September 2, 1938 (6 pages)

Thinking . Out Loud = Nevada ity Nu COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth,. with geod motives and for justifiable ends. ton — Alexander Hamil“Vol. 12, No. 69. _ _The County Seat Paper_ _NEVADA cA vy, CALIFORNIA = Gort Center ~ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938, By H. M. L. A general election always provides a basis for a new appraisal of the American people, its sentiments and maybe its goals. In the election Tuesday some very gratifying results appeared locally and in the national field. In South Carolina the President’s nose, which had been thrust into that state’s senatorial election, _was bruised. In California where it had not intruded so CORED ICT ENPAY it was tweaked: South Carolina still ‘believes so strongly in state rights that it will elect its senators without outside advice, as demonstrated by the nomination of Senator “Cotton ’ Ed Smith,’’ which in that state means reelection. California substitutes Downey for McAdoo as Democratic nominee for the Senate which to the mind of this writer is a rebuke to the President, more formal than real. Moreover Downey’s nomination bodes il] for liberal and conservative elements. He rode into the Democratic van by espousing the $30 every Thursday plan, which the President has rightly but rashly condemned. But once nose thrusting becomes a habit, it is difficult to stop short of ail manner of meddling in minutia. Downey and Olson will, then, lead radical forces in November. Whether with the great influx of destitute refugees from other states into California, men and women whose circumstances are so. desperate that they seize on any quack remedy offered by unscruplous anid subversive leaders, glib talkers, specious reasoners, will be sufficient to tip the som and plunge California into an era of _crack-pot schemes and accumulating debt, is a grave question. Against these offspring of the EPIC, Frank Merriam, and Philip Bancroft, Republican nominees for ' senator respectively, are pitted. Vfe hope and, until we are disillusioned, will have faith, that California will in this crisis disregard party lines ber vote into office sound thinkers and capable doers. By this time a majority in the state should know that a demagogue in office is not only a nuisance ‘but a menace to liberty and a scourge to the tax payers, Regarding the local results, it is pleasant to reflect that we did not elect a man to jbe superintendent’ of the county schools who can’t spell the word ‘“‘education.’’ Not that we set great store by spelling, or regard it as one of the primary virtues, but just as a shoe maker should be able to use the tools of his trade, so a school man should be able to spell and to write long hand legibly. Truckee, where the CIOs swae up and down the main street and tell the merchants to get off, we with pleasure, turns in a considerable majority for Sheriff Tobiassen. This strengthens our conviction that the whole CIO hysteria is maintained chiefly by sound and fury. It is very apparent that in Truckee the majority of this organization are drifters and ne’er-do-wells who rarely stay long enough in one spot to acquire a legal residence. The CIO muster of votes shows how deceptive noise can be. er: It is of state-wide significance, however, that the two county officers whom the communists and radical labor leaders of California have most abused, should have been returned to office, one, Judge Tuttle, without opposition, and the other, Sheriff Tobiassen, by what ‘is probably the largest majority every accorded a sheriff in this county. As remarked before in this column, it may be that we are living in economic or political sin in Nevada County, but that is the way we prefer to live. It is not for Harry Brid‘ges or any of the lesser red fry, such as Ellis Patterson, Reid Robinson, or the tonsorial artist from Idaho, preaching wierd doctrines of the Third International with expectation of gathering proselytes. We have lived too long among the granite boulders to be easily moved by paid orators whose promises boiled down to the _sweet residue, is for a life without work, or at least very little work, and preposterous reumneration. The CIO, as election results show, finds enrollment of suckers in (Nevada County, an extremely slow ‘business. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Haverstock of governor ang) Nearly All County Candidates Re-elected Candidates Vernon’ Stoll and Ward Sheldon in the race for the district attorney’s office will run it off in the November election. Candidates for Coroner, A. M. Holme, and L. R. Jefford, will also carry their contest to the Noyember polls. Re-elected county officers on Tuesday were Judge Raglan Tuttle, J. M. Hammill, assesor, Frank Steel, treasurer. These three were unopposed. Jack Nettell, also unopposed, takes the place of Sam Clark, recorder, who did not seek re-election because of ill health. Sheriff Tobiassen, opposed by two candidates, was re-elected by a huge majority. Noble McCormack, county clerk and auditor, with one opponent was also re-elected at the primary. Walter Carlson, with two opponents, was elected by a big majority county superintendent of schools to take the office of Mrs. Ella M> Austin, who was not a candidate, and who after ‘many years of faithful and efficient service has retired from public life. Justice of the Peace Walter Mobley was re-elected by a large majority. : Republican county committeemen elected from Nevada Township were Meyers Mobley, Fred F. Cassidy and H. M. Leete. Allen G. Thurman on both Democratic and Republican tickets received an overwhelming majority in Nevada county.’ fae Votes received by the candidates for contested offices as are follows: District Attorney: 2738; Ward Sheldon, Cassettari, 1708. Coroner: A. M. Holmes,. 2724; L. R. Jefford, 2342; Dr. D. L. Hirsch, 20.94, Sheriff: ‘Carl Geo. R. Carter, 956. County Clerk: R. N. McCormack, 4151; Arthur Hellings, 2857. Justice of the Peace: Walter Mobley, 1204; George Gildersleeve, 423; Alfred Haddy, 156. Assemblyman: Thurman, 1732; Rep. 1656. Raffetto, 650; Rep. 432. Lawson, Dem., Rep. 190. Rep. in Congress: 2195; Dozier, 466. Vernon Stoll, 2680; . Wm, Tobiassen, 4902; 1459; Walter Prelps Dem., Dem., 389; Englebright ROTARIANS TO PICNIC SEPT. 8 Osear Odevnerd gave an account of the Rotary District No. 105 Assembly that was held in Quincy August 20. Presidents. and secretaries or other representatives of the many note . clubs :in the district were present with their wives. Hotel. accomodaas it has done before, and in Novxem-' tions were too limited to accomodate ; 2 the crowd,.'‘but many private homes offered their hospitality to the visitors. It was suggested that the Nevada City and Grass Valley Rotary clubs endeavor to obtain the assembly for 1940. Next year Reno will be host . to the Rotarians. The assembly was attended, Mr. Odegaard stated, by several past governors, who gave the newly elected club officers invaluable advice regarding their duties and conduct of their offices. iIMr. Odegaard also announced that the second annual steak sandwich picnic of the Rotary club, to which the Grass Valley club, and all members, wives, and former members, are invited, will take place next Thursday evening: in Pioneers park. The committee chairmen to arrange for this event are: Emmett Gallagher, general chairman, Irving Barbecue pit and grill for ‘Chester Scheemer, food. Nye Johnson, drinks. Clyde Gwin, pinch hitter. broiling pit. Last year great success, Long: Tables and seating. broiling. Fire and the picnic proved a There was a large aties. A spirited soft ball game between Nevada City and Grass Valley teams was a feature of the evening. ANCIENT ROMAN JURIES FAULTY LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1.—Dr. Arthur P. McKinlay, professor of Latin student of the ancient classics as well as modern writing, points out that human nature has changed little, at least in some respects, since the days of the Romans. He cites an article in a recent magazine in which the author depicts jurymen of the present age as being much more interested in playing paker and in pickling themselves in Weotine than in performing their court duties. Dr. McKinlay quotes a citation of Mommsen’s from Macrobius showing what went on in Rome more than two thousand years ago, A speaker of 161 B. C. said of the senatorial jurymen that they played at dice in the company of loose women. Occasionally they would send a messenger to find out how things were going on in the Forum. Mr. and ‘Mrs. Bill ‘Maguire and children of the bay district will ‘spend the coming week end and LabWashington are visiting Mrs. Leslie, ‘Land in Nevada City. \ or Day in Nevada City with Maguire’s mother, Mrs. Edna Maguire. ‘ment made today by tendance of Rotarians and their lad-, SPORTSMEN GET DOVE LIMITS: ‘series of university class annuals. . Dove season opened yesterday and several local sportsmen who have been enjoying such good luck in trout fishing were out early and came south and west of Grass Valley. ¥* Frank Ghidotti and father, John Ghidotti, each killed limits early in the morning and were back in town bright and early. ‘‘Whispering”’ Dick Lane and party were also successful in killing nice lots of birds. Another party having fine luck bringing in limits of birds were John Tognarelli, Jack Shebley, Fred Reed, Jim A len: and Mr. Zonino. JULY CASH FOR UNEMPLOYED IN COUNTY; $6,722 Unemployment «om jfén sation checks distributed in Nevada county during the month of July totaled $6,722.81, according ‘to announceEdward EE. Steele, manager of the Department of Employment office in Grass Valley. Mr. Steele said that a total of 567 checks ment insurance claimants here during July. “This continual flow of cash into Nevada 'County is particularly beneficial,’’ Steele said, “‘as it is of material assistance in maintaining normal business operations. “Up to July 31, 3,975 Nevada county claimants have received the . checks totaling $47,372,76, or .4 per cent of the total money distributed throughout California in unemployment insurance.’ Throughout California, 250,103 checks were mailed to. claimants from Sacramento during July, totaling $2,350,884.27. Up to July 31, a total of 1,286,301 had been paid to claimants, totaling $12,241,381.88. The employment Closed Labor Day and Admission Day, the two holidays next week. SPORTSMEN’S DOVE STEW, CASEYS RANCH The Grass’ Valley —Sportsman’s Club will hold their annual Dove Stew at Caseys ranch in Penn Valley Sunday. This big event looked forward to each year with great énthusiasm by sportsmen of the Twin Cities for the last 50 years is attended iby the large’ up of members and their families.” After dinner is served sports events will comprise target practice and clay bird — shooting. Dove season opened yesterday and hunters were out bright and early to secure birds for the stew. BERT RECTOR joined his father and uncle in with limits of birds from! i bank. Wthe Grass Valley and Nevada City were mailed to unemploy-. ' lsense of humor. Up to the very last office will be. NO ISSUE OF NUGGET MONDAY, LABOR DAY Next Monday is Labor Day and owing to the fact banks, county and city offices will be closed on that day ,there will be no issue of the Nevada City Nugget. PASSES AWAY IN SAN FRANCISCO G. J. (Bert) Rector, who has been identified with the jupbuilding of Nevada County for nearly forty years passed away last evening in a San Francisco hospital. While those relatives and a few friends who knew him intimately were aware that he was suffering from a fatal malady, the end came much sooner than expected. The news Was a shock to hundreds of people who’ knew, respected and admired him for the fine and sterling qualities of his character. His. wife, his brother, Merritt, and his son, were with him at the end. Bert Rector was born in Nevada City, graduated from. the. schools here and went to the University of California, where he distinguished himself as an indefatigable and brilliant student. He had the honor of: being elected editor of the Blue and . Gold, the Junfor class annual, and! it is still regarded as one of the ne est—volumes~published-— ofthe long” On graduating from the University . he returned to Nevada City and in the . hotel business, which the two elder Rectors had established many years previously. His father and uncle later were members of a group that founded the Nevada County Bank —-with——a branch in Grass Valley. Merritt who graduated a couple of years later than his brother, also went into the, The Nevada County Bank. eventually absorbed the Citizens bank . iof Grass Valley which maintained a branch in Nevada City. Fora conSiderable period Judge George L. Jones was president of the consolidated bank. The Rectors sold their banking interests and for sometime retired from ‘active business life, but after the Bank of Italy, which eventually became the Bank of America, had purchased the Nevada County Bank, Bert and Merritt Rector wer2 asked to assume the management.o: branches respectively. “Bert (Rector revealed a_ r.drely keeh mind, with unusual ability to analyze and evaluate factors in the imany problems he solved, said Judge Jones last evening. ‘‘When he felt moved to do so he could make a splendid address. He loved books and had a very discerning and appreciative enjoyment of good literature. He was endowed with a keen he maintained a cheerful demeanor, yiis usual manner with friends and those he loved.’’ iFuneral services will be held in San Francisco on . Saturday afternoon, V. F. W. AUXILIARY CARD PARTY . Banner Mountain Post, V. F. W. Auxiliary will give a card party this evening in Odd Fellows Hall. Bridge and whist will be played and prizes awarded for each. There will be a door prize also. All are urged to attend and have a good time at this, the first card party of the season. Mr, and Mrs. Don McGinnis returned early this week from a week spent at Auburn where Mr. McGinnis was relief for the manager of the Safeway store while on _ vacation. Mr. McGinnis is with the local Safeway store, Jim C. Baldwin came over from Forest Hill Tuesday to vote and remained until Wednesday morning. He is interested in the Three Queens mine with L. W. Cheney also formerly of this city. Prospect is bright to bring in a fine producer. Miss Alice. Bogan of San Francisco is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Max Weiss. Miss Bogan is the sister of Mrs. Burkhardt former Nevada ‘City resident. Pete Flowers, Alleghany ~ mine owner was a recent Nevada City vislitor, suffered Next Big Event to Be Nevada Co. Fair _—_—_—_ Nevada County’s first district fair will open on Friday, October 14 and continue for three days. In charge of arrangements are Loyle Freeman, secretary-manager and M. .C. Mason, assistant, who has wide experience both with the California State Fair and the Placer County. Fair. Nevada County is known as District No. 17. One of the big features of the fair will be the Horse Show, managed by Tevis Paine, which will be held October 17, afternoon and evening, in ithe rear of Memorial Hall. This building will be used for exhibits of agricultural, horticultural, domestic science, floral and. mercantile exhibits.Back of the building will be erected a huge tent in which sheep, hogs and _ poultry Shown. Cash prizes will total $6,000. This wiil be ,sum has been alloted Nevada county for its first fair and it is expected that the entire: amount will “ibe expended in prizes. Admissions will be 25 cents for entrance to Memorial Hall and grounds, and 50 cents to the horse show. It has been discovered as a result of a survey made, that 62 per cent of the money received as prizes is expended by the winners for better stock, poultry, ete., to be exhihited at the next district fair. It is expected that cash for the preliminary expenses will be provided through a pre-ticket sale, detail@ of whith will be announced in @ short time. Another feature for which negotiations are now being conducted, may be two contending teams of the Sacraménto Polo’ club, to play a match} game on the:grounds of the Memor— ial building and the adjoining school grounds. Nevada county orchardists are invited to place their Nevada county fair exhibition pears in cold storage at the Union Ice Company on North Auburn street during the next few