May 24, 1940 (8 pages)

Sai Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA —— in Ww ifi ee ith. good From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists the right to publish the Truth, . motives and for justable ends. —-Alexander Hamilton. first drive upon tion in Grass Valley. anne Looking over Monday’s editorial in the light of today’s’ reports from Europe, we see that we are ‘due to make revisions in our views. And why not? Geograph‘ers, or cartographers, are doing it. Great international bankers ‘and world-wide shipping companies are doing it, and prime ministers everywhere are doing it. .So the editor of the Nugget in Nevada City follows suit. Revision No. 1.’ As long as the Allies last we shall be obliged, compelled if you like, by national sentiment, to strain every resource to supply them. Airplines, bombs, tanks, big guns, and all the murderous arsenal of a modern war. If the Allies and the United States are very lucky, indeed, this may suffice. Revision No.2. If the Germans ‘win this or next month, then we shall have to tax and -tax and spend and spend—-for armament, because the people of the United States will not be able to live in the same world with the German conquerors. The ‘presence of a formidable democracy in the western hemisphere will be wormwood in the bubbling cup of ‘German joy over the defeat ‘of Great Britain and. France. Revision No. 3.—If history teach . es us anything, it is that a victor-\ ious Germany will keep all it holds in Euvrope:-today, and “with its mighty standing army will grab for more. We may expect to see Sweden under German rule, most of the Balkans, although there Italy may be granted a few crumbs in consideration of Mussolini’s nuisance value during the present war. Revision No. 4. All. that HolJand posseses,.and Belgium holds, the possessions of France in Africa and Asia, and if England is conquered, all the vast areas of the : ‘British Empire will be claimed by victorious Germany. Revision No. 5. . Where: heretofore, we believed the Allies, in the jong run would again force mad Germany to her knees, we must now face the other alternative, . dnd see only one thing standing between world dominion under the flag of the swastika. That is the might and wealth of the United States. Japan will not aid in battling this monster, but like a jackal will snatch what she can in the world wreckage. Revision No. 6. We do. not believe Germany will immediately challenge the United States. There will be a. “breathing spell,’’ in which the efficient Germans will organize their greatly increased territory and the peoples therein. Swedes, Belgians, Norweigians, lal French, Danes, Hollanders, Poles and quite likely Englishmen, in so far as the British isles are concerned, may presently be working for the greater glory of Germany. Revision No. 7. It seems quite likely that Germany will direct its Russia, because against the Russians, the German armed might would be as effective as a great knife slicing a fat cheese. The Russians, under both the Czars and the Soviet dictator, are accustomed to slavery. In a very short time the Russian bear may come down on all fours and with other nations work in harness for Germany. These things if they happen, will have happened because the United States ‘‘missed the bus”’ when it refused to join the community of the world, in the League of Nations, as President Wilson envisioned it. We had a great leader. We scorned his counsel. Our {solationists defeated our participation in the one method of compelling world peace and peaceful adjudication of world’ disputes, which might have succeeded. If Germany wins, as is not improbable, the United States will stand with Canada as perhaps its only foreign ally, against the greatly augmented might or Germany and with the huge liability of South and Central America to defend. In universal. war those regions will be no asset to the United States. Yet. they must be defended to insure our own safety. Accepts New Post— Forrest Reynolds, mechanic at the Plaza Garage for several months, moved. away from Nevada City Tuesday. It is understood he has a posiMol. 14, No. 42. _The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA, ao Gold Center FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940. PLANE RUSHESAID TO TRAPPED WALKER MINERS A call for’ help came yesterday mornng from the Walker mine in Plumas county, where three miners had been trapped by,an underground fire. Immediately five men, C. H. Plumtree, J. H. Heather, M. Pappin, Stanley Verne and Jack Feil of the Empire mine, Lou Ball and Mort Ball, brothers from the IdahoMaryland mines, were sent by the Idaho-Maryland Lockheed plane to the landing field at Beckworth 27 miles from the mine. These men are all trained in mine rescue work and they took sets of apparatus from the cooperative mine rescue station with them. At the airport autoobiles rushed them to the Walker mine. It only took the plane piloted by James Corson twenty minutes’ to make the trip and it was back at the Loma Rica airport in the same space of time. Before the rescue crew reached the mine, word came that two of the three trapped miners had been