September 20, 1943 (4 pages)

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God. grants liberty only to those ho love it, aia are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster: oe Nevada City N ugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Thi s paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 74 The County Seat Paper a Sm aad NEVADA CITY, CA CALIF ORNIA Out Loud @ By H. M. L. A number of things, near and far occured the last few days to give anyone of a reflective turn of mind something to think about. For instance, in the county house William Totten was convicted of murder. A little further away three young boys, from Ohio, were caught just inside the California border committing. a burglary at Summit. At the national capitol Congress reconvened, and, in Italy, half way around the world, our doughboys are shoving back the Germans at Salerno. The murder trial, in itself a rare event in Nevada County, was an impressive the administration of justice in its best democratic phase. The jury chosen was good cross section of sturdy ‘California rural life. All were citizens with plenty of common sense. The attorneys indulged in no rhetorical flourishes or dramatics. but presented their arguments briefly and concisely, adhering rigidly to the evidence given. His honor issued instructions that clearly defined the dutjes of the jury, instructions that leaned ‘neither to right nor left. In o their verdict the jury coming t deliberated a reasonable time, weighed all evidence presented carefully, and prought in a unanimous decision which seemed to this writer to punish the crime adequately but not excessively. The only person, we think, who was really dissatisfied was the defendant. Those boys picked up in Sacramento after robbing a coffee shop at Summit, are another “symptom of a national disease, about which. churches, schools P sake most of all, parents, must do Something toward a cure, or most of us will live to The three rue our negligence. boys, are the third group to. be nabbed for law violations, in the last month, as they came into California from eastern states. There have been ten boys, in all, who visited the county jail, in that brief period, purely as a result of parental neglect in other states. We think as the law now stands it fails to make parents duly responsible for the care’ and wupbringing of their offspring. We believe that the approach to this problem lies first of all in the homes. Think of it, three boys, all 15 years old or younger wandering around this great country on ‘their own, living off the land, and ithe parents, back in Ohio, apparently unconcerned. If . parents shuck off the business of bringing up their own children, we believe it should ‘be the business of the American people to clap that responsibility right back on their shoulders—and : make it stay there. In Washington, Congress is back again, prepared, and «we _ hope, better prepared, to do something about the confusion and waste there that seriously hampers the war effort. The OPA needs a firm wand and a. clear plan to work with. It should, but does not, op‘erate for the greatest good for the greatest number. It favors some groups, such as the group, and bears down heaviJy on other groups such. as war workers in general. The tax machine needs oiling and overhauling. The manpower problem grows more acute daily. Congress has a job to do and apparently is disposed to do it promptly and thoroughly. We wish someone would muzzle Burton Wheeler and Hamilton Fish, but the poor we have always with us, saith ithe Good Book, and sometimes the poverty is of the mind and spirit. . At last at a eost that wrings the hearts of all of us on the home front, our good lads under General Clark are , savagely punching holes in Hitler’s best troops. They have a score to settle, perhaps-not with Hitler, who, after all is only a mediocre paper: hanger with a primitive Hun-Messiah complex but with German Junkers who have kidded themselves, for centuries, demonstration of. livestock. FIFTEEN DEER TAGS VALIDATED ON OPENING DAY Fifteen deer tags were validated in Nevada City and Grass Valley on the opening day of season with many others not recorded here. Freak of the first day was an antlered doe that fell to the rifle of John ‘Courton of Oakland’ near (Camptonville. Frank Meggers, Tahoe (National Forest ranger, validated the tag, since does have no_ business wearing. buck’s horns. This female sported a fine pair of two points. Walter Hawkins, who has hunted persistently for several seasons without luck, brought in a fine buck with three points on one side, four on the other. Earl B. Fields of Indian Flat, adjacent to Nevada City came in with two deer, a three and a two pointer. William EB. Mullis knocked over.a four pointer, and Don Steger came home with another four point ‘buck from North Bloomfield. Daniel Crepes of Wheatland, Yuba ‘County carried off a four pointer from the same region. Grass Valley’s local tally was ten bucks. The first to arrive was Mike Phelan, a rancher’ of Clear Creek, who registered his tag at, 7:30 a. His buck weighed 190 pounds. killed it at sun-up. Al Hetherington had his deer all dressed and in cold storage by nooag. LOOK OUT FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN ' This . warning broadcast . throughout California today the . Department of Motor Vehicles in an‘ticipation of the opening