October 27, 1939 (8 pages)

te a Whang Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget in with good motives and for justifiabie ends. ton, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press counts the right to publish the Truth, — —Alexander Hamilé Why the kiyi-ing and yip-yipyippping about a prayer from the Canadian Church of England prayer book, read in the service last Sunday in the church the President attends. The book was a gift to the rector from the, King and Queen following their attendance there during their “recent visit. Why not offer a prayer for the King Emperor and Queen Empress? They proved themselves very likable people while in this country.-They apparently relished their U.S. A. hot dog picnic lunch. ‘We rather approve a prayer in their behalf. Does anyone wish to offer a prayer for Hitler, Goebels, or Goering? Let'them do so. This is a free country. Our private opinion is that the “Aryan” trio need a deal of praying for. Anyone who seeks to make a political issue of a prayer offered for anyone, we set down “as being. a little lower than a_ sérpent’s nether side. There are plenty of issues, real ones, between thinking people in this country and the administration ‘in ‘Washington, without forcing a*prayer uttered in behalf of the King and Queen into a position of first. importance. Far more important is the New Deal's reduction of a large proportion of our population to a condition, spiritual and material, of . mendicancy. That needs little evidence to prove. The fact that two vociferous spielers can set up a million dollar Ham and Egg show in California and draw into their tént several hundred thousand citizens reveals that the moral of American’ citizenship has steadily deteriorated under (Federal relief until now we have millions of citizens believing (and acting on their belief) that the government ‘owes “them a living. Some of our young people gladly foist their old folks onto the government’s bounty. Our traditions of sturdy American independence have been thoroughly corrupted under the new doctrine of government help. for ' everybody. Young women leaving emPloyment in store or factories to »to be married use their unemployment insurance as a kind of government dowery. They collect all the insurance they can lay their hands on, though as a matter of fact they are not unemployed, but have merely changed employments. Another instance: A young man _ well beyond college age, who had spent a busy year in Nevada County inciting the CIlO-communists to attempt at closing Nevada County «mines, obtains from the National Youth Administration’ funds to pursue studies at one of the state’s larger universities. Thus the tale unfolds. Under guise of relieving the necessities of unfortunate victims of a badly wrecked economic system, the New Dealers have reduced a large section of the population to spiritual pauperism. Their integrity undermined, their personal pride _ of achievement destroyed, their ambition to do for themselves and to be self-sufficient and self-sustaining, overwhelmed, they are at length content to ride on _ the shoulders of their industrious fellow citizens. How large a percentage of the 10 million unemployed belong in the above category no one can say. But, knowing the tendency of human nature, it would seem a safe bet that the proportion is growing from year to year. The fact that the New Deal spokesmen notably Harry Hopkins, insist that we shall always have a relief army with which the Federal government must cope, bodes ill for those selfsupporting members of the body politic. If Hopkins is right each time Congress meets there will be a further attempt to jack up the taxes. Each time the taxes are jacked up, more business. firms must succumb ‘and more. workers will join the relief legion. It is a vicious circle. The remedy for it is too drastic for our tender hearted politicians. Instead of increasing the various doles to various groups throughout the nation, the real remedy is gradually to reduce all relief, all subsidies, and force a gradual responsibility upon each citizen, not aged and not crippled, to provide for himself. A new neon sign was installed in front of the Bottle Shop on Broad street yesterday afternoon adding another brilliantly lighted sign to the bright lights of the main drag. “Vol. 13, No. 86. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center i FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27,1939 19 CHAMBER SLAPS 30 THURSDAY The ‘Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night added its name to the long list of civic organizations officially. opposing Proposition No. 1, 30 Every Thursday, on the November 7 ballot. The move condemning the measure was unanimous. The chamber, at their regular meeting presided over by Stenger Williamson in the absence of President E. B. Gallagher, also went on record as supporting Proposition No. 5, the Atkinson Oi] Control Bill. A. E. Presley, dance program chair man, suggested that the net proceeds from the dance to be held November 25 be used for advertising the new Nevada City ski course. He pointed out that merchants in the city would reap a double benefit from advertising in the program since the money would ultimately be used -to bring ‘many winter sports enthusiasts through this community. After the regular meeting, a discussion was held to find out some means of getting a larger turnout of members to the meetings. According to