September 6, 1943 (4 pages)

. The Nugget is delivered to’ your home twice a week for only 30 cents per “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster Nevada Gity ¢ ugget This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read month The Nugget. : oe COVERS. RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA =a Vol. 17, ‘No. Lae The County Seat Paper ieee NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ a : _The'G Gold Center MONDAY, SEPT [EMBER 6, 1943. Thinking Out Loud SIX MONTH IN: JAIE FOR SPOT LIGHTING DEER BOONDOGGLING (By Edw. ©. Uren), Just a word that you won't find in the dictionary, but what a well chosen expression: it is. After the New Deal got to functioning in 1933 and the galaxy of professors of economics got out their slide rules and started to build up their graphs to decide how to improve on nature, and the 2700 inexperienced legal lights had vied with one another to regulate the forces of production and consumption, this word came into being. Literally it means ‘experimenting with silly ideas.”’ It was in 1933 that the first brilliant aggregation blossomed and fruited. Squads of white collared executioners who hardly knew one end of a gun from the other, radiated from the capital armed with guns, oodles of ammunition and fat check books and descended on the farms to kill off some five million little pigs, bury them in trenches as though they were a pestilence, and write the farmer a check for being an accessory to the crime. And it wasn’t so long afterward that ham and bacon, the principal ration of our western’ pioneers that sold retail here in 1879 for 11 cents a pound, were at a premium. Nowadays the only place you can see a ham is in the magazines. Our Vice President, Henry A. Wallace, the radical calliope who is now in the political dog house even with his own party after the disgraceful tilt .with Jesse Jones, was Secretary of Agriculture under the New Deal in 1933 and accepted full responsibility for the mor-bid ideas“of his.followers at that time. In a recent speech at Detroit he “We must turn away completely from scarcity economics. The little pigs did not die in vain. The fact that it was necessary to kill them gave the Ameritean public a complete and utter abhorrence of scarcity economics.”’ ‘ There was abhorrence all right among practically all of the people except the crack pots. Abhorrence of such an idea of idiotic waste and the creed that indulged it. Of the many people who either heard these remarks, or read them there probably wasn’t one in a thousand who was able to understand what this double talk meant. Only an economic Hinstein could. ‘An economist is one who is proficient in the science that treats of the production and distribution of wealth. _ What a clover patch this is for the communists, the radicals and the half-baked to browse in; and among them all a really successful business man is as rare'as an orchid in a patch of weeds. The Bill of Rights is one of the basic foundations of our democracy yet our vice president in Novemper, 1942, made a speech before the so-called Congress of Ameriecan-Soviet Friendship, an organization which numbered among its members extreme isolationists and others who, prior to: 1941, had picketed the White House and call, ed the president a war monger. ‘In this speech he said ‘‘Some in the U. S. believe that the Bill of Rights carried to form leads to rugged idvidualism, exploitation and even anarchy.”’ He stated that Russia had placed strong emphasis on ‘economic democracy.” And this in spite of the fact that every American high school boy knows that Russia is the most despotic government on earth and that Stalin has killed off some 300,000 intellectuals for fear that some of them might interfere with his dictatorship. The president has indicated plainly that he is through with Mr. Wallace, and in a. political way he has been futily trying to hold the Wallace head under water, only to have it bob up and blurp that ‘‘When this war is over ‘we are going to attend’to the corporatiohns and put them in their place.’”’? Well, maybe so Mr. Walsaid its extreme ) William G. Reed, a plaster foreman employed at the base hospital near Amburn, Saturday. morning pleaded guilty to hunting deer with a spot light before Justice of the (Peace Charles A. Morehouse. He was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in the. county jail. Reed was apprehended while using the spotlight attached to the battery of car, shortly after midnight in the vicinity of Lake ‘Combis, three miles south of Htggine Corner on the Grass Valléy-Auburn Highway. The arrest was made by Game Warden Earl Hiscox and Highway Patrolman Robert Steuber: Hiscox seized the spot light, a rifle, a box of ammunition and a hunting knife. The hunting knife indicated recent use. After some admitted he had killed-one deer, and as a result of an investigation of Reed’s premises on the Wolf road, a quantity of venison was found in his refrigerator. AVIATION WILL BE STRESSED IN PLACER JR. COL. Dean Harold E. Chastain of Placer Junior College announced this week special emphasis has been placed upon the courses at the college leading to army, navy, and marine corps }aviation. In. the first semester, opening September 20, courses in