November 1, 1943 (4 pages)

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per "month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to pi and defend it.””—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget ‘ COVERS RICHEST GOLD _AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 86. The County Seat vila we ‘ NEVADA city’, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, I, Thinking Out Loud By H. M. lL. ae Sanh -——— There is now a movement on foot to conserve paper. We hope that it will succeed. But chief wasters ‘of paper in this country @re not newspaper or magazine publishers, or even book publishers. The daddy of all wastes is in Washington, D. C. It is the congress and the bureaus. Might call them the parents of paper waste, who is a great big fella, overgrown, rambunctious and weighing tons and tons. In fact, this offspring of the jaunty Washington pair of princely wasters, has grown so big that noboby in Washington wants to weigh him or even to try it. Here’s what Robert E. Kennedy, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Daily Times says about Washington’s paper wastes: ‘After sonutderaple this department is in a position to give a helping hand to the congressmen who are ° looking for ways and means to save paper and who had been giving Elmer Davis a going-over for “wasting’’. paper on press releases which tell people to keep their shutters closed at night to keep out the cold. “Being addicted to a passion for numbers, we have just figured out that Elmer Davis’ office of War Information used up about 22 pounds of mimeograph (not counting envelopes) to circularizing the rural newspapers with 12. rather simple suggestions for conserving heat. That’s as much paper as the average congressman uses Up in two minutes of. official oratory, and that’s where our suggestion for saving paper comes in. “~phis department would be the last one to suggest that congressmen stop or even curtail their privilege of spilling immortal words on the floor of the house. What would Washington cornespondents do without daily quota of wit. and wisdom from Capitol Hill. But each word is inserted in tthe (Congressional ‘Record, and the record uses paper. “All we ask is that a congressman refer to a colleague simply as “Mr. Dewey, or Mr. Busbey,’ instead of referring to him as ‘My distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Illinois.’ That mere change, according to our computations, will save one-half pound of paper per utterance. And just dropping the formality, ‘the gentleman from such and such a state,’ will save one third of a pound, especially in the case of gentlemen from ‘Massachusetts.’ “The matter. of, saving , paper came Up ‘at yesterday’ 'S hearing of the Boren subcommittee on newsprint. Mr. Boren. (Dem. Okla.) has toured Canada to get “the lowdown on the newaprint shortage. “He algo, has heard fr fr ym. a coun: try, newspaper, editor wh o,claimed that he got ‘bales’ of el i ei ed, handouts from owl each week. He particularly objected ‘to one which consisted of ‘filler’ materjal with the simple recommendations on how to conserve heat. The purpose of the campaign, of course, ig to keep people conscious of the need to conserve fuel by continual reminders. “This research inspired us to check the congressmen’s own, publication, the Congressional Record. Welearned that 40,000 copies are printed daily when congress is in session, the number of pages depending. on the amount of oratory. ~ “Davis said OWI had issued 23 tons of press handouts in September. The Sunday New York Times uses 788 tons a day. In the last month each subscriber has received 5'3-4 pounds of Congressional Records, which indicates the record uses 115 tons of paper. Three quarters of this was material ‘inserted’ in the Record, speeches, newspaper articles, poetry, which catches congressmen’s fancy andis printed in the appendix. Congress has been ‘quiet’ lately. In June the Record was almost twice as thick. We figured each page takes 160 pounds of paper. There are 480 lines of type on both sides of the page. Bach line of type uses therefore, one third of a pound. “So it takes a line of type for research . AGE PENSIONER IS SUICIDE DOWNIEVILILE, Nov. 1.— Alfred Henry Ford, 69, shot himself through the right eye with a 16 gauge shotgun, Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in .the home of Mrs. Nancy Foust. . Following an investigation Sheriff Dewey Johnson declared it a suicide. Mrs. Foust, a widow, lives on upper Pearl Street. It was learned that she and Ford had gone to Reno’ recently, apparently with the intention of marrying, but had returned unwed. Ford, who formerly occupied a cabin two miles east of Goodyears Bar, had more recently made his home at the Foust residence. He was an old age pensioner who had transferred about a year ago from Placer ‘County. Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada (City, which has charge of the remains, reports Ford has _ relatives believed to be in Modesto, Stanislaus County, and Michigan., Funeral arrangements are awaiting instructions from them. BROTHERHOOD DAY TO AID BLIND SATURDAY Arrangements are complete for the annual ‘Brotherhood Day’’ flower sale to be held in Nevada City, Novthe National Brotherhood of Service. Headquarters for the day’s will be at the National Hotel upstairs banquet room, Miss Ruth Libby will who are invited to report. Saturday morning at 9 o’clock to -help. this worthy cause. The little artificial flowers which will be offered for sale are made by the blind in their own homes by the workers, who find happiness in such employment, by which they also receive a measure of self support. The Brotherhood renders many kinds of personal assistance to the blind and shut-ins. It provides free reading matter, Bibles, magazines, jetc., in braille and ink print. It supplies white canes for the blind and various needed helps for the handicapped which they cannot otherwise obtain without charge. It assists in securing marvelously trained shepherd dogs as companions and guides for the blind, and conducts National. Cheerio Circle for shut-ins to bring joy and comfort to those who suffer physical disability and loneliness or, who live in negiécted areas anid 9 whose needs are seriously overlooked. } ,, All collections are handled by the local, leader in, charge and are for‘warded directly to the headquarters fof the organization. ; Eye research ‘is receiving an ins creasing amount ‘of the Brotherhood’ 8, . interest and funds and operations } ;war mlakes this feature of their program of tremendous current: importance. The Brotherhood’s work is supported entirely by free-will offerings. LARGE SURGICAL DRESSING OUOTA IS ASSIGNED The Red Cross surgical dressings unit reports having completed 30,000 2x2 dressings since September 20. The unit is asked to complete the same number during November 4s quotas due to pressing need, have been increased for all units throughout the country. A group of high school girls has agreed to give up their physical edudation hour in order to devote the time to making dressings. , nationwide the ‘the gentleman from Massachusetts.’ “Will some congressman arise with a motion that a committee be appointed to study ways and means congress can cut down on its use of paper?’’ ember 6 on Saturday of this week by . sale, be. in charge of the girls anid boys} that have been recently sponsored . [have ‘been anrazingly successful. The By MABEL STRICKLAND Editor of The Times of Malta and proprietor of the allied Malta newspapers, Daughter of the late Lord Strickland, Prime Minister of Malta. Here is a story that has never been told before: the tale of three newspapers which, in over four years of: war—bombs and blitz, siege and sacrifice—went {to press ‘without fail each day to bring the news to the citizens of the most-bombed island in the world — Malta, Britain’s George Cross bastion in the Mediterranean. Despite German bombers and Italian E-boats, amid falling bombs and crumbling buildings. The Times of Malta (the English daily), Il Berqa (the Maltese daily) and the Sunday Times of Malta were always published. } } : War From a Window While the papers went to press history was -being made outside. From the office roof we could witness the whole drama of the harbor of Valetta and its approaches. We saw the dive-bombing of HMS Illustrous and her triumphant departure after Malta’s dockyard craftsmen had healed her wounds. We watched the Italian E-boat dawn attack, when every one of the seventeen enemy craft was sunk by the gunners of the ‘Royal Malta Artillery. We cheered the arrival of convoys flying the flags of Britain, the United States, Norway and Holland; and later saw the at‘tack upon HMS Penelope and merlchant ships in harbor. By day for months on end we watched the. hideous German vulturJunkers 88, lumbering back to;wards Sicily, after their attack on the Island; and a year later we saw them shot out of the sky——sixtyfive in one afternoon——by Spitfires, flown by pilots from Britain, Australia, South Africa, and the United States. By might the sky would be lit up with the tracer bullets of the antiaircraft guns, the yellow flares of enemy or the beams of. the searchlights, giant silver moths, often until they crashed under the attack of the RAF night fighters, diving to the sea in a great sheet of flame. Sometimes we were cheered ‘British submarises returning flying the Jolly Roger-as a signal of-6uccess against Axis shipping, or the entry of a naval “task” force flushed with their victory over German convoys to Libya. Hordes of Bombers Activity was hot confined to Valetta and the~harbor area. From December 1941 to May 1942 hordes of German bombers carried destruction far inland. Villages, and towns, farmefs_and fishing folk, all shared in the daily round, of war. : pane problem . of newspaper iproduction was always one, of, men, machines, supply, and transport. Thousands of Maltese families lgst their ‘homes, and by the,end of the hombing. period, seventy five per cent of les, they never failed to report for. duty. At the outbreak of war a third of the. staff, territorials and reservicts, ‘was called up,, either to the King’s Own, Malta Regiment, the. Royal Malta . Artillery, the Royal Navy, or the RAF. : Down to Four Pages The newspapers were reduced from sixteen to eight pages, and, as the paper shortage became more acute, to four, with eight pages on Sunday. Circulation was controlled at a total of 20,000 copies daily, 13,000 and 7,000 respectively for the dailies, and 15,000 for the Sunday Times of Malta; demand always exceeded supply. A ship carrying newsprint from Newfoundland, diverted in mid-Atlantic, came specially into Malta and established the basic stock of newsprint two months after the declaration of ‘war. In a bombing attack, a newsprint store was hit, but much salvaged paper was later used, and many editions were published with burnt edges. Some people, ignorant of the fire that-had raged, complained that the boys had burned the edges with cigarette ends. ‘Hiding in Wells (Malta’s newspapers are produced by modern machinery in an ancient building known as ‘‘The House of the Fountains’, beneath which are six dried-out wells. These were used as an air-raid shelter for the staff, and in 1942 they resisted a direct hit. The building above crashed down, New Zealand, Canada) which held the raiders like by) The Triumphant Island partially blocking one entrance, and filling the air with dust and cordite fumes. Underground in one of the dried wells a twenty two hour watch was kept daily, to receive Reuter and other news by morse. There, in the heart of Mount Schiberras, the hill on which Valetta is built, the vibrations of the rock from the rain of German bombs at times made it impossible for the radio operator to transscribe the morse. \ The principal printing machine, a Cossor press, \was situated above ground, protected by a massive concrete roof, a few yards from the entrance to the shelter. One night it Was covered with dust and debris as the dividing wall, with the neighboring houses, gave way under the impact of a bomb. Repairs to the machines were done on our own lathes; or in the dockyard. .Ink was, diluted and made in the office to eke out the supply. Linos of the Gerthe aircraft Bombs Rain :on Throughout the week man attack in 1941, on carrier Illustrious, then being répaired in Maltas dockyard, the linotype operators stuck to their jobs or the top floor, protected by a concrete roof, adequate against 500 pound Italian bombs. (Later the armor-piercing shells which fell on Senglea and Valetta proved this to be. as useless.as a sheet of paper; they cut through the stone buildings like a knife through cheese) I shall not forget the drone of the enemy bombers intermingling with the clicking of the linotype machines, jand the crash of falling bombs. After this battle was over, the linotype . machines were removed from the top shelter, ‘which gave the men spotter sounded his minent’” warning. Casualties among the news ers. a Men Sleep in Office We faced the disorganization to civilian Jife in the early days of Italian bombing by bedding down men and their families in the office shélAer. This continued until rock shelters were hollowed out throughout the island. Then men and women would often come to work in dghalsas (a Maltest boat), perhaps rowing across.a harbor that was being bombed, and then hurrying along roads made dangerous by ‘the’ shrapnel from anti-arcraft guns, with an occasional dive into the ditch. when the bombers came too close. Maintaining power to. drive the machines was a constant anxiety. Our own electric plant was damaged by enemy. action, It took three weeks to. put right,. with workmen doing day and night repairs on the mains along the bomb-cratered roads. The plant. resumed work two. days before the main government plant was put out of action. Malta was without electric power for five months, except for. an emergency government supply for “essential services.” Food Runs Low During the blitz period we reinforced our power position by salvaging an electric light plant from the harbor area, and placing it in our ration of diesél oil salvaged from a sunken ship. Horse transport was used to” bring supplies of newsprint from dispersed stores. The ration of gasoline was ingas shortage. prevented the use of . busses on certain days we used horse . transport for newspaper tion. After the ordeal by bombing came the ordeal by siege, when Malta and its garrison proved themselves capable of enduring a black fast through the six months from June to November, 1942. The suffering during this time had to be endured to be properly realized. It was a feat which made the earlier days of bombardment seem easy. Rations were cut to mere subsisience level; 204,000 people, out of a total of 250,000 were dependent upon the government communal. meal, instituted to supplement the meager rations. Malta Triumphant It was available either at midday or in the evening and consisted of a plate of vegetable soup, and a few beans, a piece of tinned fish, or an { . i story one by one, and placed near the'of the U. a\rived in Newport News, chance of diving below when the roof;ter an “Danger is im-. combat / . were three killed pnd on the staff, . Chapman's one wounded. Sickness claimed oth-. ‘Chapman, wife of Lieutent Colonel shelter. The government gave us a. adequate in this respect. Later, when. distribuj was reserved for TRINITY PARISH DINNER TO MARK 18TH BIRTHDAY Reservations for the annual dinner of Trinity Parish, to take place Wednesday evening, November 3rd, in the Elks Club rooms, has now reached the 200 mark. Dinner will be seryed at 6:15 p. m. with George Carter in charge and card play will begin at 8 o’clock. Bishop Noel Porter of Sacramento will be the chief speaker. The dinner will mark the 78th anniversary of services held here in Trinity Hpiscopal Church. Co-chairmen of the women’s activities are, Mrs. Minerva Wright and Mrs. Charles Parsons. The card party committee is headed by Mrs. Leland Michell assisted by Mrs. H. S. Foreman, Mrs. Mare Edmunds, Mrs. Leland Smith, Mrs. Emil Ott, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Annie Sherman and Mrs. Arthur Hoge. The dinner table committee consists of Mrs. J. F. Siegfried, Mrs. Charles Elliott, Mrs. Lloyd Hiscox, Mrs. Phoebe Maguire, Mrs. Ruth Daniels and Mrs. Lloyd Dudley. The decoration committee consists of Mrs. Frances Breese, chairman; Mrs. Fred Tredinnick, Mrs. David Rumbaugh and Mrs. H. P. Davis. ERNEST CHAPMAN HOME AFTER 5) MISSIONS First Lieutenant