September 4, 1939 (4 pages)

Thinking Nevada City Nugget eee From the ‘March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists : Out Loud 2 a ifiable ends. ——-Alexander HamilBy Pore L. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN PP EIEORNTA — es Gee. The war of nerves has given 2 i NEVADA Cr TY; CALIF ORNIA The Gold Center. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 19 _ way to real war. Hitler couldn’t. wait. The house painter has a job to do; repainting the map of Burope in crimson human blood. Chamberlain’s umbrella is at last unfurled to protect the smaller nations of Europe including Poland, as much as Britain can, from the German war storm. The French, probably the toughest nation on the continent of Burope, led by the best military man of the Old World, have tossed their cock into the Martian pit. The Poles, fighting to preserve their twenty-five year old Republic, re-nationalized after a century of subjugation, are expected to hold Germans for at least three months while French and English seek out, vunerable spots in the German phalanx. All the world will suffer as a resfilt of thé brain storm of a simple, ignorant, Austrian peasant, who imagines himself to be the savior of Teutonic peoples. In time to come historians will marvel at the rise and fall of a fanatic, who involved the German nation in its second Armageddon: only. 21 years after the agony of its first. And of all the world, the German people will suffer the most, just as they did in the last war. Hitler wishes a “lightning war.’’ He expects to overrun Poland and then turn to Poland’s allies, with a fait accompli. In effect he hopes to say: Why now continue the war?’’ Hitler has learned nothing from the last war. Then the French and British did not lay down their arms until they had beaten Germany. They will not do so this time. The stakes are more than Polish independence. The stake is again the peace of Europe which must be maintained if all the youth of all the nations die for it. From now on we shall be inundated with appeals of France and England to aid the just cause. It is a just cause, Europe must come to terms eventually and its na‘ tions consent to live in peace, to live and let live. But it is not our war. Indeed, if the plan of President Wilson, had been adopted in good faith by-all nations ‘there would never have been another war in all probability. This country is partially to blame for the failure of the League of ‘Nations and its machinery for adjusting in orderly manner the conditions among nations which lead to war. But still it is not our war. We can stay out of it, and be enormously greater help in the world’s rehabilitation after the war, than we can if we consent to involvement. Everyone who believes ‘passionately in maintaining our demoeracy, in avoiding entanglement in Europe’s quarrels, must now be vigilantly active against any action on our part which will result in our participation in Europe’s war. We do not want a dictator in this _ country, but we shall have one the moment we cast in. our lot with European democracies. For just as Chamberlain and Daladier have powers of dictators in their respective democracies, so shall we if we join them in war. At the first sign of any yielding to the appeals of England or France on the part of our administration at Washington, the people of the United States, collectively and individually should deluge their representatives in Congress with protests. Let us as a nation at least not prove as stupid as the Germans are as a nation. We have had our lesson in foreign wars. It has cost us hundreds of thousands in dead and maimed for life. It has cost us billions upon billions of dollars, a great part of which consists of the repudiatea debts of the very nations that will now beg for our help. That is our lesson. Let us con it well. It should be our part, and the part of all neutrals, when the war is done, to bind up the wounds of victor and vanquished, to restore in so far as a good neighbor may, order from the chaos and wreckage of war, to uphold, and defend, it may be, in a world governed by a new set of dictators, the standards of democracy, and to bring, in so far as we can, understanding and peace among the nations of earth. : Mr and Mrs. John Darke and Mr. _ and Mrs. Joseph Stenger motored to “ Sacramento yesterday and are enjoying the circus and state fair. . “Tt is done.‘Macie I. Vol. 13, No. The County Seat Paper By CARL STARKEY Belief that the giant Yuba Narrows dam will be completed from’ one to two month ahead of schedule was voiced recently by dam _ officials. Work will terminate, they said, in October or November, 1940. Shifts totaling 300 men have been working night and day on the $4,000,000 project. 