Strike Group Agrees to Debate Terms
The Associated Press reports a brighter tone in national labor disputes as 11,000 building trades workers return to work after arbitration urged by Governor Dewey. About 397,000 workers remain idled nationwide, with 40,000 in a CIO Oil Workers strike and 36,000 idle in coal disputes in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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New York City
Thomas E. Dewey
AFL
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Pittsburgh
Truman
Washington
CIO Oil Workers International Union and
Petroleum Industry
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Detroit
Pacific Northwest
Paterson
N. J
CIO Ossion
la Grange
Ill
Chicago
OPA Closes Boise Area Price and Rationing Offices
The OPA declares the consolidation eliminates 13 local boards and four sub-offices in Idaho and Oregon. Residents will be served by nearby offices and price and rationing programs continue. Discontinued boards include Challis with Mackay and Aberdeen with Blackfoot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
World Ends Not Yet Declared by Rev Long
Pasadena Calif The Rev Charles G Long spokesman announced that the world will not end this year after his Sept 21 prophecy failed His son Richard said the end will not come before fall 1946 The preacher claimed to know the exact hour and day but will not reveal it to keep newspapers from selling copies He urged preparation through hard work and holiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Calif
Charles G. Long
Richard
Church of God
Noah
Paul
Jap Assumes Full Blame for Atoll Executions
Capt Masatori Shiga, Japanese commander of Mili atoll, has assumed responsibility for the torture and execution of five American flyers in January 1944. His body was found in his Majuro tent, and a suicide note admits the killings. Navy reports say Shiga may have poison, while the cause remains undetermined. Eleven other Japanese officers remain detained. Mili and Majuro lie in the Marshall Islands.
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Pearl Harbor
Masatori Shiga
Mili Atoll
Majuro
Navy
Shiga
Mili
Marshall Islands
Marine's Condition Remains Critical
Cp. Thomas McNatt, 23, a marine at the Poca ordnance plant, was found injured after a hit and run near the plant. He suffered a fractured leg and head injury with possible pelvis fracture and remained in critical condition as investigators searched for the driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas McNatt
Poca Ordnance Plant
John Jordan
Marine Detachment
Francis V. Roche
Pocatello
Borrow Pit
Bannock County
Alma Marley
Arasi
Bilbo proposes 30 day talk to fund new Capitol building
Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi plans a 30 day talkathon to block railroad subsidies and back a $50 million Capitol project funded by the government’s land grant carriers. He claims railroads could bill the government for $250 million in increased charges if House Bill 694 passes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Theodore G. Bilbo
United States Capitol
Mississippi Democrat
Bilbo
Pearl River County
Mississippi
William Shakespeare
Capitol
Cuba
United States
Senate
Biloo
Reed
R-Kans
Wheeler
D- Mont
Week One: Irish, Cadets Lead with Big Wins Across Nation
Notre Dame 7 Illinois 0 as Phil Collela breaks 76 yards for the opening TD. Army, Navy, Purdue and USC posted decisive victories highlighting opening weekend college football. Georgia Tech, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Virginia also won while Notre Dame, Army, Navy, Purdue and Cal showed strong debuts.
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New York
Phil Collela
Notre Dame
Illinois
Glenn Davis
Army
Airforce Personnel Command
Northwestern
Purdue
Great Lakes
Ed Cody
Boilermakers
Iowa
Bergstrom Field
Wisconsin
Marquette
Georgia Tech
North Carolina
Carl Snavely
Yellow Jackets
Dixie
Tennessee
Wake Forest
South Carolina
Presbyterian
Vanderbilt
Tennessee Poly
William and Mary
John Buda
Virginia
North Carolina State
Duke
Nation Ends War Time and Returns to Standard Time
Wartime daylight saving ends at 2 a m local time after three years and eight months of fast time. Congress ordered the shift on January 20, 1942 to boost daylight for war production and conserve power. The measure, supported by both houses, saves about 1.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 1 million tons of coal annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
War Production Board
WPB
Dairymen to Meet in Twin Falls October 2
Dairying director Charles E Shaw announced a meeting of dairy plant managers state sanitarians and inspectors in Twin Falls October 2. Attendees include processors representatives federal and war food administration officials and University of Idaho dairy husbandry head Dr Richard Theophilus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Charles E. Shaw
Twin Falls
Shaw
Idaho
Federal Food and Drug Administration
War Food Administration
State Department of Public Health
Richard Theophilus
Department of Dairy Husbandry
University of Idaho
Ship Fire Off Port Said Leaves 150 Missing
Cairo dispatch reports 150 missing after the 10,000 ton ship Empire Patrol caught fire off Port Said while repatriating Greek refugees from Abyssinia and East Africa. The British Navy rescued 456 passengers as destroyers and aircraft carriers were dispatched. Survivors were said to be taken to Port Said.
