September 11, 1939 (4 pages)

Se OS Out Loud By H. M. L. evada City Nugget . . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA = with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton; saan March 15, 1848:. 7 The Liberty of the Press sineiots the right to publish the Truth, Alexander Hamil— The truly wise man is conscious of his own imperfections, sins and faults. He carefully weighs his own shortcomings against those of his neighbors. The man who believes himself faultless is on his way to the psychopathic ward, or some such job as Hitler’s. Bearing these things in mind the mayor’s reproach of his fellow councilmen, published in Friday’s issue, is approached with due caution. The meat in the coconut is this: The law forbids any public officer, generally speaking, from using his public office to benefit himself. The mayor does not quote the law, but does express the same principle as it relates to moral responsibilities of those who sit on the city council. While it may be and indeed is pleaded that in a small community, it is impossible for a city council to refrain from any action for the public good that does not in some way bring individual members a benefit, the moral consideration involved is that he shall not take a pecuniary and immediate advantage due solely to the fact that he sitg on the city council and is thus able to vote to himself this advantage. The law expressly forbids this nractice making it a punishable offense. When two or more councilmen agree to swap advahtages or special privilege, we have a situation in which the public inevitably suffers. The public servants have lost sight of the reason they were elected to office, namely to serve the public rather than themselves. In small towns the city council is a cynosure of all eyes. Councilmen are neighbors and friends of all the citnzens, generally speaking, and aside from the violation of the law, members of the council who seek personal '_ benefits from their office, violate their faith as good neighbors. Subterfuges are quickly spotted and rancor engendered as a result of petty selfseeking. A bad precedent is set and the community begins to view every candidate for office on such a council with distrust. Nevada City Council for years has maintained a high standard of integrity. Its members serve as the mayor states, ‘with no expectation of reward exceut public commendation for a service well done.’’ That is the standard that has been established and _ that standard the citizens of Nevada City will endeavor to maintain. If a majority consider that recent actions of the city council have lowered the standard, the remedy\ lies in the next municipal election. Once more we make.a plea for a city manager. We think the city has grown to a point where it requires too much time of the business men; who sit on the council, to give without remuneration. One capable head of city affairs, we are firmly convinced, would not only save the city money, but would also give it a-far more efficient administration than five men, busy in their own affairs, can afford to give. The council would employ one man, the manager, and he would employ the rest of the city’s staff. On the manager’s shoulders would rest the responsibility for carrying out each year a program~of betterment for the emtire city. With the city xouncil would lie approval of each year’s constructive program and the shaping of policies affecting the city’s welfare. But the supervision, the “setting things done’’ would be squarely up to the city manager. There would then be no opportunity or temptation to depart from the standards of rectitude that have characterized our city government for so many years. FUNERAL SERVICE FOR TONY COSTA Funeral services were held yesterday in the chapel at Holmes Funeral Home for the late Tony Costa. “A large group of sorrowing relatives ‘and friends gathered to pay respects to a greatly loved father, husband and citizen, Banks of beautiful flowers attested the high esteem in which he was held. Several men who had known him from his youth came down from the mountains to attend the services. Pall bearers were Geo. and Andrew Carey, Thomas Williams, Dave Davis, Frank Dueotey, J. H. Pascoe. Vol. 13, No. 73. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, SEPT EMBER I, 1939. Sn eee DOVE STEWS ARE WELL ATTENDED Two dove stews were held yesterday and throngs enjoyed delicious dinners and programs. The first one was given by the Grass Valley Sportsmans Club where there were plenty of the birds. for everyone. _Among prominent citizens present were Senator Jerrold Seawell of Roseville and Assemblyman Allan ‘Thurman of Colfax, Clyde Gwin, Tahoe national forest. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and Walter Butz assisted in preparing and serving the delicious stew. Music and a program were enjoyed. Banner Grange served a_ dove stew on the. Black ranch ten miles south of Grass Valley. A good program was rendered at this well attended dinner. ENGINEER LEE GOES TO SHASTA Forest: Engineer W. P. Lee will be transferred to Shasta National Forest, effective October 15, according to DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest. He was stationed here for six years. Nelson says the transfer was arranged in recognition of Lee’s ability. The Shasta forest is. receiving $450,000 for reconstruction of roads, telephone lines, and other requisites made necessary because certain waters backed up by the Shasta dam of the Central Valleys project. Lee’s transfer was due to his abilities in that kind of work. Forest Engineer John . Mackey from Shasta forest will replace Lee here. (Lee will be stationed at Mt. Shasta City, headquarters of the Shasta national forest. ELKS LODGE TO DINE THURSDAY EVENING Nevada City Elks Lodge will start their falldinner sessions Thursday by giving their first dinner in the club rooms. The committee on the program are the officers of the lodge. They are planning a program of en‘ttertainment and another of their famous dinners. The bowling alleys have been made ready and will be open for use. Cliff Merriam is Exalted Ruler. YELLOW BADGE WEARERS PACK RESERVED SEATS Nevada codniva Bikeral display at’ the California State Fair was awarded three firsts and four seconds last week by the judges of the mineral and metals, this was a higher than the 19388 display scored. The state’s banner gold mining county. was awarded first prizes for quartz gold specimens, ‘silver ores and mill products and took second honors in: gravel gold specimens, lode gold ores; gold bearing gravels and telluride ores. The golden yellow ribbons, worn by ‘Nevada county citizens for Nevada County Day, were much in evidence large section of the grand stand reserved for the Nevada County group was packed, many stood in the aisle and still there were groups that could not get in. PEARS STILL ROLLING Nevada county pears are still being harvested and trucked to Colfax where they are packed for shipment to eastern markets. The packing plant at Chicago Park was closed Saturday evening and the one in Grass Valley earlier in the week. Nevada county pears were good this year and prices were the best in years. Dick Bennett and Fred Diggles, who have spent the summer working in the Sixteen-to-One mine, have gone on a motor trip to Couer d’ Alene, Idaho, where they will visit the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, largest silver-lead mine in the Uniited States. . On their return, Dick Bennett will resume his courses in Stanford where he is a senior student, and Fred Diggles will enter an aviation school, areas in the forest will be flooded by . about the state fair grounds. The} RED CROSS OF NEVADA CITY CALLS MEETING A meeting of the Nevada City Red Cross chapter has been called foi next Thursday evening at o’clock in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the city hall. The meeting is called by Thos. McCraney, chairman of this chapter. NEW PENALTIES FOR VIOLATORS. OF TRAFFIC LAW SACRAMENTO, Sept. 11.—Trafific laws add another powerful link, effective September 19, to the chain which is making evasion of court appearance for a traffic violation a serious matter. On and after that date, according to Chief BE. R. Cato of the California highway patrol, drivers of motor vehicles who fail to appear in court and answer traffic violation citations will face additional severe penalties, including immediate suspension of -their licenses. To impress the necessity of appearing in court upon drivers who depend upon ‘“‘tag fixers,’ ‘“‘influence’’ or fictitious addresses to avoid warrant service,.the legislature has decided a new penalty-of $500 fine and six months in jail for driving a motor vehicle when licenses have been suspended. A charge of failure to appear may also be added by the court, thus making it necessary for the driver cited to answer three violations of the vehicle code. The new provision was included in the new laws’ becoming effective September 19, to give the California highway patrol a more effective weapon in dealing with a large class of drivers and chauffeurs who: annually fail to appear in court. Warrants previously were issued by courts for the arrest of motorists, who ignored a traffic citation ‘for 15 days. Many thousand warrants ave addresses which wére vacant lots, filling stations, or places where the wanted motorist was unknown. This practice of evading the law grew to such an extent that this large group of drivers cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars of unnecessary expense annually in an attempt to’ locate them. “The legislature has given us a powerful weapon to meet this large group of drivers who fail to answer court citations,’’ said Chief Cato, “and we are going to bear down hard upon them. “Paked addresses and other devices used make service of warrants all but impossible should drop tremendously. In the future, drivers of motor vehicles who fail to appear and defend themselves will find that their driving privileges are automatically suspended 15 days after notice is received from the court to which they were cited. “The California highway patrol will have a powerful weapon to use against motorists who now also must face the severe penalty of. driving with a suspended license. “Notice of the suspension is considered complete when it has been sent to the address of the violator as shown by our records. “The saving to taxpayers will be considerable.”’ ‘ Lieutenant Warren C. Chapman left Friday morning for the bay region. He received his commission in the United States Army upon his graduation from West Point Military Academy June 12 of this year and was immediately assigned to the 30th Infantry of the regular army. Lieut. Chapman has been visiting with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. C, W. Chapman in Nevada City while on furlough. He:is to report Monday, September 11 at Presidio of San Francisco for active duty. . (Miss Margaret Chapman, daughter of Allen Chapman and wife who has been spending her vacation in Nevada City with her grand parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Chapman, left Friday morning for the home of her parents in Alameda. She will attend school there this term. Her sister, Miss Marilyn Chapman, will remain in Nevada City and has enrolled in the local high school. All members of the Chapman family have graduated from the Nevada City high ‘school and Miss Marilyn will complete her course here this term, Tat forest service, HUNTERS WARNED TO BEWARE FIRE E. L. Stone, fire dispatcher in the stated today mimeographed letters are being passed out warning all hunters and .smokers who enter the national forests between now and the first rains, to be careful of fire. Deer season opens Saturday, September 16 and it is expected large numbers of sportsmen will be .in the mountains over the coming week end. NEVADA CITY P. T. A. RESUMES MEETINGS The Nevada City High School P. T. A. will hold its first fall meeting Thursday afternoon beginning at 3 o’clock. All members are invited to attend. A special invitation is issued to parents of the freshmen class and new comers to Nevada City. A short program is being prepared and a reception will be held for the teachers. Mrs. A. E. Deschwanden is president of the association. WAR MEANS BAD SEASON FOR ALL COMMUNISTS By CLEM WHITAKER There’s deadly bedlam, once again, on the Western Front—and America is just beginning to feel the first repercussions! : “Over there,’’ machine guns rattle. in fierce staccato, shrapnel shriek and heavy artillery blasts away at pill boxes and other strange fortifications that have replaced the trenches and dugouts which American boys found there in 1917. Over there, this war begins much like the last. Stocks ‘boom, prices climb. American neutrality is proclaimed, first American lives are lost at sea—-and the President :calls for a round up of spies and a clean up of subversive activities. What the outcome will be so far as America is concerned no one can predict. Most Americans today, according to all reliable indications, are unalterably opposed to Ameriean participation again in-European conflict—and the chances are probably better than even that the United States-will stay out of the actual fighting. But what will be the immediate impact of Europe’s war on American economics and American politics? One result, in the economic field, will doubtless be a strengthening of the demand for American goods (at least temporarily), with a gradually lessening relief load, a greater hum in industry and booming price levyels. Some economists, however, disagree with that diagnosis—contending that the world is poorer today than in 1914 and can’t buy American goods, at least in great quantity, even though it may need them. Politically, the immediate results are ready of analysis: Franklin D. Roosevelt is the President of the United States in a period of emergency and great peril—not simply the Democratic standard-bearer, who may seek to defy precedent by asking a third term—And Mr. Roose-. velt’s chance, at least for the time being, are considerably brighter—— but his job is the most difficult any American has had since silver haired Woodrow Wilson broke his health and his heart trying to save the world for Democracy, Politically, the Earl Browders and the Fritz Kuhns are on the way out —-with few to mourn them and with the United States Secret Service hot after them. Politically, Communism, Fascism and all other ‘‘isms’’ are headed for trouble. Politically, the Ham and Eggs pension scheme is in bad standing because of the militant support it has received from the Communist party and because of the campaign of class hatred which has been waged by its promoters. BE howe sig the sun of the leftists is setting. America intends to keep the peace! H. P. Davis, local mine engineer, received a telegram from his brother today, stating Mrs, H. P. Davis would arrive in New York on the Statendam Wednesday. When two days out from land the ship picked up sailors in a row boat from the first torpedoed English ship. UNIVERSITY WOMEN TO ‘OPEN SEASON WITH TEA} The Nevada County. Unit of the American Association of University Women will open the fall term of activities with a tea at the home of iMiss Margaret Rector on Saturday afternoon. The tea will be a _ program and social time. An election .of president will be held. Preceding the tea a business meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Will Durbrow on Wednesday evening at ‘7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Beatrice Hoge is president of the club. SCHOOL BUS T0 START WEDNES. While the new school bus has not yet arrived, a bus has been obtained and will start on ‘its rounds next Wednesday morning. It will cover the Red Dog road as far as the Murchie mine, Willow Valley and Indian Flat. The driver is E. C. Peters, who drove the North San Juan bus last year. Under an agreement with the people of North San Juan, the high school bus to that section is now running. The people of North San Juan and nearby communities offered to provide half the cost and the Nevada City school board agreed to foot half the bill, The cost of running the bus 4 year is $1,000. The new school bus for the local area is expected within a week or ten days, according to Superintendent Kjorlie. ALL HUNTERS TO BE VOLUNTARY FIRE OFFICERS veh deer hunter volunteer fire prevention officer. tao is the dual role every stalker of the wary buck will fill this season, forestry officials hope. With the continuance of the abnormally dry season and frequent occurrence of fires, sportsmen in the vicinity of the Tahoe national forest began to ask: ‘Are you. going to close the forest——to hunting?’’ DeWitt Nelson, “Swede’”’ to his friends — supervisor of the forest, never shot a deer in his life; but he is human and realized how thousands of sportsmen’ were looking forward to their “big week’’ and what a disappointment it was going to be if it was denied them. ‘‘They are human, too.” he ‘opined, ‘and maybe if they can be made to realize the great danger of fire, they can have their hunt in the woods and at the same time be cooperators in conservation, instead bes being on the outsidé looking in.’ He first broached hie. idea at a dinner meeting of sportsmen and conservationists at Auburn. He told how, while fishermen were responsible for more fires numerically each year than hunters, the fisherman was in the forest six months, the hunter only one month and, statistics show the hunter comparatively to be the greater risk. “That doesn’t mean you intend to start fires,” he said, ‘“‘but just that some of you do not realize the extreme nrecautions necessary at this’ time of the year. We certainly can’t take chances this year. Too much national wealth is at stake. If I leave the forest open this season, will all of you pledge sourselves to be allies in fire preven‘tion?’ “We will,” they said. Nelson felt they indexed the sentiments of sportsmen in general; so he went to San Francisco and laid his proposition before his superiors. It found favor; and in a national. broadcast George M. Gowen, chief of fire control for the California region, said that pledge cards, bearing the emblem of the Federal Forest Service and State Division of Forestry and the following wording, would be passed out to hunters and other forest users:“T, the undersigned, hereby pledge to do all in my power to prevent the occurrence of fires in the forests and fields of California ‘and to abide by. . _ all Federal, State and County fire. } TEN FIRES IN FIVE HOURS STARTED BY LIGHTNING Thunder stores brought shuwers and lightning to the Tahoe national forest areas throughout the night and the’storms are continuing today. The first lightning fire was reported to local headquarters at ‘five o’clock this morning and by ‘tem o'clock there were ten fires. The storms are on the west side. None are reported from the east side of Nevada state. Rain fell quite heayily in many spots from heavy clouds. Some of the: fires reported were two in Steep Hollow Creek area south of the King-Wolford saw mill; ‘one in Michigan Bluff; two near Sawmill Lake and Bowman, Chalk Bluff, Iowa Hill and Government Springs. At time of going to press this afternoon 29 fires were reported in to headquarters of the Tahoe National Forest in Nevada City. Fire fighters are sent:out as the fires are spotted by lookouts and all fires are reported to be one half acre or less. Lightning storms continue throughout the western side of the forest. TRAFFIC VIOLATORS GIVEN STIFF SENTENCES Dariae the past past wank there were . two drivers brought into the city court on violations of Section 502 of the Vehicle Code (driving while intoxicated.) One defendant, Alvia O. Schanzenbach pleaded guilty and was fined $100, payable in installments. The other case was one im which M. W. Zuelsdorf pleaded guilty and due to extenuating circumstances was fined $50, also payable in installments. The drivers license of both Schanzenbach and Zuelsdorf were suspend-— ed for the maximum period of six months by City Judge Miles. D. Coughlin. Another charge ot driving over the Gault bridge with an excessive load of 3000 pounds over the lawful limit of three tons was heard. A fine of $7.50 was imposed, The following traffic were heard: For isditviy Dorolnen Van De venter, paid a fine of $5; James Barry, $10 and Raymond Neilson, $10. . For passing stop signs—Marion Alva Harris, paid a fine of $2.50; George Jacobs, same offense, $2.50; Lucy Ellen Harris, $2.50; George Martinson, $2.50; improper turn, Tom Glochie, $2. ee LASTRITESFOR PIONEER OF SAN. WAN RIDGE Wanerel berviges ts for the late El * len (Mother) Coughlan were held teday from the Coughlan home at North Columbia. The cortege left the Catholic church at Cherokee, where _ at 10 o’clock this morning a Requiem — Mass was said by Father O’Reilly Interment was in the North San Juan cemetery under the direction. of the Holmes Funeral Home. citationsCounty Ranger. : , Hardly had the last word sped over the ether waves when calls began to come in for the cards, Ne son states. Both Federal and. State forest officials are optimistic as to ‘the outcome. “It’s up to the beams and other forest users now,” they say, ‘‘whether we can leave hunt areas open during abana ‘fir seasons.” laws and regulations, I further to advise all members of my ) as well as my” friends, of thes tawh ana to oan, Chad, eae SMa

