Arizona police and national guard raid polygamous commune at Short Creek, Arizona, arrest all its adults, and put its children in foster homes. First Presidency had ten days' advance notice of raid and informed Deseret News on Jul 24. Arizona Governor Howard Pyle explains in a radio address: "Here is a community-many of the women, sadly right along with the men-unalterably dedicated to the wicked theory that every maturing girl child should be forced into the bondage of multiple wifehood with men of all ages for the sole purpose of producing more children to be reared to become mere chattels of this totally lawless enterprise."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com]
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