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May 1, 1941 (6 pages)

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. Read Project Program _ W'N" COMES TO THEATRE SUNDAY Margaret Mitchell's great romance of the civil war in the Old South @ramatihbed in technicolor, with a cast of famous stars will open at the Nevada Theatre Sunday for a three day run. Vivian Leigh, a celebrated English actress*plays the part or Searlet O'iiara: and Clark Gable takes the role of Rhett Butler. ‘Ene: * supporting cast is all star. To accommodate the public, Manacer W. L. Tambd'yn atnounces thst there will Sc a m7‘‘*7es each afternoon Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, beginning at 1:30 with the box office open at 12:45. In the evening the) show will open at 7:30 with box a fice open at 6:45. ¥ This is a special admission film. . Children will be admitted for both matinee and evening porformances for 25c including tax. Adult matinee} ‘admission for the matinee are 40¢, including tax, and dor the evening show, 55c including tax. COON HUNT SATURDAY Sheriff Dewey Johnson of Sierra County will bring his coon dogs here’ Saturday night to join a coon Hunting party in this district. The special-coon hunt is being staged for the benefit of a magazine feature writer, scatter rugs with ‘LIFE GUARD Cushion RUG HOLDER Y yard 24 inches wide Don’t risk joining the 5,000,000* people who are injured each year in accidents in their homes. Simply lay LIFE GUARD under your scatter rugs and avoid a large part of the danger. Even active youngsters and dogs won't budge them. LIFE GUARD keeps rugs from ‘Will Get Under Way . In Tahoe Area Soon Engineer G. E. Mitchell of the Tahoe National Forest has started. to work on a program for improving and conditioning roads in the Tahoe area. The most important venture will be finishitrg) touches on the BowLake Road. ‘Engineer Mitcheil to start a crew of men at the project by the end of the man expects work on May. Mitchell tional Forest culty in -securing tractor . Oad equipment operaiors. "NG ty mr SAVS RILEY State Controller Harry B. Riley announced. today that state finances now are in better condition than at any time in the last 16 months¢= The general fund cash ences on March 31 was $59,595,572 a drop of $8,181,171 in a year, and the lowest since November 1939. A $20,713,196 drop in unemployment relief costs and a $10,829,357 reports the Tahoe Naexperiencing diffiand other is increase in sales tax revenue combined with other factors to cut the deficiency. . In the firt nine months of 194041 revenue was $14,638,999 greatjer and expenditures were $22,637,1: 476 less than in the like period of 1 1939-40. 1 _ than it made in the nine month peri iod just ended: Revenue totaled $148' 367,723; expenditures were $126,. 044,851, Largest items of revenue increase in addition to the $10,829,472 jump in sales tax returns were bank and corporation, franchise tax $2,420,989; inheritance tax $723,621; liquor taxes and licenses $605,001; gift tax $304,790;. insurance companies tax $212,964; motor vehicle transportation tax $101,110; private car tax $8,471 and miscallaneous $204,939. Largest single reduction of expense was in unemployment relief $20,713,196. Others were: unified construction program $5,062,834; elementary schools $284,219; bond interest and redemption $140,701;! aid to needy blind $19,178; miscellaneous ‘fixed charges and tions $1,552,749. Cironer Holmes Seeks Miner Found Dead Coroner A. M. Holmes is attempting to locate relatives of Germain Louie Guiral, 55, river miner, who was found dead in his cabin on the Nevada County side .of Bear River near Dutch Flat yesterday. The body of Guiral was discoverThe state spent $22,322,782 less! FEST EON TR RR 7 a atonrreonetenereare STAY I SORT RETR RE arm of Mn ree yn oa shetth itheetieetnths Ruiee Le de ek tee tks ce teetian ce eh ee ee ee ee __ NEVADA CIT" CITY Y NUGGET DEFENSE BONDS ANSALE TODAY . The United States Defense Savings Bonds and:Postal Savings Stamps will be placed on sale in the main post office at the opening of business on Thursday, May 1, as art of the national effort to make America impregnable, Postmaster Eetty Martin West an‘nounced today that plans are nearly. ‘completed for this community, along with thousands of others from coast