Biggest fish story of all in Snaps section
Patsy House reads a year-old Daily Independent unaware of her presence in Snaps. James and Matin Emerson return from a week fishing in Jackson Hole Wyoming without a sunburn. City Clerk Jack Crandell shows a badly sunburned face amid jokes of another trip. Mrs Harry Morrison treats a girl to sour grapes and notes her generosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eis el “Deapes
Lester ‘Barris
Eldon Veach
Jack Crandell
Harry Morrison
Hollywood director arraignment on morals charges
Gustave Meins 47, Hollywood director, was to be arraigned this afternoon on morals charges involving six boys aged 10 to 15. Relatives and heat prompted Herbert Mace to answer census questions and he was released from county jail.
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Gustave
Gus) Meins
Herbert S. Mace
Arcadia
Los Angeles
City Dons Gala Garb for Trade Event Saturday
Corona merchants decorate fronts for Saturday Dollar Day and a daylong shopper program. A pet parade at 10 am features John Cubley Dunkerettes and a baton corps with music by Lamb and Jackson. Prizes will be awarded by five women judges. An 8 pm Dollar Day program at the First National Bank includes car and merchandise bargains and a Corona theatre music program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corona
John Cubley
Thelma Smith
Bobbie Jean Beaver
Mary Elroy
Dorothy Moore
Sherry Smith
Tessie Wood
Donald Lamb
Lee Jackson
Phillip Legati
Robert Bickhart
Earl “Mann
Lamb
Kenneth Fare
Frank E. Bishop
William C. Henning
Wiliam A. Kilby
Georgia Belleden
Juanita Weddington
First National Bank
Corona Theatre
Joe Copley
Dan Huckins
Russell Bartine
Three Riverside County Cities Gain in Census Tabulations
Preliminary census figures show gains for Elsinore Hemet and San Jacinto in Riverside County. Corona remains at 8784, up 1766 from 1930, with further transient listings awaited from the spring enumeration. Officials say final numbers await Census Bureau release in Washington.
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Elsinore
Hemet
San Jacinto
Riverside
Lon V. Seiglar
Ninetenth
Census Bureau
Washington
Citizens Bank Marks 53rd Anniversary in Corona
Citizens Bank of Corona observes its 53rd anniversary, tracing back to 1887. The bank reports capital stock equal to its surplus at 50 000 dollars, with current officers including T C Jameson president and George E Snidecor cashier.
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Citizens Bank of
Corona
Pioneer Bank
R. B.taylor
H. R. Woodall
T. C. Jameson
Fred E. Snedecor
George E. Snidecor
Hilbert Marzinke
Citizens Bank
First National Bank of
Building Permits Reach $151 827
July permits totaled 11 800 boosting year to date to 151 827 in the city’s monthly report from Building Inspector W O Kershner. Seven month total fell 20 835 50 from 172 162 50 in 1939 with 72 permits issued in July including two new residences and a 2700 remodeling project at the Paul Gleason building.
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Lst
Palm Avenue
Richard Smith
West Tenth Street
James T. Stipes
Paul Gleason
Sixth
Main Streets
Cunning ‘Drug
81 Foreign Agents Held in Canal Zone
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced 81 foreign agents are detained in the Canal Zone for illegal entry. They are held at immigration stations awaiting deportation or other disposition.
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Canal Zone
Washington
War
Henry L. Stimson
Stimson
Senate Delays Burke Wadsworth Conscription Action
Washington reports the Senate Military Affairs Committee postponed final action on the Burke Wadsworth conscription bill amid growing support to limit immediate deployment to one million men. A heat relief note from Chicago follows with a deadly heat wave and crop damage cited. Molotov warns of war spreading to the Western Hemisphere as he addresses the Russian congress. Cotton outlook remains uncertain per Agriculture Department notes.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Molotov
Moscow
Viacheslav M. Molotov
England
United States
Heavy Rail Pierces Wrecked Car But Misses Occupants
A car wreck on the Santa Ana canyon highway west of Corona left three passengers injured. William M. Walker 20 of San Bernardino survived when a rail mounted on a gate pierced the car but did not strike him or two brothers riding with him. Jeanne Lyman 11 suffered cuts and bruises in a separate Anaheim incident. Mrs. Adam Ulm driving another car near Orange allegedly failed to stop, injuring the Lyman family who were treated and released.
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William M. Walker
Berkeley Street
San Bernardino
Santa Ana Canyon Highway
Corona
Walker
George Baker
Fresno
Santa Fe
Jeanne Lyman
Lee N. Lyman
East Ninth Street
Anaheim
Adam Ulm
South Pomona
Brea
Lyman
Orange
Ulm
Harvard
Orange County Hospital
Lymans
Fullerton Cottage Hospital
W. A. Cropper
Flynn Named Farley Successor as Democratic Chairman
Edward J. Flynn of New York was chosen to chair the Democratic National Committee succeeding Postmaster General James A. Farley. Farley will resign his committee post and cabinet seat on August 17 ending the Roosevelt Farley Garner alliance. The selection followed talks with President Roosevelt Secretary Henry A. Wallace and six committee members.
