March 26, 1934 (8 pages)

. \ A -} paper. It supports t scribe for it? This is ‘Nevada City’s ONLY Hometown . Newsworth while. Do you subhings '. Nevada: City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper Publishers Association aes, Nevada City Nugget = ‘WE 00 OUR PART j i Your Hometown News. paper helps build your community. Readers and make it a . good builder, edie The Cousiey Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, MAR. 26, Pdi fee 4 CWA ORDERED T0 CONTINUE WORK ON CITYS AIRPORT Fred E. Miller Directed Not to Halt Airport and High School Projects While Others Close Fred E. Miller, CWA supervisor ‘KARL KCPP WOULD PAY OFF ARMORY HALL DEBT Kar] Kapp, candidate for the city council, yésterday stated that in event he is elected he will turn the Fourth of July celebration over to the Nevada City Fire Department-to manage. He would devote all funds derived from the various: festivities of the day to’paying off the firemen’‘s debt on Armory Hall. He believes that one of the first steps taken by the new administration should be BY EDW. C. UREN e Lands Nevada Cit Jack Wolff Pilots Waco Plane To Easy Landing {s Runway is Soft But P is Broadcast by Hollywood KNX . army planes at this time. ilo Lands and Takes Off Easily—Event The imreeing the hall from debt, and thinks The honors for landing the first provised runway was made in prepaalumni are responding to the appeal for the county, this morning received orders from San Francisco headquarters to continue CWA work the airport and on the high Both these projects to be continued. He announced that 43 men wiil-he employed+at the airport and 14 at the high school athletie field. Those enrolled in these projects will each put in 24 hours a week. The GWA project for improvement of the Pasquale road will, with other projects be discontinued, but. most of crew will be re-employed at high school and the airport. CHICAGO AUBURN MINE EMPYOYS 22 The Chieago Auburn mine, ‘between Auburn and Penryn, is erecting a new hoist building, has installed a compressor and is clearing out the old workings. Ore taken out in development work and put through the Amador mill has been yielding about $2,000 gross per month. F.'N. Swoet is manager and Mr. ‘Douglass is superintendent, Twenty-two men are employed. “PENNSYLVANIA MINE IN BROWN VALLEY RESUMES . Twenty men are engaged in habilitating the Pennsylvania mine in Brown’s Valley, Yuba county. The property is situated in the center of the little. town itself. Backing the resumption of work in this old property are Albert Burch, formerly superintendent of the Goldfield Consolidated durnig the time it’s output was $1,000,000 a month; C. N. Milon sehool grounds. are this the rethat proceeds of the Fourth of July should. be used .for that There are 175 firemen in the declares, and the citizens have ity welfare. BENNETTS OUT OF COUNCIL RACE announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election to the city council. ‘He has withdrawn his naomination papers and his name wil) not appear on the ballot, April 9. Mr. Bennetts has devoted eight years to the city’s service, and he states that he would not have filed a nomination petition last week hed he been assured that other citizens would have sought election. The many friends of the mayor reof the city’s projects initiated in the last year, the city park and swimming pool and the airport, yet completed. Mr. a keen interest are not Bennetts has in these. two and devoted a part of his time to them major improvements with the unit, However, since the office of city tive citizens of the community ne has served so well; have expressed ‘to him their gratitude and the hope that the good work done by the council during his tenure will be eontinued. : There remain five candidates three places on the board. for Curtis A Clark and James Penrose seek to. fill ler San Francisco stock broker and . S ‘ F 2 the unexpired two-year term of Wade mine operator, and Shperintendent H. W. Whiting, veteran mining en-; Snes f : : ! Benjamin Hall and A. H. Haddy are! gineer of wide experience, are large! : . candidates share, holders. The crew is cleaning out and re-! timbering the 195-foot shaft erecting a 50-foot headframe, bins, blalksmith shop, hoist house and change rooms. Al Keller’s crew is busy putting in the necessary rigging. YELLOWJACKET BATSMEN TO CLASH WITH AUBURN Coach Bev Barron hag been preparing his baseball Yellowjackets, for the Nevada City— Auburn. tangle, to be staged-at-Cashin’s field, Wednesday afternoon, at 2:30. Although Coach Barron is away and unable to give a statement, those who will probably see action in Wednesday’s game are: Ray Wilde, Albert Pester; Wylie! King, Tod Bonner. Philip Joyal, C. Steger, John Graham, Bob Tamblyn, Dick Stevens, Bill Mullis, Ray Steger, Harold Lopez,. Walter Mullis, Gene Thomas, Murray Young, Lloyd