rescued by a crew at the Walker mine, leaving only one one man underground. Carl Frye, of the state department of industrial accident commission in San Francisco also left the bay district for the mine. A rescue crew from the \mines at Jackson and several Bureau of Mines men from Berkeley went to, the property in response to the call. \ CENSUS REPORT OF NEVADA CITY, 2,44 PERSONS The sopulation ab of Noyada City, according to a preliminary ‘report by Robert A. Shields, supervison of the census at Roseville, was 2,444 April 1, as compared with 170 April 1, 1930. The supervisor \exthough these figures plained that were preliminary and subject to cor-\ rection, they are beleived to be substantially correct as they stand. FARMERS SEEK NARROWS DAM WATER SUPPLY George Hallock, a Me ‘Hattey and W. Esterly, president, vice president and secretary, respectively of the California Hydraulic Mining Association, motored to Marysville Wednesday and met a group of farmers in regard to securing 50,000 acre feet of water from the Narrows Dam near Smartville, when completed. The agricultural group were well represented at the meeting and the C.H: M. A. promised to do all posgsbile to assist in securing the water for irrigation. Major Haring and Mr. Tgenhoff of the California Debris commission were also at the meeting.-Hallock stated no definite plan had been formulated, this being a preliminary meeting. ALPHA STORE HEAD ASSISTS DOWNIEVILLE Fred Cassidy, manager of the Alpha Hardware Store of Nevada City was a recent visitor in Downieville and while there donated 250 feet of pipe to the city fire department. Cassidy believes in the Sierra county mines and has spent considerable money in developing Sierra county mining. He is having a mile and a half of road built from Goodyears Bar to the Ante-Up tunnel at the Brush Creek mine. This work will be completed in two. weeks. The Brush Creek is owned by the Alpha Stores, Ltd. and Mr. Cassidy is one of the mainstockholders. He is also interested in the nearby Oriental mine which is under lease, to Mrs. Florence V. Dickey of Ojai. Idaho Visitor— E. L. Belmore of Glenns Ferry, (CLEANING UP DEBRISOF GIANT KING MILL Reports are that three men are cleaning up the burned ruins of the Giant King mine mill and plans are to rebuild the plant, destroyed by fire ten days ago. Some insurance was carried on the mill. © Charles Peterson is in charge of operations. ROTARIANS AND LADIES DANCE AT LAKE VERA Nevada City Rotary club members, their wives and guests from _ the Grass Valley club enjoyed a dinner dance last night at the Mills ee lodge on Lake Vera. Andy Holmes, was chairman of the evening and under his direction a steak dinner was provided. A band played sprightly music for the. dancing which followed the dinner. EIGHT STUDENTS FROM TWIN CITY TOGETD DEGREES BERKELEY, Way — Commencement exercises a be held in California Memorial Stadium Saturday afternoon for the largest class ever to graduate from the University of California. There will be in all, 4097 degrees and certificafes handed the young men and women as they file by to receive their honors from the hands of President Robert G. Sproul and Vice-President Monroe E. Deutsch. Those who receive degrees and certificates are from the Berkeley, Davis and San Francisco campuses. : (Mar Thelen, Jr., of Berkeley, who will receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the College of Letters and Science, will be the Commencement speaker, introduced by President Sproul. Rev. Laurence Cross, of the Northbrae, Community Church will give the invocation and benediction. \ There are four Nevada City studénts who will receive B. A. degrees at ‘Saturday’s commencement. They are Robert C. Schiffner, Harley M. Leete, \Jr., Georgia Margaret Phariss and Margaret Elizabeth Wyant. Four students from Grass Valley will receive degrees. They are Sterling H. Crotch and Dorothy Lois Harden, B. A\, degres, and Juanita Aileen Booth, B S. in nursing, Carroll H. Berryman, college of dentistry. < LONDON V: IN PERILOUS Harry D. Griffiths, aisles engineer with many degrees Mrs. Griffiths, who ‘have been visiting in British Columbia the past winter have left for their home in London, England. There were several delays and postponements and the hazardous voyage is being undertaken in the strictest secrecy. Ports of embarkation and debarkation, the date of arrival, etc., are all withheld. Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths spent last summer visiting their daughter, Mrs. Harold Deeter and Mr. Deeter at the Glenbrook. They left for’ Vancouver, B. C., last fall and have been visit: ing with Mrs. Griffiths’ sister, Mrs. E. E. Sykes, of that city. Mrs. Deeter awaits with deep concern and anxiety a message from, them of their safe arrival. There are not only mine fields to be passed through but the added dangers of enemy air-craft and submarines. Mrs. Deeter stated business reasons made the return of her parents to London imperative. LOOKOUTS FILLED Several Tahoe National Park lookout statioons have been filled in the last few days due to the unusually dry period and if the weather remains as it is the men will be retained. These positions are usually filled about: June 16. Frank Maher, fire lookout for’°a station near Truckee will be sent out to take up his duties for the Summer season next week. Another electrical storm passed over Idaho, is making a week’s stay in Nevada City, visiting with his slater, the Tahoe National forest Wednesday but so far as ascertained no fires ORS, VOYAGE HOME and . \ WAR VETERAN DIES OF BATH TUB INJURIES A man known in this district as Samuel Gibson, was found dead in bed in a local hotel at 11:30 a. m. Wednesday by one of the reomers. Investigation revealed he had been dead about two hours. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen, Chief of: Police W. G. Robson and Deputty Coroner William James investigated the death at the hotel and the body was removed to -the Holmes Funeral Home. An autopsy was performed by Dr. W. W. Reed and it was found death was due to shock and hemorrhage believed to be the result of a fall in a bath tub several days before. The physician found broken ribs and it /was thought they penetrated the lungsand caused the hemorrhage. Gibson, as he was known here, was a mill man, and had resided in Nevada City a year. He had also worked as an accountant and was employed as a miner in Placer and Trinity counties. ; : Attorney Frank Finnegan revealed the man had applied for his bonus as a World War veteran recently and gave his name as Russell Bernard. He told the attorney he had a brother, Dr. Bernard in Greenville, Indiana where he stated he born 50 years ago. The army record showed he had served as a sergeant, first class, and in the aviation forces. Finger prints were taken and sent to the War Department for further identification. Coroner A. M. Holmes is holding the body until relatives can be located. At the hotel he was known as a quiet and reserved man. VFW AUXILIARY TO SELL POPPIES FOR ORPHANS The ladies’ auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will cooperate with the post in selling buddy poppies in Nevada City on Saturday May 25. The poppies will be sold throughout the town by accredited members of the post and its auxiliary, and in the residential districts by members of boy scout troop Six. . It is hoped that the people of Nevada City will respond to this call with their usual enthusiasm. Only once a year do the Veterans of Forveterans at the V. F. W. home at . Eaton Radips, Michigan. Disabled veterans in their home communities are furnished with employment in the manufacture of these crimson poppies, reminiscent of the blood red poppies of Flanders Field. President Roosevelt has sent a message to the people, urging the purchase of buddy poppies. “Commander-in-Chief, Veterans f reign Wars of the United States, Washington, D. C. My Dear Commander: Every orphan deserves a chance, for happiness equal to that enjoyed\, by the average American child. This opportunity is given the orphans of\veterans by the V. F. W. National Home at Eaton Rapids, Michigan. maintained by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. \ “Procgeds from the annual sale of Buddy Poppies also offer a source of employment and relief for needy and disabled veterans in their home communities. For these two very real reasons, we all should wear Buddy Poppies on Memorial Day. Very sincerely yours, Franklin D. Rooseyelt.” = MARIN SCOUTS SEEK CAMP SITE IN NEV. COUNTY Harris Richsecker, formerly in charge of boy scout activities for the Tahoe area and stationed at’ Auburn, was a Nevada City visitor with Attorney Nelson of the bay district calling at the Nugget office. The two men joined William Durbrow, Ne. vada Irrigation District manager and eign Wars seek aid from the public. ; The proceeds of buddy poppy sales . are used to support the orphans of! Jungo Buys Near SUPERVISOR C. 5. ARBOGAST SEEKS REELECTION Cary S. Arbogast, county supervisor for this district,*who has occupied that post for nearly eight years and is now chairman of the board, yesterday announced his candidacy for re-election. Cole’s Crumbacker Claims Washington RENO, May 22.—The Jungo Mining Company has just bought. the Clyde M. Cole property at Washington, Nevada County, California. This big, low-grade gold mine is known as the Crumbacker Mine and consists of the following properties. The North Crumbacker, South Crumbacker, ‘Crumbacker, and South . Crumbacker No. 2. These four claims end line each other and show an outcropping for practically a mile, which has been developed to a small extent by the Cole family for the past fifty years. MrW. F. Gray and Mr. John E. ELKS VISITORS TO TOUR NEVADA CITY SUNDAY The California North Elks Association convention will be held at Grass Valley Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26. Saturday’s program will consist of the following: Registration by members and visitors; at 9 o’clock; 9.30 a.m. tour of the Empire mine, Idaho-Maryland mines, Loma Rica Rancho stables and the points of interest including Lola Montez home and site. of discovery of gold in California. 12:00 Noon: Luncheon as you please. 2 p. m. Woman’s card party at the Bret Harte Inn. At 2 p. m. will also start the initiation of officers from the different lodges; 4 p. m. parade, headed by high school band; local and visiting Elks. 6:00 o’cloek dinner at Elks Club for Elks and their ladies. 