of the new He was by school year in many parts of the state today. Information secured by the department indicates approximately 1,000,000 elementary and high school students will return to their studies thus further increasing an already serious pedestrian traffic problem. Director Gordon H. Garland pointed to an increase of nearly 19 per cent in pedestrian deaths and injuries in the first six months of 1943 as proof of the need of care in approaching or passing school, grounds and other places where children congregate. “Watch out especially for children who dart out suddenly from behind parked cars,’’ Garland’s warning said. : Because of the approach of shorter. hours for daylight driving, Garland urged parents to see that their children wear some article of light colored clothing in order that motorists may see them more readily after dark. During the first six months of this year, 5,539 nedestrians were killed or injured in California by motor vehicles, Garland reported. This was an increase of nearly 19 per cent despite a substantial drop in gasoline consumption. Fined $50 For Leaving Campfire Burning Charles H. Wendt, of 1548 35th street, Sacramento, was arrested near Jackson Meadows by Fire Control Assistant Conover of the Bloomfield district of the Tahoe National Forest, and charged with leaving a campfire unattended. Haled before Judge George Gildersleeve of Nevada Township, Wendt plead guilty and paid a fine of $50. Judge Gildersleeve commented that if people would carefully read the instructions on their campfire permits, they could avoid much of the confusion caused by \_ leaving campfires unattended and smoking in prohibited areas. that they were the world’s best fighting “men, and, therefore, the riches of the world were their right. Force as a institution of government was outlawed in the Sermon on the Mount. The democracies of the world have demonstrated that only the people themselyvts are competent to rule themselves. At Salerno our boys are proving again thalt democracies are dynamic, alive and firm in the faith that civilization has come to, and will remain in the promised land of freedom and justice. _The Gold Center __ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1943. — Gennes Calecar Resigns As Ration Board Head George H. Calanan, chairman of the Nevada City Ration Board, has resigned his post and John K. Osborne has been appointed to take his Place. Mrs. Clara Hunt Is Summoned By Death The remains of Mrs. Clara Hunt, member of the Rosicrucians, will be cremated today at East Lawn Cemetery, Sacramento, under the direction of Hooper and, Weaver Moutuary. . Mrs. Hunt passed away at the county hospital after a lingering illness. She had lived with her sister Miss Myrtle Huhl at 503 South Auburn street. She was a native Of IIIinois and was aged 79 years. Gunner Halstead Downey and Bride Feted in S. F. Friends in the bay region gave a tea and shower Saturday evening at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to Mrs. Halstead. Dowrfey who was married recently to Gunner Halstead Downey of the U. S. Navy and native of this city. She was the former Miss Dorothy Jones and the wedding took place in Reno. Several relatives and friends dn Nevada City received invitations to. attend _the affair. m. Miss Fidella Lege Receives Pilot’s License Miss Fidella Legg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Legg, arriyed in town yesterday after having just received her private pilot’s license. She has been flying at Reno Sky Ranch. Miss Legg is to be conare few women times. lejo where she instructs aviation . ground work in the public schools unedder the auspices of the CAA Air Conditioning Program. A A U W President Names Chairmen (Mrs. Everett Robinson, of the Nevada County branch of the American Association of University Women, has announced the appointment of the following committee chairmen: Mrs. Richard Van Pelt, pilots during war president education; ‘Mrs. Gordon Bennetts, international relations; Mrs. Walter Little, social studies; Miss Helen Chapman, creative art; Miss Maxime Sleeper, economie and legal status of women; Mrs. D. S. Bonebrake, fellowship; Miss Ruth Rector, publicity; and Miss Dorothy Dyke, program. Careless Hunters Pay Fines In Justice Gourt Chatles H. Wendt, of 1548 35th Street, Sacramento, pleaded guilty to leaving a camp fire unattended; was fined $50 by Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve. John D. Holt of Dixon, Solano County, was fined $25 on pleading guilty to smoking in a_ restricted area. Holt was hunting in Austin (Meadows in the genera] vicinity of North Bloomfield ,Nevada County. Guerdon Ellis, supervisorof Tahoe National forest,.states that further carelessness of hunters may force the closing of certain areas to hunters. Mrs. Maybelle Ogden, N. C. Native, Succumbs Graveside services will be held in Pine Grove Cemetery tomorrow aftternoon for the late Mrs. Maybelle Ogden who passed away Saturday night in Watsonville. The services will be under direction of the Holmes Funeral Home with the Rev. will be in the Pine Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Ogden was born in Nevada (City 74 years ago. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Aplin of Little York, a mining town on the Bear River near the Placer County border. She spent much of her earlier years in this county. Her late husband, Douglas Ogden, was a mining man. Surviving her are a daughter Mrs: Louise Warren of Sacramento, two ons, Howard of Loomis and Stanley gden of Watsonville. WARRANT FOR ARREST Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve has issued: a warrant for the arrest of Charles Hothan of Fair Oaks, on a, charge of leaving a camp ‘fire burning at Laing’s Crossing on he Bear River on September 12th. Bail. was set at $100. ‘which was recently SF. CHAMBER FAVORS POSTWAR STOCK PILING Creation of national stock piles of strategic and critical metals and minerals during and afiter the war is advocated by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in a_ resolution adopted by the Board of Directors at a meeting on Ceptember 2, 1943. Adoption of the resolution was the result of a reconmendation made by the Chamber’s ‘Mining Committee organized and which is conducting an aggressive program in behalf of western mining. The Chamber’s resolution favors legislation to stimulate production from small mines, to encourage their postwar operation, to expedite stock pile planning, and other objectives. However, it advocates the amendment of Senate Bill 1160 which has been-introduced in the Senate . by Senator J. G. Scrugham of Nevada. Senator Scrugham introduced the bill for himself and the Special Committee to Study and Survey Problems of Small Business Enterprises and it is now pending before the Committee on Mines and Mining. In its resolution, the San Francisco Chamber proposes ‘‘accumulation by the United States Government, through an appropriate agency such as the Metals Reserve Company of an adequate supply of strategic and eritical metals and minerals.to supplement the nu <mal production gratulated upon her success as there . She will soon return to Val-. David Ralston officiating. Interment . lof such metals and minerals for use at future emergencies.”’ . Hurthermora, the Chamb4r . poses that ; (1) <“such accumulation ibe commenced to such extent . possible during the wpresent . emergency and continued after con-} clusion of the war until an adequate isupply of each of these critical and jstrategic metals and minerals is on lhand in a national stock pile. (2) ‘the stock pile 60 accumulated during and after be held and used solely fer plementing of such current tion as may be possible during the present and future national emergencies and should not be sold or dumped on the market in such a way as to disturb normal prices or sales of such metals or minerals by pri‘vate industry.” (3) “determination of the quantities to be accumulated and method of preserving the stock pile. intact and the prices to be paid for the same should be left to the discretion of a stock pile advisory committee, to be composed of representatives from the War, Navy, and Interior Departments and from the mining industry.” (4) ‘Metals Reserve Company or similar Government agency should be charged with the actual purchase and holding of title for the Government to. said minerals and should be guided and controlled in making such purchases by such recommendations of said stock pile advisory committee.’ However, the San Francisco Chamber makes four provisions that: (1) Such purchases should so far as possible be made from domestic sources at current domestic pricproshould war is ” the war the supsources should be made only to the extent that domestic sources are either non-existent or quate to supply such metals and minerals: at reasonable cost. (3) The cost of acquiring stock pile should be (Corporation funds. (4) Nothing in the Bill should into the business of mining, smelting, refining crude ores, such . operations left entirely to private industry. to go LAUREL PARLOR MEETS A good attendance was present Wednesday evening at the regular meeting of Laurel Parlor, NDGW, Earl Covey of Grass Valley was speaker of the evening, talking on Admission Day. During the evening Harold Hansen of Grass Valley gaye several vocal numbers. Following the meeting ments were served under manship of the president, Granholm. refreshthe chairBeryl should . } produc! es and the continuance of domestic wholly inadethe furnished by Congressional appropriations or by allocations of Reconstruction Rinance purport to authorize the Government or beneficiating being The great fire that burned ers helped put it out. From the Tahoe National Forest 325 hunters were rounded up by district rangers, California, Highway patrolmen and game wardens, with Sierraville as headquarters. A fire camp was established there. To the fire were dispatched 225 hunters from Nevada and Sierra counties, and from Plumas forests, according to Stone, 200 more were recruited willy nilly to fight one of the -largDEER HUNTERS, 425 OF EM ROUNDED UP TO FIGHT FIRE over approximately 3,000 acres on Chicago Ridge, 25 miles southwest of Quincy, was under control this morning according to Ellwood Stone, chief fire dispatcher of the Tahoe National Forest, and 425 deer huntNEW MATERIAL FOR SURGICAL DRESSINGS HERE ” est fires of the season. In the North Bloomfield district, ' Ranger Paul Case and Assistant Fire Dispatcher Darwin Conover, were able,,to gather 59 deer hunters in a comparatively 'small area. Peter Land, district ranger at Sierraville, had general charge of the big fire camp at Sierraville. Government trucks transported the _ fire fighters from Sierraville to the scene in Plumas. Stone reports that most deer hunters cursed their