190,000 cubic yards of rock and soil have been removed from the damsite, with only 35,000 yards yet to go. Crews have been blasting at the sides of the WNarrows canyon while bulldozers and steam shovels dig down to bed rock. The pouring of concrete is ex‘pected to start October 10. Bins have been built above the top level of the dam and a cement mixing plant with a capacity of 1,000 yards daily is being installed. Materials will be obtained from a sand and gravel grading and washing plant below Parks Bar bridge 4 1-2 miles from the dam, Ten ten-ton trucks will be used to transport the sand and gravel. Concrete will be poured intd forms from three inch cables, weighing 42,000 pounds each, suspended between. towers on each side of the To Complete Narrows Dam Ahead Of Time Narrows. A total of 330,000 cubie yards will be poured in thisfashion. During the. pouring the Yuba river will be diverted from the damsite by means of flumes running along the side of the project. The Yuba Nérrows dam, the largest single construction of its type in this vicinity, is the second of the series of three dams in this area. The first, on the north fork of the American river, has been completea, while contracts have not yet been awarded for the third, the Ruck-aChucky. Bids have been accepted and the award is expected. to be made in the near future. The Narrows dam is being built by Arundel, Inc., and L. E. Dixon Co. under the supervision of army engineers. George E. Goodall, of ths United States army, was the designer. It will give tremendous impetus 19 the progress of Nevada County for it will make possible the hydraulicing of the vast gravel deposits in the county, especially along San Juan Ridge and recovery of millions of dollars worth of gold contained in these deposits. TEACHERS MAY HOLD INSTITUTE AT WORLD FAIR County and city superintendents of schools in the Northern Section have been asked by President J. N. Gardner of the California Teachers’ Association, Northern: Section, to express a preference between Sacramento and ‘Treasure Island, Francisco, as the location of the 1939 institute. The institute has been. held for several years in Sacramento without deviation, and the proposal to hold the session in San Francisco in 1939 has received surport in several counties belonging to the association. Final decision on ‘the matter will probably be reached April 15 in Sacramento, when superintendents and officials of. the teachers’ organization hold a joint meeting in Sacramento. James N. Gardner, president of the Northern California section of the California Teachers’ Association announced this week the bi-annual institute of the organization has been see for November 20, 21 and 22. The institute has been moved ahead one week to conform to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s change of Thanksgiving Day. Gardner expects to release the institute program for the new dates shortly. The following committees, composed of Northern California educators, will continue to serve through the institute, at which time new officers will pe chosen for two year terms: Legislative: W. J. ‘Burkhard, Sacramento;. H. B. Bonnet, Sacramento; Homer H. Cornick, Davis; Roy Learned, Sacramento; James C. Nisbit. Oroville. Public Relations: Earl ‘Crabbe, Auburn. Speakers Bureau: F. E. Brolliar, Sacramento. Membership: George Skinner, Sacramento County; Virgil Allread, Yuba County; Josephine Bryan, Butte County; Ralph W. Guilford, Butte County; Lowell Goulard, Placer County; R. B. Hartzell, Tehama County; ado County; C. K. Price, Glenn County; Dean Smith, Yolo County; Dolores Schultz, Sutter County; El. mer Stevens, Nevada County; Ethel Rose, Shasta County; Thelma Wise, Colusa County; Lenore C. McCrystal, Alpine County; Jas. Callaghan, Sacramento City. Credit Union: H. C. Baugh, Sacramento; Eugene Benedetti, Roseville; H. A. Drane, Chico; Louis Edwards, Corning; Melvin Farley, of Gridley; George Linn, Sacramento; Michael Nugent, Auburn. Tenure: Ruth Holliday, Sacramento; Melvin Farley, Gridley; Francis Fotheringame, Orland; Esther Marks Chico; John Palmer, Placerville. Constitution Revision: J, EB. Birch, Willows; Elizabeth Hughes, Oroville, (Montgomery, Redding; Malcolm P. Murphy, Sacramento; Leola Riffe Schott, Quincy. San}. Kenneth McCoy, El Dor-: MANY MINE LOCATIONS FILED IN NEVADA COUNTY Between 20 and 30 new mine locations were made after noon September 1 in Nevada county accordtle. Moratorium on mining claims was started first under ex-President Hoover in the last year of his term. It has been continued for six years and this year claim holders were given three months moratorium on assessment work. DOWNEY IS NOT THIRD TERMITE By CLEM WHITAKER California’s 1940 presidential primary, according to well-authenticated reports along the political Rialto, will bring Governor Culbert L. Olson and U. 8S. Senator Sheridan Downey—the Democratic standard-bearers of 1938—to a definite parting of the ways. Governor Olson already has made it knownthat he favors President Roosevelt for a third term, and the Olson stalwarts are busily mapping plans to capture the California delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Senator Downey, it can be definitely stated, will NOT support the President for a third term—and .in all probability will head an opposing delegation, pledged to another can-. didate. (Mr. Downey, the most potentand eloquent single handed campaigner in the Democratic party in California—and a considerable factor in the party nationally due to his Townsend pension following—has made no commitments as to the presidential candidate, he will, back. His friends report, however, that he leans toward Burton K. Wheeler, Democratic U. S. Senator from Montana. On one point, in discussions with his intimates, he has been emphatic and outspoken; he