9:00 p. m. dancing in Elks ball room; games in the club room. Sunday’s program. will commence at 9 a. m. with a golf tournament. At 10 a. m. an automobile tour will be made of the mines and points of interest and to Nevada City. At 12 (noon) there will bea buffet luncheon in the garden of Bret Harte Inn. FRED SIMI HEANS SIERRA CO. CHAMBER Twenty eight members attended a reorganization meeting of the Sierra County Chamber of Commerce in Siof Camp Pioneer was elected president; C. O. Wahlquest of Loyalton, secretar; George . Hallock, Alleghany, vice president. The following were elected as directors: A. Lombardi, J. R. Foster, superintendent of the Oriental mine at week. Fred Simi Frank ~Delaney. DowInnis, Sierra City; Tahoe National Forest ranger, nieville; A. M. Modglin, La Porte; Jack Farrar, Calpine; Fred Dolley, Sierraville; E. O. Carvin, Forest; Stewart Woodworth of Loyalton. {t is stated A. J. Just of Downieville urged that the newly organized group ask that $500,000 be appropriated by the state division of highways for the Nevada City-Downieville state highway which should be called a transcontinental highway. Other prominent persons at the meeting making important suggestions were, Fred:‘Simi, Fred Delaney, George Willis, J. R. Foster and Fred Cassidy of Nevada City. Cassidy praised the public spirited citizens Sof the county in assisting in securing the present allocation for the Nevada City-Downieville highway and urged continued effort to secure funds t9 complete this work. He also mentioned their effort in keeping the Yuba Pasi, open last winter. While he stated he approved the building of the Marysville-Downieville highway he felt one project completed at a time. He said the county has great possibilities in mining and lumbering nd is also unequaled in scenic ban bey. Visit Friends— 6 Will Curtis, retired P. G. &.E. emwent to the Lake Bowman section to seek a site for the Marin boy scouts Mrs. E. M. Haverstock. were started. ployee of Auburn spent yesterday in Nevada City visiting relatives, and friends. . }summer camp, erra Buttes Inn in Sierra City last. Alleghany; George Willis and E. M-. should be. Veak, prominent. mining engineers lof Reno, have been making a systemlatic sampling of this property and . are satisfied that it has great pos. sibilities as a low-grade gold property that can be worked with steam shovel. The Jungo Mining Company plans to erect a fifty ton mill immediately, to be enlarged as the ore body is developed. The price of the property was not stated. Mr. Gray simply said, “I have made a good deal for the stockholders of the Jungo Mining Company. The Jungo Mining Company owns another producing property at Jungo, Nevada, in the same district with the famous George Austin Mine that once sold for $10,000.000. Note: The Crumbacker properties cut through the old Alpha diggings noted both for the fortunes the gravel. yielded to early placer miners, andfor the fact that it was the birthplace of Emma Nevada, noted singer of Argonaut days. It lies in the South Yuba gorge, which has had such famous quartz mines as. the Gaston and the Spanish where the late Fred Bradley laid the foundation of his fortune which later enabled him to develop the vast lowgrade Alaska Juno. The Washington district lies athwart the South Yuba about ten miles airline, from Nevada City, and has long been regarded :6 one of the areas of Nevada County in which might be profitably developed several mines of the same permanence as the Spanish mine. Nevada county, itis well to remember, is the premier gold producing county west of the Rockies. Of the 40 millions in gold produced annually in California, Nevada county produces 12 millions, leading all other counties of the state and of the Western mining regions. The Crumbacker vein varies from 5 to 1 feet in width. Assays made several years ago indicate low grade. The vein is in-slate and dips deeply to the west running in the general direction of the Spanish claims toward the north on Poormaan’s. creek. CLARK STREET IMPROVEMENT 1S COMPLETED The WPA project on Clark street was completed yesterday and gives the city another wide, improved street. The old trees were removed on the lower side and a_ repaired cement sidewalk takes the place of the old one. At the Garrison corner a dangerous curve was taken off and the P. G. & E. company moved all their poles. This makes a twenty-six foot wide street. The reinforced cement wall along the Seaman frontage is ten feet high, over a hundredfeet long and ten inches thick. Wire fencing will be placed along the top. of tht wall for protection: This street is part of the regular outward bound bus route where several ac~ cidents and near accidents have occurred in the past.The crews are now sacks on the old highway that joins. Sacramento ~ street widening it to the regulation . fort foot width. Students Home— John Harding and Lacy Jones, in Nevada City Sunday. Both have made splendid records in their work the past term. University of California students, returned to the homes of their parents —