hard luck but_ took the summons to fight fire with a big calcitrant spirit. parked at Sierraville until they could ibe returned from their labors. “A good many hunting uarties, necessarily were split up,” Stone, “some were in the woods when our rangers called, and could not be reached, but generally speak‘ing impressed all but a few in this area. I believe we have. done ;. more to discourage careless smokjing and careless keeping of we j}ers, warnings, and publicity, ever ‘spread over the state. Something ilike 500 deer hunters and a fishermen, now know exactly what a \forest fire is like. They have helped . put it under control. “The California statutes give us ithe right to impress any able bodied citizen over 16 years to fight fire. \They are paid 45 cents an hour and boarded.” NARROW GAUGE WORKERS FILE DAMAGE SUIT The Chicago Freight Car Parts, Company was mamed defendant in two damage suits filed at the Placer county clerk’s office last week by former employees of the Nevada (County Narrow Gauge Railway Company, amounting to a total of $44,360.71. Earl Bachman and Melvin Felton, both of Grass Valley, charged that injuries they received in a collision between a Ford car, which had been flanged so that it could operate on tracks and a steam locomotive driven by employes of the car parts firm, were due to the negligence of the defendants. Bachman asked $15,973.58, while Fenton, acting through his father, Jack Felton, sued for $28387.13. Both plaintiffs asked costs production, papticularly after the in addition to damages. war, should be thus encouraged. Felton and Bachman were injur(2) Purchases from foreign. ed in December of last year when the car in which they were riding collided head-on with a Nevada City bound locomotive two miles north of Colfax on the narrow gauge line. Smoking In Wrong Area Costs $25 John T. Holt, Box 414, Dixon, was apprehended for smoking in violation of Nevada County Ordinance No. 127 while hunting in the Austin Meadows area in the North BloomForest. Holt appeared before Judge George Gildergleeve of Nevada Township, plead guilty to the charge, and paid a fine of $25. This was the second case brought in by National Forest officers, who are active in patrolling areas used by deer hunters. Despite this patrol, one fire was eet near Rucker Lake. This fire was promptly controHed by the Blue Canyon suppression crew. Further carelessness by deer: hunthazardous national forest areas to hunting, grin. Only a very few revealed a re-. . Hunters cars were. said . camp . fires in the forests than all the post-! _ few. field district of the Tahoe National ers may' make it necessary to close ;Shipment of material to be made into ;30,000 2x2 dressings. Beginning Monday, September 20, the room will open at 10 a. m. until 3 p. m. daily and from 9 a. m. to 12 noon on Saturdays, starting September 25. for the high school girls. The evening hours.every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from: 7:30 'p. m. until 9:30 p. m. The rules as presented to the chapter are from the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army and must be enforced by the chairman of the day, jare as ‘follows: 1 Every volunteer is requested to wear a washable dress. 2 <A clean piece of material to ‘completely cover 'the hair. 3 The hands free of finger nail polish. 4 Dressings to be made neat and according to specifications. Anyone willing to help with the work will find instructors in the iroom each day. : On Tuesday September 14, a total of 192'5 surgical dressings were made ‘all of which proves shipment can ‘attendance be completed, is good. if the oe Fm } how rapidly a. . Do your part and spend one day — jor more of each week at the Surgical Dressing Unit. Located in the City Hall. TOTTEN FOUND SANE. TO HEAR» SENTENCE FRI. William Totten, convicted of murrn in the second degree onWedInesday' was. declared sane by the \ same jury on Thursday. Judge George L. Jones set September 24th \for passing sentence and ‘for hearing motions for a new trial. Totten killed Harvey McVean on July 15th near Hills Flat. The jury deliberated but two hours .n coming to its conclusion. Dr. Margaret Smythe, superintendent of the Stockton State Hospital, and Dr. Fred K. Counzelmann, psychiatrist on the staff of that institucourt: to examine Totten as to his sanity, on the stand both pronounced him insane’ not only at the time of the murder, July 15, but prior to that time for several years, and today. They declared he was suffering witness by.the district attorney, after qualifying as a psychiatrist, testified that Totten was sane, with a. and wrong at the time he shot Mc-* Vean. Dr. Adams cited several instances in Totten’s testimony, that shot McVean he would be in serious. trouble with the law. » DRUNKEN DRIVER PAYS pag FINE Harvey Wallace Fry, enroute the deer country, lingered ov ifreshments. He was driving in erratic manner when he collided: another car at the corner of Auburn and Neal streets i by Policeman William . arraigned before ; Peace Charles A. pleaded guilty to drivin der the inflence of liquor fine and conti hunting grounds. tion, who had been appointed by the». from dementia praecox, paranoid . ’ type. ee Dr. Perey W. Adams, called as a tendency toward dementia praecox. All three expert witnesses, how. ever, admitted that Totten probably . knew the difference between right : indicated he knew that in case he —