navigation, . meteorology, aircraft operation and + physical geography will be available. . All courses are to be taught by H. iW. Weaver a CPT instructor in the . ground school work. In a report on students from the } . college who have gone into aviation, Earl Crabbe, armed services representative on the campus, points out that students taking the courses right up to the time they are called to active: duty have a greater possibility of success than those who drop their studies for work or pleasure until they are called. Crabbe. states it is the policy of the college to allow .a semester's work for students called into aviaLtion service after they are ‘enrolled, providing they are. doing satisfactheir elementary training with either the army or navy. The navy trains ‘the marine corps flying men. “Any cadet now in the reserve can enroll at the Placer Junior College and be assured a semester of credit, irrespective of the date of his call,” said Crabbe. ready sworn in for this service’ can do college work, or they would not have passed the qualifying tests.” The courses at Placer are also recommended to 17 year old: youths who are contemplating aviation, but have not fully decided upon enlistments. : FIRE IN RELIEF HILL DISTRICT TIED UPFRIDAY Elwood Stone, chief dispatcher of the Tahoe National. ‘Forest states tfiat the big fire in the Relief Fgll section was completely under control Saturday morning. More than 300 soldiers were* on the fire lines all of Thursday night ‘and Friday. The fire was ‘‘tied up” during Thursday ‘night. and_ held within the lines throughout yesterday by the ‘fire fighting crews. Nevada City and Grass Valley, Stone said, have been drained of food supplies. Friday, afternoon an order came to the headquarters in Nevada City to send in 400 loaves of bread and other supplies in proportion to the camps of the fire fighters. lace, maybe so. Of course this kind of talk tickles the clo. and their goons and there are :loud’ huzzas and hand clapping every time the Wallace trap opens and closes. But if it hadn’t been for the business corporations built up by practical men, where would be bein this war effort today, I wonder? parley Reed tory work when called, and complete ! “We know the men alJior court. The bride’s home address Retiring Fire Chief Reports Small Fire Damage e« Carl G. Steger has rendered a report to the city council, of his administration as fire chief, which ended August 1st. During the year he states that the total fire loss sustained in the city was $2,335, of which $979 was covered by insurance. Members of the fire department responded to 20 box, or general alarms, and there were 37. still alarms. Nevada County Officials To Attend Tax Hearing County Supervisor. Frank Rowe, County Clerk R. N. McCormack and Asessor P. G. Scadden will attend the meeting called by Congressman Alfred J. Elliott, that opens tomorrow in the State Board of Equalization offices, 1020. N. Street, Sacramento. Elliott is conducting an investiga. tion of count tax problems arising from the acquisition of land by the federal government. Grass Valley High To Offer Course In Italian With Italy occupying a large space in news dispatches, the Grass Valley Board of Education has decided to offer a course in Italian when school convenes next Monday. ‘Mrs. Adeline Cassettari’ will teach Italian. She majored in this language and her master’s thesis was upon this subject. She also had a year of scholarship study in the University of Florence, Italy. In recent years she has taught Italian in the Gallieo and Commerce High Schools of San Francisco. St. Agnes Guild Enjoys Garden Meeting St. Agnes Guild held’ its .regular meeting ‘Thursday afternoon in the garden of its president, Mrs. Charles Parsons. i . Plans were discussed and made . for the fall meetings. Rev. C. Portpee gave the ladies an inspiring talk jconcerning our places in the various oa efforts and in the peace that ‘will follow. . A number of visitors were pres‘ent, and tea was served by Mrs. M. ‘Rector, Mrs. George Legg, Mrs. Dave Richards. Marysville Legal Firm To Defend Wing Earl Wing, electrician, 33 years of age, employed by the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company, who was fo have appeared yesterday before Justice of the Peace Charles Morehouse 6n a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minor, -has. obtained a postponement of the _ preliminary, hearing until September 24th. The complaint agaimst Wing was signed by Everett Newman, seaman in the U. S. Navy, who alleges his wife, 17 years old, was induced by King to live with him. Wing has employed the legal firm, Manwell and (Manwell of Marysville to defend him. The preliminary hearing has been postponed at .