May 25, 1942 (4 pages)

TOR Is ~: th ll The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per * month Nevada City Nugget This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read : COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . The Neagget. Vol. 16, No. 42. The'County Seat Paper __NEVADACITY,CALIFORNIA = TheGoldCenter MAY 25, 1942. MONDAY, Out Loud By H. M. L. t f Well, its time to speak out in meetin’. This labor graft is a stench in the nostrils of honest men, an abomination to patriotic men. Last week APL organizers visited Nevada City. At the back door of one of the largest mercantile firms in ‘Northern California. this precious pair swaylaid the clerks on their way to. work. The clerks were. offered $13 a day as carpenters to work at the cantonment ((Camp Beale). Of course that is much more than _ honest clerks can earn anywhere in the United States. “But,” said the clerks, ‘we are not carpenters, we don’t know the first thing about the trade.’’ To wihich the two organizers replied: **You don’t hafta. All you do is to show up with a hammer and saw. We do the rest. We see tha't you get on the job.” And how much will this cost? A mere nothing. All the clerks would have to do to step into the hig ‘‘labor’ money, was to plank down $55 initiation fee, and $3 per month so long as they were emiployed. And, on second thought they would: not need to plank down all the money. No? Just sign an order and we'll take it out of your paychecks at $2.50 a day until the fee is paid.” But what the organizers did not say is that when the army inspector comes along and sees a hain giving a crude amateur exhibition as a carpenter, he motions with his thumb toward the gate and the clerk returns, if he can, to his old job, a sadder and jpoorer man. It usually takes the army inspector three days, at most, to dig out the ‘wormy apples in the barrel. He hardly ‘bothers to tell them what it is that spoils their act. He merely motions with his thumb. Utmost economy in firing. These wo labor gold brickers would have already been paid their “‘commish.”’ They are, if you are a ‘“‘liberal’’ thinker, simon pure patriots, who are out to get men to ‘work in putting up army barracks for soldiers who are tighting the war for the four freedoms. It is reported reliably that thousands of men are needed at Camp Beale, that the work is way behind the Schedule that was to see the job completed in October. This is probably true. So the AHL puts its back into the job of getting not competent men, but suckers to enroll as carpenters. Suchers to be fleeced ‘first, fired presently, and left to shift for themselves after they have thrown up honest jobs they have won through long and faithful service. Racketeers is too good 'a name for these organizing scamps. One good thing the totalitarian. governments do with such human vultures is to stand them against a wall and shoot them. Only in a great democracy can so-called labor union agents put over a criminal fraud of this kind without even arrests. And they perpetuate these crimes under the sacred cloak of patriotism. It is enough to unsettle the gorge of a yellow dog. But our faith in democracy persists stubbornly. We do believe at long last our Justice Department will catch up with these scoundrels and put them in safe keeping. We believe the day of reckoning will come shortly after the war is concluded. Just now, what with the job of licking the Japs and Huns to (be done in a hurry, unless. the war is to drag on indefinitely, it is perhaps not so important that slinking jackals who prey on sheep go un'whiplped. Uncle Sam is putting everything he has into a mighty wallop against the jungle beasts. He can’t stop now to hunt*vermin in this own whiskers. We hope, and we will confidently predict, that when ‘the jungle beasts are ‘hunted (back to their lairs, the Department of Justice with its myriads of FBI men with nothing much else to do, will turn its attention to all those who have taken. advantage of the present preoccupation to fleece national . Thinking Eve ! \ Before this week is over, every person in Nevada City will be contacted to pledge a portion of their current earnings for the regular purchase of War Bonds and Stamps. This is Victory Pledge Week, and in a proclamation issued today by Mayor Benjamin ry Resident Asked To Pledge War Bonds Purchase From Earnings Hall, all residents are urged to .show the ut most courtesy and respect to the War Bond Workers and to cooperate with and assist them in every their difficult task may be abundantaly successful and a credit to the entire community. possible way to the end that Se The Pledge to Democracy . Have You Signed Yours? — will invest the sum of §. will buy these Bonds: ‘C) By mail from the Treasurer of D1 From a post office, bank, or other sales agency. 