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Cairo
Empire Patrol
Port Said
Abyssinia
East Africa
Girl Escapes Execution at Belsen Oswiecim Trials
Polish survivor testifies she was chosen for the gas chamber by an Oswiecim camp executive who urged her to come. The Belsen Oswiecim trial heard multiple witnesses as the second week closed. She named Franz Hessler and Irma Grese describing forced selections and cruelty at the camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lueneburg
Germany
Belsen
Oswiecim
C. 8. Bendel
Paris
Helen Klein
Marin brush fire nears Lagunitas amid growing danger
A Marin county brush and timber fire crept toward Lagunitas on its third day threatening 50 homes as residents fled. Navy Avenger bombers stand by at Alameda to drop a sulphuric acid screen within 100 yards if visibility improves before nightfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Marin County
Lagunitas
Lloyd de la Montanya
Navy
Alameda
Marin
California
Truman Demands Ike Tackle Jewish Displaced Persons
President Truman orders General Eisenhower to improve treatment of Jews in German and Austrian camps after a White House released report by Earl G. Harrison details crowded camps and unsanitary conditions. Truman asks the British to open doors to Palestine for willing displaced persons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Germany
Austria
Eisenhower
White House
Earl G. Harrison
Inter-Governmental Refugee Committee
Palestine
Young Daughter of Pocatellans Killed
Carol Sandusky six year old daughter of Floyd and Hallie Hocking Sandusky was struck and killed by an automobile while collecting mail in Seattle Washington. Born November 26 1938 in Pocatello she moved to Seattle three years ago. She is survived by five sisters Barbara Poetana Sharon Margaret and Patsy all of Seattle her grandparents Mr and Mrs R H Hocking of 1342 North Hayes Avenue and Mrs Fred L Long of the north of the city. The body will be taken with her parents to Pocatello for funeral services and burial. Funeral arrangements are announced by McHan Funeral home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Sandusky
Floyd
Hallie Hocking Sandusky
Seattle
Wash
Pocatello
Barbara
Poetana
Sharon
Margaret
Patsy
R. H. Hocking
North Hayes Avenue
Fred L. Long
City
White House clarifies 25 dollar unemployment ceiling
The White House on Saturday said President Truman’s proposal for a 25 dollar weekly ceiling for 26 weeks does not guarantee every worker would receive 25 dollars weekly. It notes state laws set benefits by wage loss and the 25 dollar cap would only enable higher earners to draw more than current maximum in states with higher wage ceilings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Truman
Congress
Underground Units Operate Secretly In Bavarian Alps
Reports from Munich describe hidden SS remnants in the Bavarian Alps issuing doggerel placards targeting German women who fraternize with Americans. Investigators say a battalion of mountain infantry would be needed to flush them from the hills, with cold and hunger driving surrender as the preferred strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Bavaria
Alps
Max Weberplatz
Cowboy on Bond in New York Rodeo Incident
Bud Elmer Linderman, a top rodeo cowboy from Red Lodge Montana, rode at a New York show while free on bond in a homicide case. He is accused of a bar room fight with a New York detective who died. Rodeo managers said they had nothing to do with the bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bud Elmer Linderman
Red Lodge
Mont
Linderman
Police Charge Gang With Murder of 38
Five men were arrested in Reynosa and 21 previously held in Monterrey Nuevo Laredo region as authorities pursue a case involving Mexican nationals accused of smuggling workers into the United States for farm labor then killing them and dumping bodies in the Rio Grande.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lanedo
Tex
Reynosa
Mexico
Aaturday
Neuvo Laredo
United States
Nuevo Laredo
Monterrey
Matamoros
Emilio Villalobos
Rio
Battle Looms on Bill in House Fight Over Employment Bill
A bloc of 115 house members gathered Saturday to oppose the Senate version of a full employment bill. Led by Outland and Patman, they said the Senate revisions sabotage the measure and vowed to press for a job guarantee for all Americans able to work. President Truman backs their aim, while Chairman Manasco questions the need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Representative Outland
