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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest loot: Van Eyck's Adoration of the Lamb which was last week reported in Berchtesgaden...
Last year's spring catch was zero. Last week, in streams around Michigan's Green Bay and Huron's Saginaw Bay, with smelts making belated spawning runs, men, women & children dipped up hundreds with their nets. Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in charge of investigating the smelt situation, estimated that the normal Great Lakes smelt population (1942 catch: 5,000,000 lb. ) would be restored in four years...
...Van Oosten had served only to eliminate Possible reasons why the fish disappeared...
They did not disappear because of lack of oxygen in the water, weather (the smelts died in both warm and cold water) or air men's practice bombings in the Great Lakes (bombed fish have pulverized livers, of which there was no sign in the dead smelts). Dr. Van Oosten thinks that most likely the fish were killed by bacteria or viruses, but probably no one will ever know...
...Hitler Gang (Robert Watson. Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck, Reinhold Schunzel; TIME...