October 5, 1944 (4 pages)

TY—~only oad to pp tthe gy Ont cons . and Woy, je Ey we of TY. 5 of 3 C Sena The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a . for only 30 cents per ~ month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are help to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu _COVERS RICHEST, GOLD AREA IN, CALIFORNIA gget This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol._18, . 18, No. 79. @ nt nS County Seat Seat Paper SIXTY AT 60 TO COST STATE. BILLION MORE A billion dollar a year added tax burden on the people of California will. result if Proposition No. 11, the Townsendsponsored $60 at 60 pension plan, passes at the November election, California Taxpayers assoc. jation stated today. If the levy were collected equally throughout the state, such a tax could amount to $1,822,000 the first year for the people of Nevada county alone. Property taxes levied for all the local governments in the county amounted to $481,767 for 1943-44. A 3.to 5 per cent gross income tax, Which could increase the. cost of living 15 to 2'5 per’ cent, is ‘part of the ballot measure. At least $720,000,000 a year would have to be raised by this tax’ to’ provide for the 1,000,000 people past 60 yearg of & age in the state who would be eligtble. Under present business tonditions, the 3 per cent. rate could bring in well over a billion dollars a Year. This -tax would apply to practically all income and. transactions, including rents, sales, ect. If business fell off the tax rate automatically would go up. The proposal contains two ‘‘sops’” . to taxpayers. The 2.5 per cent retail sales tax would ‘be repealed; it yields $135,000, a year. Local property tax payers would be “relieved” of the 40 per cent of the cost’ of aid to the Aged which they. are now financing and which amounts ‘to less than, $9,000,000 of the $313,500,000 property tax levy for last year. “Chicken feed’’ is about the only way to describe the go called ‘“‘relief’ which sales tax repeal and this property tax reduction would bring. Taxes amounting to considerably less than $1:50,000,000 a year would be ‘taken-away, and a new tax which would take from the people $1,000,000,000 a year would be levied. The people would pay $7 for every $1 of “velief.’’ SF. PLANS POST WAR VACATION EXPANSION SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5—Plans to revive and expand ‘California’s vacation ‘business, now all but barted to easterners because of the war will be the work of a citizens’ advistory committee appointed by Alexander R. Heron, state director of reconstruction and reemployment. Im announcing the committee this ‘week Heron pointed out ‘that more people had jobs in the. tourist induetry of California, than worked in the manufacturing in 1940. Purpose of the committee will be to recommend. a program to reabsorb workers into’ the various busineases amd t yaa sociated with serving tourists. The committee is composed of EI Not Bpeteen, San Francisco, general counsel for the Redwood Empire asS0ciation, thairman; P. W. Winnett, President of Bullock's Porter Bruck, President of the all year club; H.D. ‘vey, bank president, all of Los AnSeles; F. 8. McGinnis, Southern Pacifle vice president; John F. Forbes, President of Californians, Inc.; H.' D. Collier, Standard Oil Co. president; F. W., Ackerman, Pacific Greyhound Lines vice president, all of San Francisgo _and Hilmar Oecehlmann, general Manager of the Yosemite Park and Curry Co, Funeral Today for Late’ Mrs. Mary Field Funeral services. will be held in the chapel of the Hooper and. Weay*r Mortuary this afternoon for the late Mrs. Mary Field of the Maryland Road, on the edge of Hills Flat. Mrs, Field wag found dead in her home by a neighbor on Monday Morning. Coroner Alvah Hooper attributed her death to a heart attack. Mrs. Fields, believed to be a nat-. ive of;Grass Valley, was 83 years of ase. Her first husband was the late William ‘Joslin, and her second, ‘the Yate Hugene Feild, passed away eight years ago. Field was a miner but in aa. engaged in the trucking ness in Grass Valley. So far as -she had no ‘relatives. 4 it easy.” NEVADA CITY, Y, CALIFORNIA FDR CONDUCTS . CAMPAIGN OF DEFENSE By CLEM WHITAKER A defensive candidate, «usually turns out, on election night, a defeated candidate. Even the lowliest novice in the great game of politics knows that fundamental principle, so there is still astonishment and bewilderment in professional political circles over the opening. address of Roosevelt’s re-election campaign, made before the Teamsterg Union. For the president’s address, while it was: studded with sarcasm and sharp invective, which partially cloaked its structural weakness, was ‘basically a defensive speech, in which the champ showed very plainly that he had been hurt by the thudding \attack of the challenger, Count by count, step by step, for thirty minutes without even a pause between rounds, the three time winner of