Haddy, and Don Budi. ALUMNI DONATIONS FOR ATHLETIC FIELD City high and . ore! More Nevada school of the student body for funds‘to aid the students in completing their new athletic field and tennis courts. Among the donors who have sent ini checks since the Nugget published the list a week ago are: . Mrs. I. Zellerbach, Myers Mobley, Robert Searls, “M, S. Rutherford, Lloyd V. Smith, Harry Davey, Eleanor Schreiber, Rolland Wright, and Mamie Meservey. The total donations of the alumni'. : now amounts to $182.50. for two weeks fe mining properties. Armstrong, resigned, and Karl Kopp, for the two four-year terms on the city council which are expiring. MRS. KIMBALL REPORTS RICH GRAVEL IN PLUMAS, f Mrs. Kittie Kimball, president and! general of the Reliance . Placer and Quartz holding, near Alleghany, was called to Plumas couny, Wednesday manager to inspect a eouple On her return, Mrs. Kimb2ll, who has-been interested in mining for eleven years. Stated that one Claim inspected, was the riciesit gravel she had ever encountered. She saw more coarse gold and nuggets in three hours than in any other property she had ever visited. : The larger property’ contains 500 acres of virgin ground and two miles of river channel. Two men with ordinary water) buckets, scooped up the gravel from a 10 foot shaft they are sinking and have been making all the way from $8 to $35 a,day from “the surface down. In a 30 foot shaft, they took out two nuggets valued at $35.” A piece of quartz taken from a ledge on the property carried visible free gold. Mrs. Kimball recently built a nice home in Nevada City. However, she is now. planning to take an interest in and to help develop the Plumas property. oO —_ Miss Dora Meek, of San Franeisco, is spending the Easter holidays with her aunt, Mrs. Elsie Willoughby. . . —O Miss Eleanor Willoughby has so far recovered from a recent attack of acute appendicitis that she is able to be up and around. purpose. Nevada City fire department, Mr. Kopp alWays been squarely behind them in all their activities for the communMayor R. J. Bennetts on Saturday, gret his decision, particularly as two . taken . large . eity council working with him as at councilman is honorary, representa. , aviator and business man of Grass Valley, yesterday when he piloted a two seater Waco plane weighing 2)by 150 foot runway, prepared during the past week. the morning that he would attempt a landing at the field at 11:00 o’clock, but. word came so late that only a few people were on the ground to witness the event. A’ small smudge fire had heen lighted to indicate the air current and, after circling the field once the pilot dropped gracefully down to a smooth landing from the Sugar Loaf side, stopped within a few hundred feet and taxied the plane back to where the spectators were gathered. He was enthusiastically congratulated by those present. K. N. X. broadcast the event from Hollywood last night. AIRMAIL PILOT IS: VISITOR Mr. Wolff was accompanied by the owner—-of the-plane;-Mr.-l.--A:-Peri rette, himself an experienced aviator ; Who has flown the various U. § air . mail routes for the past fivé and a {half years:and who holds a li@enwe entitling him to fly one, two or taree . motored planes. : ; The surface of the field, although . quite smooth, is soft and offered con, Siderable resistance to the small tires lof the plane. On account of this econdition and a prevailing cross wind Mr. Perette returned to Grass Valley alone’ in the plane but seemed to have no particular difficulty as the plane left the ground after a run of about 600 feet. . Nor READY FOR HEAVY PLANES . The area so far conditioned is too ; Short for the landing of the heavier ‘JACKSON'S GROCERY — REMODELED, MODERNIZED The J. J. Jackson grocery now completely remodeled, it one of the most modern in City. The beams of the ceiling, have been covered, new coun. ters and show cases added, the fice remodeled, low shelving, new lights and a nice fresh coat of cream and green paint gives a most pleasing appearance to the whole interior of this popular store. bs . store is making Nevada massive old ofThe late J. J. Jacrson Sr., was the first to have a telephone installed in Nevada City and the number—is still “One.”” The store is the oldest ‘in point of continuous existence in this city. FOUR EMPLOYED ON FOSS GRAVEL CLAIMS Jim Allen and John Muscardini, of Nevada City, have a lease on the Foss claims on Bear river, and have about four men employed. At present, Mr. Allen, witli the crew, are drifting and blocking out gravel in the tunnel, which is in quite a distance on the main. channel. Estimates give one half mile of channel on the property. About two weeks ago, €@ good e@le8nup of coarse sold and nuggets wos made with the largest nugget valued at $75. The channél ‘is a branch of the Omega channel, above Washington, now being