directed by H. B. Parkinson, is released. 1923 August 26: Cardston Alberta Temple, first outside United States, and first in another country. LDS Church first acquires part of the Hill Cumorah, the site where Joseph Smith reported finding the Golden Plates. 1924 January: Lorin C. Woolley is excommunicated from the LDS Church for alleging that church president Heber J. Grant and apostle James E. Talmage had taken plural wives in the "recent past". He claimed to have learned this while spying on LDS Church leaders for the United States Secret Service. Grant publicly denied these claims in general conference in April 1931. Wooly later founded the polygamous Mormon fundamentalism movement. April: A microphone is first used in General Conference, allowing overflow attendees to hear the proceedings in another building on Temple Square. October 3: The first General Conference radio broadcast. 1925 July 18: In the wake of the Scopes Trial, the First Presidency issues an official statement, an edited version of the 1909 statement, regarding questions about the Creation of the earth, the theory of evolution, and the origin of man. February 3: The Salt Lake Mission Home is dedicated, for use in training of LDS missionaries before they depart for their assignments. April 21: The LDS Church buys a controlling interest in a Salt Lake City radio station, which it changes from KZN to KSL and still maintains today. December 25: South America is dedicated for missionary proselyting, by LDS Apostle Melvin J. Ballard in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1926 Fall: The first Institute of Religion is founded in Moscow, Idaho, adjacent to the University of Idaho. September 25: The LDS Church purchases the Peter Whitmer Farm in Fayette, New York, the site where Joseph Smith founded the church in 1830. 1927 October 23: The Arizona Temple is dedicated. Good Neighbor Policy adopted. The reforms were primarily intended to remove from church literature, sermons, and ceremonies any explicit or implicit suggestion that Latter-day Saints should seek vengeance on the citizens or government of the United States for past persecutions of the church and its members, and in particular for the death of Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. 1928 The 100th stake of the LDS Church is organized, in Lehi, Utah. The LDS adult Sunday School class is named Gospel Doctrine. 1929 July 15: Using a single microphone for the speaker, organ, and choir, Music and the Spoken Word performs