May 13, 1940 (4 pages)

[ Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. ‘Nevada City N ugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . . . ifi From the C alifornian, . March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists the right to publish the Truth, th goed motives and for justable ends. ——Alexander Hamillou. As we have said before, we cannot find words to express our loathing of the reasoning processes under which the Germans justify their murderous forays upon their weaker and often unarmed neighbors. Anyone with an imagination able to vision the maiming of innocent women and children, and non-combatants generally, the destruction of their homes and food supplies, the death of those bound by relationships and friendship to those who miserably survive, eannot but feel deeply the horrible injustice done to the half dozen nations the Germans haye outraged. If one only had the perspective of history in which to view the wanton destruction and the slaughter! Herod’s murder of the innocent children of Jerusalem in his search for the infant Christ, accords so completely with cruelties of the times, that we now are inclined to excuse such a wholesale crime as just another instance of an autocrat, all-powerful, insuring. his reign by wholesale slaughter lest one among the victims might one day challenge his rule. But to any dhoaentinl person the story of Herod, surviving in the world for 2,000 years, and the fact that chroniclers of those times regarded it with such horror that they set it down on _ their parchments, indicates that even in that crude time, the crime was unprecedented. So today we feel, when we hear the cynical apologies of Hitler. and his gang for invasion of his peaceful neighbors, and read the roll of the dead, who have been killed in’ their homes, on streets, and in the ordinary course of daily comings and goings. The earthquake blasts of high explosives have often been the only warning that death had come from the skies. One longs for a_ re-establishment of the old Mosaic law: An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth. When victory at last crowns the valiant endeavors of the Allies, as we feel very certain that it will, we believe that the. Allies would be justified in slaughtering every tenth male German citizen beginning first with the Nazi hierarchy and tapering off through the ranks . of the minor and smaller monsters in the Gestapo, the Storm troopers, and finishing off finally all those bloody handéd overseers of concentration camps, the slave drivers in Poland, and the scuttling rats of oppression that harass and abuse the starving and helpless. This feeling of rage we are quite aware is unchrastian. The ‘Mosaic law was outlawed with the birth of Christ from all Christian civilizations. But Germany, beyond the Christian pale, constantly invokes the Mosaic law. She reports that Frieberg, that beautiful and ancfent cathedral town, has been bombed from the air by the Allies. She states that for every undefended German city bombed, she will rain explosive on five allied cities in the same class. Whether Freiburg has been bombed or not we do not know, but we can hardly imagine the Allies would bomb it unless they discovered troop concentrations there. Germany’s reports have proved false so often, as for tnstance that of the sinking of a British battleship on the Norwegian coast by an air bomb, that one receives all reports from that source with skepticism. But even so, whether Freiburg was bombed or not, Germany invokes the Mosaic law. = At the close ofthe world war the Germans were forced to make reparations in part, at least, for the damage done to those countries she invaded. That part of the treaty imposed by Allies has always seemed to us a just retribution upon a people who disturbed the peace of the world. That peace failed after twenty five years we think due in the main to other causes. But so far as paying for damage done to neighbors, we believe that penalty was approved, “by all thinking Americans, But one of the reasons Germany is at war again, is because the .world war. never was carried into Germany. The Germans saw very little of the actual destruction of homes, of innocent non-combatants, of the ruin which war leaves in its wake. Since the Napoleonic ‘wars they have never suffered invasion. We réalize ‘that the Allies will (Continued on Page Two) ; publican National Convention in Phil1 \ . 'ion—the newest of our industries— ‘being brought sharply tothe atten“tion of the nation through its use at . . lal to the American system of free, . -the convention of the only party in Vol. 14, No. 39. ‘The County Seat P Paper NEVADA CIT_Y, CALIFORNIA,” The Bold Contes MONDAY, MAY es 1940. HEAVY SNOWS ASSURE AMPLE WATER SUPPLY SACRAMENTO, May 13.—(UP)— Although the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada melted rapidly during April, latest snow measurements of the Division of Water Resources still indicate that there will be an ample summer supply of water in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, Frank W. Clark, director of the department of public works, said today. “In the northern Sierra,’ Clark said, ‘‘the present zone of melting does not extend beyond the 8000 ft. contour. The last measurement from Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen and Carson Pass show very little less water content than that reported in April. “Toward the southern end of the Sierra, the melting zone was 20 per cent higher than last months pack, having pow disappeared :from the Kern watershed at elevation of 9000.” Although the rains of April were light, precipitation stations show that the upper Sacramento watershed received a normal supply of rain, but the rest of the Seirra was below normal, ranging from a low of 25 per cent for the Stanislaus watershed to a high of 90 per cent for the Kings. Southern California’s precipitation for April was well above normal— San Diego:county having the greatest percentage of surplus. Any water shortage that might be expected as a result of the deficient April rains, he’ said, is apparently being made up for by the-long time rry over effect of ‘the two heavy rain periods of February and March. TELEVISION WILL BE EMPLOYED AT GOP CONVENTION . WASHINGTON, D. C.