May 17, 1945 (4 pages)

yy «a “enemy is a jungle animal, The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”——Daniel Webster : evada Gity _COVERS RICHEST GOLD A. ugget REA IN CALIFORN iA \ . . . 1 ' This S paper gives you complete J . coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, 19, No. 39 _The County Seat Paper a NEVADA city, CALIF ORNIA. The Gold Contes 2 7 HURSDAY, MAY 1 1945, THINKING OUT LOUD By HW. M. 1. It was scandalous, of course, that Herman Goering, the Nazi ‘air chief who ordered the air murders of Rotterdam, Coventry and Warsaw and other towns, should have had _ his hand reeking with the blood of innocent men, women and children, 6haken by anAmerican brigadiergeneral. More scandalous that American officers should) have dined with this loathsome toad. But let us pause a minute to set the picture right, and in some kind of prospective. In the first place some of our brigadiers are very young, in their early thirties. They have a lot to learn and~ they © will learn, for, their teacher is General Ike Bisenhower. They have been brought up undoubtely in the good old, very old American tradition, that when you have given your enemy a good walloping, shake his hand and forgive him. But our youn brigadiers must remember now, thait the who will kill him if he gets another chance. The callow brigadier better bear it in mind too, because this Goering gorilla and~-all the primitve savages that follow him,;-only wait for just a chance, to sprinig, to-stab, to flay. That Goering filled his paunch with a chicken dinner, ever, Every vast howis according to law and order. doughhoy in that section the same.day ate a’chicken dinner, as it turns. outt, and the Geneva Convention provides that prisoners shall eat the same chow as the American doughboy. There .is a lot lod complaint that German prisoners this country are being fed bees than the rest olf us,_whe—keepthe . home front humiming, but, by the pink-toed prophet, as Irvin Cobb used to say, we signed the Geneva covenant with Germany, and we had better keep our word as self respecting on war Americans whether the Germans do} so or not. Otherwise we are not one little bit superior to those super oranig-outangs we have just beaten to a pulp. One thing we think a good many people thave failed to do in this war, is to revise their idea of war when it’s a total war. In total war, which the Germans, in their vast ignorance of the United States, Great Britain and Russia, began, anid which the three allies have now fiinished, every living man, woman and child behind the lines, is an asset to the fighting front. We all work and buy bonds and the bonds buy munitions. Millions of workmen anid ‘workwomen make those munitions, and plenty of munitions make our fighting front are eible. So we have come to the conclusion that the German idea of total war is correct, it is logical. When they used bomlbs to raze cities, killing all life beneath their air armadas, their conception of total war was demonstrated, and from the standpoint of total war, justified. That they failed is another story. The might of three great nations, with an aggregate population four times that of the Huns, and, mark you, using the same methods and nearly all of their kinds of weapon's and more of them, was required to kill this bestial and hellish monster. How can a gentleman or gentlewoman survive in total war? The answer is they can’t. They have to fight with all they have with any weapon they ean use for killing, just to survive. We are afraid that the brigadier who shook hands with the master who commander Germany’s air forces, was too much of American gentleman to be engaged in total war: We think he should have been a ribron salesman, waiting on dowagers. Now we will ask the reader :a question, which may bring them face to face with a hard fact of what total war means. Our B 29s are giving Japanese cities a terrific eating. Squares miles of Toyko, Nagoya, Osaka and other huge cities have ‘been smashed and burned. Undoubtedly many women, children and the adults of both sexes are being killed. Is there anyone in this country that believes we can win this war by gentler methods, by sparing civiljians anid along with them millions of war workers anid potential fighters? murderer, . GEN. ABOTT ASKS DO FOUR THINGS General Oscar Albibott, commander of Camip Beale, guest speaker at the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce at luncheon. yesterday in Bret Harte Inn, asked Grass Valley for thrée things: ie 1—A change in store hours, which will permit Camp Beale’ employes to do their shopping when -they return from work, alt leaSt one night .each week. 2—The organization of a housing rental bureau which will search out every possible housing accommodation. 3—The appointment of a committee to investigate the feasibility of providing additional housing through new: construction and through remodeling anid repair. 4—The establishment of a citizens committee to make a new and complete survey for providing a day nursery under the provisions of the Lanham congressional measure. Wesley .Donnenwirth, © chamber president, following the meeting, stated that the chamber could and would provide a renting bureau. He said it had worked extremely well during the time it had been tried last . 