Fanatical Japanese Try to Delay Imperial Surrender Announcement
Tokyo reports reveal fanatical officers on August 14 killed the imperial guards commander and forged orders to bar the surrender recording from Tokyo radio. Mori’s death halted the plot as troops were diverted and some conspirators committed suicide.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Japan
Tokyo Bay
Manila
Russia
Manchuria
North China
Imperial Palace
Tojo
Mori
Imperial Guards Division
Azabu
Idaho Falls Mormon Temple Opens For Public Six Days
The Latter-day Saints church announces public inspection of its Idaho Falls temple from September 15 to 20 before dedication services September 23 to 25. Guides will escort visitors to the white stone temple on the Snake River bank.
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Salt Lake City
Idaho Falls
First Presidency
Snake River
George Albert Smith
J. Reuben Clark, Jr
David O. McKay
Idaho Falls Temple
Big Horn
Blackfoot
Blaine
Boise
Burley
Cassia
Lost River
Minidoka
Nampa
North Idaho Falls
Pocatello
West Pocatello
Rexburg
Rigby
Shelley
Star Valley
Tetonins Falls
Weiser
Yellow- 8
Cut in Taxes Forecast by Senate Leader
Washington forecast a five billion dollar federal tax cut effective January 1 with two billion for corporations and two and a half to three billion for individuals. Elimination of one or two excise taxes was also proposed. Chairman George predicted quick passage before Christmas and urged broader removals of excess profits and capital stock levies.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Truman
Congress
Testimony Costs Mrs Rofer in Courtroom Purses Theft
In Los Angeles Mrs Josephine Rofer testified in federal court and was later discovered to have her purse stolen from her seat. The purse reappeared discarded elsewhere in the building with $15 missing. No assailant identified and no further details given.
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Los Angeles
Josephine Rofer
Federal Court of Law and Order
Railman's Wife Dies in Transit on North Pacific Route
Mrs. Don L. Colby wife of the Northern Pacific railroad Idaho division superintendent died of a heart attack yesterday. She collapsed in her husband’s private car en route to the North Pacific hospital in Missoula Montana. A Spokane resident she will be buried in Portland.
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Athol
Don
Colby
Northern Pacific Railroad
Idaho
Northern Pacific
Missoula
Mont
Spokane
Portland
Capital Buzzing With Talk About President's Message
Washington observers report a heated political atmosphere as Congress discusses Truman's address and a looming Pearl Harbor investigation. Republicans charge the message echoes last decade’s liberal New Deal while Democrats hail a liberal peacetime program. Tax-cut plans surface as Doughton signals committee action after unemployment bill debate.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Pearl Harbor
Senate
Mr. Truman
Navy Keeps Sun Valley Resort Under Navy Lease
Sun Valley remains under lease to the navy as a convalescent hospital with no reconversion planned. Union Pacific official C. J. Collins said facilities stay under the navy and reconditioning and restaffing will take time after the navy vacates.
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Boise
Idaho
Sun Valley
Union Pacific
Navy
C. J. Collins
Railroad
Police Catch One of Three Jail Escapees
Pocatello police report the capture Thursday night at 480 Park Avenue of Sill Hall 22 one of three men who overpowered Deputy Sheriff Wardle at the county jail Monday night and escaped. Hall with two accomplices took a .38 from Wardle and fled to release Doyle Mace, brother of one of the escapees, and planned to surrender after hiding near the naval ordnance plant. The two other escapees, Doyle Mace and George Frank Smith, face charges of robbery burglary. Hall claimed to have been hiding in weeds near the plant and later told a sister he would surrender. two men matching Mace and Smith description were seen with a California license car abducting a woman in Idaho Falls.
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Pocatello
Park Avenue of Sill
Birt) Hall
W. V. Wardle
Wardie
Smith & Wesson
Wardle
Doyle H. Mace
Rodger Schurtz
Oak and
Pocatello Avenues
Hall
142 Park
480 Park
Wm. Prasure
Mace
Smith
California
Army Lifts Ban Attending Utah State Fair
Army authorities lifted the off limits ban on the Utah state fair and allow military personnel to attend as health officials report enough improvements. Inspectors found sanitation, latrine conditions, and dust issues improved since prior concerns. The fair runs until next Tuesday.