D.-Calif
Patman
D.-Tex
Outland
Manasco
D.-Ala
House Expenditures Committee
Montana newspapers halt as typographers strike across six papers
Six Montana daily papers including the Montana Standard in Butte and others such as the Helena Independent Record Anaconda Standard and Missoula Daily Missoulian suspend publication after a walkout by AFL Typographical Workers. The Standard cites orders from George Heatmaker of the International Typographical Union and a rejected one year contract signed July 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Mont
Montana Daily
A.F.L. Typographical Workers Union
Montana Standard
The
Standard
Butte Daily Post
Helena Independent Record
Anaconda Standard
Missoula Daily Missoulian
Missoula Daily Sentinel
Pocatellan Reports Son Arthur Bauman Captured in War
Mr and Mrs Henry Bauman of 1342 South Third say their son Arthur Bauman, captured on Wake Island while employed by Morrison Knudson, has sent letters. Henry Bauman, once in a Japanese camp at Shanghai, was flown to Manila and hopes to return home. Arthur is a Pocatello High School graduate who attended Idaho Southern University and Finley Engineering School in Kansas City.
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Henry Bauman
South Third
Arthur Bauman
Wake Island
Morrison-Knudson Company
Henry
Shanghai
Japan
Manila
Pocatello High School
Idaho Southern University
Finley Engineering School
Kansas City
Petty Given Oct 6 Plea Date in Utah Case
Phouls G. Petty of Pocatello was arraigned in third district court for failing to provide for two minor children. He was granted until Oct. 6 to enter his plea. The complaint links the children to a polygamous marriage. Petty faces a separate federal white slavery case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Phouls G. Petty
Pocatello
Third District
Petty
Idaho
Utah
United States Supreme Court
Vinson Seeks Peace Time Tax Cuts for 1946 Plan
Secretary Fred M. Vinson outlines the administration's first peace time tax cut for 1946. Proposals include repealing the 3 percent normal tax or raising exemptions, eliminating the 95 percent excess profits tax on corporations, and setting a cutoff date for wartime excises on luxury items. Vinson would be the first treasury secretary in 16 years to push tax reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Fred M. Vinson
Capitol
Treasury
Congress
Marine Unit In China
The veteran American First Marine division landed near Tientsin to aid Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalists in disarming thousands of Japanese soldiers and civilians. Americans may withdraw once Chiang’s southern troops are ready. for now they face a volatile North China scene where Japanese arms could influence control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tientsin
China
First Marine Division
Taku
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Japan Censored as MacArthur Bans Imperial Press Actions
General MacArthur abolishes imperial government powers used to suppress emperor coverage and orders Tokyo Osaka papers to resume publication while forbidding retaliation. Censorship targeted amid shortages as assets of imperial houses face tighter scrutiny and essential commodities run short in Tokyo and Osaka regions.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Osaka
Asahi
Mainichi
Yomiuri Hachi
Mament
Japanese Commerce Ministry
Japanes e politeness in four cases and a warning note
James D White examines four kinds of politeness among the Japanese from reflex action to sincere goodwill. He cites an engaged shrine deer bowing to tourists, Kojima San at a gate, a seasick passenger and a businessman, and a wartime note of hoped reconciliation, illustrating how manners mask or express intent.
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James D. White
Associated Press
San Francisco
Nara
Kojima San
China
Bill
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OPA
Mariner
Ike
M’arthur
McHan Funeral Home
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Bond
Rio Grande
Pocatellan
Vinson
Nagasaki
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