'year, and he thought it could now lhe resumed. He said a committee will interview store owners and see if an agreement can be reached to provide atleast one night a week stores will in which remain open for shopBeale until after closing hours. He} thought this wouldalso be an . !commodation to many employes of . Dewitt General Hospital. . Regarding new. construction ~of dwellings, Donrenwirth said an application will be malde immediately to the Federal Housing Authority . for permission to build at least 400 . new dwellings. DN aan For the day nursery’ proposal, Donnen'wirth, said, a committee will be named to make a survey in due time, but in the meantime the chamber would seek information of what must be done to establish a nursery (from the State Department of E'dueation. During hig sAdiow General Aibbott . declared that the civilian personnel at Camp Beale is shortly to ‘be increased (by 600 and that he was hopeful that a substantial proportion of that number could be recruited in Grass Valley. ‘He stated that in order to accommodate war time workers, many communities, by agreement of the merchants, close their stores on Monday morning and opened for additional hours in -the evening. Regarding new construction of dwellings he called attention to the recent authorization of the War Production Board of new housing in Sacramento and Marysville and expressed the opinion that Grass Vailley could obtain permission for building new homes. General Ablbott called attention to ithe faet that the federal government will.provide the money to establish a day nursery, which he‘ said, he believed now is much needed in Grass Valley. SEVENTH LOAN DRIVE OPENS IN GRASS VALLEY . ened in Grass. Valley’ Monday with Cc. R. Clinch heading the committee in charge. Aiding -him are, Stuart Chalmers, Matt DePauli, Mrs. Bud Johnson and John E. Keegan. Clinch and his committee have visited -Sacramiento, Marysville and Oroville in order to acquaint themselves with the methods used in conducting a successful campaign. Grass Valley’s qiota is $514,000 of which $257,000 must be E bond sales. Clinch declared that so far,-as. the overall total is concernéd,. he is confident it can easily be sold. But, he stated, the big drive will he*made chiefly to sell the E bonds, the bonds that go to individuals, rather than those purchased by corporations. So we find ourselves doing the things we must do in total war. , .The Seventh War Loan drive op-; GRASS VALLEY TO . problems in the nation, pers who do not return from Camp . it affects the farming industry, but . . . ac-. tion of whether ; dustry going to hit bottom again in the food problem during the war was ; vided agriculture receives. a ‘whether FARMERS CAST QUESTIONING J EYEONFUTURE — ‘By Ralph H. Taylor Farmers are begginning to ask——/} and quite rightly so—‘“after V-Day, what?” . Under -desperately difficult con-. ditions, American farmers have more . , than met their war — This year . ” will produce 32 per cent more than normal, with 10 per cent less labor. While victory still remains to be won in the Pacific, there can be no . let“down in war production until V-. Day actually arrives, but the fart ing industry cannot function on day to day basis and must, of neces . sity, look to its post war future, . Such radical changes hdve occurred‘ in the United States sinee the . outbreak of ‘war that America’s! whole economy is on a vastly different level. The government has adopted a' policy of high industrial wages—and . while there may be some cutback in wage scales when the war ends, there . is very little likelihqod that indus-! trial wages will drop back to pre“war levels, unless the country is! ‘plunged into the depths of a new de-. . pression. Agriculture, foo, has achieved A new economic level during the war, . but it is not nearly as certain that. the farmer will retain a fair meas-. ure of his income gains. And that! represents oné of the most critical) not only as) as it affects the fundamental ques. América ¢an escay pe . ;a return’ to widespread unemploy-' ment and disastrous depression. Last year, total farm income in the! United States including government . subsidy payments, rose to $20,000,-! 000,000. dite.to increased. quantities , produced on the.farm and. higher prices ‘received. ‘That compares “wit a pre-World War II peak of $13,600,000,000, achieved in 1919. But the most significant comparison is with the shrunken farm income in 1932 of only $6,400,000,000. The question most disturbing farmers is this: to “Ts the farming inthe after tle war years, or is there some means of maintaining high farm prices to match high industrial and farm wages?” : In order to stimulate production, the government obligated itself to support farm prices at 90 per cent of parity for two years after the war. But, there is already evident a disposition on the part of some to question the government’s ability or; willingness to live up to this commitment. And even granting the commitment is kept, what happens after the two year period expires? The farmer has no quarrel with labor for its high wages, or with urban industry for its profits,. profair price for its products. As a matter of fact, ‘every intelligent’ farmer knows that good wages, fair profits and great industrial activity are essential to a prosperous agriculture. “Agriculture wonders, however, urban interests and government leaders are eqttally cognizant of the fact that there can be no peftmanent prosperity in the cities without good times in the back country. It has reason to wonder, because agriculture was in the depths of depression for many years after Wor!d War I, before the depression caught up. with the