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...Pasadena, Calif...
Caution. In Pasadena, William C. Smith, 75, and Jennie E. Renslow, 72, applied for a marriage license on the soth anniversary of their engagement. In High Point, N.C., a jury awarded a divorce to an 83-year-old man who had been separated from his wife for 26 years. He said he wanted to be free...
...Pasadena's Rose Bowl looked like a second-hand auto park. In the chill dawn, 140 battered cars and sagging trucks huddled, piled high with furniture, bundles, gardening tools. At 6:30 a.m. they chuffed and spluttered, wheeled into line, and started rolling. Led by a goggled policeman on a motorcycle, a jeep and three command cars full of newsmen, they headed for the dark, towering mountains to the east...
...Kendall, a refugee-wise consulting mining engineer from Pasadena, turned up in Chungking with a story of how Hong Kong's 1,500 American residents boldly tried to stem the Japanese onrush. His best story by far was that of Dr. S. C. Moulthan, who loaded a motorcycle sidecar with guncotton, scooted off to the water front, there blew up two large ships to block Hong Kong harbor and scuttled 30 to 40 smaller craft...
Died. George Ashley Tomlinson, 76, burly Great Lakes shipping tycoon, short-time president of the Van Sweringen rail empire's top holding company, onetime Wild West show performer; of a paralytic stroke; in Pasadena. When the Van Sweringens faced loss of control of their $3,000,000,000 rail and real-estate properties in 1935, Tomlinson and Glassmaker George A. Ball made them needed loans, and Tomlinson became president and chairman of the Van Sweringen holding company, Allegheny Corp., in 1938. He resigned the next year, but retained the chairmanship of the Pere Marquette...