—Television, newest of the modern miracles, makes its bow in the big time Monday, June 24, when it takes its place alongside photographers, news reels, the press and radio at the 1940 Readelphia. John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, to-} day .characterized the appearance oe television at the Republican Convention as ‘‘an example of private enterprise at its best.” “What could be more appropriate,’’ Hamilton said, ‘‘than having televisthe country which gives high approv-: private enterprise, It was but a few iys ago that the New Deal displayed its animosity toward successful private enterprise when, through its dominated communications commission, it lashed . out at this very television infant ‘industry, demanding that it halt its efforts to further the new medium through advertising’’. ‘All the color and importance of this great political event will be caught by the television camera eye at Philadelphia, and relayed to the some 5,000 television receiving sets located generally along the eastern seaboard from Massachusetts to Dela_ ware. Experts figure eight to ten persons will be at each set, approximating 45,000 Americans who will ee and hear the convention proceedings at the same time from points as far as 300 mile? distant from convention . hall in the Quaker city. NO WORD FROM DAVIS RELATIVES IN NETHERLANDS No word has come to Mr, and Mrs. H. P. Davis in regard to their daugh_ ter, son in law and three grandchildren in Amsterdam, Holland, since the Germans made a sudden dash into Holland and started bombing raids on cities. Mrs. Davis is still in Southern California visiting friends. She returned from Holland last fall. SALE TO CONTINUE The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church. have decided to continue its rummage sale now in progress for several more days this week. Public patronage has been very good, officers of the society report. It is being held in the store next to the‘Armory, formerly occupied by the . Noyes’ Electrical Shop. MRS. FLORENCE. EVANS TO BEGIN 87TH YEAR Mrs. Florence Evans will celebrate her eighty sixth birthday tomorrow at her home on Boulder street where friends will call to wish her health and happiness.’ She received many bouquets of flowers Sunday, or Mother’s Day. Mrs. Evans is: native of Ohio and came to Nevada City when; a small child with her mother and joined the husband and father who had preceeded them for his health and” who participated in the “gold rush“. She has a wealth of memories and her long life has been filled with many kindly deeds. COUNTY RELIEF COSTS FAR LESS THAN IN STATE SACRAMENTO, May 13.—Members of the state legislature in reconvened session this week were for the first time in recent years armed with detailed information about state finances secured by their own members and independent of reports by Olson administration state department heads. The figures, gathered by legislative committees during statewide investigations during the last three months ,showed: On February 16, when the State Relief Administration reported only $330,224,16 on hand for relief payments, and instituted a drastic 40 per cent cut in relief, the SRA actually had $2,896,763 on hand, according to a Price, Waterhouse & Co. auditing account, Assemblyman Norris Poulson reported, During the 40 per cent cut period, administrative overhead costs of the State Relief Administration averaged 20.4 per cent of every relief dollar, although county relief departments showed overhead costs as low as 3 per cent and average overhead far -below the SRA figures. During the last few months, tremendous quantities of supplies have been purchased by the State Relief Administration, despite the drop in case load recently from 116,000 to 5,000. “The interim committee investigations undoubtedly are the most constructive undertaking of the legislature in recent vears, and should result in great savings to the taxpayers of California,’ said Speaker Gordon Garland of the assembly as the legislature reconvened, ‘‘Aside from the investigation of the State Relief Administration, the committee on Governmental Efficiency and Economy which has investigated state departments has recommended changes in routine conduct of state business that should save millions of dollars. “Hconomy in state expenditures should be the watchword—not additional taxes. We firmly believe this represents the will of the people,‘ Garland concluded.’ CAMPTONVILLE BOY IS LOST OVERNIGHT CAMPTONVILLE, May 13.