8. Trasuy Depatet PLEDGE FOR REGULAR INVESTMENT IN DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS OTE—This is not an order form. The Signer will buy Defense Savings Bonds " iby case of tise taathads listed below: To aid the National Defense, I pledge that, in Defense Savings Bonds (or Stamps) each (7 week. the United States, Washington, D. C. (J Under a Pay-Roll Savings Plan (or other similar arrangement for.regular purchasing) in effect at my place of employment: : OT “GINA, b Ser -: . pt CORiir WEI. SIAL “Sa If you are already prt chasing Pefe.se Bones sysiemuatica‘iy, pitase, indicate the type of (Employer’s name) (Employer’s business address) (0 Through a regular purchase plan installed by the following organization: plan wien signing this agreement. Also chet: here. 1] J (Name of of ganization) ee I will faithfully fulfill this pledge for the duration of the War or 80 long as I am financially able to do sc, (Address) / pA / rf (Print) atte (Middle initial) (Given name) (Last name) . / (Street and nur+her) (City) (Stata) (Date) (Signature) (Name of Organization and Agent Securing Pledge) D. 8. 8. 176 U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 10—26378-1 RED CROSS WORKERS WILL HANDLE _ PLEDGE DRIVE The pledge drive is being Savings Committee, headed by Mrs. Paul Kemper. The Red Cross’ captains and assistants Victory Pledge drive has ‘been set at $52,000 this month and Nevada ‘City must pledge a large portion of that amount. Moyar Hall’s' proclamation follows: a PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the United States Treasury Department, is asking that the earnings of every American resident be enlisted in a national program of systematic thrift; and WHEREAS, many thousands of volunteer Red» Coss Captains and workers,. as their answer to a threat to democracy, will devote their own time and efforts, by visiting every resident of this great state, seeking his or her moral obligation in this time of financial need; and WHEREAS, it is necessary that ‘. every man, woman and child in California sign a voluntary pledge to save regularly out of current income, through the purchase of War Savings Stamps and Bonds; and WHEREAS, it would be a splendid token of our loyalty, if every resident .of California, and the city of Nevada City in particular, should pledge to the extent of his or her ability, a stipulated purchase of Bonds and Stamps each month, until victory over aggression is achieved, such pledges being expressions of willingness to aid the nation in a critical hour, and not in conflict with pay roll pledges already signed by many of our workers who are doing their share without complaint. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Benjamin Hall, Mayor of the City of Nevada, do hereby designate the week of May 24th to 3ist,. 1942, as Victory Pledge Week, and I urge every resident to and rob their fellow citizens, who have, indeed, practiced banditry while the rest of us have sweat, wept or bled in prosecuting this ware A year’s solid ‘work in this great vineyard should yield us a grand harvest for our jails. Whether they are little yellow termites industriously fbattening on Camp ‘Beale, or big saffron teredoes that grow oily and fat on war contracts, Uncle Sam’s foot is big enough to cover and crush them all—when the war is done. “NEW PLEDGE CARD FOR BONDS AND STAMPS: A for the systematic purchase of Defense Bonds and Stamps, asked to sign. The country must have billions of dollars to carry on the war. be sure you sign one of these pledge cards for as much as you possibly can! the purchase of supervised by the local War are conducting the house to house canvass. iNevada ‘County’s quota in the which every pledge to the very limit of his or her financial ability, regular savings fxr} War Bonds and Stamps. I FURTHER URGE each and every resident, to show the utmost courWorkers, and to cooperate with and assist them in every possible way, to the end that their difficult task may bove is a facsimile of a pledge card, calling tesy and respect to all War Bond} American citizen is now beii~ When you are approac:: it to the entire community. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I Have Hereunto, set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Nevada to be affixed, thereto, this 23rd day of May Nineteen hundred and forty-two. BENJAMIN HALL, Mayor of the City of Nevada. Attest: GEORGE CALANAN, be abundantly successful and a credClerk of the City of Nevada. New Indian direct to Indian Flat, which will third complete. sides of the river, was finished. Murphy Mine. Engineer Irish said the ne Flat, is narrow and dangrous. To Eliminate 25 Curves The grading on the state highway route up Broad Street en the present route distance by one half mile, is now one State Highway Engineer A. C. Irish said the new route will be completed by September. Thirty men are employed on the job which started immediately after the widening and regrading of the highway in the South Yuba Canyon, on both The new route to Indian Flat in almost on a direct line. The road goes up West Broad Street past the Catholic Cemetery and Herschmann’s Diggings. Nevada and Pennsiylvania Mines and North of the five curves and these were all wide sweeping turns. The present road, which has 25 turns over the several miles to Indian Most of the new road passes over land owned by Dr. Carl P. Jones. The state purchased rights of way from Dr. Jones. Flat Route eliminate 25 curves and shortThe route is south of the Grover w stretch of highway has but MWPL TO VOTE THURSDAY ON . NEW CONTRACT A new working agreement between the (Mine Workers Protective League and the mine operators will be voted upon by the members of the Nevada (County independent labor union on Thursday. The agreement ey discussed at a mass meeting held-in Grass Valley last night but the nature of the proposal which will be voted upon Thursday was not divulged by League President G. J. Hoskins. The present contract between the league and the mines of his county, except for the Lava Cap, expires on June 30th. “The polls for the voting will be open from 7 as.m. until 7 p. m. Thursday. The voting will take place at the Strand Auditorium in Grass . . Valley. iC. ‘Butz has started the contruction burned down a few weeks ago. The IMPORTANT BPWC MEETING WILL BE . HELD WEDNESDAY A very important meeting of the Nevada City Business and Professional Women’s Club will tbe. held Wednesday night at 7 o’closk at the National Hotel. ‘Reservations have been made -for all memibers of the club but the reservations can be cancelled by calling Mrs. Richard Worth at the National Hotel. s Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger will preside over the business méeting. NEW HOME CAMPTONVILLE, May 25.—Merle of a new home for himself and mother at (Celestial Valley to replace: the old family residence that wag new building is-well along and. will probably be ready for occupation wr SSE ES Searchers Find Lost Mining Man * Army Adams, superintendent of the Poverty Hill Mine near les in Sierra County, was found yesterday afternoon near the Slate Creek bridge by one of a party of 35 searchers who had combed the mountainous district since Thursday for the mining official. Adams‘was reported missing Wednesday night. When found Adams was suffering from hunger and exposure and a head injury but after a few days rest at his home in Grass Valley he is expected to be back in normal health. Adams told his son, Jack Adams of Grass Valley, who with Sheriff W. D. Johnson of Sierra County led the search, that he was swept off his feet by a sudden unexpected flow “of water in the drain tunnel at the mine and rolled for a distance down the flume. When he groped to! his feet his head struck a plank of the flume and the blow dazed him. In a semi-conscious condition, Adams wandered away and when ie regained his senses hours later he realized he was lost. The head injury caused Adams to occasionally lapse into a daze but when found near the Slate Creek bridge. he was walking and headed ‘back toward the . mine. The Slate Creek bridge: is about six miles from the mine. The only food Adams had between the time of the accident Wednesday and when found yesterday afternoon was a small amount of.corn meal and a few potatoes which were in a cabin he happened upon. -Adams is the father in law of Mrs. Dorothy Thomas Adams of Nevada ‘City, and is well known here as well as in Grass Valley. CEDRIC PORTER ROTARY SEC. The Nevada ‘City Rotary Club directors have selected Rev. Cedric S. Porter as secretary of the local club to succeed Fred Garrison, who has left for army service. Rev. Porter became a member of the Rotary Club here recently, will commence his duties at Thursday’s meeting. RANGER PAUL CASE ARRIVES IN NEVADA CITY WITH FAMILY Forest Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest reports that Ranger Paul \C. Case has reported for duty as district ranger of the ‘North [Bloomfield district. Ranger (Case has been assigned to this district to take the place of Ranger ‘Anselmo (Lewis, who was called to ‘service in the arimy. Ranger Case has .had fourteen years of experience including fire contol, range management and tim‘ber sales. He worked for two years on