believes the Democratic party would be foredoomed to defeat if t again naminated Mr. Roosevelt! California county clerks are burning the midnight oil this week in an effort to determine whether the Atkinson oil conservation act, designed to husband the state’s valuable oil resources, shall become effective immediately, or whether it must be held up for a referendum vote of the people. The fate of the Atkinson act, as well as that of the anti-loan shark bills, hangs on whether sufficient valid petition signatures were filed by opponents to force them to a referendum. With thousands of signatures being thrown out as invalid, due to lack of registration or other causes, informed political circles report that the referendum against the Atkinson bill is likely to fall short some 15,000 or 20,000 names of the required number, A total of 132,573 valid signatures would be required on the referendum petitions to block ing to County Recorder John Nef-’ INCENDIARY AND LIGHTNING FIRES PLAGUEDISTRICT Lime Kiln district below Valley had two more incendiary fires yéSterday morning both being near the school house. One Started about four o’clock and the other at seven o’clock. Phe latter one burned five acres of ‘brush before State Ranger W. F. Sharpe and crew reached the scene. Ranger Sharpe had another fire yesterday forenoon on the South Fork of Wolf Creek near the lower Dunn dam. During the forenoon a call came from the Rough and Ready section where a fire started in brush and caught a large digger pine. Three of the fires were extinguished before acreage of any extent was covered. A 1200 acre grass and brush fire in Yuba county yesterday sent up huge clouds of smoke that drifted toward Nevada county. It was learned the blaze was in the Rice Crossing Colgate section near Bullards Bar dam. Yuba county fire fighting forces took care of. this fire. E. M. Stone, fire dispatcher for the forest service reports there were three lightning fires near Sardine Lake lookout and more lightning storms are predicted for today and tomorrow. The Sardine Lake fire which start.ed Saturday was brought under control last. night by forest fire fighters and’ CCC boys. The fire burned over about 75 acres and was in the very steep rocky country where there was a tall heavy growth of brush making it a very hard fire to fight. There were 140 men on the fire lines for a time. GOLD MEDAL IS WON BY BRET HARTE DAIRY U. 8S. N. Johnson of the Bret Harte Dairy of Nevada. City. returned Saturday from the State Fair in Saeramento bringing home the highest or Gold Medal award for raw milk in the state exhibits. This is the seventh high award out of eight exhibitions that he has received. The @Groae WTrass ors, cattle breeders and herdsmen on the fair grounds that Roy and Everett Cunningham, dairymen who supply milk for Bret Harte Dairy have the best dairy herd they ever looked at. The two brothers have been offered fancy prices for their dairy and do not care to dispose of it They purchase thoroughbred bulls and discard cull cows that would be considered first class by many dairymen, always keeping their stock at a high standard. Cunningham brothers have one of the best dairy barns in the country and it is open to inspection to the public. The dairy is below Grass Valley on the Auburn highway. Nevada County also won $150 for its display in, the booth at the state fair. MELVILL GRAVEL It is reported Leo Bramley, Melville of North San Juan is making preparations to go to South America where his company has operating properties The office of the Melville interests in the National Hotel at North San Juan ‘is being moved out and discontinued, However, it is stated the company is holding all properties taken over under option. The immense holdings extend from near San Juan to the Columbia Hill section. Extensive ‘keystone drilling was done near Columbia Hill and about a 200 foot shaft was sunk in gravel. The company is an English one and unrest and final declaration of war between Germany and Poland brought an end to funds from England for mining operations, it is stated," Mrs. Will Moulton has as guests her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Spelker of Oakland. Mrs. Robert Grant of Virgilia, (Plumas county, is nursing Wade Armstrong of Nevada street. effectiveness of the new conservation measure. fhiee The referendum drive against the anti-loan shark bills, however, appears to have been successful. Fifteen hundred gold and black badges will be worn by Nevada County citizens when they join in a great motorcade to California’s State Fair at Sacramento next Saturday. It is estimated that this many citizens will take the road io Sacramento on ‘that day,.leaving Nevada City at 8 o’clock in the morning and Grass Valley at 8:30 o’clock. Since Nevada County Day at the Fair is also Admission Day, it is believed that a large proportion of the population will motor down to the State Fair. A state highway patrol will escort ‘the caravan from Nevada City to Sacramento. One of the big events of the day will be a jackhammer contest between selected crews from Amador and Nevada counties. Olney )Donnelly, president of the Mine Workers Protective League is said to have placed all the local rock drilling champions on the (Nevada county team. The yellow