weeks, arrangements to that end . having been completed yesterday bycattle, . ‘ local fair officers and directors. The fair premium list calls for exhibits of lbartleets, Anjous, Commise, Winter Nelis and Bose winter pears and the winner will receive cash — prizes of $5.00; 3.00 and $2.00 per box which is far above _ average price. Because the fair falls several weeks later than the pear season and tu’ preserve the fruit as to color, and texture for fair purposes, the stor-« age facilities have ‘been “agreed. No conditions are necessary, other than moving the pears to the storage room. CONGRESS BODY PROBES BRIDGES, PUBLIC ENEMY By RALPH H. H. “TAYLOR California agriculture, which has losses running into many millions of dollars, due to waterfront tieups and other strikes called by the alien fireybrand, Harry Bridges, ‘will await with unusual interest sessions of the congressional committee investigating un-American activities, when the committee meets on the west coast shortly. For during the Pacific Coast hearings, according to Congressman Martin Dies of Texas, chairman of} the House Committee, a searching . inquiry will be made into char-c that Bridges is an active communist, carrying out a program of sabotage and class warfare dictated and directed by communist agents, bent on overthrow of American government. The committee also will probe charges that officials of the United States Labor Department aided Brid-, ges in escaping deportation several . months ago and that he was contacted at that time by an Immigration Service official who called “him into his office, where he read to him a confidential letter of instructions on his future behavior.” And the congressional investigating board will likewise have before it, when it meets here, a report of its special investigator, Edward F. Sullivan, charging that a large percentage of the strikes which have paralyzed ‘California and other Pacific Coast states were incited by communist leaders in the CIO. The charge has been made repeatedly—and this time, apprently, by persons who are prepared to back up their accusation with factual evidence —that Bridges is an active member of the communist party under the name of ‘‘Dorgan’’ and that Soviet influence has been in the background continusuoly during the strikes which have been directed iby Bridges on the Pacific Coast. And the further charge has been made before the House committee, now meeting in Washington, that one Irving N. Markheim, a Los Angeles communist who assertedly had knowledge of Bridges’ communist connections, was offered $500 and expenses by a Los Angeles attorney to go to Ensenada, Mexico, and stay there until Bridges was no longer under fire. California farmers—and the people of California generally—-will welcome a show down on these charges. That communists and other radicals have used the CIO in many instances for their own purposes, seek‘Immigration Department, ing to fan the flames of discontent and to incite acts of lawlessness. ee tactics, has become clearly evident during the hearings in Washington. ; u If Harry Bridges has been the ue spearhead of that attack on American government, and if Bridges, the alien, is also a communist, his deeat should be carried out with © delay and without pussyfooting onthe part—of the United States Labor Department. If Bridges is not a communist, then fe certainly should welcome ‘a chance to clear himself, rather than to fall ack on the aid and comfort of un-American officials in the employ of the Labor Department, the or any other department. : California farmers, who have seen their crops rot on the docks, or in the fields, while Bridges arrogantly tied up Pacific oast shipping and boasted that he would soon “park inland,’’ cannot be placed in the category of ‘‘Red-baiters.”’ They are-simply industrious Americans who believe in Jaw ‘and order and in their right to . harvest their crops and ship them to market. And they sometimes find it difficeult to understand why certain government officials should show more ~ solicitude toward an alien labor czar, preaching class hatred and “the. class _struggle,’’ than they show to productive, hard-working citizens, who pay their taxes, keep the peace and support their families. Bridges, when he was faced with the accusations lodged against him in Washington, is quoted as denying that he is a communist. But he added “Sure, I sympathize with plenty’ that the communist party advocates’”’. That answer, coupled with Bridges’ record, is hardly reassuring. ar Bridges is here just to stir up trouible, it might be well to send him back to the country of his nativity. California—agriculture, business and labor alike—would he better off without him! JACKIE JAMES LOST IN AMER. RIVER CANYON A message was sent in from Big Bend Ranger station last evening stating Jackie James, aged about 55 years of Nevada City, was lost in the rough American River canyon. With R. C. Wright, who is janitor at the Nevada City theatre, he went fishing — Tuesday. Each took a pack and tramped into the steep rough moun ainous country. Wright returned to Big Bend and reported James last and a ‘posse was sent out at o} James does not fish but enjoys ing out in the mountains 4 friends. : He has worked at differen on ditch and flume work and n James is a Canadian war ,He has two nephews in one-being. Will Jame: which fall into the pattern of revolu. ‘of Holmes Funeral Home. ;