— The community was in considerable turmoil at day break Thursday morning when it became known that Dick Williams, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Williams, of this place had become lost on Oregon Creek the night before. He had gone fishing with his father and they became separated and the boy got lost with the darkness overtaking him. Rather than attempt to make his way out of} the canyon in the dark of night, he spent the night on a large rock. His folks were greatly alarmed upon his not returning home and spread the alarm and at daybreak a large searching party set out to find him. Soon after the party left the boy returned, and then further parties had to be sent out to inform the searchers that the boy was safe. Starts Home— Work started the past week on the. ew home of Carl Tobiassen, Jr. The site is on the Tahoe Ukiah highway east of Nevada City on a part of the property formerly owned by Mrs; M. Hogue. Young Tobiassen is to be married to Miss Colleen Roberts during the summer. Oakland Visitors— : Mr. and Mrs. N. E, Armstrong of Oakland spent the ‘past. week end with her sister, Mrs. W. L. Williamson and visited other relatives. Armstrong is manager of the American Book company in the bay district. MANIAC PUTS UP VIOLENT BATTLE ‘WITH 4 DEPUTIES After. a violent battle with four . deputies who were placing straps. about his arms and legs in a small! cell in the court: house, Charles Sack, . 39, sniper from the You Bet Sere was taken to the State Hospital for . the Insane at Stockton this afternoon.’ Deputy Sheriffs Fred Williford, Carl Larsen, Bill Woods. and Donald . Fraser attempted to get him out of the cell and into the. automobile without any trouble. When he refused and threatened to strike anyone that came into his cell, the four men} rushed in and grappled. with him, finally throwing him on the _ bed where handcuffs were put on. Then he was securely trussed with heavy straps and the steel cuffs removed. He was taken last night at his home in You Bet after his wife, Mrs. Relda Sack, reported that he had! threatened and attempted suicide. He stabbed himself in the abdomen! with a knife, necessitating two stitches. Officers from the sheriff’s office apprehended Sack at midnight last night and took him to the county hospital to treat his self-inflicted wound. At the hospital he struck an intern and threw another hosptial attache to the floor and beat and choked him before he could be sub-, dued. It took five men to hold him while Dr. NorbertFrey sewed up s wound. His wife swore out a warrant charging insanity this morning before Judge George Gildersleeve. At his hearing conducted in the sheriff’s office it was decided to send him to the hospital in Stockton. He was taken to Stockton by Officers Wood and Fraser. NEVADA CITY IS ANGLER’S MECCA Hundreds of motorists passed through Nevada City over, the week end many of them out early to fish for trout in the higher mountain lakes and streams. It was learned from Game Warden Earl Hiscox this morning that trout fishing is poor in this section as there is too much water in the streams. A Nevada City party fishing on Donner Lake Sunday were Dick Lane, George Ebaugh, and Edwin Berger. They had only fair luck a strong wind brough up big waves and made poor fishing. Howard Penrose was among the local fishermen: who were successful in bringing in a good basket. Last week a group of local fishermen caught limits of tron. 4n Poorman’s Créek above Washington. In the party were Herbert Skeahan, Walter St. John and Bert McBride. John Tognarelli and Fred Reed caught a trout limit each in Blue Lakes over the week end. NEV. CITY NINE DEFEATS FOREST The Nevada (City baseball team won over Forest Hill yesterday by a score of 10 to 0 on Cashin Field. The Nevada City boys made nine hits and ten runs to win in.a lively game. McKenzie, Nevada City pitcher struck out 19 men and allowed 5 hits but kept them well scattered and was never in serious trouble. Due to a sore arm Catcher Franz was replaced by Stintson, the first of the seventh inning and Robbins replaced Stintson at short stop. The Forest Hill pitchers struck out four men. .Next Sunday Nevada City plays Auburn at Cashin Field and they are expecting a tough game. Battery for Nevada City McKenzie, p; Franz c. SELLS HOME Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott sold their home on Gethsemene street to Mr, and Mrs. Robert Grant who moyed into the newly acquired home Sat-! urday. Mr. and Mrs. ElNott and little daughter have moved into a house built by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.; R. BE. Harris, on Nihell street where: they will remain until they make definite plans. AS ;caped injury. Brooks was moved to ; Francisco and Mrs, “™ ‘CAMPTONVILLE, May MOTOR CYCLIST IN COLLISION WITH CAR Wilbur Brooks, 17 who resides in 3oston Ravine in Grass Valley, suffered a broken wrist and other injuries when his motoreycle collided with a machine operated by Robert Bolster of Oakland, on the turn just north of the Town Talk service station yesterday. ‘Robert Hattox, riding tandem with Brooks escaped injury and the occupants of the Bolster machine esyears of age the Miners Hospital in Nevada City. The accidental was investigated by Captain Joe Blake and other highway patrol officers. WILLIAM BRADY CALLED TO REST William Patrick Brady, who was born at Chalk Bluff, November 19, 1877, east of Nevada City, passed away at four o’clock this morning in a local hospital. He has been ill a year but his passing comes as a shock to his many friends. William Brady was reared in the You Bet district and after completing — school, followed mining and timbering in mines, later becoming foreman of several mines in that and the Scotts Flat districts. He was noted for his many kindly deeds. Left to mourn his passing are a brother, Tom Brady, You Bet; two sisters, Mrs. Kate Drummond, San «Mary Pfefferle Sebastopol; besides several and nephews. a nieces . Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 10 o’clock-in St. Can-' ice Catholic church in Nevada City. ! Interment will be in the family plot in the Catholic plot on West Broad street. Holmes Funeral Home has charge of funeral arrangements and Father P. O Reilly. will officiate at . the services. FISH PRESERVATION PROBLEM IS SOLVED Solution to the problem of preserving the Sacramento River Salmon Fishery valued at $100,000 to $170,000 annually, has been found, Dr.:Paul R. Needham, acquatic biologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, reported to the conservation section of the Sacramento Valley Council meeting at the Senator Hotel. The plans consists in trapping the fish at the foot of the Shasta Dam and transferring them to new spawning grounds, Dr. Negdhaf said. The work will be done by the Bureau of Reclamation, which financed the studies and which will provide funds to transfer the spawning salmon. BIG CAMPTONVILLE. CROWD AT BENEFIT 13.—The Radio Benefit show staged by the Camptonville Branch of the Marysville Union high school and _ the Camptonville Union Grammar school . was put on with a big success in the auditorium of the local Masonic hall Friday evenin before a large audience, The children of. the primary department were well trained and. portrayed their parts very well. The musical numbers were good, the song, by his own accompaniment on]. HILL VISITORS!: the guitar by Wesley Delaney brought big applause. The play by the high school students, “Ghost Story” was put on in very .good fashion, the leading players, Miss Carmen Cassano and Leland Pauly, receiving many compliments. Much credit is due the teachers, . Mrs. Grace Pauly, Mrs. Constance Pfiffer and C. W. Williams for their work in training the pupils for .this entertainment. Proceeds from the affair go towards a new radio for the schools. e SWEET PEA FEUDISTS The recent item in the Nugget on the Lageson-Long sweet pea feud has not spread oil on the troubled waters at all according to Irving Long who brought a bouquet of his vhoice flowers to the newspaper office ‘to prove their beauty, Bach one still contends his flowers blossomed first. One glance at the bouquet this afternoon by L. G Lageson, agricultural commissioner, and he stated positively his flowers are larger than those of Long’s. Long has a sweet pea patch eighteen inches wide and one hundred and twenty feet in length. Next: year he plans a larger ger sweet pea garden. ae C OF COFFICERS MAKE REQUESTS FOR ROAD FUNDS Bert Foreman and H. F. Sofge,president and secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce attended a meeting of the state high-, way officials in Sacramento Friday. — They were the only ones to appear from Nevada county. Calls were made for recommendations from Nevada county for highways and Mr. Sofge asked for several items. He first asked that the 1941-43 budget include funds to finish highway 20 into Bear Valley east of Nevada City to highway-40 and if there is sufficient money to finish the pavement on this highway.,. The survey calls for a‘bridge across Bear River and the road will be on a higher level. If this. could not be done he requested that a shovel be sent in to cut off several sharp turns on the present highway this side of Bear River, These turns are extremely hazardous and large busses or trucks have a hard task to make the trip. Mr. Sofge, since the meeting, has contacted the highway patrol to ascertain the number of deaths and. accidents along this strip of — way. Another request was that a four lane highway be constructed between Nevada City and Grass Valley, and plans are to keep on until some action is taken on this. Nearly all ac»!eidents begin at Hills Flat and end at Town Halk. It was found Friday ‘that this highway between the twin cities is sixth in the state for —— of travel. It was learned that Lake county and the State Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a tour the full length of the Tahoe Ukiah highway which starts at Calpella and ends at the junction of highway 40 above Emigrant Gap. PROPOSALS FOR ROAD IS TABLED BY SUPERVISORS An application for the Nevada County Board of Supervisors to contribute $1,000 as the county’s share in repairing and reconstructing the road from Bear Valley to Bowman Dam was tabled Saturday until the June meeting, as the supervisors concluded this month’s session. Requests for a county library and a farm adviser were also held over for further discussion at the next meeting. There was considerable discussion over the proposed repair of the road. It was originally built in pioneer days only to be abandoned later. The forest service rebuilt it in 1920 and that winter the Nevada Irrigation district hauled thousands of tons of machinery over the road ; when it was wet and soft, resulting in ruts that rendered the road virtually impassable. Although the irrigation dfistrict promised to rebuilt it, no action has ever been taken. The new proposal asks that the county, irrigation district and the forest service unite in the reconstruction. The supervisors declined to waive the tax free on traveling circuses that ‘was requested by’ W. P. ‘Mitchell, representing Banner Mountain Post, V. F. W. Mitchell asked the board to forego collection of the tax on a circus which is to appear in this sec— tion under the auspices of the V. FP. W. Local proceeds would be used for charity work. The tax is $15. for the first dayrand $10 for each succeeding day. BIDS ARE CALLED TO REPAIR HIGHWAY 40 Bids have been called by the Division of Highways to cover Lea and surfacing 5.5 miles of U. S. between Hempshire) Rocks and oe Springs. Bids have also been called to cover grading aid surfacing of 2.9 miles between Tahoe City and three miles Meee BOY HURT IN FALL Eleven year old Carlton Watkins — yesterday fell from a tree and ant fered serious injuries to ‘his’ beak. Small Son Recovers— _ ey Gordon Lageson, who was .a Sacramento hospital last week is suf_ ficiently recovered to ‘return. school this morning, —