America’s political heavyweight championship replied to the charges levelled against his regime ‘by Governor Dewey, trying to turn a bristling defensive into an offensive. There were some clever left hooks and fast foot work in this show put on by the old master, but te fact remains that Roosevelt was still backing, away when the radio announcer sjghaled that would be all for the evening. Governor Dewey, not nearly as ring wise as Roosevelt in many respects, showed tionetheless in his rebuttal a few nights later the new surge of confidence that every challenger feels when he senses that his opponent is givin’ ground and also demonstrated that having gotten the president on the defensive, he intends to keep him there for the rest of the hier ees cae if that be possible. Apart from what either man said: or how well he said it, and regardless' of who won the opening round on points, Rooseyelt, in the opinion of the experts, led with his chin, when he essayed to fight a tough opponent like Dewey from a defensive position. : Roosevelt,, against Hoover and Landon, struk out boldly and seldom bothered to reply to their attackd: Even pugnagious Wendell Willkie never was able to get him on the defensive. In fact, much of Roosevelt’s political success has been due to his ability to romp through his contests without ever seemingly crediting his opponents with being serious contenders. It’s one of the finest techniques in the business but apparently the president was too Seen ‘by Dewey's skillfully documented attack to maintain his: pose of indifference. Governor Dewey, one of thee ablest prosecutors in the nation, apparently is determined to put Roogsevelt on trial ‘before the bar of. public opinion — and if the president permits himself to be kept in the role of defendant, it may mean a new occupant’ in the White House next January. Battles seldom are won on the defensive. PLAY SAFE AND TAKEIT EASY (Motor vehicle owners of Nevada City today were admonished by E. R. Cato; chief ‘of ‘the California Highway Patrol, that the rainy season is /approadhiing requiring not only more careful driving but a check of various features of the car to avoid accidents. He advised motorists to aunek the lights, windshield wipers, brakes and tires particularly and make adjustments and repairs if needed. Chief Cato said a recent check of some 18,000 vehicles in Southern California by the Highway Patrol indicated 8 per cent were being operated with defective lights. “See that your car is in geod conition for the bad weather and be sure to drive carefully,” he said. ‘Slippery streets and highways, leaves and mud on pavements, the shorter hours of daylight, rain and snow are all contributing factors to accidents in the coming season which . is the worst of the year, according MAJOR KELLY RETIRES FROM FOREST SERVICE One of the last to ‘remain active of the men who pioneered in setting up the national forest system around the turn of the century, E. W. Kelley, for the. past 15 years U.S. regtonal forester for the northern region with ‘headquarters at Missoula, Montana, will go on terminal leave prior to retirement from the forest service with the close of business October 31, according to L. F. Watts chief, forester at Washington. Long regarded as one of the ablest administrators in the service as: well @ among the most colorful—Major Kelley’s most recent large scale achievement was the organization of the emergencq rubber project at Salinas. He served as director of the project from its inception in’ Femru project from its inception in February 1942 until July 1948. (Major Kelley began work at the age of 14 in the gold mines of Sierra County. He was 22 when the Yuba forest reserve now part of the Tahoe national forest, was established. On May 1, 1906, he was appointed a forest guard at $60 a month, with the understanding that he would furnish his own saddle horée, pack animals and tools, and feed the animals. He could have earned more in the = but-as he says. he had even then “a conscious interest in better treatment of the forests of the country. sg Though he wag not a graduate forester and had only a common schoo) education, Major Kelley not only worked his way steadily up through the various forest service grades, but in 1940 was given the degree of Master of Forest Engineering by the University of Montana. In World ‘War I, he went overseas as a captain in the Tenth Engineers, a forthe rank--of -major: ‘He aétvedfroin July 1917 until July 1919. At one time he was in command of the timber operations and road repair work of three forestry battalions in half a dozen of the French departments. ENGLE ACCUSED OF SOLICITING JAP VOTES ROSEVILLE, Oct. 5—Three state senators, Jerrold L. Seawell of Placer County, ‘Charles. Brown, Inyo County and Randolph Collier, Siskiyou County, in a prepared statement released today, accused Congressman’ Clair Engle, Red Bluff, of. playing Politics with both sides of