Ernest Chapman . S. Army Air: Morces has arVirginia afextended period of overseas duty. News of his arrival Figs received in a letter addressed to boys . Dr. C. W. Chapman from Lieutenant mother, Mrs. Marguerite Allen Chapman stated that she had received. a telephone message from her son: immediately after his arrival at Newport News. Mrs. Chapman wrote that her son was in perfect health save for convalescence from an attack of yellow jaundice. The former high school graduate of this city, a P-38 combat pilot, has a log book of war front exiperiences, highlighted by the forced bailing out from his plane as result of an accident. Lieutenant Chapman at the time escaped injury (or death by a hair, his ,’chute opening at about 500 feet from the ground. The well deserved home leave follows completion of 50 fighting missions and a_ total of. 200 combat hours, most all of which were spent over Bizerte, Tunis, Sicily and the Italian mainland. In addition to receiving nine campaign ribbons he was also awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. _ Dr. Chapman is hopeful that.his air-fighter grandson may be able, to spend part of his. leave in Nevada City, as Ernest has expressed such a desire in frequent letters. ounce or so of corned beef. Alternatives were.a plate of macaroni, or a slice of ‘‘veal”’ loaf, the latter usually being goat,. sometimes horse. Bread was rationed, at 10 11-2 ounces per head per day. There were no potatoes, for the necessary annual import of seed had: failed to arrive. Tea or coffee, mixed with barley, and a meager sugar ration provided two feups a day; milk and powdered milk nursing mothers and children. ounces of rice and a little oil, but no flour. Powdered eggs, brought in by special means, gave a temporary relief; the feathered population was heavily reduced, along with the goats and what remained became largely non-productive. Now the reward for fortitude has come. It took us a year to reestablish the processed block making plant, which was situated in one of received its second direct hit in April 1942. Now our newspapers carry pictures again, and our damaged building is largely rebuilt. Malta is on the offensive the siege is over, the air attack has ceased, and there is laughter and happiness again. Malta has emerged triumphant from her ordeal.—The National Publisher. 1 Of There were a few! the room damaged when the office I 943. . MORE THAN 250 EXHIBITS AT — RABBIT SHOW More than 250 exhibits of rabbits, Most of them pedegreed breeders stock, were displayed in Grass Valley’s first annual rabbit show in (Memorial Park yesterday. There were a wide variety ranging from -.fur bearing breeds to the heavy meat animals, which, because of war’s emPhasis on food productiin, are just now the favorites. Loyle Freeman, manager of the show, estimated that more than 2j000 persons had visited the show up till 2 p. m. yesterday afternoon. Most of the exhibitors were from Nevada County, though there were several fine showings from atte gh etanaens counties. In response to.an inquiry from District Attorney Ward Sheldon regarding the legal status of school board directors, who resign their posts to enter the armed forces, Atforney General Robert Kenny has replied as follows: “This is in. reply to our August 30th, 1943, ag . status of an elected member inquirg to theof a ‘. school board who has been inducted . into the armed forces of the United States under the Selective Service Act. “Service in the temporary military establishment of the Unjted States during the time and for i 2 duration lof the war by a public official is not, prohibited by Section 20 of Article IV of the Constitution of this state. { “If a member of the school board has resigned, or resigns his office in order to serve with the armed forces of the United States, he has the right, if honorably discharged, to return to and reenter upon the office within six months of termination of his active service or within six months after conclusion of the ‘peace treaties, if his term office hag not already expired. Upon such return he is entitled to all the rights and privileges of the office. Any vacancy may be filled by a temporary ap‘pointment.”’ . T'wo members of the Nevada City Unified District School Board have resigned to enter the armed forces. They are Frank G. Finnegan, attorney, now a lieutenant in the U. S. Army, judge advocate’s department, and Dr. John R. Bell, dentist, now. a lieutenant in the U. S. Army Medical ‘Corps. SERVICE FLAGIS GIVEN ELKS BY — JOHN O'NEILL At ‘the annual Hallowe’en , barn dance. given by the city Elks Lodge Saturday evening in their club rooms, members and their friends had an opportunity to see the beautiful new service flag with its 29 stars, presented to the lodge by John O’Neill, old time member and a veteran of World War I. The flag was presented at the last lodge meeting. Rev. Cedric Porter, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church made the presentation address: Knights Templar To Aid Injured Service Men The Knights Templar throughout ‘California have undertaken to. provide buildings in which arts and crafts will be taught injured service men at hospitals where they spend time in convalescense. The Grand Commander has asked-. tha Nevada ‘Commandery to raise $2,400 for the building on one art and craft skill — center. The Red Cross has agreed furnish -these centers and p materials used in the classes. — Contributions to this fund wil received and acknowledged by Be ‘Chegwidden in Grass Valley ani F. Stenger in Nevada City.’ .

