Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the newly appointed Premier of Japan, Kijuro Shidehara, a liberal who had opposed the Japanese militarists from the beginning of their enunciated expansionist goals in the late twenties, had completed the appointment of his new 15-man Cabinet, describing it as "safe and sane". Most of the new Cabinet was comprised of liberals like himself, with an average age of 61.

He intended to meet with the Cabinet prior to reporting its membership to the Emperor, unprecedented in Japan. It was expected that the Government would last only a few months, until free elections could be held in January.

The piece by the A.P. then provides the "Rochester" of Cabinet appointees, whether intended or an "accidental" misprint down the line somewhere, we make no effort to discern, as it was silly either way. That is the type of humor, as we assume someone intended, which could start world wars when aimed at friendly governments trying to establish a new pattern against great odds and long-established feudal traditions. Save it for the idiot on the White Horse with the monkey on his back.

Or, maybe not.

Rochester, by the way, is the home of Kodak.

Only a few Japanese troops in the homeland had not yet been demobilized, two million having laid down arms by October 1. The new Cabinet faced a previously decreed deadline of October 10 to release political prisoners, and by October 15 to report to General MacArthur of the schedule for final demobilization.

It was expected that the number of idle American workers, hitting 550,000 the previous week, would drop to 350,000 this week if back-to-work orders were followed. Some 163,000 coal miners were still idle from 600 closed mines in six states.

Violence again broke out in Burbank at the main gate to Warner Brothers in the six-month old strike regarding which of two competing unions properly represented 77 set decorators—probably mostly having to do with the Sun. Twelve strikers and two police officers were injured. Twenty-three persons had been injured Friday at the same locale.

Better get a better warner next day.

Relative cotton production was again reported, for the third or fourth time, this time with a whole avalanche of statistics for each cotton picking state. If you want to read them, be our guest. You may learn something valuable.

The Supreme Court denied a rehearing for the Associated Press regarding its previous ruling June 18 upholding 5 to 3 the Government's position that it had violated antitrust laws by restricting news to member newspapers and its membership able to restrict the newspapers which could join the club.

In Bad Toelz, Germany, General George Patton took his new command of the Fifteenth Army after an emotional departure from the Third Army, as the band played "Auld Lang Syne" and its command was transferred to Lt. General Lucian Truscott.

Addressing 400 men formerly under his command, the General stated: "All good things must come to an end. The best thing that has ever come to me is the honor and privilege of having commanded the Third Army. Please accept my heartfelt congratulations on your valor and devotion to duty, and my fervent gratitude for your unwavering loyalty."

The band then played "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow". Only a few men of his original command remained intact at this juncture after redeployment.

During the drive across France and Germany into Czechoslovakia, the Third Army had accounted for 1.8 million German casualties, suffering losses of 139,646.

General Jonathan Wainwright provides through the King Features Syndicate the first in a series of his firsthand accounts of his captivity following the fall of Bataan and Corregidor in April and May, 1942 and the forced Bataan Death March north on Luzon.

He starts on March 10, still encamped on Bataan, his aides, Major Johnny Pugh and Captain Tom Dooley, telling him that it was time to depart across the Mariveles Strait to the Rock of Corregidor to meet with General MacArthur's chief of staff, Maj. General Sutherland. He was then informed that General MacArthur was about to depart the following evening for Australia on orders of President Roosevelt, and that he was to take command of all troops on Luzon. General Wainwright then was taken to meet with General MacArthur, who stressed that he was leaving under protest after repeated demands by the President.

In Hollywood, General James Doolittle told a film industry gathering for the victory bond drive that he intended to retire from the Army shortly and would take a job in the private sector, likely in aviation.

In Paris, the fourth day of the trial of Pierre Laval got underway with the defendant locked in a dungeon in the basement, this time refusing to be part of the farce with a jury comprised of twelve members of Parliament and twelve from the Resistance, and a judge obviously from Crackerville, not well understanding American public reaction to such a ridiculous display of kangaroosism, at least America as it existed in 1945.