to coast, to do its full part at the opening of the savings program. Mayor. Beujamin Hall has ; application for the first ‘bond sold . through the ‘Nevada City post office, i with Pastmaster West purchasing the second bond. It is anticipated that other civic leaders will be among the: first purchasers of savings bonds and stamps. The employees of the Nevada City Post Office have gone over the top 100 per cent in their application ' for bonds or stamps. Elbridge W. Skeahan, of the post, office staff, yesterday addressed the elementary and high school assemblies, explaining the sale of-defense, bonds and stamps to the students. Mrs. ‘Marian Libbey, music disccior of the schools led her choral groups. in patriotic songs, as an inspiring’ (feature of the assemblies. Postmaster General Frank C, Walt j . , throughout the country said that the! ker, in a letter to postmasters . ; help of local postmasters would be: “a real service to the country.’’ He transmitted the thanks of the Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau ' for the help that local postmasters . the cooperation which he knows you appropria. Relatives Of River 4 had already given in the sale of United States securities, and also Mr. Morgenthau’s thanks in advance” for will give to this new effort.’’ The new Defense Savings Bonds are’ similar to the familiar ‘‘baby bond,’ of which more than five billion dollars worth have been bought by more than two and a half million Americans since 1935. A Defense Bond may be purchased May 1, or thereafter, for $18.75. In ten years, this bond will be worth: $25. This is an inerease of 33 1-3 per cent, equal to an annual interest return of 2.9 per cent, compounded semi-annually Any time after sixty days from the date of purchase, the bond may be redeemed for cash, in accordance with a table of _redemption values printed on the face of the bond. . To spread investments widely among all the people in America, a limit of $5000 has been set on the amount of these bonds to be bought . by any one person in one year, The bonds are in denominations of $25, . $50, $100, $500 and $1000 all of, which are sold for 75 per cent of, their maturity value and all of which‘ mature in ten years. For larger investors who can af“ago ‘determined at a 1 made : ported ; INOVIOLENCE (Continued from Page One) Nevada County Mine Workers Protective League, which was recognized as bargaining agent for IdahoMaryland Mines employes in A contract signed less than two months said what action the league will take in the strike situation will be meeting tonight. Yesterday Donnelly met with IdahoMaryland and’ Brunswick employes and urged them to remain on the job because any strike action by the men ; was illegal. Excitement for a time prevailed in Nevada City last night when it was reported men were picketing the Lava ‘Cap Mines. It developed, however, that the busses carrying Lava ‘Cap men to work on the night. shift were stopped and the men asked to attend a mass meeting in Grass Valley at the Memorial Auditorium at 1 o’clock Sunday to decide what ac-! ‘tion will: be taken on the five day week proposal. The American Federation of Lab‘or in Grass Valley, which has head“quarters at the Holbrooke Hotel, re: ports there has been a continual stream of men at the office since Monday to sign into a new AJL miners organization. They report a charter is now-on its way here from Eastern headquarters of the labor . organization. Edward Hamilton, New Bruswick miner and a spokesman ffor the group seeking the five day week reIdaho-Maryland and New Brunswick miners were continuing to sign up as charter. members of an American Federation of Labor miners union here. He said the forming of the AFL union was in answer to the Mine Workers Protective League’s refusal to look after the interests of the mine workers. President Donnelly of the League who returned to Grass Valley Tuesday after a conference in San Fran, cisco with officials of the wage and hour administration office, said in view of the fact the league has a legal contract with the Idaho4Maryland it will be the duty of every member to ignore the picket line. Donnelly said the Idaho-Maryland’s proposal of a 45 hour-week with time and one half for the five hours ;over the 40 hour limit, which brought a storm of -protest and led to a mass meeting Sunday when the five day ,week demand was formulated, has