The Nugget is delivered to your home twice a week for only 30 cents per month “God. grants liberty only to those ho love it, aia are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster: oe Nevada City N ugget COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA Thi s paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read The Nugget. Vol. 17, No. 74 The County Seat Paper a Sm aad NEVADA CITY, CA CALIF ORNIA Out Loud @ By H. M. L. A number of things, near and far occured the last few days to give anyone of a reflective turn of mind something to think about. For instance, in the county house William Totten was convicted of murder. A little further away three young boys, from Ohio, were caught just inside the California border committing. a burglary at Summit. At the national capitol Congress reconvened, and, in Italy, half way around the world, our doughboys are shoving back the Germans at Salerno. The murder trial, in itself a rare event in Nevada County, was an impressive the administration of justice in its best democratic phase. The jury chosen was good cross section of sturdy ‘California rural life. All were citizens with plenty of common sense. The attorneys indulged in no rhetorical flourishes or dramatics. but presented their arguments briefly and concisely, adhering rigidly to the evidence given. His honor issued instructions that clearly defined the dutjes of the jury, instructions that leaned ‘neither to right nor left. In o their verdict the jury coming t deliberated a reasonable time, weighed all evidence presented carefully, and prought in a unanimous decision which seemed to this writer to punish the crime adequately but not excessively. The only person, we think, who was really dissatisfied was the defendant. Those boys picked up in Sacramento after robbing a coffee shop at Summit, are another “symptom of a national disease, about which. churches, schools P sake most of all, parents, must do Something toward a cure, or most of us will live to The three rue our negligence. boys, are the third group to. be nabbed for law violations, in the last month, as they came into California from eastern states. There have been ten boys, in all, who visited the county jail, in that brief period, purely as a result of parental neglect in other states. We think as the law now stands it fails to make parents duly responsible for the care’ and wupbringing of their offspring. We believe that the approach to this problem lies first of all in the homes. Think of it, three boys, all 15 years old or younger wandering around this great country on ‘their own, living off the land, and ithe parents, back in Ohio, apparently unconcerned. If . parents shuck off the business of bringing up their own children, we believe it should ‘be the business of the American people to clap that responsibility right back on their shoulders—and : make it stay there. In Washington, Congress is back again, prepared, and «we _ hope, better prepared, to do something about the confusion and waste there that seriously hampers the war effort. The OPA needs a firm wand and a. clear plan to work with. It should, but does not, op‘erate for the greatest good for the greatest number. It favors some groups, such as the group, and bears down heaviJy on other groups such. as war workers in general. The tax machine needs oiling and overhauling. The manpower problem grows more acute daily. Congress has a job to do and apparently is disposed to do it promptly and thoroughly. We wish someone would muzzle Burton Wheeler and Hamilton Fish, but the poor we have always with us, saith ithe Good Book, and sometimes the poverty is of the mind and spirit. . At last at a eost that wrings the hearts of all of us on the home front, our good lads under General Clark are , savagely punching holes in Hitler’s best troops. They have a score to settle, perhaps-not with Hitler, who, after all is only a mediocre paper: hanger with a primitive Hun-Messiah complex but with German Junkers who have kidded themselves, for centuries, demonstration of. livestock. FIFTEEN DEER TAGS VALIDATED ON OPENING DAY Fifteen deer tags were validated in Nevada City and Grass Valley on the opening day of season with many others not recorded here. Freak of the first day was an antlered doe that fell to the rifle of John ‘Courton of Oakland’ near (Camptonville. Frank Meggers, Tahoe (National Forest ranger, validated the tag, since does have no_ business wearing. buck’s horns. This female sported a fine pair of two points. Walter Hawkins, who has hunted persistently for several seasons without luck, brought in a fine buck with three points on one side, four on the other. Earl B. Fields of Indian Flat, adjacent to Nevada City came in with two deer, a three and a two pointer. William EB. Mullis knocked over.a four pointer, and Don Steger came home with another four point ‘buck from North Bloomfield. Daniel Crepes of Wheatland, Yuba ‘County carried off a four pointer from the same region. Grass Valley’s local tally was ten bucks. The first to arrive was Mike Phelan, a rancher’ of Clear Creek, who registered his tag at, 7:30 a. His buck weighed 190 pounds. killed it at sun-up. Al Hetherington had his deer all dressed and in cold storage by nooag. LOOK OUT FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN ' This . warning broadcast . throughout California today the . Department of Motor Vehicles