worked by the Hoge interests, —o Mrs. Maurice Kach, of the Maurice Studio, left Grass Valley by motor car Friday, for a-business visit to Los Angeles and Hollywood, where she will make a study of the new developments and styles in photo graphy. : } late Jack Vivian. airplane at Nevada City’s new airration for next Sunday’s Easter mor-. i qual ee ; an ‘ . planes are equa port, went to Jack Wolff; well. known ; ning service when it was hoped Cap-} . . tain Allen Chapman would be dbie 'to fly here from Monrovia, where he jis stationed. It is understood hcowTomorrow will be the last work day under CWA at the airport and period of two weeks is expected, pending the newly organized relief work. So far, the sum of $7,166 has he2n expended on the airport and it probably 75 per cent completed. HUGE CROSS FOR EASTER Mr.-Arthur Dow is busy at the airport hewing a thirty foot cross to be erected for the Easter service. This cross will. be erected at, the brow of the hill overlooking the city and will be allowed to remain for future oceasions. Mr. Dow has volunteered to build, erect and paint the cross and his: offer is much appreciated by the committee. DEVELOPING BIG BUZZARD MINE . is Five men “are employed on the Big Buzzard mine, nine miles north} east of Folsom. . This mine was for. !merly worked in 1912 and the shaft is down 200 The work now going forward is mainly devoted to feet. and sampling. The ore assays are fairly high but it is refractory. Dave Sharpstone is superintendent and J. P. Foster, foreman. SEVERAL NEW HOMES ARE NOW BEING BUILT There are several new homes being built and under Nevada City. The: cement basement for-the new home of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Kjorlie, has just been completed. Mr.and Mrs. J. Fletcher have completed two. neat little cottages. on the property he purchased from jhe construction in Mesdames Jones and Roberts . bought the old property in Gold Flat known as the Muller estate and now have practically remodeled the house into a néat two story modern dwelling. Mr. B. F. Howe, sold a large lot to Messrs. George Bobst and Davidson, a*short time ago, and each one is erecting neat. little homes. JOYCE LARSON HOSTESS AT BIRTHDAY PARTY A most delightful party was given Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Larson Henwood in honor of her daugiter, Joyce’s 12th birthday. An Easter color scheme of pink and yellow was carried out in the attractive rooms. The central feature of a prettily arranged table was a delicious birthday cake bearing 12! candles. Easter eggs and tiny chicks were given as favors. Those invited were: Catherine Davis, Lelia Shaunnessy, Madeline Bettles, Elsie Schreiber, Betty Smith, . Adell Stewart, Sylvia Ronning, Betty Lou Krough, Lavon Gates, and the little hostess, Joyce Henwood. Several hours were spent in play-ing games onthe beautiful Prize winners were Betty Loi Krough, Betty Smith, Katherine Da. vis, Madeline Bettles and Sylvia Ronning, lawn. Joyce was the recipient of many preity birthday gifts. a Oe, Frank Nelson, of Washington, was a Nevada City visitor Friday. clearing out the old shaft and drifts! FEBRUARY WINE AND -LIEUT. CHAPMAN CAN'T ACCEPT AIRPORT HONOR Dr. C. W. Chapman, today receivfrom three sons anda daughter, many items of which will be of general interest. From Dayton, Ohio, where Lieut. Sargent Chapman is Chapman, among other interesting . comment states that the new army) to. the airmail . planes and better than most of the European planes. Lieut. /1s manager for the theatrical ama. 7 . ;teurs who give. an occasional play, 700 pounds gracefully onto the 1206 , ever, that he will be unable to come. . is : the last being ‘‘The Bride.” Miss Helen Chapman, student at s i Iniversi ali rnia ry e Mi Woltt had. sent wool during 'a suspension of all operations for a he University of California; wrote ‘that she would probably not be able to come home for the Easter tion due to her duties on the ‘Daily Cal,’ and her part in the Western Students ~ Conference which takes . 'place this week. Lieut. Muller Chapman, now on duty at San Simeon, gave an.interesting resume of his work there. The fourth letter from Capt. Allen Chapman, stationed at the CCC camp near Monrovia, expressed re;gret that he would. be unable io rake the first landing on Nevada City’s . airport, as invited to do by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. Beginning April second, he will be employed in discharging. cnrollies who leave for other work and when ; that job is done, enrollment of new . members will be undertaken. Flying jis not one of his duties, or even pleasures at the camp. There are no . planes available and his duties keep him on thé ground. : " we i Leth CY ners ese ‘MR. AND MRS. LE MON, OF LAVA CAP, HERE FROMN. Y. . Mr. R. F. LeMon and Mrs. LeMon, . . arrived last evening by motor