Se OS Out Loud By H. M. L. evada City Nugget . . COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA = with good motives and for justifiable ends. ton; saan March 15, 1848:. 7 The Liberty of the Press sineiots the right to publish the Truth, Alexander Hamil— The truly wise man is conscious of his own imperfections, sins and faults. He carefully weighs his own shortcomings against those of his neighbors. The man who believes himself faultless is on his way to the psychopathic ward, or some such job as Hitler’s. Bearing these things in mind the mayor’s reproach of his fellow councilmen, published in Friday’s issue, is approached with due caution. The meat in the coconut is this: The law forbids any public officer, generally speaking, from using his public office to benefit himself. The mayor does not quote the law, but does express the same principle as it relates to moral responsibilities of those who sit on the city council. While it may be and indeed is pleaded that in a small community, it is impossible for a city council to refrain from any action for the public good that does not in some way bring individual members a benefit, the moral consideration involved is that he shall not take a pecuniary and immediate advantage due solely to the fact that he sitg on the city council and is thus able to vote to himself this advantage. The law expressly forbids this nractice making it a punishable offense. When two or more councilmen agree to swap advahtages or special privilege, we have a situation in which the public inevitably suffers. The public servants have lost sight of the reason they were elected to office, namely to serve the public rather than themselves. In small towns the city council is a cynosure of all eyes. Councilmen are neighbors and friends of all the citnzens, generally speaking, and aside from the violation of the law, members of the council who seek personal '_ benefits from their office, violate their faith as good neighbors. Subterfuges are quickly spotted and rancor engendered as a result of petty selfseeking. A bad precedent is set and the community begins to view every candidate for office on such a council with distrust. Nevada City Council for years has maintained a high standard of integrity. Its members serve as the mayor states, ‘with no expectation of reward exceut public commendation for a service well done.’’ That is the standard that has been established and _ that standard the citizens of Nevada City will endeavor to maintain. If a majority consider that recent actions of the city council have lowered the standard, the remedy\ lies in the next municipal election. Once more we make.a plea for a city manager. We think the city has grown to a point where it requires too much time of the business men; who sit on the council, to give without remuneration. One capable head of city affairs, we are firmly convinced, would not only save the city money, but would also give it a-far more efficient administration than five men, busy in their own affairs, can afford to give. The council would employ one man, the manager, and he would employ the rest of the city’s staff. On the manager’s shoulders would rest the responsibility for carrying out each year a program~of betterment for the emtire city. With the city xouncil would lie approval of each year’s constructive program and the shaping of policies affecting the city’s welfare. But the supervision, the “setting things done’’ would be squarely up to the city manager. There would then be no opportunity or temptation to depart from the standards of rectitude that have characterized our city government for so many years. FUNERAL SERVICE FOR TONY COSTA Funeral services were held yesterday in the chapel at Holmes Funeral Home for the late Tony Costa. “A large group of sorrowing relatives ‘and friends gathered to pay respects to a greatly loved father, husband and citizen, Banks of beautiful flowers attested the high esteem in which he was held. Several men who had known him from his youth came down from the mountains to attend the services. Pall bearers were Geo. and Andrew Carey, Thomas Williams, Dave Davis, Frank Dueotey, J. H. Pascoe. Vol. 13, No. 73. The County Seat Paper NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA The Gold Center MONDAY, SEPT EMBER I, 1939. Sn eee DOVE STEWS ARE WELL ATTENDED Two dove stews were held yesterday and throngs enjoyed delicious dinners and programs. The first one was given by the Grass Valley Sportsmans Club where there were plenty of the birds. for everyone. _Among prominent citizens present were Senator Jerrold Seawell of Roseville and Assemblyman Allan ‘Thurman of Colfax, Clyde Gwin, Tahoe national forest. Sheriff Carl J. Tobiassen and Walter Butz assisted in preparing and serving the delicious stew. Music and a program were enjoyed. Banner Grange served a_ dove stew on the. Black ranch ten miles south of Grass Valley. A good program was rendered at this well attended dinner. ENGINEER LEE GOES TO SHASTA Forest: Engineer W. P. Lee will be transferred to Shasta National Forest, effective October 15, according to DeWitt Nelson, supervisor of the Tahoe National Forest. He was stationed here for six years. Nelson says the transfer was arranged in recognition of Lee’s ability. The Shasta forest is. receiving $450,000 for reconstruction of roads, telephone