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Washington
Edward J. Flynn
New York
Democratic National Committee
James A. Farley
Flynn
New Yorker
Farley
Roosevelt
Farley, Garner & Co
Sect. of Agriculture
Henry__A. Wallace
National Committee
New Ramona Precinct Created For County Primary
The board of supervisors ordered a new Ramona precinct forming 176 voting districts for the August 27 primary. County Clerk G A Pequegnat notes the precinct merges part of Diamond precinct and lies next to Little Lake, named after Ramona with ties to Hemet valley.
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Ramona
Board of Supervisors
G. A. Pequegnat
Diamond
Little Lake
Hemet Valley
Pequegnat
Lindsey Appointed Head of Whittier Quiz Committee
Los Angeles Judge Ben B Lindsey was named to lead a three member panel to oversee a state inquiry into conditions at the Whittier State School for Boys after two suicides in the last year. Governor Olson also announced changes to the school’s board of trustees including new appointees Walter Schuelke and Merton C Wrey, noting prior appointments lacked senate confirmation.
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Los Angeles
Ben B. Lindsey
Eminent Juvenile Authority
Whittier State School For Boys
Culbert L
Olson
Lindsey
Walter Schuelke
Merton C. Wrey
Whittier
Rex B. Kennedy
O'Dwyer
Kennedy
State Senate
Elmer Murphy
Olgon
Rotarians to Hear Service Program at Kinney Hotel
Rotary club members will attend a noon luncheon tomorrow at the Kinney hotel. The Rev Daniel Hogan will chair the program and lead the day’s service committee activities.
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Daniel Hogan
International Service Committee
Rotary Club
Kinney Hotel
Mr. Hogan
Japan Announces New Order Plan
Tokyo reports a long planned foreign policy shift toward a greater East Asia with Japan China and Manchukuo as core. The Konoye government pledges cooperation with army and navy while seeking a broad sphere of influence and settlement of the China war. the navy spokesman condemns the US gasoline embargo as an anti Japan act.
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Tokyo
Japan
East Asia
China
Manchukuo
Netherlands East Indies
Aasia
Germany
Italy
Fumimaro Konoye
Yuzuru Okuma
Navy
United States
Candidates address Bourbon County Council session
Ten of fourteen invited speakers appeared at the River side County Democratic council meeting held in the Knights of Pythias hall in Riverside. United States congressman hopefuls N. E. West and W. L. Gleason joined state and county candidates, with questions from the audience and plans for an August 14 follow up in Riverside.
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Riverside County Democratic Council
Knights of Pythias Hall
Riverside
United States
N. E. West
Orange County
W. L. Gleason
Harry Sheppard
State Senate
Assembly
Stanley W. Garvey
Council
Knights of Pything
Britain imposes Atlantic blockade to Europe bound ships
Britain orders a strict Atlantic blockade from the Arctic to the Atlantic coast. Naval vessels will halt ships bound to or from Europe and check navicert cargo certifications at departure ports. The policy labels Germany and Italy as enemies and allows British ports to deny service to noncompliant ships. British air and coastal defense engagements report German planes shot down and others attacking southeast England.
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London
U.P
Great Britain
Atlantic
Arctic Circle
Afsijyy
Europe
Ministry of Shipping
Germany
Italy
Air ‘Ministry
England
Verg
Wales
Human Element Blamed In Fateful Train Wreck
In Cuyahoga Falls Ohio the head on collision between a doodle bug self propelled car and a double header freight killed 43 to 46 passengers. Officials cite human error for the fatal crash prompting investigations by Pennsylvania Railroad and the Interstate Commerce Commission. Coroner adds two more deaths and 35 bodies identified. A previous rail disaster in Little Falls, New York, is noted.
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Cuyahoga Falls
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
E. W. Smith
Pennsylvania
Hudson
Akron
Pergang
R. EH. Amos
Eva George
New York Central
Little Falls
N. Y
Rubinow forecasts drastic cut in relief fund
State Relief Administrator Rubinow told the State Relief Commission that aid expenditures must be cut by about 48.6 percent by August 15 unless additional funds are provided for the current quarter. He opened a hearing on the relief fund situation and warned of the steep cut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
G. Rubinow
State Relief Commission
Rubinow
German Air Fleet Presses Defense Amid British Port Bombardment
Berlin dispatch reports Germany states its elite air force maintains defense lines while admitting renewed British counter actions, including bombardment of southern British ports and ongoing attacks on shipping. The high command warns of intensified aerial and naval operations to tighten the blockade as Dover remains a key focal point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Germany
Italy
Hanover
Gren
Dover
Opporl
Year 88 Commitments To Institutions In Riverside County
Riverside County Superior Court committed 88 persons to state institutions during 1939 40. E J Bik reports 107 cases with 19 dismissals including feeble minded drug habitues inebriates and the criminal insane. Of the total 85 women and 3 men were sent to Camarillo Mendocino and Sawtelle hospitals and Pacific Coast for feeble minded minors.
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Yea
Riverside County Superior Oor
Cary
Mendocino State Hospital
Federal Hospital
Sawtelle
Pacific Colelt
Dollar Day Ads Boost Corona Store Bargains
Hundreds of merchandise bargains are showcased in Corona ads for Dollar Day Saturday. Local merchants highlight wide ranges of goods and outstanding values as crowds and out of town shoppers are expected to visit the city.
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Corona
Corona Merchant
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