Thinking . Out Loud = Nevada ity Nu COVERS RICHEST GOL D AREA IN CALIFORNIA gget From the Californian, March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists in the right to publish the Truth,. with geod motives and for justifiable ends. ton — Alexander Hamil“Vol. 12, No. 69. _ _The County Seat Paper_ _NEVADA cA vy, CALIFORNIA = Gort Center ~ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938, By H. M. L. A general election always provides a basis for a new appraisal of the American people, its sentiments and maybe its goals. In the election Tuesday some very gratifying results appeared locally and in the national field. In South Carolina the President’s nose, which had been thrust into that state’s senatorial election, _was bruised. In California where it had not intruded so CORED ICT ENPAY it was tweaked: South Carolina still ‘believes so strongly in state rights that it will elect its senators without outside advice, as demonstrated by the nomination of Senator “Cotton ’ Ed Smith,’’ which in that state means reelection. California substitutes Downey for McAdoo as Democratic nominee for the Senate which to the mind of this writer is a rebuke to the President, more formal than real. Moreover Downey’s nomination bodes il] for liberal and conservative elements. He rode into the Democratic van by espousing the $30 every Thursday plan, which the President has rightly but rashly condemned. But once nose thrusting becomes a habit, it is difficult to stop short of ail manner of meddling in minutia. Downey and Olson will, then, lead radical forces in November. Whether with the great influx of destitute refugees from other states into California, men and women whose circumstances are so. desperate that they seize on any quack remedy offered by unscruplous anid subversive leaders, glib talkers, specious reasoners, will be sufficient to tip the som and plunge California into an era of _crack-pot schemes and accumulating debt, is a grave question. Against these offspring of the EPIC, Frank Merriam, and Philip Bancroft, Republican nominees for ' senator respectively, are pitted. Vfe hope and, until we are disillusioned, will have faith, that California will in this crisis disregard party lines ber vote into office sound thinkers and capable doers. By this time a majority in the state should know that a demagogue in office is not only a nuisance ‘but a menace to liberty and a scourge to the tax payers, Regarding the local results, it is pleasant to reflect that we did not elect a man to jbe superintendent’ of the county schools who can’t spell the word ‘“‘education.’’ Not that we set great store by spelling, or regard it as one of the primary virtues, but just as a shoe maker should be able to use the tools of his trade, so a school man should be able to spell and to write long hand legibly. Truckee, where the CIOs swae up and down the main street and tell the merchants to get off, we with pleasure, turns in a considerable majority for Sheriff Tobiassen. This strengthens our conviction that the whole CIO hysteria is maintained chiefly by sound and fury. It is very apparent that in Truckee the majority of this organization are drifters and ne’er-do-wells who rarely stay long enough in one spot to acquire a legal residence. The CIO muster of votes shows how deceptive noise can be. er: It is of state-wide significance, however, that the two county officers whom the communists and radical labor leaders of California have most abused, should have been returned to office, one, Judge Tuttle, without opposition, and the other, Sheriff Tobiassen, by what ‘is probably the largest majority every accorded a sheriff in this county. As remarked before in this column, it may be that we are living in economic or political sin in Nevada County, but that is the way we prefer to live. It is not for Harry Brid‘ges or any of the lesser red fry, such as Ellis Patterson, Reid Robinson, or the tonsorial artist from Idaho, preaching wierd doctrines of the Third International with expectation of gathering proselytes. We have lived too long among the granite boulders to be easily moved by paid orators whose promises boiled down to the _sweet residue, is for a life without work, or at least very little work, and preposterous reumneration. The CIO, as election results show, finds enrollment of suckers in (Nevada County, an extremely slow ‘business. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Haverstock of governor ang) Nearly All County Candidates Re-elected Candidates Vernon’ Stoll and Ward Sheldon in the race for the district attorney’s office will run it off in the November election. Candidates for Coroner, A. M. Holme, and L. R. Jefford, will also carry their contest to the Noyember polls. Re-elected county officers on Tuesday were Judge Raglan Tuttle, J. M. Hammill, assesor, Frank Steel, treasurer. These three were unopposed. Jack Nettell, also unopposed, takes the place of Sam Clark, recorder, who did not seek re-election because of ill health. Sheriff Tobiassen, opposed by two candidates, was re-elected by a huge majority. Noble McCormack, county clerk and auditor, with one opponent was also re-elected at the primary. Walter Carlson, with two opponents, was elected by a big majority county superintendent of schools to take the office of Mrs. Ella M> Austin, who was not a candidate, and who after ‘many years of faithful and efficient service has retired from public life. Justice of the Peace Walter Mobley was re-elected by a large majority. : Republican county committeemen elected from Nevada Township were Meyers Mobley, Fred F. Cassidy and H. M. Leete. Allen G. Thurman on both Democratic and Republican tickets received an overwhelming majority in Nevada county.’ fae Votes received by the candidates for contested offices as are follows: District Attorney: 2738; Ward Sheldon, Cassettari, 1708. Coroner: A. M. Holmes,. 2724; L. R. Jefford, 2342; Dr. D. L. Hirsch, 20.94, Sheriff: ‘Carl Geo. R. Carter, 956. County Clerk: R. N. McCormack, 4151; Arthur Hellings, 2857. Justice of the Peace: Walter Mobley, 1204; George Gildersleeve, 423; Alfred Haddy, 156. Assemblyman: Thurman, 1732; Rep. 1656. Raffetto, 650; Rep. 432. Lawson, Dem., Rep. 190. Rep. in Congress: 2195; Dozier, 466. Vernon Stoll, 2680; . Wm, Tobiassen, 4902; 1459; Walter Prelps Dem., Dem., 389; Englebright ROTARIANS TO PICNIC SEPT. 8 Osear Odevnerd gave an account of the Rotary District No. 105 Assembly that was held in Quincy August 20. Presidents. and secretaries or other representatives of the many note . clubs :in the district were present with their wives. Hotel. accomodaas it has done before, and in Novxem-' tions were too limited to accomodate ; 2 the crowd,.'‘but many private homes offered their hospitality to the visitors. It was suggested that the Nevada City and Grass Valley Rotary clubs endeavor to obtain the assembly for 1940. Next year Reno will be host . to the Rotarians. The assembly was attended, Mr. Odegaard stated, by several past governors, who gave the newly elected club officers invaluable advice regarding their duties and conduct of their offices. iIMr. Odegaard also announced that the second annual steak sandwich picnic of the Rotary club, to which the Grass Valley club, and all members, wives, and former members, are invited, will take place next Thursday evening: in Pioneers park. The committee chairmen to arrange for this event are: Emmett Gallagher, general chairman, Irving Barbecue pit and grill for ‘Chester Scheemer, food. Nye Johnson, drinks. Clyde Gwin, pinch hitter. broiling pit. Last year great success, Long: Tables and seating. broiling. Fire and the picnic proved a There was a large aties. A spirited soft ball game between Nevada City and Grass Valley teams was a feature of the evening. ANCIENT ROMAN JURIES FAULTY LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1.—Dr. Arthur P. McKinlay, professor of Latin student of the ancient classics as well as modern writing, points out that human nature has changed little, at least in some respects, since the days of the Romans. He cites an article in a recent magazine in which the author depicts jurymen of the present age as being much more interested in playing paker and in pickling themselves in Weotine than in performing their court duties. Dr. McKinlay quotes a citation of Mommsen’s from Macrobius showing what went on in Rome more than two thousand years ago, A speaker of 161 B. C. said of the senatorial jurymen that they played at dice in the company of loose women. Occasionally they would send a messenger to find out how things were going on in the Forum. Mr. and ‘Mrs. Bill ‘Maguire and children of the bay district will ‘spend the coming week end and LabWashington are visiting Mrs. Leslie, ‘Land in Nevada City. \ or Day in Nevada City with Maguire’s mother, Mrs. Edna Maguire. ‘ment made today by tendance of Rotarians and their lad-, SPORTSMEN GET DOVE LIMITS: ‘series of university class annuals. . Dove season opened yesterday and several local sportsmen who have been enjoying such good luck in trout fishing were out early and came south and west of Grass Valley. ¥* Frank Ghidotti and father, John Ghidotti, each killed limits early in the morning and were back in town bright and early. ‘‘Whispering”’ Dick Lane and party were also successful in killing nice lots of birds. Another party having fine luck bringing in limits of birds were John Tognarelli, Jack Shebley, Fred Reed, Jim A len: and Mr. Zonino. JULY CASH FOR UNEMPLOYED IN COUNTY; $6,722 Unemployment «om jfén sation checks distributed in Nevada county during the month of July totaled $6,722.81, according ‘to announceEdward EE. Steele, manager of the Department of Employment office in Grass Valley. Mr. Steele said that a total of 567 checks ment insurance claimants here during July. “This continual flow of cash into Nevada 'County is particularly beneficial,’’ Steele said, “‘as it is of material assistance in maintaining normal business operations. “Up to July 31, 3,975 Nevada county claimants have received the . checks totaling $47,372,76, or .4 per cent of the total money distributed throughout California in unemployment insurance.’ Throughout California, 250,103 checks were mailed to. claimants from Sacramento during July, totaling $2,350,884.27. Up to July 31, a total of 1,286,301 had been paid to claimants, totaling $12,241,381.88. The employment Closed Labor Day and Admission Day, the two holidays next week. SPORTSMEN’S DOVE STEW, CASEYS RANCH The Grass’ Valley —Sportsman’s Club will hold their annual Dove Stew at Caseys ranch in Penn Valley Sunday. This big event looked forward to each year with great énthusiasm by sportsmen of the Twin Cities for the last 50 years is attended iby the large’ up of members and their families.” After dinner is served sports events will comprise target practice and clay bird — shooting. Dove season opened yesterday and hunters were out bright and early