lines, and other requisites made necessary because certain waters backed up by the Shasta dam of the Central Valleys project. Lee’s transfer was due to his abilities in that kind of work. Forest Engineer John . Mackey from Shasta forest will replace Lee here. (Lee will be stationed at Mt. Shasta City, headquarters of the Shasta national forest. ELKS LODGE TO DINE THURSDAY EVENING Nevada City Elks Lodge will start their falldinner sessions Thursday by giving their first dinner in the club rooms. The committee on the program are the officers of the lodge. They are planning a program of en‘ttertainment and another of their famous dinners. The bowling alleys have been made ready and will be open for use. Cliff Merriam is Exalted Ruler. YELLOW BADGE WEARERS PACK RESERVED SEATS Nevada codniva Bikeral display at’ the California State Fair was awarded three firsts and four seconds last week by the judges of the mineral and metals, this was a higher than the 19388 display scored. The state’s banner gold mining county. was awarded first prizes for quartz gold specimens, ‘silver ores and mill products and took second honors in: gravel gold specimens, lode gold ores; gold bearing gravels and telluride ores. The golden yellow ribbons, worn by ‘Nevada county citizens for Nevada County Day, were much in evidence large section of the grand stand reserved for the Nevada County group was packed, many stood in the aisle and still there were groups that could not get in. PEARS STILL ROLLING Nevada county pears are still being harvested and trucked to Colfax where they are packed for shipment to eastern markets. The packing plant at Chicago Park was closed Saturday evening and the one in Grass Valley earlier in the week. Nevada county pears were good this year and prices were the best in years. Dick Bennett and Fred Diggles, who have spent the summer working in the Sixteen-to-One mine, have gone on a motor trip to Couer d’ Alene, Idaho, where they will visit the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, largest silver-lead mine in the Uniited States. . On their return, Dick Bennett will resume his courses in Stanford where he is a senior student, and Fred Diggles will enter an aviation school, areas in the forest will be flooded by . about the state fair grounds. The} RED CROSS OF NEVADA CITY CALLS MEETING A meeting of the Nevada City Red Cross chapter has been called foi next Thursday evening at o’clock in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in the city hall. The meeting is called by Thos. McCraney, chairman of this chapter. NEW PENALTIES FOR VIOLATORS. OF TRAFFIC LAW SACRAMENTO, Sept. 11.—Trafific laws add another powerful link, effective September 19, to the chain which is making evasion of court appearance for a traffic violation a serious matter. On and after that date, according to Chief BE. R. Cato of the California highway patrol, drivers of motor vehicles who fail to appear in court and answer traffic violation citations will face additional severe penalties, including immediate suspension of -their licenses. To impress the necessity of appearing in court upon drivers who depend upon ‘“‘tag fixers,’ ‘“‘influence’’ or fictitious addresses to avoid warrant service,.the legislature has decided a new penalty-of $500 fine and six months in jail for driving a motor vehicle when licenses have been suspended. A charge of failure to appear may also be added by the court, thus making it necessary for the driver cited to answer three violations of the vehicle code. The new provision was included in the new laws’ becoming effective September 19, to give the California highway patrol a more effective weapon in dealing with a large class of drivers and chauffeurs who: annually fail to appear in court. Warrants previously were issued by courts for the arrest of motorists, who ignored a traffic citation ‘for 15 days. Many thousand warrants ave addresses which wére vacant lots, filling stations, or places where the wanted motorist was unknown. This practice of evading the law grew to such an extent that this large group of drivers cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars of unnecessary expense annually in an attempt to’ locate them. “The legislature has given us a powerful weapon to meet this large group of drivers who fail to answer court citations,’’ said Chief Cato, “and we are going to bear down hard upon them. “Paked addresses and other devices used make service of warrants all but impossible should drop tremendously. In the future, drivers of motor vehicles who fail to appear and defend themselves will find that their driving privileges are automatically suspended 15 days after notice is received from the court to which they were cited. “The California highway patrol will have a powerful weapon to use against motorists who now also must face the severe penalty of. driving with a suspended license. “Notice of the suspension is considered complete when it has been sent to the address of the violator as shown by our records. “The saving to taxpayers will be considerable.”’ ‘ Lieutenant Warren C. Chapman left Friday morning for the bay region. He received his commission in the United States Army upon his graduation from West Point Military Academy June 12 of this year and was immediately assigned to the 30th Infantry of the regular army. Lieut.

