May 14, 1937 (8 pages)

Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. We often /envy members of various cults who follow some Messiah in his dreams, with mind, soul and body. ‘No personal responsibility; only believe, only prepare your ascension robes, only keep one more appointment and that with the trumpet blast that calls all believers to life everlasting in paradise. It is a comforting kind of life. No worries. Choose your Messiah, believe what he tells you, and the rest is hallalujahs, a crown, a golden harp and a song in chorus with seraphim and cherubin. Those who cannot be convinced are only a small minority in this world. A large proportion of the earth’s population believes what it is told. ied Time was when whole towns would be syept by religious enthusiasm, would sew for weeks on ascension robes and on a certain day set conveniently ahead, so that ali preparations might be completed, would believers perished in sulphuric assemble on a high hill to be rapt into heaven while the earth and all unflames. g But if we have lost some of that blind faith in religion which offered the good a paradise, and threatened the bad with a hell, human nature has found another avenue for emotional release. In Burope very mediocre men have ‘been practically diefied and set up on thrones. to wield a power Which is greater than any power ever weilded before, greatoe because populations are greater than they ‘were in the days of the: Pharaohs, the Casesars, and Grand Moguls. The same old credulity, the same ancient tendency of men to choose from . among themselves a hero to worship him, still dominates earth’s people. Those that dissent are exiled or destroyed. At no time in the world’s history, has power been so concentrated in the hands of one man, as it is now in Russia, Italy or Germany. We are not going the way of those countries, because in us, diluted though it is with other racial strains our blood contains a stubborn English strain, that refuses to bend the suppliant knee to any man. We do at times, drift on emotional tides. We do worship heroes. We are eredulous to a degree, and yet when all is said and done, and we are asked to renounce our liberties and trust our fortunes to some ‘beneficient political leader, we finally balk. As high as he has been elevated in popular worship, so far does he fall when his clay feet are discovered. Anyone who cares to read the signs of the times, and remembers other heroes of other days, can almost set the day, when our White House hero, reached his present zenith and began his descent. It was that day when he ‘began to believe what the flatterers, political syncophants, patronage boot lickers, told him. It was that day when popular adulation reflected in the November polls, made him believe that he was wiser, grander, more beneficient than other men, when he began to believe that God had somehow endowed him with infinite insight into human affairs. When he began to think of himself, as millions of American citizens did, as a hero whose name would go down in history with the great of the earth, that day began his decline. It may have been the day that he, without consulting the people’s repesentatives in Congress, undertook to debase the Supreme Court. ‘Or it may have been a few days ago, when he beckoned a war ship and went off for another fishing trip, leaving Congress to mill around like a herd of silly cattle, getting nowhere, leaving the ship of state heading into another major storm and no one, not even Ma Perkins, or Hallucination Hopkins, at the wheel. The New Deal is declining. The signs are unmistakable. Three years hence, we make bold to asser ibe as much anathema, as now is the Old Guard. For the American people want neither something old and outworn, in the way of government, ing as new as that which we do not have to earn. Probably we will always be like that, and yet at the crisis we generally recover our mental balance, choose a new hero, who may ‘have learned something t it will! nor any] curses the Russians, Italians: or Germans, Our heroes, rise, shine and sub-. side, and tomorrow brings a-.new! hero. We are still a credulous peo: ple, we believe in & salvation that Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ——— The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population — and prosperity. By subsribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. thérefore, —— —— Vol. Ul, No. 39. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937. Sener . MOULTON, HILLS WILL TOMORROW BE SENTENCED SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.—The federal and state authorities spurred by the conviction yesterday of two Nevada county dealers in illicit gold, are preparing today to press charges against fourteen other persons indicted for conspiring to violate the Gold Reserves Act of 1934. Federal District Judge Michael J. Roche, will pronouce’ sentence Saturday on W. E. Moulton of French Corral and B. W. Hills of Grass Valley, convicted yesterday on two counts each by a federal jury. The jury required less than two hours of deliberation to find both men guilty of conspiring to violate the Gold Reseves Act of 1934 and falsifying records of gold sales to the San Francisco mint. The falsification charge carries a penalty of $10,0000 fine, or ten years imprisonment, or both. The maximum penalty on the conspiracy charge is.a $10,000 fine and two years imprisonment. Assistant United States Attorney Robert McWilliams, in commenting on the conviction of Moulton and Hills, declared: : “We are gratified of course, at the conviction of these two men. This was tle first case of its kind prosecuted in ‘the west under the Gold Reserves Act of 1934. We are going ah. €@ with the vigorous prosecution of the other people who have been indicted. The United States attorney’s office cooperating with ‘the United States Secret Service and the state division of mines, hopes to eliminate gold highgrading in California by obtaining the conviction of the middlemen and higher ups who deal in stolen gold.’’ ; Louis H. Boyer, William R. Erwin, Harry E. Beatty and Max H. Small, all of Los Angeles, are scheduled to appear in the federal court here tomorrow before Judge A. F. St. Sure to make their pleading to a charge of conspiring to violate the act. ° Moulton and Mrs. Ida Davenport of Nevada City will be arraigned Saturday o a similar conspiracy charge. This is a separate conspiracy count from that under which Moulton and Hills were convicted. The other persons indicted for conspiracy to violate the act, who face trial in federal court within the next few weeks are: Justice of the Peace Walter L. Mobley and Ben A. Bost of Nevada City; James DeWitt, Pine Grove; E. H. Patterson and Glenn C. Weldon of Grass Valley; H. J. Kelm and Lester Lawson of “Mariposa county and Emil J. N. Ott and George Nihell of Nevada City. g All were arrested by United States secret service agents, cooperating with the investigators of the state division of mines.—Sacamento Bee. HARD LIQUOR SALES INCREASE SACRAMENTO, May 13. — Sales of excise tax stamps during April indicate a continued gain in the consumption of distilled spirits as compared with 1936, the state board of equalization reported today. Stamp sales amounted to $617,777.24 last month, a gain of 20.67 per cent over April, 1936, but a decrease from the sales totaling $706,740.24 reported for last ‘March. The April. sales brought the total income to the state from the tax on hard liquor up to $14,201,232.39, board records revealed. So far the stamp sales for the current fiscal year are 8.76 per cent ahead of those for the previous comparable period. * The bulk of the stamp sales made during April were reported from the Los Angeles district office which was credited with $254,585, or 41,22 per cent of the total. San Francisco was next with stamp sales amounting to $185,438, and Sacramento third with $57,316. According to the report, pint bottle still continued as the most popular sized container. Stamps for 1,977,670 half-pints were seld during the month. from the mistakes of former heroes, road and march on. . BOARD ELECTS _ . Valley highway. t the halfand then we take the middle of the SCHOOL STAFFS The Nevada City board of school directors have re-elected the principal of the two schools, Walter Carlson of the grammar school and H. E. Kjorlie of the high school, and the following high school teachers: Beverly Barron, Miss Nancy Jones, L. E. Sweeney, H. W. Hobbie, Mrs. Flewellyn,: Miss Esther Tremaine, Miss Baggly and Miss Peterson. _ Mrs. Marian Libbey is re-elected music supervisor for both schools. The grammar school staff re-elected, consists of the following,’ Miss Gertrude Goyne, Miss Snell, Miss Savory Ford, Mrs. Mabel Flindt, “Mrs. Doris Foley, Mrs. Mary Warnecke, Miss Ruth Tamblyn, Miss Ruth Ho: gan, Clark McGinnis, Miss Grant. SCOUT CAMPOREE OPENS SATURDAY The spring camporee for Tahoe Area Council ‘will be held Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning May 15 and 16 in the open country between Highway 40 and the Grass Definite location will. be mailed Scout leaders Tuesday. in. the form of sealed instructions for the leaders of patrols. Each patrol will travel across country by compass direction and. distance for about 3-4 mile carrying all camping equipment on their back. Adults coming later can get instructions from the scoutmasters. Camp Chairman L. H. Reynolds and Camporee Camp Director M. 8. Beecher have selected the site and members of the Knights of Dunamis, Eagle Scouts, have laid out the trails. Saturday evening will be a camp fire with fun, stories, and songs. Early Sunday morning Rev. H. J. Loken will conduct a™ Scout Law Sunday service. Scoutmaster Russ Seley will be in charge of special activities and he promises something new. Closing ceremonies will be advanced to 12:30 Sunday afternoon and will be in charge of Scoutmaster E. E. Gates. Jeff Mooers wiil be in charge of the scouters, j.dging the patrols on their ability to} uniform themselves, prepare cooking! equipment, make beds, set up camps, patrol erganization, prepare food, build and care for fires and close camps, leaving the location as good or better than they found it. All indications point to the largest camporee yet held in this area. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS NOT TO BE DUPLICATED SACRAMENTO, May 13,—Persons subject to the California Unemployment Reserves Act who obtain more ‘than one Social Security numer may fail to qualify for benefits after January 1, 1938. This announcement was meade today by John F. Chambers, Oakland member of the California Unemployment Reserves Commission. ““Our. accounting department,”’ said Chambers, ‘‘has found that many persons throughout the state are securing more than one Social MINSTREL SHOW GIVES EVERYONE “A JOLLY TIME By FRED GARRISON Nevada City was hugely entertained Tuesday evening by the production of the Dixie Minstrels by the Nevada City High School Combined Choruses. The production was under the splendid direction of Mrs. Marian Libbey. The Nevada Theatre was packed. The order of the program is listed before. The icast of the event was as follows: Interlocutor, Dick Tuttle; John Muscardini, John Kron, Phil Joyal, Matt Burgan, Tom Rickard and Carl Tobiassen, end men; Todd Bonner, Tom Rickard, Phil Joyal, John Kron, Ellard Gates and Carl. Tobiassen, soloists; Jeanne Tefft, Hazel Thomas, Jane Bennett, Laurel Biggs, Dorothy Hoff, (Little Eva), Margaret Burgan, Ruthie Libbey, Mary Martz (Mammy), Evelyn Sibley and Victoria Soga, pickanninnies; tap dancer, Elton Tobiassen; Bernice Bankus, Claudia German, Margaret Odegaard, Marjorie Trevillyan, Slyvia Moody’ E,velyn Lotz, Joyce Stoertron, Frank Roberts, Leona Pingree, Franklin .White, Robert Philbrick, Bill Wagner and Fred Garrison, Dutch Dancers; Patsy.King, Evelyn Hauschild, Lillian Cole, Anna Wellman, Bertha Kelly, Alberta Bolton, Dorothy ~Arbogast, Olive Fox and Eva Beidleman, French peasant dancers; Roberta Ostrom, and Maarlin Young, cake walkers; Alice Graham, Ruth Curnow, ‘Madge Pianezzi, Peggy Bettles, Bernice McQuay, Georgia Glennon, Reg Kennedy, Todd Bonner, Mel Clark, Tony Perez, Jim Odegaard and Don Thomas, Floradora sextette. Much credit should go to the following faculty members: Mrs. Libbey, director; Miss Petersen, dance instructor; the Nevada City High School Band and Mr. L. E. Sweeney; (Miss Baggley, programs, tickets, etc., Miss Bartholomew and the clothing classes, costumes, Mr. Hobbie, stage settings, Miss Jones, makeup; Miss Dornberger and Mr. Barron, music. : The cast-as a whole should be congratulated upon the . splendid performance they gave in this original affair. , John Benschendler of Fallon, Nevada, is visiting with his old time friends, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burr. He has spent many years in Nevada desert and is enjoying Nevada City and surrounding country. Security number from their local post offices. “It is found easier-by an individual who loses a card to go to the post office and get a new one than it is to make application for a reissuance of their old-card. “This procedure endangers the individual’s eompensation standing due to the fact that employee records in California are to be kept through Social Security numbers.”’ Chambers pointed out that if an individual works under two numbers or even more than two, he might fail to qualify for benefits, but if he works under a single number and all his earnings have ‘been reported under that number, he can _ readily qualify. If cards are lost, re-application should be made at the post office and the same account number secured the second time. Tuesday, is-now very"much a past this remarkably fine performance, an entertainment medley, such as ate the excellent results obtained saisfied with the goal attained. Ts single out any one of the of which was the box office point AN APPRECIATION OF THE MINSTREL SHOW Although the Minstrel Show, given by high school students last a major event, in bringing to a focal point,‘all the talent, often latent, in large body of students. From beginning to end it was a constant surprise and pleasure. Anyone with even a casual understanding of the difficulties entailed in drilling and training youngsters in teacher and musical director of the high and grammar schools. All those teachers who assisted in the costuming and the making up, and the many, details that went into he well rounded whole may well be ers is more or less invidious. All played their parts with admirable effect: But much of the success of the show, it is generally conceded, was due to the easy and at the same time manner of the interlocutor, in his very handsome suit of white “soup and fish‘‘ with pink. lapels, and the well directed talent of the six end men in their gorgeous costumes, Each “‘act’’ of the great chorus merits the praises which not only fond:parents, but also seasoned play goers gave it. It was success from every point of view, not least event, people-who saw and heard are still talking about it. It was a minstrel show is, must appreciby Mrs. Marian Libbey, choral students, without mentioning ott . tremendously dignified of view. Join Jane Barton on Queen’s Highway to California Foods — The Homecraft Institute opening next Wednesday for three consecutive afternoons in the’, Nevada Theatre promises to be thronged with Nevada ‘county women. ‘Jane Barton is coming.’”’ The word has gone forth to the far corners of the county. The Homecraft Institute over which Jane Barton presides as counsellor and friend. of thousands of California women of-fers in a way to the women’of Nevada county, a postgraduate course in home making. The great food corporations of the country recognize the work that Mrs. Barton is doing as of economic and social importance. They contribute annually thousands of dollars to the door prizes wherever the Homecraft Institute is held. : Besides the contributions of the leading food distributors of the United States, local merchants in every line that conitributes toward home building and home maintaining offers door prizes in order that few may go away from the threeday institution without some worth while memento. of the occasion. Among the contributors of door prizes for this