car ; from New York. Mr. LeMon is one of the large stock holders and an ,executive of the Lava Cap Gold Min. ing Corporation, and is out here to make an inspection of the property. . Within the past few days, Otto BE. Schiffner superintendent of the Lava . . Cap, reports a favorable change in the character of the ore. He states . that he had always regarded the. “property as:a good low grade proposition, but with ore uncovered, running high in values, he finds he tual change his conception of the mine. . . Mr. ad Mrs. LeMon report a won-. derful trip by the southern route. . They made the distance in 10 days, . averaging 400 miles per day. apprise Sa Sate FIFTY MEN WORKING AT YOU BET GRAVEL MINE About 50 men are now employed . two shifts at the You Bet Mining Co.,. property, east of Nevada Cit;. ! After extensive preparation on the. Red Dog side of the big gravel deposit, the company is now practical. ly ready for’ hydraulic operations there. On the You Bet or Brownsville ‘side, the company has been hydraulicking gravel for some time. In the last few weeks, a shortage of water has cut down some in the work. Walter Scott is consulting engineer for the company. BEER TAX $92,515 SACRAMENTO, March. 26.—The' state tax on beer and wine still continues to show an increase over pre. vious months, the total of $92,515 in. revenue’ being collected from this! source for the month of February, R. H. Collins, Chairman of the Board of . Equalization announced today. This . s the largest revenue ‘collected in any one month since the tax became offective. . January qoyleations w $75,975. *e Of the total receipts for Febrnary, 70% represents beer distribution and 80 per cent is for wine. 94 per centi} ~A’ group of Scow of the beer was. distributed by Cali-. to® go ‘op. Th fornia brewers. — peel more poles for th \ y Airport éd a large budget. of news in letters’ Stationed at the Wright field, came . a description of the terrific cold wave . which the East has suffered. Lieut. . : Chapman . vaca-. . under arrest they had apprised him frame the ¢ross he was construe SCOUT COUNCIL TO PLAN FORMATION OF SECOND TROOP Many Boys Have Joined Recently and New Sponsor. . and Another Scoutmtser is Sought i The Nevada City district scout council will meet this evening to disthe creation of another scout . troop. Under the scoutmastership of Edd Addington, the troop has grown to 38 members, which consid. erably'more than the number recommended for one scout master. cuss If a new troop is formed, it will be hecessary. to-obtain the services of a . new scoutmaster and a new sponsorling organization. The Native Sons Parlor, of Nevada City, sponsors the present troop. The council will also discuss the new scout lodge and the plans for getting the logs stripped. Yesterday Several members of the council stripped logs at the Nevada City airport, in order that they may be ready and drying for early building operations. BROUN ENTERS INSANITY PLEA Fred Broun, former convict, held ; to answer in the justice court for {the murder of:James Perry March . 9, appeared before Judge Raglan Tuttle in the Superior Court Saturday and pleaded not guilty by rea;Son Of insanity. His trial date will be set after services of two alienest, las required by law, shall have been obtained. . Prior to his plea, Attorney Fran. cis Finnegan, appointed by the court ee defend Broun, moved that the . chintaeen against the defendant be dis. missed on the ground that he had jnever been apprised of his legal . rights. Countering this motion, De. puty District Attorney Robert Tharp put on the stand, Sheriff George Carter and Deputy Sheriff Jack Nettle, who swore that on placing Broun of his legal rights. The court overruled Attorney Fin: negan’s motion, holding that having admitted previous convictions for felony his experience, even without the testimony of the sheriff and de. puty, should have been sufficient to him of his legal right to counsel: and to call witnesses. Hereferred to the transcript. of the testimony in the lower court as showing affirmatively that defendant not only knew his legal rights but exercised them by cross-examining ~ witnesses. SUPERVISORS APPROVE PLACER MINE DISTRICT The board of supervisors on Friday formally atithorized the forma tion of the Black Rock Placer Mining district under the new law passed by the last state legislature. The district includes hydraulic mining ground in the Washington and Relief Hill miing districts. The new law provides that the district may issue bonds, construct dams for retaining debris, and: apportion the — cost among owners within the dis— trict. 1 Fi ~~ FOR THEIR NEW LODGE There was only a small crowd of Boy Scouts and assistants for pole peeling ‘at the airport yesterday. They succeeded in peeling 25 poles and helped Arthur Do for the Easter sunrise services Sunday, — eas

