May 27, 1940 (4 pages)

> ——— . of the five great universities of the ful harvest for humanity in later . truth exists. ‘Kampf, and are Thinking . Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justitiable ends. ton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: ‘ The Liberty of the Press consists —Alexander HamilTime flies, but to those busy with the preoccupation: of bread winning, there occasionally comes a sharp awakening. Bourne on the swift stream of events, we suddenly start as we pass a mile post. One day the proud parent sees his toddling youngster running around the house in his pink birthday suit and the next, or so it seems, heholds him clad in cap and gown, receiving his college degree. There is a pageantry, time honored, in university commencements. First into the noble, spacious stadium, marching to the gay music of bands, come the candidates, regiment upon regiment, of the short, the tall, the rotund, the slim, girls and boys, in the flapping habilments required of the occasion, mortar boards covering all shades of hair, from the straight black of Asiatics to the blond curls denoting Norse descent. Hidden beneath mortar board, tissues and skull bones are some ounces of gray matter packed tightly with a mixture. of sense and nonsense, wisdom and trivialty. They are marshalled in an orderly host of 4000 or more to receive a certificate of having completed their first big adventure in learning. A general recites in a monotone the formula for awarding to cadet officers of the university, comissions in the U. S. Army Reserve: Suddenly at the end of a drowsy sentence, the soldier speaks in a clarion voice: ‘‘RISE.’’ The young men in their natty uniforms, galvanized as by an electric current, lift instantly to their feet, and stand, while the rest of the formula is pronounced. Through the vast audience runs a ripple of applause. Gordon Sproul, president of the university, as a president of one world, makes such an address as should plant some seeds in sundry youthful pates to grow into a fruityears, His message to students, personally, was to be strong, and to work for democratic America as firmly, as proudly, but more sanely than self-sacrificing Russians or _ the courageous soldiers of Nazi ‘‘battalions of death.” “The weakness of democratic nations before the dictators has been democracy’s divided counsels before totalitarian unity,’’ he ‘said “There, must be no tolerant, or belligerent, talk of the ‘working classes.’ We all belong to the ‘working classes,’ or those who do not had better make haste to qualify. “Tf dictatorship can provide not only ‘bread and circuses,’ but also a minimum economy of health and decency for a1) its citizens, and if democracy ¢an not, it will be the worse for’democracy. “The test is a concrete one, and it will/do not good to plead either the ideals or ‘the system.’ Democracy must concern itself with citizens as citizens in a community, differentiated in function, but by intention classless—all recognized as being of the common clay.” : He said-we are. living in a collectivist totalitarian epoch cursed by political religions whose devotees affirm that they know absolutely ‘“‘what is unknowable,’”’ and that the peculiar quality of that passing epoch is its denial that He suggested that Americans be patient, and realize that it is a passing epoch—a temporary shift of emphasis, and he stated, philosophically: ““Men\ desperate with scepticism and secularism have always blindly stumbled after some new, and strange god,\be it ‘the barking Anumbis’ or some other.” Dr. Sproul said he believes, with Plato, that the strong men and the ruling classes are but the victims of ideas—ideas that possess inherent life and advtnturous capacity of their own. “The tragedy,’ he said, ‘tis thattoo many of these ideas have been drawn from those bibles of fanaticism, Das~ Kapital and Mein drenching’ the world with human blood this year, this very day.’’ He said that the habit of life of a people rests on historical principles, capable of being recognized and followed. He does not believe that the United’ States, like (Continued on Page Two) Vol. 14. No. 43. The —— Seat Paper _NEVADA CIT Y, CALIF = ha The Gold Center ~ MONDAY, MAY Dy; 1940. EIGHT STUDENTS OF TWIN CITIES WILL GRADUATE Bight Nevada county young people will graduate from the Placer County Junior College at exercises next Wednesday evening, June 5. There are seventy five students in the class. Those from (Nevada City and Grass Valley are Misses Bonnie and Vella Flindt, Phil Joyal and Ray Wilde; Miss Anna Thorsen, Clinton Cavey, Robert Harrigan and George Marks. NATIVE SONS DENOUNCE REDS Resolution adopted by Hydraulic Parlor, No. 56, N. S. G. W. A committee was appointed to draft the resolution, by Thomas J. Rickard, Acting President of the Parlor. The committee composed of E. J. Kilroy, Joe G. ON’eill and M. D. Coughlin, submitted the resolution which was unanomiusly adopted by the Parlor. Be It Resolved: That in these times of stress in affairs both domestic and foreign, we, the members of Hy‘draulic Parlor, No. 56, Native Sons of the Golden West, in regulaf meeting assembled on May 21, 1940, reaffirm our faith and belief in the principles upon which our government was founded and which all loyal Americans of the State of California have upheld since September 9, 1850. We condemn the practices indulged in, in this state and elsewhere, by radicals, reds, and other subversive and