cities—and there was seemingly little realization of the farmer’s plight, or what it ultimately would mean to the country at large, Farmers want the rest of the country to continue to enjoy good ‘times when the war ends—but farmers certainly cannot permit a _ lalbor-industrial governmental policy of cheap food to take -root, if present high wage standards are to be maintained. in the cities. Phat would be the road to ruin for agriculture. ‘This, writer: believes that one of the: most serious mistakes made by the government in its handling of the use of government subsidies to keep, food prices artifi¢ially low while the nation’s earnings were soaring to new all time? levels. But that mistake, if it was a mistake, is behind us. : The situation the country must be . Wars Hall. TOMORROW NIGHT The Nevada City (Chamber of Commerce will meet tomorrow evening in the Veterans of Foreign One of the features the program will be a sleight { 2} OL i of . ;Crosby and put on by a new mem. \ber, Sam Kanman. . This. meeting, Secretary H. F. Sof-! states, will discuss several in peter civic improvement projects. The meeting originally scheduled ree May 8th was postponed because of V-Day. \ GRAND PARLOR WILL MEET IN LAKE COUNTY The sixty-eighth Grand Parlor of . the Native Sons of the Golden West . ‘corded this veteran of-one of Cali-. tion spot, jwill meet in two day’s conference . . starting Friday, May 18, at Hobergs, . Lake County. Principal business of the gather. Applenton Street, CHAMBER MEETS VETERAN OF MODOC INDIAN WAR SUCCUMBS Joseph Barnes, Modoc Indian War the passed veteran of i187 2, . hand exhibition sponsored by George. away yesterday morning at the rh of his son, George W. Barnes, y2 Grass Valley, at 4 o’clock. Barnes was born in Provo, Utah, in 1952, and came to California across the plains with his parents in ox, wagion train at the age of seven years. Except for the time he was a soldier in the United States Army and took part in putting down Indian rebellion led by Capt. Jack in the. Modoc lava beds, Barnes followed farming in California. For somc. to Grass Valley . time prior to coming he had lived with a daughter in Calexico, California. Full military honors will be acfornia’s early wars today, when the ‘funeral services are held from the ; Holmes Funeral Home in \ City, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Inthe . Nevadai TRANSPORTATION ALT HEADED TOWARD TOKYO By Clem Whitaker “Tokyo, Straight Ahead.” Figuratively, if not literally, that sign has gone up on every mile of western railroad since VE Day as orders have been flashed that: traffic heading west toward. Japan must have the right of way. To California, this is it. Instead of any relaxation of travel restrictions, or any: easing of wartime strains or stresses, California —anchor of the Pacific supply line, and the.mainland’s principal springboard for the all out assault on Japan—is heading into the, toughest, most hectic and most vital period of ; the war. . So if you have been nursing any . fond hope of buying a railroad tiz. ket to that favorite pre-war vacaforget it—-because every . form of transport that can cliannel . men and supplies to California embarkation ports will be more desper. ately needed than at any other time ing will be election of officers and) terment will be in the Odd Fellows since Pearl Harbor and Uncle Sam to formulate policies for the next . ;twelve months as well as a review of accomplishments under the leadership of Grand President Raymond D. Williamson. Conceded to succeed Grand President Williamson is Grand First Vice} . pall bearers, . the U.S, Cemetery. Camp Beale will provide a chap\lain, a bugler, a firing, squad and} all-in -the uniform of} Army in which the deéeased oncé served. Surviving are two gons, Gate . . has top priority. . But you can take satisfaction from the fact that California is now the undisputed focal point of the— . drive to win final victory— and that . the full dress rehearsal for the march on Tokyo is now going on bePresident Richard -F.° McCarthy of) W. Barnes of Grass Valley and Jos-' fore eae: Oakland. Other officers for which . there is no opposition includes that; of Grand First i. President which . . will be filled by R. G. Power of Colu. ;sa, now Grand rae Vice President, whose office is slated to go to Walter H. Odemar of Los pases . \ present. Grand ° Third Vice President. . The veteran John T. Regan*has no. opposition for grand secretary and . jthe same ‘applies to the office of . grand treasurer, held by John. A. Corotto of San Jose. There will be contests for grand trustees. COMMONWEALTH CLUB WANTS U.S. BASE CONTROL SAIN FRANCISCO, May 17—The Commonwealth Club of California today emphatically placed itself on record in favor of independent U. Ss. control ofmilitary bases outside continental United States, and turned down the proposal of trusteessip for such bases. The: vote was part of.a general ballot of the club membership on issues of postwar American. relations: with Britain, ‘Russia and China, ‘which. followed a lengthy study by the clulb’s section on relations, Seven hundred and four members favored U. S. control of the bases. and 489 voted for trusteeship. Members voted 929 to 373 that the United States should depend “primarily’’ for its national security upon ‘“‘development of and member-’ ship in a world organization” rather than “its own military establishment.’’ They also-expressed support for the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. By an everwhelming majority the club favored entrance of the United States into a world court “as an instrument of adjudication within a world organization.’’ A small majority, 710 to 604 favored amending tihe federal constitution to permit treaty ratification by a majority ‘both houses of congress. The club. members’ favored ‘a “preferential vote’’ for certain nations in the security council of the ‘world organization but opposed a unanimous, vote for decisions of the security council. By a vote of 1054°to 103, the club registered its support. of international adherence to the principles of the Atlantic Charter. international vote of prepared to face after the war. is bluntly this: If wages are high, and industrial ‘earnings are high,\ food ‘prices also must be high, as om pared with former years—or there is new disaster ahead, niot only for agriculture, but for the whole. country. Those who are now earnestly attempting to lower tariffs and make this virtually a free trade nation might well consider that problem. eph F. Barnes of Nevada . daughter, xico, Mrs, Ella Kineaid of CaleImperial County, 13 grandchil. dren and 17 great grandchildren. THREE CHARGED WITH BURGLARY ARE EXONERATED. After deliberating two hours yesterday the jury brought in a verdict ; of not gulity for all three defendants accused of committing burglary in the house belonging to thea Pre -o Estate on the Grass Valley-Nevada City Highiway. Thee three defendants were Segt' Charles Wirkkala of Camp Beale, Mrs. Marilyn DeLano, ofvner of a antique shop in Hills Flat, adjoining Grass Valley, whose husband is in the Pacific in the U.S. Army, and Mrs. Mary Blount, whose husband is also a soldier serving abroad. The three were accused of taking a ‘basketful of antique glass and china ware, and other small articles from the vacant house formerly occupied by the late Mrs.:Edith Pascoe on February 28th. The complaint against the three was brought by Mrs. Dorothy Pascoe, whose husband is one of the heirs to the estate. GEORGE CALANAN HEADS SEVENTH LOAN DRIVE George Calanan heads the Nevada (City Seventh War. Loan campaign which opened Monday. Assisting are Horace A. Curnow, F. F. Cassidy, R. J. Bennetts, Richard Goyne and H. Ward Sheldon. Curren Heath is hairman of the publicity committee. Heath headed the Sixth War Loan Drive here. Harlow Wood is assistant campaign manager. Nevada City’s quota for this drive is $180,000, of which exactly half to be onhanere E bonds. Mrs. Kenneth Manuell of Grass Valley, Succumbs Funeral services will be held in the Hooper. and Weaver Mortuary tomorrow ,aifternoon for Mrs. Bertha ‘Christine Manuell, who died suddenly of a heart attack in her garden, 424 Henderson street, »Grass Valley: Deceased was the wife of Kenneth Manuell, a Grass Valley city ‘gmploye. She was born in Cottonwood, Shasta County, 48 years ago. She and her husband had resided in Grass Valley for ten years. The services will’ be conducted by Rev. Frank Buck. Interment will pe in the Eilfm Ridge Cemetery. City, at . In both the legislature and in conhgress the tremendous impact of the ;east to west turnabout of war trans. port has resulted in steps to clear the . tracks of political obstructions, so {that the vast movement of military loemeouses and guns, tanks and other . war supplies can be carried through with maximum efficiency. . California’s state legislature al. 'ready has acted by relaxation of the . full train crew act for another two years, with railroad management and rail unions both sponsoring the legislation. With Governor Warren’s sginature this measure is now ovar the final hurdle” « * In congress, similarly, the drive is being stepped up for favorable action on the Bulwinkle amendment to the Interstate Commerce act, seeking to eliminate the conflict in federal statues which resulted in the filing of anti trust suits against the western rail lines last. year. In that suit which was: brought by the department of justice the railroads, in effect, were charged with being guilty of restraint of trade because they complied with the regulations of another department of the interstate commerce commission, > With political obstacles removed, and with the likelihood that there will be at least some improvement in’ their labor supply, due to cutbacks in other war industries, western rail executives are confident that their lines can handle the huge job before them. More than a billion dollars has been spent in vital right of way improvements and in buying new equipment, so that the roads would be ready when VE Day arrived, And now every locomotive engineer knows he’s working on the Tokyo Express. FORAGE PLANTS TO BE STUDIED Nevada County farmers have been invited to inspect pasture Planting of perennials, to replace annual grasses, on the ranch of Clarence EF. Gassaway, near the Grass Valley;Auburn Highway Thursday at 19 “The ranch lies betwéen the Bear River and the highway. B. J. Jones, extension specialist in range management, of the Agricultural Bxtension Service will be present to identify forage species, observe reed and discuss results. : Two sets of 22 plots, one awk cast in the ashes of a burn, and the © other planted under garden conditions will be observed. There will also be viewed a five acre plot planted to burnet, Wimera rye grass and burr clover, Cpl. S. A. Huson, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Huson, arrived home yes-,, terday from the Las Vegas Air Force Gunnery School. He will spend his furlough in Nevada City, B a

