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...incredible Great Lakes smelt situation was so described last week by Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The vast smelt population of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (where some 95% of U.S. fresh water smelts lived) had suddenly vanished. Two years ago fishermen took 5,000,000 Ib. of smelts there; last year, 1,000,000. Total catch this winter: 2 Ib. No one knew why the smelts had died...
Originally from Maine fresh-water lakes, the smelts were transplanted to Michigan's Crystal Lake in 1912 as food for salmon. The salmon unaccountably disappeared, but the smelts thrived, soon spread through the Great Lakes. In Huron and Michigan fishermen dipping for bigger fish found them a nuisance. Developed into a popular table delicacy, the silver smelts became a big industry in the past decade; prices jumped from ½ to 4? a Ib. This year OPA had counted on smelts for 10,000,000 Ib. of food...
...could also have meant butter, meat and milk. Congress may not take away the powers he has assumed −a two-thirds vote will be needed. But by simple majority vote, they may well reduce those powers. Already the Farm Bloc's Jesse P. Wolcott, Republican, of Port Huron, Mich., was loading up a blunderbuss to blow holes in price control...
...Chicago Anglophobe, described a honey of a plan he had helped work out to defend the U.S. from invasion by the British-after World War I. He told Cleveland's City Club about a scheme "to establish a line about 40 miles long across the isthmus between Lakes Huron and Erie which would protect Detroit" from a possible army "of 300,000 regulars [from] England" which would be "landed in Canada and marched against this country." The Colonel explained that he had worked out the plan with the American General Staff. Added he: "The idea [of the attack] appears...
...cool, rocky Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, overlooking the strait where Lake Huron joins Lake Michigan, 43 members of the Republican Post-War Advisory Council met this week to chart their course through trickier waters. Their problem : what statement of foreign policy will best suit and serve the people of the Republic and therefore the Party? Whatever should come out of the meeting, it was clear from the start that G.O.P...