the Jap}, question. The senators éatin that Engle is seeking to obtain votes’ by publicly . condemning the Japs in the war relocation centers through the press and radio and then writing letters of sympathy to those interned in the centers in an apparent bid for the votes of the American born Japanese} citizens, including some 400 registered voters of Japanese ancestry from Placer County now located in the relocation centers. The senaitors stated the letters addressed to the Japanege were writ‘ten upon ‘congressional stationery and personally signed: by Congressman Engle. The senators asked what kind of double talk is this by Engle? : ; The statement continued: ‘There are 6000 Japs in Tulelake who have asked to be repatriated to Japan at the close of the war, as well as 7000 American born Japanese who have asked to be expatriated by having their citizenshpi cancelled. The balance of the Jap population at Tulelake are under 17 years of age and would probably leave with their parents, thus ridding California of approximately 18,000 Japs. Legislay tion is needed to accomplish this, and so far Congressman Engle has made no serious effort to secure action by congress. “We are in full accord ‘with the public statements of Mr. Engle on the Jap question, but we cannot. condone his dowble talk with such a serious problem to further his own political interests by privately bidding for the votes of the American born Japanese through the mail, basas}to our records. Play safe and take estry regiment, and came home with . ' sof gourds were cooked and eaten, __ The Gold Center THURSDAY, OCTOBER EP 1944 CAMP FAR WEST GRAVE YARD IS 100 YEARS OLD CAMP BEALE, Oct. 5—Historians of the old west this year are observing informally the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the historic cemetery first used in 1884 by early California settlers at Johnson’s Rancho and nearby Camp Far West, earliest United States outpost in northern California. The burial ground on the Bear River is now a part of the Beale reservation and is protected by the army. The Marysville chapter of Native Sons of the Golden West, which placed a monument on the graves. in 1911, is planning no formal observance for this or other historic anniversaries until after the war. All graves in the plot are without headstones and lost to memory except for the monument placed “there ‘by the Native Sons. One little girl, Betsy Parker, was buried in a brick marked grave in a corner. of. the plot. Others buried there are travellers along the Emigrant Trail or Camp Far West. ° . The cemetery was first used in 1844 when a land grant of 2,000 acres along the Bear River was made by the Mexican government to Pablo Guitierrez, who erected some adobe buildings near the crossing to found what later became Johnson’s Rancho. The famed crossing settlement was to, become the first California objective of pioneers moving west by way of Salt Lake and Donner Summit. If conclusions reached by General John Bidwell in his memoirs are correct, only an unkind fate robbed Guitierrez of the fame that: later fell to James Wilson Marshall as the discoverer of gold. Bidwell related Guitierrez, worked for him ag a farm hand, claimed to have discovered gold along the Bear River in 1844, He prevailed upon the Bidwell to accompany him to the scene, but before reaching the spot refused .to go ‘further without a batea, a wooden bowl used for panning gold. They returned to Sutter’s Fort for one, but before they could resume the gold hunting venture an insurrection broke out. Sutter selected Pablo to bear a message to the Mexican g0vernor in Monterey. But.the luckless Pablo was taken prisoner near San Jose and was hanged. ANCIENT MEXICAN PLANTS MAYPROVEUSEFUL BERKELEY, Oct. 5—Study of the agricultural plants grown in the Tezucan civitization of ancient Mexico may lead toreeognition of species worth utilizing. So says Dr. Howard S. Reed, professor of plant physiology on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Commenting on the memoir of Tewho ten in 1582, which has been reprintbesides fruits and grains familiar to our own civilization, such ag cherries, apples, tomatoes, gourds and maize, the Texucans domesticated plants not now commonly used. The agave was cultivated for its many products, including fibre, papey, wine and a syrup which was the equivalent for sugar. Huawuhtli, a species of goosefoot, which has a Tape, Was ground and made into loaves and tortillas. Several kinds and their seeds Were added to many sorts of stews. A. herb called piciet!, a species of tobacco, was used to produce sleep and for deadening the flesh and relieving fatigue: The seed Of oloiuhque, probably a species of convolvulus, was. ground and made into a.dough and used to reduce swellings and relieve pain, Dr. Reed says. & Mrs. Charles Eden who ‘hag been very ill many months, was able to attend Evangeline Chapter OBS, Tuger day evening. . cluded. ed upon