[ Thinking Out Loud By H. M. L. ‘Nevada City N ugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . . . ifi From the C alifornian, . March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists the right to publish the Truth, th goed motives and for justable ends. ——Alexander Hamillou. As we have said before, we cannot find words to express our loathing of the reasoning processes under which the Germans justify their murderous forays upon their weaker and often unarmed neighbors. Anyone with an imagination able to vision the maiming of innocent women and children, and non-combatants generally, the destruction of their homes and food supplies, the death of those bound by relationships and friendship to those who miserably survive, eannot but feel deeply the horrible injustice done to the half dozen nations the Germans haye outraged. If one only had the perspective of history in which to view the wanton destruction and the slaughter! Herod’s murder of the innocent children of Jerusalem in his search for the infant Christ, accords so completely with cruelties of the times, that we now are inclined to excuse such a wholesale crime as just another instance of an autocrat, all-powerful, insuring. his reign by wholesale slaughter lest one among the victims might one day challenge his rule. But to any dhoaentinl person the story of Herod, surviving in the world for 2,000 years, and the fact that chroniclers of those times regarded it with such horror that they set it down on _ their parchments, indicates that even in that crude time, the crime was unprecedented. So today we feel, when we hear the cynical apologies of Hitler. and his gang for invasion of his peaceful neighbors, and read the roll of the dead, who have been killed in’ their homes, on streets, and in the ordinary course of daily comings and goings. The earthquake blasts of high explosives have often been the only warning that death had come from the skies. One longs for a_ re-establishment of the old Mosaic law: An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth. When victory at last crowns the valiant endeavors of the Allies, as we feel very certain that it will, we believe that the. Allies would be justified in slaughtering every tenth male German citizen beginning first with the Nazi hierarchy and tapering off through the ranks . of the minor and smaller monsters in the Gestapo, the Storm troopers, and finishing off finally all those bloody handéd overseers of concentration camps, the slave drivers in Poland, and the scuttling rats of oppression that harass and abuse the starving and helpless. This feeling of rage we are quite aware is unchrastian. The ‘Mosaic law was outlawed with the birth of Christ from all Christian civilizations. But Germany, beyond the Christian pale, constantly invokes the Mosaic law. She reports that Frieberg, that beautiful and ancfent cathedral town, has been bombed from the air by the Allies. She states that for every undefended German city bombed, she will rain explosive on five allied cities in the same class. Whether Freiburg has been bombed or not we do not know, but we can hardly imagine the Allies would bomb it unless they discovered troop concentrations there. Germany’s reports have proved false so often, as for tnstance that of the sinking of a British battleship on the Norwegian coast by an air bomb, that one receives all reports from that source with skepticism. But even so, whether Freiburg was bombed or not, Germany invokes the Mosaic law. = At the close ofthe world war the Germans were forced to make reparations in part, at least, for the damage done to those countries she invaded. That part of the treaty imposed by Allies has always seemed to us a just retribution upon a people who disturbed the peace of the world. That peace failed after twenty five years we think due in the main to other causes. But so far as paying for damage done to neighbors, we believe that penalty was approved, “by all thinking Americans, But one of the reasons Germany is at war again, is because the .world war. never was carried into Germany. The Germans saw very little of the actual destruction of homes, of innocent non-combatants, of the ruin which war leaves in its wake. Since the Napoleonic ‘wars they have never suffered invasion. We réalize ‘that the Allies will (Continued on Page Two) ; publican National Convention in Phil1 \ . 'ion—the newest of our industries— ‘being brought sharply tothe atten“tion of the nation through its use at . . lal to the American system of free, . -the convention of the only party in Vol. 14, No. 39. ‘The County Seat P Paper NEVADA CIT_Y, CALIFORNIA,” The Bold Contes MONDAY, MAY es 1940. HEAVY SNOWS ASSURE AMPLE WATER SUPPLY SACRAMENTO, May 13.—(UP)— Although the snow pack in the Sierra Nevada melted rapidly during April, latest snow measurements of the Division of Water Resources still indicate that there will be an ample summer supply of water in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, Frank W. Clark, director of the department of public works, said today. “In the northern Sierra,’ Clark said, ‘‘the present zone of melting does not extend beyond the 8000 ft. contour. The last measurement from Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen and Carson Pass show very little less water content than that reported in April. “Toward the southern end of the Sierra, the melting zone was 20 per cent higher than last months pack, having pow disappeared :from the Kern watershed at elevation of 9000.” Although the rains of April were light, precipitation stations show that the upper Sacramento watershed received a normal supply of rain, but the rest of the Seirra was below normal, ranging from a low of 25 per cent for the Stanislaus watershed to a high of 90 per cent for the Kings. Southern California’s precipitation for April was well above normal— San Diego:county having the greatest percentage of surplus. Any water shortage that might be expected as a result of the deficient April rains, he’ said, is apparently being made up for by the-long time rry over effect of ‘the two heavy rain periods of February and March. TELEVISION WILL BE EMPLOYED AT GOP CONVENTION . WASHINGTON, D. C.