annual event sponsored by the .Nevada City Nugget and the Pacific Rural Press are: Nevada City Plaza Grocery, beautiful and convenient revolving refrigerator set. Nevada County Lumber Company, three half gallons of Murphy paint, one half gallon to be given away each afternoon. Safeway Stores, a Swift premium ham. Nevada City Drug Store, a Spanish plaque. Prouse Drive-In beautiful basket and vegetables. Harold Anderson Service Station, order for Simonizing job. Sunnyside Greenhouse, lovely flowers for the stage. Cliff DeBerry, electric household appliance. Bosworth Furniture Company, handsome end table. Alpha Stores, a beautiful pottery table lamp. Market, a of groceries Grass Valley Hartung’s Jewelery Store, a beautiful Community Plate serving tray, 12x17 inches. Bert’s Dry Goods Store, a guaranteed, imported, Chinese grass linen table set, beautifully appliqued cloth, 54 inches square, with a half dozen napkins. = Foote’s Floral Shop, Hills Flat, three charming bowls: of cut flowers, one set each afternoon. Penney’s, an _ order sprightly house dress. Maurice, photographer, an order for six photographs, cabinet size. : Bon Allure an order for a cotton frock, fashion made. W. M. Rumsey, three sets of mixing bowls, one set each afternoon. : Other donors of door prizes will be announced in Monday’s issue of the Nugget. for a It's Almost Here—the Homecraft Institute scheduled -for May 19, 20 ‘ed, Jane Barton will include a dislfor the flower arrangement demonand 21 from 2 to 4:30 P. M. in Nevada Theatre under the joint auspices of the Nevada City Nugget and the Pacific Rural Press. Jane Barton, Homecraft Editor of the Pacific Rural Press, beloved by thousands of California women who have been helped ‘by her advice and inspired by her talks, will ‘personally conduct the three conferences on domestic economy. As was announced in a previous story, this year’s Homecraft Institute has many new and delightful features which will be of exceptional interest to California homemakers. First of all, as previously announccussion of flowers and flower arrangements in typical California homes as part of her discussion of living room and ‘bedroom furniture arrangements. : Homémakers who are interested-im~ ~~ flower arrangement are invited to bring flowers, leaves, twigs, seed pods or grasses in their own containers, suitably tagged. Such entries stration must be brought to the hall ™ before 11 a. m. on Thursday during institute week. There will also be a menu contest with appropriate prize es, which will be explained from the platform at the first session of the Institute by Mrs. Barton. MUCH MORE THAN COOKING SCHOOL Remember the Homecraft Institute is much more than the oldfashioned cooking school for Mrs. Barton talks about decoration craft, laundry craft, child craft and sewing craft as well as kitchen craft. Every department of domestic economy is discussed in these informal sessions in which the audience itself is cordially invited to take part. The recipes in the kitchen craft section of this year’s Institute feature Jane Barton’s “Queen’s Highway to California Foods.’’ Many foreign recipes including Spanish, Mexican and Russian dishes as well as recipes for sweet cream, sour cream and cottage cheese and new and unusual ways of preparing and using California fruits and vegetables will be actually demonstrated by Mrs. Barton. Last year many homemakers asked Mrs. Barton to tell them how to get husbands to eat salads. This. year’s Homecraft Institute will include a discussion under the heading ‘“‘“How to Get Husbands to Eat Salads.’”’ The Homecraft Institute is specially planned to avoid the fuss and frills and expensive recipes that too oftengfeature city cooking school. It is adapted to the problems and needs’ of country people and those who live in small cities and is based on simplicity and economy—to quote Mrs. Barton’s own words. “‘‘It is planned to enable homemakers to do with what they have and to it better.” Every homemaker who would like to talk with Mrs. Barton is invited to remain after each session and to come upon the platform and discuss her individual problems with her. The Homecraft Institute is presented under the joint auspices of this paper and the Pacific Rural Press and a cordial invitation is extended to every homemaker to attend the sessions. Don’t forget those three important afternoons. Plan now to come and to bring your friends and neighbors so that you can travel with Jane Barton over the ‘Trails to Domestic California.” Bullion Mine Begins Operation This Week The Bullion mine“on the Grass Valley-Auburn highway resumed operations this week after a year of MW only maintenance operations. Howard Dennis is the supenintendent in charge. Phil-Folek is foreman. Two full shifts are maintained. Sinking operations will commence on the 1700 ft. lever. « Through a > working agreement with the Empire-Star Mines Company, both companies are continuing programs in lieu of any possibility of litigation. ‘ The Bullion is operatedby the Grass Valley Bullion Gold Mines Company of which F. W. McNear is the president. 4NEWLY MARRIED PAIR GIVEN CHARIVARI — Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, newly married, were not given a chariyari and a Tide in an old stage co: on the evening of May 12,: as stated in this newspaper Mon though their many-friends t it was they. The recipients stage coach tour were Mr, an James Youngman, also ried. Everyone had a 4 ott