H. F. Sofge, secretary, speakers and programs are available and an attempt will be made to have them presented. SUPPRESSED CHINESE STAMPS RECEIVED HERE Mrs. Orlando McCraney has just received a set of four late Chinese stamps in blocks of four from her husband in the Philippine Islands. The stamps were removed. from circulation a few hours after they were put on sale. The issue was China’s first philatelic gesture of good will toward this republic across the Pacific in the form of a stamp issue commemorating ithe sesqui-centennial of the founding of the United States. Due to the precise Chinese characters in writing and delineation of the map of China in a way likely to raise an embarassing international boundary issue the stamps were, removed from sale. The highly colored stamps were the 5, 25, 50c and $1 demoninations. The American flag was prominently displayed across one corner of the stamps, These stamps will become more valuable to stamp collectors as the years go by due to the small number sold. LANDRIGAN TO FACE TRIAL ON TRAFFIC CHARGE The trial of Byron Landrigan, charged with a violation of the motor vehicle code upon the complaint of Night Officer Frank Mizner, will be Wednesday, November 1, before Ciiy Judge Miles D. Coughlin. Proceedings will be held in the court room of Judge W. L. Mobley in to the use of the room for that purpose. The anecsd: offense occurred several weeks ago. Mizner charged that Landrigan collided with the officer’s car and filed a complaint against the defendant. : Landrigan will be defended by Harry W. McKee while City Attorney Frank C. Finnegan will conduct the prosecution. $ A large group of Nevada City Residents are planning to attend the fair over the coming week end. Among those going are County Clerk and Mrs. (IR. N. MeCormack, Mr. and iMrs. Robert Stedger and family, Mr. and Mrs. Don Stedger and child. Misses Ruth and Reita Hutchison left yesterday for San Francisco to spend a few days visiting the fair and to attend the big game between University of California and University of Southern California on Saturday. Bob Tucker who has been stationed at Sierraville with the Tahoe national forest came down and after a visit with his mother Mrs. Emma Tucker’ in this city left on Wednesday for San Francisco. He will spend a few days at the fair. George Calanan, city clerk, is spending a few. days, in San Francisco visiting relatives and attending ihe fair. ~ the court house who has consented . . POT LUCK SUPPER FOR vada City. fire department are making plans for a Hallowe’en party entertaining the local fire denartment members in the firemen’s hall Tuesday evening. A pot luck supper will be served at 6:30 o’clock. “Mrs. Louise Dudley is chairman of the entertainment program. Gay Hallowe’en motifs will be used throughout the hall and on the table decorations. JOHNFUBBARD HELD TO ANSWER ON AUTO THEFT At the conclusion of the preliminary examination held Wednesday afternoon, Judge W. L. Mobley directed that John N. Hubbard, Jr., charged with grand theft, be held over for trial in the superior court with bonds fixed at $2,000. In default of bail he was remanded to the custody of the sheriff. Hubbard allegedly took a car belonging to Forrest Thurston of Glenbrook from a parking station without the owner’s ‘consent. Night officer Lionel Davies, after a 70 mile an hour chase, overtook the fleeing Hubbard near the White Cloud CCC camp. At the examination, Thurston testified the automobile was taken without his permission. Davies described the chase and capture of Hubbard after receiving a description of the stolen car over the radio. District Attorney Vernon Stoll conducted the prosecution and the defendant. appeared without counsel and offered no evidence to refute the charges. P.T.A. TO MEET IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TODAY A meeting of the third district of parent-teachers associations will be held at the Nevada City elementary school today. The sessions are scheduled to start at 10 o’clock in the morning and continue throughout the day. Parents and teachers from El Dorado, Sacramento, Placer and Nevada counties will attend. Mrs. W. D. Alexander of Sacramento, district. president, will preside at the business sessions. One of the features of the meeting will be the appearance of Mrs. James K. Lytle, president of the California Congress of Parents and Teachers. The executive boatd will meet at 9:30 o’clock, before the regular meeting. Mrs. A. Deschwanden, president of the local high school association and Mrs. Clyde Gwin, president of the elementary group, are in charge of committees making arrangements for the meeting. CLARK WAITE BUYS HOTEL WASHINGTON Mrs.