March 25, 1943 (4 pages)

-shipments of food stuffs ‘student nurses with $250 and $500 The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month PARR) “God grants liberty only-to-those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster evada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget This paper gives your complete . coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17: No. 24. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Canty 25, 1943. se rma ct vee =a R R MANPOWER INVESTIGATION. GETS UNDER WAY By CLEM WHITAKER The decision of the State Railroad Commission to make a searching inquiry into the whole railroad manpower situation, as requested by the steam railroads, in addition to its scheduled investigation into the effect of the Full Crew Law on rail operations during war time has turned the spotlight on a rapidly developing problem which threatens to become as serious to California as the farm labor crisis. Kor reasons of military secrecy, it is a problem which thus far has not been aied fully inpublic, and probably can’t be in the future, but testimony or railroad executives before legislative committees at Sacramento has given at least some indication of the gravity of the situation. The acute shortage of railroad workers, plus the urgency of military requirements, rail afficials testified may force the lines to cut down on and livestock. ‘‘Unless relief is accorded our railroad and other railroads also,’’ declared C. F. Donnatin, general manager of the Southern Pacific, ‘f we will commence considering the application of embagoes on commercial freight.’’“And from B. M. Patterson of Sacramento, assistant S. P. super-, intendent, came the warning that the, railroads will not be able to provide! transportation for livestock on the hoof if an embargo becomes neces-. sary. While contending that the opera-) tion of the Full Crew Law has been . a serious factor in causing a schort-. age of brakemen and therefore de-, laying train movements, the rail-. roads—-in asking ‘the state railroad commission for a full, investigation of thejr mianpoyer problem—cided the following conditions as other contributing causes to their difficulty: (1) Heavy military traffic and the, tremendous increase in freight and passenger business arising from the war.’ (2) Loss of employes. through enlistment and induction into the armed forces. (3) Loss of employes to other employers. (4) Restrictive laws which do not permit the lines fully to utilize the manpower avail-. able. The problem is greatly heighiten-. ed, the railroads set forth, by reason of the fact that California is the focal point of the war in the Pacific, with traffic demands correspondingly hea-. vier here than in any other area in the nation. On one of the railroads operating in (California, it was brought out government freight traffic during 1942 was 283 per cent greater than in 1941—and comparative increases occurred on _ other lines. The railroads, in addition to seeking suspension of restrictive makework laws which aggravate the manpower problem, also revealed that they are asking government sanction to import Mexican track workers; that they are recruiting Indians from the Indian reservations; that they are using women in all possible types of service in increasing number. and that they have established em'ployment offices in the mid-west and the east to supplement their California labor supply. RED CROSSTO OFFER NURSES SCHOLARSHIPS WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25. —A national scholarship fund of $31,515 has been raised by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in cooperation with the American Red Cross ‘campaign to recruit 20,000 young women to the nursing profession, Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, president of the federation, announced, The fund will be used to provide . gift scholarships. In addition to providing scholarships for student nurses, the federation is assisting the Red Cross in recruiting nurses for the’ Army and Navy Nurse Corps and accepting registations for Red Cross Volunteer’ Nurse’s Aide and-Home Nursing classes. iContributions toward the schola® ship fund were received from almost ‘compared ‘with 95.52 per \Society of Southern (Californinia in West, and the American Legion of Germans who were retreating through {500; Virginia with $1,000; NebrasEMPIRE STAR MINES ISSUES ANNUAL REPORT In his report to stockholders of the Empire Star Mines Company Ltd. President Fred Searls Jr. reviews the idleness of the company’s properties, the Empire, North Star and Pennsylvania mines, resulting from the closing order of th WIPB last fall. He ealls attention to the fact that this suspension of operations is the ‘first during the corporate existence of the company, and in fact the first in the ninety years of existence. The Zeibright and the Browns Valley mines have been closed and are filling with water, the report states. The mills of the three mines mention ed above have suspended, but the closing order permits shafts tobe unwatered and repairs to be made. The mills. are receiving a thorough cleaning and the clean up is permitted to be milled. Results of this will ipartially offset ‘the cost of closing down Searls points out that maintenance of the local properties—keeping them dry and in repair—will become; a speculative policy “if pursued throughout a long war because of the uncertainty of the ratio of postwar operating costs to the price of gold.”’ In 1942, prior to closing, the Grass Valley properties milled 139,804 tons of ore, the recovery from which was 0.389 ounces as compared with 1941 production of 248,289 tons, averaging 0.349 ounces per ton. Metallurgical recovery was 05.60 per cent as! cent 1941. The report states that despite labor shortages throughout the operating! period the ore reserves were main-. tained and at the date of closing it is estimated that in the reserves were 536,000 tons at 0.272 ounces. Searls concludes that: “It is obvious that the future coriduct of your companys business will be profoun4dly affected iby the length of the war and by post war economic conditions that. are at present difficult to predict.’’ CALIFORNIA TO CELEBRATE 100TH BIRTHDAY 1950 Far-reaching in its possibilities is the recent action of the Historical making provision for a state wide. committee to devise plans for the proper observance in 1949-50 of California’s one hundredth anniversary of statehood. The action is timely. The event will be one of wide significance to the state, and it is important that ample time be given to the maturing of plans of such a character as will do justice to the romantic history of the Golden State. As submitted, this plan calls for a Centennial Committee composed, of members from every one of the 58 counties. In’ addition, there will be the executive heads of various his‘toric and pioneer bodies throughout the state,, representatives from the (Native Sons of the Golden West, the Native Daughters of the Golden 8 California, as well as distinguished scholars from the various Universities. @ committee, presented’ these than a million dollars for the purchase ‘. terday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock for the late Jose Antonio Fernandez who passed away Sunday: Grass Valley. Spain, aged 51 years. For the past 20 years he has been employed by the Empire Star Mines Company as a miner. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Hazel Fernandez. rick’s Catholic chureh conducted the services in the chapel of Hooper and ‘Weaver Mortuary. Interment was in day in Rocklin visiting her husband’s parents, Captain of the Game Commission A. H. Willard and Mrs. Willard. Her husband is still in a U. S. army camp in Colorado. STATE CHAMBER FAVORS SELLING CUT-OVER LAND SAIN FRANCISCO, March 25.— Full support of the California State Chamber of Commerce toward the creation of a farm production council, ‘whose function will be to supplement the work of federal agencies in the recruitment, placement and the transportation of farm labor, was authorized by-the chamber’s board of directors, meeting here yesterday at the St.Frances Hotel. This proposal is being considered in. Sacramento at a special session of the legislature. With reference to recruiting agricultural labor by federal agencies, including the importation of Mexican workers, the state chamber went on record as favoring H. J. R. 96 by Representative Cannon. This measure which would place responsibility for recruitment, placement, training and transportation of farm labor in the hands of the Agricultural Extension Service, has passed the House of Representatives and is now before -a committee of the senate. A. J. MeFadden, of Santa Ana, chairman of the chamber’s statewide agricultural mendations. board expressed the opinion, howwhich are located.’’ the counties in proposed the lands The measure introduced by Sen. Biggar provides’ an .oppropriation of slightly more. of cut over lands, as tecom-. mended by the state division of forestry. The recommendation was plac-. police, passed away Tuesday morned before the Board by Kenneth R. ing at 4:30 o’clock in a pay ward of Walker, of Westwood, vice chairman the Nevada County hospital. of committee. the statewide natural resources, . . . o : . : } Acquisition of land and buildings by the federal government, resulting! his youth he followed mining in Nein the removal of from the local tax rolls, has reached such. properties! such proportions that the California’ state chamber of commerce will support federal legislation designed to restrict the degree to properties will be tax exempt. MINER CALLED BY GRIM REAPER which such Funeral services were held yesafternoon in Fernandez was a native of Pravia, “Rev. William Horgan of St. Pathe Camptonville cemetery. Mrs. George Willard spent SunFish -and recom. . future will doubtless ‘be a combinaApprocal, in principle, of the Big-. tion of the native Chinese melodies gar bill now pending before the leg-. with western harmonic devices.”’ islature, providing for ecquisition of . state forests, was voted by the state. chamber board of directors. ov. CHARLES NINNIS ever, that ‘‘no purchase of forest . é in. lands should be made without the ap-. proval of the boards of supervisors . of CHINESE BEGIN TO ENJOY MASS CHORUSES. LOS ANGELES, March 22.