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May 24, 1945 (4 pages)

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“God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are aay to t guard and defend it.’ ‘Denial Webster . . The Nuggetis month CD emer . . . This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. _CCVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Vol. 19, No, 41 eT Nevada City Nu sget . : delivered to . your: home twice a week for only 30 cents per Ho County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Goid Center Helen Chapman Writes INTIMATE NEWS of War’s Endin EuropeOF THE PEACE THINKING OUT LOUD By H. M. 1, THURSDAY, MAY 24_ 1945 FORUM OF THE AIR CONFERENCE By EDW. C. UREN = ARMY ARMORED UNITS TO BOOST MIGHTY SEVENTH The city’s most popular corner> On the international scene, Russia Germany, May 3, 1945;. Stnanige birds who have undergone’ waiting point for the continues to be an enigma to most . Dear Poppy: local bus; great change. Anyone over here has . SAIN FRANCISCO, May 24—With meeting place for the local open I have received your letter writto make great Americans, and, apparently, to @. June 7 is set aside as “Bond” day air adjustments, and I. departure of all heads of big five forum, is the Pine Street side of the in Nevada Sity. great many Britains. ten on the 12th and 18th of April. I hope they are allowed to do it. In our .view Most delegations except Secretary StettiBank of America building. American citizens would do well to hope the difference in dates means of them iwill have On this occasion Gaorge Calanan, to think it out 'nius, the UNCIO got down to intengive more attention to what goes on you are ‘busy and chairman of the Mighty Seventh War not anything quietly by themselves. I wonder if sive work in commitee, in the hope of Here on a narrow shelf of: the Loan drive, announced a high speed in Russia. its diplomatic approaches wrong. I am ‘having a maenificent that will ibe their fortune, or if they . finding a solution to the building, now discolored and worn major reN-8 armored car and other afmy exto world affairs, and its policies in experience over here. will be hounded. I have developed a . maining problems—such as trusteesmooth by the efforts of people to hibits will be in the city: adjoining Balkan cauntries and along It has just. been announced that great deal off sympathy for the Gls; ship of colonies, regional security sit on it without sliding off, you can Among the pieces on display will the war is over in_Italy. That means as you see. the Baltie Sea, . pacts, and veto powers—and formuget an earful of public opinion by . be a 37mm gun. The armored car Buzz is out of it and maybe the will We came on further and set up a lating a charter for the new world listening in on the arguments of the ; will -be complete in battle gear. A be to go home because the 34th Diyrelatively permanent stand, and my . organization. The good neighbor policy inaugulocal intelligentpla. . Second piece will be a M8-A-1 scomt ision has had the longest continuclubmobile was rated by the late President Roosesent on detached serMeanwhile, San Francisco con If you want to find out the cause car carrying 30 and 50: caliber mavelt to reassure South and Central ous experience over there. How glad vice. My experiences hére have. been tinues to note interesting items of of the cigarette shortage; the high Le guns, A returned aviator will I am the whole war has disintegout of this world. We became e“American states and to win their the human interester connected with its price and.small size of a drink or the . be on hand to talk to residents. The rated over here. I suppose it will be first American women to cross tke friendship, we believe ha,s proved a visitors. Among those recently noté reason for the scarcity of corned heef lexhibit will’ be here from 10 a. m. only a short while now Elbe until there river. We shall never igo to Berwere: suceess. Only stupid blundering on and cabbage all you have to do is atuntil 2° p. m. will ‘be-a formal announcement endlin except toy sight see the part of the much later, (State Department Dollars and Stamps’ — The silver . tend and The Nevada City ‘hear both sides of the ques-. Rotary. €lub, could now lose us that friendship. ing 'the 'war in Germany. Here on my however. That is purely Riussian ter-. dollars common in the west, but sel. metting for their regular luncheon, tion. But when we reflect that Russia is a front the war has been over for-sevritory. ‘ ‘dom seen elsewhere, have fascinated . will entertain the personnel coming — We thave serveck coffee and donuts much nearer neighbor than any of eral weeks and the Russians and the . foreign and out of state visitors alik.e World wars one and two are often eat with the armored exhibit. Americans “have met. a few yards ifrom ees s land. Not One South American delegate got fought all over again with the Latin republics, excepting only weapons . . Sunday evening, speaking before. I don’t ‘know whether this eee shot was fired. W . Mexico, we think the good neighbor have met the . 