<their request. Information Against Archie Fairhold Filed District Attorney Ward Sheldon has an information in the superior court charging Archie (Baldy) Fairholm, with an attempt to burn the Sunset Club house, two miles west of Grass Valley on the Tahoe Ukiah Highway, on the night of August 14. The information alleges that the building is used both as a residence and a club house. Veda Fairholm, the defendant’s wife signed the complaint. In a preliminary examination before Justice’ of the Peace Charles Morehouse, Fairholm was held to ‘answer. Air Force Sergeant Weds Plane Factory Staff Worker Set. Theodore C. Stone, of Mather Field, Sacramento, and Miss Marline Hall, employed in the Lockheed Airplane Factory at Santa Manica, were married Friday evening at the home of Ellwood M. Stone, brother of the bridegroom,’ 327 Alexander street. The marriage service was read by Judge George L. Jones of the superis Minneapolis, Minn., and her husband formerly lived in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. -, Following a honeymoon at Lake Tahoe, Stoné will return. to Mather Field, and his bride to, her employment in°Santa Monica for a short time, after -which the couple will establish their home in Sacramento. ‘gan with a breakfast in ". stored DOVESTEWIS — SPORTSMENS BIG EVENT OF YEAR The Grass Valley Sportsmen Club gathered yesterday at Caséy Bros. ranch in Pern Valley for their dove stew. Members of the club on the first days of the open season had accumulated an abundant supply of the birds and put them in cold storage. The stew was served in mid afternoon, but the day’s festivities bethe late morning of steaks, bacon, eggs, liver, cantaloupes, tomatoes, hotcakes, rolls arfd coffee. pe Committees in charge of the event were: ; Stew—Jos. Perkins, John’ Bray, Harold Hutchinson, Paul Jenks, Bud ‘Johnson, David Richards, Lyle Cortez and John Nolan. Breakfast — Dick Goyne,. Andy Holmes, Jack Keegan, Ray Pengelley and Perey Carr. Games—Brownie Clemo, Abe Tick, Edward Lambretch, John Hathaway, Dr. Strickland, Frank Thurston. Gift—Roland Trathen, Fred McArthur, Robert Payne. (Music—Mike Ford,.George DeSoto, Harold Eldridge. : Refreshments—Charles Bell, Fred McArthur, Hoy Trathen, Abe Tick, (Clarence Briggs, Don Bluxome, Paul Viles,.Clarence Main. Table’ Committee—Barney ., Fiori, Andy Andrews, Bunce Nolan, P. A. Southern, Jerrold Seawell, T. W. Richards, John Miller. STATE CHAMBER TO ADVOCATE U.S. SALES TAX SACRAMENTO, Sept. 6.—Enactment of a federal retail sales tax, in preference to seeking additional federal revenues through increased’ individual or corporation income taxes, will be advocated by the California State Chamber of Commerce. The chamber’s attitude on this question was determined by its board of directors, in session here today, on recommendation of the state wide tax committee. a Sidney M. Bhrman, of San Francisco, chairman of the committee, pointed out to the: board that ‘by urging the enactment of a federal sales tax, enough revenue may be obtained to preclude the immediate necessity for increasing income taxes. The committee also agrees that this tax, limited to the duration of the war, would materially assist in retarding the inflationary forces now at work. CHILDREN MAY HAVE SET FIRES IN WILLOW VALLEY William Sharp, state fire warden, is making an investigation of three fires which occurred in Willow Valley, in one of which the old Willow Valley school house was burned. Sheriff Cart Tobiassen thinks there is evidence indicating the fires were set by children. The school house had been in disuse for many years and had been sold by the school board to Will Davis, a resident of Willow Valley, who had stored furniture and household effects in the building. Neighbors were able to save a small row boat in the building but everything else was ‘lost. WALTER MAILS TO SPEAK Staff Sergeant Walter Mails of the Marines f,ormerly a baseball player, will be the guest speaker in Grass Valley tomorrow evening at the Admission Day dinner of Manzanita Parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West complimenting Quartz Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West. Mails’ topic will be the recruiting drive inaugurated by the Marine Corps and Native Daughters of the Golden West, jointly, for enlistment of four platoons of USMC Women's Reserve. Members of the platoon are to be sworn in September 26th, Naiive Daughters Founders Day. . known ~ . ROADS SURVEYED FOR POSTWAR IMPROVEMENT The Nevada County Board of Sup‘ervisors meeting yesterday authorized County Surveyor Joseph F. O’‘Connor to make two road surveys in compliance with ‘the state law which provides counties with $5,000 for planning post-war road improvements. z ‘The survey is.to be made on the \Bridgeport road on both sides of the South Yuba River, and if this work is ultimately done, it will probably involve the replacement of the old covered bridge, one of the finest of its type in California. The supervisors yesterday expressed doubt whether replacement of the span could wait until war’s end. The other survey is of the Edwards Grade on the road to. North ‘Bloomfield. This is a steep winding road on the south bank of the South Yuba River gorge which has. long handicapped North Bloomfield’s traffic with the outside world. It is proposed if possible, to reduce this grade to 3 or 4 per cent. SOLDIERS’ WIVES HERE TO GET MATERNITY CARE will be care extended State Department .of Public Health to the wives of service men in certain classifications in Nevada, Placer and El] Dorado Counties.The service will be free, according to a bulletin issued by the department, to the wives of men in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades in the: Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. Infants, under one year, in these families is. also entitled to care