treacherous groups or individuals, whether privately or governmentally supported. We honor our newly elected Grand President Henry S. Lyon, for his plainly spoken attitude toward all persons and plans which seek too change our mode of self-government and we stand firmly with him in his expressed determination to work for the perpetuation of historic Ameriean principles in this state. Be It Further Resolved: That we adjourn this meeting with a thought of appreciation and esteem for Brothers C. W. Chapman and Clarence E. Martz two earnest and loyal workers of our parlor who are on this day representing us as our delegates to the Grand Parlor at Bakersfield, California. Bt It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the Grand Parlor and copies submitted to the press. PARENTS ATTEND COMMENCEMENT INU.C. STADIUM Parents of University of California graduates went down to the big stadium of the University Saturday afternoon to see their children receive from the hand of President Sproul their parchments inscribed with their names and the degrees granted. In the graduating class were 4,097 young men and women. Among those who witnessed the Pageant and ceremony were Mr. and Mrs, E. E. Barker, who saw their son, Robert Channing Barker, receive his degree of Doctor of Medicine; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schiffner, to see Robert Schiffner receive his degree; Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Phariss, to see their daughter, Miss Margaret Phariss' receive her degree, Mr. and Mrs. Harley M. Leete, whose son, Harley M. Leete, Jr. graduated; Mrs. Charles Wyant whose daughter Margaret Wyant, specializing in archeology, was given her degree. Mr. Wyant, at the last moment, found he was unable too leave his business. JOHN HARDING WINS BRADLEY SCHOLARSHIP John Donald Hardt Harding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip E. Harding of this city, has been awarded a F. W. Bradley Memorial scholarship of $250 for the coming year in the University of (California. This is the second scholarship young Harding graduate of the Nevada City high school, has won. He enters on his sophomore year next August. OFF ICERS CALL HALT ON RECKLESS DRIVING It is stated: aeproxinately 40 persons were arrested over. the week end by twin city and county officers for reckless driving or drunken driving or both. This is a high record and peace officers were extremely Te gage LEGISLATURE TAKES RECESS UNTIL DEC. 2 SACRAMENTO, May 27.—California’s state legislature is in recess until December 2, having appropriated money for support of the State Relief Administration, voted funds for the flood and forest fire control and decisively defeated’ Gov. Olson’s repeated attempts to impose $50,000,000 new taxes on the people of California. During the two weeks special session ending (Friday night, the coalition bloc of Democrat sand Republicans who have consistently opposed the Olson spending program enacted a $24,347,000 relief appropriation bill to carry relief payments tu March 31, 1942, under the same ree stri¢ctions in the relief bill they enacted in February which resulted in the SRA case load dripping from 116,000 cases to 78,000. State Senator Jerrold Seawell, president pro-tem of the senate, estimated the legislature’s stand for “sufficient SRA money’ without waste”’ will save California taxpayers about $50,000,000 during the 19391940 biennium. The legislature appropriated also $1,900,000 for the Sacramento River flood control project, which is to be matched with $1,70,000 in federal funds, in efforts to prevent\ future floods such as: ravaged Central California this past winter. A $500,000 appropriation to the state emergency fund for relief to counties hit by the floods, provided the counties match the allotments made them, also was voted. The forest fire prevention bill carried an.appropriation of $300,090. Defeated by the solons were all Olson bills to raise taxes, although administration forces sought to withdraw these bills from committee and force them through. The Olson proposal to divert part of the money voted by the people to guarantee completion of the Central Valley Water Project also met with disapproval by the legislators. “We did the things that were necessary on behalf of the people,” said Senator Seawell. ‘‘Matters that can well be left for the next regular session of the legislature next year were deferred until that time. The net result of the special session was to further reduce cost of state government and to hold the tax rate down.” TRIALS OF FULLER AND BARNES ARE SET Delbert Fuller and Walter Barnes appeared for arraignment today ia the superior court with Judge George Jones presiding. ; Attorney Frank Finnegan and assistant Dwight Steele represented Fuller and Attorney W. J. Cassettrai of Grass Valley was appointed to represent Barnes. Barnes and Fuller pleaded not guilty. The trial of Fuller and Barnes was set for jury trial June 10. On the second charge against Fuller he pleaded not guilty. This case has been set for jury trial June 5. Fuller and Barnes are accused of hitting two small boys on bicycles in the Glenbrook district, and when apprehended by officers it is charged they assaulted Officer Gene Blake as he started to remove a key from a car they were driving. ACCUSED OF CUTTING INTO WATER DITCH W. H. Borman of North San Juan was charged with cutting the bank of a private water supply ditch, a misdemeanor, is free on $150 bail. Frank S§. Reader swore to the complaint and Borman was brought before Justice of the Peace Louis Wood. His case will be heard later. MRS. PENROSE TO BE CIVIC CLUB HOSTESS The Women’ ) Civic ‘Club will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday, May 28, at 2:30 in the home of Mrs. Jas. Penrose. a i¥g NEVADA CITY QUOTA FOR RED CROSS IS $400 Five million French and Belgians are on the march, homeless, without food, many sick and wounded. This was the estimate telephoned -by Wayne Chatfield Taylor, European delegate of the American Red Cross who established refugee relief headquarters in Paris on March 18, witnain'a few hours after the present conflict was brought to French soil. Later he cabled: While the army is fighting for its life, France is welcoming ‘Belgians, old and younz, who arrive on foot, by wagons, on bicycles, in trucks, automobiles and trains. Some are wounded, some are sick, all are hungry and completely: exhausted. They bring with them practically nothing. , _ Time’: of May 27, telling tne same story, emphasizes the greatheartedness of the Parisians, who “fed, bathed and laundered their guests first, asked questions afterwards. All kinds of folk found their way. into the Centres d’Accuel (‘Weicoming centers’), some with morale shattered, some with it intact. Children dead-eyed and frightened beyond protest. “She (France) did not have beds, medicines or even tents for the terrorized hordes whom German troops and planes, in order to block the roads, had deliberately driven ahead of them. “France looked. hopefully to the U. S. for Red Cross ships, for in her war-torn state the problems was too big for her to handle.’”’ The American Red Crass has been prompt to answer. To a blitzkrieg of horror they reply with a blitzkrieg of mercy. Six hundred thousand dollars cabled to Europe for the work of Red ‘Cross and other organizations in action there; approximately one million. dollars worth of supplies;«chiefly ambulances, hospital trucks, surgical instruments and field hospitals purchased for immediate shipment, represent a week’s expenditures. Meanwhile the call has gone out to the citizens of the United -States for a\ ten million dollar fund, for garments and supplies; By May 20 a number of chapters in the Pacific area had \either reached or doubled their quot of money. The Nevada City district ‘has been asked for $400 of which only\a small part has so far been collected, \ but that small part has already been\ forwarded to hheadquarters. It was hoped int voluntary contributions would make it unnecessary t6 organize a \house-to-house canvas, but if the amount does not come in soon.to collection centers in the Bank of America, the ‘National Hotel and the newspaper offices, or to officials of the chapter, such a drive will be organized. In another column is an account of the \garments and supplies to be made and furnished by us, and of the mark: room to be opened tomorrow in the National Hotel. NEVADA CITY NINE WIN OVER TODD’S VALLEY Nevada City’s fast playing baseball team defeated Todd’s Valley boys at that place Sunday by 11 to 6. Nevada City made 15 hits and Todd Valley 7. Mahoski, a new Nevada City pitcher, pitched two hit balls for five innings. Peck pitched four. Nevada City registered. three errors and Todd Valley five. Herbert Costa, Nevada City center fielder, won a case of beer for the first and only home run of the same. Youngman, Costa, Biggs and Stintson were Nevada City’s leading batsmen getting two hits each. Every Nevada City player made at least one hit. Next Sunday Nevada City plays Georgetown at Cashin Field. They have a good team and it is expected it will be a close game. Starting battery for Nevada City will be McKenzie and Stintson. The game Sunday places Nevada City in a tie for second place with Auburn. Rocklin is out of second place. Yesterday Auburn beat Gorgetown; Newsactle beat Rocklin, Grass Valley defeated Camp Forest. . NEW DOCK FINANCED BY DOUGHNUT SALE Considerable work has been don? at Camp Minaluta, Camp Fire. Girls’ summer camp on Lake Vera, which will be occupied by the different groups early in the summer. A new dock is being constructed. Funds for this work were raised by a doughnut sale by the Camp Fire Girls in Sacramento. Nearly all the officers for the camp have been chosen and a splendid season is looked forward to, MASONS HEAR JUDGE JONES AT BREAKFAST Superior Judie Gs George L. Jones, of Nevada county, past grand master of the (Grand Lodge of Masons in California, was speaker at the third annual Masonic breakfast held Sunday, May ‘19, in Hotel Claremont, Oakland. Twelve hundred Masons attended the breakfast. “Phe Frontiers of Masonry’? was Judge Jones’ topic in which he recited experiences of early day Masons in the state and anecdotes of the Mother Lode. Judge Jones was to have been introduced by Judge William H. Waste, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, but he was too ill to be present. Judge Waste is past master of Durant Lodge of Berkeley and a past Grand Lodge officer. GERALD HOGAN AIDS SETTLEMENT. OF LABOR ROW The Oakland Tribune carries an account of the part played by Gerald Hogan, formerly of this city, in aiding to secure peace in labor difficulties affecting the drug business. The account follows: Accused of violating a Superior Court order enjoining them from picketing a West Oakland store, five persons were cited to shOw cause why they should not be adiudece in