badges worn by Nevada county folks will admit them to a special section in the grandstand after the usual admission charge has been paid at the gate. On the program a song by Bill Tobiassen, son of Sheriff Tobiassen. Departing entirely from the. staid and formal type of exhibits of previous years and bringing a note of distinctiveness to the series of other displays that surround the walls and center islands of the main agricultural building, the Nevada county exhibit. receives what other exhibitors feel is far more attention than the size of the county warrants. Five oil paintings by Clifford L. Warner, Nevada City and Carmel artist, set Nevada county’s display entirely apart and command immedMonster Motorcade — From Nevada County To Visit State Fair iate and fullsome praise. The off paintings are approximately three by four feet in size and in one series — depicts the mining types of the coumty—gravel, hydraulic and quarts. Two other oil paintings showing the county’s' recreational pursuits of fishing, hunting on one hand in the countless lakes and streams and the snow sports at the Donner summit on the other. While the pictures are colorful and true to detail, they call attemtion to the other features of the exhibit. One entire side is taken up with a genuine old time hydraulie monitor. which saw service along the ~ North San Juan ridge and was loaned by the people of that section. Am-.— other which commands interest because of unusual nature is a five foot chunk of rock core, taken from the 1100 foot round hole of Idaho Ne. 2 shaft of this city. Large photographs of the Lome Rica rancho and horse farm cover one wall. Principal displays and exhibit cases. contain the counties presentation of gold, highlighted by Dr. Carl P. Jones Red Ledge nugget, which was — recently brought up from the Gol@d-— en Gate International Exposition where it was prominently displayed’ in the Treasure Mountain section of the Mines and Minerals palace. Trays and cases present nuggets of quartz and placer gold, including . some specimens of private collections — in this county. ee One shelf of trays shows typical — gravel from the county’s main gravel” channels. The difference in color, — texture and content of these gravels is readily visualized when tthey are oneer Nee side by side. IN4 YEARS WPA WORK IN COUNTY Mr. Johnson was told’ by exhibitCOSTS $510,485 The report of the Works Progress Administration for Northern Galifornia shows, in the four years between July 1935 and July, 1939, a total expenditure of $171,171,273. Of this amount $134,541,621. was provided by the Federal government, and $36,629,652 by various sponsors. Nevada county in that four year period completed projects aggregating $510,485, of which the Federal government provided $331,023, and Nevada county and cities $179,462. FELONY PENALTY DEMANDED FOR SETTING FIRES SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—An of forest fires was the recommendation of the North Coast Conservation . Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce, which met in Santa Rosa recently. Basis of the recommendation was given. by California’s Deputy State Forester, C. G. Strickland, who compared fire damage this year with the year just passed. In 1938, there wére 2,412 fires in California burning 111,00 acres. This year, to date, there have been 3,451 fires, burning over 371,000 acres. This shows a 45 ‘per cent increase in the number of ifires and an increase of more than \250 per cent in acres destroyed. Penalty for starting forest fires at the present time is listed under the heading of misdemeanors. It is the contention of the State Chamber’s that this should be increased to a felony, in order’ that a more effective control over inoendtincy fires. might be secured. The recotiniendation will a forincrease in the penalty for setting» DOVE HUNTERS SECURE LIMITS. A dove hantinx party pelea from the Sutter Buttes district last — evening with limits of doves and plenty of sore shoulders. In the party were Louis Savio, Fred Pinch an@ son, R. K. Whitmore, Bob Davis, — Charley Giani, Ralph Snider, Fred Schofield, Louis Orzalli. After a pic-— nic lunch the party spread out. to secure their limits of birds. “fe Elmer Durbin, wife, sister in law and Bill Buffington, Sr., and s0R brought in bags of doves on the oF ening day. HOLIDAY TOUR Raphael Hanahan of near Los Angeles arrived in Nevada City Friday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mra, Howard Burr. On Saturday the group .attended to business and went to the state fair in Sacramento. Afterwards © they went to Prunédale and on te Watsonville, Santa Cruz and San’ ‘Jose stopping in that city to visit. Mrs. Burr’s sister and husband. Ta morrow they will visit friends if Reno. Miss Joan Grant, daughter of and Mrs. Robert Grant of Vir and a graduate of the Nevada . high school, has just finished first year in training as a nurse . (Peter Brent Brigham hospital, ton. She returned recently vacation in Montreal jand ) where she was the house guest Dr. and Mrs_ Francis Anderson. Anderson and Joan’s mother g! ated together at Mt. Sinai hos New York City. ve North Coast Conservation Committee . . warded to the California State Cham. ber of Commerce Board of Director which meets in Sacramento on tember 8. Dotintes action. 8 of the sta!