in case of serious illness. Dr. Wilton L. Haverson, director of the department, states that this prenatal care, service at child birth, and infant care, is given to the families of service men in the lower paid brackets as a matter of right. not charity. This aid can be obtained through aghplications of physicians in charge of each case. CREW SALVAGING LAVA CAP MINE MATERIALS. A crew of 25 men is engaged in salvaging materials in the. Banner and Central shafts of the Lava Cap Gold Mining Corporation for use again, and ten mechanics and machin ists are busy on government contract work in the machine shops located at the Central Mine. . It is learned that Otto Schiffner, general manager of Lava Cap, is now centering all his forces upon extracting copper at the Keystone Mine, ‘Copperopolis, Calaveras County, Diamond drilling on the Scott ranch at the southern edge of Cainp_ Beale, where it was hoped to develop a zinc land lead deposit, has been abandoned for the time being and the miners there transferred to the Keystone. The manganese project, which Lava ‘Cap engineers prospected in Siskiyou County, near Fort Jones, was abandoned sometime since. Salvaged materials of the Lava Cap will be used in part in the Keystone, or stored for later use when the mine is permitted to re-open. Maternity by the John Farrell, Former Miner, Borne To Rest Funeral services under direction of the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary were held this morning at 9:30 o’clock for the late John Farrell, who passed away Friday night at a Grass Valley hospital. The services were held in St. Patrick’s Catholic (Church with Rev. William Horgan officiating. Interment was in the (Catholic Cemetery. The deceased was'a native of Missouri, 75 years of age. For a numper of years he had been retired -but was. formerly employed as a. mill man in Montana mines. He leaves no relatives. * {to those in the ond service CREDIT ASSN.TO AID FARMERS IN WAR BOND DRIVE Among the many forces being mustered to carry on the work of putting over the Third War Loan Drive in Nevada County. which opens September 9, and has for its goal the investment of fifteen billion dollars in the nation, will be the Feather River Production Credit Association. This cooperative’ short term credit ” organization, members of whom are. all farmers and stockmen, has been acting as an authorzed issuing agent for Series E War Savings Bonds for many months and is working on a. special program to encourage investments among its members and otheragricultural operators and interests. Since the coming War Loan Drive, is falling at the time of year when a good portion of farm income is‘ received, Roy E. Cassidy, SecretaryTreasurer of the association anticip-: ates heavy purchases of war bonds ‘by the growers of the county. Cassidy calls attention of all farmers and livestock men that the Feather River Production Credit Association is anxious to assume as much of the work involved in issuing the bonds as possible. He explains also that credit ‘on county and community quotas will be allocated according to the desire of the purchaser even though they may be bought. through the association and away from the investor’s home town. Machinery for this purpose has been arranged with the Federal Reserve Bank. Another point important to agri-: culture is the fact that all bonds procured through a production credit as-. sociation will be recognized as an investment from the agricultural industry. In the past, says Cassidy, it is evident many millions of dollars invested by farmers have lost their identity as to souree because: they have been purchased, in cities and, towns and not through an agricultural institution. In addition to the sale of War Sav-. ings 'Stamps and the actual issuance of Series E War Savings Bonds, the ‘Feather River Production’ Credit as; sociation will take orders and deliver Series F and G Bonds and Tax Savings Notes the same as. all other: types of financial institutions. The office address is Yuba City, California, and any farmer wishing to invest through a. strictly agricultural organization may do so either in person or by mail. SAILORS UNION HELPS HARVEST PEARS, PRUNES Obstacles in the way of the voy—' age of the National Maritime Union . into the Sonoma County harvest. fields last Sunday , were cleared . away, by the San Francisco Wartime. Harvest Council. ! After being located by the Agriultural Extension Service Farm. Labor Office in satisfactory places of . work, the Union found that transportation from San Francisco, Sono-. ma County was lacking. An appeal to’ the Farm’ Production Council soon remedied this situation and the expedition made an early departure. from the Union’s Drum Street headquarters on Sunday morning. c : . The Women’s Auxiliary of the* Union served as the commissary de-: partment for the voyage and prepared an ample supply of rationed andunrationed edibles for the ad de er pear and prune pickers. CIGARETTE TAGS ; The American Legion and Ameri~ — can Legion Auxiliary opened a cam= paign today to sell cigarette tags ‘to provide servicemen abroad with eigarettes. In Grass Valley and Nevada City, members of Hague-Thom Hegarty Post and the auxiliary al in charge, The drive will continu week. Cigarettes are to be sent