Sai Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA —— in Ww ifi ee ith. good From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists the right to publish the Truth, . motives and for justable ends. —-Alexander Hamilton. first drive upon tion in Grass Valley. anne Looking over Monday’s editorial in the light of today’s’ reports from Europe, we see that we are ‘due to make revisions in our views. And why not? Geograph‘ers, or cartographers, are doing it. Great international bankers ‘and world-wide shipping companies are doing it, and prime ministers everywhere are doing it. .So the editor of the Nugget in Nevada City follows suit. Revision No. 1.’ As long as the Allies last we shall be obliged, compelled if you like, by national sentiment, to strain every resource to supply them. Airplines, bombs, tanks, big guns, and all the murderous arsenal of a modern war. If the Allies and the United States are very lucky, indeed, this may suffice. Revision No.2. If the Germans ‘win this or next month, then we shall have to tax and -tax and spend and spend—-for armament, because the people of the United States will not be able to live in the same world with the German conquerors. The ‘presence of a formidable democracy in the western hemisphere will be wormwood in the bubbling cup of ‘German joy over the defeat ‘of Great Britain and. France. Revision No. 3.—If history teach . es us anything, it is that a victor-\ ious Germany will keep all it holds in Euvrope:-today, and “with its mighty standing army will grab for more. We may expect to see Sweden under German rule, most of the Balkans, although there Italy may be granted a few crumbs in consideration of Mussolini’s nuisance value during the present war. Revision No. 4. All. that HolJand posseses,.and Belgium holds, the possessions of France in Africa and Asia, and if England is conquered, all the vast areas of the : ‘British Empire will be claimed by victorious Germany. Revision No. 5. . Where: heretofore, we believed the Allies, in the jong run would again force mad Germany to her knees, we must now face the other alternative, . dnd see only one thing standing between world dominion under the flag of the swastika. That is the might and wealth of the United States. Japan will not aid in battling this monster, but like a jackal will snatch what she can in the world wreckage. Revision No. 6. We do. not believe Germany will immediately challenge the United States. There will be a. “breathing spell,’’ in which the efficient Germans will organize their greatly increased territory and the peoples therein. Swedes, Belgians, Norweigians, lal French, Danes, Hollanders, Poles and quite likely Englishmen, in so far as the British isles are concerned, may presently be working for the greater glory of Germany. Revision No. 7. It seems quite likely that Germany will direct its Russia, because against the Russians, the German armed might would be as effective as a great knife slicing a fat cheese. The Russians, under both the Czars and the Soviet dictator, are accustomed to slavery. In a very short time the Russian bear may come down on all fours and with other nations work in harness for Germany. These things if they happen, will have happened because the United States ‘‘missed the bus”’ when it refused to join the community of the world, in the League of Nations, as President Wilson envisioned it. We had a great leader. We scorned his counsel. Our {solationists defeated our participation in the one method of compelling world peace and peaceful adjudication of world’ disputes, which might have succeeded. If Germany wins, as is not improbable, the United States will stand with Canada as perhaps its only foreign ally, against the greatly augmented might or Germany and with the huge liability of South and Central America to defend. In universal. war those regions will be no asset to the United States. Yet. they must be defended to insure our own safety. Accepts New Post— Forrest Reynolds, mechanic at the Plaza Garage for several months, moved. away from Nevada City Tuesday. It is understood he has a posiMol. 14, No. 42. _The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIF ORNIA, ao Gold Center FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940. PLANE RUSHESAID TO TRAPPED WALKER MINERS A call for’ help came yesterday mornng from the Walker mine in Plumas county, where three miners had been trapped by,an underground fire. Immediately five men, C. H. Plumtree, J. H. Heather, M. Pappin, Stanley Verne and Jack Feil of the Empire mine, Lou Ball and Mort Ball, brothers from the IdahoMaryland mines, were sent by the Idaho-Maryland Lockheed plane to the landing field at Beckworth 27 miles from the mine. These men are all trained in mine rescue work and they took sets of apparatus from the cooperative mine rescue station with them. At the airport autoobiles rushed them to the Walker mine. It only took the plane piloted by James Corson twenty minutes’ to make the trip and it was back at the Loma Rica airport in the same space of time. Before the rescue crew reached the mine, word came that two of the three trapped miners had been rescued by