to secure birds for the stew. BERT RECTOR joined his father and uncle in with limits of birds from! i bank. Wthe Grass Valley and Nevada City were mailed to unemploy-. ' lsense of humor. Up to the very last office will be. NO ISSUE OF NUGGET MONDAY, LABOR DAY Next Monday is Labor Day and owing to the fact banks, county and city offices will be closed on that day ,there will be no issue of the Nevada City Nugget. PASSES AWAY IN SAN FRANCISCO G. J. (Bert) Rector, who has been identified with the jupbuilding of Nevada County for nearly forty years passed away last evening in a San Francisco hospital. While those relatives and a few friends who knew him intimately were aware that he was suffering from a fatal malady, the end came much sooner than expected. The news Was a shock to hundreds of people who’ knew, respected and admired him for the fine and sterling qualities of his character. His. wife, his brother, Merritt, and his son, were with him at the end. Bert Rector was born in Nevada City, graduated from. the. schools here and went to the University of California, where he distinguished himself as an indefatigable and brilliant student. He had the honor of: being elected editor of the Blue and . Gold, the Junfor class annual, and! it is still regarded as one of the ne est—volumes~published-— ofthe long” On graduating from the University . he returned to Nevada City and in the . hotel business, which the two elder Rectors had established many years previously. His father and uncle later were members of a group that founded the Nevada County Bank —-with——a branch in Grass Valley. Merritt who graduated a couple of years later than his brother, also went into the, The Nevada County Bank. eventually absorbed the Citizens bank . iof Grass Valley which maintained a branch in Nevada City. Fora conSiderable period Judge George L. Jones was president of the consolidated bank. The Rectors sold their banking interests and for sometime retired from ‘active business life, but after the Bank of Italy, which eventually became the Bank of America, had purchased the Nevada County Bank, Bert and Merritt Rector wer2 asked to assume the management.o: branches respectively. “Bert (Rector revealed a_ r.drely keeh mind, with unusual ability to analyze and evaluate factors in the imany problems he solved, said Judge Jones last evening. ‘‘When he felt moved to do so he could make a splendid address. He loved books and had a very discerning and appreciative enjoyment of good literature. He was endowed with a keen he maintained a cheerful demeanor, yiis usual manner with friends and those he loved.’’ iFuneral services will be held in San Francisco on . Saturday afternoon, V. F. W. AUXILIARY CARD PARTY . Banner Mountain Post, V. F. W. Auxiliary will give a card party this evening in Odd Fellows Hall. Bridge and whist will be played and prizes awarded for each. There will be a door prize also. All are urged to attend and have a good time at this, the first card party of the season. Mr, and Mrs. Don McGinnis returned early this week from a week spent at Auburn where Mr. McGinnis was relief for the manager of the Safeway store while on _ vacation. Mr. McGinnis is with the local Safeway store, Jim C. Baldwin came over from Forest Hill Tuesday to vote and remained until Wednesday morning. He is interested in the Three Queens mine with L. W. Cheney also formerly of this city. Prospect is bright to bring in a fine producer. Miss Alice. Bogan of San Francisco is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Max Weiss. Miss Bogan is the sister of Mrs. Burkhardt former Nevada ‘City resident. Pete Flowers, Alleghany ~ mine owner was a recent Nevada City vislitor, suffered Next Big Event to Be Nevada Co. Fair _—_—_—_ Nevada County’s first district fair will open on Friday, October 14 and continue for three days. In charge of arrangements are Loyle Freeman, secretary-manager and M. .C. Mason, assistant, who has wide experience both with the California State Fair and the Placer County. Fair. Nevada County is known as District No. 17. One of the big features of the fair will be the Horse Show, managed by Tevis Paine, which will be held October 17, afternoon and evening, in ithe rear of Memorial Hall. This building will be used for exhibits of agricultural, horticultural, domestic science, floral and. mercantile exhibits.Back of the building will be erected a huge tent in which sheep, hogs and _ poultry Shown. Cash prizes will total $6,000. This wiil be ,sum has been alloted Nevada county for its first fair and it is expected that the entire: amount will “ibe expended in prizes. Admissions will be 25 cents for entrance to Memorial Hall and grounds, and 50 cents to the horse show. It has been discovered as a result of a survey made, that 62 per cent of the money received as prizes is expended by the winners for better stock, poultry, ete., to be exhihited at the next district fair. It is expected that cash for the preliminary expenses will be provided through a pre-ticket sale, detail@ of whith will be announced in @ short time. Another feature for which negotiations are now being conducted, may be two contending teams of the Sacraménto Polo’ club, to play a match} game on the:grounds of the Memor— ial building and the adjoining school grounds. Nevada county orchardists are invited to place their Nevada county fair exhibition pears in cold storage at the Union Ice Company on North