contempt. They were directed to appear before Presiding Judge T. W. Harris Wednesday morning at 9:30 o’clock. Gerald Hogan, an employee of the drug store of (avid Davis, who brought the injunction suit on behalf of himself and the West Oakland Merchants’ Association, charged in an affidavit that the various defendants had violated the court order. The affidavit stated Weld, Lorraine Kinz, Charles Sedlick, Elmer ‘Compton and a Mrs. Shields had picketed in front of the Davis store at 7th and! Peralta streets on May 18. Judge John J. Allen granted a temporary injunction on May 16 re\straining the defendants from interfering with Davis’ business pending trial of the suit. He banned picketing wntil that time. Davis contended that his store had been picketed by large groups in an effort to force him to employ at least 50 per cent negro help. Through his attorneys, Carlton Rank and’ H. Gardner Putnam, he brought the action against the Citizens’ Committee for Jobs for Negroes, the Communist party and others. CLOSING PROGRAM IN LIME KILN SCHOOL The Lime Kiln school closed today with a picnic and exercises in Memorial Park Grass Valley, the teacher, parents and children attending. There were two graduates, Miss M. Tibbs and Jeanne Otto. Walter Carlson. county superintendent of schools was present and gave the gradutes their diplomas. Mrs. Mosher, assistant in the county superintendent’s office, was also present for the picnic and exercises. that Arthur Sacramento Visitors—_ (Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Sofge of Willow Valley had as a Saturday night guest Alexander Crossen, foreman of the state printing plant. From College to Job— “*Robert Tucker, son of Mrs. Anna Tucker, arrived Thursday from the University of California and went to work on Friday for the Tahoe National Forest. -lief payments,’”’ he said.’ PATROL OFFICER CRASHES; INJURY MAY BE FATAL Lorris Richards, highway patrol officer of this district, suffered concussion of the brain and a crushed chest in an accident/on the TahoeUkiah highway bélow Rough and Ready yesterday afternoon. He has not regained consciousness and~ the exact cause of the mishap, is not known. He investigated an auto accident in that section earlier in the day and was agan called on an accident. It is stated he may have lost control of his motorcycle when attempting to halt a speeding motorist and his machine went out of control on a turn, and over a two ton boulder, his body landing against a bank. He was picked up in-an unconscious condition and rushed to the hospital. The injury to the head is a frontal fracture and he is bleeding from his ears, it is stated. Officer Richards, an ex-marine, bears an excellent reputation as a courteous and efficient officer and the news of his injury spread rapidly and hopes for his recovery are expressed by everyone. RELIEF COSTS CUT SMILLION Relief costs in California have been reduced $50,000,000 over the 1939-1941 biennial fiscal period as a result of the “economy bloc’ legislative battles against Governor Olson’s program, Senator Jerrold L. Seawell of Roseville reported upon his return from the special session: of the legislature of Sacramento. ° “The sum of approximately $24,000,000 voted for support of relief in California until May 31, 1941, will adequately cover all proper re“State Relief Administration officials reported while we were in session at Sacramento that; there was surplus of $1,247,000 still left of the $12,000,000 we voted for relief in February.” It will be necessary to again consider a relief appropriation in Dec-— ember, when the legislature reconvenes to carry the relief load until the end of the biennium June 30, 1941, but Senator Seawell said the probable appropriation would bring total relief expenditures for the twoyear period to about $80,672,000 against the demands made by Governor Olson at-the start-of the term for $131,025,000, a figure which results ~have shown to be wasteful and exorbitant. “Our fight against the Olson demands and our insistence that relief money be spent carefully resulted in the State Relief Administration case load dropping from 116,000 cases im February to 78,000 cases in May. We feel this is ample evidence that we have done the right thing and haye been of real service to everyone who pays taxes,’’ Senator Seawell said. While relief matters monopolized attention at the special session, the legislature voted money for forest fire protection, for repair of stormdamaged levees along the Sacramento River Valley and refused again to consider Governor Olson’s demands that an additional $50,000,000 in taxes. be imposed upon the people of California, Senator Seawell reported. MRS. EDGAR PHILLIPS CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Edgar Phillips of Gold Flat a patient in a local hospital died yesterday afternoon She died from heart trouble following the birth of a son 40 years of age and a native of this district and life long resident of Nevada county. ‘Left to mourn her passing are the following children, -Mrs. Alice DavJerrold and David Phillips. Funeral services will be held at Holmes Funeral Home ehapel Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. David Ralston conducting ‘sere vices. Holmes Funeral Hom handling funeral arrangements interment will be mane in Pine. . Comenony: SAVS SEAWELL who survives her. Mrs. Phillips wae is, Katherine, Dorothy, Edgar, Jr, ~ eter