a crew at the Walker mine, leaving only one one man underground. Carl Frye, of the state department of industrial accident commission in San Francisco also left the bay district for the mine. A rescue crew from the \mines at Jackson and several Bureau of Mines men from Berkeley went to, the property in response to the call. \ CENSUS REPORT OF NEVADA CITY, 2,44 PERSONS The sopulation ab of Noyada City, according to a preliminary ‘report by Robert A. Shields, supervison of the census at Roseville, was 2,444 April 1, as compared with 170 April 1, 1930. The supervisor \exthough these figures plained that were preliminary and subject to cor-\ rection, they are beleived to be substantially correct as they stand. FARMERS SEEK NARROWS DAM WATER SUPPLY George Hallock, a Me ‘Hattey and W. Esterly, president, vice president and secretary, respectively of the California Hydraulic Mining Association, motored to Marysville Wednesday and met a group of farmers in regard to securing 50,000 acre feet of water from the Narrows Dam near Smartville, when completed. The agricultural group were well represented at the meeting and the C.H: M. A. promised to do all posgsbile to assist in securing the water for irrigation. Major Haring and Mr. Tgenhoff of the California Debris commission were also at the meeting.-Hallock stated no definite plan had been formulated, this being a preliminary meeting. ALPHA STORE HEAD ASSISTS DOWNIEVILLE Fred Cassidy, manager of the Alpha Hardware Store of Nevada City was a recent visitor in Downieville and while there donated 250 feet of pipe to the city fire department. Cassidy believes in the Sierra county mines and has spent considerable money in developing Sierra county mining. He is having a mile and a half of road built from Goodyears Bar to the Ante-Up tunnel at the Brush Creek mine. This work will be completed in two. weeks. The Brush Creek is owned by the Alpha Stores, Ltd. and Mr. Cassidy is one of the mainstockholders. He is also interested in the nearby Oriental mine which is under lease, to Mrs. Florence V. Dickey of Ojai. Idaho Visitor— E. L. Belmore of Glenns Ferry, (CLEANING UP DEBRISOF GIANT KING MILL Reports are that three men are cleaning up the burned ruins of the Giant King mine mill and plans are to rebuild the plant, destroyed by fire ten days ago. Some insurance was carried on the mill. © Charles Peterson is in charge of operations. ROTARIANS AND LADIES DANCE AT LAKE VERA Nevada City Rotary club members, their wives and guests from _ the Grass Valley club enjoyed a dinner dance last night at the Mills ee lodge on Lake Vera. Andy Holmes, was chairman of the evening and under his direction a steak dinner was provided. A band played sprightly music for the. dancing which followed the dinner. EIGHT STUDENTS FROM TWIN CITY TOGETD DEGREES BERKELEY, Way — Commencement exercises a be held in California Memorial Stadium Saturday afternoon for the largest class ever to graduate from the University of California. There will be in all, 4097 degrees and certificafes handed the young men and women as they file by to receive their honors from the hands of President Robert G. Sproul and Vice-President Monroe E. Deutsch. Those who receive degrees and certificates are from the Berkeley, Davis and San Francisco campuses. : (Mar Thelen, Jr., of Berkeley, who will receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the College of Letters and Science, will be the Commencement speaker, introduced by President Sproul. Rev. Laurence Cross, of the Northbrae, Community Church will give the invocation and benediction. \ There are four Nevada City studénts who will receive B. A. degrees at ‘Saturday’s commencement. They are Robert C. Schiffner, Harley M. Leete, \Jr., Georgia Margaret Phariss and Margaret Elizabeth Wyant. Four students from Grass Valley will receive degrees. They are Sterling H. Crotch and Dorothy Lois Harden, B. A\, degres, and Juanita Aileen Booth, B S. in nursing, Carroll H. Berryman, college of dentistry. < LONDON V: IN PERILOUS Harry D. Griffiths, aisles engineer with many degrees Mrs. Griffiths, who ‘have been visiting in British Columbia the past winter have left for their home in London, England. There were several delays and postponements and the hazardous voyage is being undertaken in the strictest secrecy. Ports of embarkation and debarkation, the date of arrival, etc., are all withheld. Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths spent last summer visiting their daughter, Mrs. Harold Deeter and Mr. Deeter at the Glenbrook. They left for’ Vancouver, B. C., last fall and have been visit: ing with Mrs. Griffiths’ sister, Mrs. E. E. Sykes, of that city. Mrs. Deeter awaits with deep concern and anxiety a message from, them of their safe arrival. There are not only mine