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per "month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to pi and defend it.””—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nugget ‘ COVERS RICHEST GOLD _AREA IN CALIFORNIA _ This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 86. The County Seat vila we ‘ NEVADA city’, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, I, Thinking Out Loud By H. M. lL. ae Sanh -——— There is now a movement on foot to conserve paper. We hope that it will succeed. But chief wasters ‘of paper in this country @re not newspaper or magazine publishers, or even book publishers. The daddy of all wastes is in Washington, D. C. It is the congress and the bureaus. Might call them the parents of paper waste, who is a great big fella, overgrown, rambunctious and weighing tons and tons. In fact, this offspring of the jaunty Washington pair of princely wasters, has grown so big that noboby in Washington wants to weigh him or even to try it. Here’s what Robert E. Kennedy, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Daily Times says about Washington’s paper wastes: ‘After sonutderaple this department is in a position to give a helping hand to the congressmen who are ° looking for ways and means to save paper and who had been giving Elmer Davis a going-over for “wasting’’. paper on press releases which tell people to keep their shutters closed at night to keep out the cold. “Being addicted to a passion for numbers, we have just figured out that Elmer Davis’ office of War Information used up about 22 pounds of mimeograph (not counting envelopes) to circularizing the rural newspapers with 12. rather simple suggestions for conserving heat. That’s as much paper as the average congressman uses Up in two minutes of. official oratory, and that’s where our suggestion for saving paper comes in. “~phis department would be the last one to suggest that congressmen stop or even curtail their privilege of spilling immortal words on the floor of the house. What would Washington cornespondents do without daily quota of wit. and wisdom from Capitol Hill. But each word is inserted in tthe (Congressional ‘Record, and the record uses paper. “All we ask is that a congressman refer to a colleague simply as “Mr. Dewey, or Mr. Busbey,’ instead of referring to him as ‘My distinguished colleague, the gentleman from Illinois.’ That mere change, according to our computations, will save one-half pound of paper per utterance. And just dropping the formality, ‘the gentleman from such and such a state,’ will save one third of a pound, especially in the case of gentlemen from ‘Massachusetts.’ “The matter. of, saving , paper came Up ‘at yesterday’ 'S hearing of the Boren subcommittee on newsprint. Mr. Boren. (Dem. Okla.) has toured Canada to get “the lowdown on the newaprint shortage. “He algo, has heard fr fr ym. a coun: try, newspaper, editor wh o,claimed that he got ‘bales’ of el i ei ed, handouts from owl each week. He particularly objected ‘to one which consisted of ‘filler’ materjal with the simple recommendations on how to conserve heat. The purpose of the campaign, of course, ig to keep people conscious of the need to conserve fuel by continual reminders. “This research inspired us to check the congressmen’s own, publication, the Congressional Record. Welearned that 40,000 copies are printed daily when congress is in session, the number of pages depending. on the amount of oratory. ~ “Davis said OWI had issued 23 tons of press handouts in September. The Sunday New York Times uses 788 tons a day. In the last month each subscriber has received 5'3-4 pounds of Congressional Records, which indicates the record uses 115 tons of paper. Three quarters of this was material ‘inserted’ in the Record, speeches, newspaper articles, poetry, which catches congressmen’s fancy andis printed in the appendix. Congress has been ‘quiet’ lately. In June the Record was almost twice as thick. We figured each page takes 160 pounds of paper. There are 480 lines of type on both sides of the page. Bach line of type uses therefore, one third of a pound. “So it takes a line of type for research . AGE PENSIONER IS SUICIDE DOWNIEVILILE, Nov. 1.— Alfred Henry Ford, 69, shot himself through the right eye with a 16 gauge shotgun, Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in .the home of Mrs. Nancy Foust. . Following an investigation Sheriff Dewey Johnson declared it a suicide. Mrs. Foust, a widow, lives on upper Pearl Street. It was learned that she and Ford had gone to Reno’ recently, apparently with the intention of marrying, but had returned unwed. Ford, who formerly occupied a cabin two miles east of Goodyears Bar, had more recently made his home at the Foust residence. He was an old age pensioner who had transferred about a year ago from Placer ‘County. Holmes Funeral Home of Nevada (City, which has charge of the remains, reports Ford has _ relatives believed to be in Modesto, Stanislaus County, and Michigan., Funeral arrangements are awaiting instructions from them. BROTHERHOOD DAY TO AID BLIND SATURDAY Arrangements are complete for the annual ‘Brotherhood Day’’ flower sale to be held in Nevada City, Novthe National Brotherhood of Service. Headquarters for the day’s will be at the National Hotel upstairs banquet room, Miss Ruth Libby will who are invited to report. Saturday morning at 9 o’clock to -help. this worthy cause. The little artificial flowers which will be offered for sale are made by the blind in their own