Chapman has been visiting with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. C, W. Chapman in Nevada City while on furlough. He:is to report Monday, September 11 at Presidio of San Francisco for active duty. . (Miss Margaret Chapman, daughter of Allen Chapman and wife who has been spending her vacation in Nevada City with her grand parents, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Chapman, left Friday morning for the home of her parents in Alameda. She will attend school there this term. Her sister, Miss Marilyn Chapman, will remain in Nevada City and has enrolled in the local high school. All members of the Chapman family have graduated from the Nevada City high ‘school and Miss Marilyn will complete her course here this term, Tat forest service, HUNTERS WARNED TO BEWARE FIRE E. L. Stone, fire dispatcher in the stated today mimeographed letters are being passed out warning all hunters and .smokers who enter the national forests between now and the first rains, to be careful of fire. Deer season opens Saturday, September 16 and it is expected large numbers of sportsmen will be .in the mountains over the coming week end. NEVADA CITY P. T. A. RESUMES MEETINGS The Nevada City High School P. T. A. will hold its first fall meeting Thursday afternoon beginning at 3 o’clock. All members are invited to attend. A special invitation is issued to parents of the freshmen class and new comers to Nevada City. A short program is being prepared and a reception will be held for the teachers. Mrs. A. E. Deschwanden is president of the association. WAR MEANS BAD SEASON FOR ALL COMMUNISTS By CLEM WHITAKER There’s deadly bedlam, once again, on the Western Front—and America is just beginning to feel the first repercussions! : “Over there,’’ machine guns rattle. in fierce staccato, shrapnel shriek and heavy artillery blasts away at pill boxes and other strange fortifications that have replaced the trenches and dugouts which American boys found there in 1917. Over there, this war begins much like the last. Stocks ‘boom, prices climb. American neutrality is proclaimed, first American lives are lost at sea—-and the President :calls for a round up of spies and a clean up of subversive activities. What the outcome will be so far as America is concerned no one can predict. Most Americans today, according to all reliable indications, are unalterably opposed to Ameriean participation again in-European conflict—and the chances are probably better than even that the United States-will stay out of the actual fighting. But what will be the immediate impact of Europe’s war on American economics and American politics? One result, in the economic field, will doubtless be a strengthening of the demand for American goods (at least temporarily), with a gradually lessening relief load, a greater hum in industry and booming price levyels. Some economists, however, disagree with that diagnosis—contending that the world is poorer today than in 1914 and can’t buy American goods, at least in great quantity, even though it may need them. Politically, the immediate results are ready of analysis: Franklin D. Roosevelt is the President of the United States in a period of emergency and great peril—not simply the Democratic standard-bearer, who may seek to defy precedent by asking a third term—And Mr. Roose-. velt’s chance, at least for the time being, are considerably brighter—— but his job is the most difficult any American has had since silver haired Woodrow Wilson broke his health and his heart trying to save the world for Democracy, Politically, the Earl Browders and the Fritz Kuhns are on the way out —-with few to mourn them and with the United States Secret Service hot after them. Politically, Communism, Fascism and all other ‘‘isms’’ are headed for trouble. Politically, the Ham and Eggs pension scheme is in bad standing because of the militant support it has received from the Communist party and because of the campaign of class hatred which has been waged by its promoters. BE howe sig the sun of the leftists is setting. America intends to keep the peace! H. P. Davis, local mine engineer, received a telegram from his brother today, stating Mrs, H. P. Davis would arrive in New York on the Statendam Wednesday. When two days out from land the ship picked up sailors in a row boat from the first torpedoed English ship. UNIVERSITY WOMEN TO ‘OPEN SEASON WITH TEA} The Nevada County. Unit of the American Association of University Women will open the fall term of activities with a tea at the home of iMiss Margaret Rector on Saturday afternoon. The tea will be a _ program and social time. An election .of president will be held. Preceding the tea a business meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Will Durbrow on Wednesday evening at ‘7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Beatrice Hoge is president of the club. SCHOOL BUS T0 START WEDNES. While the new school bus has not yet arrived, a bus has been obtained and will start on ‘its rounds next Wednesday morning. It will cover the Red Dog road as far as the Murchie mine, Willow Valley and Indian Flat. The driver is E. C. Peters, who drove the North San Juan bus last year. Under an agreement with the people of North San Juan, the high school bus to that section is now running. The people of North San Juan and nearby communities offered to provide half the cost and the Nevada City school board agreed to foot half the bill, The cost of running the bus 4 year is $1,000. The new school bus for the local area is expected within a week or ten days, according to Superintendent Kjorlie. ALL HUNTERS TO BE VOLUNTARY FIRE OFFICERS veh deer hunter volunteer fire prevention officer. tao is the dual role every stalker of the wary buck will fill this season, forestry officials hope. With the continuance of the abnormally dry season and frequent occurrence of fires, sportsmen in the vicinity of the Tahoe national forest began to ask: ‘Are you. going to close the forest——to hunting?’’ DeWitt Nelson, “Swede’”’ to his friends — supervisor of the forest, never shot a deer in his life; but he is human and realized how thousands of sportsmen’ were looking forward to their “big week’’ and what a disappointment it was going to be if it was denied them. ‘‘They are human, too.” he ‘opined, ‘and maybe if they can be made to realize the great danger of fire, they can have their hunt in the woods and at the same time be cooperators in conservation, instead bes being on the outsidé looking in.’ He first broached hie. idea at a dinner meeting of sportsmen and conservationists at Auburn. He told how, while fishermen were responsible for more fires numerically each year than hunters, the fisherman was in the forest six months, the hunter only one month and, statistics show the hunter comparatively to be the greater risk. “That doesn’t mean you intend to start fires,” he said, ‘“‘but just that some of you do not realize the extreme nrecautions necessary at this’ time of the year. We certainly can’t take chances this year. Too much national wealth is at stake. If I leave the forest open this season, will all of you pledge sourselves to be allies in fire preven‘tion?’ “We will,” they said. Nelson felt they indexed the sentiments of sportsmen in general; so he went to San Francisco and laid his proposition before his superiors. It found favor; and in a national. broadcast George M. Gowen, chief of fire control for the California region, said that pledge cards, bearing the emblem of the Federal Forest Service and State Division of Forestry and the following wording, would be passed out to hunters and other forest users:“T, the undersigned, hereby pledge to do all in my power to prevent the occurrence of fires in the forests and fields of California ‘and to abide by. . _ all Federal, State and County fire. } TEN FIRES IN FIVE HOURS STARTED BY LIGHTNING Thunder stores brought shuwers and lightning to the Tahoe national forest areas throughout the night and the’storms are continuing today. The first lightning fire was reported to local headquarters at ‘five o’clock this morning and by ‘tem o'clock there were ten fires. The storms are on the west side. None are reported from the east side of Nevada state. Rain fell quite heayily in many spots from heavy clouds. Some of the: fires reported were two in Steep Hollow Creek area south of the King-Wolford saw mill; ‘one in Michigan Bluff; two near Sawmill Lake and Bowman, Chalk Bluff, Iowa Hill and Government Springs. At time of going to press this afternoon 29 fires were reported in to headquarters of the Tahoe National Forest in Nevada City. Fire fighters are sent:out as the fires are spotted by lookouts and all fires are reported to be one half acre or less. Lightning storms continue throughout the western side of the forest. TRAFFIC VIOLATORS GIVEN STIFF SENTENCES Dariae the past past wank there were . two drivers brought into the city court on violations of Section 502 of the Vehicle Code (driving while intoxicated.) One defendant, Alvia O. Schanzenbach pleaded guilty and was fined $100, payable in installments. The other case was one im which M. W. Zuelsdorf pleaded guilty and due to extenuating circumstances was fined $50, also payable in installments. The drivers license of both Schanzenbach and Zuelsdorf were suspend-— ed for the maximum period of six months by City Judge Miles. D. Coughlin. Another charge ot driving over the Gault bridge with an excessive load of 3000 pounds over the lawful limit of three tons was heard. A fine of $7.50 was imposed, The following traffic were heard: For isditviy Dorolnen Van De venter, paid a fine of $5; James Barry, $10 and Raymond Neilson, $10. . For passing stop signs—Marion Alva Harris, paid a fine of $2.50; George Jacobs, same offense, $2.50; Lucy Ellen Harris, $2.50; George Martinson, $2.50; improper turn, Tom Glochie, $2. ee LASTRITESFOR PIONEER OF SAN. WAN RIDGE Wanerel berviges ts for the late El * len (Mother) Coughlan were held teday from the Coughlan home at North Columbia. The cortege left the Catholic church at Cherokee, where _ at 10 o’clock this morning a Requiem — Mass was said by Father O’Reilly Interment was in the North San Juan cemetery under the direction. of the Holmes Funeral Home. citationsCounty Ranger. : , Hardly had the last word sped over the ether waves when calls began to come in for the cards, Ne son states. Both Federal and. State forest officials are optimistic as to ‘the outcome. “It’s up to the beams and other forest users now,” they say, ‘‘whether we can leave hunt areas open during abana ‘fir seasons.” laws and regulations, I further to advise all members of my ) as well as my” friends, of thes tawh ana to oan, Chad, eae SMa