extended sympathy as a re. dent James F. Zimmerman of the}: UP SHEER CAMP Leo Chatfield of*the Tahoe forest} off it is believed by rodents,: probaa . ably pack rats, and the entire. camp . cuco by Juan Bautista Pomar, writ. ed recently. Dr. Reed points out that. ® ‘River approximately twenty miles’ sult of the war.” the Bact cai con: ~DR.J.0. MOSELEY WILL BE NEW U OF N HEAD Before representatives of” many colleges and universities, state officials, faculty, alumni, students and others. Dr. John Chleyer Moseley will be inagurated as the seventh president of the University of Nevada on Thursday, October 12. The new president of the state’s only institution of higher education will be formally inducted into office 70: years to the day from the time the university. opened its doors for the first time to the youth of -Nevada. That was in Elko, October 12, 1874, where the university of Nevada was first established; in 1885, it was moved to its present location in Reno. About 75 other colleges and universities have chosen to designate members of their administrative staffs, factulties, or alumni bodies to help the university of Nevada fotmally place the powers and responsibilities of office in the hands of Dr. Moseley. Of ‘these representatives, 15. are from outside Nevada, coming from 5 states, while the+ remainder age} Nevadang from various: parts of the state. Four “university or college presidents and four deans are making the ‘trip from their institutions to take part in the colorful ceremonies of the Nevada campus. Dr. Alfred Atkinson, president. of the University of Arizona, will deliver the chief address at the cere-e monies Thursday morning, while other college héads to be present include President Franklin S.° Harris of Brigham Young university, Presiuniversity of New Mexico, and Presi-. : dent \Nicholas Ricciardi of Sacra< mento junior college. PACK RATS SET OFF MATCH, BURN . service in the Truckee district, yesterday reported a fire which is: bewell known sheep man who. pastures his flocks on the hills northwest of Boca.in eastern Nevada County. The matches left outside near the} During. Mills’ absence they were set burned up, including Mills tent ‘and all his belongings. Chatfield stated . that the area burned was less than): @n acre. — A colony of beaver was planted in the Smithneck Creek drainage on the Sierraville district of the Tahoe national forest in May 1943. In the spring of 1944 one family’ of the]! colony was missed, it is not known whether it was that family troubles developed or if they were just plain hit by wanderlust, but they were later located on the Little Truckee distance from their first home. These beaver were planted for the purpose of erosion contro] and building up meadows by the means of the beaver dams, in thig area. This method has proved successful a several ‘localities. THIRTY DATS, Robert Spencer was reduced to petty theft during his hearing . part atate taxes are seared levies for charities and lieved to have been caused by pack} — rats in the camp of Melvin F. Mills, . . ‘camp stove were the kind that can). be ignited on any rough substance. . . The charge of burglary : Naas : Before Jus-. . tee of the Peace C. E, Smith of. CALIFORNIA PAY FOUR BILLIONS. INTAXES. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. . 2—California citizens paid $4233,000,000taxes during the fiscal year ending June 39, a figure almost twice that. of the preceding year, and approximately four times the total of té cellections in this state during eg pre war year 1940. ‘Report covering federal, state anf local tax collections for the fiscal year, made by the tax department of the California State 18 ber of Commerce, was made public today by H. S. Robinson, president. } This study reveals that the fé eral government, last year coll $3,372,000,000 in ‘Califoraia,which $1/950,000,000 consisted individual income taxes. © For . preceding year individual income tax collections were $480,300,000. is four fold increase in individual come tax collections by the ‘federal government, Robinson pointed. om is the result of changes in the ‘ federal revenue act, which bro: ed this segment of the tax ‘base include’ almost 50, 000,000 taxpay throughout the nation. ; It is significant Robinson 1 -thalt Californians are now more in federal taxes than ‘ ‘the tire nation "paid as recently as year 1933, when total collections the United States amounted t 115,000,000; This increase. reflects the contribution this is making directly toward the cost of ths war. lections from all sources for’ fiscal year were $546,00 ivity. Robingon ‘said, and for ‘to the flow of business. . due: prinehialie. to . i hu valley, and a few trom the. The kill averaged ‘hunter, and, the take ‘Most :of reper ikilling the old birds been told they were. of heng in the Lo ter the first day’s shooting . of additional binder 1 o protected ground.” : *~ .