homes by the workers, who find happiness in such employment, by which they also receive a measure of self support. The Brotherhood renders many kinds of personal assistance to the blind and shut-ins. It provides free reading matter, Bibles, magazines, jetc., in braille and ink print. It supplies white canes for the blind and various needed helps for the handicapped which they cannot otherwise obtain without charge. It assists in securing marvelously trained shepherd dogs as companions and guides for the blind, and conducts National. Cheerio Circle for shut-ins to bring joy and comfort to those who suffer physical disability and loneliness or, who live in negiécted areas anid 9 whose needs are seriously overlooked. } ,, All collections are handled by the local, leader in, charge and are for‘warded directly to the headquarters fof the organization. ; Eye research ‘is receiving an ins creasing amount ‘of the Brotherhood’ 8, . interest and funds and operations } ;war mlakes this feature of their program of tremendous current: importance. The Brotherhood’s work is supported entirely by free-will offerings. LARGE SURGICAL DRESSING OUOTA IS ASSIGNED The Red Cross surgical dressings unit reports having completed 30,000 2x2 dressings since September 20. The unit is asked to complete the same number during November 4s quotas due to pressing need, have been increased for all units throughout the country. A group of high school girls has agreed to give up their physical edudation hour in order to devote the time to making dressings. , nationwide the ‘the gentleman from Massachusetts.’ “Will some congressman arise with a motion that a committee be appointed to study ways and means congress can cut down on its use of paper?’’ ember 6 on Saturday of this week by . sale, be. in charge of the girls anid boys} that have been recently sponsored . [have ‘been anrazingly successful. The By MABEL STRICKLAND Editor of The Times of Malta and proprietor of the allied Malta newspapers, Daughter of the late Lord Strickland, Prime Minister of Malta. Here is a story that has never been told before: the tale of three newspapers which, in over four years of: war—bombs and blitz, siege and sacrifice—went {to press ‘without fail each day to bring the news to the citizens of the most-bombed island in the world — Malta, Britain’s George Cross bastion in the Mediterranean. Despite German bombers and Italian E-boats, amid falling bombs and crumbling buildings. The Times of Malta (the English daily), Il Berqa (the Maltese daily) and the Sunday Times of Malta were always published. } } : War From a Window While the papers went to press history was -being made outside. From the office roof we could witness the whole drama of the harbor of Valetta and its approaches. We saw the dive-bombing of HMS Illustrous and her triumphant departure after Malta’s dockyard craftsmen had healed her wounds. We watched the Italian E-boat dawn attack, when every one of the seventeen enemy craft was sunk by the gunners of the ‘Royal Malta Artillery. We cheered the arrival of convoys flying the flags of Britain, the United States, Norway and Holland; and later saw the at‘tack upon HMS Penelope and merlchant ships in harbor. By day for months on end we watched the. hideous German vulturJunkers 88, lumbering back to;wards Sicily, after their attack on the Island; and a year later we saw them shot out of the sky——sixtyfive in one afternoon——by Spitfires, flown by pilots from Britain, Australia, South Africa, and the United States. By might the sky would be lit up with the tracer bullets of the antiaircraft guns, the yellow flares of enemy or the beams of. the searchlights, giant silver moths, often until they crashed under the attack of the RAF night fighters, diving to the sea in a great sheet of flame. Sometimes we were cheered ‘British submarises returning flying the Jolly Roger-as a signal of-6uccess against Axis shipping, or the entry of a naval “task” force flushed with their victory over German convoys to Libya. Hordes of Bombers Activity was hot confined to Valetta and the~harbor area. From December 1941 to May 1942 hordes of German bombers carried destruction far inland. Villages, and towns, farmefs_and fishing folk, all shared in the daily round, of war. : pane problem . of newspaper iproduction was always one, of, men, machines, supply, and transport. Thousands of Maltese families lgst their ‘homes, and by the,end of the hombing. period, seventy five per cent of les, they never failed to report for. duty. At the outbreak of war a third of the. staff, territorials and reservicts, ‘was called up,, either to the King’s Own, Malta Regiment, the. Royal Malta . Artillery, the Royal Navy, or the RAF. : Down to Four Pages The newspapers were reduced from sixteen to eight pages, and, as the paper shortage became more acute, to four, with eight pages on Sunday. Circulation was controlled at a total of 20,000 copies daily, 13,000 and 7,000 respectively for the dailies, and 15,000 for the Sunday Times of Malta; demand always exceeded supply. A ship carrying newsprint from Newfoundland, diverted in mid-Atlantic, came specially into Malta and established the basic stock of newsprint two months after the declaration of ‘war. In a bombing attack, a newsprint store was hit, but much salvaged paper was later used, and many editions were published with burnt edges. Some people, ignorant of the fire that-had raged, complained that the boys had burned the edges with cigarette ends. ‘Hiding in Wells (Malta’s newspapers are produced by modern machinery in an ancient building known as ‘‘The House of the

