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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1946
Page
2
A century ago a group of merchants formed the Central Pacific railroad and borrowed 200000 dollars. They bribed congressmen to gain railroad franchises and land grants totaling 9000000 acres with a federal loan of 27000000 dollars, enriching swindlers who never invested personal funds.
The article recounts the Tweed Ring's corruption and repeated acquittals with one editor calling the case an act of God under suspicion. It contrasts Capitol Hill demagogues with Huey Long and notes a political machine using toys, chauffeured cars, and nurses to influence voting on election day.
The piece notes large graft sums, citing Tammany's yearly take of 75 million dollars as a glimpse of public rooking. It critiques political bosses and calls officials machine made, with a smear on political manipulation such as confusing voters with similarly named candidates.
The note recalls Mark Twain targeting Tammany Hall and a Tammany leader’s death that inspired his quip about refusing to attend the funeral while sending a letter claiming approval. The line reflects Twain’s sharp wit about political corruption.
A man who began work for a Wall Street figure nearly a year ago forged his boss's signature. After about ten months he attempted a $50 check, writing the employer's name as signer, and the bank returned it as insufficient funds.
Edda Mussolini, recently amnestied by Italy, applies to enter Argentina as no Italian haven awaits her. Her passport awaits approval. Belgian crown prince faces monarchist unrest over throne, may seek monastery after anticipated abdication. A Shanghai bar joke says Russians will buy the atomic bomb in the market. Los Angeles swamped with fake ten spot bills.
Mrs M Falkenburg aims to follow her daughter into Conover modeling as Irving Berlin charts two Hit Parade songs. Doris Duke sails to Honolulu with a boogie woogie teacher, declines a Paris fashion post, while a photo magazine and a New York paper cut staff by about 20 percent. A mobster threatens the mayor after claiming he was crossed.
Washington reports the surprise replacement of Lt. Gen. Al Wedemeyer with J. Leighton Stuart as ambassador to China after Marshall recommended a candidate with strong ties to both sides. The piece ties in with broader postwar atomic diplomacy and regional political shifts.
Washington facing inflation as the United States plans almost 40 billion in peacetime budget. foreign exchange shifts raise costs. production lags, OPA changes, and lingering debt complicate aims for stable trade and prices.
A New York Times report discusses Chinese genealogies in the library of Congress. It notes the Pi family record from 1509 covers 31 generations with names, life events, and marriages. The Chang genealogy from 1870 adds clan doctrines emphasizing virtue, family duties, sobriety, and social harmony.
In Portland Oregon an escaped mental patient Sgt George Farnum from Roseburg veterans hospital held police at bay with a .38 pistol. Tear gas was fired into his downtown room and he killed himself after twice firing on officers arriving to subdue him.
In Seattle the carrier Yorktown nicknamed the Fighting Lady was placed in mothballs with the reserve fleet in a brief ceremony. Her skipper Captain M E Browder addressed 58 plank owners aboard at commissioning and said the crew was proud to have been part of the greatest fighting fleet.
In Frankfurt Germany followers of Hitler ridicule the American occupation and rally Germans to the Fuehrer. U S army reports note German night clubs and film houses spreading anti Allied propaganda including a cinema scene miscasting air raid victims as concentration camp victims. An audience member denounces the film as a swindle and departs with his wife. The army says combating Nazi indoctrination takes time.
Ex Corporal Loren l LaFond returns home to mountains for the opening deer hunting day. He spots a wounded buck at Windy Ridge then recalls a brutal rice paddy battle memory. He lowers his rifle and vows not to hunt again as the buck escapes.
Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk says radioactive isotopes from Manhattan project piles will aid medical science by tagging elements like calcium phosphorus iron and more to trace their movement in the body. Researchers seek answers on teeth bone healing thyroid function and gland activity using beta and gamma emissions.
The slacks clad body of Catherine Scuttieri, 33, estranged wife of Joseph Scuttieri, was found shot twice in a sedan on a woodland road near Blair. Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor James S. Wight identified her and noted the couple’s four children live with the father. police sought the sedan owner for questioning.
Two young gunmen wearing flashy sportswear entered the Mc Lean Motor Sales office in Chicago Illinois and forced four men to strip. They took wallets totaling 7900 dollars from the trousers and fled in a victim’s car tossing the trousers aside.
Seattle reports the carrier Ticonderoga has been placed in the reserve fleet after two years of service. The ship, credited with air strikes in the Philippines, along the Asia coast and Honshu, suffered 345 casualties when planes crashed on her decks off Formosa in January 1945.
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