—The Chinese are beginning to sing in harmony and already a ‘full length opera in the native language has been. produced before record breaking audiences in (Chungking, says Dr. Walter H. Rugsamen, assistant professor of music on the Los Angeles campus of ‘the ‘University of California. “One of the most inspiring sights in free (China of today, according to an authentic report, is to see thousands of people join in the mass singing of patriotic melodies. This is a spectacle never seen before in China and unheard of until six years ago. It is not confined to schools and colleges but has spread to the common people, to the refugees, guerillas. and soldiers at the front. “Most of these songs, in keeping with Chinese tradition are sung in unison, but some; like ‘The Song of the Lost Battalion are. sung in harTH Grass Valley Council Compliments Policemen At a meeting of the Grass Valley city council, Policemen George DeSoto and Henry Strick were comPlimented on their quick arrest of Floyd Giles, one of the suspects who is accused of robbing the Grass Valley Public Market of $447 last Sunda night. The arrest of Giles led Deputy Sheriff W. J. O’Hara and Undersheriff Bill Woods to a house where William Allen Sukovitzen, the other ex-convict, was hiding. In view of the difficulties butcher shops are encountering in obtaining meat supplies the council reduced the monthly license fee paid by them from $15 per month to $7.50 a month mony. “Part singing was first introduced by missionaries, Y. iM. C. A. member's and Chinese students who.had studied abroad.The Chinese music of the FUNERAL SERVICE THIS AFTERNOON (Charles H. Ninnis, one time deputy sheriff of Nevada (County and fcr several years on the Nevada (City Death was caused by cardiac asthma. iNinnis was born in Virginia. City, Nevada. He was 68 years of age. In vada and on coming to California, he also engaged in mining. He went to San Francisco and was there during the great fire of 1906. Returning to Nevada (City he became first night watchman of Nevada City, but later was appointed a deputy sheriff under Martin and continued in that post under Sheriff Garfield Robson from 1922 to-1927. In 1930 during the time Garfield Robson was chief of police Ninnis. served under him as a policeman. He belonged to ‘the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges in this city. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. (Mamie Ninnis, a daughter Mrs. James Henwood of Grass Valley, a sister ‘Mrs. Annie Temby of San Francisco, and two brothers Albert ‘Ninnis of San Francisco and W. H. Ninnis of Santa Clara. ‘Funeral services will ‘be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the chapel of Holmes Funeral Home of this city. : CORPORAL JOHN MUSCARDINI In the last letter received from rporal John Muscardini by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Muscardini he stated he had passed tests of the officers training board and will enter school soon. He was at Davis Mon than Field, Tucson, Ariz. NEPHEW WOUNDED IN AFRICA “Justice of the Peace and —“iMrs. Charles: Morehouse of Grass Valley have. received a letter from their nephew, Lieutenant Thomas M. Heather, in the African war theatre, that he is recovering from wounds received in a mine explosion. Lieutenant Heather, whose parents reside’ in Berkeley was formerly employed in a Grass Valley grocery store. His letter states that he suffered his wound while Americans were following the a mine field. every state, Mrs. Whitehurst said. Leading the nursing scholarship honor roll was the Pensylvania Federation of Women’s Clubs with contributions ‘totaling $5,000. Tennessee followed with $1,700,,Utah with $1,ka with’$750; and Arkansas with $600. of refugee orphans from Burma, Sgt. William E. Brownin Huron, Michigan. --THEIR “DADDIES” FEED THEM SOMEWHERE IN CHINA—(Passed by Army Censor). — Homeless Burmese orphans get individual attention from their “Daddies” at lunchtime somewhere in China. American soldiers have adopted great numbers aa, paying for their meals and board. American soldiers are left.to right: Capt. K. J. Poulton, Salt Lake Cit, Utah; Sgt. William P. Lord, Shreveport, La.; Russell V. White, Harrison, Ark,; g, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Capt. Glenn H. Smith, Port Native of Rough and ‘friends of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter were for the duration. Miss Lila Hughes Answers Summons The remains of Miss Lila Mae Hughes, who passed away in Jones Memorial Hospital, were yesterday sent to Oklahoma for interment by Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Miss Hughes had only arrived ‘in Grass Valley thirty days before har fatal illness. She had come here to make her home with Mrs. Zelma Willis, her sister, at 426 West (Main street. She had been; a moving picture theatre cashier in Arkansas pnd Oklahoma for several years. She was homa. Miss Bonnie Flindt and Cledith Jones Wedded . To the soft strains of Lohengrin’s. Wedding March, played by ‘the sol-. dier organist in an army chapel at} Port Lewis, Tacoma, the marriage of . Miss Bonnie Flindt: and Cledith Gs Jones was solemnized. The ceremony! was held at 4p. m. March: 10, with. Chaplain