Thinking Out Loud H. M. L. We often /envy members of various cults who follow some Messiah in his dreams, with mind, soul and body. ‘No personal responsibility; only believe, only prepare your ascension robes, only keep one more appointment and that with the trumpet blast that calls all believers to life everlasting in paradise. It is a comforting kind of life. No worries. Choose your Messiah, believe what he tells you, and the rest is hallalujahs, a crown, a golden harp and a song in chorus with seraphim and cherubin. Those who cannot be convinced are only a small minority in this world. A large proportion of the earth’s population believes what it is told. ied Time was when whole towns would be syept by religious enthusiasm, would sew for weeks on ascension robes and on a certain day set conveniently ahead, so that ali preparations might be completed, would believers perished in sulphuric assemble on a high hill to be rapt into heaven while the earth and all unflames. g But if we have lost some of that blind faith in religion which offered the good a paradise, and threatened the bad with a hell, human nature has found another avenue for emotional release. In Burope very mediocre men have ‘been practically diefied and set up on thrones. to wield a power Which is greater than any power ever weilded before, greatoe because populations are greater than they ‘were in the days of the: Pharaohs, the Casesars, and Grand Moguls. The same old credulity, the same ancient tendency of men to choose from . among themselves a hero to worship him, still dominates earth’s people. Those that dissent are exiled or destroyed. At no time in the world’s history, has power been so concentrated in the hands of one man, as it is now in Russia, Italy or Germany. We are not going the way of those countries, because in us, diluted though it is with other racial strains our blood contains a stubborn English strain, that refuses to bend the suppliant knee to any man. We do at times, drift on emotional tides. We do worship heroes. We are eredulous to a degree, and yet when all is said and done, and we are asked to renounce our liberties and trust our fortunes to some ‘beneficient political leader, we finally balk. As high as he has been elevated in popular worship, so far does he fall when his clay feet are discovered. Anyone who cares to read the signs of the times, and remembers other heroes of other days, can almost set the day, when our White House hero, reached his present zenith and began his descent. It was that day when he ‘began to believe what the flatterers, political syncophants, patronage boot lickers, told him. It was that day when popular adulation reflected in the November polls, made him believe that he was wiser, grander, more beneficient than other men, when he began to believe that God had somehow endowed him with infinite insight into human affairs. When he began to think of himself, as millions of American citizens did, as a hero whose name would go down in history with the great of the earth, that day began his decline. It may have been the day that he, without consulting the people’s repesentatives in Congress, undertook to debase the Supreme Court. ‘Or it may have been a few days ago, when he beckoned a war ship and went off for another fishing trip, leaving Congress to mill around like a herd of silly cattle, getting nowhere, leaving the ship of state heading into another major storm and no one, not even Ma Perkins, or Hallucination Hopkins, at the wheel. The New Deal is declining. The signs are unmistakable. Three years hence, we make bold to asser ibe as much anathema, as now is the Old Guard. For the American people want neither something old and outworn, in the way of government, ing as new as that which we do not have to earn. Probably we will always be like that, and yet at the crisis we generally recover our mental balance, choose a new hero, who may ‘have learned something t it will! nor any] curses the Russians, Italians: or Germans, Our heroes, rise, shine and sub-. side, and tomorrow brings a-.new! hero. We are still a credulous peo: ple, we believe in & salvation that Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ——— The Nevada City Nugget helps your city and county to grow in population — and prosperity. By subsribing to, and advertising in the Nugget, you help yourself. thérefore, —— —— Vol. Ul, No. 39. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1937. Sener . MOULTON, HILLS WILL TOMORROW BE SENTENCED SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.—The federal and state authorities spurred by the conviction yesterday of two Nevada county dealers in illicit gold, are preparing today to press charges against fourteen other persons indicted for conspiring to violate the Gold Reserves Act of 1934. Federal District Judge Michael J. Roche, will pronouce’ sentence Saturday on W. E. Moulton of French Corral and B. W. Hills of Grass Valley, convicted yesterday on two counts each by a federal jury. The jury required less than two hours of deliberation to find both men guilty of conspiring to violate the Gold Reseves Act of 1934 and falsifying records of gold sales to the San Francisco mint. The falsification charge carries a penalty of $10,0000 fine, or ten years imprisonment, or both. The maximum penalty on the conspiracy charge is.a $10,000 fine and two years imprisonment. Assistant United States Attorney Robert McWilliams, in commenting on the conviction of Moulton and Hills, declared: : “We are gratified of course, at the conviction of these two men. This was tle first case of its kind prosecuted in ‘the west under the Gold Reserves Act of 1934. We are going ah. €@ with the vigorous prosecution of the other people who have been indicted. The United States attorney’s office cooperating with ‘the United States Secret Service and the state division of mines, hopes to eliminate gold highgrading in California by obtaining the conviction of the middlemen and higher ups who deal in stolen gold.’’ ; Louis H. Boyer, William R. Erwin, Harry E. Beatty and Max H. Small, all of Los Angeles, are scheduled to appear in the federal court here tomorrow before Judge A. F. St. Sure to make their pleading to a charge of conspiring to violate the act. ° Moulton and Mrs. Ida Davenport of Nevada City will be arraigned Saturday o a similar conspiracy charge. This is a separate conspiracy count from that under which Moulton and Hills were convicted. The other persons indicted for conspiracy to violate the act, who face trial in federal court within the next few weeks are: Justice of the Peace Walter L. Mobley and Ben A. Bost of Nevada City; James DeWitt, Pine Grove; E. H. Patterson and Glenn C. Weldon of Grass Valley; H. J. Kelm and Lester Lawson of “Mariposa county and Emil J. N. Ott and George Nihell of Nevada City. g All were arrested by United States secret service agents, cooperating with the investigators of the state division of mines.—Sacamento Bee. HARD LIQUOR SALES INCREASE SACRAMENTO, May 13. — Sales of excise tax stamps during April indicate a continued gain in the consumption of distilled spirits as compared with 1936, the state board of equalization reported today. Stamp sales amounted to $617,777.24 last month, a gain of 20.67 per cent over April, 1936, but a decrease from the sales totaling $706,740.24 reported for last ‘March. The April. sales brought the total income to the state from the tax on hard liquor up to $14,201,232.39, board records revealed. So far the stamp sales for the current fiscal year are 8.76 per cent ahead of those for the previous comparable period. * The bulk of the stamp sales made during April were reported from the Los Angeles district office which was credited with $254,585, or 41,22 per cent of the total. San Francisco was next with stamp sales amounting to $185,438, and Sacramento third with $57,316. According to the report, pint bottle still continued as the most popular sized container. Stamps for 1,977,670 half-pints were seld during the month. from the mistakes of former heroes, road and march on. . BOARD ELECTS _ . Valley highway. t the halfand then we take the middle of the SCHOOL STAFFS The Nevada City board of school directors have re-elected the principal of the two schools, Walter Carlson of the grammar school and H. E. Kjorlie of the high school, and the following high school teachers: Beverly Barron, Miss Nancy Jones, L. E. Sweeney, H. W. Hobbie, Mrs. Flewellyn,: Miss Esther Tremaine, Miss Baggly and Miss Peterson. _ Mrs. Marian Libbey is re-elected music supervisor for both schools. The grammar school staff re-elected, consists of the following,’ Miss Gertrude Goyne, Miss Snell, Miss Savory Ford, Mrs. Mabel Flindt, “Mrs. Doris Foley, Mrs. Mary Warnecke, Miss Ruth Tamblyn, Miss Ruth Ho: gan, Clark McGinnis, Miss Grant. SCOUT CAMPOREE OPENS SATURDAY The spring camporee for Tahoe Area Council ‘will be held Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning May 15 and 16 in the open country between Highway 40 and the Grass Definite location will. be mailed Scout leaders Tuesday. in. the form of sealed instructions for the leaders of patrols. Each patrol will travel across country by compass direction and. distance for about 3-4 mile carrying all camping equipment on their back. Adults coming later can get instructions from the scoutmasters. Camp Chairman L. H. Reynolds and Camporee Camp Director M. 8. Beecher have selected the site and members of the Knights of Dunamis, Eagle Scouts, have laid out the trails. Saturday evening will be a camp fire with fun, stories, and songs. Early Sunday morning Rev. H. J. Loken will conduct a™ Scout Law Sunday service. Scoutmaster Russ Seley will be in charge of special activities and he promises something new. Closing ceremonies will be advanced to 12:30 Sunday afternoon and will be in charge of Scoutmaster E. E. Gates. Jeff Mooers wiil be in charge of the scouters, j.dging the patrols on their ability to} uniform themselves, prepare cooking! equipment, make beds, set up camps, patrol erganization, prepare food, build and care for fires and close camps, leaving the location as good or better than they found it. All indications point to the largest camporee yet held in this area. SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS NOT TO BE DUPLICATED SACRAMENTO, May 13,—Persons subject to the California Unemployment Reserves Act who obtain more