. ! been ruled within the provisions of the wage and hour law by J.R. Dille, of the San Francisco’ office of the wage and hour administrator. Mother Lode Group . Favors Opposition To Wage-Hour Act Directors of the Mother Lode Mining Association, decided informally say -awnvUaty Tie bern bk ae a) PRO Wind he Ge eb bl ie 8 bh ee THURSDAY, MAY . }, 941 ing chapter of the organization. An . erhergency school there was organized three years ago but now . has reached the status of a regular district school and will be so conducted at the beginning of the fall term. The Zeibright mine in Nevada eile the school in Placer Coun‘TEIBRIGHT PT PTA HEARS TALK ON ROCKS) MINERALS "Mrs. George Legg was guest peck hes PTA is two years old. There er at the Zeibright mine Parent are twelve pupils in. the school and Teachers Association at its meeting the PTA has a membership of thirTuesday, the occasion being the, ty two. seating of officers who wers instal-. The cash raised by the group has led by Mrs. W. C. Perry of Nevada been used mainly to purchase books City. for the school library. Activities include entertainment for the children is Mrs. Lezg spoke on rocks and minerals an especial hobby of hers. and the community. which has inShe is greatly interested in them and Cluded ‘Christmas parties, aster . has collected specimens and cataleg‘parties, Valentine parties and picnics ued them for a long time. She also and sponsoring a Cub Scout Chapter cuts and polishes fine specimens of thus serving not only as a PTA but beautiful and semi .precious stones. 48 a community civic club. . Mrs. Legg felt that her subject was! most apprpropiate for the parents; in SHORneny : edcne a “. Ferne Eickloff is spending several and children listening as it is the Gays in Alleghan basic substance of the big industry , . ie of this district and-she feels’ that if the children know something of the in You Bet— fundamentals ofthe industry on’ Deputy Sheriff Carl which their community subsists they WS in the You Bet District yester, day on business. T. (QLarsen will become more interested in it. The Zeibright PTA is an outstand-‘ Advertise in the Nugget for results Let us show you “The Most Beautiful Refrigerator in the World” = Talk about Extras—whaf with an Oversize Crisper— Vegetable Bin— Magic Shelf —Big Meat Chest—and shining stainless steel Cold-Ban—this beautifur 1941 Kelvinator gives you everything you've ever dreamed of. of bonds a year, the Treasury De-; the wage and hour administrator for partment has issued two additional, California that the provisions of the kinds of Defense Savings Bonds, but: act would bé enforced in the case of ford to purchase up to $50,000 worth' Upon opposition to the decision of! skidding when they're vacuumed; cushions them, too, for depth and luxury under foot. *Figures from the magazine ‘'Safety’’ ed by Fred Anderson, his partner. Anderson reported the deceased be-! came ill Tuesday when a sliver from For rug 18 x 3Z, 8O¢ rocks he was pounding lodged in his For rug 24 x 48, $4 eye. Heart trouble was expected to For rug 24 x 36, 75¢ have caused his death during TuesFor ug 27 x 54, *4.18 day night ‘but an autopsy will be performed to determine the actual reason for death. Guiral had resided in the region for the past seven years. His body will remain at the Holmes Funeral Home until the funeral services are held. Jensen & Thomas Furniture Co. 256 South Auburn Street Phone 36 Grass Valley SCHEELITE Easily Identified by MINERALIGHT Portable Prospecting Sets Send for free information, showing list of minerals, and the quick positive results you can get with Black Light, at once. All lamps sold on unconditional money back guarantee. Address Dept. K Ultra Violet Products, Inc. Subscribe for the Nugget FIND HIDDEN VALUES! these will ‘be sold only through the 5250 Sta. Monica Bivd. Los Angeles Nevada Theatre THURSDAY AND FRIDA ae & Costello Buck Privates are wowing the customers with their hilarious and moving military drama of the up-to-the-minute rookie who has been “selected” for service and many other things. : SATURDAY The amazing drama of a man who The Mad Doctor kills as easily as he loves, and a ’ woman who found heaven in the arms of a