Rhinehart officiating. Rose and Lucien Quaid were the attendants. : The bride wore blue with a corsage of white camellias. The former Miss Flindt is the daughter of Mrs. Mabel Flindt of Nevada City. She was graduated from the San Francisco Teachers College in February and will teach in Washington. ' (Mr. Jones is the son of Mrs. George. Hill of Napa and George Jones of Nevada City. Mrs. Rose Jones is his grandmother. He is a staff sergeant in the headquarters and service éorps and at present is doing instructing. The couple are living in Taconia, but future plans depend on army orders. Ready is Summoned Mrs. Anna Bruce passed away: last night in the Grass Valley Community hospital. She was born and reared in Rough and Ready and was 70 years of age. ‘ By her first marriage to Joaquin ‘Lopez of Nevada City in 1888 she had seven children of whom ‘three survive. Following the death of Iopez, she was married to Robert E. Bruce, and with him conducted a service station in Brown’s Valley. Children surviving are Joe and Edwin. Lopez, and Mrs. Frances Rowe. ‘ Funeral service will fake: place Saturday from the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Rev. William Horgan will conduct the service, interment will be in the Catholic cemetery of Nevada City. WEEK END VISITORS ‘Mr: and Mrs. E. L. Baxter and children, former residents, spent the past week end in Nevada City as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Stone. On (Sunday evening a number . of 4. ial Red Cross Goes Over Top With $900 Excess Of Quota . Margaret Coughlan 34 years of age and a native of Okla-' . .00, Contributor $1.00, Purity Stores URSDAY, MARCH nn (Nevada City and its district to the north and east not only went over the top in its Red Cross campaign, Chairman R. J. Bennetts announced yesterday, but it now looks as if $900 in excess of the $5,100. quota had been donated, in other words the Nevada City district has contributed approximately $6,000 to the fund. Bennetts finds this very gratifying in view of the fact that many com: munities throughout California, which are directly beefited by war industries, are having difficulty in obtaining their assigned quotas. This district far from being a beneficiary of war industries has been affected adversely througha@ great loss of population which has been drawn away by the lure of higher wages elsewhere. NORTH COLUMBIA Earl Hiscox $1.00, James Fitzgerald $1.00, George Murphy $1,;00, Walter McCully $1.00, Mary Joan Campbell $1.00, Willie Coughlan $1.00, $1.00, Bridgie Mahoney $1.50, Ches®r Bigelow $1.00, Thomas Bigelow $1.00, J. C. Coughlan $5.00, Johnnie Boreni $1.00, Georgie English $1.00, Thorn English $1.50, Herbert. Aaton $1.00. NEVADA CITY Miss Janie Springer $5.00, Alice Moore $10.00, Mr. and Mrs. C. N, Chatfield $2.00, Mrs. Geary Feagans . (second contribution). $5.00, Frank . Wright $5.00, Edna Buffington $1. .00. Esther Kaupila $1.00, Amy Davies $1.00, Jeanette Baley $5.00, Fred . W. and Mrs. Fred W. Bush $5.00, . Hithel Lane McClish $5.00,’ Irvine Seaman $5.00; Mrs. Annie Sherman . (second contribution) $5.00, Mrs. J. L. LaRue $5.00, Rudolph Wursh $1$20.00, Gene Barbieri (Second contribution) $2.00, Bowman’s Beauty Parlor $5.00, William Pierce $1.00, Christopher Colombo Foresters $5.00, Nevada City Elks Lodge $25.00, Mr. and Mrs. S. Eden $1.00. (Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Mitchell (seeond contribution $2.50, Harry MeKee .$2.00, Mrs. Molly Trezone .50, W. E. Meals (Gray Eagle Mine, Happy Camp) $25.00, P. G. and E. Co. $50.00 ,Arbogast Brothers. $11.90, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Barach $5.00, P. A. Phelps $3.00, Ada Eden $2.00, Ladies Auxiliary, Fire Department $2.50, Mrs. Aileen Lewis $1.00, A Friend $3.00. BUSINESS BRINGS SAIN (MRIANCISCO, March 25.— Wartime activities of Northern and Central California brought 793,072 out of state people to. this region in 1942—the year ‘when travel for pleasure was ‘“out”—and they are continuing to come in 19438. According to ‘Californians, Ine., travel development agency with head-. quarters in San Francisco, 302,793. of these visitors came to see members of the armed forces; 300,691: came on strictly businesse or combination business and vacation trips; 189/588 came to live in this region. Expenditures by the first two groups of visitors amounted to $26,+ 928,751. Californians, Inc. estimated that three fourths of these visitors. came to the San Francisco bay area. It was predicted that large numbers of them and their friends will return, on vacations, after the war. Sierra County ‘Sends 259 Young Men to War The Sierra County Selective vice Board sent 15 young men army for service last Thursday. is the 34th call from Sierra « and makes 259 residents of Sie county who are in the servic The following is the list: bent Hayes, Donald Godfr Strosnider, Eli I. Allen invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newton, Wil Stone and a delightful party was en-. W. Barnes, John I. N joyed. Baxter is now employed in the. H. Pelfrey, Rayn regional office of the Tahoe national. sar P. . \ rill x forest in San Francisco as assistant. Hockestra, Jose to the chief of fire control.