timber sale work with the Indian Service on the Klamath Indian Reservation. He then served as district ranger on several districts of the Los (Padres forest. He came here from the Monterey district. Ranger Case has moved his family from King \City to Nevada City where his headquarters are located. MRS. RALSTON IMPROVING Mrs. David Ralston, who is recovering in the St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco from an ‘operation, ‘will be able to return home soon to further convalesce. This was the good news given to the ‘many friends of Mrs. Ralston by Rev. Ralston when he came to Nevada City to conduct services at the (Methodist Church yesterday. Rev. ‘Ralston spends the week days with Mrs. Ralston. PARTICIPATE IN RECITAL Mary Jane Hawkins and Ann Tucker of Nevada City were participants in the annual music recital given Friday night at the St. Mary’s Academy in Grass Valley. Leave For San Francisco— Mrs. E. T. R. Powell and Ed Pow-. ell, her son, left Saturday to spend Caught in the Riftfles Ted Ness of Piety Hill section thinks it about time to’ move into town when he is so far out.in the wilds that hen quail become ‘busy taking’ his banty chicks away from the mother. For the last month he has noticed a quail at intervals venture close ané& finally into the checken yard. The peculiar actions of the bantam hen for the last few days led him to investigate. A mother quail was putting. her whole day into trying to lure the chicks away from the banty mother —and she was doing very well—— that is ’till Ted caught her at-it. He (put the bantam mother and her chicks ina fine wire cage— then watched (proceedings from a nearby bush (there’s lots of. them, where he lives). In a -few-minutes (Mrs. Quail came slipping back from down the canyon and called softly toot-toootoottoooootooot, and believe it or not, the chicks stopped feeding the special food Ted gives them and started for the large open spaces. The wire seriously interfered with that, so they just stood in a row and shrieked. A more disgusted bantam hen couldn’t be imagined. The look she gave them all but said: “What has she, that I haven't got?’ Night comes on and the poor lonely little quail unable longer to get an answer from the sleepy chicks, hops to a manzanita limb and _ fitfully dozes the night away. The answer to this must he: A iprowler has stolen her babies, probably before she was very well acquainted with them. Now she is sure she has found them again. Ted says that doesn’t explain--the chicks actions unless the wilds of Piety Hill has taken them over. He states he has unexplained tendenecies, too, occasionally—like hating to shave and his wife says he bought a sheep skin coat last winter. Oh, well. ; Jehovah Witness members, who openly boast of their refusal to salute the flag, even in wartime, and attempt to spread their un-American fbeliefs through ‘the selling of literature on city streets, found out here Thursday that Nevada Cityans are losing all patience with them. About a dozen of the Jéhavahites, armed with their Watchtowers, sought to peddle the literatue to ‘local residents. The presence of these Jehovahites has long ‘irked many residents of the community. Among those who dislike the street solicitation are John O'Neill and Ed Martine so these two Thursday picketed. the Jehovahites with banners reading: ‘‘These people do not salute th American Flag!’’ { No doubt the picketing nettled the Jehovah Witnesses but they continued to remain on the street. Some one proposed the idea of haying a group of high school girls sing “God Bless America.” That was toe much for the Jehovahites. They disappeared. : Ed Smith, one of the Jehovah Wit/hess members has resigned from the. employ of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad, effective June: first. ; Bill Bennett suffered a slight touch of nostalgia when the transport he sailed on landed in Australia. For a short time he thought he was sailing wp Wolf Creek in our’ sister city. From a port hole on the deck below him he-heard a familiar dialect with one United Nations soldie saying to another: “We're ’ome, “*Halfred.”’ Today’s Victory Gardens makes ‘us reminisce of the War Gardens of the First World War. We school kids had report cards by visiting teacher as in other studies. We remember many a ‘teen age farmerette who passed in parsnips but flunked in turnips! The Grass Valley Miners six runs on 12 hits to defeat the © ville Olives'‘by a 6 to 2 score Grass Valley yesterday afternoon., Pat Hurley pitched six hit ball for the Miners and helped win game by getting two hits, o ible with the bases-fu ut hit safely’ three tir within a month. a few days in San Francisco. ‘. to the plate, . to raise them and were marked on

