Judge Denies Allied Forces Challenge to Slot Law
District Judge C F Koelsch dismissed Allied Civic Forces and Ben Thomas suit seeking to null Idaho 1945 slot machine licensing in nonprofit clubs. He ruled the demurrer shows no controversy beyond opposition to Riggs administration and denied further amendments. The case, involving intervenor Allied Civic Forces, was dismissed with order to finalize.
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Boise
C. F. Koelsch
Koelsch
Boise Riggs
Ben Thomas
Third District Court
Boise G. Riggs
Allied Civic Forces
Supreme Court
District Court
Thomas
Pheld
Atty
Frank Langley
Riggs
Navy Grants Release for Enlisted Fathers With Three Or More Children
Navy announces immediate liberalization of hardship policy allowing enlisted men with three or more children under 18 to apply for release. The change keeps the point system intact, which awards 10 points for dependency regardless of number of dependents. About 93,000 released under point system to date. Roughly 97,000 eligible under the new rule. officers excluded.
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Navy
Bank of Mexico Gains Monopoly on Silver Trade
A decree grants the Bank of Mexico exclusive rights to export coin and bar silver and requires silver producers to sell to the bank. The bank will supply in dustry and control all but industrially worked silver.
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Mexico City
Bank of Mexico
U S Keeps Europa As War Prize
The 49,746 ton liner Europa, former pride of the German merchant marine, was taken as a prize of war and arrived in New York Harbor with 4,387 veterans from Europe. The seizure occurred at Bremerhaven last June, with Col Joseph W Palmer commanding the prize crew.
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New York
Europa
United States
New York Harbor
Europe
Oskar Scharf
Navy
Bremerhaven
Germany
Col
Joseph W. Palmer
Salt Lake City
Emperor Hirohito Seeks Peaceful Path to Reform
The New York Times quotes Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo saying he opposed war as policy and favored constitutional means for social change. He preferred a constitutional monarchy like Britain, cited food and housing as Japan's top issues, and urged reforms after ensuring basic needs are met to aid world peace.
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New York
New York Times
Tokyo
Japan
Egypt lays claim to Eritrea as part of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Cairo asserts Eritrea is not an independent state and is a complement to another state. Foreign Minister Abdel Hamied Badawy Pasha rejects Russian interest in a Red Sea port and opposes any Russian demands in North Africa.
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Cairo
Egypt
Eritrea
Sudan
Great Britain
Associated Press
Abdel Hamied Badawy Pasha
Russia
Red Sea
North Africa
Thieves Take Checks From Idaho Falls Company
Salt Lake City police warn local businessmen to watch for 344 stolen checks from the Idaho Falls animal products firm. The checks numbered 11 426 to 11 769 were drawn on First Security Bank of Idaho and taken September 15. Detective Sgt. Chester R. Colburn cautioned the public about possible forgery.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Idaho Falls Animal Products Company
Idaho Falls
Chester R. Colburn
First Security Bank of Idaho
Diversion Program Uses Potatoes To Ease Surplus
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson explains a government plan to divert potatoes from surplus into glucose and other products. Plants in Muscatine Iowa Omaha Mt Clemens Mich Blissfield Mich will convert 35 million bushels this season, with loans offered to sustain 90 percent parity for farmers.
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Washington
Anderson
Muscat Mine
Iowa
Omaha
Mt. Clemens
Mich
Blissfield
British Turn Guns on Hidden Group in Indo China Uprising
British mortars and heavy machineguns fired on Annamite forces in Saigon as riots erupt after a French soldier was killed and a French civilian stabbed near a bank. Power and water services disrupted. several French people missing and feared dead. Annamites demand independence while opposing French rule, and Japan intervened to halt the attackers.
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Saigon
Annamite
Annanites
Annamites
Southeast Asia
Japan
France
Verbal clash between Bevin and Molotov at wartime talks
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov clashed openly at the Big Five talks over Balkans policy and postwar arrangements. Molotov resisted Western plans for arms reductions and Balkan frontiers while Bevin challenged Greek political alignments and warned against being cast as the dockside scapegoat.