-shipments of food stuffs ‘student nurses with $250 and $500 The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month PARR) “God grants liberty only-to-those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster evada City Nu COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget This paper gives your complete . coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17: No. 24. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Canty 25, 1943. se rma ct vee =a R R MANPOWER INVESTIGATION. GETS UNDER WAY By CLEM WHITAKER The decision of the State Railroad Commission to make a searching inquiry into the whole railroad manpower situation, as requested by the steam railroads, in addition to its scheduled investigation into the effect of the Full Crew Law on rail operations during war time has turned the spotlight on a rapidly developing problem which threatens to become as serious to California as the farm labor crisis. Kor reasons of military secrecy, it is a problem which thus far has not been aied fully inpublic, and probably can’t be in the future, but testimony or railroad executives before legislative committees at Sacramento has given at least some indication of the gravity of the situation. The acute shortage of railroad workers, plus the urgency of military requirements, rail afficials testified may force the lines to cut down on and livestock. ‘‘Unless relief is accorded our railroad and other railroads also,’’ declared C. F. Donnatin, general manager of the Southern Pacific, ‘f we will commence considering the application of embagoes on commercial freight.’’“And from B. M. Patterson of Sacramento, assistant S. P. super-, intendent, came the warning that the, railroads will not be able to provide! transportation for livestock on the hoof if an embargo becomes neces-. sary. While contending that the opera-) tion of the Full Crew Law has been . a serious factor in causing a schort-. age of brakemen and therefore de-, laying train movements, the rail-. roads—-in asking ‘the state railroad commission for a full, investigation of thejr mianpoyer problem—cided the following conditions as other contributing causes to their difficulty: (1) Heavy military traffic and the, tremendous increase in freight and passenger business arising from the war.’ (2) Loss of employes. through enlistment and induction into the armed forces. (3) Loss of employes to other employers. (4) Restrictive laws which do not permit the lines fully to utilize the manpower avail-. able. The problem is greatly heighiten-. ed, the railroads set forth, by reason of the fact that California is the focal point of the war in the Pacific, with traffic demands correspondingly hea-. vier here than in any other area in the nation. On one of the railroads operating in (California, it was brought out government freight traffic during 1942 was 283 per cent greater than in 1941—and comparative increases occurred on _ other lines. The railroads, in addition to seeking suspension of restrictive makework laws which aggravate the manpower problem, also revealed that they are asking government sanction to import Mexican track workers; that they are recruiting Indians from the Indian reservations; that they are using women in all possible types of service in increasing number. and that they have established em'ployment offices in the mid-west and the east to supplement their California labor supply. RED CROSSTO OFFER NURSES SCHOLARSHIPS WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25. —A national scholarship fund of $31,515 has been raised by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in cooperation with the American Red Cross ‘campaign to recruit 20,000 young women to the nursing profession, Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, president of the federation, announced, The fund will be used to provide . gift scholarships. In addition to providing scholarships for student nurses, the federation is assisting the Red Cross in recruiting nurses for the’ Army and Navy Nurse Corps and accepting registations for Red Cross Volunteer’ Nurse’s Aide and-Home Nursing classes. iContributions toward the schola® ship fund were received from almost ‘compared ‘with 95.52 per \Society of Southern (Californinia in West, and the American Legion of Germans who were retreating through {500; Virginia with $1,000; NebrasEMPIRE STAR MINES ISSUES ANNUAL REPORT In his report to stockholders of the Empire Star Mines Company Ltd. President Fred Searls Jr. reviews the idleness of the company’s properties, the Empire, North Star and Pennsylvania mines, resulting from the closing order of th WIPB last fall. He ealls attention to the fact that this suspension of operations is the ‘first during the corporate existence of the company, and in fact the first in the ninety years of existence. The Zeibright and the Browns Valley mines have been closed and are filling with water, the report states. The mills of the three mines mention ed above have suspended, but the closing order permits shafts tobe unwatered and repairs to be made. The mills. are receiving a thorough cleaning and the clean up is permitted to be milled. Results of this will ipartially offset ‘the cost of closing down Searls points out that maintenance of the local properties—keeping them dry and in repair—will become; a speculative policy “if pursued throughout a long war because of the uncertainty of the ratio of postwar operating costs to the price of gold.”’ In 1942, prior to closing, the Grass Valley properties milled 139,804 tons of ore, the recovery from which was 0.389 ounces as compared with 1941 production of 248,289 tons, averaging 0.349 ounces per ton. Metallurgical recovery was 05.60 per cent as! cent 1941. The report states that despite labor shortages throughout the operating! period the ore reserves were main-. tained and at the date of closing it is estimated that in the reserves were 536,000 tons at 0.272 ounces. Searls concludes that: “It is obvious that the future coriduct of your companys business will be profoun4dly affected iby the length of the war and by post war economic conditions that. are at present difficult to predict.’’ CALIFORNIA TO CELEBRATE 100TH BIRTHDAY 1950 Far-reaching in its possibilities is the recent action of the Historical making provision for a state wide. committee to devise plans for the proper observance in 1949-50 of California’s one hundredth anniversary of statehood. The action is timely. The event will be one of wide significance to the state, and it is important that ample time be given to the maturing of plans of such a character as will do justice to the romantic history of the Golden State. As submitted, this plan calls for a Centennial Committee composed, of members from every one of the 58 counties. In’ addition, there will be the executive heads of various his‘toric and pioneer bodies throughout the state,, representatives from the (Native Sons of the Golden West, the Native Daughters of the Golden 8 California, as well as distinguished scholars from the various Universities. @ committee, presented’ these than a million dollars for the purchase ‘. terday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock for the late Jose Antonio Fernandez who passed away Sunday: Grass Valley. Spain, aged 51 years. For the past 20 years he has been employed by the Empire Star Mines Company as a miner. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Hazel Fernandez. rick’s Catholic chureh conducted the services in the chapel of Hooper and ‘Weaver Mortuary. Interment was in day in Rocklin visiting her husband’s parents, Captain of the Game Commission A. H. Willard and Mrs. Willard. Her husband is still in a U. S. army camp in Colorado. STATE CHAMBER FAVORS SELLING CUT-OVER LAND SAIN FRANCISCO, March 25.— Full support of the California State Chamber of Commerce toward the creation of a farm production council, ‘whose function will be to supplement the work of federal agencies in the recruitment, placement and the transportation of farm labor, was authorized by-the chamber’s board of directors, meeting here yesterday at the St.Frances Hotel. This proposal is being considered in. Sacramento at a special session of the legislature. With reference to recruiting agricultural labor by federal agencies, including the importation of Mexican workers, the state chamber went on record as favoring H. J. R. 96 by Representative Cannon. This measure which would place responsibility for recruitment, placement, training and transportation of farm labor in the hands of the Agricultural Extension Service, has passed the House of Representatives and is now before -a committee of the senate. A. J. MeFadden, of Santa Ana, chairman of the chamber’s statewide agricultural mendations. board expressed the opinion, howwhich are located.’’ the counties in proposed the lands The measure introduced by Sen. Biggar provides’ an .oppropriation of slightly more. of cut over lands, as tecom-. mended by the state division of forestry. The recommendation was plac-. police, passed away Tuesday morned before the Board by Kenneth R. ing at 4:30 o’clock in a pay ward of Walker, of Westwood, vice chairman the Nevada County hospital. of committee. the statewide natural resources, . . . o : . : } Acquisition of land and buildings by the federal government, resulting! his youth he followed mining in Nein the removal of from the local tax rolls, has reached such. properties! such proportions that the California’ state chamber of commerce will support federal legislation designed to restrict the degree to properties will be tax exempt. MINER CALLED BY GRIM REAPER which such Funeral services were held yesafternoon in Fernandez was a native of Pravia, “Rev. William Horgan of St. Pathe Camptonville cemetery. Mrs. George Willard spent SunFish -and recom. . future will doubtless ‘be a combinaApprocal, in principle, of the Big-. tion of the native Chinese melodies gar bill now pending before the leg-. with western harmonic devices.”’ islature, providing for ecquisition of . state forests, was voted by the state. chamber board of directors. ov. CHARLES NINNIS ever, that ‘‘no purchase of forest . é