> ——— . of the five great universities of the ful harvest for humanity in later . truth exists. ‘Kampf, and are Thinking . Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City Nugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA in the right to publish the Truth, with good motives and for justitiable ends. ton. From the Californian, March 15, 1848: ‘ The Liberty of the Press consists —Alexander HamilTime flies, but to those busy with the preoccupation: of bread winning, there occasionally comes a sharp awakening. Bourne on the swift stream of events, we suddenly start as we pass a mile post. One day the proud parent sees his toddling youngster running around the house in his pink birthday suit and the next, or so it seems, heholds him clad in cap and gown, receiving his college degree. There is a pageantry, time honored, in university commencements. First into the noble, spacious stadium, marching to the gay music of bands, come the candidates, regiment upon regiment, of the short, the tall, the rotund, the slim, girls and boys, in the flapping habilments required of the occasion, mortar boards covering all shades of hair, from the straight black of Asiatics to the blond curls denoting Norse descent. Hidden beneath mortar board, tissues and skull bones are some ounces of gray matter packed tightly with a mixture. of sense and nonsense, wisdom and trivialty. They are marshalled in an orderly host of 4000 or more to receive a certificate of having completed their first big adventure in learning. A general recites in a monotone the formula for awarding to cadet officers of the university, comissions in the U. S. Army Reserve: Suddenly at the end of a drowsy sentence, the soldier speaks in a clarion voice: ‘‘RISE.’’ The young men in their natty uniforms, galvanized as by an electric current, lift instantly to their feet, and stand, while the rest of the formula is pronounced. Through the vast audience runs a ripple of applause. Gordon Sproul, president of the university, as a president of one world, makes such an address as should plant some seeds in sundry youthful pates to grow into a fruityears, His message to students, personally, was to be strong, and to work for democratic America as firmly, as proudly, but more sanely than self-sacrificing Russians or _ the courageous soldiers of Nazi ‘‘battalions of death.” “The weakness of democratic nations before the dictators has been democracy’s divided counsels before totalitarian unity,’’ he ‘said “There, must be no tolerant, or belligerent, talk of the ‘working classes.’ We all belong to the ‘working classes,’ or those who do not had better make haste to qualify. “Tf dictatorship can provide not only ‘bread and circuses,’ but also a minimum economy of health and decency for a1) its citizens, and if democracy ¢an not, it will be the worse for’democracy. “The test is a concrete one, and it will/do not good to plead either the ideals or ‘the system.’ Democracy must concern itself with citizens as citizens in a community, differentiated in function, but by intention classless—all recognized as being of the common clay.” : He said-we are. living in a collectivist totalitarian epoch cursed by political religions whose devotees affirm that they know absolutely ‘“‘what is unknowable,’”’ and that the peculiar quality of that passing epoch is its denial that He suggested that Americans be patient, and realize that it is a passing epoch—a temporary shift of emphasis, and he stated, philosophically: ““Men\ desperate with scepticism and secularism have always blindly stumbled after some new, and strange god,\be it ‘the barking Anumbis’ or some other.” Dr. Sproul said he believes, with Plato, that the strong men and the ruling classes are but the victims of ideas—ideas that possess inherent life and advtnturous capacity of their own. “The tragedy,’ he said, ‘tis thattoo many of these ideas have been drawn from those bibles of fanaticism, Das~ Kapital and Mein drenching’ the world with human blood this year, this very day.’’ He said that the habit of life of a people rests on historical principles, capable of being recognized and followed. He does not believe that the United’ States, like (Continued on Page Two) Vol. 14. No. 43. The —— Seat Paper _NEVADA CIT Y, CALIF = ha The Gold Center ~ MONDAY, MAY Dy; 1940. EIGHT STUDENTS OF TWIN CITIES WILL GRADUATE Bight Nevada county young people will graduate from the Placer County Junior College at exercises next Wednesday evening, June 5. There are seventy five students in the class. Those from (Nevada City and Grass Valley are Misses Bonnie and Vella Flindt, Phil Joyal and Ray Wilde; Miss Anna Thorsen, Clinton Cavey, Robert Harrigan and George Marks. NATIVE SONS DENOUNCE REDS Resolution adopted by Hydraulic Parlor, No. 56, N. S. G. W. A committee was appointed to draft the resolution, by Thomas J. Rickard, Acting President of the Parlor. The committee composed of E. J. Kilroy, Joe G. ON’eill and M. D. Coughlin, submitted the resolution which was unanomiusly adopted by the Parlor. Be It Resolved: That in these times of stress in affairs both domestic and foreign, we, the members of Hy‘draulic Parlor, No. 56, Native Sons of the Golden West, in regulaf meeting assembled on May 21, 1940, reaffirm our faith and belief in the principles upon which our government was founded and which all loyal Americans of the State of California have upheld since September 9, 1850. We condemn the practices indulged in, in this state and elsewhere, by