People, Jan. 6, 1936

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

In the Federal Reserve Branch Bank of Memphis, Tennessee's bumbling old Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar thought he would see how good the police were. He stepped on a burglar alarm. Police arrived in two minutes, took Senator McKellar to the lockup.

Calling at the chambers of the Missouri Supreme Court, Governor Guy Brasfield Park found one of the justices on the floor working feverishly to assemble his small son's electric train in time for Christmas. Sympathetic, the Governor squatted on his haunches, assembled the train, sent...

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