fields to be passed through but the added dangers of enemy air-craft and submarines. Mrs. Deeter stated business reasons made the return of her parents to London imperative. LOOKOUTS FILLED Several Tahoe National Park lookout statioons have been filled in the last few days due to the unusually dry period and if the weather remains as it is the men will be retained. These positions are usually filled about: June 16. Frank Maher, fire lookout for’°a station near Truckee will be sent out to take up his duties for the Summer season next week. Another electrical storm passed over Idaho, is making a week’s stay in Nevada City, visiting with his slater, the Tahoe National forest Wednesday but so far as ascertained no fires ORS, VOYAGE HOME and . \ WAR VETERAN DIES OF BATH TUB INJURIES A man known in this district as Samuel Gibson, was found dead in bed in a local hotel at 11:30 a. m. Wednesday by one of the reomers. Investigation revealed he had been dead about two hours. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen, Chief of: Police W. G. Robson and Deputty Coroner William James investigated the death at the hotel and the body was removed to -the Holmes Funeral Home. An autopsy was performed by Dr. W. W. Reed and it was found death was due to shock and hemorrhage believed to be the result of a fall in a bath tub several days before. The physician found broken ribs and it /was thought they penetrated the lungsand caused the hemorrhage. Gibson, as he was known here, was a mill man, and had resided in Nevada City a year. He had also worked as an accountant and was employed as a miner in Placer and Trinity counties. ; : Attorney Frank Finnegan revealed the man had applied for his bonus as a World War veteran recently and gave his name as Russell Bernard. He told the attorney he had a brother, Dr. Bernard in Greenville, Indiana where he stated he born 50 years ago. The army record showed he had served as a sergeant, first class, and in the aviation forces. Finger prints were taken and sent to the War Department for further identification. Coroner A. M. Holmes is holding the body until relatives can be located. At the hotel he was known as a quiet and reserved man. VFW AUXILIARY TO SELL POPPIES FOR ORPHANS The ladies’ auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will cooperate with the post in selling buddy poppies in Nevada City on Saturday May 25. The poppies will be sold throughout the town by accredited members of the post and its auxiliary, and in the residential districts by members of boy scout troop Six. . It is hoped that the people of Nevada City will respond to this call with their usual enthusiasm. Only once a year do the Veterans of Forveterans at the V. F. W. home at . Eaton Radips, Michigan. Disabled veterans in their home communities are furnished with employment in the manufacture of these crimson poppies, reminiscent of the blood red poppies of Flanders Field. President Roosevelt has sent a message to the people, urging the purchase of buddy poppies. “Commander-in-Chief, Veterans f reign Wars of the United States, Washington, D. C. My Dear Commander: Every orphan deserves a chance, for happiness equal to that enjoyed\, by the average American child. This opportunity is given the orphans of\veterans by the V. F. W. National Home at Eaton Rapids, Michigan. maintained by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. \ “Procgeds from the annual sale of Buddy Poppies also offer a source of employment and relief for needy and disabled veterans in their home communities. For these two very real reasons, we all should wear Buddy Poppies on Memorial Day. Very sincerely yours, Franklin D. Rooseyelt.” = MARIN SCOUTS SEEK CAMP SITE IN NEV. COUNTY Harris Richsecker, formerly in charge of boy scout activities for the Tahoe area and stationed at’ Auburn, was a Nevada City visitor with Attorney Nelson of the bay district calling at the Nugget office. The two men joined William Durbrow, Ne. vada Irrigation District manager and eign Wars seek aid from the public. ; The proceeds of buddy poppy sales . are used to support the orphans of! Jungo Buys Near SUPERVISOR C. 5. ARBOGAST SEEKS REELECTION Cary S. Arbogast, county supervisor for this district,*who has occupied that post for nearly eight years and is now chairman of the board, yesterday announced his candidacy for re-election. Cole’s Crumbacker Claims Washington RENO, May 22.—The Jungo Mining Company has just bought. the Clyde M. Cole property at Washington, Nevada County, California. This big, low-grade gold mine is known as the Crumbacker Mine and consists of the following properties. The North Crumbacker, South Crumbacker, ‘Crumbacker, and South . Crumbacker No. 2. These four claims end line each other and show an outcropping for practically a mile, which has been developed to a small extent by the Cole family for the past fifty years. MrW. F. Gray and Mr. John E. ELKS VISITORS TO TOUR NEVADA CITY SUNDAY The California North Elks Association convention will be held at Grass Valley Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26. Saturday’s program will consist of the following: Registration by members and visitors; at 9 o’clock; 9.30 a.m. tour of the Empire mine, Idaho-Maryland mines, Loma Rica Rancho stables and the points of interest including Lola Montez home and site. of discovery of gold in California. 12:00 Noon: Luncheon as you please. 2 p. m. Woman’s card party at the Bret Harte Inn. At 2 p. m. will also start the initiation of officers from the different lodges; 4 p. m. parade, headed by high school band; local and visiting Elks. 6:00 o’cloek dinner at Elks Club for Elks and their ladies. 