in an‘ticipation of the opening of the new He was by school year in many parts of the state today. Information secured by the department indicates approximately 1,000,000 elementary and high school students will return to their studies thus further increasing an already serious pedestrian traffic problem. Director Gordon H. Garland pointed to an increase of nearly 19 per cent in pedestrian deaths and injuries in the first six months of 1943 as proof of the need of care in approaching or passing school, grounds and other places where children congregate. “Watch out especially for children who dart out suddenly from behind parked cars,’’ Garland’s warning said. : Because of the approach of shorter. hours for daylight driving, Garland urged parents to see that their children wear some article of light colored clothing in order that motorists may see them more readily after dark. During the first six months of this year, 5,539 nedestrians were killed or injured in California by motor vehicles, Garland reported. This was an increase of nearly 19 per cent despite a substantial drop in gasoline consumption. Fined $50 For Leaving Campfire Burning Charles H. Wendt, of 1548 35th street, Sacramento, was arrested near Jackson Meadows by Fire Control Assistant Conover of the Bloomfield district of the Tahoe National Forest, and charged with leaving a campfire unattended. Haled before Judge George Gildersleeve of Nevada Township, Wendt plead guilty and paid a fine of $50. Judge Gildersleeve commented that if people would carefully read the instructions on their campfire permits, they could avoid much of the confusion caused by \_ leaving campfires unattended and smoking in prohibited areas. that they were the world’s best fighting “men, and, therefore, the riches of the world were their right. Force as a institution of government was outlawed in the Sermon on the Mount. The democracies of the world have demonstrated that only the people themselyvts are competent to rule themselves. At Salerno our boys are proving again thalt democracies are dynamic, alive and firm in the faith that civilization has come to, and will remain in the promised land of freedom and justice. _The Gold Center __ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1943. — Gennes Calecar Resigns As Ration Board Head George H. Calanan, chairman of the Nevada City Ration Board, has resigned his post and John K. Osborne has been appointed to take his Place. Mrs. Clara Hunt Is Summoned By Death The remains of Mrs. Clara Hunt, member of the Rosicrucians, will be cremated today at East Lawn Cemetery, Sacramento, under the direction of Hooper and, Weaver Moutuary. . Mrs. Hunt passed away at the county hospital after a lingering illness. She had lived with her sister Miss Myrtle Huhl at 503 South Auburn street. She was a native Of IIIinois and was aged 79 years. Gunner Halstead Downey and Bride Feted in S. F. Friends in the bay region gave a tea and shower Saturday evening at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to Mrs. Halstead. Dowrfey who was married recently to Gunner Halstead Downey of the U. S. Navy and native of this city. She was the former Miss Dorothy Jones and the wedding took place in Reno. Several relatives and friends dn Nevada City received invitations to. attend _the affair. m. Miss Fidella Lege Receives Pilot’s License Miss Fidella Legg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Legg, arriyed in town yesterday after having just received her private pilot’s license. She has been flying at Reno Sky Ranch. Miss Legg is to be conare few women times. lejo where she instructs aviation . ground work in the public schools unedder the auspices of the CAA Air Conditioning Program. A A U W President Names Chairmen (Mrs. Everett Robinson, of the Nevada County branch of the American Association of University Women, has announced the appointment of the following committee chairmen: Mrs. Richard Van Pelt, pilots during war president education; ‘Mrs. Gordon Bennetts, international relations; Mrs. Walter Little, social studies; Miss Helen Chapman, creative art; Miss Maxime Sleeper, economie and legal status of women; Mrs. D. S. Bonebrake, fellowship; Miss Ruth Rector, publicity; and Miss Dorothy Dyke, program. Careless Hunters Pay Fines In Justice Gourt Chatles H. Wendt, of 1548 35th Street, Sacramento, pleaded guilty to leaving a camp fire unattended; was fined $50 by Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve. John D. Holt of Dixon, Solano County, was fined $25 on pleading guilty to smoking in a_ restricted area. Holt was hunting in Austin (Meadows in the genera] vicinity of North Bloomfield ,Nevada County. Guerdon Ellis, supervisorof Tahoe National forest,.states that further carelessness of hunters may force the closing of certain areas to hunters. Mrs. Maybelle Ogden, N. C. Native, Succumbs Graveside services will be held in Pine Grove Cemetery tomorrow aftternoon for the late Mrs. Maybelle Ogden who passed away Saturday night in Watsonville. The services will be under direction of the Holmes Funeral Home with the Rev. will be in the Pine Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Ogden was born in Nevada (City 74 years ago. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Aplin of Little York, a mining town on the Bear River near the Placer County border. She spent much of her earlier years in this county. Her late husband, Douglas Ogden, was a mining man. Surviving her are a daughter Mrs: Louise Warren of Sacramento, two ons, Howard of Loomis and Stanley gden of Watsonville. WARRANT FOR ARREST Justice of the Peace George Gildersleeve has issued: a warrant for the arrest of Charles Hothan of Fair Oaks, on a, charge of leaving a camp ‘fire burning at Laing’s Crossing on he Bear River on September 12th. Bail. was set at $100.