-E. J. Haverstock left yesterday for Ely, Nevada, where she expects to remain for a few weeks on business. From there she will go to Glenn’s Ferry, Idaho to visit her brother a few weeks. She will return to Nevada City and take some personal belongings with her to Taft where she expects to make her permanent home. Mrs. Haverstock sold her hotel property in Washington to Mr. and Mrs. Clark ‘Waite. The deal was made about two months ago and Mr.and Mrs. Waite are making several changes with a view of opening the hotel to summer trade. It is a nice vacation spot and the South Yuba river runs just below the hotel. Trout fishing and hunting in season are good in ‘the district. Mrs. Haverstock and her late husband resided at Washington many years and the best wishes of the lit‘tle community and Nevada City go with her to her new home. Gus Orzalli ‘visited with friends in Marysville last week ‘end. He is planning on a trip to Reno to visit NEVADA CITY FIREMEN! The Ladies Auxiliary of the Nefor . ing the books. MRS, GUENTHER WILL CELEBRATE OTH BIRTHDAY Mary Sovuetier Guenther of Mrs. birthday on Sunday with her son and daughters in a family reunion. Hattie Legg, who is about ninety two years of age, and Mrs. Guenther are this city’s oldest living pioneers. St. Louis, Pike *%ounty, Missouri, October 29, 1849 and came to California with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. HenMrs: Guenther was born in ry Schneider when only six years cf ase, in January of 1856. The father was a butcher and settled his family in the only house he could find on Commercial street near the Wise brewery. It was back of the present Elks building and_ before there was such a thing as a Chinatown in that section: Just about as soon as they were settled a fire started in a building at the corner of Broad and ‘Pine streets and swept toward Commercial street burning all houses in town, except a few brick thouses on the eastern part of Commercial street. The mother was so frightened she grabbed a feather bed. Everything else was destroyed. Mrs. Guenther did not even have her Shoes. She was barefooted and terribly frightened. & man came by and took her out toward Sugar Loaf and Placed her in a stage coach with some traveling actors and actresses who were about ready to leave the city. Her mother and uncle searched frantically and found her sitting high upon the baggage eating a raw turnip and crying for her relatives. Nevada City was a town of several hundred inhabitants and _ sleeping places were scarce, The Schneider family spent the night in the brick Shellhouse brewery up near the court house on the floor and with almost no bedding. f Mrs. Guenther has lived in Nevada City. over eighty years. Her father found a tiny house to live in where the Dave Richards home is now located on Boulder street and the family has remained on that street ever since. She has lived in her present home over sixty years. Her father had a cattle yard above the Richards home, and several horses were kept in a barn on the lot. His slaughter house was down on the ditch. The cattle were herded outside of town during the day. Schneider built the house where Ronald Fraser now resides on Boulder street. He died when only 35 years of age when his daughter was but twelve. She first attended the private school of Mrs. Rudolph on upper Nevada street, the mother paying $4 per month tuition and buyThe child attended high school in a frame -building where the present Episcopal church stands and Mr. Powers, father of Federal Attorney Powers of . San Francisco, was the teacher. Charles Marsh, who resided in the present Sawyer house, brought the first water to Nevada City. It was served to customers by an open Vtrough at first. The principal mine operating in the district was the Manzanita gravel mine Mrs. Guenther married the late Henry Guenther when she was only sixteen years of age. A year later she recalls visiting in Dutch Flat when Chinese were building the transcontinental railroad. The tracks were being laid through the town and many of the Chinese were camped down near a small stream below the town. She recalls when Dr. Hart, greatly loved. physician of the town, drove the golden spike at the Narrow Gauge depot in commemoration of}. the completion of the Narrow Gauge Railroad sixty years ago. Open cars with rails about the sides, carried picnic crowds from Nevada City and Grass Valley to the Ismert Grove in the Glenbrook district for many years. Five of Mrs. Guenther’s eight children are living. They are, Mrs. J. F. Dolan, Mrs. Minnie Allen, Miss Kate Guenther, Frank Guenther, Nevada City, and Mrs. Annie Johnston of Oakland. Ellsworth Colley of ‘Tudor is spending a few days in Nevada City assisting in his father’s confectionery store. His father, J. F. Colley is enjoying a weeks vacation in San friends next Sunday. One youth was turned loose and the Boulder street will celebrate her 90rh. ‘in the Elks Hall to elect an Exalted ‘in line for the office but does not YOUNS MAN CONVICTED OF THEFT FINED $100 J.D: Ratterty. te law enforcement offcer for the Tahoe national forest, roliees in the local court yesterday who were charged with petty theft. other, Ralph Wilson, was fined $100. Unable to pay the fine he was placed in the county jail to serve out the time. CLERGY IN TWO -FISTED BATTLE ON HAM & EGGS Leading churchmen all over California have joined in a crusade to save the state from economic disaster. Regardless of creed, and thoroughly in the spirit of making American democracy work to ward off subversive influences, chureh leaders through California are united in militant opposition to the 30-Thursday (Ham and Eggs) Act to be voted on November 7, 1939. Read and consider with care the _ following words of democratic wisdom from some of California’s wisest and most useful citizens: 2 Bishop James Chamberlain Baker, of the California Area of the Methodist Church says: “The political implications of the 30-Thursday Act are terrifying to persons who believe in our form of government. It is not democratically conceived and, for its execution, the most autocratic and uncontrolled despotic power is given to a selfappointed oligarchy. It provides for a super-government, responsible