devil. Basil Rathbone and Ellen Drew play the chief roles. Plus LET’S MAKE MUSIC with Bob Crosby and Jean Rog. ers starring. SUNDAY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY GONE WITH THE WIN 7 a great novel paral ‘tized in technicolor, starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vician Leigh as Scarlet O'Hara, The greatest movie of the decade. Matinees every day at 1:30. a ee SO Pe usieaian ‘THE banks and ‘by direct mail from Washlington, D. C, They are intended for associations, trustees and ‘corporations, as well as individual purchasers. For the smaller investor who wants to buy a government ‘bond on an easy payment plan the post office will have a new series of Postal Savings ‘Stamps, at 10c, 25c, 50c, $1, and $5. Each purchaser of any Savings Stamp higher than 10c ‘will be given free: of charge, an attractive pocket album in which to paste his stamps until he has enough to buy a $25 bond or one of higher denomination. Thirty million of these albums are now being prepared. The cover design of the album is in color, featuring a United States battleship and an eagle ‘bearing the is a painting of the Minute Man statue ‘by Daniel Chester French, which symbolizes the American citizen ever alert in defense of his country. The inscription is ‘‘America on Guard.” Secretary Morgenthau said that even a boy or girl who saved 10c to buy a Savings Stamp would help the country. He added that. ‘‘you can American flag, On the back cover} safeguard your own money and your own future, while helping the national defense, by buying United States Savings Bonds now.” Hubby: You must economize! Think of the future. If I were to die, where would you be? Wifey: I should be. here all right. The question is where you would be? Man to Peddler: Why do you let that dog eat your apples? Peddler: What can I do: he’s a police dog. Jos PRINTING.? GET YOURS AT” NUGGET mining companies. Members of the association were to be advised that in cases where a demand is made for information regarding wages, hours and conditions of employment, the association’s secretary Walter D. Manning, be notified. The operators also were to be advised to consult their attorneys in such cases. ‘ The association’s directors took stand that under a recent decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals concerning the state’s mines the Wage and Hour Act does not apply, The court decision held gold mining as practiced in California, with the output sold to smelters in the state and most purchases made within her borders, not inter-state commerce. is Fall From Bridge Fails To Knock Out Yuba River Sniper A forty foot drop from the South Fork of the Yuba River Bridge on the Downieville Highway to the rocks of the stream bank did not even knock Martin Jensen, 50, river sniper, unconscious. It required officers, an ambulance crew and a physician almost an hour to drag Jensen to the highway by rope. The injured man, two companions told the officers, struck the rocks on his head. When hoisted to the highway Jensen told Dr. W. W. Reed he was feeling ‘‘okeh’’ but an examination in the county hospital here, where Jensen is a patient revealed a skull fracture. WILL PRESENT PAGEANT The Metodist Church Choir will], present the First Easter Cantata at the Central Methodist Church in Sacramento Sunday night. The group will be accompanied to Sacramento ‘by Rev .David Ralston. SHEER CONVENIENCE ONLY $154.95 COMPLETELY EQUIPPED Denpereal in veut. Wein Oils Year Protection Plan xe look at my new home — a big Vegetable Bin that holds more than a bushel of us dry vegetabies where you can get ff us easily. ?’'m going to be a fine, crisp salad fomorrow— thanks to that 30 per cent bigger Crisper. ‘t slides like a drawer and ‘ts cover avait, SBA *Prices shown are for delivery in your Kitchen with 5-Year Protection Plan. State Gnd local taxes extra, This sparkling beauty is just one of the amazing 1941 Kelvinatay values—values that save you as much as $30 compared with last year when Kelvinator prices were reduced from $30 to $60. It’s all due to the enormous success of Kelvinator’s new, less expensive way of doing business. Let us show you these refrigerators of tomorrow—today/! Prices start at $129.75 Get More Alpha Stores, Ltd. Phone 5 Phone 88 Nevada City Grass Valley @