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London
Ernest Bevin
V. M. Molotov
Big Five
Austria
Balkan
Molotov
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
United States
Russia
Great Britain
France
China
Bevin
Truman Signs Bill Restoring Standard Time Nationwide
President Truman signed legislation returning the nation to standard time with clocks set back one hour at 2 a m Sunday September 30 ending daylight saving or war time. A Senate committee agreed to visit Pearl Harbor in the inquiry into the sneak Japanese attack that brought the United States into war. Brig a parachute school at Ft Benning Ga has begun duties with Lt Col rank and is a Buhl High School and West Point alumnus who graduated in 1934.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
House
Pearl Harbor
United States
Twin Falls
Brig
Ft. Benning
Buhl High School
West Point
Jap Mistreatment Responsible for 500 Deaths Daily
Maj. Gen. Guillermo Francisco testified before commonwealth investigators that food denial and lack of medical care by Japanese at Camp O'Donnell caused about 500 prisoner deaths daily. He said relief requests were ignored and relief supplies from families and welfare workers were stolen by Japanese guards.
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Manila
Camp O'Donnell
Commonwealth
Guillermo Francisco
Philippine Army
Army to Trim War Dept Funds and Army Strength after Japan Surrender
President Truman proposes cutting 28.69 billion in war department appropriations and reducing Army strength to 1 950 000 by June 30 1946. Demobilization target is 2 500 000, with 18.44 billion needed for the last 11 months of the current fiscal year to cover occupational troops costs demobilization and general expenses. An additional 500 million would be returned to the treasury from replacement accounts.
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Washington
Turman
Congress
War Department
White House
Japan
Treasury
Homes and Canals Dangerous Points in Idaho
Frances A. Wallace of the National Safety Council told a state safety meeting Boise that Idaho has 95 home fatalities so far this year. Most deaths stem from falls suffocation fires and drownings with children often among drowning victims who fall into irrigation ditches. Idaho records about 130 home fatalities annually.
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Boise
Idaho
Frances A. Wallace
State Safety Council
Gem State
Wallace
National Safety Council
San Francisco
Fritz Wiedemann Captured by Allies in China
Fritz Wiedemann, once Hitler’s commanding officer and German consul general in San Francisco, was captured by Allied forces in China and flown toward the United States. His plane departed Manila for Guam. ATC officials had no confirmed final destination, though some sources expect Washington for possible war crimes trials testimony.
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San Francisco
Fritz Wiedemann
Adolf Hitler
China
United States
Army Air Transport Command
Wiedemann
Manila
Guam
ATC
Washington
Bowles Fined $100 for Possessing Defaced Shoe Stamps
Lynn Leon Bowles was convicted by a federal district court jury of possessing five defaced shoe ration stamps and fined $100 by Federal Judge Chase A. Clark.
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Boise
Lynn Leon Bowles
Chase A. Clark
Temple Compared To World Structures At Idaho Falls Dedication
The Idaho Falls L D S temple dedication enters its final day with 20 000 plus attendees from Idaho and surrounding states. President George Albert Smith and counselors read the dedicatory prayer as general authorities participate, praising the house of beauty and holiness amid global examples.
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Idaho Falls
L.D.S. Temple
Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints
Idaho
George Albert Smith
J. Reuben Clark, Jr
David O. McKay
Smith
Joseph F. Merrill
Council of Twelve
Mieley
Utah
Butte
Mont
Alma Sonne
Joseph F. Smith
Thomas E. McKay
Milton R. Hunter
God
Charles A. Callis
Clifford E. Young
Richard L. Evans
Hirohito Faces Pressure as Anti-Monarchist Faction Reads Signals
AP analysis says Hirohito’s grip on the throne nears fragility as reports claim he may meet Gen Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo. The piece notes anti-monarchist sentiment could rise if the emperor faces pressure or abdicates, amid U.S. policy signals on Japan’s postwar changes.