TY—~only oad to pp tthe gy Ont cons . and Woy, je Ey we of TY. 5 of 3 C Sena The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a . for only 30 cents per ~ month “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are help to guard and defend it.””—Daniel Webster Nevada City Nu _COVERS RICHEST, GOLD AREA IN, CALIFORNIA gget This paper gives you complete coverage of all local happenings If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, and your town, read The Nugget. Vol._18, . 18, No. 79. @ nt nS County Seat Seat Paper SIXTY AT 60 TO COST STATE. BILLION MORE A billion dollar a year added tax burden on the people of California will. result if Proposition No. 11, the Townsendsponsored $60 at 60 pension plan, passes at the November election, California Taxpayers assoc. jation stated today. If the levy were collected equally throughout the state, such a tax could amount to $1,822,000 the first year for the people of Nevada county alone. Property taxes levied for all the local governments in the county amounted to $481,767 for 1943-44. A 3.to 5 per cent gross income tax, Which could increase the. cost of living 15 to 2'5 per’ cent, is ‘part of the ballot measure. At least $720,000,000 a year would have to be raised by this tax’ to’ provide for the 1,000,000 people past 60 yearg of & age in the state who would be eligtble. Under present business tonditions, the 3 per cent. rate could bring in well over a billion dollars a Year. This -tax would apply to practically all income and. transactions, including rents, sales, ect. If business fell off the tax rate automatically would go up. The proposal contains two ‘‘sops’” . to taxpayers. The 2.5 per cent retail sales tax would ‘be repealed; it yields $135,000, a year. Local property tax payers would be “relieved” of the 40 per cent of the cost’ of aid to the Aged which they. are now financing and which amounts ‘to less than, $9,000,000 of the $313,500,000 property tax levy for last year. “Chicken feed’’ is about the only way to describe the go called ‘“‘relief’ which sales tax repeal and this property tax reduction would bring. Taxes amounting to considerably less than $1:50,000,000 a year would be ‘taken-away, and a new tax which would take from the people $1,000,000,000 a year would be levied. The people would pay $7 for every $1 of “velief.’’ SF. PLANS POST WAR VACATION EXPANSION SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5—Plans to revive and expand ‘California’s vacation ‘business, now all but barted to easterners because of the war will be the work of a citizens’ advistory committee appointed by Alexander R. Heron, state director of reconstruction and reemployment. Im announcing the committee this ‘week Heron pointed out ‘that more people had jobs in the. tourist induetry of California, than worked in the manufacturing in 1940. Purpose of the committee will be to recommend. a program to reabsorb workers into’ the various busineases amd t yaa sociated with serving tourists. The committee is composed of EI Not Bpeteen, San Francisco, general counsel for the Redwood Empire asS0ciation, thairman; P. W. Winnett, President of Bullock's Porter Bruck, President of the all year club; H.D. ‘vey, bank president, all of Los AnSeles; F. 8. McGinnis, Southern Pacifle vice president; John F. Forbes, President of Californians, Inc.; H.' D. Collier, Standard Oil Co. president; F. W., Ackerman, Pacific Greyhound Lines vice president, all of San Francisgo _and Hilmar Oecehlmann, general Manager of the Yosemite Park and Curry Co, Funeral Today for Late’ Mrs. Mary Field Funeral services. will be held in the chapel of the Hooper and. Weay*r Mortuary this afternoon for the late Mrs. Mary Field of the Maryland Road, on the edge of Hills Flat. Mrs, Field wag found dead in her home by a neighbor on Monday Morning. Coroner Alvah Hooper attributed her death to a heart attack. Mrs. Fields, believed to be a nat-. ive of;Grass Valley, was 83 years of ase. Her first husband was the late William ‘Joslin, and her second, ‘the Yate Hugene Feild, passed away eight years ago. Field was a miner but in aa. engaged in the trucking ness in Grass Valley. So far as -she had no ‘relatives. 4 it easy.” NEVADA CITY, Y, CALIFORNIA FDR CONDUCTS . CAMPAIGN OF DEFENSE By CLEM WHITAKER A defensive candidate, «usually turns out, on election night, a defeated candidate. Even the lowliest novice in the great game of politics knows that fundamental principle, so there is still astonishment and bewilderment in professional political circles over the opening. address of Roosevelt’s re-election campaign, made before the Teamsterg Union. For the president’s address, while it was: studded with sarcasm and sharp invective, which partially cloaked its structural weakness, was ‘basically a defensive speech, in which the champ showed very plainly that he had been hurt by the thudding \attack of the challenger, Count by count, step by step, for thirty minutes without even a pause between