George Smith To Preside At LDS Rites
George Albert Smith 75 leads three day dedication of Idaho Falls temple with J Reuben Clark Jr and David O McKay as counselors. More than 25 000 members from Utah Wyoming Oregon and Southern Idaho attend seven services. Temple on Snake River bank cost 750000 marks eight temples in church use. Only members with cards admitted during dedication. public tours ended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho Falls
Church of the Latter Day Saints
George Albert Smith
Smith
Heber J. Grant
Snake River
Idaho
Oregon
Utah
Wyoming
J. Reuben Clark, Jr
David O. McKay
Cut in Taxes May Come
Washington reports Senate Finance Committee Chairman Walter F. George urged a 50 percent cut in federal personal income taxes across all brackets. He said reductions should start next year though not the full amount in 1946. George called for repealing the excess profits tax by early next year with support from Eric Johnston and Neil H. Jacoby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walter F. George
D.-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
Eric Johnston
United States Chamber of Commerce
Neil H. Jacoby
University of Oe
George
Johnston
Mass race for first house to let ad shocks Luton
Hundreds of house hungry residents in Luton sprinted to the real estate office after a single newspaper ad appeared. A woman won the five minute dash, prompting the owner to sell rather than rent and find an immediate buyer. Within thirty six hours the agent’s phone rang nonstop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luton
Eng
Indiana Nips Michigan In 13-7 Clash
In a drenched Midwest Saturday the Hoosiers upset Michigan 13 to 7 at Ann Arbor led by George Taliaferro and a 54 yard Raimondi to Groomes pass. Other scores included Purdue beating Marquette 14-13 amid rain and Chicago a 0-0 tie with Wisconsin as Illinois beat Pittsburgh 23-6 and Minnesota crushed Missouri 34-0.
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New York
Midwest
Cornlands
Ann Arbor
Mich
Fritz Crisler
Army
Wolverines
Indiana
Michigan
George Taliaferro
Ben Raimondi
Mel Groomes
LaFayette
Ind
Purdue
Marquette
Great Lakes
Chicago
Wisconsin
Illinois
Urbana
Pittsburgh
Minnesota
Vic Kilbitski
Missouri
Northwestern
Iowa State
Smilin
Ed McKeever
Cornell
Syracuse
Japan Faces Starvation and Unemployment Amid Political Strife
Vice Premier Konoye warned of mass starvation and widespread unemployment as Japan endures a harsh winter. He said plans to build 300000 new homes are hampered by shipping shortages while considering abdication for Emperor Hirohito only if desired, amid a drifting socialistic trend and difficult food imports prospects.
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Konoye
Japan
Prince Konoye
United States
America
Hirohito
Fuminaro Konoye
Domei Agency
House of Mitsubishi
Suemitomo
Yasuda
Roosevelt loan case to be shown in House inquiry
House Ways and Means Committee votes to open evidence on Elliott Roosevelt loan in the so called bad debt case. Democrats clash with Republicans over potential whitewash while Congress weighs tax implications and military recruiting plans amid broader budget and foreign policy debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Washington
Congress
Elliott Roosevelt
House Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Senate
Truman
Chesapeake Bay
Wherry
Neb
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
MacArthur
Elliott
John Hartford
Texas
Heroic Act Saves Companion's Lives
In World War II Holland action Private Joe E. Mann of Reardan received the Medal of Honor from Baxter General Hospital for shielding a comrade by covering a grenade. Mann stood in an exposed position, killed enemies with an M 1 rifle, was wounded four times, then returned to guard duty before dying in the grenade blast.
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Spokane
Holland
Joe E. Mann
Baxter General Hospital
John Henry Mann
Mann
Turkeys Released for Civilian Market in Several States
The agriculture department ends a withhold order on this year's turkey crop for the military services. Officials say the armed forces already secured most of their needs and excess will be bought on the open market. The order had required that all turkeys marketed in the states be turned over to the government.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Soviet Hungarian Pact Prompts Western Alarm at Talks
London reports say a Russian trade pact gives the Soviets control of half of Hungary's economy, while a morning session was canceled. Molotov chaired a Saturday night council meeting and diplomats voiced growing pessimism as no major issue reached agreement after 11 days. British officials warned the pact could place southeastern Europe under Moscow’s sway.
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London
Saday
Hungary
V. M. Molotov
Big Five
Europe
M Arthur to Reduce Japs To Role Incapable of War
Paris report says the 36th and 79th infantry divisions and the 12th armored division are alerted for shipment to the United States. No definite date. movement likely in October. The 254th and 255th infantry regiments of the 63rd division sail for Britain en route home.