Thinking Nevada City Nugget eee From the ‘March 15, 1848: The Liberty of the Press consists : Out Loud 2 a ifiable ends. ——-Alexander HamilBy Pore L. COVERS RICHEST GOLD AREA IN PP EIEORNTA — es Gee. The war of nerves has given 2 i NEVADA Cr TY; CALIF ORNIA The Gold Center. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 19 _ way to real war. Hitler couldn’t. wait. The house painter has a job to do; repainting the map of Burope in crimson human blood. Chamberlain’s umbrella is at last unfurled to protect the smaller nations of Europe including Poland, as much as Britain can, from the German war storm. The French, probably the toughest nation on the continent of Burope, led by the best military man of the Old World, have tossed their cock into the Martian pit. The Poles, fighting to preserve their twenty-five year old Republic, re-nationalized after a century of subjugation, are expected to hold Germans for at least three months while French and English seek out, vunerable spots in the German phalanx. All the world will suffer as a resfilt of thé brain storm of a simple, ignorant, Austrian peasant, who imagines himself to be the savior of Teutonic peoples. In time to come historians will marvel at the rise and fall of a fanatic, who involved the German nation in its second Armageddon: only. 21 years after the agony of its first. And of all the world, the German people will suffer the most, just as they did in the last war. Hitler wishes a “lightning war.’’ He expects to overrun Poland and then turn to Poland’s allies, with a fait accompli. In effect he hopes to say: Why now continue the war?’’ Hitler has learned nothing from the last war. Then the French and British did not lay down their arms until they had beaten Germany. They will not do so this time. The stakes are more than Polish independence. The stake is again the peace of Europe which must be maintained if all the youth of all the nations die for it. From now on we shall be inundated with appeals of France and England to aid the just cause. It is a just cause, Europe must come to terms eventually and its na‘ tions consent to live in peace, to live and let live. But it is not our war. Indeed, if the plan of President Wilson, had been adopted in good faith by-all nations ‘there would never have been another war in all probability. This country is partially to blame for the failure of the League of ‘Nations and its machinery for adjusting in orderly manner the conditions among nations which lead to war. But still it is not our war. We can stay out of it, and be enormously greater help in the world’s rehabilitation after the war, than we can if we consent to involvement. Everyone who believes ‘passionately in maintaining our demoeracy, in avoiding entanglement in Europe’s quarrels, must now be vigilantly active against any action on our part which will result in our participation in Europe’s war. We do not want a dictator in this _ country, but we shall have one the moment we cast in. our lot with European democracies. For just as Chamberlain and Daladier have powers of dictators in their respective democracies, so shall we if we join them in war. At the first sign of any yielding to the appeals of England or France on the part of our administration at Washington, the people of the United States, collectively and individually should deluge their representatives in Congress with protests. Let us as a nation at least not prove as stupid as the Germans are as a nation. We have had our lesson in foreign wars. It has cost us hundreds of thousands in dead and maimed for life. It has cost us billions upon billions of dollars, a great part of which consists of the repudiatea debts of the very nations that will now beg for our help. That is our lesson. Let us con it well. It should be our part, and the part of all neutrals, when the war is done, to bind up the wounds of victor and vanquished, to restore in so far as a good neighbor may, order from the chaos and wreckage of war, to uphold, and defend, it may be, in a world governed by a new set of dictators, the standards of democracy, and to bring, in so far as we can, understanding and peace among the nations of earth. : Mr and Mrs. John Darke and Mr. _ and Mrs. Joseph Stenger motored to “ Sacramento yesterday and are enjoying the circus and state fair. . “Tt is done.‘Macie I. Vol. 13, No. The County Seat Paper By CARL STARKEY Belief that the giant Yuba Narrows dam will be completed from’ one to two month ahead of schedule was voiced recently by dam _ officials. Work will terminate, they said, in October or November, 1940. Shifts totaling 300 men have been working night and day on the $4,000,000 project. 