World News Roundup Reflects Global Tensions and Local Events
The world sees warnings from Japan's war office and Churchill calls neutral nations to join the Allied war effort. Reports note German pockets saved by clothing design, Finland Finland Finnish. Russia–Sweden–Norway tensions, Romania Balkan talks, and Gandhi on Indian demands. US relief, economic debates, Borah’s death, and wartime measures shape a busy national scene alongside California local notes on fires, aviation, and civic events.
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Japanese War Office
United States
Pacific
Germany
Russia
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
America
Finland
Poland
Canton
China
French Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Rumania
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Lord Linlithgrow
India
Lake Ladoga
France
Local church services and schedules in Wasco area
Union Congregational Church and First Mennonite Church outline sermons German language and English Bible readings. Christian Endeavor meetings and youth discussions planned. Mennonite Brethren present German services with "The Prodigal Son" sermon. St John’s Catholic Church lists masses confessions and weekday prayers. Christian Science Society details services and Sunday school times.
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Union Congregational Church
Alfred T. Chandler
Plymouth House
Harold Porterfield
McFarland
First
Mennonite Church
J. J. Esau
God
Mr. Esau
Jesus
Mennonite Brethren Church
Kern
H. D. Wiebe
America
Christian Fellowship
St. John’s Catholic Church
9Th and Broadway Streets
Wasco
Calif
Owen McMullan
Christian Science — Christian Science Society
Mother Church
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Bas
Massachusetts
Si and
E Streets
Trustees Association Meeting Set for Taft February Second
The Kern County Trustees association will hold a Friday February 2 meeting at 6 30 PM in Taft Union High cafeteria. B F Stinson and Ray Ines share planning duties. Florence Porter will speak on California Trustees association school problems. Leo Hart discusses Developing An Educational Program and Bernard Ely reports on a county financial survey. Dr Thomas L Nelson will cover the six four four plan and trustees may ask questions
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Kern County Trustees Association
Taft Union High School
B. F. Stinson
Ray Ines
Florence Porter
California Trustees Association
Leo. B. Hart
Bernard Ely
Thomas L. Nelson
Kern County Union High School
Ques
Woman coughs up long lodged tack after 23 years
In Arlington Texas Lorraine Ward now Mrs Eugene Ward recalls swallowing a car tack as an infant. A coughing spell brought the tack up into her mouth revealing it had been lodged in her lung since infancy.
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Arlington
Texas
Lorraine
Coats
Eugene Ward
Immigrant Mario Ezzo Given Decent Burial in Aliquippa
In Aliquippa Pennsylvania steel town residents honor Mario Ezzo a 63 year old Italian immigrant who died after his bathrobe caught fire in the county home His body was moved from a potter's field to a marked grave at St Joseph's cemetery funded by local steel workers and families A seven hundred strong procession with choir and rosary heard an epitaph noting You see they give me money to live it makes my bread taste sweeter I am a man
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Aliquippa
Ohio Valley
Mario Ezzo
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Potter's Field
Mario
Aliquippa Steel
Ezza
Arrested Driver Found To Be Blind Pensioner
In San Jose California a drunken driving arrest led to a search of the suspect and his brother, both found to receive state blind aid pensions. The officers revoked the driving license because the man held a license while receiving blindness benefits, an apparent inconsistency.
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Frank C. Jordan
California
Angelo Rossi
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Tulare
San Jose
Calif
Mirror Battling Bird Triumphs After 14 Days
TULARE CALIF Eddie the battling housefindh is hailed as a local champion after a 14 day fight with his own reflection in a newspaper office window. He pecked the glass daily until the fifteenth day when the other bird failed to appear, possibly deterred by soap on the pane.
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Tulare
Calif
Eddie
Falls Down Elevator Well in Hotel Blumenkranz Mishap
In Long Beach John Perilla slipped through an open shaft door and fell one story to the bottom. His fall was cushioned by the body of fellow employee Charles Atman, who apparently had died in a prior elevator accident.
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New York
John Perilla
Blumenkranz Murida
Long Beach
Perilla
Charles Atman
Prisoners in Montana Jail Really Get Tough
In Dillon Montana Joe and Buck Wilder were jailed for disorderly conduct after pulling a steam radiator and wrecking doors windows and walls. They pleaded guilty to malicious destruction of property and received 90 days in the county jail.
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Dillon
Mont
Ferdinand
Joe
Buck Wilder
Bank of America Christmas Club enrollments hit all time high
Bank of America reports record Christmas club enrollments surpassing 265000 with a forecast near 280000 by month end. Giannini notes weekly payments up 30 percent from last year signaling broad popularity across California as deposits rise ahead of December checks.
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Bank of America
L. M. Giannini
Giannini
California
Tips Barbers Rally to Beat Central Market
Tips Barbers edged Central Market in a tight city league game with the lead trading hands in the final three and a half minutes. The victory shook up the standings as Tips Barbers moved ahead of Central Market into the top spot.
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Central
Barbers
Nikkel
Tips Barbers
Central Market
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