rounds, the three time winner of America’s political heavyweight championship replied to the charges levelled against his regime ‘by Governor Dewey, trying to turn a bristling defensive into an offensive. There were some clever left hooks and fast foot work in this show put on by the old master, but te fact remains that Roosevelt was still backing, away when the radio announcer sjghaled that would be all for the evening. Governor Dewey, not nearly as ring wise as Roosevelt in many respects, showed tionetheless in his rebuttal a few nights later the new surge of confidence that every challenger feels when he senses that his opponent is givin’ ground and also demonstrated that having gotten the president on the defensive, he intends to keep him there for the rest of the hier ees cae if that be possible. Apart from what either man said: or how well he said it, and regardless' of who won the opening round on points, Rooseyelt, in the opinion of the experts, led with his chin, when he essayed to fight a tough opponent like Dewey from a defensive position. : Roosevelt,, against Hoover and Landon, struk out boldly and seldom bothered to reply to their attackd: Even pugnagious Wendell Willkie never was able to get him on the defensive. In fact, much of Roosevelt’s political success has been due to his ability to romp through his contests without ever seemingly crediting his opponents with being serious contenders. It’s one of the finest techniques in the business but apparently the president was too Seen ‘by Dewey's skillfully documented attack to maintain his: pose of indifference. Governor Dewey, one of thee ablest prosecutors in the nation, apparently is determined to put Roogsevelt on trial ‘before the bar of. public opinion — and if the president permits himself to be kept in the role of defendant, it may mean a new occupant’ in the White House next January. Battles seldom are won on the defensive. PLAY SAFE AND TAKEIT EASY (Motor vehicle owners of Nevada City today were admonished by E. R. Cato; chief ‘of ‘the California Highway Patrol, that the rainy season is /approadhiing requiring not only more careful driving but a check of various features of the car to avoid accidents. He advised motorists to aunek the lights, windshield wipers, brakes and tires particularly and make adjustments and repairs if needed. Chief Cato said a recent check of some 18,000 vehicles in Southern California by the Highway Patrol indicated 8 per cent were being operated with defective lights. “See that your car is in geod conition for the bad weather and be sure to drive carefully,” he said. ‘Slippery streets and highways, leaves and mud on pavements, the shorter hours of daylight, rain and snow are all contributing factors to accidents in the coming season which . is the worst of the year, according MAJOR KELLY RETIRES FROM FOREST SERVICE One of the last to ‘remain active of the men who pioneered in setting up the national forest system around the turn of the century, E. W. Kelley, for the. past 15 years U.S. regtonal forester for the northern region with ‘headquarters at Missoula, Montana, will go on terminal leave prior to retirement from the forest service with the close of business October 31, according to L. F. Watts chief, forester at Washington. Long regarded as one of the ablest administrators in the service as: well @ among the most colorful—Major Kelley’s most recent large scale achievement was the organization of the emergencq rubber project at Salinas. He served as director of the project from its inception in’ Femru project from its inception in February 1942 until July 1948. (Major Kelley began work at the age of 14 in the gold mines of Sierra County. He was 22 when the Yuba forest reserve now part of the Tahoe national forest, was established. On May 1, 1906, he was appointed a forest guard at $60 a month, with the understanding that he would furnish his own saddle horée, pack animals and tools, and feed the animals. He could have earned more in the = but-as he says. he had even then “a conscious interest in better treatment of the forests of the country. sg Though he wag not a graduate forester and had only a common schoo) education, Major Kelley not only worked his way steadily up through the various forest service grades, but in 1940 was given the degree of Master of Forest Engineering by the University of Montana. In World ‘War I, he went overseas as a captain in the Tenth Engineers, a forthe rank--of -major: ‘He aétvedfroin July 1917 until July 1919. At one time he was in command of the timber operations and road repair work of three forestry battalions in half a dozen of the French departments. ENGLE ACCUSED OF SOLICITING JAP VOTES ROSEVILLE, Oct. 5—Three state senators, Jerrold L. Seawell of Placer County, ‘Charles. Brown, Inyo County and Randolph Collier, Siskiyou County, in a prepared statement released today, accused Congressman’ Clair Engle, Red Bluff, of. playing Politics with both sides of the Jap}, question.