—Television, newest of the modern miracles, makes its bow in the big time Monday, June 24, when it takes its place alongside photographers, news reels, the press and radio at the 1940 Readelphia. John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, to-} day .characterized the appearance oe television at the Republican Convention as ‘‘an example of private enterprise at its best.” “What could be more appropriate,’’ Hamilton said, ‘‘than having televisthe country which gives high approv-: private enterprise, It was but a few iys ago that the New Deal displayed its animosity toward successful private enterprise when, through its dominated communications commission, it lashed . out at this very television infant ‘industry, demanding that it halt its efforts to further the new medium through advertising’’. ‘All the color and importance of this great political event will be caught by the television camera eye at Philadelphia, and relayed to the some 5,000 television receiving sets located generally along the eastern seaboard from Massachusetts to Dela_ ware. Experts figure eight to ten persons will be at each set, approximating 45,000 Americans who will ee and hear the convention proceedings at the same time from points as far as 300 mile? distant from convention . hall in the Quaker city. NO WORD FROM DAVIS RELATIVES IN NETHERLANDS No word has come to Mr, and Mrs. H. P. Davis in regard to their daugh_ ter, son in law and three grandchildren in Amsterdam, Holland, since the Germans made a sudden dash into Holland and started bombing raids on cities. Mrs. Davis is still in Southern California visiting friends. She returned from Holland last fall. SALE TO CONTINUE The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church. have decided to continue its rummage sale now in progress for several more days this week. Public patronage has been very good, officers of the society report. It is being held in the store next to the‘Armory, formerly occupied by the . Noyes’ Electrical Shop. MRS. FLORENCE. EVANS TO BEGIN 87TH YEAR Mrs. Florence Evans will celebrate her eighty sixth birthday tomorrow at her home on Boulder street where friends will call to wish her health and happiness.’ She received many bouquets of flowers Sunday, or Mother’s Day. Mrs. Evans is: native of Ohio and came to Nevada City when; a small child with her mother and joined the husband and father who had preceeded them for his health and” who participated in the “gold rush“. She has a wealth of memories and her long life has been filled with many kindly deeds. COUNTY RELIEF COSTS FAR LESS THAN IN STATE SACRAMENTO, May 13.—Members of the state legislature in reconvened session this week were for the first time in recent years armed with detailed information about state finances secured by their own members and independent of reports by Olson administration state department heads. The figures, gathered by legislative committees during statewide investigations during the last three months ,showed: On February 16, when the State Relief Administration reported only $330,224,16 on hand for relief payments, and instituted a drastic 40 per cent cut in relief, the SRA actually had $2,896,763 on hand, according to a Price, Waterhouse & Co. auditing account, Assemblyman Norris Poulson reported, During the 40 per cent cut period, administrative overhead costs of the State Relief Administration averaged 20.4 per cent of every relief dollar, although county relief departments showed overhead costs as low as 3 per cent and average overhead far -below the SRA figures. During the last few months, tremendous quantities of supplies have been purchased by the State Relief Administration, despite the drop in case load recently from 116,000 to 5,000. “The interim committee investigations undoubtedly are the most constructive undertaking of the legislature in recent vears, and should result in great savings to the taxpayers of California,’ said Speaker Gordon Garland of the assembly as the legislature reconvened, ‘‘Aside from the investigation of the State Relief Administration, the committee on Governmental Efficiency and Economy which has investigated state departments has recommended changes in routine conduct of state business that should save millions of dollars. “Hconomy in state expenditures should be the watchword—not additional taxes. We firmly believe this represents the will of the people,‘ Garland concluded.’ CAMPTONVILLE BOY IS LOST OVERNIGHT CAMPTONVILLE, May 13.— The community was in considerable turmoil at day break Thursday morning when it became known that Dick Williams, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Williams, of this place had become lost on Oregon Creek the night before. He had gone fishing with his father and they became separated and the boy got lost with the darkness overtaking him. Rather than attempt to make his way out of} the canyon in the dark of night, he spent the night on a large rock. His folks were greatly alarmed upon his not returning home and spread the alarm and at daybreak a large searching party set out to find him. Soon after the party left the boy returned, and then further parties had to be sent out to inform the searchers that the boy was safe. Starts Home— Work started the past week on the. ew home of Carl Tobiassen, Jr. The site is on the Tahoe Ukiah highway east of Nevada City on a part of the property formerly owned by Mrs; M. Hogue. Young Tobiassen is to be married to Miss Colleen Roberts during the summer. Oakland Visitors— : Mr. and Mrs. N. E, Armstrong of Oakland spent the ‘past. week end with her sister, Mrs. W. L. Williamson and visited other relatives. Armstrong is manager of the American Book company in the bay district.