. The Nugget is delivered to’ your home twice a week for only 30 cents per “God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are ready to guard and defend it.”—Daniel Webster Nevada Gity ¢ ugget This paper gives your complete coverage of all local happenings. If you want to read about your friends, your neighbors, read month The Nugget. : oe COVERS. RICHEST GOLD AREA IN CALIFORNIA =a Vol. 17, ‘No. Lae The County Seat Paper ieee NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA _ a : _The'G Gold Center MONDAY, SEPT [EMBER 6, 1943. Thinking Out Loud SIX MONTH IN: JAIE FOR SPOT LIGHTING DEER BOONDOGGLING (By Edw. ©. Uren), Just a word that you won't find in the dictionary, but what a well chosen expression: it is. After the New Deal got to functioning in 1933 and the galaxy of professors of economics got out their slide rules and started to build up their graphs to decide how to improve on nature, and the 2700 inexperienced legal lights had vied with one another to regulate the forces of production and consumption, this word came into being. Literally it means ‘experimenting with silly ideas.”’ It was in 1933 that the first brilliant aggregation blossomed and fruited. Squads of white collared executioners who hardly knew one end of a gun from the other, radiated from the capital armed with guns, oodles of ammunition and fat check books and descended on the farms to kill off some five million little pigs, bury them in trenches as though they were a pestilence, and write the farmer a check for being an accessory to the crime. And it wasn’t so long afterward that ham and bacon, the principal ration of our western’ pioneers that sold retail here in 1879 for 11 cents a pound, were at a premium. Nowadays the only place you can see a ham is in the magazines. Our Vice President, Henry A. Wallace, the radical calliope who is now in the political dog house even with his own party after the disgraceful tilt .with Jesse Jones, was Secretary of Agriculture under the New Deal in 1933 and accepted full responsibility for the mor-bid ideas“of his.followers at that time. In a recent speech at Detroit he “We must turn away completely from scarcity economics. The little pigs did not die in vain. The fact that it was necessary to kill them gave the Ameritean public a complete and utter abhorrence of scarcity economics.”’ ‘ There was abhorrence all right among practically all of the people except the crack pots. Abhorrence of such an idea of idiotic waste and the creed that indulged it. Of the many people who either heard these remarks, or read them there probably wasn’t one in a thousand who was able to understand what this double talk meant. Only an economic Hinstein could. ‘An economist is one who is proficient in the science that treats of the production and distribution of wealth. _ What a clover patch this is for the communists, the radicals and the half-baked to browse in; and among them all a really successful business man is as rare'as an orchid in a patch of weeds. The Bill of Rights is one of the basic foundations of our democracy yet our vice president in Novemper, 1942, made a speech before the so-called Congress of Ameriecan-Soviet Friendship, an organization which numbered among its members extreme isolationists and others who, prior to: 1941, had picketed the White House and call, ed the president a war monger. ‘In this speech he said ‘‘Some in the U. S. believe that the Bill of Rights carried to form leads to rugged idvidualism, exploitation and even anarchy.”’ He stated that Russia had placed strong emphasis on ‘economic democracy.” And this in spite of the fact that every American high school boy knows that Russia is the most despotic government on earth and that Stalin has killed off some 300,000 intellectuals for fear that some of them might interfere with his dictatorship. The president has indicated plainly that he is through with Mr. Wallace, and in a. political way he has been futily trying to hold the Wallace head under water, only to have it bob up and blurp that ‘‘When this war is over ‘we are going to attend’to the corporatiohns and put them in their place.’”’? Well, maybe so Mr. Walsaid its extreme ) William G. Reed, a plaster foreman employed at the base hospital near Amburn, Saturday. morning pleaded guilty to hunting deer with a spot light before Justice of the (Peace Charles A. Morehouse. He was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in the. county jail. Reed was apprehended while using the spotlight attached to the battery of car, shortly after midnight in the vicinity of Lake ‘Combis, three miles south of Htggine Corner on the Grass Valléy-Auburn Highway. The arrest was made by Game Warden Earl Hiscox and Highway Patrolman Robert Steuber: Hiscox seized the spot light, a rifle, a box of ammunition and a hunting knife. The hunting knife indicated recent use. After some admitted he had killed-one deer, and as a result of an investigation of Reed’s premises on the Wolf road, a quantity of venison was found in his refrigerator. AVIATION WILL BE STRESSED IN PLACER JR. COL. Dean Harold E. Chastain of Placer Junior College announced this week special emphasis has been placed upon the courses at the college leading to army, navy, and marine corps }aviation. In. the first