yy «a “enemy is a jungle animal, The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”——Daniel Webster : evada Gity _COVERS RICHEST GOLD A. ugget REA IN CALIFORN iA \ . . . 1 ' This S paper gives you complete J . coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol. 19, 19, No. 39 _The County Seat Paper a NEVADA city, CALIF ORNIA. The Gold Contes 2 7 HURSDAY, MAY 1 1945, THINKING OUT LOUD By HW. M. 1. It was scandalous, of course, that Herman Goering, the Nazi ‘air chief who ordered the air murders of Rotterdam, Coventry and Warsaw and other towns, should have had _ his hand reeking with the blood of innocent men, women and children, 6haken by anAmerican brigadiergeneral. More scandalous that American officers should) have dined with this loathsome toad. But let us pause a minute to set the picture right, and in some kind of prospective. In the first place some of our brigadiers are very young, in their early thirties. They have a lot to learn and~ they © will learn, for, their teacher is General Ike Bisenhower. They have been brought up undoubtely in the good old, very old American tradition, that when you have given your enemy a good walloping, shake his hand and forgive him. But our youn brigadiers must remember now, thait the who will kill him if he gets another chance. The callow brigadier better bear it in mind too, because this Goering gorilla and~-all the primitve savages that follow him,;-only wait for just a chance, to sprinig, to-stab, to flay. That Goering filled his paunch with a chicken dinner, ever, Every vast howis according to law and order. doughhoy in that section the same.day ate a’chicken dinner, as it turns. outt, and the Geneva Convention provides that prisoners shall eat the same chow as the American doughboy. There .is a lot lod complaint that German prisoners this country are being fed bees than the rest olf us,_whe—keepthe . home front humiming, but, by the pink-toed prophet, as Irvin Cobb used to say, we signed the Geneva covenant with Germany, and we had better keep our word as self respecting on war Americans whether the Germans do} so or not. Otherwise we are not one little bit superior to those super oranig-outangs we have just beaten to a pulp. One thing we think a good many people thave failed to do in this war, is to revise their idea of war when it’s a total war. In total war, which the Germans, in their vast ignorance of the United States, Great Britain and Russia, began, anid which the three allies have now fiinished, every living man, woman and child behind the lines, is an asset to the fighting front. We all work and buy bonds and the bonds buy munitions. Millions of workmen anid ‘workwomen make those munitions, and plenty of munitions make our fighting front are eible. So we have come to the conclusion that the German idea of total war is correct, it is logical. When they used bomlbs to raze cities, killing all life beneath their air armadas, their conception of total war was demonstrated, and from the standpoint of total war, justified. That they failed is another story. The might of three great nations, with an aggregate population four times that of the Huns, and, mark you, using the same methods and nearly all of their kinds of weapon's and more of them, was required to kill this bestial and hellish monster. How can a gentleman or gentlewoman survive in total war? The answer is they can’t. They have to fight with all they have with any weapon they ean use for killing, just to survive. We are afraid that the brigadier who shook hands with the master who commander Germany’s air forces, was too much of American gentleman to be engaged in total war: We think he should have been a ribron salesman, waiting on dowagers. Now we will ask the reader :a question, which may bring them face to face with a hard fact of what total war means. Our B 29s are giving Japanese cities a terrific eating. Squares miles of Toyko, Nagoya, Osaka and other huge cities have ‘been smashed and burned. Undoubtedly many women, children and the adults of both sexes are being killed. Is there anyone in this country that believes we can win this war by gentler methods, by sparing civiljians anid along with them millions of war workers anid potential fighters? murderer, . GEN. ABOTT ASKS DO FOUR THINGS General Oscar Albibott, commander of Camip Beale, guest speaker at the Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce at luncheon. yesterday in Bret Harte Inn, asked Grass Valley for thrée things: ie 1—A change in store hours, which will permit Camp Beale’ employes to do their shopping when -they return from work, alt leaSt one night .each week. 2—The organization of a housing rental bureau which will search out every possible housing accommodation. 3—The appointment of a committee to investigate the feasibility of providing additional housing through new: construction and through remodeling anid repair. 4—The establishment of a citizens committee to make a new and complete survey for providing a day nursery under the provisions of the Lanham congressional measure. Wesley .Donnenwirth, © chamber president, following the meeting, stated that the chamber could and would provide a renting bureau. He said it had worked extremely well during the time it had been tried last . 