The senators éatin that Engle is seeking to obtain votes’ by publicly . condemning the Japs in the war relocation centers through the press and radio and then writing letters of sympathy to those interned in the centers in an apparent bid for the votes of the American born Japanese} citizens, including some 400 registered voters of Japanese ancestry from Placer County now located in the relocation centers. The senaitors stated the letters addressed to the Japanege were writ‘ten upon ‘congressional stationery and personally signed: by Congressman Engle. The senators asked what kind of double talk is this by Engle? : ; The statement continued: ‘There are 6000 Japs in Tulelake who have asked to be repatriated to Japan at the close of the war, as well as 7000 American born Japanese who have asked to be expatriated by having their citizenshpi cancelled. The balance of the Jap population at Tulelake are under 17 years of age and would probably leave with their parents, thus ridding California of approximately 18,000 Japs. Legislay tion is needed to accomplish this, and so far Congressman Engle has made no serious effort to secure action by congress. “We are in full accord ‘with the public statements of Mr. Engle on the Jap question, but we cannot. condone his dowble talk with such a serious problem to further his own political interests by privately bidding for the votes of the American born Japanese through the mail, basas}to our records. Play safe and take estry regiment, and came home with . ' sof gourds were cooked and eaten, __ The Gold Center THURSDAY, OCTOBER EP 1944 CAMP FAR WEST GRAVE YARD IS 100 YEARS OLD CAMP BEALE, Oct. 5—Historians of the old west this year are observing informally the one hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the historic cemetery first used in 1884 by early California settlers at Johnson’s Rancho and nearby Camp Far West, earliest United States outpost in northern California. The burial ground on the Bear River is now a part of the Beale reservation and is protected by the army. The Marysville chapter of Native Sons of the Golden West, which placed a monument on the graves. in 1911, is planning no formal observance for this or other historic anniversaries until after the war. All graves in the plot are without headstones and lost to memory except for the monument placed “there ‘by the Native Sons. One little girl, Betsy Parker, was buried in a brick marked grave in a corner. of. the plot. Others buried there are travellers along the Emigrant Trail or Camp Far West. ° . The cemetery was first used in 1844 when a land grant of 2,000 acres along the Bear River was made by the Mexican government to Pablo Guitierrez, who erected some adobe buildings near the crossing to found what later became Johnson’s Rancho. The famed crossing settlement was to, become the first California objective of pioneers moving west by way of Salt Lake and Donner Summit. If conclusions reached by General John Bidwell in his memoirs are correct, only an unkind fate robbed Guitierrez of the fame that: later fell to James Wilson Marshall as the discoverer of gold. Bidwell related Guitierrez, worked for him ag a farm hand, claimed to have discovered gold along the Bear River in 1844, He prevailed upon the Bidwell to accompany him to the scene, but before reaching the spot refused .to go ‘further without a batea, a wooden bowl used for panning gold. They returned to Sutter’s Fort for one, but before they could resume the gold hunting venture an insurrection broke out. Sutter selected Pablo to bear a message to the Mexican g0vernor in Monterey. But.the luckless Pablo was taken prisoner near San Jose and was hanged. ANCIENT MEXICAN PLANTS MAYPROVEUSEFUL BERKELEY, Oct. 5—Study of the agricultural plants grown in the Tezucan civitization of ancient Mexico may lead toreeognition of species worth utilizing. So says Dr. Howard S. Reed, professor of plant physiology on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Commenting on the memoir of Tewho ten in 1582, which has been reprintbesides fruits and grains familiar to our own civilization, such ag cherries, apples, tomatoes, gourds and maize, the Texucans domesticated plants not now commonly used. The agave was cultivated for its many products, including fibre, papey, wine and a syrup which was the equivalent for sugar. Huawuhtli, a species of goosefoot, which has a Tape, Was ground and made into loaves and tortillas. Several kinds and their seeds Were added to many sorts of stews. A. herb called piciet!, a species of tobacco, was used to produce sleep and for deadening the flesh and relieving fatigue: The seed Of oloiuhque, probably a species of convolvulus, was. ground and made into a.dough and used to reduce swellings and relieve pain, Dr. Reed says. & Mrs. Charles Eden who ‘hag been very ill many months, was able to attend Evangeline Chapter