radicals, reds, and other subversive and treacherous groups or individuals, whether privately or governmentally supported. We honor our newly elected Grand President Henry S. Lyon, for his plainly spoken attitude toward all persons and plans which seek too change our mode of self-government and we stand firmly with him in his expressed determination to work for the perpetuation of historic Ameriean principles in this state. Be It Further Resolved: That we adjourn this meeting with a thought of appreciation and esteem for Brothers C. W. Chapman and Clarence E. Martz two earnest and loyal workers of our parlor who are on this day representing us as our delegates to the Grand Parlor at Bakersfield, California. Bt It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the Grand Parlor and copies submitted to the press. PARENTS ATTEND COMMENCEMENT INU.C. STADIUM Parents of University of California graduates went down to the big stadium of the University Saturday afternoon to see their children receive from the hand of President Sproul their parchments inscribed with their names and the degrees granted. In the graduating class were 4,097 young men and women. Among those who witnessed the Pageant and ceremony were Mr. and Mrs, E. E. Barker, who saw their son, Robert Channing Barker, receive his degree of Doctor of Medicine; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schiffner, to see Robert Schiffner receive his degree; Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Phariss, to see their daughter, Miss Margaret Phariss' receive her degree, Mr. and Mrs. Harley M. Leete, whose son, Harley M. Leete, Jr. graduated; Mrs. Charles Wyant whose daughter Margaret Wyant, specializing in archeology, was given her degree. Mr. Wyant, at the last moment, found he was unable too leave his business. JOHN HARDING WINS BRADLEY SCHOLARSHIP John Donald Hardt Harding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip E. Harding of this city, has been awarded a F. W. Bradley Memorial scholarship of $250 for the coming year in the University of (California. This is the second scholarship young Harding graduate of the Nevada City high school, has won. He enters on his sophomore year next August. OFF ICERS CALL HALT ON RECKLESS DRIVING It is stated: aeproxinately 40 persons were arrested over. the week end by twin city and county officers for reckless driving or drunken driving or both. This is a high record and peace officers were extremely Te gage LEGISLATURE TAKES RECESS UNTIL DEC. 2 SACRAMENTO, May 27.—California’s state legislature is in recess until December 2, having appropriated money for support of the State Relief Administration, voted funds for the flood and forest fire control and decisively defeated’ Gov. Olson’s repeated attempts to impose $50,000,000 new taxes on the people of California. During the two weeks special session ending (Friday night, the coalition bloc of Democrat sand Republicans who have consistently opposed the Olson spending program enacted a $24,347,000 relief appropriation bill to carry relief payments tu March 31, 1942, under the same ree stri¢ctions in the relief bill they enacted in February which resulted in the SRA case load dripping from 116,000 cases to 78,000. State Senator Jerrold Seawell, president pro-tem of the senate, estimated the legislature’s stand for “sufficient SRA money’ without waste”’ will save California taxpayers about $50,000,000 during the 19391940 biennium. The legislature appropriated also $1,900,000 for the Sacramento River flood control project, which is to be matched with $1,70,000 in federal funds, in efforts to prevent\ future floods such as: ravaged Central California this past winter. A $500,000 appropriation to the state emergency fund for relief to counties hit by the floods, provided the counties match the allotments made them, also was voted. The forest fire prevention bill carried an.appropriation of $300,090. Defeated by the solons were all Olson bills to raise taxes, although administration forces sought to withdraw these bills from committee and force them through. The Olson proposal to divert part of the money voted by the people to guarantee completion of the Central Valley Water Project also met with disapproval by the legislators. “We did the things that were necessary on behalf of the people,” said Senator Seawell. ‘‘Matters that can well be left for the next regular session of the legislature next year were deferred until that time. The net result of the special session was to further reduce cost of state government and to hold the tax rate down.” TRIALS OF FULLER AND BARNES ARE SET Delbert Fuller and Walter Barnes appeared for arraignment today ia the superior court with Judge George Jones presiding. ; Attorney Frank Finnegan and assistant Dwight Steele represented Fuller and Attorney W. J. Cassettrai of Grass Valley was appointed to represent Barnes. Barnes and Fuller pleaded not guilty. The trial of Fuller and Barnes was set for jury trial June 10. On the second charge against Fuller he pleaded not guilty. This case has been set for jury trial June 5. Fuller and Barnes are accused of hitting two small boys on bicycles in the Glenbrook district, and when apprehended by officers it is charged they assaulted Officer Gene Blake as he started to remove a key from a car they were driving. ACCUSED OF CUTTING INTO WATER DITCH