'year, and he thought it could now lhe resumed. He said a committee will interview store owners and see if an agreement can be reached to provide atleast one night a week stores will in which remain open for shopBeale until after closing hours. He} thought this wouldalso be an . !commodation to many employes of . Dewitt General Hospital. . Regarding new. construction ~of dwellings, Donrenwirth said an application will be malde immediately to the Federal Housing Authority . for permission to build at least 400 . new dwellings. DN aan For the day nursery’ proposal, Donnen'wirth, said, a committee will be named to make a survey in due time, but in the meantime the chamber would seek information of what must be done to establish a nursery (from the State Department of E'dueation. During hig sAdiow General Aibbott . declared that the civilian personnel at Camp Beale is shortly to ‘be increased (by 600 and that he was hopeful that a substantial proportion of that number could be recruited in Grass Valley. ‘He stated that in order to accommodate war time workers, many communities, by agreement of the merchants, close their stores on Monday morning and opened for additional hours in -the evening. Regarding new construction of dwellings he called attention to the recent authorization of the War Production Board of new housing in Sacramento and Marysville and expressed the opinion that Grass Vailley could obtain permission for building new homes. General Ablbott called attention to ithe faet that the federal government will.provide the money to establish a day nursery, which he‘ said, he believed now is much needed in Grass Valley. SEVENTH LOAN DRIVE OPENS IN GRASS VALLEY . ened in Grass. Valley’ Monday with Cc. R. Clinch heading the committee in charge. Aiding -him are, Stuart Chalmers, Matt DePauli, Mrs. Bud Johnson and John E. Keegan. Clinch and his committee have visited -Sacramiento, Marysville and Oroville in order to acquaint themselves with the methods used in conducting a successful campaign. Grass Valley’s qiota is $514,000 of which $257,000 must be E bond sales. Clinch declared that so far,-as. the overall total is concernéd,. he is confident it can easily be sold. But, he stated, the big drive will he*made chiefly to sell the E bonds, the bonds that go to individuals, rather than those purchased by corporations. So we find ourselves doing the things we must do in total war. , .The Seventh War Loan drive op-; GRASS VALLEY TO . problems in the nation, pers who do not return from Camp . it affects the farming industry, but . . . ac-. tion of whether ; dustry going to hit bottom again in the food problem during the war was ; vided agriculture receives. a ‘whether FARMERS CAST QUESTIONING J EYEONFUTURE — ‘By Ralph H. Taylor Farmers are begginning to ask——/} and quite rightly so—‘“after V-Day, what?” . Under -desperately difficult con-. ditions, American farmers have more . , than met their war — This year . ” will produce 32 per cent more than normal, with 10 per cent less labor. While victory still remains to be won in the Pacific, there can be no . let“down in war production until V-. Day actually arrives, but the fart ing industry cannot function on day to day basis and must, of neces . sity, look to its post war future, . Such radical changes hdve occurred‘ in the United States sinee the . outbreak of ‘war that America’s! whole economy is on a vastly different level. The government has adopted a' policy of high industrial wages—and . while there may be some cutback in wage scales when the war ends, there . is very little likelihqod that indus-! trial wages will drop back to pre“war levels, unless the country is! ‘plunged into the depths of a new de-. . pression. Agriculture, foo, has achieved A new economic level during the war, . but it is not nearly as certain that. the farmer will retain a fair meas-. ure of his income gains. And that! represents oné of the most critical) not only as) as it affects the fundamental ques. América ¢an escay pe . ;a return’ to widespread unemploy-' ment and disastrous depression. Last year, total farm income in the! United States including government . subsidy payments, rose to $20,000,-! 000,000. dite.to increased. quantities , produced on the.farm and. higher prices ‘received. ‘That compares “wit a pre-World War II peak of $13,600,000,000, achieved in 1919. But the most significant comparison is with the shrunken farm income in 1932 of only $6,400,000,000. The question most disturbing farmers is this: to “Ts the farming inthe after tle war years, or is there some means of maintaining high farm prices to match high industrial and farm wages?” : In order to stimulate production, the government obligated itself to support farm prices at 90 per cent of parity for two years after the war. But, there is already evident a disposition on the part of some to question the government’s ability or; willingness to live up to this commitment. And even granting the commitment is kept, what happens after the two year period expires? The farmer has no quarrel with labor for its high wages, or with urban industry for its profits,. profair price for its products. As a matter of fact, ‘every intelligent’ farmer knows that good wages, fair profits