20 of them.at a ‘bank presented one the world never dreamed of. The} an audience at the Broadway theaon deRussiane, iand that is & night I shall/to each member policy should be extended to include pass the censor, but IT am of his delegation to nearness of VE day hag brought tre, George Calanan stated: ‘Too Russia and vigorous efforts made to tached service to the 64rd Division. . never forget as Jong aI live. Weltake home as a souvenir. forth some of the most ilfustrious. many people are not ‘Murchasing “KR” I have sent you their paper so you . . Were invited to dinner e-win-and keep Russian confidence and Dy the ee . . Secretary Stettinius has given speakers of the day and, if you see ibonds. These bonds can be purchased iwill have a little idea of the part of . eral staff of the division. \ Really, . every delegate friendship. a book containing $15 some individual striking a Napoleoii, by the citizens only and it will be an the war I have been in. For awhile! they wanted to show that American . worth of United States stamps; inic attitude, with arms } folded and effective help toward the prosecution California and the entire Pacific! we were left far behind the troops women as well as Russian werd help-. cluding the special conference -stamp. milling around in a four foot circle of this war. People should ‘Temémand did no serving. We would merely ing in the war: Coast stands to profit ‘by cordial} !'The book is handsomely bound in . you may be sure that some heavy ber that Germany declared war on trade relations with Great Russia, move, ‘wait, and mave again. For the Bunny and May and I were actin: blue cloth with the gold sea] of the! verbal artillery is being loosed. us and Japan attacked us. We are whose undeveloped resources are in; past three weeks, however, we have hostesses, one might call it. Ther Other commentators may be more United States. therefore defending our homes ag some respects similar to those of the . been working hard and lond. That were many compliments flying back Flags—Now that the official composed. They balance themselves well as the honor of our country. United States, a hundred years ago.!. always happens. When the army and forth, many toasts Russian atyle, . mourning period for Roosevelt has. on the ledge of the building while Surely for on a e this we should make same Russia is undowbtedly the richest of “works we-ddn’t and vice versa, and exchanging 6f medals and patehended, four sets of United Nations questions are fired at them 4nd anssacrifice. and purchase these bonds, As I mentioned ‘briefly in my rees. A Russian major all nationsin natural resources. gave me _ his flags will be displayed in the civic wered with indifference. Ocecasional}even if it is in small denominations. With our Yankee good sense and na. cent hasty notes my trip to my pres-. medal Which his division received center daily from 8 a. m. to 6-p. m. ly a speaker's upper plate drops Our failure to make our quota would tional friendliness, it seems to us. . ent ‘place from the other side of thie} for the defense of Moscow. They There will be 47 of them, since down and cuts his oratory . to an! be construed by Japan to mean that there is no reason why we should not! Rhine was extremely, interesting. . sang Russian songs and could dance White Russia and the Ukraine use abrupt gurgle causing his hearers to we are already tired and war weary. win Russia to our good neighborty. have describd in other letters about just like you see them in the movies. the USSR flag. east startled look his way to see if Let us resolve/they shall not have ! sphere and retain her through the . the freed slave laborers’ streaming That was definitely one of the high-. Lost’ and Found—-The veterans’ . he has had a heart attack. that opportunity by any sins of omyears as a powerful and cordial ®long the roads and the hundreds, of er lights of my adventure. building maintains a lost and found At a VE day, minus one, it was mission on our part, friend among the nations. . German ‘priseners ‘being taken to the Furthermore———— At present the situation is such department, where decided that the frenzied Hitler, Von these mislaid pipes, bonds are the best investment Wee . rear. . that we are beginning to become an fountain