neither to the executive, legislative nor judicial branches of state government. There are no checks upon the authority of these’ self-appointed men. Irresponsible power is always enormously dangerous and should be resisted. This measure is so dangerous to democratic government that failure to oppose it puts one on the side of autocracy. Dictatorships have often made headway because men will not stand up and be counted in opposition’”’. Right Reverend Edward L. Parsons, Bishop of California, San Francisco, says: “30-Thursday is an obvious menace to our democratic ideals and our general constitutional frame#work. It constitutes an irresponsible authority with powers greater ‘than those given, so far as I know, to any other high official in American life. It seems to me that the whole project is full of disastrous porsin eats ies.’’ Right Reverend Noel Porter, D. D., Bishop’ of the Episcopal Diocese of Sacramento, says: “IT am opposed to the 30-Thursday scheme, because it imposes upon the faith and credulity of the aged and needy by promising a temporary Utopia without the means of fulfilling the promise, and, because it is an attempt to set up a financial dictatorship, one that threatens our homes, our schools, our churches, our labor and industry. It threatens all with disaster.’’ Very Reverend James M. Malloch, Dean, St. James Cathedral, Fresno, says: “T am absolutely opposed to the proposed Ham and Hggs -Act, although I believe in old-age pensions and the fundamental principles of economic security. % am opposed to the present measure, because I believe it to be impractical and because it goes too far in the direction of governmental economic dictatorship. In other words, I regard it as both fantastic and un-American.” LODGE TO FILL CHAIR OF EXALTED ANTLER A special meeting of the Antlers Lodge will be held Monday evening in, Antler. E. T. Bonner, who was elected the first. of October to succeed in the annual election of officers resigned at the last meeting because of his work in other cities. Craig Davies, Leading Antler, is wish to take the office until his term as Leading Antler has been completed, which will be next April. Fred preside at Monday’s meeting. All. members are urged to attend. —_. fl / appeared with two youthful CCC en-. Kespecially susceptible to propaganda Garrison, Past Exalted Ruler, will. 0 ACCUSATION OF ‘ . HIGHGRAD! Five men accused of violating the Federal gold reserve act were arrested in Grass Valley Tuesday by Charles B. Rich, of the U. S. Secret Ser— vice, and John Bongard, jenforce+ ment officer for the State Division of Mines. The men arrésted--were — James Reed, taxi driver, formerly of — this city, Walter Jones, Watt Park, ‘William A. Davies, Harl Friend and — Dan Redmond. ~ They were taken to Sacramento and there charged with selling more than $10,000 worth of stolen gold to a San Francisco buyer. The men declared they had mined the gold. Redmond was arraigned in San Francisco and his preliminary hearing was held yesterday, the other — four will be arraigned in Sacramen. to in the Federal court. : PROPAGANDA ISTOPICAT Robert Deward, news editor of the :Morning Union, at yesterday’s Rotary luncheon defined propaganda — and told of its relations to the war aims of the belligerents in Burope. He stated that there are three varities of war propaganda, first, that kind intended to maintain the morale of the nation, second, propaganda to instill hatred of the enemy, and third, propaganda to win the sym-— pathy. of neutrals. 30g An instance of the first, designed” : to hearten the home forces are such” stories as those told of the . first British air raid on the Kiel canal and Sorman. war vessels there. Beth . Germany and Britain magnified the incident in favor of each of its own people. The second is illustrated by the atrocity stories used in Germany to incite hatred of the Poles, and stories originating in Poland. of the airplane machine gunning by Germans of Polish peasants working in* ~ the fields. The third division of propaganda directed at winning the sym-; pathy and assistance of neutrals” form a tremendous portion of all -ar propaganda, and are found inthe speeches of prime ministers and. war ministers, generals and prelates. These leaders in belligerent countries, in brief, try to sell their ver-_ sion of war reasons and war objectes to the neutrals. Democracies are which excites their hatred of other forms of government. Deward stated that he believed te should be the part of all American” editors to cut out as much-of the propaganda as possible received from: the news associations. He stated that his paper did exercise a censorship on European war news, and passed around several examples of propaganda which had failed to make the coluns of his journal because of its obviously biased and distortion cleyerly woven into the actual news story. STOLEN STORES woRTH , ‘$250 ARE RECOVE Sam Frey came down from Nevada Irrigation District camp Bowman Dam Tuesday and with supplies for the storehous the load was $250 worth ¢ One item alone in the lootcases of condensed milk. — ‘The supplies in the sto: for crews sent into the during the winter for repair from snow slides such as . ing torn out by slides spring reconditioning ¢ It was snowing when camp and the ground was white snow but the truck. made . : successfully, ‘Bloomfield was a busin Francisco and at the fair, Mrs, Bert "Daviess “of North .