190,000 cubic yards of rock and soil have been removed from the damsite, with only 35,000 yards yet to go. Crews have been blasting at the sides of the WNarrows canyon while bulldozers and steam shovels dig down to bed rock. The pouring of concrete is ex‘pected to start October 10. Bins have been built above the top level of the dam and a cement mixing plant with a capacity of 1,000 yards daily is being installed. Materials will be obtained from a sand and gravel grading and washing plant below Parks Bar bridge 4 1-2 miles from the dam, Ten ten-ton trucks will be used to transport the sand and gravel. Concrete will be poured intd forms from three inch cables, weighing 42,000 pounds each, suspended between. towers on each side of the To Complete Narrows Dam Ahead Of Time Narrows. A total of 330,000 cubie yards will be poured in thisfashion. During the. pouring the Yuba river will be diverted from the damsite by means of flumes running along the side of the project. The Yuba Nérrows dam, the largest single construction of its type in this vicinity, is the second of the series of three dams in this area. The first, on the north fork of the American river, has been completea, while contracts have not yet been awarded for the third, the Ruck-aChucky. Bids have been accepted and the award is expected. to be made in the near future. The Narrows dam is being built by Arundel, Inc., and L. E. Dixon Co. under the supervision of army engineers. George E. Goodall, of ths United States army, was the designer. It will give tremendous impetus 19 the progress of Nevada County for it will make possible the hydraulicing of the vast gravel deposits in the county, especially along San Juan Ridge and recovery of millions of dollars worth of gold contained in these deposits. TEACHERS MAY HOLD INSTITUTE AT WORLD FAIR County and city superintendents of schools in the Northern Section have been asked by President J. N. Gardner of the California Teachers’ Association, Northern: Section, to express a preference between Sacramento and ‘Treasure Island, Francisco, as the location of the 1939 institute. The institute has been. held for several years in Sacramento without deviation, and the proposal to hold the session in San Francisco in 1939 has received surport in several counties belonging to the association. Final decision on ‘the matter will probably be reached April 15 in Sacramento, when superintendents and officials of. the teachers’ organization hold a joint meeting in Sacramento. James N. Gardner, president of the Northern California section of the California Teachers’ Association announced this week the bi-annual institute of the organization has been see for November 20, 21 and 22. The institute has been moved ahead one week to conform to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s change of Thanksgiving Day. Gardner expects to release the institute program for the new dates shortly. The following committees, composed of Northern California educators, will continue to serve through the institute, at which time new officers will pe chosen for two year terms: Legislative: W. J. ‘Burkhard, Sacramento;. H. B. Bonnet, Sacramento; Homer H. Cornick, Davis; Roy Learned, Sacramento; James C. Nisbit. Oroville. Public Relations: Earl ‘Crabbe, Auburn. Speakers Bureau: F. E. Brolliar, Sacramento. Membership: George Skinner, Sacramento County; Virgil Allread, Yuba County; Josephine Bryan, Butte County; Ralph W. Guilford, Butte County; Lowell Goulard, Placer County; R. B. Hartzell, Tehama County; ado County; C. K. Price, Glenn County; Dean Smith, Yolo County; Dolores Schultz, Sutter County; El. mer Stevens, Nevada County; Ethel Rose, Shasta County; Thelma Wise, Colusa County; Lenore C. McCrystal, Alpine County; Jas. Callaghan, Sacramento City. Credit Union: H. C. Baugh, Sacramento; Eugene Benedetti, Roseville; H. A. Drane, Chico; Louis Edwards, Corning; Melvin Farley, of Gridley; George Linn, Sacramento; Michael Nugent, Auburn. Tenure: Ruth Holliday, Sacramento; Melvin Farley, Gridley; Francis Fotheringame, Orland; Esther Marks Chico; John Palmer, Placerville. Constitution Revision: J, EB. Birch, Willows; Elizabeth Hughes, Oroville, (Montgomery, Redding; Malcolm P. Murphy, Sacramento; Leola Riffe Schott, Quincy. San}. Kenneth McCoy, El Dor-: MANY MINE LOCATIONS FILED IN NEVADA COUNTY Between 20 and 30 new mine locations were made after noon September 1 in Nevada county accordtle. Moratorium on mining claims was started first under ex-President Hoover in the last year of his term. It has been continued for six years and this year claim holders were given three months moratorium on assessment work. DOWNEY IS NOT THIRD TERMITE By CLEM WHITAKER California’s 1940 presidential primary, according to well-authenticated reports along the political Rialto, will bring Governor Culbert L. Olson and U. 8S. Senator Sheridan Downey—the Democratic standard-bearers of 1938—to a definite parting of the ways. Governor Olson already has made it knownthat he favors President Roosevelt for a third term, and the Olson stalwarts are busily mapping plans to capture the California delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Senator Downey, it can be definitely stated, will NOT support the President for a third term—and .in all probability will head an opposing delegation, pledged to another can-. didate. (Mr. Downey, the most potentand eloquent single handed campaigner in the Democratic party in California—and a considerable factor in the party nationally due to his Townsend pension following—has made no commitments as to the presidential candidate, he will, back. His friends report, however, that he leans toward Burton K. Wheeler, Democratic U. S. Senator from Montana. On one point, in discussions with his intimates, he has been emphatic and outspoken; he believes the Democratic party would