TOR Is ~: th ll The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per * month Nevada City Nugget This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read : COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA . The Neagget. Vol. 16, No. 42. The'County Seat Paper __NEVADACITY,CALIFORNIA = TheGoldCenter MAY 25, 1942. MONDAY, Out Loud By H. M. L. t f Well, its time to speak out in meetin’. This labor graft is a stench in the nostrils of honest men, an abomination to patriotic men. Last week APL organizers visited Nevada City. At the back door of one of the largest mercantile firms in ‘Northern California. this precious pair swaylaid the clerks on their way to. work. The clerks were. offered $13 a day as carpenters to work at the cantonment ((Camp Beale). Of course that is much more than _ honest clerks can earn anywhere in the United States. “But,” said the clerks, ‘we are not carpenters, we don’t know the first thing about the trade.’’ To wihich the two organizers replied: **You don’t hafta. All you do is to show up with a hammer and saw. We do the rest. We see tha't you get on the job.” And how much will this cost? A mere nothing. All the clerks would have to do to step into the hig ‘‘labor’ money, was to plank down $55 initiation fee, and $3 per month so long as they were emiployed. And, on second thought they would: not need to plank down all the money. No? Just sign an order and we'll take it out of your paychecks at $2.50 a day until the fee is paid.” But what the organizers did not say is that when the army inspector comes along and sees a hain giving a crude amateur exhibition as a carpenter, he motions with his thumb toward the gate and the clerk returns, if he can, to his old job, a sadder and jpoorer man. It usually takes the army inspector three days, at most, to dig out the ‘wormy apples in the barrel. He hardly ‘bothers to tell them what it is that spoils their act. He merely motions with his thumb. Utmost economy in firing. These wo labor gold brickers would have already been paid their “‘commish.”’ They are, if you are a ‘“‘liberal’’ thinker, simon pure patriots, who are out to get men to ‘work in putting up army barracks for soldiers who are tighting the war for the four freedoms. It is reported reliably that thousands of men are needed at Camp Beale, that the work is way behind the Schedule that was to see the job completed in October. This is probably true. So the AHL puts its back into the job of getting not competent men, but suckers to enroll as carpenters. Suchers to be fleeced ‘first, fired presently, and left to shift for themselves after they have thrown up honest jobs they have won through long and faithful service. Racketeers is too good 'a name for these organizing scamps. One good thing the totalitarian. governments do with such human vultures is to stand them against a wall and shoot them. Only in a great democracy can so-called labor union agents put over a criminal fraud of this kind without even arrests. And they perpetuate these crimes under the sacred cloak of patriotism. It is enough to unsettle the gorge of a yellow dog. But our faith in democracy persists stubbornly. We do believe at long last our Justice Department will catch up with these scoundrels and put them in safe keeping. We believe the day of reckoning will come shortly after the war is concluded. Just now, what with the job of licking the Japs and Huns to (be done in a hurry, unless. the war is to drag on indefinitely, it is perhaps not so important that slinking jackals who prey on sheep go un'whiplped. Uncle Sam is putting everything he has into a mighty wallop against the jungle beasts. He can’t stop now to hunt*vermin in this own whiskers. We hope, and we will confidently predict, that when ‘the jungle beasts are ‘hunted (back to their lairs, the Department of Justice with its myriads of FBI men with nothing much else to do, will turn its attention to all those who have taken. advantage of the present preoccupation to fleece national . Thinking Eve ! \ Before this week is over, every person in Nevada City will be contacted to pledge a portion of their current earnings for the regular purchase of War Bonds and Stamps. This is Victory Pledge Week, and in a proclamation issued today by Mayor Benjamin ry Resident Asked To Pledge War Bonds Purchase From Earnings Hall, all residents are urged to .show the ut most courtesy and respect to the War Bond Workers and to cooperate with and assist them in every their difficult task may be abundantaly successful and a credit to the entire community. possible way to the end that Se The Pledge to Democracy .. Have You Signed Yours? — will invest the sum of §. will buy these Bonds: ‘C) By mail from the Treasurer of D1 From a post office, bank, or other sales agency. 