pens, gloves and other art. Ribbentrop and Himmler, instead of the safest we can make. If it be pleaded that they are a The yield It was while we were at! Steinheim . occupation army. What happen s next) icles dropped by conference members. ‘committing hari-kari had debarked is amost 3 per cent.” Strange people with strange custome . a few days that the presid : ent died. and when is the question. argtaken. Ira .G. the . in a submarine headed for the Ar-} Thompson, and strange methods of government, . There was a little talk about it and . This whole thing is runnine from building secretary, says the number) grentine, where it is known the nazis we can truthfully say that these ire then it was dropped and seldom men-' the sublime to the rediculous sand . of articles Jost during the confer; had large bank deposits and a host} nod stranger than China and Chinese .tioned again. The reaction cannot be! back asSain so fast it kgeps my head ence has been remarkably small, and. of native nazi collaborators. Here he ways, and we have been China's . measured in terms of the people at . whirling. Anything happens here. the turn over very quick. Principal, would have every facility to organfriend for almost a century. We have . howe. Jf every one’ felt as I did the . One moment I may be eating chow at object mislaid at UNCIO meetings 1s ige War No. III. closer to nome. gotten along with the Chinese as man on the front line is concern ed! a mesg igéar in the middle of a woods eyeglasses. That DeValera, who called at the friends, partly ‘because we have ‘with living and dying almost entire-. sitting on the ground with BERKELEY, May_24—Dave Dava bunen German consulate on VE day to offer known them well. There stands a ly. He .remembers there is politics . of buck privates, and the next I may this condolences after Hitler’s defeat idson, chairman of the California building at Montgomery and Cali-. and there is another world, but just! be dining off mahogany tables with was as much a quisling as Quisling AAA committee stated todey that W fornia Streets in San Francisco, built . now ‘with a gun poinitted ‘down his . white linen. and precious china with FA hag announced beef production himself. BEEF PAYMENT SUBSIDY READY brought from China in. throat, the main thing is to gee that . generals. It sure is fun, though. the Argonaut days It was cheaper to build of Chinese grante,. brought over he survives. Here the business at} NAT. FOREST SERVICE OFFICER ‘VISITS CALIDA I suppose Muller is back at work hand was to ‘continue the bitter ee now. How long was he home? as ballast in the clipper ships, than of defeating an enemy. The death off To answer a few of your ques-. it was to bring granite from Nevada ; the president did not change that, it . tions. I received the German gramCounty for instance, down +9 the bay couldn’t. The average and most Gis . mar. It is great help, ‘but T still need with mules or oxen. loved him dearly and felt badly, but a “dictionary DOWINIEVILLE, May. 24—E. BE. ‘ badly. I reteive some the thing at hand at the moment was copies . Carter, chief division of timber manof the Nugget now and then,. Like that granite building, our his own life, and so the war continubut not all of them. I have a lot more agement, fromthe Washington offriendship for China has endured ed as if nothing had happened. German stamps for you. Keep well fice of the forest service, assistant through the years. Gradually the We left Steinheim to move on anand be careful. Your loving daughter, regional forester, B. O. Hughes, and (Chinese have become less strange to} other 100 miles more or J. R. Berry, logging engineer, from less. We HELEN. us. As a concession to modern styles stopped at a the orest service, San Francisco ofcamp set up to collect the Chinese have shed their long and see to it that liberate fice, afd Tahoe resource officer, d allied : Italy May 9, 1945 Harry W. Camp, visited the Calida braided. pigtails. Actually they are prisoners ‘were taken care of. I shall Dear Poppy:
going western in a big way and. are never forget those Lumber ‘Company government timmen, nor the ones I am having an enjoyable time attempting to establish a democtatic I saw albout an hour ago going by, by ber sale in company with District seeing the beautiful part of Italy, and way of life adapted to the needs of a the truck load. I met~ British Ranger Frank B. Delaney, on Thes men who ‘had Ibeen prisoners since Dunhave evén been 20 feet across the day, May 15. From the Downieville ple. We do not believe that Chiang ‘kirk, American prisoners since North Swiss border. No where at home have district the (party continued on to Kai Shek is a right leader guide the Aifrica. What they niust think and I seen mountains that resemlbled the Susanville. Alps. Ours ascend gradually, but affairs of China now. We think he feel. The Americans told me Forest Supervisor Guerdon Ellis, that their rise straight up out began well, but like other leaders of they were treated worse than of the and his office assistant Harlow W. any other peoples, he has come upon a other nation. It was becaluse of the Plains. Lake Maggoire is beautiful Wood, spent Thursday, May 17 at the and densely populated with homes of time, when the country would be bombings. Downieville ranger station, going the rich and resorts. Tahoe is uninbetter offf with other leadership. We Our fboys had marched 700 miles over with District Ranger Frank B. great industrious and intelligent peo do not like the though\, for instance, since the end of January until the first of April from Russia. They liv of American boys fighting in China, while half the Chinese army was delegated to watching and guarding (Chinese communists, rather than fighting China’s foe and our foe. We think that is the worst leadership we have witnessed on in this war. However, the Chinese people go forever, while Chiang Kai-Shek occupies only a This is true, and Russians. moment too, of Stalin in history. Joseph Stalin will pass, but the Russians will continue for thousands of Years, and our national policy sian should be people our to make the friends. Let Rus us not ed on almost no food at all. A slice or bread and watery soup for one day was good. If they fell out of line they died. That, cause of the the marching, Russian was be push. Before that their life was less rugged. More than one said that the Red Cross habited in comparison. The ‘people here and Sia ‘vanis to be friends just as surrounded we want with friends in Central and South America. And al of 18,000 liberated recently: They must \be happy. I hope the people at home don’t make them unhappy as most anyone fifty years of age in this country, can state remember department ously in Mexican politics. our lations with Russia. Great Britain outrageand Russia may clash, but let us stay out’ of the clash and assure both when meddled for the coming fire no Detailed payment Uncle Joe, Stalin too, it appears is with that date: geranium. His past history, in procedure are not yet available but case you care to dig into it, will not} will ‘be announced shortly. These bear too close an inspection, for it Probably will be similar to the dairy reeks with combined sabotage with Britain and Russia and we intend to Russia wants peace in which to stay out. Our interests are not Britdevelope her tremendous resources. ish interests. And, when those two She wants peace, and needs it so badnations understand that we intend fly, she will fgiht for it, if she must. to be friends with both and to take Let us not be guided one iota by sides against neither, they will British diplomacy as regards our remore quickly come to agreement. the . lost feeling of having completed a job and not ‘knowing what to do now or which ‘way to turn. Of course, many. units can just natura}ly look forward to going to the Pacific. but in the 34th most of the people think the division will be the first. or one of the first, sent to the states. However. We-don’t know yet: so are Ssit ting on pins and needles. There is also the possibility of being used as occupation troops. The other ‘day I sent you some stamps that an ex-fascist gave to me 3 and “handitry, murder, in which production payment program under which payments are made directly to producers by county AAA offices. Payments will be made on good Was ‘so interspersed with bursts of and choice cattle if owned and fed Uncle Joé was the chief actor. All in all, this particular meeting oratory and logic that Manager Cur by the applicant at least 20 days, now of the bank came out fgrom his and if sold to a licensed slaughterer, sanctum and personally congratulatand if liveweight is 800 pounds or ed the speakers, stating that it was more, and if the sale price is at least. the best meeting he had heard for the amount listed for minimum stabilization range for good grade catmany weeks. tle. Being hard of hearing and somewhat dumb we looked at the closed windows of the bank building above Mosquito Ridge us and inquired of the manager how in heck his sense of hearing was so Road Survey Resumed acute that he could hear what was} Road surveys on the Mosquito being. said outside. ‘Whereupon he Ridge, Ralston Divid e timber access pointed high overhead to a tilted road are in progress again after beventilating window which acts as a ing disco ntinued last fall due to