. \ A -} paper. It supports t scribe for it? This is ‘Nevada City’s ONLY Hometown . Newsworth while. Do you subhings '. Nevada: City Nugget is a Member of the United Press And California Newspaper Publishers Association aes, Nevada City Nugget = ‘WE 00 OUR PART j i Your Hometown News. paper helps build your community. Readers and make it a . good builder, edie The Cousiey Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The GOLD Center MONDAY, MAR. 26, Pdi fee 4 CWA ORDERED T0 CONTINUE WORK ON CITYS AIRPORT Fred E. Miller Directed Not to Halt Airport and High School Projects While Others Close Fred E. Miller, CWA supervisor ‘KARL KCPP WOULD PAY OFF ARMORY HALL DEBT Kar] Kapp, candidate for the city council, yésterday stated that in event he is elected he will turn the Fourth of July celebration over to the Nevada City Fire Department-to manage. He would devote all funds derived from the various: festivities of the day to’paying off the firemen’‘s debt on Armory Hall. He believes that one of the first steps taken by the new administration should be BY EDW. C. UREN e Lands Nevada Cit Jack Wolff Pilots Waco Plane To Easy Landing {s Runway is Soft But P is Broadcast by Hollywood KNX . army planes at this time. ilo Lands and Takes Off Easily—Event The imreeing the hall from debt, and thinks The honors for landing the first provised runway was made in prepaalumni are responding to the appeal for the county, this morning received orders from San Francisco headquarters to continue CWA work the airport and on the high Both these projects to be continued. He announced that 43 men wiil-he employed+at the airport and 14 at the high school athletie field. Those enrolled in these projects will each put in 24 hours a week. The GWA project for improvement of the Pasquale road will, with other projects be discontinued, but. most of crew will be re-employed at high school and the airport. CHICAGO AUBURN MINE EMPYOYS 22 The Chieago Auburn mine, ‘between Auburn and Penryn, is erecting a new hoist building, has installed a compressor and is clearing out the old workings. Ore taken out in development work and put through the Amador mill has been yielding about $2,000 gross per month. F.'N. Swoet is manager and Mr. ‘Douglass is superintendent, Twenty-two men are employed. “PENNSYLVANIA MINE IN BROWN VALLEY RESUMES . Twenty men are engaged in habilitating the Pennsylvania mine in Brown’s Valley, Yuba county. The property is situated in the center of the little. town itself. Backing the resumption of work in this old property are Albert Burch, formerly superintendent of the Goldfield Consolidated durnig the time it’s output was $1,000,000 a month; C. N. Milon sehool grounds. are this the rethat proceeds of the Fourth of July should. be used .for that There are 175 firemen in the declares, and the citizens have ity welfare. BENNETTS OUT OF COUNCIL RACE announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election to the city council. ‘He has withdrawn his naomination papers and his name wil) not appear on the ballot, April 9. Mr. Bennetts has devoted eight years to the city’s service, and he states that he would not have filed a nomination petition last week hed he been assured that other citizens would have sought election. The many friends of the mayor reof the city’s projects initiated in the last year, the city park and swimming pool and the airport, yet completed. Mr. a keen interest are not Bennetts has in these. two and devoted a part of his time to them major improvements with the unit, However, since the office of city tive citizens of the community ne has served so well; have expressed ‘to him their gratitude and the hope that the good work done by the council during his tenure will be eontinued. : There remain five candidates three places on the board. for Curtis A Clark and James Penrose seek to. fill ler San Francisco stock broker and . S ‘ F 2 the unexpired two-year term of Wade mine operator, and Shperintendent H. W. Whiting, veteran mining en-; Snes f : : ! Benjamin Hall and A. H. Haddy are! gineer of wide experience, are large! : . candidates share, holders. The crew is cleaning out and re-! timbering the 195-foot shaft erecting a 50-foot headframe, bins, blalksmith shop, hoist house and change rooms. Al Keller’s crew is busy putting in the necessary rigging. YELLOWJACKET BATSMEN TO CLASH WITH AUBURN Coach Bev Barron hag been preparing his baseball Yellowjackets, for the Nevada City— Auburn. tangle, to be staged-at-Cashin’s field, Wednesday afternoon, at 2:30. Although Coach Barron is away and unable to give a statement, those who will probably see action in Wednesday’s game are: Ray Wilde, Albert Pester; Wylie! King, Tod Bonner. Philip Joyal, C. Steger, John Graham, Bob Tamblyn, Dick Stevens, Bill Mullis, Ray Steger, Harold Lopez,. Walter Mullis, Gene Thomas, Murray Young, Lloyd