8. Trasuy Depatet PLEDGE FOR REGULAR INVESTMENT IN DEFENSE SAVINGS BONDS OTE—This is not an order form. The Signer will buy Defense Savings Bonds " iby case of tise taathads listed below: To aid the National Defense, I pledge that, in Defense Savings Bonds (or Stamps) each (7 week. the United States, Washington, D. C. (J Under a Pay-Roll Savings Plan (or other similar arrangement for.regular purchasing) in effect at my place of employment: : OT “GINA, b Ser -: . pt CORiir WEI. SIAL “Sa If you are already prt chasing Pefe.se Bones sysiemuatica‘iy, pitase, indicate the type of (Employer’s name) (Employer’s business address) (0 Through a regular purchase plan installed by the following organization: plan wien signing this agreement. Also chet: here. 1] J (Name of of ganization) ee I will faithfully fulfill this pledge for the duration of the War or 80 long as I am financially able to do sc, (Address) / pA / rf (Print) atte (Middle initial) (Given name) (Last name) . / (Street and nur+her) (City) (Stata) (Date) (Signature) (Name of Organization and Agent Securing Pledge) D. 8. 8. 176 U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 10—26378-1 RED CROSS WORKERS WILL HANDLE _ PLEDGE DRIVE The pledge drive is being Savings Committee, headed by Mrs. Paul Kemper. The Red Cross’ captains and assistants Victory Pledge drive has ‘been set at $52,000 this month and Nevada ‘City must pledge a large portion of that amount. Moyar Hall’s' proclamation follows: a PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the United States Treasury Department, is asking that the earnings of every American resident be enlisted in a national program of systematic thrift; and WHEREAS, many thousands of volunteer Red» Coss Captains and workers,. as their answer to a threat to democracy, will devote their own time and efforts, by visiting every resident of this great state, seeking his or her moral obligation in this time of financial need; and WHEREAS, it is necessary that ‘. every man, woman and child in California sign a voluntary pledge to save regularly out of current income, through the purchase of War Savings Stamps and Bonds; and WHEREAS, it would be a splendid token of our loyalty, if every resident .of California, and the city of Nevada City in particular, should pledge to the extent of his or her ability, a stipulated purchase of Bonds and Stamps each month, until victory over aggression is achieved, such pledges being expressions of willingness to aid the nation in a critical hour, and not in conflict with pay roll pledges already signed by many of our workers who are doing their share without complaint. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Benjamin Hall, Mayor of the City of Nevada, do hereby designate the week of May 24th to 3ist,. 1942, as Victory Pledge Week, and I urge every resident to and rob their fellow citizens, who have, indeed, practiced banditry while the rest of us have sweat, wept or bled in prosecuting this ware A year’s solid ‘work in this great vineyard should yield us a grand harvest for our jails. Whether they are little yellow termites industriously fbattening on Camp ‘Beale, or big saffron teredoes that grow oily and fat on war contracts, Uncle Sam’s foot is big enough to cover and crush them all—when the war is done. “NEW PLEDGE CARD FOR BONDS AND STAMPS: A for the systematic purchase of Defense Bonds and Stamps, asked to sign. The country must have billions of dollars to carry on the war. be sure you sign one of these pledge cards for as much as you possibly can! the purchase of supervised by the local War are conducting the house to house canvass. iNevada ‘County’s quota in the which every pledge to the very limit of his or her financial ability, regular savings fxr} War Bonds and Stamps. I FURTHER URGE each and every resident, to show the utmost courWorkers, and to cooperate with and assist them in every possible way, to the end that their difficult task may bove is a facsimile of a pledge card, calling tesy and respect to all War Bond} American citizen is now beii~ When you are approac:: it to the entire community. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I Have Hereunto, set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Nevada to be affixed, thereto, this 23rd day of May Nineteen hundred and forty-two. BENJAMIN HALL, Mayor of the City of Nevada. Attest: GEORGE CALANAN,