be foredoomed to defeat if t again naminated Mr. Roosevelt! California county clerks are burning the midnight oil this week in an effort to determine whether the Atkinson oil conservation act, designed to husband the state’s valuable oil resources, shall become effective immediately, or whether it must be held up for a referendum vote of the people. The fate of the Atkinson act, as well as that of the anti-loan shark bills, hangs on whether sufficient valid petition signatures were filed by opponents to force them to a referendum. With thousands of signatures being thrown out as invalid, due to lack of registration or other causes, informed political circles report that the referendum against the Atkinson bill is likely to fall short some 15,000 or 20,000 names of the required number, A total of 132,573

valid signatures would be required on the referendum petitions to block ing to County Recorder John Nef-’ INCENDIARY AND LIGHTNING FIRES PLAGUEDISTRICT Lime Kiln district below Valley had two more incendiary fires yéSterday morning both being near the school house. One Started about four o’clock and the other at seven o’clock. Phe latter one burned five acres of ‘brush before State Ranger W. F. Sharpe and crew reached the scene. Ranger Sharpe had another fire yesterday forenoon on the South Fork of Wolf Creek near the lower Dunn dam. During the forenoon a call came from the Rough and Ready section where a fire started in brush and caught a large digger pine. Three of the fires were extinguished before acreage of any extent was covered. A 1200 acre grass and brush fire in Yuba county yesterday sent up huge clouds of smoke that drifted toward Nevada county. It was learned the blaze was in the Rice Crossing Colgate section near Bullards Bar dam. Yuba county fire fighting forces took care of. this fire. E. M. Stone, fire dispatcher for the forest service reports there were three lightning fires near Sardine Lake lookout and more lightning storms are predicted for today and tomorrow. The Sardine Lake fire which start.ed Saturday was brought under control last. night by forest fire fighters and’ CCC boys. The fire burned over about 75 acres and was in the very steep rocky country where there was a tall heavy growth of brush making it a very hard fire to fight. There were 140 men on the fire lines for a time. GOLD MEDAL IS WON BY BRET HARTE DAIRY U. 8S. N. Johnson of the Bret Harte Dairy of Nevada. City. returned Saturday from the State Fair in Saeramento bringing home the highest or Gold Medal award for raw milk in the state exhibits. This is the seventh high award out of eight exhibitions that he has received. The @Groae WTrass ors, cattle breeders and herdsmen on the fair grounds that Roy and Everett Cunningham, dairymen who supply milk for Bret Harte Dairy have the best dairy herd they ever looked at. The two brothers have been offered fancy prices for their dairy and do not care to dispose of it They purchase thoroughbred bulls and discard cull cows that would be considered first class by many dairymen, always keeping their stock at a high standard. Cunningham brothers have one of the best dairy barns in the country and it is open to inspection to the public. The dairy is below Grass Valley on the Auburn highway. Nevada County also won $150 for its display in, the booth at the state fair. MELVILL GRAVEL It is reported Leo Bramley, Melville of North San Juan is making preparations to go to South America where his company has operating properties The office of the Melville interests in the National Hotel at North San Juan ‘is being moved out and discontinued, However, it is stated the company is holding all properties taken over under option. The immense holdings extend from near San Juan to the Columbia Hill section. Extensive ‘keystone drilling was done near Columbia Hill and about a 200 foot shaft was sunk in gravel. The company is an English one and unrest and final declaration of war between Germany and Poland brought an end to funds from England for mining operations, it is stated," Mrs. Will Moulton has as guests her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Spelker of Oakland. Mrs. Robert Grant of Virgilia, (Plumas county, is nursing Wade Armstrong of Nevada street. effectiveness of the new conservation measure. fhiee The referendum drive against the anti-loan shark bills, however, appears to have been successful. Fifteen hundred gold and black badges will be worn by Nevada County citizens when they join in a great motorcade to California’s State Fair at Sacramento next Saturday. It is estimated that this many citizens will take the road io Sacramento on ‘that day,.leaving Nevada City at 8 o’clock in the morning and Grass Valley at 8:30 o’clock. Since Nevada County Day at the Fair is also Admission Day, it is believed that a large proportion of the population will motor down to the State Fair. A state highway patrol will escort ‘the caravan from Nevada City to Sacramento. One of the big events of the day will be a jackhammer contest between selected crews from Amador and Nevada counties. Olney )Donnelly, president of the Mine Workers Protective League is said to have placed all the local rock drilling champions on the (Nevada county team. The yellow badges worn by Nevada county