Soviet Russia Declares Advance Toward Democracy
Moscow reports an evolving system with direct and indirect voting for two Parliament like bodies under a new constitution. It outlines universal adult suffrage with restrictions for specific groups and a 31 member board holding top state powers.
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Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Council of the Union
Council of Nationalities
All- Union Congress of Soviets
Congress
People’s Commissars
Reagury Ends Federal Mortgage Loan Program
The HOLC closes the lending books tonight ending emergency refinancing as it plans a 15 year liquidation. Since 1933 the agency provided 3 billion dollars to over 1,006,000 homeowners, with more than one million accounts billed monthly and 286 offices ready for ongoing liquidation and staff reductions. The shotgun gauge detail appears as an unrelated descriptor.
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Washington
HOLC
Home Owners Loan Corporation
U. S. Prints Tons of Paper to Pay Soldiers’ Bonus
The government prepares to pay 3.5 million World War veterans bonus bonds totaling 1.924 billion dollars starting June 15. The Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing uses currency methods, printing 125 tons of paper on black ink with a green tint and Andrew Jackson engraving. Printing was the bureau’s greatest rush job, begun February 26 1936 with 25 presses operating at full speed.
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Washington
Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Andrew Jackson
Federal Bureau of Enslaving and Printing
Robert V. Montgomery
Bureau
Canary breeder Muhlestein earns his sway at BYU
PROVO Utah AP Muhlestein a BYU student has earned his sway through school by breeding canaries. He has been involved in canary trade since age nine and owns a large collection of trophies for his champion birds.
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Provo
Utah
Fell 'Muhlestein
Brigham Young University
Muhlestein
Screen Actress Rescues Guest From Drowning At Home
Hollywood report says Josephine Hutchinson saved Mrs. Joan Castaine from drowning in a pool at Hutchinson’s home. The London visitor struggled in deep water while a secretary and her son aided. Hutchinson swam and pulled Castaine to shallow water. Other notes include dismissals of suits against John Barrymore and talks of Othello with Walter Huston. A divorce suit filed by Mrs. Shirley Bennster Seward against Edmund Garfield Seward cites threats, assault, and alledged abuse during a honeymoon in Australia.
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Hollywood
Josephine Hutchinson
Syotstanie
Joan Castaine
London
Eileen Martin
Mrs. Gastaine
Miss Hutchinson
Mrs. Castaine
John Barrymore
Santa Barbara
Los Angeles
Superior
Emmet D. Camomile
Robert Kenny
Henry Hotchener
Hotchener
Samuel Goldwyn
United Artists
Walter Huston
Goldwyn
New York
Shirley Bennster Seward
Edmund Garfield Seward
Seward
Australia
Yuma
Ariz
Flashes of Life and Local Oddities in Small Towns
In Atlanta L. C. York was arrested for passing a stop sign and paid a $0.54 fine. A friend later said there was no stop sign, York reopened the case and had the fine remitted. In Morland a mystery box raised at a well proved to contain only junk. In Danville a man at 80 planned his own funeral sermon to spare others the fuss over his body.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
L. C
York
Morland
Kas
Francis Smith
Danville
Tll
L. F. Bailiff
Fuzz Protects Peaches In Grover’s Discovery
MACON Ga AP The fuzz that annoys peaches eaters is useful to the fruit The U S department of agriculture has discovered that rubbing off the fuzz makes it easier for the organisms which cause brown rot to enter through the broken skin sockets and stay decay of the fruit.
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Macon
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Missouri man faces ten year term for store killing
Clifford Simmons, 52, Mountain View relief worker, was found guilty of murdering R. V. Jones, a retired Boone railroad engineer, in a Mountain View store on March 31. Jury deliberated four hours in Howell County Circuit Court before sentencing him to ten years in prison amid claims of insanity. Simmons testified the shooting was accidental and stated he was not sorry Jones was dead. Jones had foreclosed a mortgage on Simmons farm and came to Howell County to supervise farm work.
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West Plains
Clifford Simmons
Mountain View
R. V. Jones
Boone
Simmons
Howell County
Jones
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Rexall’s
Rexall
A. Brandenberger Drug CO
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Wits
Floyd
Arky” Vaughan
Wichita Falls
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Larry “Suster” Crabbe
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