semester, opening September 20, courses in navigation, . meteorology, aircraft operation and + physical geography will be available. . All courses are to be taught by H. iW. Weaver a CPT instructor in the . ground school work. In a report on students from the } . college who have gone into aviation, Earl Crabbe, armed services representative on the campus, points out that students taking the courses right up to the time they are called to active: duty have a greater possibility of success than those who drop their studies for work or pleasure until they are called. Crabbe. states it is the policy of the college to allow .a semester's work for students called into aviaLtion service after they are ‘enrolled, providing they are. doing satisfactheir elementary training with either the army or navy. The navy trains ‘the marine corps flying men. “Any cadet now in the reserve can enroll at the Placer Junior College and be assured a semester of credit, irrespective of the date of his call,” said Crabbe. ready sworn in for this service’ can do college work, or they would not have passed the qualifying tests.” The courses at Placer are also recommended to 17 year old: youths who are contemplating aviation, but have not fully decided upon enlistments. : FIRE IN RELIEF HILL DISTRICT TIED UPFRIDAY Elwood Stone, chief dispatcher of the Tahoe National. ‘Forest states tfiat the big fire in the Relief Fgll section was completely under control Saturday morning. More than 300 soldiers were* on the fire lines all of Thursday night ‘and Friday. The fire was ‘‘tied up” during Thursday ‘night. and_ held within the lines throughout yesterday by the ‘fire fighting crews. Nevada City and Grass Valley, Stone said, have been drained of food supplies. Friday, afternoon an order came to the headquarters in Nevada City to send in 400 loaves of bread and other supplies in proportion to the camps of the fire fighters. lace, maybe so. Of course this kind of talk tickles the clo. and their goons and there are :loud’ huzzas and hand clapping every time the Wallace trap opens and closes. But if it hadn’t been for the business corporations built up by practical men, where would be bein this war effort today, I wonder? parley Reed tory work when called, and complete ! “We know the men alJior court. The bride’s home address Retiring Fire Chief Reports Small Fire Damage e« Carl G. Steger has rendered a report to the city council, of his administration as fire chief, which ended August 1st. During the year he states that the total fire loss sustained in the city was $2,335, of which $979 was covered by insurance. Members of the fire department responded to 20 box, or general alarms, and there were 37. still alarms. Nevada County Officials To Attend Tax Hearing County Supervisor. Frank Rowe, County Clerk R. N. McCormack and Asessor P. G. Scadden will attend the meeting called by Congressman Alfred J. Elliott, that opens tomorrow in the State Board of Equalization offices, 1020. N. Street, Sacramento. Elliott is conducting an investiga. tion of count tax problems arising from the acquisition of land by the federal government. Grass Valley High To Offer Course In Italian With Italy occupying a large space in news dispatches, the Grass Valley Board of Education has decided to offer a course in Italian when school convenes next Monday. ‘Mrs. Adeline Cassettari’ will teach Italian. She majored in this language and her master’s thesis was upon this subject. She also had a year of scholarship study in the University of Florence, Italy. In recent years she has taught Italian in the Gallieo and Commerce High Schools of San Francisco. St. Agnes Guild Enjoys Garden Meeting St. Agnes Guild held’ its .regular meeting ‘Thursday afternoon in the garden of its president, Mrs. Charles Parsons. i . Plans were discussed and made . for the fall meetings. Rev. C. Portpee gave the ladies an inspiring talk jconcerning our places in the various oa efforts and in the peace that ‘will follow. . A number of visitors were pres‘ent, and tea was served by Mrs. M. ‘Rector, Mrs. George Legg, Mrs. Dave Richards. Marysville Legal Firm To Defend Wing Earl Wing, electrician, 33 years of age, employed by the Pacific Gas and Blectric Company, who was fo have appeared yesterday before Justice of the Peace Charles Morehouse 6n a charge of contributing to the delinquency of minor, -has. obtained a postponement of the _ preliminary, hearing until September 24th. The complaint agaimst Wing was signed by Everett Newman, seaman in the U. S. Navy, who alleges his wife, 17 years old, was induced by King to live with him. Wing has employed the legal firm, Manwell and (Manwell of Marysville to defend him. The preliminary hearing has been postponed at .<their request. Information Against Archie Fairhold Filed District Attorney Ward Sheldon has an information in the superior