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Salt Lake City
Ninth Service Command Relations Office
Army
Marine Ace Boyington Removed From Plane at Hickam Field
Major Gregory Boyington liberation of Marine Corps ace was taken off a San Francisco bound plane at Hickam Field Hawaii last night due to illness. The Marine Corps said today that it is unclear when he can resume the flight home.
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San Francisco
Gregory Boyington
Marine Corps
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Group Honors Censor Washington Age Ends Wartime Service
Byron Price, retiring director of censorship, leaves Washington tomorrow for a post in Germany amid praise from Washington journalists. President Truman and about 300 newsmen attended a National Press Club reception last night honoring Price for his wartime censorship record, labeling him a good public servant.
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Washington
Byron Price
Germany
Truman
Price
National Press Club
Vice-Admiral M'Cain Dies From Fatigue
Vice-Admiral John Sidney McCain dies at 61 from exhaustion after three months of continuous raids against Japan. As commander of carrier task force 38, his planes sank 2,000,000 tons of shipping and 6,000 enemy aircraft. He witnessed Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay and planned postwar carrier strategy.
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San Diego
John Sidney McCain
McCain
U.S.S. Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Honolulu
Naval Academy
Pensacola
South Pacific
Guadalcanal- Tulagi
Naval Operations
Air
Washington
Pacific
Adm
Marc A. Mitscher
Mitscher
TF 38
Okinawa
Woman Ends Life by Jump From Snake River Bridge
Antonia Yragul a 33 year old Shoshone widow wrote I dont want to live then leaped from the Snake River canyon bridge south of Jerome The suicide occurred on the high bridge as it was undergoing repairs Authorities say she parked her car walked to the center and fell more than 400 feet on jagged rocks Her brother Domingo Salonga said she had been in poor health and despondent for two years She is survived by a son Bobbie 12 and a sister Louise Saloega of Shoshone.
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Jerome
Antonia Yragul
Snake River Canyon
James Purdy
Snake River
Domingo Salonga
Bobbie
Louise Saloega
Idaho Turkeys Rise In 1945 Crop Estimates
Federal statisticians place Idaho's 1945 turkey crop at 340000 birds, up about 25 percent from 272000 in 1944. The gain reflects farmer response to higher demand and early hatch aided by favorable weather, compared with the 1937-41 average of 230000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Federal
Idaho
U. S. C. A. Division of Agricultural Economics
Local firm files articles of incorporation in Pocatello
Boise reports that James C. Bangs Stationers Inc filed articles of incorporation listing a $50,000 capitalization. Incorporators named are James C. Bangs Clay L. Hill Theo Whittle F D Hilliard and W B Bowen all of Pocatello with secretary of state offices today.
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Boise
James C. Bangs
Stationers, Inc
Pocatello
Secretary of State
Clay L. Hill
Theo Whittle
F. D. Hilliard
W. 8. Bowen
Fall Kills Miner in Boise River Prospecting Trip
Douglas Groesbeck 65 of Boise died almost instantly when he toppled from a cable carrier crossing the Boise River at Sheep creek crossing near Twin Springs. Sheriff Bybee ruled the death accidental. Groesbeck was with Johnny Kinsella and Kelso Smith on a prospecting trip.
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Iadho City
T. B. Bybee
Douglas Groesbeck
Boise
Groesbeck
Johnny Kinsella
Kelso Smith
Twin Springs
Sheep Creek
Bybee
Kinsella
Schreiber McCann Mortuary
Wainwright to Tell of Treatment in Washington
General Jonathan Wainwright spoke at a Honolulu press conference about potential official testimony on his beatings by the Japanese. He said he will testify in Washington and noted he was deafened by artillery fire. He described surrendering after 120 women nurses and 1,000 wounded influenced his decision amid harsh conditions on Corregidor.
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Honolulu
Jonathan Wainwright
War Department
Corregidor
Albert N. Jones
Washington
Jones
San Fratco
Wainwright
Ba'san
Yoyohama
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Toshitane Takata
Takata
Bismarck Sea
Okinawa
Plane Crash Kills Twenty One in Florence Florida
Florence News reports 21 people died when an Eastern Airline flight from Miami to New York crashed about 14 miles from Florence in a swampy area. Witnesses described bodies badly burned as rescue teams recovered remains.
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Florence
U S. C
Miami
New York
Betty Frier
Florence News
Associated Press
Miss Frier
Quisling Trial Deliberations Move to Seven Man Jury
Oslo reports the treason case against Vidkun Quisling advanced to a seven member judge jury after his two day defense. He defended his actions as benefiting Norway and claimed Hitler valued his role while denying plans to betray Norway. Verdict expected by Sept 12 with further testimony detailing his meetings with Hitler and Raeder.