in. lands should be made without the ap-. proval of the boards of supervisors . of CHINESE BEGIN TO ENJOY MASS CHORUSES. LOS ANGELES, March 22.—The Chinese are beginning to sing in harmony and already a ‘full length opera in the native language has been. produced before record breaking audiences in (Chungking, says Dr. Walter H. Rugsamen, assistant professor of music on the Los Angeles campus of ‘the ‘University of California. “One of the most inspiring sights in free (China of today, according to an authentic report, is to see thousands of people join in the mass singing of patriotic melodies. This is a spectacle never seen before in China and unheard of until six years ago. It is not confined to schools and colleges but has spread to the common people, to the refugees, guerillas. and soldiers at the front. “Most of these songs, in keeping with Chinese tradition are sung in unison, but some; like ‘The Song of the Lost Battalion are. sung in harTH Grass Valley Council Compliments Policemen At a meeting of the Grass Valley city council, Policemen George DeSoto and Henry Strick were comPlimented on their quick arrest of Floyd Giles, one of the suspects who is accused of robbing the Grass Valley Public Market of $447 last Sunda night. The arrest of Giles led Deputy Sheriff W. J. O’Hara and Undersheriff Bill Woods to a house where William Allen Sukovitzen, the other ex-convict, was hiding. In view of the difficulties butcher shops are encountering in obtaining meat supplies the council reduced the monthly license fee paid by them from $15 per month to $7.50 a month mony. “Part singing was first introduced by missionaries, Y. iM. C. A. member's and Chinese students who.had studied abroad.The Chinese music of the FUNERAL SERVICE THIS AFTERNOON (Charles H. Ninnis, one time deputy sheriff of Nevada (County and fcr several years on the Nevada (City Death was caused by cardiac asthma. iNinnis was born in Virginia. City, Nevada. He was 68 years of age. In vada and on coming to California, he also engaged in mining. He went to San Francisco and was there during the great fire of 1906. Returning to Nevada (City he became first night watchman of Nevada City, but later was appointed a deputy sheriff under Martin and continued in that post under Sheriff Garfield Robson from 1922 to-1927. In 1930 during the time Garfield Robson was chief of police Ninnis. served under him as a policeman. He belonged to ‘the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges in this city. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. (Mamie Ninnis, a daughter Mrs. James Henwood of Grass Valley, a sister ‘Mrs. Annie Temby of San Francisco, and two brothers Albert ‘Ninnis of San Francisco and W. H. Ninnis of Santa Clara. ‘Funeral services will ‘be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the chapel of Holmes Funeral Home of this city. : CORPORAL JOHN MUSCARDINI In the last letter received from rporal John Muscardini by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Muscardini he stated he had passed tests of the officers training board and will enter school soon. He was at Davis Mon than Field, Tucson, Ariz. NEPHEW WOUNDED IN AFRICA “Justice of the Peace and —“iMrs. Charles: Morehouse of Grass Valley have. received a letter from their nephew, Lieutenant Thomas M. Heather, in the African war theatre, that he is recovering from wounds received in a mine explosion. Lieutenant Heather, whose parents reside’ in Berkeley was formerly employed in a Grass Valley grocery store. His letter states that he suffered his wound while Americans were following the a mine field. every state, Mrs. Whitehurst said. Leading the nursing scholarship honor roll was the Pensylvania Federation of Women’s Clubs with contributions ‘totaling $5,000. Tennessee followed with $1,700,,Utah with $1,ka with’$750; and Arkansas with $600. of refugee orphans from Burma, Sgt. William E. Brownin Huron, Michigan. --THEIR “DADDIES” FEED THEM SOMEWHERE IN CHINA—(Passed by Army Censor). — Homeless Burmese orphans get individual attention from their “Daddies” at lunchtime somewhere in China. American soldiers have adopted great numbers aa, paying for their meals and board. American soldiers are left.to right: Capt. K. J. Poulton, Salt Lake Cit, Utah; Sgt. William P. Lord, Shreveport, La.; Russell V. White, Harrison, Ark,; g, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Capt. Glenn H. Smith, Port Native of Rough and ‘friends of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter were for the duration. Miss Lila Hughes Answers Summons The remains of Miss Lila Mae Hughes, who passed away in Jones Memorial Hospital, were yesterday sent to Oklahoma for interment by Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Miss Hughes had only arrived ‘in Grass Valley thirty days before har fatal illness. She had come here to make her home with Mrs. Zelma Willis, her sister, at 426 West (Main street. She had been; a moving picture theatre cashier in Arkansas pnd Oklahoma for several years. She was homa. Miss Bonnie Flindt and Cledith Jones Wedded . To the soft strains of Lohengrin’s. Wedding March, played by ‘the sol-. dier organist in an army chapel at} Port Lewis, Tacoma, the marriage of . Miss Bonnie Flindt: and Cledith Gs Jones was solemnized. The ceremony! was held at 4p. m. March: 10, with. Chaplain