court charging Archie (Baldy) Fairholm, with an attempt to burn the Sunset Club house, two miles west of Grass Valley on the Tahoe Ukiah Highway, on the night of August 14. The information alleges that the building is used both as a residence and a club house. Veda Fairholm, the defendant’s wife signed the complaint. In a preliminary examination before Justice’ of the Peace Charles Morehouse, Fairholm was held to ‘answer. Air Force Sergeant Weds Plane Factory Staff Worker Set. Theodore C. Stone, of Mather Field, Sacramento, and Miss Marline Hall, employed in the Lockheed Airplane Factory at Santa Manica, were married Friday evening at the home of Ellwood M. Stone, brother of the bridegroom,’ 327 Alexander street. The marriage service was read by Judge George L. Jones of the superis Minneapolis, Minn., and her husband formerly lived in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County. -, Following a honeymoon at Lake Tahoe, Stoné will return. to Mather Field, and his bride to, her employment in°Santa Monica for a short time, after -which the couple will establish their home in Sacramento. ‘gan with a breakfast in ". stored DOVESTEWIS — SPORTSMENS BIG EVENT OF YEAR The Grass Valley Sportsmen Club gathered yesterday at Caséy Bros. ranch in Pern Valley for their dove stew. Members of the club on the first days of the open season had accumulated an abundant supply of the birds and put them in cold storage. The stew was served in mid afternoon, but the day’s festivities bethe late morning of steaks, bacon, eggs, liver, cantaloupes, tomatoes, hotcakes, rolls arfd coffee. pe Committees in charge of the event were: ; Stew—Jos. Perkins, John’ Bray, Harold Hutchinson, Paul Jenks, Bud ‘Johnson, David Richards, Lyle Cortez and John Nolan. Breakfast — Dick Goyne,. Andy Holmes, Jack Keegan, Ray Pengelley and Perey Carr. Games—Brownie Clemo, Abe Tick, Edward Lambretch, John Hathaway, Dr. Strickland, Frank Thurston. Gift—Roland Trathen, Fred McArthur, Robert Payne. (Music—Mike Ford,.George DeSoto, Harold Eldridge. : Refreshments—Charles Bell, Fred McArthur, Hoy Trathen, Abe Tick, (Clarence Briggs, Don Bluxome, Paul Viles,.Clarence Main. Table’ Committee—Barney ., Fiori, Andy Andrews, Bunce Nolan, P. A. Southern, Jerrold Seawell, T. W. Richards, John Miller. STATE CHAMBER TO ADVOCATE U.S. SALES TAX SACRAMENTO, Sept. 6.—Enactment of a federal retail sales tax, in preference to seeking additional federal revenues through increased’ individual or corporation income taxes, will be advocated by the California State Chamber of Commerce. The chamber’s attitude on this question was determined by its board of directors, in session here today, on recommendation of the state wide tax committee. a Sidney M. Bhrman, of San Francisco, chairman of the committee, pointed out to the: board that ‘by urging the enactment of a federal sales tax, enough revenue may be obtained to preclude the immediate necessity for increasing income taxes. The committee also agrees that this tax, limited to the duration of the war, would materially assist in retarding the inflationary forces now at work. CHILDREN MAY HAVE SET FIRES IN WILLOW VALLEY William Sharp, state fire warden, is making an investigation of three fires which occurred in Willow Valley, in one of which the old Willow Valley school house was burned. Sheriff Cart Tobiassen thinks there is evidence indicating the fires were set by children. The school house had been in disuse for many years and had been sold by the school board to Will Davis, a resident of Willow Valley, who had stored furniture and household effects in the building. Neighbors were able to save a small row boat in the building but everything else was ‘lost. WALTER MAILS TO SPEAK Staff Sergeant Walter Mails of the Marines f,ormerly a baseball player, will be the guest speaker in Grass Valley tomorrow evening at the Admission Day dinner of Manzanita Parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West complimenting Quartz Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West. Mails’ topic will be the recruiting drive inaugurated by the Marine Corps and Native Daughters of the Golden West, jointly, for enlistment of four platoons of USMC Women's Reserve. Members of the platoon are to be sworn in September 26th, Naiive Daughters Founders Day. . known ~ . ROADS SURVEYED FOR POSTWAR IMPROVEMENT The Nevada County Board of Sup‘ervisors meeting yesterday authorized County Surveyor Joseph F. O’‘Connor to make two road surveys in compliance with ‘the state law which provides counties with $5,000 for planning post-war road improvements. z ‘The survey is.to be made on the \Bridgeport road on both sides of the South Yuba River, and if this work is ultimately done, it will probably involve the replacement of the old covered bridge, one of the finest of its type in California. The supervisors yesterday expressed doubt whether replacement of the span could wait until war’s end. The other survey is of the Edwards Grade on the road to. North ‘Bloomfield. This is a steep winding road on the south bank of the South Yuba River gorge which has. long handicapped North Bloomfield’s traffic with the outside world. It is proposed if possible, to reduce this grade to 3 or 4 per cent. SOLDIERS’ WIVES HERE TO GET MATERNITY CARE will be care extended State Department .of Public Health to the wives of service men in certain classifications in Nevada, Placer and El] Dorado Counties.The service will be free, according to a bulletin issued by the department, to the wives of men in the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades in the: Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. Infants, under one year, in these