insounding board for those inside. clement weather announced forest The money changers it seems, afengineer Shock of the Tahoe national ter throwing out the last depositor forest today. and locking the door at closing time, Eric Erhart of the public roads adhave nothing to do ’till tomorrow, so minis tration will have charge and with chairs tilted back and feet on F. L. Davis will be chief of the surthe desk they relax and listen in. vey party. The public roads adminThis would be sort of hum drum istration surveymen are from Utah with nothing exciting but the arrival and Colorado, however, local men and departure of the local bus had it from Placer County and the Sacranot been for these highly entertainmento Valle y area will be hired to ing meetings of the air, so the bank complete the crew which will consist polkas. The American music dance nine days of May ‘has depleted our steps are not popular here like they snow pack in the mountains. Ranger are in Naples, Rome, Florence, etc. (packages ‘were ail that saved them. Delaney reports snow drifts of over I control a fairly lange sector, and. Yet they received only part of them, . five feet in places on the north side have to travel a lot to visit my units. . and the Germans had plenty of food. of the higher timbered ridges. HowWe have uncovered warehouses full, I also have social appointments, like ever the recent storms will contridinner with bishops and a count and; and at present we are eating a lot but materially to produce’ hetter countess. Off course, I also have my feed for the cattle and shéep which of their food. troubles of soldiers getting drunk grazes annually on the summer rangSome of the girls stayed there at officials are and shooting people, and ‘somewhat the camp ito serve coffee and donuts es of the ‘forests of the Downieville supporter s. similar incidents. district of the Tahoe national forfor awhile. The Americans were . ; When the war ended there was no flown out as fast ‘as possible, so the} celebration or noticeable dileronce sia knows them much better than job ‘was short. I understand that the we. Let us not worry about Romania, among the infantry personnel. But I ones I saw going lby today were part . : ve believe that we all have a certain Jugoslavia or the Baltic states. Rus get too excited about the Poles. Rus Delaney, plans their cusand field season. toms and way of life, are Picturesque According to the automatic rain and amusing. Now they are in a festgauge at the Downieville ranger staive mood ‘because the war is over. tion, our precipitation to date, has Every night they have dances in the exceeded our seasonal average. While town squares, and dance waltzes and a dry spell during April and the first That China so far has been merely. payments at 50-centts per hundredgoing through the motions of fightweight would be paid to cattlemen ing the Japs and is patiently waiting and feeders effective May 19: eis for us to come over and do the job most important that cattlemen retain evidence of cattle sales beginning for them. naturally enthusiastic of approximately eS twenty men. * It is contemplated to complete the But it is a lot;easier to concenSurvey to Bear Trap Saddle with re-est. ‘ trate while sitting down rather than conna isance on to the Ralston Div. The rain record follows: Rain'fall to stand around with your hands in ide, stated Shock, this last storm 3.88 inches; rainfall your pockets playing with a bunch this month to date 4.42 inches; rainof keys, and everyone is hoping that fall this date last year 44.15; rainthe city council will install a comElementary Students to fall to date this season 59.87. fortable bench on this busy corner, Present One-Act Comedy and Mrs. Frank Odgers and not so much for the forum as for The Eleme ntary Schoo l students two daughters of Roseville and Mr. those poor people who have to stand will give their annual, play tomo rrow and Mrs. John Odgers Jr. of Sacraand wait for the bus. evening in the school auditorium. — mento spent Monday visiting with IN STANFORD HOSPITAL, S. F. Title of the one-act ‘comedy is Elrelatives in Nevada City. The men mer. ‘Mr. enjoyed part of the day: fishing. A Hooper and Weaverambulace on Tuesday conveyed Mrs. Margaret in a moment of weakness. I have Casey of Colfax, suffering ’ from a had practically no~ mail recently. fractured leg, from Jones Memorial Only a few letters from Dotty. Love. Hospital to Stanford Hospital in San BUZZ. Francisco. Bill Moore will carry the title role. Shirley Bach will impersonate Susan, and the twins will be Rose Lavelley and Joyce Lée. Other play ers are Betty Sealight, Jenny Lam son, Raymond Hillis Howe. Re and a of granite “e