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Oslo
Vidkun Quisling
Norway
Quisling
Hitler
Europe
Germany
Fuehrer
Eric Raeder
Russia
Poland
Senate GOP clash over Pearl Harbor inquiry politics
Washington reports a congressional inquiry move on Pearl Harbor sparked partisan charges. A 10 member Senate House panel was proposed with five Democrats and five Republicans, while the House steering committee favored a 12 member body split evenly by party. Leaders urged nonpartisan conduct amid rising tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pearl Harbor
Senate
House
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Sabath
D-Ill
House Rules Committee
Pocatello Weather Report for September 7
U S weather bureau data shows high 66 and low 38 with mean 52 at Pocatello airport for the 24 hour period ending noon September 7. Forecast calls for warmer conditions Saturday with frost in higher elevations but not in Pocatello. Nearby stations report Idaho Falls 65 70 39 Dubois 45 and Butte 58 30.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
Dubois
Sugar company predicts ample labor for beet harvest
Utah Idaho Sugar company stated adequate laborers would be available for the Intermountain region sugar beet crop starting mid month. The firm said thousands will be employed during the harvest and that prisoner or war labor may not be needed this year.
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Salt Lake City
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
Intermountain
Land Barons Losing in Reform Move
AP dispatch notes sweeping expropriation of large estates across eastern Europe as Saxony and nearby German regions begin breaking up landed holds. Decree in Berlin signals western European land reform, with German communists organizing mass meetings condemning Junkers and other barons, paving further expropriations.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Europe
Poland
Hungary
Balkans
East Prussia
Saxony
Germany
Berlin
Mecklenburg
Brandenburg
Thuringia
Junkers
Balloons Offered For Sale By RFC In Salt Lake City
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation announced in Salt Lake City that barrage balloons can be purchased for about $100 each, roughly 40 cents per square yard, a cut from an earlier price near $1 per yard. Gerald L. Leaver, RFC manager, notes each balloon contains enough material to make about 100 raincoats.
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Salt Lake City
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Gerald L. Leaver
RFC
Ministers Waiting for British Foreign Council Postponed
London reported the five nation foreign ministers meeting delayed from Monday to Tuesday due to the liner Queen Elizabeth arriving late with Secretary of State James P. Byrnes aboard, disrupting their schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Big Five
Council of Foreign Ministers
Queen Elizabeth
James P. Byrnes
U S Moves to Probe War Crimes and Enter Tokyo
General Douglas MacArthur will lead a three mile parade into central Tokyo as U S forces prepare to occupy the capital within three days. An atrocity investigation begins with officers to visit camps and 1 100 prisoners are freed bringing total liberated to about 9 000, half evacuated. Brig Gen Elliott Thorpe heads allied counter intelligence and censorship as troops arrive. The First Cavalry Division will reach Tokyo first and take command of a nearby army school. The parade will be near Emperor Hirohito's palace with forecasts of MacArthur’s arrival at 11 am.
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Yokohama
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
U. S
11Th Airborne Division
Japan
MacArthur
Elliott Thorpe
First Cavalry
Hara-Machido
Hirohito
Domei
Rales
Americans Begin Occupation of Tokyo in 1945
General MacArthur leads 15 000 troops into Tokyo as the first wave of occupation. The Seventh Regiment under Lt Col William A Adams opens Tokyo with a 6 am entry and the flag raising at the embassy signals a new era after World War II. Occupation plans include Sendai Naigata and Aomori within two weeks.
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Japan
Cave Alry
Allied Powers Motors
Downstown
White House
Washington
William A. Adams
el Paso
Tokyo
Domei
MacArthur
Kyushu
Honshu
Honoshu
Sendai
Naigata
Aomori
Mutsu Bay
Ominato
Boyle Rides Through Ruins On Dilapidated Jap Road
Hal Boyle reports from Yokohama describing a 20 mile rail trip from Yokosuka to Tokyo on an electrified line. He sketches crowded stations, ragged wartime attire, and the chaotic but casual boarding as American troops mingle with Japanese passengers amid postwar tension and novelty.
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Boyle
Yokohama
Japan
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Yokosuka Naval Base
Tokyo
Yokosuka
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GOP
U.S
Hal Boyle
America
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