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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1945
Page
2
Stabilization Director John C Collet outlined a timetable to end subsidies for vegetable shortening cheese pork and other items through mid 1946. Canned and frozen vegetables beans prunes and raisins will end after the 1945 crop year with dairy fluids cattle beef and flour subsidies also phased out by June 1946.
AFL chief William Green and United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis head a push to keep talks focused on dispute settlement machinery and resist CIO plans to tie wages to a cost of living formula. They urge wage policy to be settled by collective bargaining, with competition guiding employer costs. Meanwhile auto and steel sectors face renewed bargaining tensions as CIO seeks government intervention to preserve wartime pay after talks with General Motors and U S Steel faltered. In other news, the U S Army expands discharge eligibility for 50 point European veterans on furlough, and overseas deployment limits are set for long serving enlisted and certain officers while nurses meet age and points criteria to avoid foreign assignment. Grain exports for 1945-46 remain lopsided toward North America with U S shipments seen at 300–325 million bushels and Canada potentially similar. Argentina exports may dip absent favorable transport and handling conditions.
Bevin and Molotov clash in a wide ranging debate on sharing the atomic bomb as Byrnes proposes an Allied commission to secure passage through the Dardanelles and Bosporus. Italy outlines boundary readjustments and Allied bases, while Palestine immigration and Attlee Truman talks weigh in. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis reports over 1 million dollars in epidemic aid this year, largely to Illinois, North Carolina, New York and Virginia.
Eight prominent Finnish leaders face arrest and early trial in the people's court for alleged refusals to mediate with Russia and for backing Axis war efforts. Vaino Tanner and others including Risto Ryti Henrik Ramsay Edwin Linkomies Rudolf Walden and Tyko Reinikka are named in the charges amid a broader political shift ahead of 1946 congressional elections. Democrats gain in major cities while Republicans reclaim Buffalo and New Haven. CIO fails again to win Detroit mayoralty.
Britain's Gloster Meteor piloted by Capt. H. J. Wilson smashed the 1939 world speed mark with an average 606 mph over four runs at Herne Bay. The record suggests possible nonstop world circumnavigation in about 41 hours and rapid cross continental routes.
George Dashh, a Nazi spy, testified to the FBI that his sole aim in 1942 was to flee Germany while exposing a broad sabotage plan. He named co-conspirators, helped track them in New York and Chicago, and revealed targets including TVA facilities, Hell Gate bridge, Ohio river locks, and key railroad lines. The case led to multiple sentences and executions among saboteurs, with 20 years imposed on the spy.
The state department reports Western Hemisphere abaca production may reach 25 million pounds this year with 45 to 50 million pounds forecast for 1946. It has not been grown in the western hemisphere before Pearl Harbor except experimentally and now comes from five plantations totaling 27 500 acres across four Central American republics and Panama.
Elder statesman Baruch warned that inflation risk remains high in the coming six to nine months as wage and price pressure grows while tax cuts are opposed. He urged slow manpower demobilization and envisioned cabinet members facing Congress to boost executive-legislative cooperation.
Intelligence reports reveal Dr. Hjalmar Schacht’s view of Hitler’s regime and fellow leaders. Schacht describes Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Thyssen and others as ordinary, grasping for power while suppressing reason. The piece outlines Nazi finance, inflation, and the illusion of arming for war, with lessons on defective minds in power.
Civil war looms in China as communists attack to stop Chiang Kai-shek forces from infiltrating northern strongholds. The United States withdraws troops from combat zones though continuing to support Chiang with material aid, keeping policy unchanged. The crisis follows V J Day and dampens hopes for peace and modernization.
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