9:00 p. m. dancing in Elks ball room; games in the club room. Sunday’s program. will commence at 9 a. m. with a golf tournament. At 10 a. m. an automobile tour will be made of the mines and points of interest and to Nevada City. At 12 (noon) there will bea buffet luncheon in the garden of Bret Harte Inn. FRED SIMI HEANS SIERRA CO. CHAMBER Twenty eight members attended a reorganization meeting of the Sierra County Chamber of Commerce in Siof Camp Pioneer was elected president; C. O. Wahlquest of Loyalton, secretar; George . Hallock, Alleghany, vice president. The following were elected as directors: A. Lombardi, J. R. Foster, superintendent of the Oriental mine at week. Fred Simi Frank ~Delaney. DowInnis, Sierra City; Tahoe National Forest ranger, nieville; A. M. Modglin, La Porte; Jack Farrar, Calpine; Fred Dolley, Sierraville; E. O. Carvin, Forest; Stewart Woodworth of Loyalton. {t is stated A. J. Just of Downieville urged that the newly organized group ask that $500,000 be appropriated by the state division of highways for the Nevada City-Downieville state highway which should be called a transcontinental highway. Other prominent persons at the meeting making important suggestions were, Fred:‘Simi, Fred Delaney, George Willis, J. R. Foster and Fred Cassidy of Nevada City. Cassidy praised the public spirited citizens Sof the county in assisting in securing the present allocation for the Nevada City-Downieville highway and urged continued effort to secure funds t9 complete this work. He also mentioned their effort in keeping the Yuba Pasi, open last winter. While he stated he approved the building of the Marysville-Downieville highway he felt one project completed at a time. He said the county has great possibilities in mining and lumbering nd is also unequaled in scenic ban bey. Visit Friends— 6 Will Curtis, retired P. G. &.E. emwent to the Lake Bowman section to seek a site for the Marin boy scouts Mrs. E. M. Haverstock. were started. ployee of Auburn spent yesterday in Nevada City visiting relatives, and friends. . }summer camp, erra Buttes Inn in Sierra City last. Alleghany; George Willis and E. M-. should be. Veak, prominent. mining engineers lof Reno, have been making a systemlatic sampling of this property and . are satisfied that it has great pos. sibilities as a low-grade gold property that can be worked with steam shovel. The Jungo Mining Company plans to erect a fifty ton mill immediately, to be enlarged as the ore body is developed. The price of the property was not stated. Mr. Gray simply said, “I have made a good deal for the stockholders of the Jungo Mining Company. The Jungo Mining Company owns another producing property at Jungo, Nevada, in the same district with the famous George Austin Mine that once sold for $10,000.000. Note: The Crumbacker properties cut through the old Alpha diggings noted both for the fortunes the gravel. yielded to early placer miners, andfor the fact that it was the birthplace of Emma Nevada, noted singer of Argonaut days. It lies in the South Yuba gorge, which has had such famous quartz mines as. the Gaston and the Spanish where the late Fred Bradley laid the foundation of his fortune which later enabled him to develop the vast lowgrade Alaska Juno. The Washington district lies athwart the South Yuba about ten miles airline, from Nevada City, and has long been regarded :6 one of the areas of Nevada County in which might be profitably developed several mines of the same permanence as the Spanish mine. Nevada county, itis well to remember, is the premier gold producing county west of the Rockies. Of the 40 millions in gold produced annually in California, Nevada county produces 12 millions, leading all other counties of the state and of the Western mining regions. The Crumbacker vein varies from 5 to 1 feet in width. Assays made several years ago indicate low grade. The vein is in-slate and dips deeply to the west running in the general direction of the Spanish claims toward the north on Poormaan’s. creek. CLARK STREET IMPROVEMENT 1S COMPLETED The WPA project on Clark street was completed yesterday and gives the city another wide, improved street. The old trees were removed on the lower side and a_ repaired cement sidewalk takes the place of the old one. At the Garrison corner a dangerous curve was taken off and the P. G. & E. company moved all their poles. This makes a twenty-six foot wide street. The reinforced cement wall along the Seaman frontage is ten feet high, over a hundredfeet long and ten inches thick. Wire fencing will be placed along the top. of tht wall for protection: This street is part of the regular outward bound bus route where several ac~ cidents and near accidents have occurred in the past.The crews are now sacks on the old highway that joins. Sacramento ~ street widening it to the regulation . fort foot width. Students Home— John Harding and Lacy Jones, in Nevada City Sunday. Both have made splendid records in their work the past term. University of California students, returned to the homes of their parents —