W. H. Borman of North San Juan was charged with cutting the bank of a private water supply ditch, a misdemeanor, is free on $150 bail. Frank S§. Reader swore to the complaint and Borman was brought before Justice of the Peace Louis Wood. His case will be heard later. MRS. PENROSE TO BE CIVIC CLUB HOSTESS The Women’ ) Civic ‘Club will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday, May 28, at 2:30 in the home of Mrs. Jas. Penrose. a i¥g NEVADA CITY QUOTA FOR RED CROSS IS $400 Five million French and Belgians are on the march, homeless, without food, many sick and wounded. This was the estimate telephoned -by Wayne Chatfield Taylor, European delegate of the American Red Cross who established refugee relief headquarters in Paris on March 18, witnain'a few hours after the present conflict was brought to French soil. Later he cabled: While the army is fighting for its life, France is welcoming ‘Belgians, old and younz, who arrive on foot, by wagons, on bicycles, in trucks, automobiles and trains. Some are wounded, some are sick, all are hungry and completely: exhausted. They bring with them practically nothing. , _ Time’: of May 27, telling tne same story, emphasizes the greatheartedness of the Parisians, who “fed, bathed and laundered their guests first, asked questions afterwards. All kinds of folk found their way. into the Centres d’Accuel (‘Weicoming centers’), some with morale shattered, some with it intact. Children dead-eyed and frightened beyond protest. “She (France) did not have beds, medicines or even tents for the terrorized hordes whom German troops and planes, in order to block the roads, had deliberately driven ahead of them. “France looked. hopefully to the U. S. for Red Cross ships, for in her war-torn state the problems was too big for her to handle.’”’ The American Red Crass has been prompt to answer. To a blitzkrieg of horror they reply with a blitzkrieg of mercy. Six hundred thousand dollars cabled to Europe for the work of Red ‘Cross and other organizations in action there; approximately one million. dollars worth of supplies;«chiefly ambulances, hospital trucks, surgical instruments and field hospitals purchased for immediate shipment, represent a week’s expenditures. Meanwhile the call has gone out to the citizens of the United -States for a\ ten million dollar fund, for garments and supplies; By May 20 a number of chapters in the Pacific area had \either reached or doubled their quot of money. The Nevada City district ‘has been asked for $400 of which only\a small part has so far been collected, \ but that small part has already been\ forwarded to hheadquarters. It was hoped int voluntary contributions would make it unnecessary t6 organize a \house-to-house canvas, but if the amount does not come in soon.to collection centers in the Bank of America, the ‘National Hotel and the newspaper offices, or to officials of the chapter, such a drive will be organized. In another column is an account of the \garments and supplies to be made and furnished by us, and of the mark: room to be opened tomorrow in the National Hotel. NEVADA CITY NINE WIN OVER TODD’S VALLEY Nevada City’s fast playing baseball team defeated Todd’s Valley boys at that place Sunday by 11 to 6. Nevada City made 15 hits and Todd Valley 7. Mahoski, a new Nevada City pitcher, pitched two hit balls for five innings. Peck pitched four. Nevada City registered. three errors and Todd Valley five. Herbert Costa, Nevada City center fielder, won a case of beer for the first and only home run of the same. Youngman, Costa, Biggs and Stintson were Nevada City’s leading batsmen getting two hits each. Every Nevada City player made at least one hit. Next Sunday Nevada City plays Georgetown at Cashin Field. They have a good team and it is expected it will be a close game. Starting battery for Nevada City will be McKenzie and Stintson. The game Sunday places Nevada City in a tie for second place with Auburn. Rocklin is out of second place. Yesterday Auburn beat Gorgetown; Newsactle beat Rocklin, Grass Valley defeated Camp Forest. . NEW DOCK FINANCED BY DOUGHNUT SALE Considerable work has been don? at Camp Minaluta, Camp Fire. Girls’ summer camp on Lake Vera, which will be occupied by the different groups early in the summer. A new dock is being constructed. Funds for this work were raised by a doughnut sale by the Camp Fire Girls in Sacramento. Nearly all the officers for the camp have been chosen and a splendid season is looked forward to, MASONS HEAR JUDGE JONES AT BREAKFAST Superior Judie Gs George L. Jones, of Nevada county, past grand master of the (Grand Lodge of Masons in California, was speaker at the third annual Masonic breakfast held Sunday, May ‘19, in Hotel Claremont, Oakland. Twelve hundred Masons attended the breakfast. “Phe Frontiers of Masonry’? was Judge Jones’ topic in which he recited experiences of early day Masons in the state and anecdotes of the Mother Lode. Judge Jones was to have been introduced by Judge William H. Waste, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, but he was too ill to be present. Judge Waste is past master of Durant Lodge of Berkeley and a past Grand Lodge officer. GERALD HOGAN AIDS SETTLEMENT. OF LABOR ROW The Oakland Tribune carries an account of the part played by Gerald Hogan, formerly of this city, in aiding to secure peace in labor difficulties affecting the drug business. The account follows: Accused of violating a Superior Court order enjoining them from picketing a West Oakland store, five persons were cited to