Haddy, and Don Budi. ALUMNI DONATIONS FOR ATHLETIC FIELD City high and . ore! More Nevada school of the student body for funds‘to aid the students in completing their new athletic field and tennis courts. Among the donors who have sent ini checks since the Nugget published the list a week ago are: . Mrs. I. Zellerbach, Myers Mobley, Robert Searls, “M, S. Rutherford, Lloyd V. Smith, Harry Davey, Eleanor Schreiber, Rolland Wright, and Mamie Meservey. The total donations of the alumni'. : now amounts to $182.50. for two weeks fe mining properties. Armstrong, resigned, and Karl Kopp, for the two four-year terms on the city council which are expiring. MRS. KIMBALL REPORTS RICH GRAVEL IN PLUMAS, f Mrs. Kittie Kimball, president and! general of the Reliance . Placer and Quartz holding, near Alleghany, was called to Plumas couny, Wednesday manager to inspect a eouple On her return, Mrs. Kimb2ll, who has-been interested in mining for eleven years. Stated that one Claim inspected, was the riciesit gravel she had ever encountered. She saw more coarse gold and nuggets in three hours than in any other property she had ever visited. : The larger property’ contains 500 acres of virgin ground and two miles of river channel. Two men with ordinary water) buckets, scooped up the gravel from a 10 foot shaft they are sinking and have been making all the way from $8 to $35 a,day from “the surface down. In a 30 foot shaft, they took out two nuggets valued at $35.” A piece of quartz taken from a ledge on the property carried visible free gold. Mrs. Kimball recently built a nice home in Nevada City. However, she is now. planning to take an interest in and to help develop the Plumas property. oO —_ Miss Dora Meek, of San Franeisco, is spending the Easter holidays with her aunt, Mrs. Elsie Willoughby. . . —O Miss Eleanor Willoughby has so far recovered from a recent attack of acute appendicitis that she is able to be up and around. purpose. Nevada City fire department, Mr. Kopp alWays been squarely behind them in all their activities for the communMayor R. J. Bennetts on Saturday, gret his decision, particularly as two . taken . large . eity council working with him as at councilman is honorary, representa. , aviator and business man of Grass Valley, yesterday when he piloted a two seater Waco plane weighing 2)by 150 foot runway, prepared during the past week. the morning that he would attempt a landing at the field at 11:00 o’clock, but. word came so late that only a few people were on the ground to witness the event. A’ small smudge fire had heen lighted to indicate the air current and, after circling the field once the pilot dropped gracefully down to a smooth landing from the Sugar Loaf side, stopped within a few hundred feet and taxied the plane back to where the spectators were gathered. He was enthusiastically congratulated by those present. K. N. X. broadcast the event from Hollywood last night. AIRMAIL PILOT IS: VISITOR Mr. Wolff was accompanied by the owner—-of the-plane;-Mr.-l.--A:-Peri rette, himself an experienced aviator ; Who has flown the various U. § air . mail routes for the past fivé and a {half years:and who holds a li@enwe entitling him to fly one, two or taree . motored planes. : ; The surface of the field, although . quite smooth, is soft and offered con, Siderable resistance to the small tires lof the plane. On account of this econdition and a prevailing cross wind Mr. Perette returned to Grass Valley alone’ in the plane but seemed to have no particular difficulty as the plane left the ground after a run of about 600 feet. . Nor READY FOR HEAVY PLANES . The area so far conditioned is too ; Short for the landing of the heavier ‘JACKSON'S GROCERY — REMODELED, MODERNIZED The J. J. Jackson grocery now completely remodeled, it one of the most modern in City. The beams of the ceiling, have been covered, new coun. ters and show cases added, the fice remodeled, low shelving, new lights and a nice fresh coat of cream and green paint gives a most pleasing appearance to the whole interior of this popular store. bs .

store is making Nevada massive old ofThe late J. J. Jacrson Sr., was the first to have a telephone installed in Nevada City and the number—is still “One.”” The store is the oldest ‘in point of continuous existence in this city. FOUR EMPLOYED ON FOSS GRAVEL CLAIMS Jim Allen and John Muscardini, of Nevada City, have a lease on the Foss claims on Bear river, and have about four men employed. At present, Mr. Allen, witli the crew, are drifting and blocking out gravel in the tunnel, which is in quite a distance on the main. channel. Estimates give one half mile of channel on the property. About two weeks ago, €@ good e@le8nup of coarse sold and nuggets wos made with the largest nugget valued at $75. The channél ‘is a branch of the Omega channel, above Washington, now being