‘which was recently SF. CHAMBER FAVORS POSTWAR STOCK PILING Creation of national stock piles of strategic and critical metals and minerals during and afiter the war is advocated by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce in a_ resolution adopted by the Board of Directors at a meeting on Ceptember 2, 1943. Adoption of the resolution was the result of a reconmendation made by the Chamber’s ‘Mining Committee organized and which is conducting an aggressive program in behalf of western mining. The Chamber’s resolution favors legislation to stimulate production from small mines, to encourage their postwar operation, to expedite stock pile planning, and other objectives. However, it advocates the amendment of Senate Bill 1160 which has been-introduced in the Senate . by Senator J. G. Scrugham of Nevada. Senator Scrugham introduced the bill for himself and the Special Committee to Study and Survey Problems of Small Business Enterprises and it is now pending before the Committee on Mines and Mining. In its resolution, the San Francisco Chamber proposes ‘‘accumulation by the United States Government, through an appropriate agency such as the Metals Reserve Company of an adequate supply of strategic and eritical metals and minerals.to supplement the nu <mal production gratulated upon her success as there . She will soon return to Val-. David Ralston officiating. Interment . lof such metals and minerals for use at future emergencies.”’ . Hurthermora, the Chamb4r . poses that ; (1) <“such accumulation ibe commenced to such extent . possible during the wpresent . emergency and continued after con-} clusion of the war until an adequate isupply of each of these critical and jstrategic metals and minerals is on lhand in a national stock pile. (2) ‘the stock pile 60 accumulated during and after be held and used solely fer plementing of such current tion as may be possible during the present and future national emergencies and should not be sold or dumped on the market in such a way as to disturb normal prices or sales of such metals or minerals by pri‘vate industry.” (3) “determination of the quantities to be accumulated and method of preserving the stock pile. intact and the prices to be paid for the same should be left to the discretion of a stock pile advisory committee, to be composed of representatives from the War, Navy, and Interior Departments and from the mining industry.” (4) ‘Metals Reserve Company or similar Government agency should be charged with the actual purchase and holding of title for the Government to. said minerals and should be guided and controlled in making such purchases by such recommendations of said stock pile advisory committee.’ However, the San Francisco Chamber makes four provisions that: (1) Such purchases should so far as possible be made from domestic sources at current domestic pricproshould war is ” the war the supsources should be made only to the extent that domestic sources are either non-existent or quate to supply such metals and minerals: at reasonable cost. (3) The cost of acquiring stock pile should be (Corporation funds. (4) Nothing in the Bill should into the business of mining, smelting, refining crude ores, such . operations left entirely to private industry. to go LAUREL PARLOR MEETS A good attendance was present Wednesday evening at the regular meeting of Laurel Parlor, NDGW, Earl Covey of Grass Valley was speaker of the evening, talking on Admission Day. During the evening Harold Hansen of Grass Valley gaye several vocal numbers. Following the meeting ments were served under manship of the president, Granholm. refreshthe chairBeryl should . } produc! es and the continuance of domestic wholly inadethe furnished by Congressional appropriations or by allocations of Reconstruction Rinance purport to authorize the Government or beneficiating being The great fire that burned ers helped put it out. From the Tahoe National Forest 325 hunters were rounded up by district rangers, California, Highway patrolmen and game wardens, with Sierraville as headquarters. A fire camp was established there. To the fire were dispatched 225 hunters from Nevada and Sierra counties, and from Plumas forests, according to Stone, 200 more were recruited willy nilly to fight one of the -largDEER HUNTERS, 425 OF EM ROUNDED UP TO FIGHT FIRE over approximately 3,000 acres on Chicago Ridge, 25 miles southwest of Quincy, was under control this morning according to Ellwood Stone, chief fire dispatcher of the Tahoe National Forest, and 425 deer huntNEW MATERIAL FOR SURGICAL DRESSINGS HERE ” est fires of the season. In the North Bloomfield district, ' Ranger Paul Case and Assistant Fire Dispatcher Darwin Conover, were able,,to gather 59 deer hunters in a comparatively 'small area. Peter Land, district ranger at Sierraville, had general charge of the big fire camp at Sierraville. Government trucks transported the _ fire fighters from Sierraville to the scene in Plumas. Stone reports that most