Today, many Americans would first have to check their lucky-mood watches and then see how the various networks reported the trial before making up their own minds independently.

In Manila, the "Tiger of Malaya", General Yamashita, entered a not guilty plea before a war crimes tribunal for allegedly failing to prevent soldiers under his command from committing the torture, mutilation, and massacre of more 25,000 non-combatants.

Rudolph Hess was being transported from England to Frankfurt, for his trial on war crimes at Nuremberg, to begin shortly. He had been under British detention since he parachuted into Scotland in May, 1941, contending that he was escaping Germany and had plans for peace to tender. He had been kept during the prior six months near the Welsh village of Abergavenny.

Incidentally, we may have erred a couple of times and said that his flight took place in April. That was only because we were there and saw it take off.

On a cold, cloudy day at Wrigley Field in Chicago, in the sixth game of the World Series, the Detroit Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the second inning over the Cubs. Virgil "Fire" Trucks pitched initially for the Tigers. The Cubs would go on to win in a slugfest donnybrook, 8 to 7 in 12 innings of play. Dizzy Trout, who was the winning pitcher in the fourth game, came on as a reliever for the Tigers and was given the loss.

The Series now stood at 3-3, the fifth game on Sunday having been won by Detroit 8 to 4, behind the pitching of Hal Newhouser, losing pitcher of the first game.

The fourth game on Saturday, incidentally, is said to have been the origin of the Curse of the Billy Goat, derived from the owner of a Chicago tavern, The Billy Goat, who showed up with a foul smelling goat, was ousted from Wrigley and vowed that the Cubs would win no more. Though proved wrong this date, the curse was interpreted to mean the World Series, the 1945 Series being the last time the Cubs have so appeared.

There is a way to break curses. Ask Wake Forest.

Only they need to appreciate from whom they learned the lesson imparted.

Lest the curse be reimposed, and forever and a day, this time.

Ye Fala?

The President brought a trip to Missouri to an end and moved on to Western Tennessee to take a day fishing on Reel Foot Lake, eventually on Wednesday scheduled to open the last dam of the TVA project at Gilbertsville, Ky.

The first snow of the fall began falling shortly after midnight in Moscow and was still falling during the morning. Get out your sleds.

On the editorial page, "Dark Prospect" finds international crisis in the failure of the London Foreign Ministers Conference, with Russo-American relations in poor shape, with the occupation of both Germany and Japan not going well, and with no solution in sight of the issue of providing financial aid to Britain.

"Pre-Atomic Lesson" comments on the fight to join the Army and Navy in a single Department of Defense, with the Army in favor and the Navy opposed, with the civilian agencies in charge of each backing each of the positions of the services, as were the respective Congressional committees.

"The navy can point to its great tradition and call on the ghost of John Paul Jones, but it can't get around the history of World War II in which land and sea warfare became an integrated whole."

That General Eisenhower had commanded sea forces and Admiral Nimitz armies during the war had not mattered to the men serving under them.

The lessons of the Pre-Atomic Age had now to inform and instruct the Atomic Age.

"Optimistic Hero" comments on the receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor by 17-year old Marine Private Jacklyn Lucas of Bellhaven, N.C., the youngest Marine ever to receive the medal, for his having fallen on two grenades to protect his fellow soldiers sharing a foxhole on the second day of the Battle for Iwo Jima the previous February 20. One of the two had been a dud but the other exploded. The piece prints his account of the incident.

The selfless hero of this incident, while never running for President or any other public office, lived until 2008. He served in the 82nd Airborne Division from 1961-65, during which time he survived a practice jump when his parachutes failed to deploy.

Maybe, ye think?

Perhaps, they finally had to use kryptonite.

The excerpt from the Congressional Record has Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi engaged in an active debate with Senator Burton Wheeler of Montana regarding the voting qualifications in the respective states of each, having arisen as an issue ancillary to the main debate regarding Senator Wheeler's sponsored measure to remove rate priorities from land-grant railroads and Senator Bilbo's announced intention to filibuster the bill to death.

