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Newspaper
Corona Daily Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1945
Page
1
A rambling column mixes personal notes on Father’s Day gifts and family life with humor about margins on a shared typewriter. It includes quirky asides on slang, ad verse poetry, fashion jokes, and plans for visiting California, ending with stock averages and market activity for the day.
Corona Chamber of Commerce discussed improving transportation including a four lane city highway, new roads on Ontario Avenue and Magnolia, an overhead rail over Santa Fe tracks, and better freight and rail services. Bus schedules to Los Angeles urged for frequent printing. band concerts invited weekly. six month report noted 160 members and housing quota. Gordon Miter featured as guest, new town shop partner.
Dear Professor explains Bazooka impact on enemy forces. Ans asserts the weapon causes fatal burns and crucial openings, noting its dramatic effects on morale and battlefield outcomes.
A Korean sublieutenant who deserted Japanese forces testified he witnessed the bayonet killing of 154 Allied prisoners at a camp near Zentsuji Shikoku island on April 26, 1944. About 220 Japanese troops participated. prisoners were tied to wooden crosses as officers urged executions. The killings continued until 5 p.m. with camp officers present.
Radio Tokyo reported new Allied bombardments on Balikpapan in Borneo and landings on Ternate in the Moluccas. In northern Luzon the 87th division neared Tuguegarao while guerrillas engaged Japanese counterattacks. MacArthur said 20,000 Japanese troops were trapped between American and airborne forces. Australian dispatches cited Mount Taraki seized in New Guinea’s Wewak campaign.
A Riverside meeting of the County Housing Authority discussed postwar housing needs. A. L. Blakeley reported substandard Corona homes over 30 percent with poor sanitation and dirt floors. India's 35 prefabricated houses may cost 99 583. approvals needed from San Francisco. Nearby cities request hundreds of homes. Corona priorities apartments for service families with the hospital in town.
Washington reports Seventh War Loan bond purchases push total beyond 20 billion dollars with a drive target of 14 billion. Secretary Morgenthau predicts the 21.6 billion Sixth War Loan record may be broken as outside Corona donations include Riverside County 21 thousand and major firms such as Santa Fe Railroad 40 thousand and Standard Oil of California 10 thousand.
A car carrying seven children skidded 144 feet, plummeted over an embankment and turned five times near Lewiston Montana. One child named Nane was killed and the others were left injured in the dramatic crash.
President Truman, in a major foreign policy address, tells diplomats of the United Nations that their duty in peace will exceed their wartime role. He spoke at the UN conference in San Francisco after a reception marked by confetti and cheers.
Representatives from all 60 nations unanimously adopt the charter at the United Nations conference in San Francisco. The document aims to establish a new international organization to foster peace amid ongoing global conflict.
Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana said there will be no organized Senate fight against ratification of the San Francisco charter. He noted that as far as he is concerned there will be no organized opposition in the Senate. The remark comes as Senate debate on the charter moves forward.
President Truman, in San Francisco, congratulated Admiral Nimitz at the Fairmont hotel suite on his long series of naval victories against Japanese forces in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. The call came during the closing session of the United Nations conference.
The reconversion feud between rival unions and management sparks mass job losses with almost 100000 idle and 20000 preparing to strike. Detroit labor unrest threatens a total war output shutdown with Ford warning plant closures after two days of walkouts amid nationwide plant actions.
Seven armed, unmasked bandits robbed the S. S. Business Men's club in Santa Monica Ocean Park before dawn. They took about $30,000 in cash and valuables from 50 guests and employees lined up against the wall. Patrolman Lemer Locker saw the escape as a dozen men fled shouting I wuz robbed.
The House approved a war appropriations measure setting Army funding at 38.5 billion dollars to fight Japan in the coming year, sending the bill to the Senate for consideration.
The Corona Independent urges readers to buy War Bonds now, promising a $4 return for every $3 stored, framing bonds as wartime support and future peace financing. It notes scarce goods and urges action to defeat the Japs, with peacetime relevance ten years hence.
The bill passed by voice vote from July 1 would raise the overall war-related appropriation to roughly 410 billion dollars, increasing the total Congress has made available for wartime needs.
Washington reports Economic Administrator T. Crowley told a Senate subcommittee that Germany’s war-making capacity remains tremendous despite Allied bombing. He warned the Allies must plan long term occupation and strict industrial control to prevent a future threat, noting bombing did not ruin Germany’s plants but disrupted raw materials and fuel flows.
On Okinawa the report states no American prisoners of war have been found. Troops searched captured enemy garrisons airfields and hospitals but found no trace of missing in action soldiers. Army authorities say no Japanese POW notifications were received and conclude Americans often fought to the death or were killed when surrounded.
Unanimous approval of a charter for a world security organization by delegates at San Francisco. President Truman to deliver farewell address to the conference tonight. Reports from Tokyo claim American air strikes against Japan and minesweeper activity near Balikpapan.
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