Rhinehart officiating. Rose and Lucien Quaid were the attendants. : The bride wore blue with a corsage of white camellias. The former Miss Flindt is the daughter of Mrs. Mabel Flindt of Nevada City. She was graduated from the San Francisco Teachers College in February and will teach in Washington. ' (Mr. Jones is the son of Mrs. George. Hill of Napa and George Jones of Nevada City. Mrs. Rose Jones is his grandmother. He is a staff sergeant in the headquarters and service éorps and at present is doing instructing. The couple are living in Taconia, but future plans depend on army orders. Ready is Summoned Mrs. Anna Bruce passed away: last night in the Grass Valley Community hospital. She was born and reared in Rough and Ready and was 70 years of age. ‘ By her first marriage to Joaquin ‘Lopez of Nevada City in 1888 she had seven children of whom ‘three survive. Following the death of Iopez, she was married to Robert E. Bruce, and with him conducted a service station in Brown’s Valley. Children surviving are Joe and Edwin. Lopez, and Mrs. Frances Rowe. ‘ Funeral service will fake: place Saturday from the chapel of Hooper and Weaver Mortuary. Rev. William Horgan will conduct the service, interment will be in the Catholic cemetery of Nevada City. WEEK END VISITORS ‘Mr: and Mrs. E. L. Baxter and children, former residents, spent the past week end in Nevada City as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Stone. On (Sunday evening a number . of 4. ial Red Cross Goes Over Top With $900 Excess Of Quota . Margaret Coughlan 34 years of age and a native of Okla-' . .00, Contributor $1.00, Purity Stores URSDAY, MARCH nn (Nevada City and its district to the north and east not only went over the top in its Red Cross campaign, Chairman R. J. Bennetts announced yesterday, but it now looks as if $900 in excess of the $5,100. quota had been donated, in other words the Nevada City district has contributed approximately $6,000 to the fund. Bennetts finds this very gratifying in view of the fact that many com: munities throughout California, which are directly beefited by war industries, are having difficulty in obtaining their assigned quotas. This district far from being a beneficiary of war industries has been affected adversely througha@ great loss of population which has been drawn away by the lure of higher wages elsewhere. NORTH COLUMBIA Earl Hiscox $1.00, James Fitzgerald $1.00, George Murphy $1,;00, Walter McCully $1.00, Mary Joan Campbell $1.00, Willie Coughlan $1.00, $1.00, Bridgie Mahoney $1.50, Ches®r Bigelow $1.00, Thomas Bigelow $1.00, J. C. Coughlan $5.00, Johnnie Boreni $1.00, Georgie English $1.00, Thorn English $1.50, Herbert. Aaton $1.00. NEVADA CITY Miss Janie Springer $5.00, Alice Moore $10.00, Mr. and Mrs. C. N, Chatfield $2.00, Mrs. Geary Feagans . (second contribution). $5.00, Frank . Wright $5.00, Edna Buffington $1. .00. Esther Kaupila $1.00, Amy Davies $1.00, Jeanette Baley $5.00, Fred . W. and Mrs. Fred W. Bush $5.00, . Hithel Lane McClish $5.00,’ Irvine Seaman $5.00; Mrs. Annie Sherman . (second contribution) $5.00, Mrs. J. L. LaRue $5.00, Rudolph Wursh $1$20.00, Gene Barbieri (Second contribution) $2.00, Bowman’s Beauty Parlor $5.00, William Pierce $1.00, Christopher Colombo Foresters $5.00, Nevada City Elks Lodge $25.00, Mr. and Mrs. S. Eden $1.00. (Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Mitchell (seeond contribution $2.50, Harry MeKee .$2.00, Mrs. Molly Trezone .50, W. E. Meals (Gray Eagle Mine, Happy Camp) $25.00, P. G. and E. Co. $50.00 ,Arbogast Brothers. $11.90, Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Barach $5.00, P. A. Phelps $3.00, Ada Eden $2.00, Ladies Auxiliary, Fire Department $2.50, Mrs. Aileen Lewis $1.00, A Friend $3.00. BUSINESS BRINGS SAIN (MRIANCISCO, March 25.— Wartime activities of Northern and Central California brought 793,072 out of state people to. this region in 1942—the year ‘when travel for pleasure was ‘“out”—and they are continuing to come in 19438. According to ‘Californians, Ine., travel development agency with head-. quarters in San Francisco, 302,793. of these visitors came to see members of the armed forces; 300,691: came on strictly businesse or combination business and vacation trips; 189/588 came to live in this region. Expenditures by the first two groups of visitors amounted to $26,+ 928,751. Californians, Inc. estimated that three fourths of these visitors. came to the San Francisco bay area. It was predicted that large numbers of them and their friends will return, on vacations, after the war. Sierra County ‘Sends 259 Young Men to War The Sierra County Selective vice Board sent 15 young men army for service last Thursday. is the 34th call from Sierra « and makes 259 residents of Sie county who are in the servic The following is the list: bent Hayes, Donald Godfr Strosnider, Eli I. Allen invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Newton, Wil Stone and a delightful party was en-. W. Barnes, John I. N joyed. Baxter is now employed in the. H. Pelfrey, Rayn regional office of the Tahoe national. sar P. . \ rill x forest in San Francisco as assistant. Hockestra, Jose to the chief of fire control.