Drew Pearson comments on the hope of the Navy insiders for a new policy on discharges with the impending departure of Admiral Ernest King as Navy chief. Admiral King had kept both deceased Navy Secretary Frank Knox and his replacement James Forrestal at arm's length, keeping important information from them. Admiral King had surrounded himself with his old Annapolis classmates and sent the younger Annapolis men to the fight, causing great resentment among them.

Marquis Childs states that the perception in Washington of the strike situation was that it would get worse before it got better because of an absence of leadership at the top of the unions. The automobile industry might very well set the pace for the country. And UAW locals were out of hand, with little progress made to resolve the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. strike which had crippled Ford, all beginning from the discharge of three workers.

Dorothy Thompson indicates that, with the labor problems in the United States, attention had been diverted from London where a major tragedy had occurred, the breakdown of the Foreign Ministers Conference. "The eggs," she says, "that were to produce the great new age of peace are sterile."

It had not come as a great surprise, she adds, for, in truth, the result from Casablanca in January 1943, between FDR and Churchill only, (likely meaning to refer therefore instead to the first Big Three conference in November-December, 1943 at Tehran), the earlier foreign ministers conference at Moscow in fall 1944, the Yalta Conference in January-February, 1945, and Potsdam the previous July, as well as the San Francisco Conference to establish the U.N. Charter between April 25 and June 26, had all been drafted in the shallows and occasionally hitting the rocks.

She faults these efforts for not establishing the rights of the smaller nations or to define what a smaller nation was, and what would fill the vacuum of power left by these nations and Germany and Japan.

"Where were the People, the 'Common Man,' whose peace and whose century this, we were told, was to be?"

The small nations, plus Germany and Japan held populations equivalent to those of the United States and the Soviet Union. But they had been largely ignored at both Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown a year earlier and at the San Francisco Conference to formalize the plan set out at Dumbarton Oaks.

"In Europe, where 'the toad beneath the harrow knows exactly where each toothpoint goes,' the people called it 'San Fiasco'." In truth, she insists, no world organization was formed at San Francisco and no principles set forth at Potsdam. Free elections were promised but no steps undertaken to establish how democratic rule was to be preserved. She concludes pessimistically that the the U.N. had blown up in fewer months than the League of Nations had survived in years.

She urges international cooperation to avoid another war and that it should be achieved without Russia should Russia continue to refuse to cooperate. But, even so, the United States should not organize against Russia, and the U.N. should assure its protection from aggression as with member nations.

While appearing bleak now, things would get bleaker before they began to get better. But the U.N. would survive and would improve with time, its concept and founding principles not so flawed after all. Rules are only as good as the parties agreeing to be governed by them are willing to act in accord with them in any contractual agreement, large or small.

"The issue transcends all other issues, for it is the issue of life or death on this planet. It cannot be settled by collective bargaining among Great Powers over the spoils of war. It can only be settled according to principle."

As we said, Gort had arrived.

A letter writer responds to a letter printed October 2 praising Tom Dewey's heroism for not revealing what a bum FDR was with respect to Pearl Harbor and finding FDR to have been a bum who dragged the country kicking and screaming into war through chicanery and plots against the common weal.

Says the writer, the woman "has been ignorant for several years," misinformed by propaganda, didn't "know what to 'ell she's talking about."

He then proceeds to make an elaborate defense of FDR's statement she had misquoted regarding his 1940 campaign promise not to send Americans to fight in a foreign war except for direct attack on the United States. This author also, however, leaves out the conditional clause and attempts to defend the late President by parsing what "foreign wars" meant, an unnecessary exercise.

In any event, he is forgiven for overstating his case, for he was a little too busy to check the facts more closely as he was still in the Army as a corporal and, after clarifying that it was not just the Communists and Socialists who had elected President Roosevelt as implied by the earlier letter writer, states at the end of his missive his need to return to his duties at Fort Bragg, no doubt being kept busy picking up butts and polishing the planes.