deer hunters cursed their hard luck but_ took the summons to fight fire with a big calcitrant spirit. parked at Sierraville until they could ibe returned from their labors. “A good many hunting uarties, necessarily were split up,” Stone, “some were in the woods when our rangers called, and could not be reached, but generally speak‘ing impressed all but a few in this area. I believe we have. done ;. more to discourage careless smokjing and careless keeping of we j}ers, warnings, and publicity, ever ‘spread over the state. Something ilike 500 deer hunters and a fishermen, now know exactly what a \forest fire is like. They have helped . put it under control. “The California statutes give us ithe right to impress any able bodied citizen over 16 years to fight fire. \They are paid 45 cents an hour and boarded.” NARROW GAUGE WORKERS FILE DAMAGE SUIT The Chicago Freight Car Parts, Company was mamed defendant in two damage suits filed at the Placer county clerk’s office last week by former employees of the Nevada (County Narrow Gauge Railway Company, amounting to a total of $44,360.71. Earl Bachman and Melvin Felton, both of Grass Valley, charged that injuries they received in a collision between a Ford car, which had been flanged so that it could operate on tracks and a steam locomotive driven by employes of the car parts firm, were due to the negligence of the defendants. Bachman asked $15,973.58, while Fenton, acting through his father, Jack Felton, sued for $28387.13. Both plaintiffs asked costs production, papticularly after the in addition to damages. war, should be thus encouraged. Felton and Bachman were injur(2) Purchases from foreign. ed in December of last year when the car in which they were riding collided head-on with a Nevada City bound locomotive two miles north of Colfax on the narrow gauge line. Smoking In Wrong Area Costs $25 John T. Holt, Box 414, Dixon, was apprehended for smoking in violation of Nevada County Ordinance No. 127 while hunting in the Austin Meadows area in the North BloomForest. Holt appeared before Judge George Gildergleeve of Nevada Township, plead guilty to the charge, and paid a fine of $25. This was the second case brought in by National Forest officers, who are active in patrolling areas used by deer hunters. Despite this patrol, one fire was eet near Rucker Lake. This fire was promptly controHed by the Blue Canyon suppression crew. Further carelessness by deer: hunthazardous national forest areas to hunting, grin. Only a very few revealed a re-. . Hunters cars were. said . camp . fires in the forests than all the post-! _ few. field district of the Tahoe National ers may' make it necessary to close ;Shipment of material to be made into ;30,000 2x2 dressings. Beginning Monday, September 20, the room will open at 10 a. m. until 3 p. m. daily and from 9 a. m. to 12 noon on Saturdays, starting September 25. for the high school girls. The evening hours.every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from: 7:30 'p. m. until 9:30 p. m. The rules as presented to the chapter are from the Surgeon General of the U. S. Army and must be enforced by the chairman of the day, jare as ‘follows: 1 Every volunteer is requested to wear a washable dress. 2 <A clean piece of material to ‘completely cover 'the hair. 3 The hands free of finger nail polish. 4 Dressings to be made neat and according to specifications. Anyone willing to help with the work will find instructors in the iroom each day. : On Tuesday September 14, a total of 192'5 surgical dressings were made ‘all of which proves shipment can ‘attendance be completed, is good. if the oe Fm } how rapidly a. . Do your part and spend one day — jor more of each week at the Surgical Dressing Unit. Located in the City Hall. TOTTEN FOUND SANE. TO HEAR» SENTENCE FRI. William Totten, convicted of murrn in the second degree onWedInesday' was. declared sane by the \ same jury on Thursday. Judge George L. Jones set September 24th \for passing sentence and ‘for hearing motions for a new trial. Totten killed Harvey McVean on July 15th near Hills Flat. The jury deliberated but two hours .n coming to its conclusion. Dr. Margaret Smythe, superintendent of the Stockton State Hospital, and Dr. Fred K. Counzelmann, psychiatrist on the staff of that institucourt: to examine Totten as to his sanity, on the stand both pronounced him insane’ not only at the time of the murder, July 15, but prior to that time for several years, and today. They declared he was suffering witness by.the district attorney, after qualifying as a psychiatrist, testified that Totten was sane, with a. and wrong at the time he shot Mc-* Vean. Dr. Adams cited several instances in Totten’s testimony, that shot McVean he would be in serious. trouble with the law. » DRUNKEN DRIVER PAYS pag FINE Harvey Wallace Fry, enroute the deer country, lingered ov ifreshments. He was driving in erratic manner when he collided: another car at the corner of Auburn and Neal streets i by Policeman William . arraigned before ; Peace Charles A. pleaded guilty to drivin der the inflence of liquor fine and conti hunting grounds. tion, who had been appointed by the». from dementia praecox, paranoid . ’ type. ee Dr. Perey W. Adams, called as a tendency toward dementia praecox. All three expert witnesses, how. ever, admitted that Totten probably . knew the difference between right : indicated he knew that in case he —