be abundantly successful and a credClerk of the City of Nevada. New Indian direct to Indian Flat, which will third complete. sides of the river, was finished. Murphy Mine. Engineer Irish said the ne Flat, is narrow and dangrous. To Eliminate 25 Curves The grading on the state highway route up Broad Street en the present route distance by one half mile, is now one State Highway Engineer A. C. Irish said the new route will be completed by September. Thirty men are employed on the job which started immediately after the widening and regrading of the highway in the South Yuba Canyon, on both The new route to Indian Flat in almost on a direct line. The road goes up West Broad Street past the Catholic Cemetery and Herschmann’s Diggings. Nevada and Pennsiylvania Mines and North of the five curves and these were all wide sweeping turns. The present road, which has 25 turns over the several miles to Indian Most of the new road passes over land owned by Dr. Carl P. Jones. The state purchased rights of way from Dr. Jones. Flat Route eliminate 25 curves and shortThe route is south of the Grover w stretch of highway has but MWPL TO VOTE THURSDAY ON . NEW CONTRACT A new working agreement between the (Mine Workers Protective League and the mine operators will be voted upon by the members of the Nevada (County independent labor union on Thursday. The agreement ey discussed at a mass meeting held-in Grass Valley last night but the nature of the proposal which will be voted upon Thursday was not divulged by League President G. J. Hoskins. The present contract between the league and the mines of his county, except for the Lava Cap, expires on June 30th. “The polls for the voting will be open from 7 as.m. until 7 p. m. Thursday. The voting will take place at the Strand Auditorium in Grass . . Valley. iC. ‘Butz has started the contruction burned down a few weeks ago. The IMPORTANT BPWC MEETING WILL BE . HELD WEDNESDAY A very important meeting of the Nevada City Business and Professional Women’s Club will tbe. held Wednesday night at 7 o’closk at the National Hotel. ‘Reservations have been made -for all memibers of the club but the reservations can be cancelled by calling Mrs. Richard Worth at the National Hotel. s Mrs. Isabel Hefelfinger will preside over the business méeting. NEW HOME CAMPTONVILLE, May 25.—Merle of a new home for himself and mother at (Celestial Valley to replace: the old family residence that wag new building is-well along and. will probably be ready for occupation wr SSE ES Searchers Find Lost Mining Man * Army Adams, superintendent of the Poverty Hill Mine near les in Sierra County, was found yesterday afternoon near the Slate Creek bridge by one of a party of 35 searchers who had combed the mountainous district since Thursday for the mining official. Adams‘was reported missing Wednesday night. When found Adams was suffering from hunger and exposure and a head injury but after a few days rest at his home in Grass Valley he is expected to be back in normal health. Adams told his son, Jack Adams of Grass Valley, who with Sheriff W. D. Johnson of Sierra County led the search, that he was swept off his feet by a sudden unexpected flow “of water in the drain tunnel at the mine and rolled for a distance down the flume. When he groped to! his feet his head struck a plank of the flume and the blow dazed him. In a semi-conscious condition, Adams wandered away and when ie regained his senses hours later he realized he was lost. The head injury caused Adams to occasionally lapse into a daze but when found near the Slate Creek bridge. he was walking and headed ‘back toward the . mine. The Slate Creek bridge: is about six miles from the mine. The only food Adams had between the time of the accident Wednesday and when found yesterday afternoon was a small amount of.corn meal and a few potatoes which were in a cabin he happened upon. -Adams is the father in law of Mrs. Dorothy Thomas Adams of Nevada ‘City, and is well known here as well as in Grass Valley. CEDRIC PORTER ROTARY SEC. The Nevada ‘City Rotary Club directors have selected Rev. Cedric S. Porter as secretary of the local club to succeed Fred Garrison, who has left for army service. Rev. Porter became a member of the Rotary Club here recently, will commence his duties at Thursday’s meeting. RANGER PAUL CASE ARRIVES IN NEVADA CITY WITH FAMILY Forest Supervisor Guerdon Ellis of the Tahoe National Forest reports that Ranger Paul \C. Case has reported for duty as district ranger of the ‘North [Bloomfield district. Ranger (Case has been assigned to this district to take the place of Ranger ‘Anselmo (Lewis, who was called to ‘service in the arimy. Ranger Case has .had fourteen years of experience including fire contol, range management and tim‘ber sales. He worked for two years on timber sale work with the Indian Service