te a Whang Out Loud By H. M. L. Nevada City COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA ugget in with good motives and for justifiabie ends. ton, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press counts the right to publish the Truth, — —Alexander Hamilé Why the kiyi-ing and yip-yipyippping about a prayer from the Canadian Church of England prayer book, read in the service last Sunday in the church the President attends. The book was a gift to the rector from the, King and Queen following their attendance there during their “recent visit. Why not offer a prayer for the King Emperor and Queen Empress? They proved themselves very likable people while in this country.-They apparently relished their U.S. A. hot dog picnic lunch. ‘We rather approve a prayer in their behalf. Does anyone wish to offer a prayer for Hitler, Goebels, or Goering? Let'them do so. This is a free country. Our private opinion is that the “Aryan” trio need a deal of praying for. Anyone who seeks to make a political issue of a prayer offered for anyone, we set down “as being. a little lower than a_ sérpent’s nether side. There are plenty of issues, real ones, between thinking people in this country and the administration ‘in ‘Washington, without forcing a*prayer uttered in behalf of the King and Queen into a position of first. importance. Far more important is the New Deal's reduction of a large proportion of our population to a condition, spiritual and material, of . mendicancy. That needs little evidence to prove. The fact that two vociferous spielers can set up a million dollar Ham and Egg show in California and draw into their tént several hundred thousand citizens reveals that the moral of American’ citizenship has steadily deteriorated under (Federal relief until now we have millions of citizens believing (and acting on their belief) that the government ‘owes “them a living. Some of our young people gladly foist their old folks onto the government’s bounty. Our traditions of sturdy American independence have been thoroughly corrupted under the new doctrine of government help. for ' everybody. Young women leaving emPloyment in store or factories to »to be married use their unemployment insurance as a kind of government dowery. They collect all the insurance they can lay their hands on, though as a matter of fact they are not unemployed, but have merely changed employments. Another instance: A young man _ well beyond college age, who had spent a busy year in Nevada County inciting the CIlO-communists to attempt at closing Nevada County «mines, obtains from the National Youth Administration’ funds to pursue studies at one of the state’s larger universities. Thus the tale unfolds. Under guise of relieving the necessities of unfortunate victims of a badly wrecked economic system, the New Dealers have reduced a large section of the population to spiritual pauperism. Their integrity undermined, their personal pride _ of achievement destroyed, their ambition to do for themselves and to be self-sufficient and self-sustaining, overwhelmed, they are at length content to ride on _ the shoulders of their industrious fellow citizens. How large a percentage of the 10 million unemployed belong in the above category no one can say. But, knowing the tendency of human nature, it would seem a safe bet that the proportion is growing from year to year. The fact that the New Deal spokesmen notably Harry Hopkins, insist that we shall always have a relief army with which the Federal government must cope, bodes ill for those selfsupporting members of the body politic. If Hopkins is right each time Congress meets there will be a further attempt to jack up the taxes. Each time the taxes are jacked up, more business. firms must succumb ‘and more. workers will join the relief legion. It is a vicious circle. The remedy for it is too drastic for our tender hearted politicians. Instead of increasing the various doles to various groups throughout the nation, the real remedy is gradually to reduce all relief, all subsidies, and force a gradual responsibility upon each citizen, not aged and not crippled, to provide for himself. A new neon sign was installed in front of the Bottle Shop on Broad street yesterday afternoon adding another brilliantly lighted sign to the bright lights of the main drag. “Vol. 13, No. 86. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CIT Y, CALIFORNIA, The Gold Center i FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27,1939 19 CHAMBER SLAPS 30 THURSDAY The ‘Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night added its name to the long list of civic organizations officially. opposing Proposition No. 1, 30 Every Thursday, on the November 7 ballot. The move condemning the measure was unanimous. The chamber, at their regular meeting presided over by Stenger Williamson in the absence of President E. B. Gallagher, also went on record as supporting Proposition No. 5, the Atkinson Oi] Control Bill. A. E. Presley, dance program chair man, suggested that the net proceeds from the dance to be held November 25 be used for advertising the new Nevada City ski course. He pointed out that merchants in the city would reap a double benefit from advertising in the program since the money would ultimately be used -to bring ‘many winter sports enthusiasts through this community. After the regular meeting, a discussion was held to find out some means of getting a larger turnout of members to the