‘than one Social Security numer may fail to qualify for benefits after January 1, 1938. This announcement was meade today by John F. Chambers, Oakland member of the California Unemployment Reserves Commission. ““Our. accounting department,”’ said Chambers, ‘‘has found that many persons throughout the state are securing more than one Social MINSTREL SHOW GIVES EVERYONE “A JOLLY TIME By FRED GARRISON Nevada City was hugely entertained Tuesday evening by the production of the Dixie Minstrels by the Nevada City High School Combined Choruses. The production was under the splendid direction of Mrs. Marian Libbey. The Nevada Theatre was packed. The order of the program is listed before. The icast of the event was as follows: Interlocutor, Dick Tuttle; John Muscardini, John Kron, Phil Joyal, Matt Burgan, Tom Rickard and Carl Tobiassen, end men; Todd Bonner, Tom Rickard, Phil Joyal, John Kron, Ellard Gates and Carl. Tobiassen, soloists; Jeanne Tefft, Hazel Thomas, Jane Bennett, Laurel Biggs, Dorothy Hoff, (Little Eva), Margaret Burgan, Ruthie Libbey, Mary Martz (Mammy), Evelyn Sibley and Victoria Soga, pickanninnies; tap dancer, Elton Tobiassen; Bernice Bankus, Claudia German, Margaret Odegaard, Marjorie Trevillyan, Slyvia Moody’ E,velyn Lotz, Joyce Stoertron, Frank Roberts, Leona Pingree, Franklin .White, Robert Philbrick, Bill Wagner and Fred Garrison, Dutch Dancers; Patsy.King, Evelyn Hauschild, Lillian Cole, Anna Wellman, Bertha Kelly, Alberta Bolton, Dorothy ~Arbogast, Olive Fox and Eva Beidleman, French peasant dancers; Roberta Ostrom, and Maarlin Young, cake walkers; Alice Graham, Ruth Curnow, ‘Madge Pianezzi, Peggy Bettles, Bernice McQuay, Georgia Glennon, Reg Kennedy, Todd Bonner, Mel Clark, Tony Perez, Jim Odegaard and Don Thomas, Floradora sextette. Much credit should go to the following faculty members: Mrs. Libbey, director; Miss Petersen, dance instructor; the Nevada City High School Band and Mr. L. E. Sweeney; (Miss Baggley, programs, tickets, etc., Miss Bartholomew and the clothing classes, costumes, Mr. Hobbie, stage settings, Miss Jones, makeup; Miss Dornberger and Mr. Barron, music. : The cast-as a whole should be congratulated upon the . splendid performance they gave in this original affair. , John Benschendler of Fallon, Nevada, is visiting with his old time friends, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burr. He has spent many years in Nevada desert and is enjoying Nevada City and surrounding country. Security number from their local post offices. “It is found easier-by an individual who loses a card to go to the post office and get a new one than it is to make application for a reissuance of their old-card. “This procedure endangers the individual’s eompensation standing due to the fact that employee records in California are to be kept through Social Security numbers.”’ Chambers pointed out that if an individual works under two numbers or even more than two, he might fail to qualify for benefits, but if he works under a single number and all his earnings have ‘been reported under that number, he can _ readily qualify. If cards are lost, re-application should be made at the post office and the same account number secured the second time. Tuesday, is-now very"much a past this remarkably fine performance, an entertainment medley, such as ate the excellent results obtained saisfied with the goal attained. Ts single out any one of the of which was the box office point AN APPRECIATION OF THE MINSTREL SHOW Although the Minstrel Show, given by high school students last a major event, in bringing to a focal point,‘all the talent, often latent, in large body of students. From beginning to end it was a constant surprise and pleasure. Anyone with even a casual understanding of the difficulties entailed in drilling and training youngsters in teacher and musical director of the high and grammar schools. All those teachers who assisted in the costuming and the making up, and the many, details that went into he well rounded whole may well be ers is more or less invidious. All played their parts with admirable effect: But much of the success of the show, it is generally conceded, was due to the easy and at the same time manner of the interlocutor, in his very handsome suit of white “soup and fish‘‘ with pink. lapels, and the well directed talent of the six end men in their gorgeous costumes, Each “‘act’’ of the great chorus merits the praises which not only fond:parents, but also seasoned play goers gave it. It was success from every point of view, not least event, people-who saw and heard are still talking about it. It was a minstrel show is, must appreciby Mrs. Marian Libbey, choral students, without mentioning ott . tremendously dignified of view. Join Jane Barton on Queen’s Highway to California Foods — The Homecraft Institute opening next Wednesday for three consecutive afternoons in the’, Nevada Theatre promises to be thronged with Nevada ‘county women. ‘Jane Barton is coming.’”’ The word has gone forth to the far corners of the county. The Homecraft Institute over which Jane Barton presides as counsellor and friend. of thousands of California women of-fers in a way to the women’of Nevada county, a postgraduate course in home making. The great food corporations of the country recognize the work that Mrs. Barton is doing as of economic and social importance. They contribute annually thousands of dollars to the door prizes wherever the Homecraft Institute is held. : Besides the contributions of the leading food distributors of the United States, local merchants in every line that conitributes toward home building and home maintaining offers door prizes in order that few may go away from the threeday institution without some worth while memento. of the occasion. Among the contributors of door prizes for this annual event sponsored