit grower and had come to this section from his native land Germany ‘when a youth, He was married in 1905 and leaves besides a wife two children, Mrs. Paula MHoeger, Sacramento and Rudolph Meyer of Chicago Park. Three sisters in Germany. Holmes Hooper Funeral Home have charge of funeral arrangements. Services will be held Wednesday with interment being. made in the Chicago Park cemetery. Capt. George A. Nihell came into ‘Nevada City today from his home in the Banner Mountain section where he had. been snowed in about two months. The iast storm ‘brought about 30 inches of snow which is practically all gone now. Two bro-}-. thers have leased Capt. Nihell’s mining ground from the Deer Creek Union mining company. They installed pumps and are unwatering the shaft. Liltle Beryl Robinson, Jr., _ fell down' the steep steps at his home on Sacramento street last Thursday and broke his right arm. He is carrying

his arm in a cast. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Duhane of Sacramento spent Sunday in Nevada City as guests of Mr. and Mrs, James F. Dolan. Mr Dolan and Mr, Duhane worked ‘together years ago while they were employed by the P. G. & E. comipany. Miss Helen Jones of Sunnyvale and Miss Nancy Jones of Marysville spent the past week énd at the home of their parents, Judge and Mrs. George L. Jones. They enjoyed snow sports while here, TOMORROW NIGHT) ‘. will mark the Uncle Sam’s forest . . ‘two towns. CLAMPERS GET READY T0600 NOR. SAN JUAN Clyde Gwin, chairman of the E Clampus Vitus committee in charge of the big “let-there-be-light’”’ celebration at North San Juan, which advent of electric lighting ,inthe historic old placer mining center, has set Saturday night April 29, as the date for tthe big event. It was a year ago, April 2, 1938, that the. William Bull Meek chapter of E Clampus Vitus organized with 10 poor blind candidates for Deer Creek Diggin’s. It is understood that almost thirty candidates are being groomed for an initiation to be held in Twamley hall in North San Juan following the parade and “speechifying.’’ Several of these are pioneers from the early day lodge at Sierra City. The Pacific Gas and Electric company’s crew is now engaged in setting up a pole line from Cherokee junction to North San Juan. This will be ia branch of the line recently erected along the Ridge to carry current into Alleghany. Prior to the big celebration in North San Juan, the Clampers will hold an election of officers This will take place, probably, on the night c April 1, “All Fools Night,” and will be conducted with the usual Clamper dignity and decorum It is understood that the class of candidates at North San Juan are unusually upstanding and well endowed muscularly. For this event, therefore, the Clamper initiatory team is fondly currying a the-demon goat. The animal has gone into training near North Bloomfield. This goat, it is whispered, keeps in form by butting holes through the old brick walls of some of the abandoned buildings there. CAR CHECK OF SKIERS REVEALS MOST FROM BAY Nearly three fourths of the snow sports visitors to ‘the Donner Summit recreation area come from the San Francisco bay region, and Sacramento county, according to a recent random check of Suniday morning’s snow sponts traffic made by District Ranger J. R. Hodgson of the Tahoe national forest. Hodgson checked 190 cars ‘between the Summit and the Blue Canyon airport and by checqing license numbers with the Department of Motor Vehicles, found that 40 per cent of them came from the bay area. 27 per cent from Sacramento county, 8 per cent from Placer county, 3 pé cent from Nevada county and the remainder were scattered over seventeen counties of the state, Hodgson states that this represented about 14 per cent of the use for that particular day, which would indicate a total of 1400 cars visiting the area. It was estimated that approximately half of the visitors travelled through Sacramento county and over half through Auburn,.and the cities between Auburn and Sacramento on their way to the snow playfields. Hodgson found that 8 per cent travelled .through Grass Valley and Nevada City and was of the opinion that further improvement of the Tahoe Ukiah highway would tend to increase the traffic through those STEEL CO, AGENT CONFERS WITH CITY COUNCIL Mr. Rudy, ‘representative of ithe Columibia Steel company,: of San Francisco met with the city council this afternoon and presented a plan for an all steel grate floor for the Gault bridge. The council considered the cost which was considerably more than they had planned. Rudy also stated the cement covering as Planned was too heavy for the present. bridge structure. At time of going to press the council was in session with Mr. Rudy. A marriage license was issued today March 20, 1939 to Ira Roy Burton, 46, and Edna Eppright 44, both To Death, A complaint hasbeen signed by ‘Mrs. Charles Cowles, against her son Herbert Cowles, 32, who is alleged to have beaten his father, Charles Cowles, Wednesday night at their Indian Flat cabin, so severely that he died of his injuries Saturday night. Since the arrest of Herbert Cowles, it develops that he has a long criminal career. Herbert Cowles’ criminal career began in Placer county in 1925 when-he was arrested and served a county jail term for disturbing the peace. In 1926 he was arrested on a samilar charge in Placer county. On July 31, 1926, Cowles was given a San Quentin prison term on a charge of grand theft. Following his release from that prison he was arrested in North Sacramento on a misdemeanor charge. Shortly there after he was sentenced to Folsom Prison on a charge of grand theft from Yuba wounty. That