meetings. According to H. F. Sofge, secretary, speakers and programs are available and an attempt will be made to have them presented. SUPPRESSED CHINESE STAMPS RECEIVED HERE Mrs. Orlando McCraney has just received a set of four late Chinese stamps in blocks of four from her husband in the Philippine Islands. The stamps were removed. from circulation a few hours after they were put on sale. The issue was China’s first philatelic gesture of good will toward this republic across the Pacific in the form of a stamp issue commemorating ithe sesqui-centennial of the founding of the United States. Due to the precise Chinese characters in writing and delineation of the map of China in a way likely to raise an embarassing international boundary issue the stamps were, removed from sale. The highly colored stamps were the 5, 25, 50c and $1 demoninations. The American flag was prominently displayed across one corner of the stamps, These stamps will become more valuable to stamp collectors as the years go by due to the small number sold. LANDRIGAN TO FACE TRIAL ON TRAFFIC CHARGE The trial of Byron Landrigan, charged with a violation of the motor vehicle code upon the complaint of Night Officer Frank Mizner, will be Wednesday, November 1, before Ciiy Judge Miles D. Coughlin. Proceedings will be held in the court room of Judge W. L. Mobley in to the use of the room for that purpose. The anecsd: offense occurred several weeks ago. Mizner charged that Landrigan collided with the officer’s car and filed a complaint against the defendant. : Landrigan will be defended by Harry W. McKee while City Attorney Frank C. Finnegan will conduct the prosecution. $ A large group of Nevada City Residents are planning to attend the fair over the coming week end. Among those going are County Clerk and Mrs. (IR. N. MeCormack, Mr. and iMrs. Robert Stedger and family, Mr. and Mrs. Don Stedger and child. Misses Ruth and Reita Hutchison left yesterday for San Francisco to spend a few days visiting the fair and to attend the big game between University of California and University of Southern California on Saturday. Bob Tucker who has been stationed at Sierraville with the Tahoe national forest came down and after a visit with his mother Mrs. Emma Tucker’ in this city left on Wednesday for San Francisco. He will spend a few days at the fair. George Calanan, city clerk, is spending a few. days, in San Francisco visiting relatives and attending ihe fair. ~ the court house who has consented . . POT LUCK SUPPER FOR vada City. fire department are making plans for a Hallowe’en party entertaining the local fire denartment members in the firemen’s hall Tuesday evening. A pot luck supper will be served at 6:30 o’clock. “Mrs. Louise Dudley is chairman of the entertainment program. Gay Hallowe’en motifs will be used throughout the hall and on the table decorations. JOHNFUBBARD HELD TO ANSWER ON AUTO THEFT At the conclusion of the preliminary examination held Wednesday afternoon, Judge W. L. Mobley directed that John N. Hubbard, Jr., charged with grand theft, be held over for trial in the superior court with bonds fixed at $2,000. In default of bail he was remanded to the custody of the sheriff. Hubbard allegedly took a car belonging to Forrest Thurston of Glenbrook from a parking station without the owner’s ‘consent. Night officer Lionel Davies, after a 70 mile an hour chase, overtook the fleeing Hubbard near the White Cloud CCC camp. At the examination, Thurston testified the automobile was taken without his permission. Davies described the chase and capture of Hubbard after receiving a description of the stolen car over the radio. District Attorney Vernon Stoll conducted the prosecution and the defendant. appeared without counsel and offered no evidence to refute the charges. P.T.A. TO MEET IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TODAY A meeting of the third district of parent-teachers associations will be held at the Nevada City elementary school today. The sessions are scheduled to start at 10 o’clock in the morning and continue throughout the day. Parents and teachers from El Dorado, Sacramento, Placer and Nevada counties will attend. Mrs. W. D. Alexander of Sacramento, district. president, will preside at the business sessions. One of the features of the meeting will be the appearance of Mrs. James K. Lytle, president of the California Congress of Parents and Teachers. The executive boatd will meet at 9:30 o’clock, before the regular meeting. Mrs. A. Deschwanden, president of the local high school association and Mrs. Clyde Gwin, president of the elementary group, are in charge of committees making arrangements for the meeting. CLARK WAITE BUYS HOTEL WASHINGTON Mrs.-E. J. Haverstock left yesterday for Ely, Nevada, where she expects to remain for a few weeks on business. From there she will go to Glenn’s Ferry, Idaho to visit her brother a few weeks. She will return to Nevada City and take some personal belongings with her to Taft where she expects to make her permanent home. Mrs. Haverstock sold her hotel property in Washington to Mr. and Mrs. Clark ‘Waite. The deal was made about two months ago and Mr.and Mrs. Waite are making several changes with a view of opening the hotel to summer trade. It is a nice vacation spot and the South Yuba river runs just below the hotel. Trout fishing and hunting in season are good in ‘the district. Mrs. Haverstock and her late husband resided at Washington many years and the best wishes of the lit‘tle community and Nevada City go with her to her new home. Gus Orzalli ‘visited with friends in Marysville last week ‘end. He is planning on a trip to Reno to visit