on the Klamath Indian Reservation. He then served as district ranger on several districts of the Los (Padres forest. He came here from the Monterey district. Ranger Case has moved his family from King \City to Nevada City where his headquarters are located. MRS. RALSTON IMPROVING Mrs. David Ralston, who is recovering in the St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco from an ‘operation, ‘will be able to return home soon to further convalesce. This was the good news given to the ‘many friends of Mrs. Ralston by Rev. Ralston when he came to Nevada City to conduct services at the (Methodist Church yesterday. Rev. ‘Ralston spends the week days with Mrs. Ralston. PARTICIPATE IN RECITAL Mary Jane Hawkins and Ann Tucker of Nevada City were participants in the annual music recital given Friday night at the St. Mary’s Academy in Grass Valley. Leave For San Francisco— Mrs. E. T. R. Powell and Ed Pow-. ell, her son, left Saturday to spend Caught in the Riftfles Ted Ness of Piety Hill section thinks it about time to’ move into town when he is so far out.in the wilds that hen quail become ‘busy taking’ his banty chicks away from the mother. For the last month he has noticed a quail at intervals venture close ané& finally into the checken yard. The peculiar actions of the bantam hen for the last few days led him to investigate. A mother quail was putting. her whole day into trying to lure the chicks away from the banty mother —and she was doing very well—— that is ’till Ted caught her at-it. He (put the bantam mother and her chicks ina fine wire cage— then watched (proceedings from a nearby bush (there’s lots of. them, where he lives). In a -few-minutes (Mrs. Quail came slipping back from down the canyon and called softly toot-toootoottoooootooot, and believe it or not, the chicks stopped feeding the special food Ted gives them and started for the large open spaces. The wire seriously interfered with that, so they just stood in a row and shrieked. A more disgusted bantam hen couldn’t be imagined. The look she gave them all but said: “What has she, that I haven't got?’ Night comes on and the poor lonely little quail unable longer to get an answer from the sleepy chicks, hops to a manzanita limb and _ fitfully dozes the night away. The answer to this must he: A iprowler has stolen her babies, probably before she was very well acquainted with them. Now she is sure she has found them again. Ted says that doesn’t explain--the chicks actions unless the wilds of Piety Hill has taken them over. He states he has unexplained tendenecies, too, occasionally—like hating to shave and his wife says he bought a sheep skin coat last winter. Oh, well. ; Jehovah Witness members, who openly boast of their refusal to salute the flag, even in wartime, and attempt to spread their un-American fbeliefs through ‘the selling of literature on city streets, found out here Thursday that Nevada Cityans are losing all patience with them. About a dozen of the Jéhavahites, armed with their Watchtowers, sought to peddle the literatue to ‘local residents. The presence of these Jehovahites has long ‘irked many residents of the community. Among those who dislike the street solicitation are John O'Neill and Ed Martine so these two Thursday picketed. the Jehovahites with banners reading: ‘‘These people do not salute th American Flag!’’ { No doubt the picketing nettled the Jehovah Witnesses but they continued to remain on the street. Some one proposed the idea of haying a group of high school girls sing “God Bless America.” That was toe much for the Jehovahites. They disappeared.. : Ed Smith, one of the Jehovah Wit/hess members has resigned from the. employ of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad, effective June: first. ; Bill Bennett suffered a slight touch of nostalgia when the transport he sailed on landed in Australia. For a short time he thought he was sailing wp Wolf Creek in our’ sister city. From a port hole on the deck below him he-heard a familiar dialect with one United Nations soldie saying to another: “We're ’ome, “*Halfred.”’ Today’s Victory Gardens makes ‘us reminisce of the War Gardens of the First World War. We school kids had report cards by visiting teacher as in other studies. We remember many a ‘teen age farmerette who passed in parsnips but flunked in turnips! The Grass Valley Miners six runs on 12 hits to defeat the © ville Olives'‘by a 6 to 2 score Grass Valley yesterday afternoon., Pat Hurley pitched six hit ball for the Miners and helped win game by getting two hits, o ible with the bases-fu ut hit safely’ three tir within a month. a few days in San Francisco. ‘. to the plate, . to raise them and were marked on