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Hirohito
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Nippon
America
MacArthur
White House
Washington
Strikes Delay Action on Workers Bill
Washington report says the House Ways and Means Committee shelved all unemployment benefits liberalization despite President Truman's request. The panel, 14 to 10, will instead draft peacetime tax burden cut measures. Labor officials backing higher minimum wages face questions as strikes drag labor data.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Truman
Doughton
D-N.c
Rep
Knutson
Minnesota
Schwellenbach
Truman calls for speedy passage of full employment bill
President Truman reaffirmed his desire for rapid enactment of a full employment bill. At a White House meeting with Rep. Outland, Rep. Patman, and Rep. Manasco, the issue was discussed as the measure moved through the Senate floor and the House expenditures committee. Seven senators warned that the bill would trigger inflation followed by low mood and unemployment.
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Washington
Truman
Rep
Outland
Calif
White House
Patman
Texas
Manasco
D-Ala
Senate
House Expenditures Committee
Challis Banker Arthur Weichbrodt Dies at 47
Challis Idaho banker Arthur Robert Weichbrodt 47 and longtime rancher and insurer died at his home. He served on the Custer county board of commissioners and was a Republican central committee member. Survived by wife Margarite and three children Arlene Theodore and Robert.
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Challis
Arthur Robert Weichbrodt
Custer County Bank
State Republican Central Committee
Custer County Board of Commissioners
Weichbrodt
Masonic Lodge
Margarite
Arlene
Theodore Weichbrodt
Robert Weichbrodt
Buhl Woman Alma Molander Dies After Long Illness
Alma C Molander 61 wife of Twin Falls County Commission Chairman Ernest Molander died at her daughter's Twin Falls home after a two year illness. A West Point Nebraska native she married in Ault Colorado in 1907 and moved to the area in 1910.
Japs to Get Taste Of Prison Camp
Lt Gen Robert L. Eichelberger selects Camp Montox by Tokyo Bay for Japanese POWs. He defends the move as a strict, corrective measure and says more than twenty prisoners from Yokohama will be transferred to the island camp.
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Tokyo
Robert L. Eichelberger
Eighth Army
Camp Montox
Tokyo Bay Island
Eichelberger
Yokohama
Island
Labor Strife Expands Across Nation With 350000 Idle
Government seeks to untangle growing labor strife as the total number of workers idle through strikes and shutdowns nears 350000. About 10000 joined the ranks in the last day while wage demands remain central, and efforts focus on an oil strike impasse.
Woman Describes Nazi Experiments At Belsen Trial
Helena Hamermerz testified at the British military court on mass murder linked to Belsen and Oswiecim. She described artificial insemination experiments on enslaved women, gas injections, and executions by hanging, with named defendants including Kramer Klein and Hessler.
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Eberg
Helena Hamermerz
Josef Kramer
Belsen
Oswiecim
Fritz Klein
Kramer
Franz Hessler
Hessler
Occupation of Japan May Be Long Time
Allied occupation may last many years MacArthur said the forces could be reduced to minimum in six months under favorable conditions while the occupation itself could endure. Palau veterans landed at Aomori and 48 ships with 20 000 personnel were to sail home from Pearl Harbor. Domelate a met Rb Oborate looms as Tokyo press faces new agency plans and Abe Nobuyuki under guard for questioning.
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Tokyo
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Palau
Aomori
Honshu
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Jed Dealey
Dallas, Tex
Morning News
Dealey
MacArthur
Staement
Allied Command
Domei News Agency
Inosuke Furuno
Domelate A
Hirohito
Nobuyuki Abe
Korea
Toskyo
Associated Press
Duane Hennessy
81St Infantry Division
War Threatens U.S. Mineral Supplies Says Interior Dept
The interior department reports wartime extraction has depleted key minerals and warns many reserves are near depletion. Mercury and manganese may run out within a year, lead in 12, silver in 11, zinc 19, and copper 34 years at prewar rates, while coal and lignite could last 4,300 years.
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Washington
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