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May 6, 1939

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The European Situation

By Unknown Author

Poland's reply yesterday to Chancellor Hitler's demands for Danzig and additional communications facilities through the Polish Corridor was firm but conciliatory.

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FORCED LOAN BILL FOR A WAR CRISIS PUT BEFORE SENATE; Buying of Bonds on Scale Up to 75% of 'Net Wealth' Provided if Men Are DraftedUNANIMOUS REPORT MADELee Presses for Early Actionon Proposal Setting Up Procedure for Compulsion

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, May 5.--A bill to compel the purchase of United States bonds, in time of war or emergency serious enough to call for drafting of men into the military service, on a sliding scale graduated according to "net wealth," was reported to the Senate today without a dissenting vote by its Military Affairs Committee.

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Notable Deaths

Konstantin Somov

1939Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (born 1869)[†]

Konstantin Andreyevich Somov was a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva movement that began in the last decade of the 19th century. After the Russian Revolution, he eventually emigrated to Paris, along with other prominent figures in the Russian arts. In his private life, he had a longtime, younger male companion, Methodiy Lukyanov, and an ambiguous artistic and personal relationship with a young boxer, Boris Snezhkovsky, whom he painted many times. In the 21st century, his paintings have sold in the millions of dollars. In 2007, Somov's The Rainbow sold at Christie's London for GBP 3,716,000, an auction record for a Russian work of art.