and great industrial activity are essential to a prosperous agriculture. “Agriculture wonders, however, urban interests and government leaders are eqttally cognizant of the fact that there can be no peftmanent prosperity in the cities without good times in the back country. It has reason to wonder, because agriculture was in the depths of depression for many years after Wor!d War I, before the depression caught up. with the cities—and there was seemingly little realization of the farmer’s plight, or what it ultimately would mean to the country at large, Farmers want the rest of the country to continue to enjoy good ‘times when the war ends—but farmers certainly cannot permit a _ lalbor-industrial governmental policy of cheap food to take -root, if present high wage standards are to be maintained. in the cities. Phat would be the road to ruin for agriculture. ‘This, writer: believes that one of the: most serious mistakes made by the government in its handling of the use of government subsidies to keep, food prices artifi¢ially low while the nation’s earnings were soaring to new all time? levels. But that mistake, if it was a mistake, is behind us. : The situation the country must be . Wars Hall. TOMORROW NIGHT The Nevada City (Chamber of Commerce will meet tomorrow evening in the Veterans of Foreign One of the features the program will be a sleight { 2} OL i of . ;Crosby and put on by a new mem. \ber, Sam Kanman. . This. meeting, Secretary H. F. Sof-! states, will discuss several in peter civic improvement projects. The meeting originally scheduled ree May 8th was postponed because of V-Day. \ GRAND PARLOR WILL MEET IN LAKE COUNTY The sixty-eighth Grand Parlor of . the Native Sons of the Golden West . ‘corded this veteran of-one of Cali-. tion spot, jwill meet in two day’s conference . . starting Friday, May 18, at Hobergs, . Lake County. Principal business of the gather. Applenton Street, CHAMBER MEETS VETERAN OF MODOC INDIAN WAR SUCCUMBS Joseph Barnes, Modoc Indian War the passed veteran of i187 2, . hand exhibition sponsored by George. away yesterday morning at the rh of his son, George W. Barnes, y2 Grass Valley, at 4 o’clock. Barnes was born in Provo, Utah, in 1952, and came to California across the plains with his parents in ox, wagion train at the age of seven years. Except for the time he was a soldier in the United States Army and took part in putting down Indian rebellion led by Capt. Jack in the. Modoc lava beds, Barnes followed farming in California. For somc. to Grass Valley . time prior to coming he had lived with a daughter in Calexico, California. Full military honors will be acfornia’s early wars today, when the ‘funeral services are held from the ; Holmes Funeral Home in \ City, this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Inthe . Nevadai TRANSPORTATION ALT HEADED TOWARD TOKYO By Clem Whitaker “Tokyo, Straight Ahead.” Figuratively, if not literally, that sign has gone up on every mile of western railroad since VE Day as orders have been flashed that: traffic heading west toward. Japan must have the right of way. To California, this is it. Instead of any relaxation of travel restrictions, or any: easing of wartime strains or stresses, California —anchor of the Pacific supply line, and the.mainland’s principal springboard for the all out assault on Japan—is heading into the, toughest, most hectic and most vital period of ; the war. . So if you have been nursing any . fond hope of buying a railroad tiz. ket to that favorite pre-war vacaforget it—-because every . form of transport that can cliannel . men and supplies to California embarkation ports will be more desper. ately needed than at any other time ing will be election of officers and) terment will be in the Odd Fellows since Pearl Harbor and Uncle Sam to formulate policies for the next . ;twelve months as well as a review of accomplishments under the leadership of Grand President Raymond D. Williamson. Conceded to succeed Grand President Williamson is Grand First Vice} . pall bearers, . the U.S, Cemetery. Camp Beale will provide a chap\lain, a bugler, a firing, squad and} all-in -the uniform of} Army in which the deéeased oncé served. Surviving are two gons, Gate . . has top priority. . But you can take satisfaction from the fact that California is now the undisputed focal point of the— . drive to win final victory— and that . the full dress rehearsal for the march on Tokyo is now going on bePresident Richard -F.° McCarthy of) W. Barnes of Grass Valley and Jos-' fore eae: Oakland. Other officers for which . there is no opposition includes that; of Grand First i. President which . . will be filled by R. G. Power of Colu. ;sa, now Grand rae Vice President, whose office is slated to go to Walter H. Odemar of Los pases . \ present. Grand ° Third Vice President. . The veteran John T. Regan*has no. opposition for grand secretary and . jthe same ‘applies to the office of . grand treasurer, held by John. A. Corotto of San Jose. There will be contests for grand trustees. COMMONWEALTH CLUB WANTS U.S. BASE CONTROL SAIN FRANCISCO, May 17—The Commonwealth Club of California today emphatically placed itself on record in favor of independent U. Ss. control ofmilitary bases outside continental United States, and turned down the proposal of trusteessip for such bases. The: vote was part of.a general ballot of the club membership on issues of postwar American. relations: with Britain, ‘Russia and China, ‘which. followed a lengthy study by the clulb’s section on relations, Seven hundred and four members favored U. S. control of the bases. and 489 voted for trusteeship. Members voted 929 to 373 that the United States should depend “primarily’’ for its national security upon ‘“‘development of and member-’ ship in a world organization” rather than “its own military establishment.’’ They also-expressed support for the Dumbarton Oaks proposals. By an everwhelming majority the club favored entrance of the United States into a world court “as an instrument of adjudication within a world organization.’’ A small majority, 710 to 604 favored amending tihe federal constitution to permit treaty ratification by a majority ‘both houses of congress. The club. members’ favored ‘a “preferential vote’’ for certain nations in the security council of the ‘world organization but opposed a unanimous, vote for decisions of the security council. By a vote of 1054°to 103, the club registered its support. of international adherence to the principles of the Atlantic Charter. international vote of prepared to face after the war. is bluntly this: If wages are high, and industrial ‘earnings are high,\ food ‘prices also must be high, as om pared with former years—or there is new disaster ahead, niot only for agriculture, but for the whole. country. Those who are now earnestly attempting to lower tariffs and make this virtually a free trade nation might well consider that problem. eph F. Barnes of Nevada . daughter, xico, Mrs, Ella Kineaid of CaleImperial County, 13 grandchil. dren and 17 great grandchildren. THREE CHARGED WITH BURGLARY ARE EXONERATED. After deliberating two hours yesterday the jury brought in a verdict ; of not gulity for all three defendants accused of committing burglary in the house belonging to thea Pre -o Estate on the Grass Valley-Nevada City Highiway. Thee three defendants were Segt' Charles Wirkkala of Camp Beale, Mrs. Marilyn DeLano, ofvner of a antique shop in Hills Flat, adjoining Grass Valley, whose husband is in the Pacific in the U.S. Army, and Mrs. Mary Blount, whose husband is also a soldier serving abroad. The three were accused of taking a ‘basketful of antique glass and china ware, and other small articles from the vacant house formerly occupied by the late Mrs.:Edith Pascoe on February 28th. The complaint against the three was brought by Mrs. Dorothy Pascoe, whose husband is one of the heirs to the estate. GEORGE CALANAN HEADS SEVENTH LOAN DRIVE George Calanan heads the Nevada (City Seventh War. Loan campaign which opened Monday. Assisting are Horace A. Curnow, F. F. Cassidy, R. J. Bennetts, Richard Goyne and H. Ward Sheldon. Curren Heath is hairman of the publicity committee. Heath headed the Sixth War Loan Drive here. Harlow Wood is assistant campaign manager. Nevada City’s quota for this drive is $180,000, of which exactly half to be onhanere E bonds. Mrs. Kenneth Manuell of Grass Valley, Succumbs Funeral services will be held in the Hooper. and Weaver Mortuary tomorrow ,aifternoon for Mrs. Bertha ‘Christine Manuell, who died suddenly of a heart attack in her garden, 424 Henderson street, »Grass Valley: Deceased was the wife of Kenneth Manuell, a Grass Valley city ‘gmploye. She was born in Cottonwood, Shasta County, 48 years ago. She and her husband had resided in Grass Valley for ten years. The services will’ be conducted by Rev. Frank Buck. Interment will pe in the Eilfm Ridge Cemetery. City, at . In both the legislature and in conhgress the tremendous impact of the ;east to west turnabout of war trans. port has resulted in steps to clear the . tracks of political obstructions, so {that the vast movement of military loemeouses and guns, tanks and other . war supplies can be carried through with maximum efficiency. . California’s state legislature al. 'ready has acted by relaxation of the . full train crew act for another two years, with railroad management and rail unions both sponsoring the legislation. With Governor Warren’s sginature this measure is now ovar the final hurdle” « * In congress, similarly, the drive is being stepped up for favorable action on the Bulwinkle amendment to the Interstate Commerce act, seeking to eliminate the conflict in federal statues which resulted in the filing of anti trust suits against the western rail lines last. year. In that suit which was: brought by the department of justice the railroads, in effect, were charged with being guilty of restraint of trade because they complied with the regulations of another department of the interstate commerce commission, > With political obstacles removed, and with the likelihood that there will be at least some improvement in’ their labor supply, due to cutbacks in other war industries, western rail executives are confident that their lines can handle the huge job before them. More than a billion dollars has been spent in vital right of way improvements and in buying new equipment, so that the roads would be ready when VE Day arrived, And now every locomotive engineer knows he’s working on the Tokyo Express. FORAGE PLANTS TO BE STUDIED Nevada County farmers have been invited to inspect pasture Planting of perennials, to replace annual grasses, on the ranch of Clarence EF. Gassaway, near the Grass Valley;Auburn Highway Thursday at 19 “The ranch lies betwéen the Bear River and the highway. B. J. Jones, extension specialist in range management, of the Agricultural Bxtension Service will be present to identify forage species, observe reed and discuss results. : Two sets of 22 plots, one awk cast in the ashes of a burn, and the © other planted under garden conditions will be observed. There will also be viewed a five acre plot planted to burnet, Wimera rye grass and burr clover, Cpl. S. A. Huson, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Huson, arrived home yes-,, terday from the Las Vegas Air Force Gunnery School. He will spend his furlough in Nevada City, B a