Fountains’, beneath which are six dried-out wells. These were used as an air-raid shelter for the staff, and in 1942 they resisted a direct hit. The building above crashed down, New Zealand, Canada) which held the raiders like by) The Triumphant Island partially blocking one entrance, and filling the air with dust and cordite fumes. Underground in one of the dried wells a twenty two hour watch was kept daily, to receive Reuter and other news by morse. There, in the heart of Mount Schiberras, the hill on which Valetta is built, the vibrations of the rock from the rain of German bombs at times made it impossible for the radio operator to transscribe the morse. \ The principal printing machine, a Cossor press, \was situated above ground, protected by a massive concrete roof, a few yards from the entrance to the shelter. One night it Was covered with dust and debris as the dividing wall, with the neighboring houses, gave way under the impact of a bomb. Repairs to the machines were done on our own lathes; or in the dockyard. .Ink was, diluted and made in the office to eke out the supply. Linos of the Gerthe aircraft Bombs Rain :on Throughout the week man attack in 1941, on carrier Illustrious, then being répaired in Maltas dockyard, the linotype operators stuck to their jobs or the top floor, protected by a concrete roof, adequate against 500 pound Italian bombs. (Later the armor-piercing shells which fell on Senglea and Valetta proved this to be. as useless.as a sheet of paper; they cut through the stone buildings like a knife through cheese) I shall not forget the drone of the enemy bombers intermingling with the clicking of the linotype machines, jand the crash of falling bombs. After this battle was over, the linotype . machines were removed from the top shelter, ‘which gave the men spotter sounded his minent’” warning. Casualties among the news ers. a Men Sleep in Office We faced the disorganization to civilian Jife in the early days of Italian bombing by bedding down men and their families in the office shélAer. This continued until rock shelters were hollowed out throughout the island. Then men and women would often come to work in dghalsas (a Maltest boat), perhaps rowing across.a harbor that was being bombed, and then hurrying along roads made dangerous by ‘the’ shrapnel from anti-arcraft guns, with an occasional dive into the ditch. when the bombers came too close. Maintaining power to. drive the machines was a constant anxiety. Our own electric plant was damaged by enemy. action, It took three weeks to. put right,. with workmen doing day and night repairs on the mains along the bomb-cratered roads. The plant. resumed work two. days before the main government plant was put out of action. Malta was without electric power for five months, except for. an emergency government supply for “essential services.” Food Runs Low During the blitz period we reinforced our power position by salvaging an electric light plant from the harbor area, and placing it in our ration of diesél oil salvaged from a sunken ship. Horse transport was used to” bring supplies of newsprint from dispersed stores. The ration of gasoline was ingas shortage. prevented the use of . busses on certain days we used horse . transport for newspaper tion. After the ordeal by bombing came the ordeal by siege, when Malta and its garrison proved themselves capable of enduring a black fast through the six months from June to November, 1942. The suffering during this time had to be endured to be properly realized. It was a feat which made the earlier days of bombardment seem easy. Rations were cut to mere subsisience level; 204,000 people, out of a total of 250,000 were dependent upon the government communal. meal, instituted to supplement the meager rations. Malta Triumphant It was available either at midday or in the evening and consisted of a plate of vegetable soup, and a few beans, a piece of tinned fish, or an { . i story one by one, and placed near the'of the U. a\rived in Newport News, chance of diving below when the roof;ter an “Danger is im-. combat / . were three killed pnd on the staff, . Chapman's one wounded. Sickness claimed oth-. ‘Chapman, wife of Lieutent Colonel shelter. The government gave us a. adequate in this respect. Later, when. distribuj was reserved for TRINITY PARISH DINNER TO MARK 18TH BIRTHDAY Reservations for the annual dinner of Trinity Parish, to take place Wednesday evening, November 3rd, in the Elks Club rooms, has now reached the 200 mark. Dinner will be seryed at 6:15 p. m. with George Carter in charge and card play will begin at 8 o’clock. Bishop Noel Porter of Sacramento will be the chief speaker. The dinner will mark the 78th anniversary of services held here in Trinity Hpiscopal Church. Co-chairmen of the women’s activities are, Mrs. Minerva Wright and Mrs. Charles Parsons. The card party committee is headed by Mrs. Leland Michell assisted by Mrs. H. S. Foreman, Mrs. Mare Edmunds, Mrs. Leland Smith, Mrs. Emil Ott, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Annie Sherman and Mrs. Arthur Hoge. The dinner table committee consists of Mrs. J. F. Siegfried, Mrs. Charles Elliott, Mrs. Lloyd Hiscox, Mrs. Phoebe Maguire, Mrs. Ruth Daniels and Mrs. Lloyd Dudley. The decoration committee consists of Mrs. Frances Breese, chairman; Mrs. Fred Tredinnick, Mrs. David Rumbaugh and Mrs. H. P. Davis. ERNEST CHAPMAN HOME AFTER 5) MISSIONS First Lieutenant Ernest Chapman . S. Army Air: Morces has arVirginia afextended period of overseas duty. News of his arrival Figs received in a letter addressed to boys . Dr. C. W. Chapman from Lieutenant mother, Mrs. Marguerite Allen Chapman stated that she had received. a telephone message from her son: immediately after his arrival at Newport News. Mrs. Chapman wrote that her son was in perfect health save for convalescence from an attack of yellow jaundice. The former high school graduate of this city, a P-38 combat pilot, has a log book of war front exiperiences, highlighted by the forced bailing out from his plane as result of an accident. Lieutenant Chapman at the time escaped injury (or death by a hair, his ,’chute opening at about 500 feet from the ground. The well deserved home leave follows completion of 50 fighting missions and a_ total of. 200 combat hours, most all of which were spent over Bizerte, Tunis, Sicily and the Italian mainland. In addition to receiving nine campaign ribbons he was also awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. _ Dr. Chapman is hopeful that.his air-fighter grandson may be able, to spend part of his. leave in Nevada City, as Ernest has expressed such a desire in frequent letters. ounce or so of corned beef. Alternatives were.a plate of macaroni, or a slice of ‘‘veal”’ loaf, the latter usually being goat,. sometimes horse. Bread was rationed, at 10 11-2 ounces per head per day. There were no potatoes, for the necessary annual import of seed had: failed to arrive. Tea or coffee, mixed with barley, and a meager sugar ration provided two feups a day; milk and powdered milk nursing mothers and children. ounces of rice and a little oil, but no flour. Powdered eggs, brought in by special means, gave a temporary relief; the feathered population was heavily reduced, along with the goats and what remained became largely non-productive. Now the reward for fortitude has come. It took us a year to reestablish the processed block making plant, which was situated in one of received its second direct hit in April 1942. Now our newspapers carry pictures again, and our damaged building is largely rebuilt. Malta is on the offensive the siege is over, the air attack has ceased, and there is laughter and happiness again. Malta has emerged triumphant from her ordeal.—The National Publisher. 1 Of There were a few! the room damaged when the office I 943. . MORE THAN 250 EXHIBITS AT — RABBIT SHOW More than 250 exhibits of rabbits, Most of them pedegreed breeders stock, were displayed in Grass Valley’s first annual rabbit show in (Memorial Park yesterday. There were a wide variety ranging from -.fur bearing breeds to the heavy meat animals, which, because of war’s emPhasis on food productiin, are just now the favorites. Loyle Freeman, manager of the show, estimated that more than 2j000 persons had visited the show up till 2 p. m. yesterday afternoon. Most of the exhibitors were from Nevada County, though there were several fine showings from atte gh etanaens counties. In response to.an inquiry from District Attorney Ward Sheldon regarding the legal status of school board directors, who resign their posts to enter the armed forces, Atforney General Robert Kenny has replied as follows: “This is in. reply to our August 30th, 1943, ag . status of an elected member inquirg to theof a ‘. school board who has been inducted . into the armed forces of the United States under the Selective Service Act. “Service in the temporary military establishment of the Unjted States during the time and for i 2 duration lof the war by a public official is not, prohibited by Section 20 of Article IV of the Constitution of this state. { “If a member of the school board has resigned, or resigns his office in order to serve with the armed forces of the United States, he has the right, if honorably discharged, to return to and reenter upon the office within six months of termination of his active service or within six months after conclusion of the ‘peace treaties, if his term office hag not already expired. Upon such return he is entitled to all the rights and privileges of the office. Any vacancy may be filled by a temporary ap‘pointment.”’ . T'wo members of the Nevada City Unified District School Board have resigned to enter the armed forces. They are Frank G. Finnegan, attorney, now a lieutenant in the U. S. Army, judge advocate’s department, and Dr. John R. Bell, dentist, now. a lieutenant in the U. S. Army Medical ‘Corps. SERVICE FLAGIS GIVEN ELKS BY — JOHN O'NEILL At ‘the annual Hallowe’en , barn dance. given by the city Elks Lodge Saturday evening in their club rooms, members and their friends had an opportunity to see the beautiful new service flag with its 29 stars, presented to the lodge by John O’Neill, old time member and a veteran of World War I. The flag was presented at the last lodge meeting. Rev. Cedric Porter, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church made the presentation address: Knights Templar To Aid Injured Service Men The Knights Templar throughout ‘California have undertaken to. provide buildings in which arts and crafts will be taught injured service men at hospitals where they spend time in convalescense. The Grand Commander has asked-. tha Nevada ‘Commandery to raise $2,400 for the building on one art and craft skill — center. The Red Cross has agreed furnish -these centers and p materials used in the classes. — Contributions to this fund wil received and acknowledged by Be ‘Chegwidden in Grass Valley ani F. Stenger in Nevada City.’ .