worked by the Hoge interests, —o Mrs. Maurice Kach, of the Maurice Studio, left Grass Valley by motor car Friday, for a-business visit to Los Angeles and Hollywood, where she will make a study of the new developments and styles in photo graphy. : } late Jack Vivian. airplane at Nevada City’s new airration for next Sunday’s Easter mor-. i qual ee ; an ‘ . planes are equa port, went to Jack Wolff; well. known ; ning service when it was hoped Cap-} . . tain Allen Chapman would be dbie 'to fly here from Monrovia, where he jis stationed. It is understood hcowTomorrow will be the last work day under CWA at the airport and period of two weeks is expected, pending the newly organized relief work. So far, the sum of $7,166 has he2n expended on the airport and it probably 75 per cent completed. HUGE CROSS FOR EASTER Mr.-Arthur Dow is busy at the airport hewing a thirty foot cross to be erected for the Easter service. This cross will. be erected at, the brow of the hill overlooking the city and will be allowed to remain for future oceasions. Mr. Dow has volunteered to build, erect and paint the cross and his: offer is much appreciated by the committee. DEVELOPING BIG BUZZARD MINE . is Five men “are employed on the Big Buzzard mine, nine miles north} east of Folsom. . This mine was for. !merly worked in 1912 and the shaft is down 200 The work now going forward is mainly devoted to feet. and sampling. The ore assays are fairly high but it is refractory. Dave Sharpstone is superintendent and J. P. Foster, foreman. SEVERAL NEW HOMES ARE NOW BEING BUILT There are several new homes being built and under Nevada City. The: cement basement for-the new home of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Kjorlie, has just been completed. Mr.and Mrs. J. Fletcher have completed two. neat little cottages. on the property he purchased from jhe construction in Mesdames Jones and Roberts . bought the old property in Gold Flat known as the Muller estate and now have practically remodeled the house into a néat two story modern dwelling. Mr. B. F. Howe, sold a large lot to Messrs. George Bobst and Davidson, a*short time ago, and each one is erecting neat. little homes. JOYCE LARSON HOSTESS AT BIRTHDAY PARTY A most delightful party was given Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Larson Henwood in honor of her daugiter, Joyce’s 12th birthday. An Easter color scheme of pink and yellow was carried out in the attractive rooms. The central feature of a prettily arranged table was a delicious birthday cake bearing 12! candles. Easter eggs and tiny chicks were given as favors. Those invited were: Catherine Davis, Lelia Shaunnessy, Madeline Bettles, Elsie Schreiber, Betty Smith, . Adell Stewart, Sylvia Ronning, Betty Lou Krough, Lavon Gates, and the little hostess, Joyce Henwood. Several hours were spent in play-ing games onthe beautiful Prize winners were Betty Loi Krough, Betty Smith, Katherine Da. vis, Madeline Bettles and Sylvia Ronning, lawn. Joyce was the recipient of many preity birthday gifts. a Oe, Frank Nelson, of Washington, was a Nevada City visitor Friday. clearing out the old shaft and drifts! FEBRUARY WINE AND -LIEUT. CHAPMAN CAN'T ACCEPT AIRPORT HONOR Dr. C. W. Chapman, today receivfrom three sons anda daughter, many items of which will be of general interest. From Dayton, Ohio, where Lieut. Sargent Chapman is Chapman, among other interesting . comment states that the new army) to. the airmail . planes and better than most of the European planes. Lieut. /1s manager for the theatrical ama. 7 . ;teurs who give. an occasional play, 700 pounds gracefully onto the 1206 , ever, that he will be unable to come. . is : the last being ‘‘The Bride.” Miss Helen Chapman, student at s i Iniversi ali rnia ry e Mi Woltt had. sent wool during 'a suspension of all operations for a he University of California; wrote ‘that she would probably not be able to come home for the Easter tion due to her duties on the ‘Daily Cal,’ and her part in the Western Students ~ Conference which takes . 'place this week. Lieut. Muller Chapman, now on duty at San Simeon, gave an.interesting resume of his work there. The fourth letter from Capt. Allen Chapman, stationed at the CCC camp near Monrovia, expressed re;gret that he would. be unable io rake the first landing on Nevada City’s . airport, as invited to do by the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce. Beginning April second, he will be employed in discharging. cnrollies who leave for other work and when ; that job is done, enrollment of new . members will be undertaken. Flying jis not one of his duties, or even pleasures at the camp. There are no . planes available and his duties keep him on thé ground. : " we i Leth CY ners ese ‘MR. AND MRS. LE MON, OF LAVA CAP, HERE FROMN. Y. . Mr. R. F. LeMon and Mrs. LeMon, . . arrived last evening by