was in October 1932. After he was released on a pardon from Folsom he was arrested in Chiico, then in Sacramento. In November, 1937 the Nevada county authorities arrested him on a petty theft charge brought by Mike Kendrick. He served six months folJowing his conviction by a jury. According to the sittory told Undersheriff Bill Woods by Mrs. Cowles, her son came home at midnight WedSon, Who Beat Father Record Of Crime Has Long nesday intoxicated. He woke up his father and asked him to'go out and find a hound that had been released from the cabin earlier in the evening. The father refused to go, whereupon the son dragged him from his bed nid beat him on the head leaving him insensible upon the floor. ¢ Herbert, according to his mother’s story then ordered him to cook a meal for him, which she said, she did. After eating, she stated, her son returned to his father, lying unconscious on the floor lifted him up and again struck him a crushing blow on the head. She reports that she thought he used nothing but his fists, but-admitted he may have had. something in his hand. The father never regained ‘consciousness, and remained unattended until noon, Thursday, when Dr. W. W. Reed was called. Cowles was then taken to the county hospital.where he died of a (brain hemmorhage, as revealed when Drs. Reed and Benteen performed an autopsy. x Herbert Cowles was arrested on Thursday anid has remained in jail” since then. Mrs. Cowles is reported ~ to suffered conivulsions from fright and was treated at the county hospital Thursday. Cowles will have this preliminary hearing as soon as District Attorney Stoll returns from San Francisco. PICTURES OF EXPOSITION T0 BE SHOWN WED. Mrs. ~ Alfred McLaughlin of San Francisco, chairman of the Women’s County committes for the Golden’ Gate International Exposition will meet with the Nevada County chairman and committee members at the Hennessey school in Grass Valley on Wednesday night at 8 p. m. Mrs. McLaughlin will give a talk and picture various !phases of the fair. She will bring mictures of some of the most interesting features of the ‘fair. Committee members and memibers of the various service clubs of the county who are interested are invited to attend the meeting which begins at 8 o’clock. GHIDOTTI AND LANE GET READY Springtime is in the air and fishing season is just around the corner! Frank Ghidotti and Whispering Dick Lane are making preparations for a bigger and better fishing season when it opens May first. The two young business men had a nice boat built last season and this year will get a lot of pleasure with. it on akon in the high’ Sierra; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Viles left today by airplame for Flint, Michigan to take delivery of tlirée of the new Buick ¢ars he has sold recently, Mrs. Viles will assist in driving the cars back to California. SPANISH MINE mine was ‘buried in the recent fire and it was brought to Nevada City and repaired. Timbers about the motor in the hoist room were burned at the 1600 level in the 1800 foot deep shaft and have been replaced. A burned cable was also replaced. The company has run a raise from the 1600 foot level to the 1000 foot level and a motor train carries ore to ithe mill. BE. .M. Stone and family moved down from ‘Truckee last Thursday and he will start work as fire dispatcher for the Tahoe National forwith plenty of skiing. Miss Therese O’Connor.and_ sister Miss Kathryn O’Connor, brother Arthur T. O’Connor and Mr. Sitton of Birchville motored to Nevada City nor left during the afternoon — for Sacramento where she will visit a week with relatives. She has been elected delegate to the N: D. G. W. Past Presidents Association convenOnly one motor at the Spanish . GRASS: j est Saturday. Mr, Stone stated it had] been a delightful winter at Truckee] this forenoon. Miss Therese O’Conos CALIFORNIA NOW LEADS IN AUTO REGISTRATIONS California again leads its cidenat” rival, New York, in total regisitrations of vehicles for the year 1938. The New York figures were just received by Registrar Howard E. Deems at Sacramento revealing that California exceeded its rival with a total of 30,188 vehicles of all types registered during the past twelve months. California’s total was 2,698,997 vehicles. ‘ The Golden State continues to maintain its low average cost per vehicles of $7.10 as compared with the New York average cost per vehicle of $16.50. Only seven states have a lower average cost of registration for ‘automobiles, trucks, trailers and busses. These states are Georgia, Nebraska,, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada anid Massachusetts. . Only one of these states has a total registration ‘in excess of 1,000,000 vehicles. Figures compiled by Registrar Deems for the average fee per — vehicle were arrived at by dividing” the total number of vehicles into the total fees collected to accomplish the registration of all types of vehicles: during 1938. California registration collections amounted to $22,332,421 for past year ‘including the “in lieu” fees which were approximately same amount for the calendar year as the registration fees collected. BEAT N. C. BOW The Elks bowling t taumnasiiale be completed next Sunday and ft proved keenly interesting to the sh x teams entered, Plans are for anot one.\-Oroville has asked that_ bowling team may enter the ¢ Yesterday Grass Valley carried two points while Nevada City one. This gives Nevada City 11 Grass Valley 10. Marysville with Chico previous to y game Marysville will come . City next Sunday for the final Ferne Lunette /Leonard Exekbont, we tion in Santa Rosa. and of Nevada City: Application to wed =e was made last: week. f