folks will admit them to a special section in the grandstand after the usual admission charge has been paid at the gate. On the program a song by Bill Tobiassen, son of Sheriff Tobiassen. Departing entirely from the. staid and formal type of exhibits of previous years and bringing a note of distinctiveness to the series of other displays that surround the walls and center islands of the main agricultural building, the Nevada county exhibit. receives what other exhibitors feel is far more attention than the size of the county warrants. Five oil paintings by Clifford L. Warner, Nevada City and Carmel artist, set Nevada county’s display entirely apart and command immedMonster Motorcade — From Nevada County To Visit State Fair iate and fullsome praise. The off paintings are approximately three by four feet in size and in one series — depicts the mining types of the coumty—gravel, hydraulic and quarts. Two other oil paintings showing the county’s' recreational pursuits of fishing, hunting on one hand in the countless lakes and streams and the snow sports at the Donner summit on the other. While the pictures are colorful and true to detail, they call attemtion to the other features of the exhibit. One entire side is taken up with a genuine old time hydraulie monitor. which saw service along the ~ North San Juan ridge and was loaned by the people of that section. Am-.— other which commands interest because of unusual nature is a five foot chunk of rock core, taken from the 1100 foot round hole of Idaho Ne. 2 shaft of this city. Large photographs of the Lome Rica rancho and horse farm cover one wall. Principal displays and exhibit cases. contain the counties presentation of gold, highlighted by Dr. Carl P. Jones Red Ledge nugget, which was — recently brought up from the Gol@d-— en Gate International Exposition where it was prominently displayed’ in the Treasure Mountain section of the Mines and Minerals palace. Trays and cases present nuggets of quartz and placer gold, including . some specimens of private collections — in this county. ee One shelf of trays shows typical — gravel from the county’s main gravel” channels. The difference in color, — texture and content of these gravels is readily visualized when tthey are oneer Nee side by side. IN4 YEARS WPA WORK IN COUNTY Mr. Johnson was told’ by exhibitCOSTS $510,485 The report of the Works Progress Administration for Northern Galifornia shows, in the four years between July 1935 and July, 1939, a total expenditure of $171,171,273. Of this amount $134,541,621. was provided by the Federal government, and $36,629,652 by various sponsors. Nevada county in that four year period completed projects aggregating $510,485, of which the Federal government provided $331,023, and Nevada county and cities $179,462. FELONY PENALTY DEMANDED FOR SETTING FIRES SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.—An of forest fires was the recommendation of the North Coast Conservation . Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce, which met in Santa Rosa recently. Basis of the recommendation was given. by California’s Deputy State Forester, C. G. Strickland, who compared fire damage this year with the year just passed. In 1938, there wére 2,412 fires in California burning 111,00 acres. This year, to date, there have been 3,451 fires, burning over 371,000 acres. This shows a 45 ‘per cent increase in the number of ifires and an increase of more than \250 per cent in acres destroyed. Penalty for starting forest fires at the present time is listed under the heading of misdemeanors. It is the contention of the State Chamber’s that this should be increased to a felony, in order’ that a more effective control over inoendtincy fires. might be secured. The recotiniendation will a forincrease in the penalty for setting» DOVE HUNTERS SECURE LIMITS. A dove hantinx party pelea from the Sutter Buttes district last — evening with limits of doves and plenty of sore shoulders. In the party were Louis Savio, Fred Pinch an@ son, R. K. Whitmore, Bob Davis, — Charley Giani, Ralph Snider, Fred Schofield, Louis Orzalli. After a pic-— nic lunch the party spread out. to secure their limits of birds. “fe Elmer Durbin, wife, sister in law and Bill Buffington, Sr., and s0R brought in bags of doves on the oF ening day. HOLIDAY TOUR Raphael Hanahan of near Los Angeles arrived in Nevada City Friday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mra, Howard Burr. On Saturday the group .attended to business and went to the state fair in Sacramento. Afterwards © they went to Prunédale and on te Watsonville, Santa Cruz and San’ ‘Jose stopping in that city to visit. Mrs. Burr’s sister and husband. Ta morrow they will visit friends if Reno. Miss Joan Grant, daughter of and Mrs. Robert Grant of Vir and a graduate of the Nevada . high school, has just finished first year in training as a nurse . (Peter Brent Brigham hospital, ton. She returned recently vacation in Montreal jand ) where she was the house guest Dr. and Mrs_ Francis Anderson. Anderson and Joan’s mother g! ated together at Mt. Sinai hos New York City. ve North Coast Conservation Committee . . warded to the California State Cham. ber of Commerce Board of Director which meets in Sacramento on tember 8. Dotintes action. 8 of the sta!