OBS, Tuger day evening. . cluded. ed upon extended sympathy as a re. dent James F. Zimmerman of the}: UP SHEER CAMP Leo Chatfield of*the Tahoe forest} off it is believed by rodents,: probaa . ably pack rats, and the entire. camp . cuco by Juan Bautista Pomar, writ. ed recently. Dr. Reed points out that. ® ‘River approximately twenty miles’ sult of the war.” the Bact cai con: ~DR.J.0. MOSELEY WILL BE NEW U OF N HEAD Before representatives of” many colleges and universities, state officials, faculty, alumni, students and others. Dr. John Chleyer Moseley will be inagurated as the seventh president of the University of Nevada on Thursday, October 12. The new president of the state’s only institution of higher education will be formally inducted into office 70: years to the day from the time the university. opened its doors for the first time to the youth of -Nevada. That was in Elko, October 12, 1874, where the university of Nevada was first established; in 1885, it was moved to its present location in Reno. About 75 other colleges and universities have chosen to designate members of their administrative staffs, factulties, or alumni bodies to help the university of Nevada fotmally place the powers and responsibilities of office in the hands of Dr. Moseley. Of ‘these representatives, 15. are from outside Nevada, coming from 5 states, while the+ remainder age} Nevadang from various: parts of the state. Four “university or college presidents and four deans are making the ‘trip from their institutions to take part in the colorful ceremonies of the Nevada campus. Dr. Alfred Atkinson, president. of the University of Arizona, will deliver the chief address at the cere-e monies Thursday morning, while other college héads to be present include President Franklin S.° Harris of Brigham Young university, Presiuniversity of New Mexico, and Presi-. : dent \Nicholas Ricciardi of Sacra< mento junior college. PACK RATS SET OFF MATCH, BURN . service in the Truckee district, yesterday reported a fire which is: bewell known sheep man who. pastures his flocks on the hills northwest of Boca.in eastern Nevada County. The matches left outside near the} During. Mills’ absence they were set burned up, including Mills tent ‘and all his belongings. Chatfield stated . that the area burned was less than): @n acre. — A colony of beaver was planted in the Smithneck Creek drainage on the Sierraville district of the Tahoe national forest in May 1943. In the spring of 1944 one family’ of the]! colony was missed, it is not known whether it was that family troubles developed or if they were just plain hit by wanderlust, but they were later located on the Little Truckee distance from their first home. These beaver were planted for the purpose of erosion contro] and building up meadows by the means of the beaver dams, in thig area. This method has proved successful a several ‘localities. THIRTY DATS, Robert Spencer was reduced to petty theft during his hearing . part atate taxes are seared levies for charities and lieved to have been caused by pack} — rats in the camp of Melvin F. Mills, . . ‘camp stove were the kind that can). be ignited on any rough substance. . . The charge of burglary : Naas : Before Jus-. . tee of the Peace C. E, Smith of. CALIFORNIA PAY FOUR BILLIONS. INTAXES. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. . 2—California citizens paid $4233,000,000taxes during the fiscal year ending June 39, a figure almost twice that. of the preceding year, and approximately four times the total of té cellections in this state during eg pre war year 1940. ‘Report covering federal, state anf local tax collections for the fiscal year, made by the tax department of the California State 18 ber of Commerce, was made public today by H. S. Robinson, president. } This study reveals that the fé eral government, last year coll $3,372,000,000 in ‘Califoraia,which $1/950,000,000 consisted individual income taxes. © For . preceding year individual income tax collections were $480,300,000. is four fold increase in individual come tax collections by the ‘federal government, Robinson pointed. om is the result of changes in the ‘ federal revenue act, which bro: ed this segment of the tax ‘base include’ almost 50, 000,000 taxpay throughout the nation. ; It is significant Robinson 1 -thalt Californians are now more in federal taxes than ‘ ‘the tire nation "paid as recently as year 1933, when total collections the United States amounted t 115,000,000; This increase. reflects the contribution this is making directly toward the cost of ths war. lections from all sources for’ fiscal year were $546,00 ivity. Robingon ‘said, and for ‘to the flow of business. . due: prinehialie. to . i hu valley, and a few trom the. The kill averaged ‘hunter, and, the take ‘Most :of reper ikilling the old birds been told they were. of heng in the Lo ter the first day’s shooting . of additional binder 1 o protected ground.” : *~ .