MANIAC PUTS UP VIOLENT BATTLE ‘WITH 4 DEPUTIES After. a violent battle with four . deputies who were placing straps. about his arms and legs in a small! cell in the court: house, Charles Sack, . 39, sniper from the You Bet Sere was taken to the State Hospital for . the Insane at Stockton this afternoon.’ Deputy Sheriffs Fred Williford, Carl Larsen, Bill Woods. and Donald . Fraser attempted to get him out of the cell and into the. automobile without any trouble. When he refused and threatened to strike anyone that came into his cell, the four men} rushed in and grappled. with him, finally throwing him on the _ bed where handcuffs were put on. Then he was securely trussed with heavy straps and the steel cuffs removed. He was taken last night at his home in You Bet after his wife, Mrs. Relda Sack, reported that he had! threatened and attempted suicide. He stabbed himself in the abdomen! with a knife, necessitating two stitches. Officers from the sheriff’s office apprehended Sack at midnight last night and took him to the county hospital to treat his self-inflicted wound. At the hospital he struck an intern and threw another hosptial attache to the floor and beat and choked him before he could be sub-, dued. It took five men to hold him while Dr. NorbertFrey sewed up s wound. His wife swore out a warrant charging insanity this morning before Judge George Gildersleeve. At his hearing conducted in the sheriff’s office it was decided to send him to the hospital in Stockton. He was taken to Stockton by Officers Wood and Fraser. NEVADA CITY IS ANGLER’S MECCA Hundreds of motorists passed through Nevada City over, the week end many of them out early to fish for trout in the higher mountain lakes and streams. It was learned from Game Warden Earl Hiscox this morning that trout fishing is poor in this section as there is too much water in the streams. A Nevada City party fishing on Donner Lake Sunday were Dick Lane, George Ebaugh, and Edwin Berger. They had only fair luck a strong wind brough up big waves and made poor fishing. Howard Penrose was among the local fishermen: who were successful in bringing in a good basket. Last week a group of local fishermen caught limits of tron. 4n Poorman’s Créek above Washington. In the party were Herbert Skeahan, Walter St. John and Bert McBride. John Tognarelli and Fred Reed caught a trout limit each in Blue Lakes over the week end. NEV. CITY NINE DEFEATS FOREST The Nevada (City baseball team won over Forest Hill yesterday by a score of 10 to 0 on Cashin Field. The Nevada City boys made nine hits and ten runs to win in.a lively game. McKenzie, Nevada City pitcher struck out 19 men and allowed 5 hits but kept them well scattered and was never in serious trouble. Due to a sore arm Catcher Franz was replaced by Stintson, the first of the seventh inning and Robbins replaced Stintson at short stop. The Forest Hill pitchers struck out four men. .Next Sunday Nevada City plays Auburn at Cashin Field and they are expecting a tough game. Battery for Nevada City McKenzie, p; Franz c. SELLS HOME Mr. and Mrs. Charles Elliott sold their home on Gethsemene street to Mr, and Mrs. Robert Grant who moyed into the newly acquired home Sat-! urday. Mr. and Mrs. ElNott and little daughter have moved into a house built by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.; R. BE. Harris, on Nihell street where: they will remain until they make definite plans. AS ;caped injury. Brooks was moved to ; Francisco and Mrs, “™ ‘CAMPTONVILLE, May MOTOR CYCLIST IN COLLISION WITH CAR Wilbur Brooks, 17 who resides in 3oston Ravine in Grass Valley, suffered a broken wrist and other injuries when his motoreycle collided with a machine operated by Robert Bolster of Oakland, on the turn just north of the Town Talk service station yesterday. ‘Robert Hattox, riding tandem with Brooks escaped injury and the occupants of the Bolster machine esyears of age the Miners Hospital in Nevada City. The accidental was investigated by Captain Joe Blake and other highway patrol officers. WILLIAM BRADY CALLED TO REST William Patrick Brady, who was born at Chalk Bluff, November 19, 1877, east of Nevada City, passed away at four o’clock this morning in a local hospital. He has been ill a year but his passing comes as a shock to his many friends. William Brady was reared in the You Bet district and after completing — school, followed mining and timbering in mines, later becoming foreman of several mines in that and the Scotts Flat districts. He was noted for his many kindly deeds. Left to mourn his passing are a brother, Tom Brady, You Bet; two sisters, Mrs. Kate Drummond, San «Mary Pfefferle Sebastopol; besides several and nephews. a nieces . Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 10 o’clock-in St. Can-' ice Catholic church in Nevada City. ! Interment will be in the family plot in the Catholic plot on West Broad street. Holmes Funeral Home has charge of funeral arrangements and Father P. O Reilly. will officiate at . the services. FISH PRESERVATION PROBLEM IS SOLVED Solution to the problem of preserving the Sacramento River Salmon Fishery valued at $100,000 to $170,000 annually, has been found, Dr.:Paul R. Needham, acquatic biologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, reported to the conservation section of the Sacramento Valley Council meeting at the Senator Hotel. The plans consists in trapping the fish at the foot of the Shasta Dam and transferring them to new spawning grounds, Dr. Negdhaf said. The work will be done by the Bureau of Reclamation, which financed the studies and which will provide funds to transfer the spawning salmon. BIG CAMPTONVILLE. CROWD AT BENEFIT 13.—The Radio Benefit show staged by the Camptonville Branch of the Marysville Union high school and _ the Camptonville Union Grammar school . was put on with a big success in the auditorium of the local Masonic hall Friday evenin before a large audience, The children of. the primary department were well trained and. portrayed their parts very well. The musical numbers were good, the song, by his own accompaniment on]. HILL VISITORS!: the guitar by Wesley Delaney brought big applause. The play by the high school students, “Ghost Story” was put on in very .good fashion, the leading players, Miss Carmen Cassano and Leland Pauly, receiving many compliments. Much credit is due the teachers, . Mrs. Grace Pauly, Mrs. Constance Pfiffer and C. W. Williams for their work in training the pupils for .this entertainment. Proceeds from the affair go towards a new radio for the schools. e SWEET PEA FEUDISTS The recent item in the Nugget on the Lageson-Long sweet pea feud has not spread oil on the troubled waters at all according to Irving Long who brought a bouquet of his vhoice flowers to the newspaper office ‘to prove their beauty, Bach one still contends his flowers blossomed first. One glance at the bouquet this afternoon by L. G Lageson, agricultural commissioner, and he stated positively his flowers are larger than those of Long’s. Long has a sweet pea patch eighteen inches wide and one hundred and twenty feet in length. Next: year he plans a larger ger sweet pea garden. ae C OF COFFICERS MAKE REQUESTS FOR ROAD FUNDS Bert Foreman and H. F. Sofge,president and secretary of the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce attended a meeting of the state high-, way officials in Sacramento Friday. — They were the only ones to appear from Nevada county. Calls were made for recommendations from Nevada county for highways and Mr. Sofge asked for several items. He first asked that the 1941-43 budget include funds to finish highway 20 into Bear Valley east of Nevada City to highway-40 and if there is sufficient money to finish the pavement on this highway.,. The survey calls for a‘bridge across Bear River and the road will be on a higher level. If this. could not be done he requested that a shovel be sent in to cut off several sharp turns on the present highway this side of Bear River, These turns are extremely hazardous and large busses or trucks have a hard task to make the trip. Mr. Sofge, since the meeting, has contacted the highway patrol to ascertain the number of deaths and. accidents along this strip of — way. Another request was that a four lane highway be constructed between Nevada City and Grass Valley, and plans are to keep on until some action is taken on this. Nearly all ac»!eidents begin at Hills Flat and end at Town Halk. It was found Friday ‘that this highway between the twin cities is sixth in the state for —— of travel. It was learned that Lake county and the State Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a tour the full length of the Tahoe Ukiah highway which starts at Calpella and ends at the junction of highway 40 above Emigrant Gap. PROPOSALS FOR ROAD IS TABLED BY SUPERVISORS An application for the Nevada County Board of Supervisors to contribute $1,000 as the county’s share in repairing and reconstructing the road from Bear Valley to Bowman Dam was tabled Saturday until the June meeting, as the supervisors concluded this month’s session. Requests for a county library and a farm adviser were also held over for further discussion at the next meeting. There was considerable discussion over the proposed repair of the road. It was originally built in pioneer days only to be abandoned later. The forest service rebuilt it in 1920 and that winter the Nevada Irrigation district hauled thousands of tons of machinery over the road ; when it was wet and soft, resulting in ruts that rendered the road virtually impassable. Although the irrigation dfistrict promised to rebuilt it, no action has ever been taken. The new proposal asks that the county, irrigation district and the forest service unite in the reconstruction. The supervisors declined to waive the tax free on traveling circuses that ‘was requested by’ W. P. ‘Mitchell, representing Banner Mountain Post, V. F. W. Mitchell asked the board to forego collection of the tax on a circus which is to appear in this sec— tion under the auspices of the V. FP. W. Local proceeds would be used for charity work. The tax is $15. for the first dayrand $10 for each succeeding day. BIDS ARE CALLED TO REPAIR HIGHWAY 40 Bids have been called by the Division of Highways to cover Lea and surfacing 5.5 miles of U. S. between Hempshire) Rocks and oe Springs. Bids have also been called to cover grading aid surfacing of 2.9 miles between Tahoe City and three miles Meee BOY HURT IN FALL Eleven year old Carlton Watkins — yesterday fell from a tree and ant fered serious injuries to ‘his’ beak. Small Son Recovers— _ ey Gordon Lageson, who was .a Sacramento hospital last week is suf_ ficiently recovered to ‘return. school this morning, —