by the .Nevada City Nugget and the Pacific Rural Press are: Nevada City Plaza Grocery, beautiful and convenient revolving refrigerator set. Nevada County Lumber Company, three half gallons of Murphy paint, one half gallon to be given away each afternoon. Safeway Stores, a Swift premium ham. Nevada City Drug Store, a Spanish plaque. Prouse Drive-In beautiful basket and vegetables. Harold Anderson Service Station, order for Simonizing job. Sunnyside Greenhouse, lovely flowers for the stage. Cliff DeBerry, electric household appliance. Bosworth Furniture Company, handsome end table. Alpha Stores, a beautiful pottery table lamp. Market, a of groceries Grass Valley Hartung’s Jewelery Store, a beautiful Community Plate serving tray, 12x17 inches. Bert’s Dry Goods Store, a guaranteed, imported, Chinese grass linen table set, beautifully appliqued cloth, 54 inches square, with a half dozen napkins. = Foote’s Floral Shop, Hills Flat, three charming bowls: of cut flowers, one set each afternoon. Penney’s, an _ order sprightly house dress. Maurice, photographer, an order for six photographs, cabinet size. : Bon Allure an order for a cotton frock, fashion made. W. M. Rumsey, three sets of mixing bowls, one set each afternoon. : Other donors of door prizes will be announced in Monday’s issue of the Nugget. for a It's Almost Here—the Homecraft Institute scheduled -for May 19, 20 ‘ed, Jane Barton will include a dislfor the flower arrangement demonand 21 from 2 to 4:30 P. M. in Nevada Theatre under the joint auspices of the Nevada City Nugget and the Pacific Rural Press. Jane Barton, Homecraft Editor of the Pacific Rural Press, beloved by thousands of California women who have been helped ‘by her advice and inspired by her talks, will ‘personally conduct the three conferences on domestic economy. As was announced in a previous story, this year’s Homecraft Institute has many new and delightful features which will be of exceptional interest to California homemakers. First of all, as previously announccussion of flowers and flower arrangements in typical California homes as part of her discussion of living room and ‘bedroom furniture arrangements. : Homémakers who are interested-im~ ~~ flower arrangement are invited to bring flowers, leaves, twigs, seed pods or grasses in their own containers, suitably tagged. Such entries stration must be brought to the hall ™ before 11 a. m. on Thursday during institute week. There will also be a menu contest with appropriate prize es, which will be explained from the platform at the first session of the Institute by Mrs. Barton. MUCH MORE THAN COOKING SCHOOL Remember the Homecraft Institute is much more than the oldfashioned cooking school for Mrs. Barton talks about decoration craft, laundry craft, child craft and sewing craft as well as kitchen craft. Every department of domestic economy is discussed in these informal sessions in which the audience itself is cordially invited to take part. The recipes in the kitchen craft section of this year’s Institute feature Jane Barton’s “Queen’s Highway to California Foods.’’ Many foreign recipes including Spanish, Mexican and Russian dishes as well as recipes for sweet cream, sour cream and cottage cheese and new and unusual ways of preparing and using California fruits and vegetables will be actually demonstrated by Mrs. Barton. Last year many homemakers asked Mrs. Barton to tell them how to get husbands to eat salads. This. year’s Homecraft Institute will include a discussion under the heading ‘“‘“How to Get Husbands to Eat Salads.’”’ The Homecraft Institute is specially planned to avoid the fuss and frills and expensive recipes that too oftengfeature city cooking school. It is adapted to the problems and needs’ of country people and those who live in small cities and is based on simplicity and economy—to quote Mrs. Barton’s own words. “‘‘It is planned to enable homemakers to do with what they have and to it better.” Every homemaker who would like to talk with Mrs. Barton is invited to remain after each session and to come upon the platform and discuss her individual problems with her. The Homecraft Institute is presented under the joint auspices of this paper and the Pacific Rural Press and a cordial invitation is extended to every homemaker to attend the sessions. Don’t forget those three important afternoons. Plan now to come and to bring your friends and neighbors so that you can travel with Jane Barton over the ‘Trails to Domestic California.” Bullion Mine Begins Operation This Week The Bullion mine“on the Grass Valley-Auburn highway resumed operations this week after a year of MW only maintenance operations. Howard Dennis is the supenintendent in charge. Phil-Folek is foreman. Two full shifts are maintained. Sinking operations will commence on the 1700 ft. lever. « Through a > working agreement with the Empire-Star Mines Company, both companies are continuing programs in lieu of any possibility of litigation. ‘ The Bullion is operatedby the Grass Valley Bullion Gold Mines Company of which F. W. McNear is the president. 4NEWLY MARRIED PAIR GIVEN CHARIVARI — Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, newly married, were not given a chariyari and a Tide in an old stage co: on the evening of May 12,: as stated in this newspaper Mon though their many-friends t it was they. The recipients stage coach tour were Mr, an James Youngman, also ried. Everyone had a 4 ott