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Amid cheers Comrade Yezhov presented to officials of the Soviet of Moscow the newly completed Moscow-Volga Canal. Some of the sinners redeemed last week had worked also on the Baltic-White Sea Canal (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). When Stalin's great system of convict-dug waterways is completed, it will be possible for a river steamer to go from Moscow to any of five seas bordering Russia-the Caspian, Black, Azov, White and Baltic...
...Dothan, Ala.. John Sowell, ex-Texas convict was arrested, imprisoned. The Sheriff removed two hacksaw blades from his person. Later guards found his cell empty, a note: "Dear Sheriff. You miscounted...
...agents using the title as a merchandising scheme. State statute books are crammed with what insurance men call anti-twisting laws, but, based as they are on provisions against fraud and misrepresentation, they are not much use in the companies' campaign against the genuine insurance counselor. Efforts to convict a Manhattan counselor not long ago under he New York anti-twisting law were soon thwarted by the State Supreme Court, a reversal which led to revision of the law to make things difficult for all counselors...
...Huntsville, Tex., tiring of working at the Harlem Prison Farm, William H. Shoemake. 19, serving a two-year sentence for theft, paid another convict $5 to chop off his right foot with...
...combination or agreement the purpose or effect of which is to restrict or control the output or the prices of aluminum." Effect of Judge Gibson's order was to require Government attorneys to come into his court and attempt to convince him that they were not trying to convict the company a second time for the same offense...