shOw cause why they should not be adiudece in contempt. They were directed to appear before Presiding Judge T. W. Harris Wednesday morning at 9:30 o’clock. Gerald Hogan, an employee of the drug store of (avid Davis, who brought the injunction suit on behalf of himself and the West Oakland Merchants’ Association, charged in an affidavit that the various defendants had violated the court order. The affidavit stated Weld, Lorraine Kinz, Charles Sedlick, Elmer ‘Compton and a Mrs. Shields had picketed in front of the Davis store at 7th and! Peralta streets on May 18. Judge John J. Allen granted a temporary injunction on May 16 re\straining the defendants from interfering with Davis’ business pending trial of the suit. He banned picketing wntil that time. Davis contended that his store had been picketed by large groups in an effort to force him to employ at least 50 per cent negro help. Through his attorneys, Carlton Rank and’ H. Gardner Putnam, he brought the action against the Citizens’ Committee for Jobs for Negroes, the Communist party and others. CLOSING PROGRAM IN LIME KILN SCHOOL The Lime Kiln school closed today with a picnic and exercises in Memorial Park Grass Valley, the teacher, parents and children attending. There were two graduates, Miss M. Tibbs and Jeanne Otto. Walter Carlson. county superintendent of schools was present and gave the gradutes their diplomas. Mrs. Mosher, assistant in the county superintendent’s office, was also present for the picnic and exercises. that Arthur Sacramento Visitors—_ (Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Sofge of Willow Valley had as a Saturday night guest Alexander Crossen, foreman of the state printing plant. From College to Job— “*Robert Tucker, son of Mrs. Anna Tucker, arrived Thursday from the University of California and went to work on Friday for the Tahoe National Forest. -lief payments,’”’ he said.’ PATROL OFFICER CRASHES; INJURY MAY BE FATAL Lorris Richards, highway patrol officer of this district, suffered concussion of the brain and a crushed chest in an accident/on the TahoeUkiah highway bélow Rough and Ready yesterday afternoon. He has not regained consciousness and~ the exact cause of the mishap, is not known. He investigated an auto accident in that section earlier in the day and was agan called on an accident. It is stated he may have lost control of his motorcycle when attempting to halt a speeding motorist and his machine went out of control on a turn, and over a two ton boulder, his body landing against a bank. He was picked up in-an unconscious condition and rushed to the hospital. The injury to the head is a frontal fracture and he is bleeding from his ears, it is stated. Officer Richards, an ex-marine, bears an excellent reputation as a courteous and efficient officer and the news of his injury spread rapidly and hopes for his recovery are expressed by everyone. RELIEF COSTS CUT SMILLION Relief costs in California have been reduced $50,000,000 over the 1939-1941 biennial fiscal period as a result of the “economy bloc’ legislative battles against Governor Olson’s program, Senator Jerrold L. Seawell of Roseville reported upon his return from the special session: of the legislature of Sacramento. ° “The sum of approximately $24,000,000 voted for support of relief in California until May 31, 1941, will adequately cover all proper re“State Relief Administration officials reported while we were in session at Sacramento that; there was surplus of $1,247,000 still left of the $12,000,000 we voted for relief in February.” It will be necessary to again consider a relief appropriation in Dec-— ember, when the legislature reconvenes to carry the relief load until the end of the biennium June 30, 1941, but Senator Seawell said the probable appropriation would bring total relief expenditures for the twoyear period to about $80,672,000 against the demands made by Governor Olson at-the start-of the term for $131,025,000, a figure which results ~have shown to be wasteful and exorbitant. “Our fight against the Olson demands and our insistence that relief money be spent carefully resulted in the State Relief Administration case load dropping from 116,000 cases im February to 78,000 cases in May. We feel this is ample evidence that we have done the right thing and haye been of real service to everyone who pays taxes,’’ Senator Seawell said. While relief matters monopolized attention at the special session, the legislature voted money for forest fire protection, for repair of stormdamaged levees along the Sacramento River Valley and refused again to consider Governor Olson’s demands that an additional $50,000,000 in taxes. be imposed upon the people of California, Senator Seawell reported. MRS. EDGAR PHILLIPS CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. Edgar Phillips of Gold Flat a patient in a local hospital died yesterday afternoon She died from heart trouble following the birth of a son 40 years of age and a native of this district and life long resident of Nevada county. ‘Left to mourn her passing are the following children, -Mrs. Alice DavJerrold and David Phillips. Funeral services will be held at Holmes Funeral Home ehapel Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. David Ralston conducting ‘sere vices. Holmes Funeral Hom handling funeral arrangements interment will be mane in Pine. . Comenony: SAVS SEAWELL who survives her. Mrs. Phillips wae is, Katherine, Dorothy, Edgar, Jr, ~ eter