Auburn street during the next few weeks, arrangements to that end . having been completed yesterday bycattle, . ‘ local fair officers and directors. The fair premium list calls for exhibits of lbartleets, Anjous, Commise, Winter Nelis and Bose winter pears and the winner will receive cash — prizes of $5.00; 3.00 and $2.00 per box which is far above _ average price. Because the fair falls several weeks later than the pear season and tu’ preserve the fruit as to color, and texture for fair purposes, the stor-« age facilities have ‘been “agreed. No conditions are necessary, other than moving the pears to the storage room. CONGRESS BODY PROBES BRIDGES, PUBLIC ENEMY By RALPH H. H. “TAYLOR California agriculture, which has losses running into many millions of dollars, due to waterfront tieups and other strikes called by the alien fireybrand, Harry Bridges, ‘will await with unusual interest sessions of the congressional committee investigating un-American activities, when the committee meets on the west coast shortly. For during the Pacific Coast hearings, according to Congressman Martin Dies of Texas, chairman of} the House Committee, a searching . inquiry will be made into char-c that Bridges is an active communist, carrying out a program of sabotage and class warfare dictated and directed by communist agents, bent on overthrow of American government. The committee also will probe charges that officials of the United States Labor Department aided Brid-, ges in escaping deportation several . months ago and that he was contacted at that time by an Immigration Service official who called “him into his office, where he read to him a confidential letter of instructions on his future behavior.” And the congressional investigating board will likewise have before it, when it meets here, a report of its special investigator, Edward F. Sullivan, charging that a large percentage of the strikes which have paralyzed ‘California and other Pacific Coast states were incited by communist leaders in the CIO. The charge has been made repeatedly—and this time, apprently, by persons who are prepared to back up their accusation with factual evidence —that Bridges is an active member of the communist party under the name of ‘‘Dorgan’’ and that Soviet influence has been in the background continusuoly during the strikes which have been directed iby Bridges on the Pacific Coast. And the further charge has been made before the House committee, now meeting in Washington, that one Irving N. Markheim, a Los Angeles communist who assertedly had knowledge of Bridges’ communist connections, was offered $500 and expenses by a Los Angeles attorney to go to Ensenada, Mexico, and stay there until Bridges was no longer under fire. California farmers—and the people of California generally—-will welcome a show down on these charges. That communists and other radicals have used the CIO in many instances for their own purposes, seek‘Immigration Department, ing to fan the flames of discontent and to incite acts of lawlessness. ee tactics, has become clearly evident during the hearings in Washington. ; u If Harry Bridges has been the ue spearhead of that attack on American government, and if Bridges, the alien, is also a communist, his deeat should be carried out with © delay and without pussyfooting onthe part—of the United States Labor Department. If Bridges is not a communist, then fe certainly should welcome ‘a chance to clear himself, rather than to fall ack on the aid and comfort of un-American officials in the employ of the Labor Department, the or any other department. : California farmers, who have seen their crops rot on the docks, or in the fields, while Bridges arrogantly tied up Pacific oast shipping and boasted that he would soon “park inland,’’ cannot be placed in the category of ‘‘Red-baiters.”’ They are-simply industrious Americans who believe in Jaw ‘and order and in their right to . harvest their crops and ship them to market. And they sometimes find it difficeult to understand why certain government officials should show more ~ solicitude toward an alien labor czar, preaching class hatred and “the. class _struggle,’’ than they show to productive, hard-working citizens, who pay their taxes, keep the peace and support their families. Bridges, when he was faced with the accusations lodged against him in Washington, is quoted as denying that he is a communist. But he added “Sure, I sympathize with plenty’ that the communist party advocates’”’. That answer, coupled with Bridges’ record, is hardly reassuring. ar Bridges is here just to stir up trouible, it might be well to send him back to the country of his nativity. California—agriculture, business and labor alike—would he better off without him! JACKIE JAMES LOST IN AMER. RIVER CANYON A message was sent in from Big Bend Ranger station last evening stating Jackie James, aged about 55 years of Nevada City, was lost in the rough American River canyon. With R. C. Wright, who is janitor at the Nevada City theatre, he went fishing — Tuesday. Each took a pack and tramped into the steep rough moun ainous country. Wright returned to Big Bend and reported James last and a ‘posse was sent out at o} James does not fish but enjoys ing out in the mountains 4 friends. : He has worked at differen on ditch and flume work and n James is a Canadian war ,He has two nephews in one-being. Will Jame: which fall into the pattern of revolu. ‘of Holmes Funeral Home. ;