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Paris
12Th Armored
United States
U. S. Army
Britain
Army to Cut ETO Units At Fast Clip
Frankfurt dispatch reports a master redeployment chart for the European theater. Soldiers with 60 points or more should be home by year end, with occupation forces reducing to seven divisions by spring. By late next spring 1946 most non-occupation troops are slated to depart, leaving about 707,000 men in theater.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S
Laval Faces Trial After Preliminary Examination
In Paris Pierre Laval protested the preliminary examination closed Saturday claiming key questions were not asked. Examining Magistrate Pierre Bouchardon said the pretrial exam was finished in principle and that supplementary information requested by Prosecutor Andre Mornet had been obtained.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
France
Pierre Bouchardon
Andre Mornet
Campaign for Recruits Will Determine Postwar Training
Washington reports that the outcome of the forthcoming army wartime recruitment drive will decide if universal peacetime military training becomes law. If 1.5 million enlistments are reached, universal training may be dropped. if not, cuts or a peacetime draft are possible. Navy and Army estimates vary, with enlistment caps around 300,000 to 419,000 for the Army and 500,000 to 600,000 for the Navy.
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George
Senate Finance Committee
Washington
Capitol Hi
Senate
House
Army
Navy
Congres
War Department
CIO Asks for Strike Vote in 96 GM Plants
United Auto Workers petitioned the national labor relations board for a nationwide strike vote at 96 General Motors plants. Walter Reuther said about 325,000 workers could be affected. vote tentatively set for October 24 if approved, with ballot costs estimated at 150000 dollars. GM did not comment.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers (C.I
National Labor Relations Board
Walter P. Reuther
U.A. W.C.T.O
Reuther
Labor Department
Washington
General Motors
Labor
Schwellenbach
George W. Taylor
National War Labor Board
Paul Herzog
NLRB
Two Rexford Republicans Under Fire Over Pearl Harbor Code
Washington weighs two Republican figures Gen Douglas MacArthur and Gov Thomas E Dewey as political talk centers on their roles before Pearl Harbor. MacArthur’s Japan occupation plan and Dewey’s handling of code disclosure are debated as campaign implications emerge.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
MacArthur
Japan
Dewey
Nazis Trade Men For Jap Gasoline
Two navy gunners freed from a Japanese prison camp testified that about 700 sailors captured by German raiders in the South Atlantic were taken to Yokohama and exchanged for gasoline. Seamen Joseph Robertson of Jenkin-Jones West Virginia and James Muldrow of Florence South Carolina identified the exchange.
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Hamilton Field
Calif
South Atlantic
Yokohama
Joseph Robertson
Jenkin - Jones
West Va
James Muldrow
Florence
S. C
Train Kills Farmer Near Clark Fork
Lawrence Rich aged 40 a farmer formerly of Lewiston and Orofino was killed when his truck was struck by a train at a crossing seven miles east of Clark Fork on Saturday night. The truck was dragged 1 300 feet and demolished.
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Clark Fork
Lawrence Rich
Lewiston
Orofino
Here
Bank of Mexico Drops Silver Coinage Amid Price Shift
The Bank of Mexico stops issuing silver money after the new U S silver price raises pesos to 27 cents in value, not 20. Consequently, hundreds of millions of silver pesos gain about one third in worth overnight.
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Mexico City
Bank of Mexico
United States
Brothers Liberated From Jap Camps
Mr and Mrs Albert R Mead of the Cook building received word from the war department that their son Arthur R Mead 32 has been liberated from a Fukuoka prison camp in Japan. They were advised September 12 that Ernest Clifford Mead 29 had been freed from a prison camp in the Tokyo area. Both were construction workers for Morrison Knudsen and were captured on Wake Island in December 1941. They were separated then and have not heard from each other since. Mrs Mead said the messages stated both sons were in fair condition. Arthur and Ernest Mead attended Blackfoot high school.
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Albert R. Mead
Cook Building
War Department
Arthur R. Mead
Fukuoka
Japan
Ernest Clifford Mead
Tokyo
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Wake Island
Jury Spares Life Of Lt Samuel C Epes in Murder Trial
An all male jury in Columbia South Carolina spared Lt Samuel C Epes from the electric chair and sentenced him to life in prison after convicting him of murder for drugging and suffocating his wife, a schoolteacher. Judge A L Gaston imposed the life term after jury deliberated about three hours.
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Columbia
S. C
Samuel C. Epes
A. L. Gaston
Edgar A. Brown
Epes
Jeanete
Virginia
Orient
Japan
MacArthur orders sweeping inquiry into Japan finances
General MacArthur demanded a financial accounting of Japan including the emperor's fortune and the war economy. The plan called for top arrests, dissolution of wartime monopolies, and destruction of war industries, with reports on financial deals as of December 7 1941.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Washington
Nippon
Allied Powers
Archil
House of Mitsui
America
Seven Nazis Charged With Slaying 100
Seven Nazis charged with killing more than 400 Russian and Polish men women and children at Hadamar mental health facility by lethal injections in the guise of medical aid go on trial before a military court in Wiesbaden on October 8.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
Hadamar Insane Asylum
Japan Considers Suffrage in Step Toward Modernism
A San Francisco Associated Press report notes that American policy proposes granting women in Japan the vote, a move seen as a landmark shift for Japanese society and a potential path to broader liberation for half the population. The piece contrasts traditional gender roles with the prospect of female political voice and responsibility, while noting entrenched abuses and cultural justifications.
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James D. White
Associated Press
San Francisco
Japan
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LDS Church
L.D.S
Pere
Prince Hirohito
M’ Arthur
Laval
CIO
Carolina
U.S
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