families is. also entitled to care in case of serious illness. Dr. Wilton L. Haverson, director of the department, states that this prenatal care, service at child birth, and infant care, is given to the families of service men in the lower paid brackets as a matter of right. not charity. This aid can be obtained through aghplications of physicians in charge of each case. CREW SALVAGING LAVA CAP MINE MATERIALS. A crew of 25 men is engaged in salvaging materials in the. Banner and Central shafts of the Lava Cap Gold Mining Corporation for use again, and ten mechanics and machin ists are busy on government contract work in the machine shops located at the Central Mine. . It is learned that Otto Schiffner, general manager of Lava Cap, is now centering all his forces upon extracting copper at the Keystone Mine, ‘Copperopolis, Calaveras County, Diamond drilling on the Scott ranch at the southern edge of Cainp_ Beale, where it was hoped to develop a zinc land lead deposit, has been abandoned for the time being and the miners there transferred to the Keystone. The manganese project, which Lava ‘Cap engineers prospected in Siskiyou County, near Fort Jones, was abandoned sometime since. Salvaged materials of the Lava Cap will be used in part in the Keystone, or stored for later use when the mine is permitted to re-open. Maternity by the John Farrell, Former Miner, Borne To Rest Funeral services under direction of the Hooper and Weaver Mortuary were held this morning at 9:30 o’clock for the late John Farrell, who passed away Friday night at a Grass Valley hospital. The services were held in St. Patrick’s Catholic (Church with Rev. William Horgan officiating. Interment was in the (Catholic Cemetery. The deceased was'a native of Missouri, 75 years of age. For a numper of years he had been retired -but was. formerly employed as a. mill man in Montana mines. He leaves no relatives. * {to those in the ond service CREDIT ASSN.TO AID FARMERS IN WAR BOND DRIVE Among the many forces being mustered to carry on the work of putting over the Third War Loan Drive in Nevada County. which opens September 9, and has for its goal the investment of fifteen billion dollars in the nation, will be the Feather River Production Credit Association. This cooperative’ short term credit ” organization, members of whom are. all farmers and stockmen, has been acting as an authorzed issuing agent for Series E War Savings Bonds for many months and is working on a. special program to encourage investments among its members and otheragricultural operators and interests. Since the coming War Loan Drive, is falling at the time of year when a good portion of farm income is‘ received, Roy E. Cassidy, SecretaryTreasurer of the association anticip-: ates heavy purchases of war bonds ‘by the growers of the county. Cassidy calls attention of all farmers and livestock men that the Feather River Production Credit Association is anxious to assume as much of the work involved in issuing the bonds as possible. He explains also that credit ‘on county and community quotas will be allocated according to the desire of the purchaser even though they may be bought. through the association and away from the investor’s home town. Machinery for this purpose has been arranged with the Federal Reserve Bank. Another point important to agri-: culture is the fact that all bonds procured through a production credit as-. sociation will be recognized as an investment from the agricultural industry. In the past, says Cassidy, it is evident many millions of dollars invested by farmers have lost their identity as to souree because: they have been purchased, in cities and, towns and not through an agricultural institution. In addition to the sale of War Sav-. ings 'Stamps and the actual issuance of Series E War Savings Bonds, the ‘Feather River Production’ Credit as; sociation will take orders and deliver Series F and G Bonds and Tax Savings Notes the same as. all other: types of financial institutions. The office address is Yuba City, California, and any farmer wishing to invest through a. strictly agricultural organization may do so either in person or by mail. SAILORS UNION HELPS HARVEST PEARS, PRUNES Obstacles in the way of the voy—' age of the National Maritime Union . into the Sonoma County harvest. fields last Sunday , were cleared . away, by the San Francisco Wartime. Harvest Council. ! After being located by the Agriultural Extension Service Farm. Labor Office in satisfactory places of . work, the Union found that transportation from San Francisco, Sono-. ma County was lacking. An appeal to’ the Farm’ Production Council soon remedied this situation and the expedition made an early departure. from the Union’s Drum Street headquarters on Sunday morning. c : . The Women’s Auxiliary of the* Union served as the commissary de-: partment for the voyage and prepared an ample supply of rationed andunrationed edibles for the ad de er pear and prune pickers. CIGARETTE TAGS ; The American Legion and Ameri~ — can Legion Auxiliary opened a cam= paign today to sell cigarette tags ‘to provide servicemen abroad with eigarettes. In Grass Valley and Nevada City, members of Hague-Thom Hegarty Post and the auxiliary al in charge, The drive will continu week. Cigarettes are to be sent