motor car ; from New York. Mr. LeMon is one of the large stock holders and an ,executive of the Lava Cap Gold Min. ing Corporation, and is out here to make an inspection of the property. . Within the past few days, Otto BE. Schiffner superintendent of the Lava . . Cap, reports a favorable change in the character of the ore. He states . that he had always regarded the. “property as:a good low grade proposition, but with ore uncovered, running high in values, he finds he tual change his conception of the mine. . . Mr. ad Mrs. LeMon report a won-. derful trip by the southern route. . They made the distance in 10 days, . averaging 400 miles per day. apprise Sa Sate FIFTY MEN WORKING AT YOU BET GRAVEL MINE About 50 men are now employed . two shifts at the You Bet Mining Co.,. property, east of Nevada Cit;. ! After extensive preparation on the. Red Dog side of the big gravel deposit, the company is now practical. ly ready for’ hydraulic operations there. On the You Bet or Brownsville ‘side, the company has been hydraulicking gravel for some time. In the last few weeks, a shortage of water has cut down some in the work. Walter Scott is consulting engineer for the company. BEER TAX $92,515 SACRAMENTO, March. 26.—The' state tax on beer and wine still continues to show an increase over pre. vious months, the total of $92,515 in. revenue’ being collected from this! source for the month of February, R. H. Collins, Chairman of the Board of . Equalization announced today. This . s the largest revenue ‘collected in any one month since the tax became offective. . January qoyleations w $75,975. *e Of the total receipts for Febrnary, 70% represents beer distribution and 80 per cent is for wine. 94 per centi} ~A’ group of Scow of the beer was. distributed by Cali-. to® go ‘op. Th fornia brewers. — peel more poles for th \ y Airport éd a large budget. of news in letters’ Stationed at the Wright field, came . a description of the terrific cold wave . which the East has suffered. Lieut. . : Chapman . vaca-. . under arrest they had apprised him frame the ¢ross he was construe SCOUT COUNCIL TO PLAN FORMATION OF SECOND TROOP Many Boys Have Joined Recently and New Sponsor. . and Another Scoutmtser is Sought i The Nevada City district scout council will meet this evening to disthe creation of another scout . troop. Under the scoutmastership of Edd Addington, the troop has grown to 38 members, which consid. erably'more than the number recommended for one scout master. cuss If a new troop is formed, it will be hecessary. to-obtain the services of a . new scoutmaster and a new sponsorling organization. The Native Sons Parlor, of Nevada City, sponsors the present troop. The council will also discuss the new scout lodge and the plans for getting the logs stripped. Yesterday Several members of the council stripped logs at the Nevada City airport, in order that they may be ready and drying for early building operations. BROUN ENTERS INSANITY PLEA Fred Broun, former convict, held ; to answer in the justice court for {the murder of:James Perry March . 9, appeared before Judge Raglan Tuttle in the Superior Court Saturday and pleaded not guilty by rea;Son Of insanity. His trial date will be set after services of two alienest, las required by law, shall have been obtained. . Prior to his plea, Attorney Fran. cis Finnegan, appointed by the court ee defend Broun, moved that the . chintaeen against the defendant be dis. missed on the ground that he had jnever been apprised of his legal . rights. Countering this motion, De. puty District Attorney Robert Tharp put on the stand, Sheriff George Carter and Deputy Sheriff Jack Nettle, who swore that on placing Broun of his legal rights. The court overruled Attorney Fin: negan’s motion, holding that having admitted previous convictions for felony his experience, even without the testimony of the sheriff and de. puty, should have been sufficient to him of his legal right to counsel: and to call witnesses. Hereferred to the transcript. of the testimony in the lower court as showing affirmatively that defendant not only knew his legal rights but exercised them by cross-examining ~ witnesses. SUPERVISORS APPROVE PLACER MINE DISTRICT The board of supervisors on Friday formally atithorized the forma tion of the Black Rock Placer Mining district under the new law passed by the last state legislature. The district includes hydraulic mining ground in the Washington and Relief Hill miing districts. The new law provides that the district may issue bonds, construct dams for retaining debris, and: apportion the — cost among owners within the dis— trict. 1 Fi ~~ FOR THEIR NEW LODGE There was only a small crowd of Boy Scouts and assistants for pole peeling ‘at the airport yesterday. They succeeded in peeling 25 poles and helped Arthur Do for the Easter sunrise services Sunday, — eas