NEVADA CITY FIREMEN! The Ladies Auxiliary of the Nefor . ing the books. MRS, GUENTHER WILL CELEBRATE OTH BIRTHDAY Mary Sovuetier Guenther of Mrs. birthday on Sunday with her son and daughters in a family reunion. Hattie Legg, who is about ninety two years of age, and Mrs. Guenther are this city’s oldest living pioneers. St. Louis, Pike *%ounty, Missouri, October 29, 1849 and came to California with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. HenMrs: Guenther was born in ry Schneider when only six years cf ase, in January of 1856. The father was a butcher and settled his family in the only house he could find on Commercial street near the Wise brewery. It was back of the present Elks building and_ before there was such a thing as a Chinatown in that section: Just about as soon as they were settled a fire started in a building at the corner of Broad and ‘Pine streets and swept toward Commercial street burning all houses in town, except a few brick thouses on the eastern part of Commercial street. The mother was so frightened she grabbed a feather bed. Everything else was destroyed. Mrs. Guenther did not even have her Shoes. She was barefooted and terribly frightened. & man came by and took her out toward Sugar Loaf and Placed her in a stage coach with some traveling actors and actresses who were about ready to leave the city. Her mother and uncle searched frantically and found her sitting high upon the baggage eating a raw turnip and crying for her relatives. Nevada City was a town of several hundred inhabitants and _ sleeping places were scarce, The Schneider family spent the night in the brick Shellhouse brewery up near the court house on the floor and with almost no bedding. f Mrs. Guenther has lived in Nevada City. over eighty years. Her father found a tiny house to live in where the Dave Richards home is now located on Boulder street and the family has remained on that street ever since. She has lived in her present home over sixty years. Her father had a cattle yard above the Richards home, and several horses were kept in a barn on the lot. His slaughter house was down on the ditch. The cattle were herded outside of town during the day. Schneider built the house where Ronald Fraser now resides on Boulder street. He died when only 35 years of age when his daughter was but twelve. She first attended the private school of Mrs. Rudolph on upper Nevada street, the mother paying $4 per month tuition and buyThe child attended high school in a frame -building where the present Episcopal church stands and Mr. Powers, father of Federal Attorney Powers of . San Francisco, was the teacher. Charles Marsh, who resided in the present Sawyer house, brought the first water to Nevada City. It was served to customers by an open Vtrough at first. The principal mine operating in the district was the Manzanita gravel mine Mrs. Guenther married the late Henry Guenther when she was only sixteen years of age. A year later she recalls visiting in Dutch Flat when Chinese were building the transcontinental railroad. The tracks were being laid through the town and many of the Chinese were camped down near a small stream below the town. She recalls when Dr. Hart, greatly loved. physician of the town, drove the golden spike at the Narrow Gauge depot in commemoration of}. the completion of the Narrow Gauge Railroad sixty years ago. Open cars with rails about the sides, carried picnic crowds from Nevada City and Grass Valley to the Ismert Grove in the Glenbrook district for many years. Five of Mrs. Guenther’s eight children are living. They are, Mrs. J. F. Dolan, Mrs. Minnie Allen, Miss Kate Guenther, Frank Guenther, Nevada City, and Mrs. Annie Johnston of Oakland. Ellsworth Colley of ‘Tudor is spending a few days in Nevada City assisting in his father’s confectionery store. His father, J. F. Colley is enjoying a weeks vacation in San friends next Sunday. One youth was turned loose and the Boulder street will celebrate her 90rh. ‘in the Elks Hall to elect an Exalted ‘in line for the office but does not YOUNS MAN CONVICTED OF THEFT FINED $100 J.D: Ratterty. te law enforcement offcer for the Tahoe national forest, roliees in the local court yesterday who were charged with petty theft. other, Ralph Wilson, was fined $100. Unable to pay the fine he was placed in the county jail to serve out the time. CLERGY IN TWO -FISTED BATTLE ON HAM & EGGS Leading churchmen all over California have joined in a crusade to save the state from economic disaster. Regardless of creed, and thoroughly in the spirit of making American democracy work to ward off subversive influences, chureh leaders through California are united in militant opposition to the 30-Thursday (Ham and Eggs) Act to be voted on November 7, 1939. Read and consider with care the _ following words of democratic wisdom from some of California’s wisest and most useful citizens: 2 Bishop James Chamberlain Baker, of the California Area of the Methodist Church says: “The political implications of the 30-Thursday Act are terrifying to persons who believe in our form of government. It is not democratically conceived and, for its execution, the most autocratic and uncontrolled despotic power is given to a selfappointed oligarchy. It provides