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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1946
Page
7
A collage of historical and contemporary political scandals notes Central Pacific railroad corruption, Tweed Ring influence, and bribery myths. It recalls Huey Long style attacks, machine politics, Tammany Street scenes, and modern echoes from Capitol Hill to crime-hardened corridors of power.
The article notes President Truman’s sudden nomination of J Leighton Stuart as American ambassador to China after General Marshall urged a candidate acceptable to both Communists and Chiang Kai shek. It contrasts with an aborted Wedemeyer nomination and hints at broader Cold War shifts.
Washington analysis shows foreign currencies reshaping prices and trade. The krona and Canadian dollar rise reduce real purchasing power despite stated value gains. Inflation grows while Truman pursues a large peacetime budget and gradual tax changes amid shortages and policy conflicts.
Washington reports a New York Times study of 100 Chinese family genealogies in the Library of Congress. Oldest, Pi of Hsinan, published 1509, covers 31 generations from A D 685 with detailed personal, marital, and burial data and strong emphasis on virtue.
FRANKFURT GERMANY One way or another Hitler followers mock the American occupation and seek to win Germans to his cause. An army report notes anti Allied propaganda in German movie houses with a scene of a mass grave mass burial provokes a skeptical spectator to denounce the film. The army says it does not take such propaganda seriously as it works to counter years of Nazi indoctrination.
Ex Corporal Loren LaFond returns to the mountains for the first deer hunting day since enlistment. He stalks a wounded buck at Windy Ridge while memories of a World War II rice-paddy pursuit haunt him, and he resolves he may never hunt again.
Washington Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk says radioactive isotopes from Manhattan project piles will help medical researchers trace calcium phosphorus iron and other elements through the body. Isotopes tagging may reveal how teeth form fractures heal thyroid function and gland failures in healing and growth.
The body of 33 year old Catherine Scuttieri was found slumped in a sedan on a woodland road near Blair road in Woodbridge New Jersey. Wight said she had been living in Rahway and separated from her husband Joseph for six months. Their four children Carman 14 Doris 12 Patricia 10 and Eleanor 4 were living with their father. Police sought the sedan owner for questioning.
An escaped mental patient, Sgt. George Farnum of Roseburg veterans hospital, held city and county police at bay with a .38 revolver in downtown Portland. Officers forced to use tear gas, he fired at them twice and killed himself.
The carrier Yorktown known as the Fighting Lady was put into mothballs with the reserve fleet in a brief ceremony in Seattle. Captain M. E. Browder told the 58 Plank Owners aboard at commissioning that they were proud to have been part of the greatest fighting fleet of all time.
Four men at the Mc Lean Motor Sales company were threatened by two young gunmen in flashy clothes. The bandits made them strip to their trousers and took wallets totaling 7900 dollars. They fled in a victim’s car, tossing the trousers as they escaped.
Seattle report states the two year old aircraft carrier Ticonderoga is retired and assigned to the reserve fleet. The ship, noted for air attacks in the Philippines and along the Asian coast, incurred 345 casualties when aircraft crashed its decks near Formosa in January 1945.
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