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Newspaper
Corona Daily Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1945
Page
1
An essay style meditation on favorite words like despite intimate and waste. The narrator recalls high school book phrases and personal associations, then shifts to humorous asides about family life and a child’s egg at lunch. The piece reflects on language, memory, and daily domestic chores.
Funeral services will be held at 11 30 am Monday June 4 for George E Carlsten 37 who died Wednesday at his home in Corona. The services are at the Wee Kirk o the Heather Forest Lawn cemetery Glendale with Forest Lawn Mortuary in charge. The Caristens lived in Verdugo
Marilyn Root and Josephine Magagnose receive University of Redlands scholarships after strong showing in March entrance exams. Root earned a four year $700 award with music major plans. Magagnose won a $1000 career scholarship and aims for commercial art. Over 300 students took the test. awards went to about ten percent.
Corona campaign leaders plan a June 10 barbecue at County Supervisor Clarence A. Steves Bar 22 rancho as part of the war bonds effort. Volunteers and bond buyers, with OPA rules in mind, will be guests and enjoy beef barbecue while Corona pursues strong bond purchases in Southern California. Hawaiian prom at Corona High School featured a Navy Hospital quintet, with grass skirts and a dancing mishap. Community discussions at the firemen’s club focus on Fiesta Week parade plans amid youth recreation debates.
Lt Col James C Stewart of Corona receive an oak leaf cluster to the Distinguished Flying Cross from Col Jesse Auton after 30 fighter missions over Europe and two enemy aircraft destroyed. He previously earned the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters and the DFC. Stewart, 25, led a Thunderbolt squadron on a Berlin raid destroying a Focke-Wulf 190 and a Messerschmitt 110. He is the son of Mr and Mrs C D Stewart.
In Montana eastern district a first congressional election since President Truman took office pits Democrat Leo C. Graybill against Republican Wesley A. D'Ewart and independent Robert Yellowtail as a possible first full blooded Indian congressman. Socialist E Spriggs also runs in the four candidate race.
Rev Daniel Hogan will give the sermon Investment of Influence at the baccalaureate for the class of 1945 on Sunday June 3 at the Congregational church. A pagan prelude by Mrs Lois Krall opens the service with The Grand March as the class pro cessional.
The wartime record emphasizes labor rights to fair share and non favoritism among unions. It condemns irresponsible strike leaders while urging unity and adherence to contracts to prevent undermining the war effort. Official statements cite strikes’ limited manpower impact but condemn coal disruptions.
Word from Lt. John Norton that he will be home soon to spend time with his wife mother daughter Karen and six months old Kathleen whom he has never seen. Norton is a navigator on a B 24 overseas for six months. The family resides at 208 S KE Grand Blvd.
San Francisco dispatch reports France using force to extract concessions from Syria and Lebanon. The action intensifies revolts against Big Five domination of a proposed world league to keep peace. Britain's intervention, with U S approval, underscores the Near Eastern crisis looming over UN talks.
Syrian sources put deaths at about 400 after fighting between French forces and irregulars in Damascus and Hama. Churchill ordered Levant intervention to prevent bloodshed, while De Gaulle approved a cease fire in principle as French reinforcements arrived. Britain conveyed instructions to the French commander not to oppose Allied aims. Arab states expressed sympathy and the Arab League prepared to meet. De Gaulle reportedly furious. cabinet debated withdrawal.
Washington expects to meet Britain and France soon in London to seek a satisfactory Syria and Lebanon agreement. A final accord may halt the Levant conflict whose stalemate has pressured the San Francisco conference and provoked Anglo American intervention. General de Gaulle is anticipated to agree, with Syria and Lebanon to be drawn into the settlement.
American troops closed the Okinawa defense line and encircled about 1000 Japanese in Shuri as two new Marine divisions reinforced the push against 20000 retreating Japanese. In Osaka 3200 tons of incendiaries were dropped by 460 American bombers with 150 fighters. Eden said Paris ordered Syria to cease fire. Lend lease meat shipments are halted for three months starting in July.
A witness testified in Ahrweiler Germany that German civilians shot and beat an American airman to death after he parachuted from a crippled bomber last August. The case centers on the murder of three Germans and the assault on the airman in the Reich.
Osaka Japan, described as the nations industrial center, faced a massive air assault by 600 B-29s and escort fighters dropping fire bombs. Fire swept shipyards steel mills and refineries as vast conflagrations erupted across eight square miles. Tokyo reported the attack as part of a nine day wave of strikes with Radio Tokyo listing targets and casualty-free details.
Sacramento lawmakers plan a senate hearing on a bill to set a midnight liquor curfew. The Assembly passed the measure with 6 am to midnight tavern hours, with amendments proposed to 8 am to midnight six days a week and 1 am Saturdays.
Community urged to buy war bonds to support service members at home and abroad amid wartime mobilization. Officials stress bond sales fund equipment, training, and national defense, calling on citizens to participate.
Kenneth Stanley Roof a 19 year old radarman third class from Corona was listed as missing in action in the South Pacific after overseas service of 16 months. Parents Mr and Mrs Herald Roof received the telegram noting no ship or location could be disclosed.
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