for a super-government, responsible neither to the executive, legislative nor judicial branches of state government. There are no checks upon the authority of these’ self-appointed men. Irresponsible power is always enormously dangerous and should be resisted. This measure is so dangerous to democratic government that failure to oppose it puts one on the side of autocracy. Dictatorships have often made headway because men will not stand up and be counted in opposition’”’. Right Reverend Edward L. Parsons, Bishop of California, San Francisco, says: “30-Thursday is an obvious menace to our democratic ideals and our general constitutional frame#work. It constitutes an irresponsible authority with powers greater ‘than those given, so far as I know, to any other high official in American life. It seems to me that the whole project is full of disastrous porsin eats ies.’’ Right Reverend Noel Porter, D. D., Bishop’ of the Episcopal Diocese of Sacramento, says: “IT am opposed to the 30-Thursday scheme, because it imposes upon the faith and credulity of the aged and needy by promising a temporary Utopia without the means of fulfilling the promise, and, because it is an attempt to set up a financial dictatorship, one that threatens our homes, our schools, our churches, our labor and industry. It threatens all with disaster.’’ Very Reverend James M. Malloch, Dean, St. James Cathedral, Fresno, says: “T am absolutely opposed to the proposed Ham and Hggs -Act, although I believe in old-age pensions and the fundamental principles of economic security. % am opposed to the present measure, because I believe it to be impractical and because it goes too far in the direction of governmental economic dictatorship. In other words, I regard it as both fantastic and un-American.” LODGE TO FILL CHAIR OF EXALTED ANTLER A special meeting of the Antlers Lodge will be held Monday evening in, Antler. E. T. Bonner, who was elected the first. of October to succeed in the annual election of officers resigned at the last meeting because of his work in other cities. Craig Davies, Leading Antler, is wish to take the office until his term as Leading Antler has been completed, which will be next April. Fred preside at Monday’s meeting. All. members are urged to attend. —_. fl / appeared with two youthful CCC en-. Kespecially susceptible to propaganda Garrison, Past Exalted Ruler, will. 0 ACCUSATION OF ‘ . HIGHGRAD! Five men accused of violating the Federal gold reserve act were arrested in Grass Valley Tuesday by Charles B. Rich, of the U. S. Secret Ser— vice, and John Bongard, jenforce+ ment officer for the State Division of Mines. The men arrésted--were — James Reed, taxi driver, formerly of — this city, Walter Jones, Watt Park, ‘William A. Davies, Harl Friend and — Dan Redmond. ~ They were taken to Sacramento and there charged with selling more than $10,000 worth of stolen gold to a San Francisco buyer. The men declared they had mined the gold. Redmond was arraigned in San Francisco and his preliminary hearing was held yesterday, the other — four will be arraigned in Sacramen. to in the Federal court. : PROPAGANDA ISTOPICAT Robert Deward, news editor of the :Morning Union, at yesterday’s Rotary luncheon defined propaganda — and told of its relations to the war aims of the belligerents in Burope. He stated that there are three varities of war propaganda, first, that kind intended to maintain the morale of the nation, second, propaganda to instill hatred of the enemy, and third, propaganda to win the sym-— pathy. of neutrals. 30g An instance of the first, designed” : to hearten the home forces are such” stories as those told of the . first British air raid on the Kiel canal and Sorman. war vessels there. Beth . Germany and Britain magnified the incident in favor of each of its own people. The second is illustrated by the atrocity stories used in Germany to incite hatred of the Poles, and stories originating in Poland. of the airplane machine gunning by Germans of Polish peasants working in* ~ the fields. The third division of propaganda directed at winning the sym-; pathy and assistance of neutrals” form a tremendous portion of all -ar propaganda, and are found inthe speeches of prime ministers and. war ministers, generals and prelates. These leaders in belligerent countries, in brief, try to sell their ver-_ sion of war reasons and war objectes to the neutrals. Democracies are which excites their hatred of other forms of government. Deward stated that he believed te should be the part of all American” editors to cut out as much-of the propaganda as possible received from: the news associations. He stated that his paper did exercise a censorship on European war news, and passed around several examples of propaganda which had failed to make the coluns of his journal because of its obviously biased and distortion cleyerly woven into the actual news story. STOLEN STORES woRTH , ‘$250 ARE RECOVE Sam Frey came down from Nevada Irrigation District camp Bowman Dam Tuesday and with supplies for the storehous the load was $250 worth ¢ One item alone in the lootcases of condensed milk. — ‘The supplies in the sto: for crews sent into the during the winter for repair from snow slides such as . ing torn out by slides spring reconditioning ¢ It was snowing when camp and the ground was white snow but the truck. made . : successfully, ‘Bloomfield was a busin Francisco and at the fair, Mrs, Bert "Daviess “of North .